[PATCH] Support UML and make O= when building Debian packages

2005-07-15 Thread Ryan Anderson
Support UML builds and make O= when building Debian packages. Sam, I'm pretty sure I've sent this before, but it seems to have been dropped. I've been using this for a while to build my personal kernels, and haven't had any problems. This is a combination of old patches. Signed-Off-By: Ryan

Re: [stable] Re: [11/11] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes

2005-07-15 Thread Chris Wright
* Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 07:17:44PM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:53:33AM -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote: > > > That said, I will be testing this patch a bit further > > > > Thanks. Let me know if you see any issues. > > > >

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-15 Thread Eric St-Laurent
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 12:58 -0700, Stephen Pollei wrote: > But If I understand Linus's points he wants jiffies to remain a memory > fetch, and make sure it doesn't turn into a singing dancing christmas > tree. It seems it relatively easy to support dynamic tick, the ARM architecture has it. But

oz6812, yenta_socket and madwifi

2005-07-15 Thread Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho
Hi, for some time I was unable to use Atheros based cards on my notebook (O2Micro oz6812 Cardbus controller) because of lots of rx packets getting dropped by frame errors. running ping I got this: (~1m from access point) PING 192.168.67.1 (192.168.67.1): 56 data

Re: Linux 2.6.12.3

2005-07-15 Thread Greg KH
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 12 -EXTRAVERSION = .2 +EXTRAVERSION = .3 NAME=Woozy Numbat # *DOCUMENTATION* diff --git a/arch/ppc/kernel/time.c b/arch/ppc/kernel/time.c --- a/arch/ppc/kernel/time.c +++

Linux 2.6.12.3

2005-07-15 Thread Greg KH
We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.12.3 kernel. The diffstat and short summary of the fixes are below. I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch between 2.6.12.2 and 2.6.12.3, as it is small enough to do so. The updated 2.6.12.y git tree can be

Re: [11/11] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes

2005-07-15 Thread Andi Kleen
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 07:17:44PM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:53:33AM -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote: > > That said, I will be testing this patch a bit further > > Thanks. Let me know if you see any issues. > > > myself, and because it does address a real memory

Re: 2.6.12 vs. /sbin/cardmgr

2005-07-15 Thread Bob Tracy
Dominik Brodowski wrote: > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:37:22PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:12:17AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > > (/sbin/cardmgr chewing up lots of CPU cycles with 2.6.12 kernel) > > > > > > Please post the output of

Re: [PATCH] mb_cache_shrink() frees unexpected caches

2005-07-15 Thread Akinobu Mita
2005-07-16 (Sat) 03:44 +0200 Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > Removing the cache parameter from mb_cache_shrink would break when more than > one mb_cache is used per filesystem, correct. Leaving the parameter in and > adding your patch is more "future proof", so I'm fine with it. Are you > actually

Re: [rfc patch 2/2] direct-io: remove address alignment check

2005-07-15 Thread Tejun Heo
Badari Pulavarty wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 17:23 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Badari Pulavarty wrote: ... I don't know why you wanna relax the alignment requirement, but wouldn't it be easier to just write/use block-aligned allocator for such buffers? It will even make the program more

[RFC][PATCH 5/6] new timeofday i386 arch specific changes, part 4 (v. B4)

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, The conversion of i386 to use the new timeofday subsystem has been split into 4 parts. This patch, the final of four, converts the i386 arch to use the new timeofday subsystem and removes the old timers/timer_opts infrastructure. It applies on top of my timeofday-arch-i386-part3

[RFC][PATCH 4/6] new timeofday i386 arch specific changes, part 3 (v.B4)

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, The conversion of i386 to use the new timeofday subsystem has been split into 4 parts. This patch, the third of four, reworks some of the code in the new tsc.c file. Additionally it adds some new interfaces and hooks to use these new interfaces appropriately. This patch also

