Re: [PATCH] Add missing USRobotics Wireless Adapter (Model 5423) id into zd1211rw

2007-04-22 Thread Daniel Drake
S.Çağlar Onur wrote: USRobotics Wireless Adapter (Model 5423) works well with current zd1211rw driver also (i have tested 2.6.18, 2.6.20 and 2.6.21-rc7). I know -mm/and Daniel's tree has new version (i think with more features like rate estimator etc.) of this driver but maybe you should

Re: [PATCH] Software Suspend: Fix suspend when console is in VT_AUTO/KD_GRAPHICS mode

2007-03-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Andrew Johnson wrote: When the console is in VT_AUTO/KD_GRAPHICS mode, switching to the SUSPEND_CONSOLE fails, resulting in vt_waitactive() waiting indefinately or until the task is interrupted. The following patch tests if a console switch can occur in set_console() and returns early if a

[PATCH] tifm_sd: add missing \n

2007-03-25 Thread Daniel Drake
Noticed this in user logs. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux/drivers/mmc/tifm_sd.c === --- linux.orig/drivers/mmc/tifm_sd.c +++ linux/drivers/mmc/tifm_sd.c @@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ static void tifm_sd_abort

Re: [Bug 8255] Frequency Scaling not working properly using powernow-k7

2007-03-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Dave, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8255 Okay. I tracked down the problem with git. Here is what is the submission that causes the problem: solaris linux-git # git bisect good 0916bd3ebb7cefdd0f432e8491abe24f4b5a101e is first bad commit commit

[RFC v2] Documentation about unaligned memory access

2007-11-29 Thread Daniel Drake
(), where the source or destination (or both) are of type u8* or unsigned char*. Due to the byte-wise nature of this operation, unaligned accesses are avoided. -- Author: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] With help from: Alan Cox, Avuton Olrich, Heikki Orsila, Jan Engelhardt, Johannes Berg, Kyle Moffett

Re: hibernation issue with kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 at T41

2007-12-03 Thread Daniel Drake
Toralf Förster wrote: Today I tried to hibernate my ThinkPad but got the following : And the outcome was what exactly? It didn't suspend, and hard-hung? Or didn't suspend, came back to a usable system? ... Dec 3 14:14:29 n22 c420 Dec 3 14:14:29 n22 dca29fb8 dca29f90 d30ad4c4

[PATCH] Documentation about unaligned memory access

2007-12-03 Thread Daniel Drake
Here's a document I wrote after figuring out what unaligned memory access is all about. I've tried to cover the information I was looking for when trying to learn about this, without producing a hopelessly detailed/complex spew. I hope it is useful to others. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL

[RFC] Documentation about unaligned memory access

2007-11-22 Thread Daniel Drake
(not just 32 bits as in the example above). You could even use put_unaligned() rather than memcpy() in order to solve the bug in the first example (myfunc()) given above. -- Author: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] With help from: Johannes Berg, Uli Kunitz. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Fix ATAPI transfer lengths causes CD writing regression

2007-10-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Alan, In 2.6.23 and previous, CD writing works fine on my system. I'm using ata_piix on: 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) When I'm running CD writing utilities, I sometimes see this message in the kernel logs:

Re: Fix ATAPI transfer lengths causes CD writing regression

2007-10-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Alan Cox wrote: Not immediately - but if you've got wrong transfer lengths its a candidate for this. Ok lets start with the basics If you mount a CD and use it does it work Yep. If you use cdrecord does it work ? Yep (tested with wodim from debburn, effectively the same thing) What

Re: Fix ATAPI transfer lengths causes CD writing regression

2007-10-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Alan Cox wrote: I would guess Brasero is issuing a command with the length of data wrongly set. In the old code that might well just produce errors of the Umm wtf is this data left over for ?, with the new code the drive is likely to change state as it knows the transfer size and that will

Re: Fix ATAPI transfer lengths causes CD writing regression

2007-10-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Jeff Garzik wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: Right, that's of course problematic... There has to be a way to recover that situation though, or you can't export any user command issue facility. You cannot hope to handle all possible effects arising from an app providing an invalid sg header / cdb.

