On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 15:22:44 -0800 Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix printk format warnings:
linux-2.6.24-git19/drivers/pcmcia/i82092.c:650: warning: format '%lx' expects
type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'resource_size_t'
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 15:37:41 -0800 Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think someone already sent a patch to select the LEDS
I did... and more. Who will merge it? (below)
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From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add I2C to config since the driver makes several i2c*() calls.
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:43:02 -0600 Robin Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:41:24PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Robin Holt wrote:
What about ib_umem_get()?
Correct.
You missed the turn of the conversation to how ib_umem_get()
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:56:09PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
Nick Piggin wrote:
Maybe cpus these days have so much store bandwith that doing
things like the above is OK, but I doubt it :-)
on modern x86 cpus the memset may even be faster if the memory isn't in
cache;
the explicit
On Friday 08 February 2008 16:36:37 Alan Cox wrote:
In other words EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL isn't his idea of a good legal idea,
but people ignoring this and doing things that circumvent this will,
eventually, have problems with the people who hold the copyright on the
code. (In addition, he
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Jiri Kosina wrote:
I hope that, from at least my perspective, your question is
rhetorical.
Yeah. The non rhetorical one was directed to Jiri. :)
Actually, I have no idea :) I am right now confused too, I am quite
surprised that 'nohpet' fixes the problem for you,
* Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stephen Hemminger (2):
Input: add driver for Fujitsu application buttons
this change broke the build on x86 in randconfig testing:
drivers/built-in.o: In function `apanel_detach_client':
apanel.c:(.text+0x15c120): undefined reference to
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 00:25:36 +0100
Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stephen Hemminger (2):
Input: add driver for Fujitsu application buttons
this change broke the build on x86 in randconfig testing:
drivers/built-in.o: In
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
What about ib_umem_get()?
Ok. It pins using an elevated refcount. Same as XPmem right now. With that
we effectively pin a page (page migration will fail) but we will
continually be reclaiming the page and may repeatedly try to move it. We
have issues
On Friday, 8 of February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
Rafael, this is for you.
Thanks.
My cleanups, relative to your cleanup patch. You may need manual patching
around rep/stosd.
OK, I'll try to merge it.
Rafael
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/Makefile
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 10:41:45PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
Do we never need data from a .h file?
If we do name it wakeup.lds.S and kbuild
will fix it (assuming we have wakeup.lds
as a prerequisite where it is needed.
Ok, I got it to work... but notice the ugly #undef :-(.
Great.
We
By including asm/processor-flags.h we're allowed to use
X86_CR4_PGE instead of numeric constant.
md5 sums of compiled files are differ due to this inclusion
but .text section remains the same.
---
If anyone has an objection on this patch - just drop it please.
I'm not sure but this could have
On Friday, 8 of February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
On Fri 2008-02-08 13:27:30, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Pavel Machek wrote:
See arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/wakeup.S (the version that was sent
to the list). No problem there, but table stored at nonzero
offset. Short jump at the beggining
On Fri 2008-02-08 22:56:08, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Friday, 8 of February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
On Fri 2008-02-08 13:27:30, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Pavel Machek wrote:
See arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/wakeup.S (the version that was sent
to the list). No problem there, but
Allow the callout data to be passed as a blob rather than a string for internal
kernel services that call any request_key_*() interface other than
request_key(). request_key() itself still takes a NUL-terminated string.
The functions that change are:
request_key_with_auxdata()
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_sendto.c:160: warning: format '%llx' expects type
'long long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'u64'
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_sendto.c
b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_sendto.c
index
Hi,
I ended up with a customer benchmark in my lap this week that doesn't
do well on recent kernels. :(
After cutting it down to a simple testcase/microbenchmark, it seems like
recent kernels don't do as well with short-lived threads competing
with the thread it's cloned off of. The CFS
Commit 30b0c37b27485a9cb897bfe3824f6f517b8c80d6 causes the following
compile error:
-- snip --
...
CC drivers/scsi/arm/fas216.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/arm/fas216.c: In
function 'fas216_std_done':
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
You took it correctly, and I didn't understand the answer ;)
We have done several rounds of discussion on linux-kernel about this so
far and the IB folks have not shown up to join in. I have tried to make
this as general as possible.
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On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
Commit dd2cc4dff3b08ab54c4c177a080046bcc84ac41d broke uml:
-- snip --
...
CC fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c: In
function 'hostfs_show_options':
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:05:00 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
You took it correctly, and I didn't understand the answer ;)
We have done several rounds of discussion on linux-kernel about this so
far and the IB folks have not
Commit 9e016a719209d95338e314b46c3012cc7feaaeec causes the following
compile error:
-- snip --
...
