Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-08 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Friday 08 Jul 2005 20:48, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately I see nothing like this when the machine crashes. Find attached my config, which has CONFIG_4KSTACKS and the options you specified. Are you sure this is sufficient to enable

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-09 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 09 Jul 2005 12:58, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got this (slightly better) oops. Figured out how to use my camera :-) http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/oops6.jpeg this was a bit more useful - shows a softirq wakeup. Could you send me your

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-09 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 09 Jul 2005 16:57, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I'll send you the vmlinux from -18 with a new digital photo, and config, with CONFIG_4KSTACKS enabled. this crash too seems to indicate trigger_softirqs()/wakeup_softirqd(). Somewhere

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-11 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 09 Jul 2005 17:04, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Saturday 09 Jul 2005 16:57, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I'll send you the vmlinux from -18 with a new digital photo, and config, with CONFIG_4KSTACKS enabled. this crash too

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-11 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 11 Jul 2005 15:43, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's annoying that this is so readily reproducible here, yet almost impossible to debug, and clearly a sideaffect of 4KSTACKS.. without it actually being a stack overflow. I realise

Re: Real-Time Preemption Patch -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.51-26 failed ,to compile

2005-07-11 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 11 Jul 2005 19:46, Daniel Walker wrote: This may help .. Unless Ingo's fixed it, x86-64 is broken at the moment anyway. I just get a segfault from init. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student:CS/CSim Undergraduate

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-11 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 11 Jul 2005 15:16, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: might be an incorrect printout of stack_left :( The esp looks more or less normal. Not sure why it printed -52. here's the stack_left calculation: + printk(ds: %04x es: %04x ss: %04x

Re: Kernel header policy

2005-07-12 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 12 Jul 2005 14:36, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 09:26 -0400, Peter Staubach wrote: Horst von Brand wrote: I am contacting you to express my concern over a growing trend in kernel development. I am specifically referring to changes being made to kernel

Re: OSS Audio borked between 2.6.6 and 2.6.10

2005-03-13 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 13 March 2005 22:26, you wrote: Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 12 March 2005 01:31 pm, Greg Stark wrote: OSS Audio doesn't work properly for Quake3 in 2.6.10 but it worked in 2.6.6. In fact I have the same problems in 2.6.9-rc1 so I assume 2.6.9 is

Re: Any way to get larger fonts in XCONFIG ?

2005-03-12 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 12 March 2005 21:47, Randy.Dunlap wrote: Reg Clemens wrote: Any way to get larger fonts with xconfig? On my system they are just about microscopic. I can do a ctlalt?+ to go to a different screen resolution, but then I have all sorts of scanning to deal with. Ive looked

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-27 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 27 August 2005 22:28, Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 08:19:18AM +, Kent Robotti wrote: I know that experience dosen't come from packing the kernel source, or the zillion other tar archives on the internet. Are you deliberately trying to be annoying? Let me

Re: Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan?

2005-08-30 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:31, Tony Lindgren wrote: [snip] Same issue, it's waiting on dynticks before being reworked. Also one more minor issue; Dyntick can cause slow boots with dyntick enabled from boot because the there's not much in the timer queue until init. This probably does

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-09-01 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 22:49, Jose Luis Domingo Lopez wrote: On Wednesday, 31 August 2005, at 11:27:41 -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: I am very open to discussions of this. Please go ahead and argue the merits of GPL vs. proprietary code. DSFS is platform neutral and will also run on

Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-04 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 04 September 2005 12:05, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Dears, thanks to Jiri Slaby who found a bug in the AAL0 handling of the ATMSAR module. I attach a fixed version of the atmsar patch as a diff against the 2.6.13 kernel tree. [snip] Just out of curiosity, is there ANY reason why

Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-04 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 04 September 2005 17:41, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Sunday 04 September 2005 12:05, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Dears, thanks to Jiri Slaby who found a bug in the AAL0 handling of the ATMSAR module. I attach a fixed version

Re: R: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-04 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 04 September 2005 19:36, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: [snip] This may be true for AAL5 support, which is the way by which data is actually transferred between ADSL DSLAMs and CPE equipment. This may not be generally true, however: most providers are already delivering internet+voice

udev-067 and 2.6.12?

2005-08-16 Thread Alistair John Strachan
Hi, I just tried upgrading udev 053 to 067 on a 2.6.12 system and although the system booted, firmware_class failed to upload the firmware for my wireless card, prism54 was no longer auto loaded, etc. Even manually loading the driver didn't help. Any reason why 067 wouldn't work with 2.6.12?