Re: [PATCH] moduleparam: fix alpha, ia64 and ppc64 compile failures

2008-02-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: On alpha, ia64 and ppc64 only relocations to local data can go into read-only sections. The vast majority of module parameters use the global generic param_set_*/param_get_* functions, so the 'const' attribute for struct kernel_param is not only useless, but it also causes

Re: List: linux-hotplug - how to debug udev

2008-02-12 Thread Daniel Drake
This should be asked on linux-hotplug and not linux-kernel, but anyway... sacarde wrote: how can I view udev variables value ? for examples: what is value of: BUS SYSFS{idProduct} SYSFS{idVendor} when I insert my stick-usb wireless ? This documentation should help you:

speeding up swapoff

2007-08-29 Thread Daniel Drake
-trivially? Is it feasible? I'm happy to spend a few more hours looking into implementing this but would greatly appreciate any advice from those in-the-know on if my ideas are broken to start with... Thanks! -- Daniel Drake Brontes Technologies, A 3M Company http://www.brontes3d.com/opensource

Re: speeding up swapoff

2007-08-29 Thread Daniel Drake
don't think there are any swap-related performance issues on the shutdown path. Thanks. -- Daniel Drake Brontes Technologies, A 3M Company http://www.brontes3d.com/opensource - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: speeding up swapoff

2007-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
, but you can see why fast swapoff would be mighty convenient. Thanks for all the info so far. It does sound like my earlier idea wouldn't be any faster in the general case due to excess disk seeking. Oh well... -- Daniel Drake Brontes Technologies, A 3M Company http://www.brontes3d.com/opensource

Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return value casts in zd1211 driver

2007-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Jesper Juhl wrote: Since kmalloc() returns a void pointer there is no reason to cast its return value. This patch also removes a pointless initialization of a variable. NAK: adds a sparse warning zd_chip.c:116:15: warning: implicit cast to nocast type Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return value casts in zd1211 driver

2007-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Jesper Juhl wrote: What would be wrong in applying my patch that removes the cast of the kmalloc() return value and then also remove the __nocast here? We use it as a safety measure when coding. For example the write register function takes an address and a value. We got one of these the

Re: [PATCH] zd1211rw, fix oops when ejecting install media

2007-10-15 Thread Daniel Drake
Marc Pignat wrote: The disconnect function can dereference the net_device structure before it is allocated. This is the case when ejecting the device installer. Signed-off-by: Marc Pignat [EMAIL PROTECTED] s/before it is allocated/when it is never allocated/ Acked-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] zd1211rw, fix oops when ejecting install media

2007-10-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Marc Pignat wrote: Hi all! On Monday 15 October 2007, Daniel Drake wrote: ... Acked-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any hope to apply this to 2.6.23.2, as this is a regression fix? Yes, already planned, it just has to go upstream first. Thanks, Daniel - To unsubscribe from

Re: zd1211b question.

2007-07-28 Thread Daniel Drake
Gene Heskett wrote: This last one is the right set of numbers. However, I'll be dipped but I can't find anyplace in a make xconfig in the 2.6.22.1-rt9 tree, to turn on the building of that driver. Sounds like you haven't satisfied the dependencies or are looking in the wrong menu. Under

Re: [Patch 14/16] Remove needless kmalloc casts in the zd1211rw drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread Daniel Drake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAK: this patch adds a sparse warning zd_chip.c:116:15: warning: implicit cast to nocast type --- drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1

Re: [PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used video mode

2007-07-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, H. Peter Anvin wrote: So, 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 should work fine with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y, or are further patches needed? It should, yes. It didn't work, and the bug still exists in 2.6.23-rc1: the resolution is wrong by 6 pixels. The user does have CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID enabled. So far

Re: [PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used video mode

2007-07-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: Sorry if this has been hashed out before, but could you point me towards the gentoo bugzilla entry? I'm trying to understand how your setup broke. Which version VBE does your system have? Here's the bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181067 How can we identify

Re: [Patch 14/16] Remove needless kmalloc casts in the zd1211rw drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Stefan Richter wrote: NAK: this patch adds a sparse warning zd_chip.c:116:15: warning: implicit cast to nocast type What does this warning mean? a16 is defined as zd_addr_t *. zd_addr_t is defined as typedef u16 __nocast zd_addr_t; The __nocast annotation forces us to use explicit casts

