Re: Wireless support

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 15:56:06 -0400): > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: >> Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) >> supported? >> > > Wow, Google has really declined in quality. I got zero hits for >

Re: Highmemory Problem with RHEL3 .... 2.4.21-5.ELsmp

2005-08-07 Thread Zachary Amsden
Fawad Lateef wrote: Hello, I m facing a problem in RHEL3 (2.4.21-5.ELsmp) kernel while using kmap_atomic on the pages reserved at the boot time At the boot time I reserved pages above 2GB for later use by my module . And when I was using those reserved pages through kmap_atomic

Re: Highmemory Problem with RHEL3 .... 2.4.21-5.ELsmp

2005-08-07 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/7/05, Fawad Lateef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I m facing a problem in RHEL3 (2.4.21-5.ELsmp) kernel while using > kmap_atomic on the pages reserved at the boot time Unless you can reproduce this in a current kernel.org kernel (2.6.13-rc6), then you probably should contact

[patch] IPV4 spinlock_casting

2005-08-07 Thread Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
Fix a compile error in net/ipv4/route.c when RT patch is applied: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 net/built-in.o(.text+0x19058): In function `rt_check_expire': net/ipv4/route.c:628: undefined reference to `__bad_spinlock_type' net/built-in.o(.text+0x1907a):net/ipv4/route.c:661: undefined reference to

Highmemory Problem with RHEL3 .... 2.4.21-5.ELsmp

2005-08-07 Thread Fawad Lateef
Hello, I m facing a problem in RHEL3 (2.4.21-5.ELsmp) kernel while using kmap_atomic on the pages reserved at the boot time At the boot time I reserved pages above 2GB for later use by my module . And when I was using those reserved pages through kmap_atomic system hangs; although

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread Chris White
> Sorry, I didn't even check the link. Try the driver from: > > http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ > > Which seems to work better. > > -- > Cheers, > Alistair. Err, mine's a logitech camera, why is everyone recommending philips drivers :P? Chris White pgprj9VJsZJCX.pgp Description: PGP

2.6.12.3 lockup with lots of D state processes

2005-08-07 Thread Rob Mueller
I have a feeling this might be related back to this issue... http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0507.1/1518.html As a reminder: we've been running a number of IBM x235 machines with 6G of RAM with a 2.6.12.3 kernel fine for a couple of weeks now. Last night one of the machines

Re: Regression: radeonfb: No synchronisation on CRT with linux-2.6.13-rc5

2005-08-07 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Aug 7, 2005, at 21:13:54, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Aug 7, 2005, at 12:13:38, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: _However_ there is an unrelated problem with some panels, including some of the 17": The panel doesn't always "sync" properly. This seem to be related to some subtle timing issue in the

Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5

2005-08-07 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:30:23AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > Tony said he had it lying around somewhere and needed to find time to dust it > off and get it up to speed. PPC64 is on my ToDo list as well. Will take it up after the dyn-tick is cleaned up for SMP. -- Thanks and Regards,

Re: lockups with netconsole on e1000 on media insertion

2005-08-07 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 23:12 +0200, John Bäckstrand wrote: > Steven Rostedt wrote: > > I don't have the card, so I can't test it. But if this works (after > > removing the previous patch) then this is the better solution. > > I can confirm that this alone does not work for the simple >

[Patch] i386: build.c: Write out larger system size to bootsector

2005-08-07 Thread Frank Sorenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This patch allows build.c to write out the full system size to the bootsector for system sizes larger than about 1 MB (1048560 bytes) by using another byte (a 4th byte would allow system sizes larger than 268 MB). Signed-off-by: Frank Sorenson

Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5

2005-08-07 Thread Gabriel Devenyi
Along the same lines, is there an x86_64 patch around? On August 07, 2005 21:30, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:20 am, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > On Aug 7, 2005, at 19:51:25, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 02:58, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > > >> Con, > > >> I am afraid

Re: [PATCH C] gdth: remove GDTIOCTL_OSVERS

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:28:29AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: >... > --- linux-vanilla/drivers/scsi/gdth.c 2005-08-08 02:16:47.0 +0400 > +++ linux-gdth/drivers/scsi/gdth.c2005-08-08 02:19:59.0 +0400 > @@ -5411,18 +5411,6 @@ static int gdth_ioctl(struct inode *inod >

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Workqueue freezer support.