[RFC][PATCH 6/6] new timeofday i386 specific timesources

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, This patch implements the time sources shared between i386 acpi_pm, cyclone, hpet, pit, tsc and tsc-interp). The patch should apply on top of the timeofday-arch-i386-part4 patch. The patch should be fairly straight forward, only adding the new timesources. thanks -john

[RFC][PATCH 3/6] new timeofday i386 arch specific changes, part 2 (v. B4)

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, The conversion of i386 to use the new timeofday subsystem has been split into 4 parts. This patch, the second of four, is a cleanup patch for the i386 arch in preperation of moving the the new timeofday infrastructure. It moves some code from timer_tsc.c to a new tsc.c file. It

Re: [PATCH 2/7] new timeofday i386 arch specific changes, part 1 (v. B4)

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
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[RFC][PATCH 1/6] new timeofday core subsystem

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, I've been busy splitting out the NTP changes from the core timeofday patch, in order to reduce the patch size and avoid any features vs cleanups confusion. Hopefully this will lead to a more productive discussion of the proposed changes. However with OLS upon us, I figured I resend

[PATCH 2/7] new timeofday i386 arch specific changes, part 1 (v. B4)

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, The conversion of i386 to use the new timeofday subsystem has been split into 4 parts. This patch, the first of four, is just a simple cleanup for the i386 arch in preperation of moving the the new timeofday infrastructure. It simply moves some code from timer_pit.c to i8259.c.

[RFC][PATCH - 12/12] NTP cleanup: use ppm instead of unit adj returned by ntp_advance

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, This patch stops ntp_advance() from returning unit adjustments (ie: nanoseconds). Instead the update_wall_time() function uses the ppm adjustment from get_ntp_adjustment() which is then converted into a nanosecond adjustment value. Any comments or feedback would be greatly

[RFC][PATCH - 5/12] NTP cleanup: Break out leapsecond processing

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, This patch breaks the leapsecond processing logic into its own function. By making the NTP code avoid making any direct changes to time, instead allowing the time code to use NTP to decide when to change time, we better isolate the NTP subsystem. Any comments or feedback would be

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add PCI<->PCI bridge driver [4/9]

2005-07-15 Thread Adam Belay
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 09:58 +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:55:19AM -0400, Adam Belay wrote: > > This patch adds a basic PCI<->PCI bridge driver that utilizes the new > > PCI bus class API. > > Thanks. I think this breaks Cardbus. > > The whole point of the way PCI is

[RFC][PATCH - 9/12] NTP cleanup: Improve NTP variable names

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, This patch changes the NTP variable names from time_* to ntp_* further clarifying their use. Any comments or feedback would be greatly appreciated. thanks -john linux-2.6.13-rc3_timeofday-ntp-part9_B4.patch diff --git

[RFC][PATCH - 11/12] NTP cleanup: Introduce PPM adjustment variables

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, This patch introduces variables to keep track of the different NTP adjustment values in PPM units. It also introduces the ntp_get_adjustment() interface which returns shifted PPM units. The patch also changes the ppc64 ppc_adjtimex() function to use ntp_get_adjustment().

[RFC][PATCH - 8/12] NTP cleanup: Integrate second_overflow() logic

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, This patch removes the second_overflow() logic integrating it into the ntp_advance() function. This provides a single interface to advance the internal NTP state machine. Any comments or feedback would be greatly appreciated. thanks -john

[RFC][PATCH - 10/12] NTP cleanup: Use ntp_lock instead of xtime_lock

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, This patch introduces the ntp_lock which replaces the xtime_lock for serialization in the NTP subsystem. This further isolates the NTP subsystem from the time subsystem. Any comments or feedback would be greatly appreciated. thanks -john

[RFC][PATCH - 7/12] NTP cleanup: Cleanup signed shifting logic

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, Signed shifting must be done carefully, and the ntp code has quite a number of conditionals to do the signed shifting. This patch makes use of the local shiftR() macro introduced in a previous patch to simplify a bit of logic. Any comments or feedback would be greatly appreciated.