Re: [PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used video mode

2007-08-02 Thread Daniel Drake
Antonino A. Daplas wrote: How about this patch? Tony --- Subject: video setup: Fix VBE DDC reading Add memory operand constraint and write-only modifier to the inline assembly to effect the writing of the EDID block to boot_params.edid_info. Thanks, this patch works in that Linux now

Re: sky2 regression in 2.6.21: Asus P5B-E Plus ethernet adapter no more supported

2007-04-27 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Stephen, Stephen Hemminger wrote: But the same hardware dies horribly on Gigabyte GA-965P motherboards. Could you send me full lspci -vvx output. I'll re-enable it for Asus and add a block for the Gigabyte boards. (sigh) This was also reported by another user at

Re: sky2 regression in 2.6.21: Asus P5B-E Plus ethernet adapter no more supported

2007-04-27 Thread Daniel Drake
Stephen Hemminger wrote: But the same hardware dies horribly on Gigabyte GA-965P motherboards. Could you send me full lspci -vvx output. I'll re-enable it for Asus and add a block for the Gigabyte boards. (sigh) To add to the mix, Robert Tate on the same Gentoo bug reports that the Yukon2

Re: ALSA Oops (triggered by xmms)

2005-04-15 Thread Daniel Drake
Christian Kujau wrote: oh, this sounds good. strange though, that my 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 (whatever they've patched in there) *never* oopsed the days ago but all of a sudden started to oops yesterday Probably because you changed alsa-lib versions. By the way, it is fixed in

[-mm PATCH] driver model: PM type conversions in drivers/net

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Drake
This fixes PM driver model type checking for drivers/net. Acked by Pavel Machek. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urNpX dontdiff linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm2/drivers/net/8139cp.c linux-dsd/drivers/net/8139cp.c --- linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm2/drivers/net/8139cp.c 2005-02-02 21:55:22.417771864

[-mm PATCH] driver model: PM type conversions in drivers/macintosh

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Drake
This fixes PM driver model type checking for drivers/macintosh. Acked by Pavel Machek. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urNpX dontdiff linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm2/drivers/macintosh/macio_asic.c linux-dsd/drivers/macintosh/macio_asic.c --- linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm2/drivers/macintosh

[-mm PATCH] driver model: PM type conversions in drivers/char

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Drake
This fixes PM driver model type checking for drivers/char. Acked by Pavel Machek. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urNpX dontdiff linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm2/drivers/char/agp/efficeon-agp.c linux-dsd/drivers/char/agp/efficeon-agp.c --- linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm2/drivers/char/agp/efficeon

[-mm PATCH] driver model: PM type conversions in drivers/serial

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Drake
This fixes PM driver model type checking for drivers/serial. Acked by Pavel Machek. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urNpX dontdiff linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm2/drivers/serial/amba-pl010.c linux-dsd/drivers/serial/amba-pl010.c --- linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm2/drivers/serial/amba-pl010.c 2004-12

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?

2005-02-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Andrew Morton wrote: I wonder if reverting the patch will restore the old behaviour? # This is a BitKeeper generated diff -Nru style patch. # # ChangeSet # 2005/01/21 13:42:18-08:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Merge nuts.davemloft.net:/disk1/BK/sparcwork-2.6 # into

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?

2005-02-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Andrew, Andrew Morton wrote: Bah. That's what happens when you fix stuff. What's kylix? The Borland C++ builder thing? How should one set about reproducing this problem? You don't need the kylix environment or libraries, you just need to run any binary that was compiled with kylix. Teamspeak

Re: SysKonnect ethernet support for Asus A8VE Deluxe Motherboard?

2005-07-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Hamish Marson wrote: I just installed Gentoo distribution on a new PC for a friend who's new to Linux, and discovered that although SysKonnect kindly provide full source code drivers for their various products on their website, that even the latest released kernel sources (i.e. 2.6.12) still

Re: 2.6.12: yukon2 nics still not supported...