CC drivers/ide/arm/bast-ide.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/drivers/ide/arm/bast-ide.c: In
function 'bastide_register':
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Roland Dreier wrote:
In general, this MMU notifier stuff will only be useful to a subset of
InfiniBand/RDMA hardware. Some adapters are smart enough to handle
changing the IO virtual - bus/physical mapping on the fly, but some
aren't. For the dumb adapters, I think the
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
Quite possibly none of the infiniband developers even know about it..
Well Andrea's initial approach was even featured on LWN a couple of
weeks back.
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On Friday, 8 of February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
On Fri 2008-02-08 23:01:51, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Friday, 8 of February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
Rafael, this is for you.
Thanks.
My cleanups, relative to your cleanup patch. You may need manual patching
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:22:29PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 20:55 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:25:46PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 16:38 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:56:58PM -0800, Badari
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:08:30AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Olof Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2.6.22: 3332 ms
2.6.23: 4397 ms
2.6.24: 8953 ms
2.6.24-git19: 8986 ms
if you enable SCHED_DEBUG, and subtract 4 from the value of
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_features, does it get
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 17:42 +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 12:37 -0800, Luben Tuikov wrote:
Is there an open iSCSI Target implementation which does NOT
issue commands to sub-target devices via the SCSI mid-layer, but
bypasses it
On Friday 08 February 2008, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
As long as one or more GPIOs on a gpio chip are used its driver should not
be unloaded.
The mechanism currently in place is to have gpiochip_remove() fail
if the platform's teardown() logic doesn't reject it. (It may be
practical to
* Olof Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2.6.22: 3332 ms
2.6.23: 4397 ms
2.6.24: 8953 ms
2.6.24-git19: 8986 ms
if you enable SCHED_DEBUG, and subtract 4 from the value of
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_features, does it get any better?
if not, does writing 0 into /proc/sys/kernel/sched_features
I thought the adaptor can always remove the mapping by renegotiating
with the remote side? Even if its dumb then a callback could notify the
driver that it may be required to tear down the mapping. We then hold the
pages until we get okay by the driver that the mapping has been removed.
Jon wrote:
So here's a version which merges the information into
SubmittingPatches instead.
Reviewed-by: Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
That's my first time using that tag ... fun. Now I'm wondering if there
might be some improvements that you, me, or someone could make to the
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:05:15AM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
Commit dd2cc4dff3b08ab54c4c177a080046bcc84ac41d broke uml:
-- snip --
...
CC fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c: In
Make it more like signal_32.c
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/x86/kernel/signal_64.c | 12 ++--
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/signal_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/signal_64.c
index 40b30cd..6278083 100644
---
Greg KH wrote:
A driver is not an application as you tried to reference in your
prior quotes.
I think your treating what the learned Professors said to literally.
It is a tiny portion of the whole kernel,
The Copyright Act draws no such a distinction.
and as such,
does fall under the
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
Consolidated patch is appended. I'll test it tomorrow on x86-64.
I'd like to add the cleaned up beeping code to it and perhaps try to push it
for -mm testing without any further changes. We can still do more cleanups in
followup patches.
The other thing to figure
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Roland Dreier wrote:
That would of course work -- dumb adapters would just always fail,
which might be inefficient.
H.. that means we need something that actually pins pages for good so
that the VM can avoid reclaiming it and so that page migration can avoid
trying to
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, David Brownell wrote:
On Friday 08 February 2008, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
As long as one or more GPIOs on a gpio chip are used its driver should not
be unloaded.
The mechanism currently in place is to have gpiochip_remove() fail
if the platform's teardown()
2008/2/9, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Feb 9 2008 00:14, Joonwoo Park wrote:
2008/2/8, rohit h [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
I am a kernel newbie.
I tried to insmod a C++ module containing classes, inheritance.
I am getting 'unresolved symbol' error when I use the 'new' keyword.
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 04:36:16PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Roland Dreier wrote:
That would of course work -- dumb adapters would just always fail,
which might be inefficient.
H.. that means we need something that actually pins pages for good so
that the
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
H.. that means we need something that actually pins pages for good so
that the VM can avoid reclaiming it and so that page migration can avoid
trying to migrate them. Something like yet another page flag.
What's wrong with pinning with
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:58:34PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:41:42PM +0200, S.??a??lar Onur wrote:
Hi;
07 ??ub 2008 Per tarihinde, Greg KH ??unlar?? yazmt??:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.24.1 release.
