Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >It is my hope that you will put your skills towards a distributed >filesystem :) Of the current solutions, GFS (currently in kernel) >scales poorly, and NFS v4.1 is amazingly bloated and overly complex. > >I've been waiting for years

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

Eric Valette wrote: > I can probably take a picture of the backtrace if you want. Just saw that just above my message in the LKML web interface, someone posted a backtrace. Mine is different but at least, we are at least two to have the crash. -- eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

On 9/15/07, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Everyone knows that there are some issues even some internal > > ones which I'm not part of. > > With respect to your kernel-userspace API for xc3028, you made something > that seemed to be a dream: there's a consensus: not a single

Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.

Robin Humble wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: It is my hope that you will put your skills towards a distributed filesystem :) Of the current solutions, GFS (currently in kernel) scales poorly, and NFS v4.1 is amazingly bloated and overly complex. I've been

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:20:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > >> It still doesn't entirely clarify whether users need sd, sr, st, and > >> whether thy need sd for the disk with root filesystem. > > > > If

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

Em Sáb, 2007-09-15 às 16:33 +0200, Markus Rechberger escreveu: > I'm off for the weekend now so have a nice one :-) Enjoy your weekend. I really hope that you have some time to reflect and review your positions during the weekend. -- Cheers, Mauro - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

> "Jon" == Jon Ivar Rykkelid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jon> Prakash Punnoor wrote: >> I don't have exaclty the same hw, but the same chipset and I don't have any >> problems - even with the swncq patch applied. Do you have an hpet? If not, >> try booting with acpi_use_time_override. My

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

Johannes Stezenbach wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: The main discussion in this thread was about drivers in userspace are bad because the API will allow binary drivers. The guy who works for Hauppauge (again I also have good contacts at Hauppauge Europe) writes it's bad

Re: On thread scheduling

On 9/14/07, Heikki Orsila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Consider a simple embedded system: > > void interrupt_handler(void) > int main(void) > > I would like to "emulate" this system with a workstation to make > development faster. I would create two threads, one executing the > main() function,

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 compile error for ppc 32

* Benjamin Herrenschmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 15:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Like this? > > > > --- a/include/asm-powerpc/bitops.h~powerpc-lock-bitops-fix > > +++ a/include/asm-powerpc/bitops.h > > @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static __inline__ void

Re: boot hangs with SMP, USB storage, and ACPI

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:52:08AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Could you both please test 2.6.22 (or 2.6.23, soon) and if the bug is still > present, raise a report against acpi at bugzilla.kernel.org? > > We'd be particularly internested in knowing if any earlier 2.6 kernel > worked OK and if

Re: [Minor patch] Reduce __print_symbol/sprint_symbol stack usage.

On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 18:32 +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > Hi, > > > On 9/15/07, Gilboa Davara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > In a small exchange in fedora-kernel-list [1] Eric Sandeen has pointed > > out a possible stack overflow... when CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW is > >

Re: Per option CFLAGS?

On 09/15/2007 10:47 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:30:21AM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: On 09/15/2007 01:13 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Rene Herman wrote: I have a single file foo.c that I want to generate two (ALSA) modules from, snd-foo2000.ko and snd-foo2001.ko, by

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequently have to >> add such options into all menus which contain scsi low-level providers. > > Kconfig is a user interface, so perfect is what is best for

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.23-rc6: usb 1-1: device not accepting address 2, error -62

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Christian Volkmann wrote: > > Does the machine otherwise work OK? > > > Yes, the USB is working fine for the easy things I do with it. > > Hmm, so I expect this 2.6.22 message: > >> <6>usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2 > > became this 2.6.23rc6 message: > >> <3>usb 1-1:

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

Hi Eric, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:27:30 +0200 Eric Valette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Valette wrote: > > > I can probably take a picture of the backtrace if you want. > > Just saw that just above my message in the LKML web interface, someone > posted a backtrace. Mine is different but at

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequently have to add such options into all menus which contain scsi low-level providers. Kconfig is a user interface, so perfect is

Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:14:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I keep coming back to the fact that movable objects should be moved > out of the way for unmovable ones. Anything else just allows That's incidentally exactly what the slab does, no need to reinvent the wheel for that, it's

x86_64 usability bug: Kconfig prompt without help text (was Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig)

I take the liberty to modify the CC list. Paul Rolland wrote: > Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I assert that a Kconfig prompt (a visible Kconfig variable) _without_ >> help text is a bug. > > Here is an example from 2.6.34-rc6 : > .config - Linux Kernel v2.6.23-rc6 Configuration >

Re: Credentials test patch

In sys_faccessat you temporarily allocate a cred object which is discarded in the end. With a few more macro definitions you could create a dup_cred variant which initialized an automatic variable of type struct cred. This way the kmalloc/kfree pair would fall away. access is actually used

Re: Per option CFLAGS?