2005-07-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Ludovic Drolez wrote: I recently had to boot a brand new system using a Marvel Yukon2 NIC (sk98lin) driver which is not supported by the latest kernel (pci ids = 11ab:4361). So I compiled the GPLed driver available from Syskonnect,

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Manfred Spraul wrote: Attached is a patch that modifies the tx interrupt handling of the nForce nic. It's part of the attempts to figure out what causes the nic hangs (see bug 4552). The change is experimental: It affects all nForce versions. I've tested it on my nForce 250-Gb. This

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Manfred Spraul wrote: Attached is a patch that modifies the tx interrupt handling of the nForce nic. It's part of the attempts to figure out what causes the nic hangs (see bug 4552). The change is experimental: It affects all nForce versions. I've tested it on my nForce 250-Gb. Please

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Daniel Drake wrote: After applying the v0.38 patch, I can't get any network at all. DHCP fails to get an IP. v0.37 works fine. Tracked it down. (sorry for linewraps) +#define DEV_NEED_TIMERIRQ 0x0001 /* set the timer irq flag in the irq mask */ +#define DEV_NEED_LINKTIMER 0x0002

Promise TX4200 support?

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I recieved an email from someone claiming to be stuck with Linux 2.4, due to relying on a Promise TX4200 disk controller (using the fdsata driver from promise's website, which is 2.4-only): :01:09.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 3519 (rev 02)

Re: Promise TX4200 support?

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Martin, Martin Povolný wrote: We are succesfully running patched sata_promise with 3 disks in a raid5/raid1 setup. (Patched against ubuntu linux-image 2.6.11-1-686 package.) Could you please either send in your patch, or tell me which board_ setting (2037x/20319/20619) the device ID table

Re: Promise TX4200 support?

2005-07-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Martin Povolný wrote: For me it works with 20319, but I don't understand the difference between different settings. 20319 is 4 port SATA. 2037x is 2 port SATA, optionally with 1 PATA port 20619 is 4 port PATA So I believe 20319 is the correct option. Jeff, the chip on the TX4200 is actually

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Manfred Spraul wrote: Autsch. Yes, you are right. Sorry for that, I should have reread the patch once more. No problem :) I've been running v0.38 since my last mail. No problems at all. Thanks for your continued work on the driver. Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: driver for Marvell 88E8053 PCI Express Gigabit LAN

2005-07-28 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Alexander, Alexander Fieroch wrote: Alexander Fieroch wrote: http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/lan/marvell/8053/8053_others2.zip Oh, that driver is very old. Here is the latest one which is working with the current kernel:

Re: Problem with inotify

2005-07-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Anton Altaparmakov wrote: )-: I have addressed the only things I can think off that could cause the oops and below is the resulting patch. Could you please test it? Yeah!! After removing I_WILL_FREE stuff, that fixed both the oops *and* the hang. Everything works nicely now. Thanks a

2.6.12 netfilter: local packets marked as invalid

2005-07-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Some Gentoo users have reported very long application startup times in 2.6.12. This seems to be because the applications are attempting to connect to local ports such as sunrpc/portmap (where these services are not running), but some packets are being dropped, so the application load just

Re: 2.6.12 netfilter: local packets marked as invalid

2005-07-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Patrick McHardy wrote: You could confirm this theory by logging invalid packets in LOCAL_OUT and in PRE_ROUTING - only PRE_ROUTING should trigger. I'm going to think about a solution meanwhile. You'll have to forgive my lack of netfilter knowledge, I set up my firewall ages ago and haven't

Re: ns558 mis-detects gameport

2005-07-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Neil Darlow wrote: Hi Vojtech, On Friday 08 Jul 2005 22:24, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: In the current input GIT tree there is a patch to reverse the order of probing (PnP first) for exactly this reason. I expect 2.6.13 should have the fix. Daniel, is it worth backporting this fix for

Re: 2.6.12 netfilter: local packets marked as invalid

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel Drake
Patrick McHardy wrote: We decided to revert the responsible change because it caused problems in other areas as well. This patch should fix your problem. Thanks, it works. If you decide to revisit this in the future, feel free to send me a patch and I will help test it. Daniel - To unsubscribe

[PATCH] procfs: Fix hardlink counts

2005-04-01 Thread Daniel Drake
a similar fix on the task directories too. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r5/fs/proc/base.c.orig 2005-04-01 14:06:43.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r5/fs/proc/base.c 2005-04-01 14:35:39.0 +0100 @@ -1702,8 +1702,12 @@ struct dentry