[RFC][PATCH - 6/12] NTP cleanup: Clean up ntp_adjtimex() arguement checking

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, Currently ntp_adjtimex() checks the validity of a few arguments values then takes the xtime_lock then checks the validity of more arguments while it parses them. This separates the logic so we check the validity of all arguments before aquiring the xtime lock. This greatly improves

[RFC][PATCH - 3/12] NTP cleanup: Remove unused NTP PPS code

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, Since the NTP PPS code required an out of tree patch which I don't believe there is a 2.6 version of, this patch removes the unused PPS logic in the kernel. Any comments or feedback would be greatly appreciated. thanks -john linux-2.6.13-rc3_timeofday-ntp-part3_B4.patch

[RFC][PATCH - 4/12] NTP cleanup: Breakup ntp_adjtimex()

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, This patch breaks up the complex nesting of code in ntp_adjtimex() by creating a ntp_hardupdate() function and simplifying some of the logic. This also follows the documented NTP spec somewhat better. Any comments or feedback would be greatly appreciated. thanks -john

[RFC][PATCH - 2/12] NTP cleanup: Move arches to new ntp interfaces

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, This patch converts all of arch specific code to use the new ntp_synced () and ntp_clear() interfaces. This patch is required for the patch 1 of the series to build. Any comments or feedback would be greatly appreciated. thanks -john linux-2.6.13-rc3_timeofday-ntp-part2_B4.patch

[RFC][PATCH - 1/12] NTP cleanup: Move NTP code into ntp.c

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, This patch moves the generic NTP code from time.c and timer.c into ntp.c. It makes most of the NTP variables static providing more understandable interfaces like ntp_synced() and ntp_clear(). Since some of the newly made static variables are used in arch generic code, this

[RFC - 0/12] NTP cleanup work (v. B4)

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, In my attempts to rework the timeofday subsystem, it was suggested I try to avoid mixing cleanups with functional changes. In response to the suggestion I've tried to break out the majority of the NTP cleanups I've been working out of my larger patch and try to feed it in piece meal.

Re: [11/11] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes

2005-07-15 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:53:33AM -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote: > That said, I will be testing this patch a bit further Thanks. Let me know if you see any issues. > myself, and because it does address a real memory leak issue, we should > consider it or another fix for stable 2.6.12.4.

Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-24

2005-07-15 Thread Daniel Walker
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 07:56 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 16:46 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I haven't tested it recently . This was on an older version of RT > > > though . I could try it if it's interesting ? Or do you

Re: [PATCH] mb_cache_shrink() frees unexpected caches

2005-07-15 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Friday 15 July 2005 17:07, Akinobu Mita wrote: > 2005-07-15 (Fri) 16:36 +0200 Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > The cache parameter could indeed be removed. Not that it would matter > > much... > > Currently, mbcache is used only for xattr on ext2/ext3 and reiserfs. > In other words, only one

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1

2005-07-15 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
Hi, On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:23:49 -0700 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yoichi Yuasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Andrew > > > > I got the following error. > > > > make ARCH=mips oldconfig > > scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/mips/Kconfig > > drivers/video/Kconfig:7:warning:

Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes

2005-07-15 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:52:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I really think you should update the "simple_xxx()" functions > instead, and thus make this happen for _any_ filesystem that uses > the simple fs helper functions. Why bother at all? I don't see why zero sizes are a problem.

init 0 stopped working

2005-07-15 Thread Martin Mokrejs
Hi, I used to shutdown my P4 machine based on ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe with simple "init 0" command. That somehow broke between 2.6.12-rc6-git2 and 2.6.13-rc1. The machines makes the sound like shutdown but it immediately turns the power on again. I used acpi and the kernel configs should be almost

RE: 2.6.9 chrdev_open: serial_core: uart_open

2005-07-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-07-15 at 15:02 -0700, karl malbrain wrote: > I've since answered part of my question. Red Hat pulled some code-changes > from 2.6.10 tty_io.c with the somewhat cryptic comment "fix the trivial > exploits caused by Rolands controlling tty changes (part 1)" and moved the > tty_sem ops.