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 05:17:08PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > On 09/15/2007 10:47 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:30:21AM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: >>> On 09/15/2007 01:13 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> Rene Herman wrote: > I have a single file foo.c that I want to

Re: Per option CFLAGS?

On Saturday 15 September 2007 16:17, Rene Herman wrote: > On 09/15/2007 10:47 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >>> The stub source file is usually considered a good way to do this. > >> Mmm. If I'll have to live with it, I can, but thought I'd ask if there was > >> some nice build trickery available

Re: [PATCH v2] iw_cxgb3: Support "iwarp-only" interfaces to avoid 4-tuple conflicts.

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 02:16:17PM -0500, Steve Wise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: iw_cxgb3: Support "iwarp-only" interfaces to avoid 4-tuple conflicts. Version 2: - added a per-device mutex for the address and listening endpoints lists. - wait for all replies if

Re: Per option CFLAGS?

On 09/15/2007 05:53 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: Can you give a bit more info what the dirrefences between devices are in this particular cases? It's ISA. Thanks, but never mind guys, I only wanted to know something about kbuild. Rene. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Trace code and documentation

Hi David, Interesting work, but I think we could still enhance it. The interesting things you bring is the trace control though debugfs files, which is clear and simple. (I did it on top of netlink in LTTng, but I don't really care about the mechanism, as long as we have the same flexibility). *

Re: x86_64 usability bug: Kconfig prompt without help text (was Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig)

> - So, which criteria influence whether HPET_EMULATE_RTC should be > enabled on x86_64 or not? If there is one it needs to be a runtime switch anyways. > > - In case that there is no compelling reason to disable it if its > dependencies are satisfied, shouldn't it rather be

Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 10:35:16AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >Robin Humble wrote: >>On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:07:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>>I've been waiting for years for a smart person to come along and write a >>>POSIX-only distributed filesystem. >>it's called Lustre. >>works well,

Re: 2.6.23-rc6 : crash with RTL8187 USB

On 9/15/07, ポール・ロラン Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Each time I add the support for this piece of hardware, I have a crash during > the boot process. > Serial console gives the attached boot message... > ... > WARNING: at lib/kref.c:33 kref_get() > Call Trace: > []

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:44:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequently have to add such options into all menus which

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

On 9/15/07, Eric Valette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Valette wrote: > > > I can probably take a picture of the backtrace if you want. > > Just saw that just above my message in the LKML web interface, someone > posted a backtrace. Mine is different but at least, we are at least two > to have

[PATCH][RFC] Extend "memparse" to allow a NULL return pointer value.

Extend the memparse() routine to allow a caller to use NULL as the second parameter value if he has no interest in that returned value. --- there appear to be quite a number of calls to "memparse" which have no use for the value returned in the second parameter (the current pointer after the

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 05:27:24PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > >> Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequently have to > >> add such options into all menus which contain scsi low-level

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

On Saturday 15 September 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:44:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Stefan Richter wrote: > >> Adrian Bunk wrote: > >>> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: usb 1-1: device not accepting address 2, error -62

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:48:19 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an error message with 2.6.23-rc6. > > This did not happen with 2.6.22. > > Another one for Michal's dirt file. No, I think it's the module ordering again. > > 2.6.23-rc6 boot.msg extract ( hub/usb ) I wish

Re: sysfs change of input/event devices in 2.6.23rc breaks udev

Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Saturday 15 September 2007 04:05, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:24:04 -0400 "Dmitry Torokhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/10/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 01:28:47AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Sunday 09

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: usb 1-1: device not accepting address 2, error -62

Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:48:19 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I have an error message with 2.6.23-rc6. >>> This did not happen with 2.6.22. >> Another one for Michal's dirt file. > > No, I think it's the module ordering again. > >>> 2.6.23-rc6 boot.msg

[PATCH] x86_64: configure HPET_EMULATE_RTC automatically

I don't know exactly what this option does... Andi says it should be automatic rather than exposed as a prompt. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/Kconfig +++ linux/arch/x86_64/Kconfig @@ -469,8 +469,9 @@ config HPET_TIMER

Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.

