Re: Still cant boot 2.6.20

2007-02-10 Thread lkml
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 11:12:34PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:02:47 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I don't see CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y > > > > Regards, > > Vito Caputo > > > > BTW, this isnt the appropriate place for asking this type of question... > > Please

md: md6_raid5 crash 2.6.20

2007-02-10 Thread Marc Marais
Greetings, I've been running md on my server for some time now and a few days ago one of the (3) drives in the raid5 array starting giving read errors. The result was usually system hangs and this was with kernel 2.6.17.13. I upgraded to the latest production 2.6.20 kernel and experienced the

Re: [IA64] swiotlb abstraction (e.g. for Xen)

2007-02-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
sorry, this should of course go to the people to blame aswell :) On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:32:54AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:59:18AM +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > [IA64] swiotlb abstraction (e.g. for Xen) > > > > Add abstraction so

Re: Still cant boot 2.6.20

2007-02-10 Thread Robert Hancock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have built a number of previous kernels, but am having problems with 2.6.20. I initially tried just changing only the Processor type (so what I had done would be easy to describe). Someone on this list was kind enough to tell me that the SATA/PATA drivers were not

Re: Still cant boot 2.6.20

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:02:47 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't see CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y > > Regards, > Vito Caputo > > BTW, this isnt the appropriate place for asking this type of question... Please explain why not. And please delete large parts of email that are not needed in

Re: [patch] linux/io.h: forward declare struct pci_dev

2007-02-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:34:31AM +, Al Viro wrote: > +config NO_IOPORT > + bool > + default n please make this IOPORT. config symbols with an implicit negation are quite horrible for the brain to understand. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [patch] linux/io.h: forward declare struct pci_dev

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:34:31 + Al Viro wrote: > My current version: > > >From 97f115834b5ebef4f04e0f18aaa10f78f43733a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:41:09 -0500 > Subject: [PATCH] sort the devres mess out > > Split the

Re: [PATCH] Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 08:50:27PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday, 10 February 2007 18:52, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > On Saturday, 10 February 2007 11:02, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > > > > > Well, the original desire was to

[PATCH] fix fatal kernel-doc error

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Teach kernel-doc to handle functions that look like the new pcim_iomap_table(). Fixes this fatal error in scripts/kernel-doc: DOCPROC Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.xml Error(/tester/linsrc/linux-2.6.20-git6//drivers/pci/pci.c:1351): cannot understand

[PATCH] devres: kernel-doc and DocBook

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Make devres.c ready for adding to DocBook. Fix a few comment typos in drivers/pci/pci.c. Add devres.c to DocBook. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl |4 drivers/base/devres.c |

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Nigel, On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:37:06AM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 23:20 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: (...) > > What about this: > > > > "If the device requires that, implement .suspend and .resume or at least > > define .suspend that will always return

Re: [patch] linux/io.h: forward declare struct pci_dev

2007-02-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Al Viro wrote: My current version: From 97f115834b5ebef4f04e0f18aaa10f78f43733a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:41:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] sort the devres mess out Split the implementation-agnostic stuff in separate files. Make sure that

Re: [patch] linux/io.h: forward declare struct pci_dev

2007-02-10 Thread Al Viro
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 01:26:40AM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >I haven't looked at what causes it, but any leakage of pci details > >into io.h is bogus. I'd suggest that the original submitter fixes > >up that problem instead. > > pci_iomap() depends on two things - PCI

Re: [ANNOUNCE] sparse-0.2-cl2 is now available

2007-02-10 Thread Christopher Li
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 05:50:15AM +, Al Viro wrote: > > I have some stuff in that direction, but it take some resurrecting... OK, we should talk. Here is what I have: Linearize bytecode writer, which produce the binary linearized code. The uncompress size is about 10 times the i386 .o

Re: arch/arm: typos in KERN_ERR, KERN_INFO

2007-02-10 Thread Ben Dooks
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:14:31AM +0100, Nicolas Kaiser wrote: > Typos in KERN_ERR, KERN_INFO. > > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > arch/arm/mach-imx/dma.c |2 +- > arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/pm-simtec.c |2 +- > arch/arm/plat-omap/dma.c |2