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RE: 2.6.9 chrdev_open: serial_core: uart_open

2005-07-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-07-15 at 13:11 -0700, karl malbrain wrote: > N.b. I don't pretend to understand how uart_change_pm, uart_startup, and > uart_block_til_ready could ALL be on the call stack. Uart_open calls them > sequentially. Perhaps you might explain how this works? Thanks, karl m gcc does smart

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1

2005-07-15 Thread Andrew Morton
Yoichi Yuasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Andrew > > I got the following error. > > make ARCH=mips oldconfig > scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/mips/Kconfig > drivers/video/Kconfig:7:warning: type of 'FB' redefined from 'boolean' to > 'tristate' > > file drivers/char/speakup/Kconfig already

Re: reiserfs+acl makes processes hang?

2005-07-15 Thread Kasper Sandberg
confirmed, i run 2.6.12 with reiserfs, created with reiserfsprogs 3.6.19 On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 23:19 +, Tarmo Tänav wrote: > Hi, > > I think I've found a bug in reiserfs acls. If triggered > it means that any program trying to access the partition, > where the bug occured, will just hang in

[PATCH] scsi/ibmvscsi/srp.h: Fix a wrong type code used for SRP_LOGIN_REJ

2005-07-15 Thread Linda Xie
Hi James, This patch fixes srp.h which uses 0x80 for SRP_LOGIN_REJ instead of 0xc2. Please apply. Thanks, Linda Signed-off-by: Linda Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -X ../dontdiff -purN large-sg/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/srp.h srp/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/srp.h ---

reiserfs+acl makes processes hang?

2005-07-15 Thread Tarmo Tänav
Hi, I think I've found a bug in reiserfs acls. If triggered it means that any program trying to access the partition, where the bug occured, will just hang in D state, with no way to kill the program. Here's how to reproduce: 1. mount a reiserfs volume (loopmount will do) with "-o acl". 2.

Re: Why is 2.6.12.2 less stable on my laptop than 2.6.10?

2005-07-15 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Mark Gross wrote: > What would be wrong in expecting the folks making the driver changes > have some story on how they are validating there changes don't break > existing working hardware? I could probly be accomplished in open > source with subsystem testing volenteers.

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1

2005-07-15 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
Hi again, On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 07:52:42 +0900 Yoichi Yuasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrew > > I got the following error. > > make ARCH=mips oldconfig > scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/mips/Kconfig > drivers/video/Kconfig:7:warning: type of 'FB' redefined from 'boolean' to > 'tristate' >

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1

2005-07-15 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
Hi Andrew I got the following error. make ARCH=mips oldconfig scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/mips/Kconfig drivers/video/Kconfig:7:warning: type of 'FB' redefined from 'boolean' to 'tristate' file drivers/char/speakup/Kconfig already scanned? make[1]: *** [oldconfig] Error 1 make: *** [oldconfig]

[PATCH -linus] Really __nocast-annotate kmalloc_node().

2005-07-15 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
One chunk was lost somewhere between my and Andrew's machine. Noticed by Victor Fusco. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/slab.h |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-vanilla/include/linux/slab.h 2005-07-08 13:52:46.0

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/media/video/tveeprom.c: possible cleanups

2005-07-15 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Adrian, Your patch is at my personal TODO list. We had lots of patches for 2.6.13, with some sigificative enhancements. Unfortunatelly, your patch from 19 Apr 2005 was not applied, maybe because you've sent during a period where V4L was Orphaned. We've decided

Re: Why is 2.6.12.2 less stable on my laptop than 2.6.10?