2005-08-07 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 11:27, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:46 am, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Sorry for the slow response. Busy still. > > > > On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 15:06, Patrick Mochel wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5

2005-08-07 Thread Con Kolivas
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:20 am, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Aug 7, 2005, at 19:51:25, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 02:58, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > >> Con, > >> I am afraid until SMP correctness is resolved, then this is not > >> in a position to go in (unless you want to enable it

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

2005-08-07 Thread Chris Wright
* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Doesn't that require 16 pages per CPU? That seems excessive to impose > on a native build. Perhaps we could get away with 1 page per CPU for > the GDT on native boots and bump that up to 16 if compiling for a > virtualized sub-architecture - i.e.

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Workqueue freezer support.

2005-08-07 Thread Con Kolivas
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:46 am, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > Sorry for the slow response. Busy still. > > On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 15:06, Patrick Mochel wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > I finally found some time to finish this off. I don't really like the

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 21:20 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:39 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) > > > supported? > > > > > > TIA, > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
> I like these patches. They greatly simplify a lot of the work I > had anticipated was necessary for Xen. I.e. - LDT / GDT accessors > are not needed for most updates, only updates to live descriptor > table entries (for GDT this is TLS, LDT, TSS?, entries and there > is 1 LDT update case).

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:39 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) > > supported? > > > > TIA, > > > > Lee > > Normally, linksys doesn't care much about Linux and they won't

Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5

2005-08-07 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Aug 7, 2005, at 19:51:25, Con Kolivas wrote: On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 02:58, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: Con, I am afraid until SMP correctness is resolved, then this is not in a position to go in (unless you want to enable it only for UP, which I think should not be our target). I am working

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

2005-08-07 Thread Zachary Amsden
Chris Wright wrote: * Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does Xen assume page aligned descriptor tables? I assume from this Yes. patch and snippets I have gathered from others, that is a yes, and other things here imply that DT pages are not shadowed. If so, Xen itself

Re: Regression: radeonfb: No synchronisation on CRT with linux-2.6.13-rc5

2005-08-07 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Aug 7, 2005, at 12:13:38, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: I've got an LCD, and on mine it looks like every third pixel-line gets shifted about 32-64 pixels to the left, and they move with display refresh. My guess is that something is interrupting radeonfb during a critical time in display

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

2005-08-07 Thread Chris Wright
* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does Xen assume page aligned descriptor tables? I assume from this Yes. > patch and snippets I have gathered from others, that is a yes, and other > things here imply that DT pages are not shadowed. If so, Xen itself > must have live segments in

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

2005-08-07 Thread Zachary Amsden
Chris Wright wrote: * Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: "Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: xen_make_pages_readonly / xen_make_pages_writable ? Well we don't want to assume "xen" at this stage. We're faced with a choice at present: to make the

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 17:41:29 -0700): > "Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> --Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 >> 16:44:11 -0700): >> >> > * Martin J. Bligh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>

[PATCH] DVB: lgdt330x frontend: trivial text cleanups

2005-08-07 Thread Michael Krufky
some tiny minor cleanups... -- Michael Krufky Two trivial text changes in Kconfig and lgdt330x.c Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> linux/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/Kconfig|2 +- linux/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/lgdt330x.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 2

Re: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1

2005-08-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Andrew, for including the vfat speedup patch. > > It has really improved a lot the performance of access to directories > having many subdirectories in an external Firewire HD that I have. > > I'd say that if others don't have problems with it,

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Workqueue freezer support.

2005-08-07 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. Sorry for the slow response. Busy still. On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 15:06, Patrick Mochel wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I finally found some time to finish this off. I don't really like the > > end result - the macros looked clearer to me - but here goes.