There are 45 patches in
Alan Cox wrote:
The word illegal has a precise dictionary meaning of prohibited by
law.
Also contrary to or forbidden by official rules, regulations, etc.
So word meanings are like standards, there are so many to choose
from.
The error messages are therefore incorrect as so far nobody has
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
The VM shouldn't break if try_to_unmap doesn't actually make the page
freeable for whatever reason. Permanent pins shouldn't happen anyway,
VM is livelocking if too many page are pinned that way right now. The
higher the processors per node the
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 18:33 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, John Stultz wrote:
CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST is based on LATCH and HZ, if the update frequency isn't
based on HZ, there is no point in using it!
Hey Roman,
Again, I'm sorry I don't seem to be following
Introduce _tmp in the small if-blocks where this is shadowed.
fs/affs/file.c:573:8: warning: symbol 'tmp' shadows an earlier one
fs/affs/file.c:530:6: originally declared here
fs/affs/file.c:714:9: warning: symbol 'tmp' shadows an earlier one
fs/affs/file.c:661:6: originally declared here
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 18:53 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
diff --git a/fs/affs/file.c b/fs/affs/file.c
index 6e0c939..ac05dc2 100644
--- a/fs/affs/file.c
+++ b/fs/affs/file.c
@@ -570,11 +570,11 @@ affs_extent_file_ofs(struct inode *inode, u32 newsize)
bh-b_state = ~(1UL
Whoops. I've attached an incorrect patch in the previous
e-mail (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/8/350) that didn't take
in to account the 'reserve_bootmem' parameters changes.
Here is fresher copy which has been tested on 2.6.24-git19
on a machine with iBFT and without.
This patch (v0.4.7) adds
On 2/8/08, Michael Opdenacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+config CPU_SUP_INTEL
+ default y
+ bool Support Intel processors if PROCESSOR_SELECT
+ help
+ This enables extended support for Intel processors
-obj-$(CONFIG_X86_32) += intel.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL)
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 01:33:22 + Samuel Thibault wrote:
Document the keyboard notifier.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- /dev/null 2008-02-09 01:22:34.790011677 +
+++ linux/Documentation/input/notifier.txt2008-02-09 01:28:12.0
+
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
So I was perusing the code in lib/kobject.c, and I saw this:
void kobject_init(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_type *ktype)
{
// [a couple of of parameter checks...]
if (kobj-state_initialized) {
/* do not error out as
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Drop z85230 support library info from kernel-api since it's duplicated
in the Z85230 book.
Alan, is this OK with you?
(This is one of several patches that I have my queue for reducing the
size of kernel-api.* .)
Signed-off-by:
Commit c18bab80 (Input: i8042 - non-x86 build fix) introduced the
following warning on non-x86 builds:
drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: In function 'i8042_probe':
drivers/input/serio/i8042.c:1154: warning: unused variable 'param'
Fix this by moving the parameter variable declaration into the
Commit c18bab80 (Input: i8042 - non-x86 build fix) introduced the
following warning on non-x86 builds:
drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: In function 'i8042_probe':
drivers/input/serio/i8042.c:1154: warning: unused variable 'param'
Fix this by moving the parameter variable declaration into the
Hi,
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, john stultz wrote:
clock = clocksource_get_next();
- clocksource_calculate_interval(clock,
- (unsigned long)(current_tick_length()TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT));
+ clocksource_calculate_interval(clock, NTP_INTERVAL_LENGTH);
clock-cycle_last =
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:26:54PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
open_namei() will, in the future, need to take mount write counts
over its creation and truncation (via may_open()) operations. It
needs to keep these write counts until any potential filp that is
created gets __fput()'d.
This
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:24:25PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
So I was perusing the code in lib/kobject.c, and I saw this:
void kobject_init(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_type *ktype)
{
// [a couple of of parameter checks...]
if
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 05:47:18 +0100 (CET) Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, john stultz wrote:
clock = clocksource_get_next();
- clocksource_calculate_interval(clock,
- (unsigned long)(current_tick_length()TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT));
+
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 23:10 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
+/*
+ * Physical location of iSCSI Boot Format Table.
This is now the Virtual address, isn't it? So just drop the Physical.