Re: udev-067 and 2.6.12?

2005-08-16 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 23:05, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:02:00PM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Hi, I just tried upgrading udev 053 to 067 on a 2.6.12 system and although the system booted, firmware_class failed to upload the firmware for my wireless card

Re: udev-067 and 2.6.12?

2005-08-16 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 00:09, Kay Sievers wrote: [snip] Do you provide hooks for handling /etc/hotplug.d/? We are on the way of getting rid of that directory and recent udev versions don't handle that by default anymore. If you don't know, read the udev RELEASE-NOTES. Kay I read the

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt3

2005-08-18 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 13:18, Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the 2.6.13-rc6-rt3 tree, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ Changes since 2.6.13-rc6-rt2: Ingo, I haven't used any of the RT patches since V0.7.51-xx, but I upgraded

Re: Strange

2007-01-23 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 00:01, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Alan wrote: kernel: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) kernel: Read of scrambled sector without authentication -- (asc=0x6f, ascq=0x03) The disc is using digital rights management. If you are in a country

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-25 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:16, Chris Rankin wrote: But anyway - can someone please tell me what Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1) is *really* saying/implying? Because I am currently translating this as I WANT TO EAT YOUR FILESYSTEMS. Hugh already did, multiple times. If there's

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-30 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 28 December 2006 04:14, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2006 04:02, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2006 02:41, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: [snip] Here's a current decompilation of vmlinux/pipe_poll() from the running kernel

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-30 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 30 December 2006 17:21, Chuck Ebbert wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:59:35 +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: I've eliminated 2.6.19.1 as the culprit, and also tried toggling optimize for size, various debug options. 2.6.19 compiled with GCC

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-30 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 30 December 2006 18:06, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: I'd guess you have some kind of hardware problem. It could also be a kernel problem where the saved address was corrupted during an interrupt, but that's not likely. This looks rather strange. [snip] 2) Kernel modules

Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-30 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Friday 29 December 2006 06:25, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Virtual MIDI Card 1 Compile this feature out, I bet things start working again. -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-30 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:11, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Friday 29 December 2006 06:25, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Virtual MIDI Card 1 Compile this feature out, I bet things start working again. Yes, this helped, thanks. BTW, is this expected? It's a severe misfeature in my

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-31 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 30 December 2006 16:59, Alistair John Strachan wrote: I have compiled GCC 3.4.6 and compiled 2.6.19 with an identical config using this compiler (but the same binutils), and will report back if it crashes. My bet is that it won't, however. Still fine after 24 hours. Linux 2.6.19

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-31 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 31 December 2006 16:28, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 06:29:15PM +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 17:21, Chuck Ebbert wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:59:35 +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: I've

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-31 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 31 December 2006 16:27, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 04:59:35PM +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2006 04:14, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2006 04:02, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2006 02

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-31 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 31 December 2006 21:43, Chuck Ebbert wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:29:15 +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Can you post disassembly of pipe_poll() for both the one that crashes and the one that doesn't? Use 'objdump -D -r fs/pipe.o' so we get

Re: x86 instability with 2.6.1{8,9}

2007-01-01 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 01 January 2007 16:01, Ken Moffat wrote: Hi, I've been running an athlon64 in 64-bit mode without problems, up to and incluing 2.6.19.1. A couple of weeks ago I decided to use it for testing x86 builds, since then it's been nothing but trouble in 32-bit mode. It still works fine

Re: x86 instability with 2.6.1{8,9}

2007-01-01 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 01 January 2007 19:13, Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 05:07:58PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 04:48:55PM +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Obviously papering over a severe bug, but why is it necessary for you to run a 32bit kernel to test 32bit

Re: kernel + gcc 4.1 = several problems

2007-01-02 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 21:10, Adrian Bunk wrote: [snip] Comparing your report and [1], it seems that if these are the same problem, it's not a hardware bug but a gcc or kernel bug. This bug specifically indicates some kind of miscompilation in a driver, causing boot time hangs. My

Re: kernel + gcc 4.1 = several problems

2007-01-02 Thread Alistair John Strachan
December 2006 20:48, Chuck Ebbert wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:21:03 +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Any ideas? BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0009 83 ca 10 or $0x10,%edx 3b

Re: kernel + gcc 4.1 = several problems

2007-01-02 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 02:12, Mikael Pettersson wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 17:43:00 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds wrote: The suggestions I've had so far which I have not yet tried: - Select a different x86 CPU in the config. - Unfortunately the C3-2 flags seem to