2005-07-15 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Mark Gross wrote: On Thursday 14 July 2005 19:09, Dave Jones wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 03:45:28AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: >>> The problem is the process, not than the code. >>> * The issues are too much ad-hock code flux without enough >>> disciplined/formal

[PATCH] SMB fix

2005-07-15 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 07.15, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ > > --- linux-2.6.12/fs/smbfs/request.c~2005-07-07 14:41:11.0 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.12/fs/smbfs/request.c 2005-07-07

Re: Why is 2.6.12.2 less stable on my laptop than 2.6.10?

2005-07-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:47:46PM -0700, Mark Gross wrote: > This problem is the developer making driver changes without have the > resources > to test the changes on a enough of the hardware effected by his change, and > therefore probubly shouldn't be making changes they cannot

[PATCH] signed char fixes for scripts

2005-07-15 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 07.15, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ > > This time I did not break anything... and they shut up gcc4 ;) --- linux-2.6.12-jam1/scripts/mod/sumversion.c.orig

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-15 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 14 Jul 2005 21:16, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 20:58 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > the responsiveness of our instrument to 300us which is low enough > > for the real-time PCR industry > > PCR, as in polymerase chain reaction? They can do that in realtime? >

[PATCH] SCSI SATA is a tristate

2005-07-15 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 07.15, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ > > --- linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1/drivers/scsi/Kconfig.old 2005-07-02 21:57:40.0 +0200 +++

[PATCH] fix LDT tss

2005-07-15 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 07.15, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ > > --- linux.orig/include/asm-i386/processor.h +++ linux/include/asm-i386/processor.h @@ -476,7 +476,6 @@ struct thread_struct {

[PATCH] fix kmalloc in IDE

2005-07-15 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 07.15, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ > > --- linux-2.6.git.orig/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c 2005-06-23 11:38:02.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.git/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c

[2.6.13-rc3][SATA] - SIL 3114 controller w/ firmware 5.0.39 - Hanging only in 64bit mode

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Starr
I just tried -rc3 today on the amd64 box which is a Asus K8N-E Deluxe motherboard. Is it possible the firmware for the controller is buggy? Anyone else reporting hangs? I can reproduce the sata controller with various writes: 1) If I connect the box and allow a remote machine to PXE and TFTP

[PATCH] Assorted fixes

2005-07-15 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 07.15, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ > > (http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.13-rc3-mm1.gz until > kernel.org syncs up) > This are fixes that I still have in my small patchset, collected

RE: 2.6.9 chrdev_open: serial_core: uart_open

2005-07-15 Thread karl malbrain
> -Original Message- > From: Russell King > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 2:54 PM > To: karl malbrain > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel. Org > Subject: Re: 2.6.9 chrdev_open: serial_core: uart_open > > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:17:01PM -0700, karl malbrain wrote: > > > -Original

Re: Why is 2.6.12.2 less stable on my laptop than 2.6.10?

2005-07-15 Thread Mark Gross
On Thursday 14 July 2005 19:09, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 03:45:28AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > The problem is the process, not than the code. > > > > * The issues are too much ad-hock code flux without enough > > > > disciplined/formal regression testing and review. >

Re: 2.6.9 chrdev_open: serial_core: uart_open

2005-07-15 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:17:01PM -0700, karl malbrain wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Russell King > > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 1:59 PM > > To: karl malbrain > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel. Org > > Subject: Re: 2.6.9 chrdev_open: serial_core: uart_open > > > > > > On Fri,

Re: Why is 2.6.12.2 less stable on my laptop than 2.6.10?