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

2005-08-07 Thread Chris Wright
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > xen_make_pages_readonly / xen_make_pages_writable ? > > Well we don't want to assume "xen" at this stage. We're faced with a > choice at present: to make the linux->hypervisor interface be some >

Re: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1

2005-08-07 Thread Rogério Brito
Thanks Andrew, for including the vfat speedup patch. It has really improved a lot the performance of access to directories having many subdirectories in an external Firewire HD that I have. I'd say that if others don't have problems with it, then it should be in 2.6.13, as far as I am concerned.

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

2005-08-07 Thread Andrew Morton
"Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 16:44:11 > -0700): > > > * Martin J. Bligh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Starting on the work to merge xen cleanly as a subarch. > >> Introduce make_pages_readonly and

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) > supported? > > TIA, > > Lee Normally, linksys doesn't care much about Linux and they won't even release info for a driver. Yeah, they have some open info for the WRT's but the

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

2005-08-07 Thread Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 16:20 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Starting on the work to merge xen cleanly as a subarch. > Introduce make_pages_readonly and make_pages_writable where appropriate > for Xen, defined as a no-op on other subarches. Same for > add_context_to_unpinned and

[PATCH] pci_find_device and pci_find_slot mark as deprecated

2005-08-07 Thread Jiri Slaby
This marks these functions as deprecated not to use in latest drivers (it doesn't use reference counts and the device returned by it can disappear in any time). This patch was sent yet on: 28 Jul 2005 (without pci_find_slot removing and wrapping lines) Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL

[PATCH] DVB: lgdt330x frontend: some bug fixes & add lgdt3303 support

2005-08-07 Thread Michael Krufky
For 2.6.13, if possible. Patch generated against 2.6.13-rc6 -- Michael Krufky - Structural changes within lgdt330x driver, framework now supports both chips... tested OK on lgdt3302 and lgdt3303. - Add LG/TUA6034 dvb_pll_desc for ATSC with LG TDVS-H062F & DViCO FusionHDTV5. - Fixed

Re: Regression: radeonfb: No synchronisation on CRT with linux-2.6.13-rc5

2005-08-07 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 19:25 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > > On Aug 7, 2005, at 03:51:07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Ah ! Interesting... I don't see why PREEMPT would affect radeonfb > > > >

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

2005-08-07 Thread Chris Wright
* Martin J. Bligh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You're welcome to suggest something else if you want, though it would > have been easier if you'd done it the first time you saw this patch, > not now. Going through this stuff multiple times is going to get very > boring very fast. Sorry, that's my

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 16:44:11 -0700): > * Martin J. Bligh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Starting on the work to merge xen cleanly as a subarch. >> Introduce make_pages_readonly and make_pages_writable where appropriate >> for Xen, defined as a

Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5

2005-08-07 Thread Con Kolivas
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 02:58, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 03:12:21PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Respin of the dynamic ticks patch for i386 by Tony Lindgen and Tuukka > > Tikkanen with further code cleanups. Are were there yet? > > Con, > I am afraid until SMP

[PATCH] Removing maintainer's bad e-mails

2005-08-07 Thread Jiri Slaby
This patch removes 2 e-mails, which aren't right and 1 web address, which returns 404. [comtrol was posted by Rolf Eike Beer] It is made in 2.6.13-rc5-mm1, but it should be applicable in other trees too. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL

Re: kexec and frame buffer

2005-08-07 Thread Luca Falavigna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric W. Biederman ha scritto: > Anyway I believe you also want to look at include/linux/tty.h > at the screen_info structure. I believe that is where > all of that information is passed. I noticed. Maybe if we fill struct x86_linux_param_header with

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

2005-08-07 Thread Chris Wright
* Martin J. Bligh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Starting on the work to merge xen cleanly as a subarch. > Introduce make_pages_readonly and make_pages_writable where appropriate > for Xen, defined as a no-op on other subarches. Same for Maybe this is a bad name, since

Re: Oops in 2.6.13-rc5-git-current (0d317fb72fe3cf0f611608cf3a3015bbe6cd2a66)

2005-08-07 Thread Ryan Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Nyberg wrote: > (akpm: a fix for this needs to go into 2.6.13, inotify + nfs > trivially oopses otherwise, even if inotify isn't actively used) This patch seems to have fixed it for me. I upgraded to