Re: S.M.A.R.T no longer available in 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 with libata

2007-01-03 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 04 January 2007 01:50, Ed Sweetman wrote: Not sure what went on between 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 in libata land but SMART is no longer available on my hdds. I'm assuming this is not the intended behavior. In case this is chipset specific, IDE interface: nVidia

Re: kernel + gcc 4.1 = several problems

2007-01-05 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 02:20, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Wednesday 03 January 2007 02:12, Mikael Pettersson wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 17:43:00 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds wrote: The suggestions I've had so far which I have not yet tried: - Select a different x86

Re: kernel + gcc 4.1 = several problems

2007-01-05 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Friday 05 January 2007 16:02, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Alistair John Strachan wrote: This didn't help. After about 14 hours, the machine crashed again. cmov is not the culprit. Ok. Have you ever tried to limit the drivers you have loaded? I notice you had the prism54

Re: kernel + gcc 4.1 = several problems

2007-01-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 07 January 2007 00:36, Pavel Machek wrote: [snip] However, this patch is mostly useless if you have a separate stack for IRQ's (since if that happens, any interrupt will be taken on a different stack which we don't see any more), so you should NOT enable the 4KSTACKS config

Re: Gaming Interface

2007-01-08 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 08 January 2007 13:04, Dirk wrote: But I don't see top titles ported to SDL/OpenGL. This is because you're not looking very hard. If you look at Ryan's ports over at http://icculus.org/ many of the games (some he's _paid_ to port) use SDL statically linked in. There's no legal or

2.6.19: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!

2007-01-10 Thread Alistair John Strachan
Hi, After a few days uptime on a 2.6.19 kernel, I see this: http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/2.6.19-softlockup.jpg At which point magic sysrq doesn't work and the machine requires a hard reboot. Is there anything that can be done to produce a more verbose message when such a soft lockup occurs?

Re: [ALSA PATCH] 1.0.9b+

2005-07-28 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 28 Jul 2005 18:25, Andrew Morton wrote: Jaroslav Kysela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linus, please do an update from: rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa.git ... 65 files changed, 5059 insertions(+), 1122 deletions(-) The git-alsa.patch in -mm

Re: [PATCH] Wireless Security Lock driver.

2005-07-31 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 30 Jul 2005 20:42, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I've attached a gzipped version of my Wireless Security Lock patch for v2.6.13-rc4. A Wireless Security Lock (WSL or weasel :-) is made up of two parts. One part is a receiver which you plug into any available USB port. The other

Re: 2.6.13-rc5 - ACPI regression

2005-08-02 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 02 Aug 2005 20:05, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: [snip] I did not notice before, but my values (capacity and so on) are completely wrong. It should contain values in mWh instead of mAh. mWh is mAh x operational voltage. They're not completely wrong, probably just whatever unit your

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread Alistair John Strachan
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. Please let me know if any other information is required. Thanks ahead of

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. Please let

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-16 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 16 December 2006 21:36, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: In total isolation, v2.6.19..0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e it breaks. Reverting just 0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e, it works again. So I think

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-16 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 16 December 2006 21:36, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: In total isolation, v2.6.19..0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e it breaks. Reverting just 0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e, it works again. So I think

Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-20 Thread Alistair John Strachan
Hi, Any ideas? BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0009 printing eip: c0156f60 *pde = Oops: 0002 [#1] Modules linked in: ipt_recent ipt_REJECT xt_tcpudp ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat xt_state iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables prism54 yenta_socket

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-20 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 16:30, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:21:03PM +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Hi, Any ideas? Does the problem also happen in 2.6.19? No idea. I ran 2.6.19 for a couple of weeks without problems. It took 2 days to oops 2.6.19.1, so

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-20 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 20:48, Chuck Ebbert wrote: [snip] I'd guess you have some kind of hardware problem. It could also be a kernel problem where the saved address was corrupted during an interrupt, but that's not likely. Seems pretty unlikely on a 4 year old Via Epia. Never had any

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-21 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 21 December 2006 08:05, Chuck Ebbert wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:15:50 +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: I'd guess you have some kind of hardware problem. It could also be a kernel problem where the saved address was corrupted during

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-23 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 14:21, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Hi, Any ideas? Pretty much like clockwork, it happened again. I think it's time to take this seriously as a software bug, and not some hardware problem. I've ran kernels since 2.6.0 on this machine without such crashes

