Re: New SCM and commit list

2005-04-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: If yes, then I would appreciate if you could either keep the same list, or if you want to change the list name, keep the subscriber list so those of us who actually archive it don't miss anything ;) I didn't even set up the

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc1-mm4] fork_connector: add a fork connector

2005-04-10 Thread Jay Lan
I based my listen program on the fclisten.c posted by Kaigai Kohei with my own modification. Unfortunately i lost my test machine in the lab. I will recreate the listen program Monday. The original listener did not validate sequence number. It also prints length of data and sequence number of

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-10 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:27:27PM +0200, Thomas Graf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-04-10 10:39 > > Please crosspost on netdev - you should know that by now;-> > > > > I actually disagreee with Herbert on this. Theres definetely good > > need to have a more usable

Re: GIT license (Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1)

2005-04-10 Thread Nur Hussein
> Btw, does anybody have strong opinions on the license? I didn't put in a > COPYING file exactly because I was torn between GPLv2 and OSL2.1. I think GPLv2 would create the least amount of objection in the community, so I'd probably want to go with that. Nur Hussein - To

Re: [RFC] Kprobes: Multiple probes feature at given address

2005-04-10 Thread Maneesh Soni
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:17:46PM +0530, Prasanna S Panchamukhi wrote: [..] > Assumption : If a user has already inserted a probe using old > register_kprobe() > routine, and later wants to insert another probe at the same address using > register_multiprobe() routine, then register_multiprobe()

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 01:00:53AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > No, XFS is my root filesystem. :( (Now that I think about it, would > > modularizing XFS and using an initrd be OK?) > > Yes, loading xfs from initrd should help. [At least it did during > suse9.3 testing.] Once I modularized xfs

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Re: formatting CD-RW locks the system

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Hancock
Stas Sergeev wrote: OK, I'll try cdrecord too, thanks. But there might be a bug in the kernel if the system literally dies with the cdrwtool. If the format is being done as a single blocking ATAPI command, then that will definitely block any other accesses on the same IDE channel, at least -

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 02/04] scsi: make scsi_queue_insert() use blk_requeue_request()

2005-04-10 Thread Tejun Heo
02_scsi_REQ_SPECIAL_semantic_scsi_queue_insert.patch scsi_queue_insert() used to use blk_insert_request() for requeueing requests. This behavior depends on the unobvious behavior of blk_insert_request() setting REQ_SPECIAL and REQ_SOFTBARRIER when requeueing.

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 03/04] scsi: make scsi_requeue_request() use blk_requeue_request()

2005-04-10 Thread Tejun Heo
03_scsi_REQ_SPECIAL_semantic_scsi_requeue_command.patch scsi_requeue_request() used to use blk_insert_request() for requeueing requests. This behavior depends on the unobvious behavior of blk_insert_request() setting REQ_SPECIAL and REQ_SOFTBARRIER when

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 04/04] scsi: remove requeue feature from blk_insert_request()

2005-04-10 Thread Tejun Heo
04_scsi_blk_insert_request_no_requeue.patch blk_insert_request() has a unobivous feature of requeuing a request setting REQ_SPECIAL|REQ_SOFTBARRIER. SCSI midlayer was the only user and as previous patches removed the usage, remove the feature from

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 01/04] scsi: replace REQ_SPECIAL with REQ_SOFTBARRIER in scsi_init_io()

2005-04-10 Thread Tejun Heo
01_scsi_REQ_SPECIAL_semantic_scsi_init_io.patch scsi_init_io() used to set REQ_SPECIAL when it fails sg allocation before requeueing the request by returning BLKPREP_DEFER. REQ_SPECIAL is being updated to mean special requests and we need to set REQ_SOFTBARRIER

[PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 00/04] scsi: clear REQ_SPECIAL/REQ_SOFTBARRIER usages

2005-04-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, James. This patchset is split up of REQ_SPECIAL update patches (#01-02) of previous patchset posted on March 31. Explicit setting of REQ_SOFTBARRIER in scsi_init_io() is added. This patchset makes REQ_SPECIAL mean that the request is a special request and REQ_SOFTBARRIER setting

Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU

2005-04-10 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:47:42 -0400 Derek Cheung wrote: | Enclosed please find the updated patch that incorporates changes for all | the comments I received. (yes, almost all) | The volatile declaration in the m528xsim.h is needed because the | declaration refers to the ColdFire 5282 register