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--"Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, August 02, 2005 21:21:30 -0700): > --"Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, August 02, 2005 > 18:17:33 -0700): >> --Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, July 28, 2005 >> 23:10:29 -0700): >> >>>

[PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
Starting on the work to merge xen cleanly as a subarch. Introduce make_pages_readonly and make_pages_writable where appropriate for Xen, defined as a no-op on other subarches. Same for add_context_to_unpinned and del_context_from_unpinned. Abstract out install_ldt_entry(). This will do have no

[2.6 patch] remove unused fs/befs/attribute.c

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
From: Will Dyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If anyone needs a fully-functional befs driver, the easiest route to that would probably be getting Haiku's befs driver to compile in userland as a FUSE fs. At any rate, attribute.c can go. It is easy enough to add back in if anyone ever wants to do the

[-mm patch] fs/asfs/: make code static

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 29 Jul 2005 - 22 Jul 2005 fs/asfs/asfs_fs.h | 12 fs/asfs/extents.c |4 +++- fs/asfs/inode.c | 29 ++---

[2.6 patch] jffs/jffs2: remove wrong function prototypes

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes prototypes for the generic_file_open and generic_file_llseek functions. Besides being superfluous because they are already present in fs.h, they were also wrong because the actual functions aren't weak functions. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This

Re: 2.6.13-rc4: yenta_socket and swsusp

2005-08-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > 2. The attached script can produce all sorts of pcmcia related >problems if it is modified where stated - the attached version >seems to work without problems if not modified. Do you want >a bug report filed for this, too? Races in pcmcia, fun :-(. I guess this is going to be

[PATCH C] gdth: remove GDTIOCTL_OSVERS

2005-08-07 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/scsi/gdth.c | 12 drivers/scsi/gdth_ioctl.h |8 2 files changed, 20 deletions(-) diff -uprN linux-vanilla/drivers/scsi/gdth.c linux-gdth/drivers/scsi/gdth.c --- linux-vanilla/drivers/scsi/gdth.c

Re: amd64-agp vs. swsusp

2005-08-07 Thread Michal Schmidt
Pavel Machek wrote: I assume it is in -rc6, too; it is long-standing bug and I am not aware of any attempts at fixing it. Please file bug report, assign to me. I've filed it as Bug 5018. Michal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

[2.6 patch] fix drivers/s390/net/ compilation

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
Looking at Jan Dittmer's crosscompile site [1], one of the two architectures where defconfig compiled in 2.6.12.4 but does no longer compile in 2.6.13-rc6 is s390. Looking at the build error, it seems s390-use-klist-in-qeth-driver.patch from -mm was intended to fix this compile error. I

[2.6 patch] arch/cris/Kconfig.debug: use lib/Kconfig.debug

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch converts arch/cris/Kconfig.debug to using lib/Kconfig.debug. This should fix a compile error in 2.6.13-rc4 caused by a missing CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT definition. While I was editing this file, I also converted some spaces to tabs. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

[2.6 patch] arch/sh64/Kconfig: doesn't need it's own LOG_BUF_SHIFT

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
The LOG_BUF_SHIFT from lib/Kconfig.debug is sufficient. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 31 Jul 2005 --- linux-2.6.13-rc4-mm1/arch/sh64/Kconfig.old 2005-07-31 18:24:19.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc4-mm1/arch/sh64/Kconfig

Re: synchronize_rcu vs. rcu_barrier

2005-08-07 Thread Keenan Pepper
What's the difference between synchronize_rcu() and rcu_barrier() (new function used only by reiser4 code)? From the scant documentation it seems like they do the same thing. I'm now happily running 2.6.13-rc4-rt-v0.7.52-14-reiser4 which I compiled by adding #define rcu_barrier

Re: Regression: radeonfb: No synchronisation on CRT with linux-2.6.13-rc5

2005-08-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 19:25 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > On Aug 7, 2005, at 03:51:07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Ah ! Interesting... I don't see why PREEMPT would affect radeonfb > > > though ... Can you try something like wrapper