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-24 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:23, Chuck Ebbert wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:40:46 +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Pretty much like clockwork, it happened again. I think it's time to take this seriously as a software bug, and not some hardware problem

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-24 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:23, Chuck Ebbert wrote: [snip] Anyway, post your complete .config. Config attached. -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-27 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 02:07, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: [snip] Call Trace: [c015d7f3] do_sys_poll+0x253/0x480 [c015da53] sys_poll+0x33/0x50 [c0102c97] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [b7f26402] 0xb7f26402 === Code: 58 01 00 00 0f 4f c2 09 c1 89 c8 83 c8 08 85

Re: idle RAID1 cpu usage

2006-12-27 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 18:09, Paul Slootman wrote: [snip] My question is: why is CPU being used by the RAID1 threads, even for those devices that are otherwise unused? What are they doing? I even started distributed-net to check that it wasn't just idle CPU cycles that were being used

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-27 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 28 December 2006 02:41, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: [snip] Here's a current decompilation of vmlinux/pipe_poll() from the running kernel, the addresses have changed slightly. There's no xchg there either: Could you reproduce the bug by the new kernel, so we could get the exact

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-27 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 28 December 2006 04:02, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2006 02:41, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: [snip] Here's a current decompilation of vmlinux/pipe_poll() from the running kernel, the addresses have changed slightly. There's no xchg there either: Could

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-19 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 00:34, Robert Hancock wrote: I'll try your stress test when I get a chance, but I doubt I'll run into the same problem and I haven't seen any similar reports. Perhaps it's some kind of wierd timing issue or incompatibility between the controller and that drive when

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-19 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 01:53, Jeff Garzik wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: I'll try your stress test when I get a chance, but I doubt I'll run into the same problem and I haven't seen any similar reports. Perhaps it's some kind of wierd timing issue or incompatibility between the

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-19 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 20 January 2007 02:41, Robert Hancock wrote: By the way, I assume that you guys are using reiserfs or xfs, as it appears no other file systems issue flush commands automatically. I had to test this by echo 1 delete on the SCSI disk in sysfs, as I am using ext3. I'll give it a

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-20 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:59, Robert Hancock wrote: Ian Kumlien wrote: Hi, I went from 2.6.19+sata_nv-adma-ncq-v7.patch, with no problems and adama enabled, to 2.6.20-rc5, which gave me problems almost instantly. I just thought that it might be interesting to know that it DID

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 01:24, Robert Hancock wrote: As a final aside, this is another case where the hardware docs for this controller would really be useful, in order to know whether we are actually supposed to be reading that register in ADMA mode or not. I sent a query to Allen Martin

Re: [PATCH/RFC] CodingStyle updates

2006-12-07 Thread Alistair John Strachan
Hi Randy, On Thursday 07 December 2006 08:48, Randy Dunlap wrote: [snip] + 3.1: Spaces + +Linux kernel style for use of spaces depends (mostly) on +function-versus-keyword usage. Use a space after (most) keywords. +The notable exception is sizeof, which looks like a function

libata-pata with ICH4, rootfs

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
Hi Alan, Is it possible to use pata_mpiix (or pata_oldpiix) with an ICH4 IDE controller and boot off it? I've tried compiling both drivers into the kernel, and totally disabling CONFIG_IDE, but it doesn't boot. dmesg doesn't indicate any detection has taken place. The old IDE layer works

Re: libata-pata with ICH4, rootfs

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 14 December 2006 18:20, Alan wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:14:55 + Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alan, Is it possible to use pata_mpiix (or pata_oldpiix) with an ICH4 IDE controller and boot off it? ata_piix (the SATA/PATA driver) deals

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
Hi Linus, `hddtemp' has stopped working on 2.6.20-rc1: [root] 19:25 [~] hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sda: ATA WDC WD2500KS-00M: S.M.A.R.T. not available /dev/sdb: ATA WDC WD2500KS-00M: S.M.A.R.T. not available /dev/sdc: ATA Maxtor 6B200M0: S.M.A.R.T. not available /dev/sdd:

Re: [PATCH] Clarify i386/Kconfig explanation of the HIGHMEM config options

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 14 December 2006 15:37, Theodore Tso wrote: + 1 Gigabyte or more total physical RAM, answer off here. I don't think your proposed wording (1 gigabyte or more) versus (more than 1 gigabyte) doesn't really change the sense of this. It does, because if you have exactly 1G of