2005-07-15 Thread Mark Gross
On Thursday 14 July 2005 19:16, Dave Airlie wrote: > > That, of course, you cannot do. But, you can regression test a lot of > > other things, and having a default test suite that is constantly being > > added to and always being run before releases (that test hardware > > agnostic stuff) could

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc3] kbuild: When checking depmod version, redirect stderr

2005-07-15 Thread randy_dunlap
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:38:54 -0700 Tom Rini wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:24:32PM -0700, randy_dunlap wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 07:56:36 -0700 Tom Rini wrote: > > > > > When running depmod to check for the correct version number, extra > > > output we don't need to see, such as

Re: Why is 2.6.12.2 less stable on my laptop than 2.6.10?

2005-07-15 Thread Mark Gross
On Thursday 14 July 2005 19:09, Andi Kleen wrote: > > You can't test everything this way, nor should you, but you can test > > many things, and adding a bit of formal testing to the release > > procedure wouldn't be a bad thing IMO. > > In the linux model that's left to the distributions. In fact

[2.6 patch] drivers/media/video/tveeprom.c: possible cleanups

2005-07-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make two needlessly global structs static - #if 0 the EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed but unused function tveeprom_dump Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 9 Jul 2005 - 19 Apr 2005

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc3] kbuild: When checking depmod version, redirect stderr

2005-07-15 Thread Tom Rini
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:24:32PM -0700, randy_dunlap wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 07:56:36 -0700 Tom Rini wrote: > > > When running depmod to check for the correct version number, extra > > output we don't need to see, such as "depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not > > implemented" may show up.

[2.6 patch] fix IP_FIB_HASH kconfig warning

2005-07-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch fixes the following kconfig warning: net/ipv4/Kconfig:92:warning: defaults for choice values not supported Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 9 Jul 2005 --- linux-2.6.13-rc2-mm1-modular/net/ipv4/Kconfig.old 2005-07-08

[2.6 patch] fs/smbfs/request.c: turn NULL dereference into BUG()

2005-07-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
In a case documented as We should never be called with any of these states BUG() in a case that would later result in a NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 26 Mar 2005 ---

[2.6 patch] SCSI_SATA has to be a tristate

2005-07-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
SCSI=m must disallow static drivers. The problem is that all the SATA drivers depend on SCSI_SATA. With SCSI=m and SCSI_SATA=y this allows the static enabling of the SATA drivers with unwanted effects, e.g.: - SCSI=m, SCSI_SATA=y, SCSI_ATA_ADMA=y -> SCSI_ATA_ADMA is built statically but

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc3] kbuild: When checking depmod version, redirect stderr

2005-07-15 Thread randy_dunlap
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 07:56:36 -0700 Tom Rini wrote: > When running depmod to check for the correct version number, extra > output we don't need to see, such as "depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not > implemented" may show up. Redirect stderr to /dev/null as the version > information that we do care

RE: 2.6.9 chrdev_open: serial_core: uart_open

2005-07-15 Thread karl malbrain
> -Original Message- > From: Russell King > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 1:59 PM > To: karl malbrain > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel. Org > Subject: Re: 2.6.9 chrdev_open: serial_core: uart_open > > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:52:15PM -0700, karl malbrain wrote: > > On my 2.6.9-11EL source

Re: 2.6.9 chrdev_open: serial_core: uart_open

2005-07-15 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:52:15PM -0700, karl malbrain wrote: > On my 2.6.9-11EL source it clearly shows the up(_sem) after the call to > uart_open. Init_dev never touches tty_sem. In which case, I have to say... Congratulations! You've found a bug with Red Hat's Enterprise Linux kernel! Go

[patch] fix EFI memory map parsing for x86

2005-07-15 Thread Matt Tolentino
The memory descriptors that comprise the EFI memory map are not fixed in stone such that the size could change in the future. This uses the memory descriptor size obtained from EFI to iterate over the memory map entries during boot. This enables the removal of an x86 specific pad (and ifdef) in

RE: 2.6.9 chrdev_open: serial_core: uart_open

2005-07-15 Thread karl malbrain
> -Original Message- > From: Russell King > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 1:31 PM > To: karl malbrain > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel. Org > Subject: Re: 2.6.9 chrdev_open: serial_core: uart_open > > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:11:33PM -0700, karl malbrain wrote: > > > -Original