Re: [patch] linux/io.h: forward declare struct pci_dev

2007-02-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Christoph Hellwig wrote: I haven't looked at what causes it, but any leakage of pci details into io.h is bogus. I'd suggest that the original submitter fixes up that problem instead. pci_iomap() depends on two things - PCI and iomap. AFAIK, there is no config to test whether the current

Re: + kvm-fix-asm-constraint-for-lldt-instruction.patch added to -mm tree

2007-02-10 Thread Avi Kivity
Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:32:30 +0200 "S.Çağlar Onur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi; 31 Oca 2007 Çar tarihinde, [EMAIL PROTECTED] şunları yazmıştı: The patch titled kvm: Fix asm constraint for lldt instruction has been added to the -mmtree. Its filename is

Re: Recent and not-so problems with tifm_sd driver - one more

2007-02-10 Thread Brad Campbell
Pierre Ossman wrote: Alex Dubov wrote: One more problem (you may already know about it) - I was contacted by somebody from the hald project and indeed I can confirm that on 2.6.20 kernel hald fails to take action on card insertion. I can't see anything in my code so this may be a general mmc

Re: What are the real ioapic rte programming constraints?

2007-02-10 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > There are not enough details in the justification to really understand > the issue so I'm asking to see if someone has some more details. > > The description makes the assertion that reprograming the ioapic > when an interrupt is pending is the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] sparse-0.2-cl2 is now available

2007-02-10 Thread Christopher Li
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 06:33:25PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Interesting. Did you find any kernel bugs with this? In short, not very useful yet. The current run of of sparse-0.2-cl2 on git default i386 config will find about 6 place kernel using allocated memory without NULL check. But Linus

Re: [ANNOUNCE] sparse-0.2-cl2 is now available

2007-02-10 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:17:58PM -0800, Christopher Li wrote: > e.g. sparse has not way to know some function only get called with interrupt > disabled (or some lock already hold). So it assume interrupt is still > enable and generate wrong warnings. Another example is that some helper >

Re: [PATCH] iomap: make PCI iomap stuff excluded when PCI isn't configured

2007-02-10 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 05:14:13PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > Heiko Carstens wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:43:16PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > \>> Heiko, how about this? Does it fix s390? > > > >Unfortunately not. Now I get > > > > CC lib/iomap.o > >lib/iomap.c: In function

Re: current git breaks resume

2007-02-10 Thread Len Brown
On Friday 09 February 2007 14:03, Jens Axboe wrote: > Hi, > > Unfortunately I'm a little short on time as I'll be travelling tomorrow, > but of course preparing a new kernel for the laptop is something you > want to do right before leaving. So I discovered that the current (well > as of

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

2007-02-10 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote: > Unfortunately struct epoll_event contains a gap so it bets on identical > padding rules between native and compat ABI and anyway, padding is wasted > space so the struct members should have been swapped when this structure > was created. Oh well, too

Re: git backlight tree

2007-02-10 Thread Len Brown
On Saturday 10 February 2007 19:33, Richard Purdie wrote: > As mentioned previously, I've setup a backlight git tree at: > > http://git.o-hand.com/?p=linux-rpurdie-backlight;a=shortlog;h=for-mm > (git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-backlight) > > A patch of the combined changes to mainline is: >

Re: Recent and not-so problems with tifm_sd driver

2007-02-10 Thread Alex Dubov
> > This looks like the problem with races in mmc_block again. Add some printk:s > in > the remove function so that you can see if this oops is after the remove > function (shouldn't be possible, but will cause crash if it is). It just occurred to me that my synopsis of the problem was utterly

Re: libata_uli puts second channel to PIO4 on 2.6.18

2007-02-10 Thread Grzegorz Kulewski
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Tejun Heo wrote: Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: It worked very well for half a year but with one disk (IIRC it was even plugged into second channel but I wont bet on it). Now I have second disk (very similar) and it is always put into PIO4 mode: [ 17.404451] libata version

[GIT PATCH] SCSI updates for 2.6.20

2007-02-10 Thread James Bottomley
This is the accumulated SCSI tree for 2.6.20. It is available at master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git The short changelog is: Adrian Bunk (1): aic79xx: make ahd_match_scb() static Ahmed S. Darwish (1): DAC960: kmalloc->kzalloc/Casting cleanups