On Sep 15, 2007 16:29 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > Yes, block device itself is not able to scale well, but it is the place > for redundancy, since filesystem will just fail if underlying device > does not work correctly and FS actually does not know about where it > should place redundancy

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:04:42AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > With respect to your kernel-userspace API for xc3028, you made something > that seemed to be a dream: there's a consensus: not a single developer > believed that this is the better way; nobody seems that this is the > better

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure

Zachary Amsden wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 16:44 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: So then each module creates a hypercall page using this magic MSR and the hypervisor has to keep track of it so that it can appropriately change the page on migration. The page can only contain a single

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

Hi Rob, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:28:36 -0400 "Rob Hussey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/15/07, Eric Valette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Eric Valette wrote: > > > > > I can probably take a picture of the backtrace if you want. > > > > Just saw that just above my message in the LKML web

Re: [PATCH] add consts where appropriate in sound/pci/hda/*

On Sep 15 2007 14:47, Denys Vlasenko wrote: >> Try size -A instead. > >thanks, didn't know that. > >$ size -A busybox >busybox : >section sizeaddr >.init 28 134512788 >addr in decimal?! wow... Try size -x instead. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

[PATCH] lib/iomap.c:bad_io_access() -- print 0x hex prefix

Hi Andrew. Trivial -- be explicit about printing hex. Rene diff --git a/lib/iomap.c b/lib/iomap.c index a57d262..5dfcbde 100644 --- a/lib/iomap.c +++ b/lib/iomap.c @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ static void bad_io_access(unsigned long port, const char *access) static int count = 10; if

Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.

On Sep 15, 2007 12:20 -0400, Robin Humble wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 10:35:16AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >Lustre is tilted far too much towards high-priced storage, > > many (most?) Lustre deployments are with SATA and md raid5 and GigE - > can't get much cheaper than that. I have to

[PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure (v2)

This patch refactors the current hypercall infrastructure to better support live migration and SMP. It eliminates the hypercall page by trapping the UD exception that would occur if you used the wrong hypercall instruction for the underlying architecture and replacing it with the right one

[PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

menuconfig currently represents options implied by another option ('select' directive in Kconfig) by prefixing them with '---'. Unfortunately the same notation is used for comments. This patch changes notation of selected-by-another items by introducing 2 new representations for implied options:

Re: [PATCH] Reduce __print_symbol/sprint_symbol stack usage.

Hello all, Satyam, This is my second stab at solving the "stack over flow due to dump_strace when close to stack-overflow is detected by do_IRQ" problem. (Hopefully) this patch is creates less noise then the previous one. [snip] > I'll try and create an option 2 (static allocation, minimal

Re: [3/3] 2.6.23-rc6: known regressions v2

On Saturday, 15 September 2007 04:29, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi all, > > Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc6. > > Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. > http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions > > List of Aces > > NameRegressions

Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

On Saturday 15 of September 2007 20:04:10 Matej Laitl wrote: > menuconfig currently represents options implied by another option ('select' > directive in Kconfig) by prefixing them with '---'. Unfortunately the same > notation is used for comments. > > (...) Oh please reply to my address [EMAIL

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure

Nakajima, Jun wrote: Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Nakajima, Jun wrote: The hypervisor detection machanism is generic, and the signature returned is implentation specific. Having a list of all hypervisor signatures sounds fine to me as we are detecting vendor-specific processor(s) in the

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Paul Rolland wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:15:22 +0200 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:54:07PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:11:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Let's step back a moment and

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

Rob Hussey wrote: > On 9/15/07, Eric Valette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Eric Valette wrote: >> >>> I can probably take a picture of the backtrace if you want. >> Just saw that just above my message in the LKML web interface, someone >> posted a backtrace. Mine is different but at least, we are

Re: Why do so many machines need "noapic"?