Re: 2.6.9: serial_core: uart_open

2005-07-15 Thread karl malbrain
- Original Message - From: "Russell King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "karl malbrain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel. Org" Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 1:32 PM Subject: Re: 2.6.9: serial_core: uart_open > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:02:48AM -0700, karl malbrain wrote: > >

Re: [2.6 patch] sparc: remove the useless APM_RTC_IS_GMT option

2005-07-15 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 22:36 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I can't see any effect of this option outside the i386-specific APM > code. Doesn't the Javastation potentially use this? ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Senior Sales Engineer || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee

Re: serial: 8250 fails to detect Exar XR16L2551 correctly

2005-07-15 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 14:46 +0100, Russell King wrote: > Then we try to register the console, which may result in this UART > becoming a console. So now we have a console which is in low power > mode. Bad bad bad. No cookie for the serial layer today. I don't know if this is a possible

[2.6 patch] Documentation/Changes: document the required udev version

2005-07-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
Document that udev 058 is required. A similar patch (that no longger applies due to unrelated context changes) was sent by Jesper Juhl. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 8 Jul 2005 - 2 Jul 2005 ---

[2.6 patch] sparc: remove the useless APM_RTC_IS_GMT option

2005-07-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
I can't see any effect of this option outside the i386-specific APM code. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 2 Jul 2005 --- linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1-full/drivers/sbus/char/Kconfig.old 2005-07-02 20:24:49.0 +0200 +++

Re: 2.6.9: serial_core: uart_open

2005-07-15 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:02:48AM -0700, karl malbrain wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Russell King > > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 12:29 AM > > To: karl malbrain > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel. Org > > Subject: Re: 2.6.9: serial_core: uart_open > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005

Re: 2.6.9 chrdev_open: serial_core: uart_open

2005-07-15 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:11:33PM -0700, karl malbrain wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Russell King > > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 12:23 AM > > To: karl malbrain > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel. Org > > Subject: Re: 2.6.9 chrdev_open: serial_core: uart_open > > > > > > On Thu,

Re: [PATCH] MMC host class

2005-07-15 Thread Pierre Ossman
Russell King wrote: >The allocation function should initialise class_dev as much as possible. >The registration function should add the class device with the class >model. The unregistration should remove the class device from the class >model, but _not_ free it. The free function should drop

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 (ckrm)

2005-07-15 Thread Andrew Morton
Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:36:53AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ > > > > (http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.13-rc3-mm1.gz until > >

Re: [PATCH] add rlimit file to /proc/PID

2005-07-15 Thread Francois Romieu
dierbro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > with a friend i have made this patch that add rlimit file to /proc/PID > directory. > Trought this file you can set and get rlimit of a running process. I am not sure that new proc-functions will be welcome, anyway... [...] > ---

RE: 2.6.9 chrdev_open: serial_core: uart_open

2005-07-15 Thread karl malbrain
> -Original Message- > From: Russell King > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 12:23 AM > To: karl malbrain > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel. Org > Subject: Re: 2.6.9 chrdev_open: serial_core: uart_open > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:50:00PM -0700, karl malbrain wrote: > > chrdev_open issues a

Re: [patch] inotify: add x86-64 syscall numbers

2005-07-15 Thread Robert Love
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 22:01 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > It won't work anyways because you forgot to patch the compat > sys32_open. Well, "won't work" is a bit harsh, its just one hook. But that was next. I usually leave per-arch stuff to the arch folks. Robert Love Add

Re: [rfc patch 2/2] direct-io: remove address alignment check

2005-07-15 Thread Daniel McNeil
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 22:27, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > Daniel McNeil wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:16, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > >>How does your patch ensures that we meet the driver alignment > >>restrictions ? Like you said, you need atleast "even" byte alignment > >>for IDE etc..