+ */
+unsigned long ibft_addr;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ibft_addr);
And since it is the virtual address, there's no
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 23:10 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
+ ibft_device = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!ibft_device)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ memcpy(ibft_device, hdr, len);
This piece looks a bit odd. you're making ibft_device an exact
duplicate of ibft_addr
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 23:10 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
+ if (hdr-id == id_nic) {
+ pci_dev = pci_get_bus_and_slot((nic-pci_bdf 0xff00) 8,
+ (nic-pci_bdf 0xff));
+ if (pci_dev) {
+ rc =
(Carlos Cc:-ed too)
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Len Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Len Brown (6):
ACPI: add newline to printk
ACPI: build WMI on X86 only
acer-wmi, tc1100-wmi: select ACPI_WMI
hm, this new WMI code caused a bootup crash in the
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
2. I think, everybody will agree that Linux iSCSI target should work over
some standard SCSI target framework. Hence the choice gets narrower: SCST
vs STGT. I don't think there's a way for a dedicated iSCSI target (i.e.
PyX/LIO) in the
Regarding:
commit 18dabf473e15850c0dbc8ff13ac1e2806d542c15
This actually breaks the 802.11 subsystem (http://80211.sf.net) which
relies on the page struct. (ieee80211_crypt_wep.c, line 190) Can
anyone suggest an alternative kernel function or method? As of 2.6.24,
the 802.11 subsystem cannot
* Len Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Linus,
please pull from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git release
one of these caused a build failure in x86.git overnight randconfig
testing:
drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_fan_remove':
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
one of these caused a build failure in x86.git overnight randconfig
testing:
drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_fan_remove':
fan.c:(.text+0x361d5): undefined reference to
`thermal_cooling_device_unregister'
drivers/built-in.o: In function
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:26:41PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
This is against current Linus git
(a4ffc0a0b240a29cbe489f6db9dae112a49ef1c1).
This rolls up all the -mm bugfixes that were accumulated, and
addresses some new review comments from Al. Also contains some
reworking from hch and a
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:00:37PM +0100, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
This patch adds the kernel side of the PPS support currently named
LinuxPPS.
PPS means pulse per second and a PPS source is just a device which
provides a high precision signal each second so that an application
can use it to
The kgdb tree has been collapsed review. It includes
the kgdb core, the x86 arch, the kgdb8250 uart driver
and the kgdb console sharing driver.
Since the last time the kgdb patches were posted to LKML
several months ago, the kgdb core has undergone some
significant cleanup, as well as the kgdb
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:31:24PM +, Chris Rankin wrote:
Hi,
I've just tried booting the 2.6.24.1 kernel, except without
nmi_watchdog being enabled. It looks like there are IRQs still not
being enabled.
Does 2.6.24 work? Is this a 2.6.24.1 regression?
thanks,
greg k-h
--
To
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:39:41AM -0600, Jason Wessel wrote:
The kgdb tree has been collapsed review. It includes
the kgdb core, the x86 arch, the kgdb8250 uart driver
and the kgdb console sharing driver.
Since the last time the kgdb patches were posted to LKML
several months ago, the
- remove non-standard in/out markers
- use tabs for formatting
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ioctl.c
===
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ioctl.c 2008-02-09 07:49:02.0 +0100
+++
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christoph Hellwig writes:
- remove non-standard in/out markers
- use tabs for formatting
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ioctl.c
===
---
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 02:19:27AM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
* Invokes filesystem specific -unlocked_ioctl, if one exists; otherwise
* invokes * filesystem specific -ioctl method. If neither method exists,
^
I also think this extra '*' in the last comment line above is
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 22:45:22 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linus, please pull the latency tracer tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched.git
Find the shortlog below.
This is the latency tracer from -rt
I've never seen any of this
--- On Fri, 2/8/08, Vladislav Bolkhovitin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there an open iSCSI Target implementation which
does NOT
issue commands to sub-target devices via the SCSI
mid-layer, but
bypasses it completely?
What do you mean? To call directly low level backstorage
SCSI drivers
* Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 22:45:22 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linus, please pull the latency tracer tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched.git
Find the shortlog below.
This is the
--- On Fri, 2/8/08, Nicholas A. Bellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there an open iSCSI Target implementation which
does NOT
issue commands to sub-target devices via the SCSI
mid-layer, but
bypasses it completely?
Luben
Hi Luben,
I am guessing you mean futher down the
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:05:06 -0800, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://students.zipernowsky.hu/~oliverp/kernel/regression_2624/
I think ub.c is basically abandoned in favour of usb-storage.
If so, perhaps we should remove or disble ub.c?
Looks like it's just Tomo or Jens made a
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:26:41PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
This is against current Linus git
(a4ffc0a0b240a29cbe489f6db9dae112a49ef1c1).