Moving... please wait

2005-08-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 01:51:52PM -0700, Ravinandan Arakali wrote: > Jeff, > The entire set of patches have been resent and an additional > patch13 to address earlier comments. > Pls confirm if these patches apply correctly. I'm in the process of moving to a new house, and getting a new

Re: 2.6.13-rc4: yenta_socket and swsusp

2005-08-07 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Andrew Morton wrote: > OK so we have one solid regression there. Are the other problems also new > since 2.6.11? > > Could you please retest 2.6.13-rc6 when it's out and if problems remain, > raise a bugzilla.kernel.org entry so we can keep track of the problem? > Thanks. After retesting with

Re: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: iptables DROP crashes the computer

2005-08-07 Thread Espen Fjellvær Olsen
On 07/08/05, Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could be related to the refcnt underflow with conntrack event > notifications enabled. If you have CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK_EVENTS > enabled please try this patch. > I can confirm that that patch solved my problems, thank you :) -- Mvh /

Re: assertion (cnt <= tp->packets_out) failed

2005-08-07 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 03:25:55PM +0200, John B?ckstrand wrote: > > [148475.651000] [ cut here ] > [148475.651050] kernel BUG at net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:918! Yes, as Andrew said, this bug should be fixed in the latest git tree. So please test with that plus the debugging

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Tim Hockin
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 02:51:19PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > It's most likely bad SMM code in the BIOS that blocks the CPU too long > > and is triggered in idle. You can verify that by using idle=poll > > (not recommended for production, just for testing) and see if it goes away. > > > > WTF,

Re: oops with 2.6.13-rc5 on webserver with raid

2005-08-07 Thread Alexander Nyberg
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:52:15AM +0200 Martin Braun wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to upgrade kernel to 2.6.13-rc5. The server boots > normally w/o errors, but after while (from 5 minutes up to 2 hours) the > Kernel hangs (no keyboard input possible). As I am a newbie I cannot > figure out

Re: sluggish/very slow usb mouse on hp nx6110 notebook => acpi problem

2005-08-07 Thread Alexander Nyberg
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 08:56:51PM +0200 JG wrote: > hm, i currently have "acpi=off noacpi noapic reboot=b" as kernel > parameter. > > if i remove the acpi stuff and enable acpi, the usb mouse works fine.. > but after some time (5-10min) the kacpid process goes havoc and eats > all cpu and the

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Dumitru Ciobarcianu
În data de Du, 07-08-2005 la 11:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds a scris: > Luming Yu: > [ACPI] revert Embedded Controller to polling-mode by default (ala 2.6.12) > [ACPI] CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY is now "n" by default IMHO you really need then to make acpi_specific_hotkey the default or at least mention

Re: lockups with netconsole on e1000 on media insertion

2005-08-07 Thread John Bäckstrand
Steven Rostedt wrote: I don't have the card, so I can't test it. But if this works (after removing the previous patch) then this is the better solution. I can confirm that this alone does not work for the simple unplug/re-plug cycle I described, it still locks up hard. Tried this alone on

Re: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1: oops when starting nscd on AMD64

2005-08-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 7 of August 2005 19:23, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I get the following Oops after trying to start nscd from YaST on an > > Athlon64-based box > > (compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y): > > > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer

Re: FYI: device_suspend(...) in kernel_power_off().

2005-08-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >> There as been a fair amount of consensus that calling > >> device_suspend(...) in the reboot path was inappropriate now, because > >> the device suspend code was too immature. With this latest > >> piece of evidence it seems to me that introducing device_suspend(...) > >> in

Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace

2005-08-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > It is not a work around. These are text attributes meant for human > > > use. Humans have a hard time cleaning up things they can't see. And > > > the failure mode for this is awful, your attribute won't set but > > > everything on the screen looks fine. > > > > Kernel is not a place

Re: Fw: Re: Elitegroup K7S5A + usb_storage problem

2005-08-07 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 22:47:40 +0200, Martin Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, if you plug the player into a Windows system > > without installing any special drivers first, will Windows be able to read > > and write files okay? If it can, a USB packet trace may give Pete

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: any update on the pcmcia bug blocking Audigy2 notebook sound card driver development