Re: [patch] inotify: add x86-64 syscall numbers

2005-07-15 Thread Andi Kleen
Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andi, > > Attached patch adds the inotify syscall numbers to x86-64. Also adds > the new ioprio_get() and ioprio_set() calls to the IA32 layer. It won't work anyways because you forgot to patch the compat sys32_open. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-15 Thread Stephen Pollei
On 7/14/05, Eric St-Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:24 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Trust me. When I say that the right thing to do is to just have a fixed > > (but high) HZ value, and just changing the timer rate, I'm -right-. > Of course you are, jiffies are

[patch] inotify: add x86-64 syscall numbers

2005-07-15 Thread Robert Love
Andi, Attached patch adds the inotify syscall numbers to x86-64. Also adds the new ioprio_get() and ioprio_set() calls to the IA32 layer. Robert Love Add the inotify syscalls to x86-64 Signed-off-by: Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S |8 ++--

Module snd-intel8x0.ko broken in 2.6.12

2005-07-15 Thread FyD
Dear All, I just compiled & install the kernels 2.6.12.2 & 2.6.12 & booted my laptop. Here is the error message I get whatever the kernel 2.6.12 I use: FATAL: Error inserting snd-intel8x0 (/lib/modules/2.6.12.2/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko) unknown symbol in module or unknown parameter (see

Re: Kernel Bug Report

2005-07-15 Thread Lee
Hi, > It should have been printed right after the output you posted. > > Anyway, the first step is to reproduce it with a non tainted kernel. There was no call trace after what I saw. No big deal. I am now working to reproduce the error with a non tainted kernel. -- Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel Bug Report

2005-07-15 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:24 -0500, Lee wrote: > Hi, > > > > [20975.978911] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC > > > [20976.029194] Modules linked in: vmnet vmmon nvidia > > > [20976.090907] CPU:695757158 > > > [20976.090909] EIP:0060:[]Tainted: P VLI > > > > Please reproduce the bug

Re: [stable] Re: [05/11] SMP fix for 6pack driver

2005-07-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 03:13:11PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:01:23AM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > Drivers

Re: Orinoco_plx woes on 2.6.13

2005-07-15 Thread Nathan Mahon
I got a suggestion that i needed to update firmware, along with a suggestion to move to the hostap driver. for what it's worth, I'm pretty sure hostap won't work for this card. it's listed under orinoco_cs at pcmcia-cs.sf.net, and hostap doesn't like it: hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'

Volatile vs Non-Volatile Spin Locks on SMP.

2005-07-15 Thread multisyncfe991
Hello, By using volatile keyword for spin lock defined by in spinlock_t, it seems Linux choose to always reload the value of spin locks from cache instead of using the content from registers. This may be helpful for synchronization between multithreads in a single CPU. I use two Xeon cpus

Re: Kernel Bug Report

2005-07-15 Thread Lee
Hi, > > [20975.978911] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC > > [20976.029194] Modules linked in: vmnet vmmon nvidia > > [20976.090907] CPU:695757158 > > [20976.090909] EIP:0060:[]Tainted: P VLI > > Please reproduce the bug without these proprietary modules loaded. And > make sure to

Re: Kernel Bug Report

2005-07-15 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:04 -0500, Lee wrote: > [20975.978911] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC > [20976.029194] Modules linked in: vmnet vmmon nvidia > [20976.090907] CPU:695757158 > [20976.090909] EIP:0060:[]Tainted: P VLI Please reproduce the bug without these proprietary modules

[PATCH] add rlimit file to /proc/PID

2005-07-15 Thread dierbro
Hi all, with a friend i have made this patch that add rlimit file to /proc/PID directory. Trought this file you can set and get rlimit of a running process. rlimit file contains: Example: cave 5933 # pwd /proc/5933 cave 5933 # echo "RLIMIT_NOFILE 3 10" > rlimit cave 5933 # cat rlimit

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