Re: New SCM and commit list

2005-04-10 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 16:26 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > If yes, then I would appreciate if you could either keep the same list, > > or if you want to change the list name, keep the subscriber list so > > those of us who actually archive it

Re: [PATCH] zero disk pages used by swsusp on resume

2005-04-10 Thread Elladan
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:14:55PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > What is the point in doing so after they've rested on the disk for ages? > > > > > > The point is not physical access to the disk but data gathering after > > > resume or reboot. > > > >

Re: formatting CD-RW locks the system

2005-04-10 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Alistair John Strachan wrote: You probably don't have DMA enabled on the drive. Please check this. It looks enabled. And even if it didn't, such a behaviour would still be strange. # hdparm -v /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom: HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument IO_support = 1 (32-bit)

How to access a kernel module function

2005-04-10 Thread karthik
Hi all, If i am writing a module and after compilation i am loading it. After that suppose i want to access few of the funtions in the module then how is it possible(i am not creating a device using mknode for the module). is it necessary that to access a kernel module

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-10 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-11, at 04:26, Miles Bader wrote: Marcin Dalecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Better don't waste your time with looking at Arch. Stick with patches you maintain by hand combined with some scripts containing a list of apply commands and you should be still more productive then when using

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.2

2005-04-10 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > Hello, > > here goes git-pasky-0.2, my set of patches and scripts upon > Linus' git, aimed at human usability and to an extent a SCM-like usage. Incidentally, the git-pasky-base tarball you have up has its checked-out tree partway between 0.1 and

RE: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-10 Thread David Schwartz
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 01:18:11PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > Well that's the problem. While copyright law does permit > > you to restrict > > the right to create derivative works, it doesn't permit you to > > restrict the > > distribution of lawfully created derivative works to

RE: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-10 Thread David Schwartz
> > The GPL applies to distributing a Linux binary I just made even > > though nobody ever chose to apply the GPL to the binary I just made > > only because the binary I just made is a derivative work of the > > Linux kernel, and the authors of that work chose to apply the GPL to > > it. > How

Re: easy softball jiffies quest(ion)

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Hancock
philip dahlquist wrote: hi, i'm on a quest to get access to jiffies in user space so i can write a simple stepper motor driver program. i co-opted the "#includes" list from alessandro rubini's jit.c file from "linux device drivers" to write jfi.c. That's not going to work, jiffies is an internal

Re: very high temperatures in Asus notebook

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Hancock
Zé wrote: I would like to understand why using linux, my notebook gets much higher temperatures than using windows, in linux i get about 67º celcius grades. Im pasting here the sensors output: ]# sensors it87-isa-0800 Adapter: ISA adapter VCore 1: +0.00 V (min = +1.42 V, max = +1.57 V)

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/pnp/pnpbios/rsparser.c: fix an array overflow

2005-04-10 Thread Adam Belay
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 08:03:52PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch fixes an array overflow found by the Coverity checker. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Looks good. Thanks, Adam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-10 Thread Miles Bader
Marcin Dalecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Better don't waste your time with looking at Arch. Stick with patches > you maintain by hand combined with some scripts containing a list of > apply commands and you should be still more productive then when using > Arch. Arch has its problems, but

Re: Processes stuck on D state on Dual Opteron

2005-04-10 Thread Claudio Martins
On Sunday 10 April 2005 03:47, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Suggest you boot with `nmi_watchdog=0' to prevent the nmi watchdog from > cutting in during long sysrq traces. > > Also, capture the `sysrq-m' output so we can see if the thing is out of > memory. Hi Andrew, Thanks for the tip. I

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[ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.2

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Hello, here goes git-pasky-0.2, my set of patches and scripts upon Linus' git, aimed at human usability and to an extent a SCM-like usage. If you already have a previous git-pasky version, just git pull pasky to get it. Otherwise, you can get it from:

Re: increasing scsi_max_sg / max_segments for scsi writes/reads

2005-04-10 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:35:52 -0700 (PDT) sai narasimhamurthy wrote: | Hi, | I had posted a question on increasing the scsi | read/write sectors per command. I figured out some of | the things, but many questions still exist. | | I was wondering why the maximum writes I could get | from a