2005-08-07 Thread Raymond Lai
Thanks, Lee. That's the bug I'm referring to. It would be great if laptop users can enjoy the higher sound quality the Audigy2 pcmcia sound card offers, which is way better than the builtin onboard sound. Raymond On 8/7/05, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:43

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 13:50 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > It looks like CONFIG_4KSTACKS has gone away (IOW 8K stacks are no longer > > an option). But now I get this ominous warning when I compile > > ndiswrapper: > > It's still there, and it

Re: Fw: Elitegroup K7S5A + usb_storage problem

2005-08-07 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> when i delete the files which are on the stick and do an umount/mount cycle, > the files are there again. >[... other mail ...] > I did the usbmon thing (hopefully correctly). Attached is the output. Yes, that was perfect, thanks a lot. Unfortunately, I do not see a lot of interesting

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > It looks like CONFIG_4KSTACKS has gone away (IOW 8K stacks are no longer > an option). But now I get this ominous warning when I compile > ndiswrapper: It's still there, and it (still) depends on DEBUG_KERNEL. Nothing should have changed afaik..

Re: Fw: Re: Elitegroup K7S5A + usb_storage problem

2005-08-07 Thread Martin Maurer
On Sunday, 7. August 2005 20:08, Alan Stern wrote: > On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > > > no. the stick doesn't have a write protection switch. > > Once when i tried to copy a file to the mp3 player i got a new file there > > on remount, but it consisted of incorrect

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 11:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and > we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a > relevant machine, please do test this. > > There are other fixes too, a number of them

synchronize_rcu vs. rcu_barrier

2005-08-07 Thread Keenan Pepper
What's the difference between synchronize_rcu() and rcu_barrier() (new function used only by reiser4 code)? From the scant documentation it seems like they do the same thing. Keenan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Heikki Orsila
Linus Torvalds wrote: > In general, anybody who has reported regressions since 2.6.12, please > re-test with -rc6 and report back > ... > Herbert Xu: > tcp: fix TSO cwnd caching bug The tcp_output panic bug seems to be fixed. I'm referring to: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/7/63 --

Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace

2005-08-07 Thread Jon Smirl
On 8/7/05, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > > > > Could you tell me why you don't just fail the operation if malformed > > > > > input is supplied? > > > > > > > > Leading/trailing white space should be allowed. For example echo > > > > appends '\n' unless you know to use -n.

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Tim Hockin
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 02:46:50PM -0400, Erick Turnquist wrote: > > Some BIOSes do not lock SMM, and you *could* turn it off at the chipset > > level. > > I don't see anything about SMM in my BIOS configuration even with the > advanced options enabled... Turning it off at the chipset level

Re: Oops in 2.6.13-rc5-git-current (0d317fb72fe3cf0f611608cf3a3015bbe6cd2a66)

2005-08-07 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b > printing eip: > c0188d15 > *pde = > Oops: [#1] > PREEMPT > CPU:0 > EIP:0060:[inotify_inode_queue_event+85/336]Not tainted VLI > EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.13-rc5-g0d317fb7) > EIP is at

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > It's most likely bad SMM code in the BIOS that blocks the CPU too long > > and is triggered in idle. You can verify that by using idle=poll > > (not recommended for production, just for testing) and see if it goes away. > > > > WTF, since when do

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) > supported? > Wow, Google has really declined in quality. I got zero hits for "Linksys WUSB 54G linux". Then I found this page on my own. (from

Re: FYI: device_suspend(...) in kernel_power_off().