This rolls up all the -mm bugfixes that were accumulated, and
addresses some new review comments from Al. Also contains some
reworking from hch and a
David Newall ha scritto:
Precisely: One purpose of the driver is to enforce local compliance.
It can't *enforce* it anyway, at least if the users are all around the
world.
Yes it can. You're confusing the software with different or modified
software. Different things. And by the way, if
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:24:22AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
On Fri, Feb 08 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:59:55AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
On Fri, Feb 08 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
And if you don't?
Well if you don't ask for anything, you wont get anything :-)
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 17:04 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:56 -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
Quite a bit of this is fixing things broken previously (the advansys fix
is still pending resolution, but I'll send it as an -rc
On 02/08/2008 03:17 AM, Stephen Neuendorffer wrote:
This includes code for new fifo-based xps_hwicap in addition to the
older opb_hwicap, which has a significantly different interface. The
common code between the two drivers is largely shared.
Significant differences exists between this driver
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:14:11AM +, Jan Beulich wrote:
I cannot see any other way out of this than to loose all the newly added
consts. We have to different behavior across platforms to find a suitable
solution that is reliable.
[Kept rest of mail as I added Jan - hope he have some
Lee Mathers ha scritto:
Now we have hardware ASIC that depend on the most part a (dll in
windows) or .ko .o file under linux to provide the entire instruction
set. Think Winmodems, Winprinters etc
Well, winmodem case is the only I could *almost* understand
closed-source drivers: the
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 23:40 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:32:59 +0200 Thomas Renninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Provide acpi_check_{mem_}region.
Drivers can additionally check against possible ACPI interference by also
invoking this shortly before they call
Hi David,
I think you're missing my point: as long as the license stays the way
it is now, you can never distribute proprietary code unless you've
consulted a lawyer and even then you run the risk of being sued for
infringement if the copyright holder thinks what you have is derived
Al posted the following:
; cat a.c 'EOF'
const char foo[] __attribute__ ((__section__(.blah))) = ;
const char * const bar __attribute__((__section__(.blah))) = ;
EOF
; gcc -m32 -S a.c
; gcc -m64 -S a.c
a.c:2: error: bar causes a
From: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/char/mxser.c | 229 ++
drivers/char/mxser.h | 137
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 19:26 -0600, Jay Cliburn wrote:
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:24:47 +0100
Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The trace isn't from me; it's from Zan. He's running -mm, I'm not, if
that makes a difference.
Call Trace:
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 21:23 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
Both situations are trivially fixable by introducing
HAVE_IDE and HAVE_MTD.
See attached patch.
HAVE_MTD is wrong. The actual problem we're trying to solve is that when
the architecture lacks alignment fixups, certain patterns of write
On Fre, 2008-02-08 at 10:51 +0530, rohit h wrote:
Hi,
I am a kernel newbie.
I tried to insmod a C++ module containing classes, inheritance.
I am getting 'unresolved symbol' error when I use the 'new' keyword.
What could the problem be?
That you used C++ is the problem. Use plain C and
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 09:04 +, David Woodhouse wrote:
We could add get_unaligned() in certain places in the code, but that
isn't ideal for the majority of architectures.
Actually, we already did that, despite the fact that it isn't optimal.
So there's no need to omit anything MTD-related
Hi,
Ted wrote:
And I do agree that we probably should just implement this in
filesystem independent way, in which case all of the filesystems that
support this already have super_operations functions
write_super_lockfs() and unlockfs().
So if this is done using a new system call, there should
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 10:23 +, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
That would be misleading though - !CPU_CP15_MMU does not mean we
support unaligned accesses. It means that we may have no way to
support fixing up unaligned accesses.
Doesn't that mean you should disallow MTD (or at least
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:38:58 +0100 Holger Schurig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Disable sysctl_check.c for embedded targets. This saves about about 11 kB
in .text and another 11 kB in .data on a PXA255 embedded platform.
Nice improvement. But iirc
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
Bart Van Assche wrote:
- It has been discussed which iSCSI target implementation should be in
the mainstream Linux kernel. There is no agreement on this subject
yet. The short-term options are as follows:
1) Do not
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 10:18:31AM +, David Woodhouse wrote:
But still, it's HAVE_UNALIGNED_ACCESS which we want to depend on, not a
newly-invented HAVE_MTD. And there are other places we really ought to
be depending on HAVE_UNALIGNED_ACCESS too.
That would be misleading though -
Hi,
The 2.6.24-git18 kernel build fails on the power machine with following message
drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c:44: error: __param_proto causes a section
type conflict
drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c:44: error: __param_proto causes a section
type conflict
make[3]: ***
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