Re: [patch] linux/io.h: forward declare struct pci_dev

2007-02-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:45:50PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: > From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 9ac7849e35f705830f7b016ff272b0ff1f7ff759 causes this: > > CC arch/s390/mm/ioremap.o > In file included from arch/s390/mm/ioremap.c:18: > include/linux/io.h:46: > warning:

reporting lost ticks

2007-02-10 Thread Antoine Martin
Andi Kleen wrote: [Snip] You run with report_lost_ticks and report the results to linux-kernel Doing as I am told, here we go: This is 100% reproducible, ie: just doing a big rsync between 2 disks and burning a DVD at the same time. Note: the system isn't very responsive when this happens,

Re: current git breaks resume

2007-02-10 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, Feb 10 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday, 10 February 2007 12:50, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 10 2007, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 10 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > On Friday, 9 February 2007 20:03, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > >

Re: Size of 2.6.20 task_struct on x86_64 machines

2007-02-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > > Shrink the held_lock struct by using bitfields. > This shrinks task_struct on lockdep enabled kernels by 480 bytes. Are we sure that there are no users that depend on accessing the different fields under different locks? Having them as separate

Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Generic AIO by scheduling stacks

2007-02-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, David Miller wrote: > > Even if you have everything, every page, every log file, in the page > cache, everything talking over the network wants to block. > > Will you create a thread every time tcp_sendmsg() hits the send queue > limits? No. You use epoll() for those. >

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

2007-02-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:32:07AM +, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 11:22 +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: > > Which remembers me that I think that MIPS is using the non-compat version > > of sys_epoll_pwait for compat syscalls. But maybe MIPS doesn't need a compat > > syscall

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

2007-02-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 11:22:05AM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: > Which remembers me that I think that MIPS is using the non-compat version > of sys_epoll_pwait for compat syscalls. But maybe MIPS doesn't need a compat > syscall for some reason. Dunno. Which reminds me that x86_64 i386 compat

Re: [PATCH] iomap: make PCI iomap stuff excluded when PCI isn't configured

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:43:16 -0500 Tejun Heo wrote: > devres iomap made lib/iomap.c always built and added several > arch-indep PCI routines to include/linux/io.h and lib/iomap.c without > wrapping them inside CONFIG_PCI. This breaks configurations where PCI > is not configured. Wrap

Re: [BUG] PATA_PCMCIA does not work

2007-02-10 Thread Komuro
>> [pata_pcmcia dmesg] >> ata1.00: CFA, max PIO0, 20480 sectors: LBA >> ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 0 >> ata1.01: CFA, max PIO0, 20480 sectors: LBA >> ata1.01: ata1: dev 1 multi count 0 >Do you have two cards here ? No. one card. I am not sure why two devices are detected. Actually,

Re: 20-rc6-mm3 - BUG: at arch/i386/mm/highmem.c:52 kmap_atomic()

2007-02-10 Thread Frederik Deweerdt
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 08:45:26PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > When I was testing some stuff at 2.6.20-rc6-mm3 I found this at dmesg > multiple times. > Could you try this hotfix

Re: [BUG] PATA_PCMCIA does not work

2007-02-10 Thread Alan
> The PATA_PCMCIA driver does not work. > The kernel version is 2.6.20. > Does anyone test this driver? Yes it gets regularly tested and works reliably on my test harware. I am however using standards compliant hardware. > [pata_pcmcia dmesg] > ata1.00: CFA, max PIO0, 20480 sectors: LBA >

Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Generic AIO by scheduling stacks

2007-02-10 Thread David Miller
From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:33:01 -0800 (PST) > So I actually like this, because it means that while we slow down > real IO, we don't slow down the cached cases at all. Even if you have everything, every page, every log file, in the page cache, everything

Re: Documenting MS_RELATIME

2007-02-10 Thread Dave Jones
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:56:07AM -0800, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Val, > > I'm just updating the mount(2) man page for MS_RELATIME, and this is the > text I've come up with: > >MS_RELATIME(Since Linux 2.6.20) > When a file on this file system is accessed, only >

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 11 February 2007 00:20, Robert Hancock wrote: > Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > If your device requires power management, and you know it requires power > > management, why not just implement power management? Doing -ENOSYS > > instead is like saying -ESPAMMEBECAUSEIMLAZY. > > > > Let me