[PATCH] Fix help text for CONFIG_ATA_PIIX

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 14 December 2006 19:53, Bill Nottingham wrote: Alistair John Strachan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Is it possible to use pata_mpiix (or pata_oldpiix) with an ICH4 IDE controller and boot off it? ata_piix (the SATA/PATA driver) deals with the ICH4. pata_mpiix

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 14 December 2006 19:57, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: `hddtemp' has stopped working on 2.6.20-rc1: Hmm. Can you do the strace on a working kernel too? For example, is it that the 0x30d ioctl (which is HDIO_GET_IDENTITY) used to work

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
Hi Jens, On Thursday 14 December 2006 20:48, Jens Axboe wrote: On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: I'll do that if nobody comes up with anything obvious. If you can just test 2.6.19-git1, then we'll know if it's the SG_IO patch again. Actually, you should test 2.6.19-git1 with this

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 14 December 2006 21:33, Jeff Garzik wrote: Alistair John Strachan wrote: Hi Jens, On Thursday 14 December 2006 20:48, Jens Axboe wrote: On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: I'll do that if nobody comes up with anything obvious. If you can just test 2.6.19-git1

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 14 December 2006 21:50, Jeff Garzik wrote: Alistair John Strachan wrote: Before I proceed with the horrors of an -rc1 bisection, could somebody send me the ADMA patches so I can eliminate those first? Run git-whatchanged drivers/ata/sata_nv.c and that will give you

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 14 December 2006 21:20, Jens Axboe wrote: On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Hi Jens, On Thursday 14 December 2006 20:48, Jens Axboe wrote: On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: I'll do that if nobody comes up with anything obvious. If you can

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Friday 15 December 2006 00:48, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Thursday 14 December 2006 21:20, Jens Axboe wrote: On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Hi Jens, On Thursday 14 December 2006 20:48, Jens Axboe wrote: On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: I'll

Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-05 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 05 September 2005 10:36, David Woodhouse wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 17:20 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Just out of curiosity, is there ANY reason why this has to be done in the kernel? The PPPoATM module for pppd implements (via linux-atm) a completely userspace ATM

Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-05 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 05 September 2005 14:56, David Woodhouse wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 14:52 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: I'm not sure which module you're referring to, but the patch recommended by the speedtouch people links to linux-atm, and does not require kernel ATM or kernel pppoatm

Re: [GIT PATCHES] kbuild updates

2005-09-05 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 05 September 2005 18:41, Sam Ravnborg wrote: Hi Linus. kbuild updates as accumulated over the last few months. All patches has been in -mm in one or several versions. Most noteworthy: 1) -Wundef added to CFLAGS. This is the cause of several new warnings, which for the most

Re: [GIT PATCHES] kbuild updates

2005-09-05 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 05 September 2005 21:13, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:35:14PM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Monday 05 September 2005 18:41, Sam Ravnborg wrote: Hi Linus. kbuild updates as accumulated over the last few months. All patches has been in -mm in one

Re: Kernel.org server problems?

2006-11-16 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 16 November 2006 14:46, Chris wrote: Hi, Don't know if this is the correct place to bring this up but /pub/linux/kernel/* seems to be unavailable on kernel.org via FTP. Both my linux box and my work Windows box can connect to kernel.org, but cding to the directory (I'm on the

Re: Kernel.org server problems?

2006-11-16 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 16 November 2006 17:56, Chris Leadbeater wrote: Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Thursday 16 November 2006 14:46, Chris wrote: Hi, Don't know if this is the correct place to bring this up but /pub/linux/kernel/* seems to be unavailable on kernel.org via FTP. Both my linux

Re: BUG? atleast =2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64| perhaps duplicate bug report?

2006-11-26 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 26 November 2006 18:07, Kasper Sandberg wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 15:25 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:29:02 +0100 Kasper Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it appears some sort of bug has gotten into .19, in regards to x86 emulation on x86_64. i

Re: [PATCH] Force enable HPET on (some?) ICH9 boards

2008-01-30 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 01:12:33 Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: Patch looks good. If BIOS does not report HPET on more of such systems we may have to add other chipsets in ICH9 family (ICH9_8, ...) as well. Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Ingo, Are you going to pick this

Re: random wedges with 2.6.25-rc*

2008-02-19 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 18:10:35 Pierre Ossman wrote: Primarily, the udev startup locks up. If I abort it, it just locks up on more or less every action after that. Some quick debugging showed that I had a whole bunch of modprobe processes sitting around. The new

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 04 February 2007 18:20, Patrick Ale wrote: On 2/4/07, Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ata_piix should drive that chipset. Was that driver enabled in the kernel configuration, and if it's built modular is the initrd, etc. set up to load it on boot? Hi, Yep, piix was