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 01:18:11PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > Well that's the problem. While copyright law does permit you to restrict > the right to create derivative works, it doesn't permit you to restrict the > distribution of lawfully created derivative works to licensees of the >

Re: formatting CD-RW locks the system

2005-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 April 2005 16:36, Alistair John Strachan wrote: >On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 19:29, you wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I am trying to format the CD-RW disc >> on my NEC ND-3520A DVD writer, and the >> results are completely unexpected: I do >> cdrwtool -d /dev/cdrom -q >> It proceeds with the

Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:38:11PM CEST, I got a letter > where Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > ..snip.. > > Can you pull my current repo, which has "diff-tree -R" that does what the > > name suggests, and which should

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Christopher Li
I see. It just need some basic set operation (+, -, and) and some way to select a set: sha5---> / / sha1-->sha2-->sha3-- \/ \ / >sha4 list sha1 # all the file list in changeset sha1 # {sha1} list sha1,sha1

Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:38:11PM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... ..snip.. > Can you pull my current repo, which has "diff-tree -R" that does what the > name suggests, and which should be faster than the 0.48 sec you see.. Am I just

Re: GIT license (Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1)

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 02:20:52AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > Btw, does anybody have strong opinions on the license? I didn't put in a > COPYING file exactly because I was torn between GPLv2 and OSL2.1. > > I'm inclined to go with

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-10 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> However, then you cannot legally copy it at all, because it contains >> part of the original author's copyrighted work and therefore can only >> legally be copied with the permission of the author. > The way you stop someone from

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Linus writes: > Hey. You're welcome. Especially when you create good documentation for > this thing. Glad to be of service. Sounds like the umbrella in your foofy drink drink will come in handy - keeping off the rain. -- I won't rest till it's the best ...

GIT license (Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1)

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
Btw, does anybody have strong opinions on the license? I didn't put in a COPYING file exactly because I was torn between GPLv2 and OSL2.1. I'm inclined to go with GPLv2 just because it's the most common one, but I was wondering if anybody really had strong opinions. For example, I'd really

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:23:11 -0700 Paul Jackson wrote: | Petr wrote: | > That reminds me, is there any | > tool which will take .rej files and throw them into the file to create | > rcsmerge-like conflicts? | | Check out 'wiggle' | http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/wiggle/ or Chris

Re: Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 01:14:57AM CEST, I got a letter where Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > Useful explanation - thanks, Linus. > > Is this picture and description accurate: > > == > > > <

very high temperatures in Asus notebook

2005-04-10 Thread
I would like to understand why using linux, my notebook gets much higher temperatures than using windows, in linux i get about 67º celcius grades. For what i have compared to other notebooks, the drive made for my notebook, an Asus A2h, you can see specifications in

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-10 Thread Christian Parpart
On Monday 11 April 2005 12:33 am, you wrote: [..] > Well, I followed some of the instructions to mirror the kernel tree on > svn.clkao.org/linux/cvs, and although it took around 12 hours to import > 28232 versions, I seem to have a mirror of it on my own subversion > server now. I think the

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 01:46:50AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > > > On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > > (BTW, it would be useful to have a tool which just blindly takes what > > you give it on input and throws it to an

Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU

2005-04-10 Thread Andrew Morton
"Derek Cheung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Enclosed please find the updated patch that incorporates changes for all > the comments I received. > > The volatile declaration in the m528xsim.h is needed because the > declaration refers to the ColdFire 5282 register mapping. The volatile >

Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:39:02PM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Can you pull my current repo, which has "diff-tree -R" that does what the > > name suggests, and which should be

Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > (BTW, it would be useful to have a tool which just blindly takes what > you give it on input and throws it to an object of given type; I will > need to construct arbitrary commits during the rebuild if I'm to keep > the correct dates.) Hah. That's

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-10 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Apr 6, 2005 6:02 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There still can be a bug in setting up DMA timings etc. > > It is hard to even guess as you haven't given any details about your > system: dmesg/hdparm/lspci/config... (or I overlooked it somehow). I sent the

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Paul Jackson wrote: > > Useful explanation - thanks, Linus. Hey. You're welcome. Especially when you create good documentation for this thing. Because: > Is this picture and description accurate: [ deleted, but I'll probably try to put it in an explanation file

[PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-10 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
The following patch adds the core functionality for the encrypted suspend image. -- Andreas Steinmetz SPAMmers use [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11.2/kernel/power/swsusp.c.ast2005-04-10 14:08:55.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.11.2/kernel/power/swsusp.c

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-10 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Apr 6, 2005 1:41 PM, Richard B. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How would you know? Windows will just run it as PIOW and be done > with it. Yes, but there's a way to know which mode you're using (maybe not precisely, but at least PIO vs DMA). > Did you ever try to copy a large file in

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Petr wrote: > That reminds me, is there any > tool which will take .rej files and throw them into the file to create > rcsmerge-like conflicts? Check out 'wiggle' http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/wiggle/ -- I won't rest till it's the best ...

Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 01:10:58AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > > > On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > > I currently already do a merge when you track someone's source - it will > > throw away your previous HEAD record

Re: New SCM and commit list

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Do you intend to continue posting "commited" patches to a mailing list > like bk scripts did to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? As I said a while ago, I > find this very useful, especially with the actual patch included in the > commit message (which

[PATCH encrypted swsusp 3/3] documentation

2005-04-10 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
The following patch adds some information for encrypted suspend to the swsusp documentation. -- Andreas Steinmetz SPAMmers use [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11.2/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt.ast 2005-04-10 21:07:01.0 +0200 +++

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Christopher Li wrote: > > How about deleting trees from the caches? I don't need to delete stuff from > the official tree. It is more for my local version control. I have a plan. Namely to have a "list-needed" command, which you give one commit, and a flag implying how

[PATCH encrypted swsusp 2/3] configuration

2005-04-10 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
The following patch includes the necessary kernel configuration option. -- Andreas Steinmetz SPAMmers use [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11.2/kernel/power/Kconfig.ast 2005-04-10 20:44:48.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.11.2/kernel/power/Kconfig 2005-04-10

Oops in swsusp

2005-04-10 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Pavel, during testing of the encrypted swsusp_image on x86_64 I did get an Oops from time to time at memcpy+11 called from swsusp_save+1090 which turns out to be the memcpy in copy_data_pages() of swsusp.c. The Oops is caused by a NULL pointer (I don't remember if it was source or destination).

[PATCH encrypted swsusp 0/3] encrypted swsusp image

2005-04-10 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
The following patches allow for encryption of the on-disk swsusp image to prevent data gathering of e.g. in-kernel keys or mlocked data after resume. For this purpose the aes cipher must be compiled into the kernel as module load is not possible at resume time. A random key is generated at

Re: Disc driver is module, software suspend fails

2005-04-10 Thread Jim Carter
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > You do not want to mount journaling filesystems; they tend to write to > disks even during read-only mounts... But doing it from initrd should > be okay. ext2 and init=/bin/bash should do the trick, too. I did give it a try -- successfully. For

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Useful explanation - thanks, Linus. Is this picture and description accurate: == < working directory files (foo.c) > ^ ^| | upward ops|

New SCM and commit list

2005-04-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hi Linus ! Do you intend to continue posting "commited" patches to a mailing list like bk scripts did to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? As I said a while ago, I find this very useful, especially with the actual patch included in the commit message (which isn't the case with most other projects CVS commit

Re: [PATCH] radeonfb: (#2) Implement proper workarounds for PLL accesses

2005-04-10 Thread Brice Goglin
Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit : But it's not specific to X11; I've applied the patch you posted and the same symptoms occur for pure tty switching as well, the delay has decreased a bit (it's hard to measure, but around a second), but it's still rather annoying to work with. Is it distinguishable

Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > I currently already do a merge when you track someone's source - it will > throw away your previous HEAD record though Not only that, it doesn't do what I consider a "merge". A real merge should have two or more parents. The "commit-tree" command

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > (I repeat the xxx in the leaf name - easier to code.) It is a bit OT, but just a note: there are file systems (hash functions) out there who dont like a lot of files named the same way. For example NTFS with the 8.3 short names. Greetings Bernd - To

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Christopher Li
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 03:38:39PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Christopher Li wrote: > > > > BTW, one thing I learn from ext3 is that it is very useful to have some > > compatible flag for future development. I think if we want to reserve some > > room in the file