[PATCH RFC] backlight/fbcon: Add FB_EVENT_CONBLANK

2007-02-10 Thread Richard Purdie
I've added this patch to the backlight git tree since it allows the removal of a powermac specific hack to chipsfb_blank and fixes the backlight class to work with drivers with no hardware blanking. Can anyone see any problems with this? The backlight class wants notification whenever the

git backlight tree

2007-02-10 Thread Richard Purdie
As mentioned previously, I've setup a backlight git tree at: http://git.o-hand.com/?p=linux-rpurdie-backlight;a=shortlog;h=for-mm (git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-backlight) A patch of the combined changes to mainline is: http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/patches/git_backlight-r1.patch.gz

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

2007-02-10 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:07:10PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I'm getting fed up of holding onto hundreds of patches against subsystem > trees, sending them over and over again seeing and nothing happen. I sent > 242 > patches out to subsystem maintainers on Monday and look at what's

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 11 February 2007 00:45, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 10.02.2007 23:37 schrieb Nigel Cunningham: > > If your device requires power management, and you know it requires power > > management, why not just implement power management? Doing -ENOSYS > > instead is like saying

Re: Size of 2.6.20 task_struct on x86_64 machines

2007-02-10 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:14:13AM -0500, William Cohen wrote: > This past week I was playing around with that pahole tool > (http://oops.ghostprotocols.net:81/acme/dwarves/) and looking at the > size of various struct in the kernel. I was surprised by the size of > the task_struct on x86_64,

Re: [PATCH] iomap: make PCI iomap stuff excluded when PCI isn't configured

2007-02-10 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 05:14:13PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > Heiko Carstens wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:43:16PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > \>> Heiko, how about this? Does it fix s390? > >Unfortunately not. Now I get > > CC lib/iomap.o > >lib/iomap.c: In function

Re: - rdmsr_on_cpu-wrmsr_on_cpu.patch removed from -mm tree

2007-02-10 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:32:43PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The patch titled > rdmsr_on_cpu, wrmsr_on_cpu > has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was > rdmsr_on_cpu-wrmsr_on_cpu.patch > > This patch was dropped because I've lost the plot on this thing

Re: [PATCH] iomap: make PCI iomap stuff excluded when PCI isn't configured

2007-02-10 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:50:33PM +, Al Viro wrote: > We don't even require ioremap(). What the hell could it possibly mean on > e.g. UML? The same goes for DMA. And yes, of course it means that a lot > of drivers are not buildable on it - hardly a surprise, that... FWIW, the current

What are the real ioapic rte programming constraints?

2007-02-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
I have recently been investigating why we reprogram ioapic irqs in the interrupt handler, because it significantly complicates the code, and makes things more fragile. Eventually I found the commit with the justification, see below. There are not enough details in the justification to really

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 10.02.2007 07:43 schrieb Willy Tarreau: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:25:34PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 08:57 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Can we start to NAK new drivers that don't have proper power management > implemented? [...] >> Certainly we should

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 10.02.2007 23:37 schrieb Nigel Cunningham: > If your device requires power management, and you know it requires power > management, why not just implement power management? Doing -ENOSYS > instead is like saying -ESPAMMEBECAUSEIMLAZY. Like it or not, power management is far from trivial, and

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Robert Hancock
Nigel Cunningham wrote: If your device requires power management, and you know it requires power management, why not just implement power management? Doing -ENOSYS instead is like saying -ESPAMMEBECAUSEIMLAZY. Let me put it another way: People keep talking about Linux being ready for the

Re: [ipw3945-devel] [ANNOUNCE] d80211 based driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

2007-02-10 Thread John W. Linville
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:53:51PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Quoting "John W. Linville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Very cool! Is it likely that d80211 and iwlwifi will be pushed into > > > mainline in time for 2.6.21? > > > > Hmmm...I think we need to spend a cycle or so in -mm. 2.6.22

Re: [PATCH] iomap: make PCI iomap stuff excluded when PCI isn't configured

2007-02-10 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:25:53PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > > I think an arch needs to support ioport_map/unmap and noncoherent dma (just > > alias to coherent interface on x86/amd64) interface whether PCI is > > implemented > > or not.