Re: 2.6.20 doesn't compile with gcc-3.2.2

2007-02-05 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 05 February 2007 12:31, you wrote: Doing the following results in an incomplete vmlinuz: # make mrproper # make allnoconfig # make bzlilo objcopy: arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin: File truncated make[2]: *** [arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin] Error 1 make[1]: ***

Re: 2.6.20 doesn't compile with gcc-3.2.2

2007-02-05 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 05 February 2007 13:48, Bodo Eggert wrote: Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing the following results in an incomplete vmlinuz: # make bzlilo objcopy: arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin: File truncated make[2]: *** [arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin] Error 1

Re: 2.6.20 doesn't compile with gcc-3.2.2

2007-02-05 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 05 February 2007 18:04, Al Boldi wrote: Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 13:48, Bodo Eggert wrote: Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing the following results in an incomplete vmlinuz: # make bzlilo objcopy: arch/i386/boot/compressed

Re: 2.6.20 doesn't compile with gcc-3.2.2

2007-02-05 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 05 February 2007 18:04, you wrote: Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 13:48, Bodo Eggert wrote: Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing the following results in an incomplete vmlinuz: # make bzlilo objcopy: arch/i386/boot/compressed

Re: 2.4.24-rc1-git: crash on shutdown/unmount?

2007-11-01 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 01 November 2007 11:51:08 Sebastian Siewior wrote: * Jens Axboe | 2007-11-01 11:51:09 [+0100]: On Wed, Oct 31 2007, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Hi Jens, I guessed from the oops that you might have an idea what's causing this oops on shutdown/unmount. The git version

Re: [PATCH] sb1250-duart.c: SB1250 DUART serial support

2007-07-12 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 12 July 2007 19:16:20 Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote: [snip] WARNING: declaring multiple variables together should be avoided #372: FILE: drivers/serial/sb1250-duart.c:246: + unsigned int mctrl, status; Well, this is probably superfluous

Re: Gmail and flowed text (was Re: Correction to LZO1X)

2007-07-12 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 11 July 2007 16:21:44 Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 07:06:23PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: Which leaves Gmail, but Gmail has the flowed text disease (that cannot be disabled) and although Gmail offers SMTP/POP, our evil proxy/NAT setup here wouldn't let me

Re: [RFD] Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt translated into Japanese

2007-06-10 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 10 June 2007 13:03:15 you wrote: 訳注(2) 「引火性の高い」の原文は valatile。 valatile には「揮発性の」「爆発しやすい」という意味の他、「変わり やすい」「移り気な」という意味がある。 「(この話題は)爆発的に激しい論争を巻き起こしかねない」ということ を、「(カーネルのソースレベルインターフェースは)移ろい行くもので ある」ということを連想させる valatile という単語で表現している。 Not speaking Japanese, I'm probably missing some

Re: [patch-mm 00/25] High resolution timer updates and x86_64 support - V2

2007-06-16 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 16 June 2007 11:36:00 Thomas Gleixner wrote: The -hrt tree at http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.22-rc4/ contains also an hpet force patch series from Venki Pallipadi, but I leave this up to Venki to send it mainline wards. What's the status on the nForce hpet force fix

Re: Frequent SATA resets with sata_nv (fwd)

2007-06-24 Thread Alistair John Strachan
(Sorry, accidentally dropped LKML) On Sunday 24 June 2007 01:52:30 you wrote: Googling around lkml.org, I found a few threads investigating what look like very similar problems, some of which never seemed to find the solution, but one of which came up with a fairly quick answer it seemed,

Re: [PATCH] intel-rng: Undo mess made by an 80 column extremist

2007-06-07 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 07 June 2007 22:17:18 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The intel-rng printed a nice well formatted message when the port was disabled. Someone then came along and blindly trashed it by screwing up a trim down to 80 columns. Perhaps we should drop that

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP

2007-05-23 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 23:09:39 Richard Griffiths wrote: Venerable cramfs fs Linear XIP patch originally from MontaVista, used in the embedded Linux community for years, updated for 2.6.21. Tested on several systems with NOR Flash. PXA270, TI OMAP2430, ARM Versatile and Freescale iMX31ADS.

Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

2007-05-12 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 12 May 2007 00:07:18 Arjan van de Ven wrote: What's eating the battery life of my laptop? Why isn't it many more hours? Which software component causes the most power to be burned? These are important questions without a good answer... until now. This is a really great tool and

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