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Can you try without XFS? > > No, XFS is my root filesystem. :( (Now that I think about it, would > modularizing XFS and using an initrd be OK?) Yes, loading xfs from initrd should help. [At least it did during suse9.3 testing.] > I'll see if I can reproduce this on one of my test

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:27:47PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Can you try without XFS? No, XFS is my root filesystem. :( (Now that I think about it, would modularizing XFS and using an initrd be OK?) I'll see if I can reproduce this on one of my test boxes. I'll *try* to get to it later today,

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
kernel-rcupdatec-make-the-exports-export_symbol_gpl.patch add-deprecated_for_modules.patch add-deprecated_for_modules-fix.patch deprecate-synchronize_kernel-gpl-replacement.patch deprecate-synchronize_kernel-gpl-replacement-fix.patch change-synchronize_kernel-to-_rcu-and-_sched.patch Please drop

Re: [PATCH] radeonfb: (#2) Implement proper workarounds for PLL accesses

2005-04-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> But it's not specific to X11; I've applied the patch you posted and the > same symptoms occur for pure tty switching as well, the delay has decreased > a bit (it's hard to measure, but around a second), but it's still rather > annoying to work with. > > Is it distinguishable which M6 models

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Christopher Li wrote: > > BTW, one thing I learn from ext3 is that it is very useful to have some > compatible flag for future development. I think if we want to reserve some > room in the file format for further development of git Way ahead of you. This is (one reason)

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-10 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:29:24PM -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Thursday 07 April 2005 14:13, Dmitry Yusupov wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 13:54 -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > Three years ago, there was no fully working open source distributed scm > > > code base to use as a starting

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-10 Thread Andrew Morton
Stas Sergeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - p->thread.esp0 = (unsigned long) (childregs+1); > +p->thread.esp0 = (unsigned long) (childregs+1) - 8; This is utterly obscure - it needs a comment so that readers know what that "- 8" is doing there. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 08:42:53PM CEST, I got a letter where Christopher Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > I totally agree that odds is really really small. > That is why it is not worthy to handle the case. People hit that > can just add a new line or some thing to avoid it,

Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:38:11PM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > > It turns out to be the forks for doing all the cuts and such what is > > bogging it down so awfully (doing diff-tree takes

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Christopher Li
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 01:57:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > That way of thinking really doesn't work well here. > > > > I will have to look more closely at pasky's GIT toolkit > > if I want to see an SCM style interface. > > Yes. You really should think of GIT as a filesystem, and of

Re: RE: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 12:07:37AM CEST, I got a letter where "Luck, Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... ..snip.. > >Hey, I may end up being wrong, and yes, maybe I should have done a > >two-level one. The good news is that we can trivially fix it later (even > >dynamically -

RE: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Luck, Tony
>Also, I did actually debate that issue with myself, and decided that even >if we do have tons of files per directory, git doesn't much care. The >reason? Git never _searches_ for them. Assuming you have enough memory to >cache the tree, you just end up doing a "lookup", and inside the kernel

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Christopher Li
I totally agree that odds is really really small. That is why it is not worthy to handle the case. People hit that can just add a new line or some thing to avoid it, if it happen after all. It is the little peace of mind to know for sure that did not happen. I am just paranoid. Chris On Sun,

Re: 2.6.11.x: bootprompt: ALSA: no soundcard detected

2005-04-10 Thread Dennis Heuer
Aehhm, you are completely on the wrong track! I installed 2.6.11.7 the same way I installed 2.6.11, with sound support statically included, but, though it worked fine without ACPI under 2.6.11, the same configuration under 2.6.11.7 does not work. There was no change in practise, only a change

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Can you pull my current repo, which has "diff-tree -R" that does what the > name suggests, and which should be faster than the 0.48 sec you see.. Actually, I changed things around. Everybody hated the "<" ">" lines, so I put a changed thing on a

Re: Status of new kernel.org servers

2005-04-10 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 04.10, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Andre Tomt wrote: > > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > >> For those of you that are interested... > > > > > > > > I kind of sort of miss the load and bandwidth statistics on the > > kernel.org front page. Did they just go boring now with sufficient > > hardware

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > (Sorry I took so long to respond. I was busy with tons of stuff > offline...) > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:33:27PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Do you have XFS compiled in, by chance? > > Yes. Can you try without XFS? I do not why it interferes, but I've seen that before on suse

Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:13:19PM CEST, I got a letter where Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 08:45:22PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > It turns out to be the forks for doing all the cuts and such what is > > bogging it down so awfully

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
(Sorry I took so long to respond. I was busy with tons of stuff offline...) On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:33:27PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Do you have XFS compiled in, by chance? Yes. > You are not actually resuming from initrd, right? That is correct. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: [PATCH] re-export cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue

2005-04-10 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 21:48 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > I have absolutely no problem with such an export / unstatic if there are > users... could you just send them in one go ? Actually, no ... this is a nasty cross tree dependency. The piece of code is queued in the parisc tree, but

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 4/4

2005-04-10 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Ladislav, > Driver has no chance to know about hardware design. If you want the driver to somehow interact with the battery charging register, it will have to. We just can't let the user write random value to this register. > Based on your and Jean's input, following so far sounds

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Paul Jackson wrote: > > Ah ha - that explains the read-tree and write-tree names. > > The read-tree pulls stuff out of this file system into > your working files, clobbering local edits. This is like > the read(2) system call, which clobbers stuff in your > read buffer.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Good lord - you don't need to use arrays for this. The old-fashioned ways have their ways. Both the 'set' command and the 'read' command can split args and assign to distinct variable names. Try something like the following: diff-tree -r $id1 $id2 | sed -e '/^/ / }' -e 's/./& /' |

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > It turns out to be the forks for doing all the cuts and such what is > bogging it down so awfully (doing diff-tree takes 0.48s ;-). I do about > 15 forks per change, I guess, and for some reason cut takes a long of > time on its own. Heh. Can you

[2.6 patch] arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c: make generic_get_mtrr static

2005-04-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global function static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 27 Mar 2005 - 20 Mar 2005 --- linux-2.6.11-mm4-full/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c.old 2005-03-20 19:43:46.0 +0100 +++

Re: formatting CD-RW locks the system

2005-04-10 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 19:29, you wrote: > Hello. > > I am trying to format the CD-RW disc > on my NEC ND-3520A DVD writer, and the > results are completely unexpected: I do > cdrwtool -d /dev/cdrom -q > It proceeds with the formatting, but > while it does so, the system is pretty > much dead. It

RE: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-10 Thread David Schwartz
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 08:07:03PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > The way you stop someone from distributing part of your > > work is by arguing > > that the work they are distributing is a derivative work of > > your work and > > they had no right to *make* it in the first place. See,

uitverkoop horloges

2005-04-10 Thread omega
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Re: [PATCH] zero disk pages used by swsusp on resume

2005-04-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > What is the point in doing so after they've rested on the disk for ages? > > > > The point is not physical access to the disk but data gathering after > > resume or reboot. > > After resume or reboot normal access control mechanisms will work > again. Those

Problem with dual pentium on hx-board and kernel 2.4.x

2005-04-10 Thread Dieter Ferdinand
hello, i have problems with the new kernel on my old systems. with kernel 2.2.x it works fine, with kernel 2.4.x (last testet 2.4.29), the system hangs after some time (some minutes to some hours). on new p3-systems (also dual-systems) i don't have this problem. can you give me some help to

Re: [PATCH] zero disk pages used by swsusp on resume

2005-04-10 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Sonntag, 10. April 2005 21:29 schrieb Andreas Steinmetz: > Oliver Neukum wrote: > > What is the point in doing so after they've rested on the disk for ages? > > The point is not physical access to the disk but data gathering after > resume or reboot. After resume or reboot normal access

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Sean
On Sun, April 10, 2005 12:55 pm, Linus Torvalds said: > Larry was ok with the idea to make my export format actually be natively > supported by BK (ie the same way you have "bk export -tpatch"), but > Tridge wanted to instead get at the native data and be difficult about > it. As a result, I can

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 4/4

2005-04-10 Thread Ladislav Michl
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 06:44:53PM +0100, James Chapman wrote: > > The only reason I can think > >about is when suspending device, so it is likely pm job. /sys entry > >might help as well, but I do not see any point making driver more > >complicated and bigger just to make someone else happy. > >

Re: [PATCH] re-export cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue

2005-04-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 14:07 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > This was unexported by Arjan because we have no current users. > > However, during a conversion from tasklets to workqueues of the parisc > led functions, we ran across a case where this was needed. In > particular, the open coded

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