[PATCH 1/3] USB kernel-doc fixes

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix kernel-doc warnings and errors in USB. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/DocBook/gadget.tmpl |4 ++-- Documentation/DocBook/usb.tmpl|6 +++--- drivers/usb/core/driver.c |1 + 3 files changed, 6

[PATCH 2/3] PCI/sysfs/kobject kernel-doc fixes

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix kernel-doc warnings in PCI, sysfs, and kobject files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/pci/pci-driver.c |1 + drivers/pci/pci.c|2 +- fs/sysfs/file.c |2 +- lib/kobject.c|1 + 4

[PATCH 3/3] IRQ kernel-doc fixes

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix kernel-doc warnings in IRQ management. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/irq.h |1 + kernel/irq/chip.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.20-git6.orig/include/linux/irq.h +++

Re: [patch 0/3] 2.6.20 fix for PageUptodate memorder problem (try 3)

2007-02-10 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 03:31 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > SetNewPageUptodate does not do the S390 page_test_and_clear_dirty, so > I'd like to make sure that's OK. An I/O operation on s390 will set the dirty bit for a page. That is the reason to have SetPageUptodate clear the per page dirty bit when

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 23:20 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > On Saturday, 10 February 2007 20:38, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > I don't think this is already done (feel free to correct me if I'm > > > > wrong).. > > > > > > > > Can we start to NAK new drivers that don't

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 -- md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch

2007-02-10 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:58:58AM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: > Alasdair, is dm already fixed or is there any chance that it will > ever get fixed? I still expect us to get this changed within the next few months. We've dealt with the changes necessary to the crypt target for this. The final

Re: [PATCH] iomap: make PCI iomap stuff excluded when PCI isn't configured

2007-02-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Tejun Heo wrote: > > I think an arch needs to support ioport_map/unmap and noncoherent dma (just > alias to coherent interface on x86/amd64) interface whether PCI is implemented > or not. No? We haven't required ioport implementations in the past, afaik.

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-10 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, On 10/02/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And again, for something completely different. I am hammering my second machine now You may want to use autotest http://test.kernel.org/autotest Patrick Regards, Michal -- Michal K. K. Piotrowski LTG - Linux Testers Group (PL)

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Saturday, 10 February 2007 20:38, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > I don't think this is already done (feel free to correct me if I'm > > > wrong).. > > > > > > Can we start to NAK new drivers that don't have proper power management > > > implemented? There really is no excuse for

Re: [PATCH] iomap: make PCI iomap stuff excluded when PCI isn't configured

2007-02-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Heiko Carstens wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:43:16PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: \>> Heiko, how about this? Does it fix s390? Unfortunately not. Now I get CC lib/iomap.o lib/iomap.c: In function 'devm_ioport_map_release': lib/iomap.c:270: warning: implicit declaration of function

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-10 Thread Patrick Ale
And again, for something completely different. I am hammering my second machine now, a cool Siemens/Fujitsu laptop (named elisabeth) with ICH7 ATA chipset and controller. Currently the ATA controller is in "SATA" mode (ICH7 chipsets allow you to run in native SATA mode or compatible mode, for

RE: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-10 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > This looks like the problems that hopefully the patches from Tejun and > from Mark Lord cured (the delay after reset and the task file clear) Any chance I can find this patch(es) and try them ? > > Also, I've seen a : > > > > ata1: Spurious SDB FIS during NCQ issue=0x0

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > I don't think this is already done (feel free to correct me if I'm > > wrong).. > > > > Can we start to NAK new drivers that don't have proper power management > > implemented? There really is no excuse for writing a new driver and not > > putting .suspend and .resume methods in anymore,

RE: [PATCH] aio: fix kernel bug when page is temporally busy

2007-02-10 Thread Ananiev, Leonid I
Ken Chen writes: > So any error value returned from invalidate_inode_pages2_range() has > to be taken seriously in the direct IO submit path instead of dropping > it to the floor. If invalidate_inode_pages2_range() will return EIOCBRETRY as the patch "aio: fix kernel bug when page is temporally

[PATCH 3/3] ipvs: flush defense_work before module unload

2007-02-10 Thread Oleg Nesterov
net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c module_exit ip_vs_cleanup ip_vs_control_cleanup cancel_rearming_delayed_work // done This is unsafe. The module may be unloaded and the memory may be freed while defense_work's handler is still

[PATCH 1/3] make queue_delayed_work() friendly to flush_fork()