2005-08-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > >> There as been a fair amount of consensus that calling >> device_suspend(...) in the reboot path was inappropriate now, because >> the device suspend code was too immature. With this latest >> piece of evidence it seems to me that introducing

[-mm patch] fix PHYCONTROL=n compilation

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:51:23AM -0700, Avuton Olrich wrote: > On 8/7/05, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc5/2.6.13-rc5-mm1/ > > I probably don't need/want phy stuff anyhow, but when I tried it: > > Problem: >

Re: [PATCH 1/1] i386 Encapsulate copying of pgd entries

2005-08-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Since most hypervisors will likely provide a suspend/resume mechanism > that is external to the guest, most of this is a moot point anyways. Ok. > But I wondered if you thought the pgd_clone() accessor would make this > cleaner or if it is just most confusing: > > #ifdef

Wireless support

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) supported? TIA, Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: [PATCH 1/1] i386 Encapsulate copying of pgd entries

2005-08-07 Thread Zachary Amsden
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! This helps complete the encapsulation of updates to page tables (or pages about to become page tables) into accessor functions rather than using memcpy() to duplicate them. This is both generally good for consistency and also necessary for running in a hypervisor

[WATCHDOG] i8xx_tco.c - patch to arm watchdog only when started (Kernel Bug 4251)

2005-08-07 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
gt; * 0.07 Added support for the ICH4-M, ICH6, ICH6R, ICH6-M, ICH6W and ICH6RW * chipsets. Also added support for the "undocumented" ICH7 chipset. + * 20050807 Wim Van Sebroeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * 0.08 Make sure that the watchdog is only "armed&q

[PATCH] remove warning about e1000_suspend

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
e1000_suspend is only used under #ifdef CONFIG_PM. Move the declaration of it to be the same way, just like e1000_resume, otherwise gcc whines on compile. I offer as evidence: static struct pci_driver e1000_driver = { .name = e1000_driver_name, .id_table

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates "is deprecated" noise

2005-08-07 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:07:59AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > I'm getting lots of errors like this nowadays: > > drivers/serial/8250.c:2651: warning: `register_serial' is deprecated > (declared at drivers/serial/8250.c:2607) > > Which is just: "EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_serial);" > > Sorry,

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates "is deprecated" noise

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
>> If it's going to spout crap when I'm not even using the deprecated >> function, it's worse than useless, I'm afraid. >> ... > > It's reminding us that we are still offering a deprecated function. ;-) Might be useful as an option. But not to irritate every poor sod who does a kernel compile,

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates "is deprecated" noise

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:55:16AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > > --Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 20:23:12 > +0200): > > > On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:07:59AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >> I'm getting lots of errors like this nowadays: > >> > >>

[PATCH] get rid of warning in aic7770.c:aic7770_config()

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
Get rid of unused variable warning: drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770.c: In function `aic7770_config': drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770.c:129: warning: unused variable `l' Not used anywhere in the function, even under ifdef. Delete. diff -aurpN -X /home/fletch/.diff.exclude

Re: [PATCH 1/1] i386 Encapsulate copying of pgd entries

2005-08-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > This helps complete the encapsulation of updates to page tables (or pages > about to become page tables) into accessor functions rather than using > memcpy() to duplicate them. This is both generally good for consistency > and also necessary for running in a hypervisor which requires

Re: FYI: device_suspend(...) in kernel_power_off().

2005-08-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > There as been a fair amount of consensus that calling > device_suspend(...) in the reboot path was inappropriate now, because > the device suspend code was too immature. With this latest > piece of evidence it seems to me that introducing device_suspend(...) > in kernel_power_off,

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 07 Aug 2005 19:54, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Sunday 07 Aug 2005 12:36, christos gentsis wrote: > [snip] > > > > I searched up google a bit and recieved some warnings about acpi > > > causing problems, so I disabled that, but was still unsucessful in > > > getting that to work.

Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace

2005-08-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > Could you tell me why you don't just fail the operation if malformed > > > > input is supplied? > > > > > > Leading/trailing white space should be allowed. For example echo > > > appends '\n' unless you know to use -n. It is easier to fix the kernel > > > than to teach everyone to use

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates "is deprecated" noise

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 20:23:12 +0200): > On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:07:59AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: >> I'm getting lots of errors like this nowadays: >> >> drivers/serial/8250.c:2651: warning: `register_serial' is deprecated >> (declared at

Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace

2005-08-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > If we are going back to needing helper scripts then I should just > > > remove the entire sysfs graphics interface and switch back to using > > > ioctls and a helper app. Of could no one can ever find the helper app > > > or remember how it works. I thought one of the main reasons

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