On Saturday, 15 September 2007 09:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > On 06 Sep 2007 13:31:50 +0200 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Some systems lock up without the noapic option. > > > > Please find patterns: cpu type, chipsets, mainboard

Re: crashme fault

> Andi, anything comes to mind? No, unfortunately not. There weren't any changes to entry.S recently that could corrupt the error code as far as I remember. Also cannot think of something else. A version where it started happening would be useful. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: x86 merge - a little feedback

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:32:58AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:14:22 +0200 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > People do not expect code under arch/i386/ to be used by code under > > arch/x86_64/ and vice versa. > > [OT: it drives me batshit that we ended up

Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

On Sep 15 2007 20:04, Matej Laitl wrote: > >This patch changes notation of selected-by-another items by introducing 2 new >representations for implied options: >{*} or {M} for options selected by another modularized one, thus builtin or >module capable, >-*- or -M- for options that cannot be at

Re: 2.6.23-rc6 : crash with RTL8187 USB

Hi Rob, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:21:39 -0400 "Rob Hussey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/15/07, ポール・ロラン Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > I had this problem as well. It has to do with mac80211, cfg80211 and > the rate control algorithm not initializing early enough in the

Re: crashme fault

Andi Kleen wrote: Andi, anything comes to mind? No, unfortunately not. There weren't any changes to entry.S recently that could corrupt the error code as far as I remember. Also cannot think of something else. A version where it started happening would be useful. I'll begin testing older

Add all thread stats for TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_TGID (v4)

TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_TGID used to return only the delay accounting stats, not the basic and extended accounting. With this patch, TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_TGID also aggregates the accounting info for all threads of a thread group. This makes TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_TGID usable in a similar fashion to

Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

On Saturday 15 of September 2007 20:38:14 you wrote: > On Sep 15 2007 20:04, Matej Laitl wrote: > >This patch changes notation of selected-by-another items by introducing 2 > > new representations for implied options: > >{*} or {M} for options selected by another modularized one, thus builtin > >

Re: Two identical entries for "rtc" in /proc/devices

> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:23:22 -0400 Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > # ls -li > > total 0 > > 4026532007 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 6 18:18 nvram > > 4026532067 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 6 18:18 rtc > > 4026532067 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 6 18:18 rtc > > 4026532056

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

Hi Eric, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:30:14 +0200 Eric Valette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob Hussey wrote: > > On 9/15/07, Eric Valette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Eric Valette wrote: > >> > > Thanks for your help: it does indeed fix the problem. Nice it works for you too ! > Now I have two

Re: + taskstats-add-all-thread-stats-for-taskstats_cmd_attr_tgid.patch added to -mm tree

Le Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:41:41 +0400, Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > (sorry, have no time to read the patch carefully, just a couple of > minor random "unless I misread this patch" nits) Thank you Oleg, hopefully I addressed all your comments in v4. > > + do > > + if

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン) wrote: > Hi Eric, >> Now I have two side questions: >> - the code is no more symetric "subsys_initcall" -> "module_exit". >> Do not know if it is "normal" but I love symmetry in code :-). Did not test >> it still works as a module... > Symmetry is not broken, as we

[PATCH -mm] Hibernation: Resume consoles if hibernation_platform_enter fails

[This is a fix on top of hibernation-enter-platform-hibernation-state-in-a-consistent-way-rev-4.patch] --- From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If hibernation_platform_enter() fails, consoles should be resumed so that diagnostic information related to the failure is available to the user.

CPU usage for 10Gbps UDP transfers

Hello, is it expected that application sending 8900bytes datagram through 10Gbps NIC utilizes CPU to 100% and similarly the receiver also utilizes CPU to 100%. Is it something wrong or this is quite OK? (The box is dual single core Opteron 2.4GHz with Myricom 10GE NIC.) -- Lukáš Hejtmánek - To

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Saturday 15 September 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:44:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Perfect is in the eye of the beholder.