2007-02-10 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Currently typeof(delayed_work->work.data) is "struct workqueue_struct" when the timer is pending "struct cpu_workqueue_struct" whe the work is queued This makes impossible to use flush_fork(delayed_work->work) in addition to cancel_delayed_work/cancel_rearming_delayed_work, not

[PATCH 2/3] unify queue_delayed_work() and queue_delayed_work_on()

2007-02-10 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Change queue_delayed_work() to use queue_delayed_work_on() to avoid the code duplication (saves 133 bytes). Q: queue_delayed_work() enqueues >work directly when delay == 0, why? Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- 6.20-rc6-mm3/kernel/workqueue.c~2_factor2007-02-10

[PATCH 0/3] delayed_work tweaks

2007-02-10 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Andrew, unless you stop me right now, I am going to send the following patches in addition: [PATCH] kill cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue() cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue(wq, dwork) does not need the first parameter, it could be figured out from

[PATCH] Fix USB vendor and product IDs endianness for USB HID devices

2007-02-10 Thread Julien BLACHE
Hi, The generic HID layer changes introduced an endianness bug for USB HID devices. The USB vendor and product IDs are not byteswapped appropriately, and thus come out in the wrong endianness when fetched through the evdev using ioctl() on big endian platforms. This byteswapping used to be done

Re: + kvm-fix-asm-constraint-for-lldt-instruction.patch added to -mm tree

2007-02-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:32:30 +0200 "S.Çağlar Onur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi; > > 31 Oca 2007 Çar tarihinde, [EMAIL PROTECTED] şunları yazmıştı: > > The patch titled > > kvm: Fix asm constraint for lldt instruction > > has been added to the -mmtree. Its filename is > >

Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Generic AIO by scheduling stacks

2007-02-10 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > > For the queue approach, I meant the async_submit() to simply add the > > request (cookie, syscall number and params) inside queue, and not trying > > to execute the syscall. Once you're inside

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old: Convert to generic boolean-values

2007-02-10 Thread Richard Knutsson
James Bottomley wrote: On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 18:46 +0100, Richard Knutsson wrote: Convert: FALSE -> false TRUE -> true Actually, downcasing true and false in this driver is pretty much a retrograde step. The reason for their being uppercased is that they represent constants (and

2.6.20 "IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ 4"

2007-02-10 Thread Florian Schmidt
Hi, i upgraded my system from ubuntu edgy to feisty and a new kernel came with it (2.6.15 vs. 2.6.20). Sadly my wireless card (pcmcia) has stopped working under this system. Seeing a backttrace in the dmesg output made me believe it's a kernel problem. I built a vanilla kernel to see if maybe

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:22:48PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On 2/9/07, Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 20:59 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > >> On 2/9/07, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > I would disagree that it's a peripheral issue, it's pretty

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old: Convert to generic boolean-values

2007-02-10 Thread Richard Knutsson
James Bottomley wrote: On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 18:46 +0100, Richard Knutsson wrote: Convert: FALSE -> false TRUE -> true Actually, downcasing true and false in this driver is pretty much a retrograde step. The reason for their being uppercased is that they represent constants (and

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-10 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/10/07, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Right umm "Your honor the gentleman is human, this is not acceptable" ? Human and a looney who wishes Monty Python's Flying Circus still existed so he could be a main character and having a great excuse to act weird. Beating the crap out of it

Re: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-10 Thread Alan
> OK, rebooting again, with a new root device as /dev/sde1... > No problem for the old IDE devices, they are now /dev/sdX. > > But the Jmicron stuff is still broken though no more conflict :( Thanks. That helps a lot as it narrows it down > > PCI: Enabling device :02:00.1 ( -> 0001) >

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-10 Thread Alan
> > libsata == libata ? > I don't think there is a seperate libata, it's all put under libsata > if I understand the working correctly (Alan, don't sue me if I am > wrong). Right umm "Your honor the gentleman is human, this is not acceptable" ? It is in drivers/ata the files are libata-* so it's

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-10 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/10/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, What are the libsata tests and where are they, please? No where, I just compile the drivers, see if my system boots up and then I run some I/O intensive stuff, like bonnie++, emerge -e world at the same time. So you are testing libata

RE: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-10 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi Alan, > You have the old driver 0n 0x1F0 > > > > PCI: Device :02:00.0 not available because of resource > collisions > > ahci: probe of :02:00.0 failed with error -22 > > ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 > > ata: 0x1F0 IDE port busy > > And the

Re: [PATCH] Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Saturday, 10 February 2007 18:52, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Saturday, 10 February 2007 11:02, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > > > Well, the original desire was to stop new drivers getting in without > > > proper power management. > > > > I

[PATCH mm] cfag12864b: fix crash when built-in and no parport present

2007-02-10 Thread Miguel Ojeda
Andrew, Daniel who reported the crash has tested this patch and says that it works fine avoiding it, so you can merge. drivers-add-lcd-support-fix-crash-when-built-in-and-no-parport-present.patch Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git

Re: [PATCH] iomap: make PCI iomap stuff excluded when PCI isn't configured

2007-02-10 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:43:16PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > devres iomap made lib/iomap.c always built and added several > arch-indep PCI routines to include/linux/io.h and lib/iomap.c without > wrapping them inside CONFIG_PCI. This breaks configurations where PCI > is not configured. Wrap

KVM oops: killing interrupt handler

2007-02-10 Thread Jiri Slaby
Hi! My schoolmate got this while using kvm-12 on 2.6.20-rc6: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/sklad/kvm-intel-panic/a/ Unfortunately it's only shots taken by camera. If we are able to reproduce it in 2.6.20, we'll grab netconsole output. regards, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:22:28 +0100 Patrick Ale wrote: > Hi, > > And now for something completely different. > > I started the libsata tests on one of the four machines I'll be doing > these tests on. Hi, What are the libsata tests and where are they, please? > At the moment I'm testing on

Re: Problem of USB - error 71 : how configure kernel to dongle with chipset

2007-02-10 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Samstag, 10. Februar 2007 17:59 schrieb Thibaud Hulin: > Thanks. In effect, I already post this question in the ndiswrapper list. > So, they told me that was a problem of USB and of kernel. Then, I'm > looking for configuration of the kernel, because I compiled the 2.6.19, > but I no more

RE: [PATCH] aio: fix kernel bug when page is temporally busy

2007-02-10 Thread Ananiev, Leonid I
> If invalidate_inode_pages2_range() says it can not invalidate pages, > while dio to the same file offset range is in flight, something is > really wrong there. If invalidate_inode_pages2_range() says it can not invalidate pages It means that soft_irq does completing IO now on other cpu. Next

Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Generic AIO by scheduling stacks

2007-02-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > But that makes it impossible to do things synchronously, which I think is > a *major* mistake. > > The whole (and really _only_) point of my patch was really the whole > "synchronous call" part. I'm personally of the opinion that if you cannot

Re: remote debugging via FireWire

2007-02-10 Thread Stefan Richter
[ohci1394_early] Some remarks to the September 2006 version at http://www.suse.de/~bk/firewire/ : - Seems its .remove won't work properly if more than one OHCI-1394 controller is installed. And it's .probe isn't reentrant, but that might be less of a problem. - Its functionality

[PATCH] pktcdvd: Correctly set cmd_len field in pkt_generic_packet

2007-02-10 Thread Gerhard Dirschl
Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7810 - a silly copy-paste bug introduced by the latest change. Signed-off-by: Gerhard Dirschl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Maybe it fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7910 as well. diff --git a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c

Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Generic AIO by scheduling stacks

2007-02-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > For the queue approach, I meant the async_submit() to simply add the > request (cookie, syscall number and params) inside queue, and not trying > to execute the syscall. Once you're inside schedule, "stuff" has already > partially happened, and

Re: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-10 Thread Alan
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:39:21 +0100 "Paul Rolland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been trying this, but I ended with the ICH7 not detecting anymore > > my IDE disks... > > Should try again, maybe I missed something. > > Done a new built, and I now have : > > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE

Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Generic AIO by scheduling stacks

2007-02-10 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Another, even simpler way IMO, is to just have a plain per-task kthread > > pool, and a queue. > > Yes, that is actually quite doable with basically the same interface. It's > literally a "small decision" inside of "schedule_async()" on how it >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] d80211 based driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

2007-02-10 Thread Michael Buesch
On Saturday 10 February 2007 17:22, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:12:42PM -0800, James Ketrenos wrote: > > Please hold all questions until I am done with this email. Thank you. > > > > We are pleased to announce the availability of a new driver for the > > Intel PRO/Wireless

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