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

John Stoffel wrote: What happens when you just have ONE disk connected to the motherboard controller, and the rest connected to PCI controllers? Does it crap out then? You've just such a nice repeatable problem across motherboards that it's a shame to waste this debugging time. Sorry, I

[PATCH 0/2] Add Maple bus support for the SEGA Dreamcast

The Maple bus is SEGA's proprietary serial bus for peripherals (keyboard, mouse, controller etc). The bus is capable of some (limited) hotplugging and operates at up to 2 M/bits. Drivers of one sort or another existed/exist for 2.4 and a rudimentary port, which didn't support the 2.6 device

[PATCH 1/2] Add Maple bus support for the SEGA Dreamcast - core maplebus

This adds support for the maple bus (SEGA's proprietary serial bus on the Dreamcast) to the kernel. Signed-off by: Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/arch/sh/Kconfig b/arch/sh/Kconfig index 54878f0..077438f 100644 --- a/arch/sh/Kconfig +++ b/arch/sh/Kconfig @@ -702,6 +702,17 @@

[PATCH 2/2] Add Maple bus support for the SEGA Dreamcast - maple keyboard

This patch adds support for the keyboard on the SEGA Dreamcast Signed-off by Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig b/drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig index

[PATCH] Dreamcast AICA sound driver G2 bus handling

This patch handles instability on the Dreamcast G2 bus while PIO or DMA is underway on the System -> AICA channel. Without the suspension of interrupts when PIO or DMA is underway the G2 bus is prone to timeouts leading to seemingly random crashes. This is particularly visible in cases such as

[PATCH 3/2] Add Maple bus support for the SEGA Dreamcast - the missing header files

Apologies - these are the patches to add header files to the series beginning here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/15/181 Add maplebus headers Signed off by Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/include/linux/input.h b/include/linux/input.h diff --git a/include/linux/maple.h

Re: crashme fault

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > Had another on recent last night (probably not helpful): At least the original "crashme" would write its random number seeds to a logfile each time (and I made it fsync it in some versions), which meant that once a crash happened, you could

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.23-rc6: usb 1-1: device not accepting address 2, error -62

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Christian Volkmann wrote: > Please see below for the logs with timestamp and usb-debug. > > Alan Stern wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Christian Volkmann wrote: > > > >>> Does the machine otherwise work OK? > >>> > >> Yes, the USB is working fine for the easy things I do

Re: crashme fault

Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: Had another on recent last night (probably not helpful): At least the original "crashme" would write its random number seeds to a logfile each time (and I made it fsync it in some versions), which meant that once a crash

Re: [PATCH]: x86_64: Remove unnecessary cast in prefetch()

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 10:40:26AM +0400, Serge Belyshev wrote: > Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> This can be fixed better by using gcc's __builtin_prefetch(). > > > > I changed it to just use that. Thanks. > > > > It seems like gcc 3.1/3.2 already supported it and that's the

Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:14:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> I keep coming back to the fact that movable objects should be moved >> out of the way for unmovable ones. Anything else just allows > > That's incidentally exactly what the slab

Latest git won't compile

CC drivers/char/tty_ioctl.o drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c: In function 'n_tty_ioctl': drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c:799: error: implicit declaration of function 'kernel_termios_to_user_termios_1' drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c:806: error: implicit declaration of function 'user_termios_to_kernel_termios_1'

[PATCH] mmc: Disabler for Ricoh MMC controller

Thanks to Matt Domsch and Rezwanul Kabir at Dell, we know how to disable the MMC controller on the multi-function Ricoh R5C832. The MMC controller needs to be disabled or it will steal MMC cards from the SD controller where they would otherwise be supported by the Linux SDHCI driver.

Re: [PATCH]PCI:disable resource decode in PCI BAR detection

Yinghai Lu wrote: On 9/14/07, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's not impossible at all. In fact I'm quite sure (Jesse can confirm) that in the case of the board he was using, it was an add-in graphics card where he saw this problem. The fact is that in the case of MMCONFIG overlap

Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two

On Saturday 15 September 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Saturday 15 September 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:44:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>> Stefan Richter wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at

Re: [PATCH]: x86_64: Remove unnecessary cast in prefetch()

Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... >> to make kernel work with GCC 4.3 and above. (Also note that gcc 4.2 already >> smart enough to break that code, but kernel is just lucky currently). > > How would it break the code exactly? It more sounded like an optimization > to me. Would it

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

On 9/15/07, ポール・ロラン Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:30:14 +0200 > Eric Valette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Rob Hussey wrote: > > > On 9/15/07, Eric Valette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Eric Valette wrote: > > >> > > > > Thanks for your help:

[PATCH] alpha: beautify vmlinux.lds

Introduced a consistent style in vmlinux.lds and it now matches the soon-to-be common style for all arch's vmlinux.lds files. In addition: - Replaced hardcoded constant with PAGE_SIZE - Fix page.h so PAGE_SIZE can be used from assembler and in lds files - Move a few labels inside brackets so

Sparse 0.4 released

I have tagged and tarballed Sparse 0.4, now available from , with sha1sum `a77a10174c8cdb5314eb5000c1e4f24458848b91`. Highlights and visible changes in this release: * The Sparse validation files have become an automated test

Re: cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:28:23 +0200 Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 03:18 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt.git;a=shortlog;h=for-2.6.23 > > > > > > > That patch fixes the resume-from-ram and

Re: crashme fault

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Here's a really *stupid* patch (and untested too, btw) to see if it gets > easier to debug when you don't oops, just print the register state > instead. Side note - while thinking about this, I'm wondering whether maybe that "stupid" patch

iso9660 vs udf

Today I got a CD. MacOS does not mount it and Linux does not mount it without an explicit filesystemtype option. That is, # mount /dev/hdc /dir -t iso9660 works fine, but # mount /dev/hdc /dir mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/hdc I will

SPARC{,64}: kernel_termios_to_user_termios_1 missing

git-describe says this is v2.6.23-rc6-168-g53a3f30 I'm getting: drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c: In function 'n_tty_ioctl': drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c:799: error: implicit declaration of function 'kernel_termios_to_user_termios_1' This is a macro at the very end of include/asm-/termios.h for i686,

Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 10:14:44PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > How does that help? Will slabs move objects around to combine two 1. It helps providing a few guarantees: when you run "/usr/bin/free" you won't get a random number, but a strong _guarantee_. That ram will be available no

Re: SPARC{,64}: kernel_termios_to_user_termios_1 missing

From: "Horst H. von Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:37:55 -0400 > git-describe says this is v2.6.23-rc6-168-g53a3f30 > I'm getting: > > drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c: In function 'n_tty_ioctl': > drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c:799: error: implicit declaration of function >

Re: crashme fault

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So regardless of whether we want to trust "user_mode(regs)" more than > "error_code & PF_USER", it would definitely be very interesting if you can > give a good "this is where it started happening". Also, can you point to good crashme sources,

RE: CPU usage for 10Gbps UDP transfers

> Hello, > > is it expected that application sending 8900bytes datagram > through 10Gbps NIC > utilizes CPU to 100% and similarly the receiver also utilizes CPU to 100%. > Is it something wrong or this is quite OK? > > (The box is dual single core Opteron 2.4GHz with Myricom 10GE NIC.) It's

Re: crashme fault

Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: So regardless of whether we want to trust "user_mode(regs)" more than "error_code & PF_USER", it would definitely be very interesting if you can give a good "this is where it started happening". Also, can you point to good

Re: crashme fault

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Command: ./crashme +2000 666 1000 1:00:00 1 Ok, that's close to what I was testing (one of the examples from the crashme docs). > > The original gjc crashme doesn't even do a "mprotect(PROT_EXEC)" by default > > (nor does it even compile on a modern

Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:04:10 +0200 Matej Laitl wrote: > menuconfig currently represents options implied by another option ('select' > directive in Kconfig) by prefixing them with '---'. Unfortunately the same > notation is used for comments. > > This patch changes notation of selected-by-another

[PATCH 1/3] Blackfin EMAC driver: add function to change the MAC address

>From 157dfddae50708a716c2a42a314eccb9621d8793 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 15:58:03 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Blackfin Ethernet MAC driver: add function to change the MAC address Alex Landau writes in the forums: Previously, changing the

[PATCH 2/3] Blackfin EMAC driver: add power management interface and change the bf537mac_reset to bf537mac_disable

Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/bfin_mac.c | 23 +++ 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/bfin_mac.c b/drivers/net/bfin_mac.c index 8d61ca9..3015385 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bfin_mac.c +++

[PATCH 3/3] Blackfin EMAC driver: Add phy abstraction layer supporting in bfin_emac driver

- add MDIO functions and register mdio bus - add phy abstraction layer (PAL) functions and use PAL API - test on STAMP537 board Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/bfin_mac.c | 311 +--- drivers/net/bfin_mac.h | 53

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