Re: rootdelay

2005-04-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi David, David N. Welton wrote: [ Please CC replies to me, thanks! ] Hi, I was looking at your patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/21/132 Very small, which is nice. I was wondering if there were any interest in my own efforts in that direction:

[PATCH] procfs: Fix hardlink counts for /proc/PID/task

2005-04-02 Thread Daniel Drake
. This should fix it up. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- base.c.orig 2005-04-02 20:47:10.0 +0100 +++ base.c 2005-04-02 20:51:43.0 +0100 @@ -1337,6 +1337,8 @@ static struct inode_operations proc_tgid_attr_inode_operations; #endif +static int get_tid_list(int index

[PATCH] procfs: Fix hardlink counts for /proc/PID/task

2005-04-02 Thread Daniel Drake
correctly when a PID has more than one child task, which is quite often the case. This should fix it up. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r5/fs/proc/base.c.orig 2005-04-02 20:47:10.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r5/fs/proc/base.c 2005-04-02 20:51

Re: [Bug] invalid mac address after rebooting (kernel 2.6.11.5)

2005-04-03 Thread Daniel Drake
Peter Baumann wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:52:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Peter Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hitting an annoying bug in kernel 2.6.11.5 Every time I _reboot_ (warmstart) my pc my two network cards won't get recognized any longer. Following error message appears on

Re: ALSA bugs with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-04-04 Thread Daniel Drake
David Ford wrote: It seems that 2.6.12-rc1 introduced an ALSA bug generating an oops for a null pointer. codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300300] codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address

Re: netdev-2.6 queue updated

2005-03-03 Thread Daniel Drake
Jeff Garzik wrote: philipp.gortan:tttech.com: o [netdrvr 8139cp] add PCI ID This one seems to be already present in 2.6.11 under a different name (PCI_DEVICE_ID_TTTECH_MC322). Also, the corresponding entry in pci_ids.h is not in the order of the file. Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: driver model u32 - pm_message_t conversion: help needed

2005-02-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Pavel, Pavel Machek wrote: Now, if you want to help, just convert some drivers... To quickly break compilation in case of bad types, following patch can be used (against 2.6.11-rc2-mm1), it actually switches pm_message_t to typedef. I'm looking forward to the patches, (please help), I just had

[-mm PATCH] driver model: PM type conversions in drivers/mmc

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Drake
This fixes PM driver model type checking for drivers/mmc. Acked by Pavel Machek. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urNpX dontdiff linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm2/drivers/mmc/mmc.c linux-dsd/drivers/mmc/mmc.c --- linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm2/drivers/mmc/mmc.c 2005-02-02 21:54:17.0 +

[-mm PATCH] driver model: PM type checking in drivers/video

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Drake
This fixes PM driver model type checking for drivers/video. Acked by Pavel Machek. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urNpX dontdiff linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm2/drivers/video/aty/radeon_pm.c linux-dsd/drivers/video/aty/radeon_pm.c --- linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm2/drivers/video/aty/radeon_pm.c

[-mm PATCH] driver model: PM type conversions in drivers/pcmcia

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Drake
This fixes PM driver model type checking for drivers/pcmcia. Acked by Pavel Machek. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urNpX dontdiff linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm2/drivers/pcmcia/au1000_generic.c linux-dsd/drivers/pcmcia/au1000_generic.c --- linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm2/drivers/pcmcia

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Joseph Fannin wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:23:52AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc1/2.6.11-rc1-mm1/ waiting-10s-before-mounting-root-filesystem.patch retry mounting the root filesystem at boot time With this patch,

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-16 Thread Daniel Drake
. This fixes booting from usb-storage devices, which no longer make their partitions immediately available. Also cleans up the mount_block_root() function. Based on an earlier patch from William Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.10/init

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-17 Thread Daniel Drake
J.A. Magallon wrote: This does not patch against -mm1. -mm1 looks like a mix of plain 2.6.10 and your code. Could you revamp it against -mm1, please ? I looked at it but seems out of my understanding... My patch replaces the one in -mm1. Just revert the waiting-10s-... patch that is in

[PATCH] Wait and retry mounting root device (revised)

2005-01-17 Thread Daniel Drake
also cleaned up the mount_block_root() function a bit. Based on an earlier patch from William Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] Replaces the existing waiting-10s-before-mounting-root-filesystem.patch patch in 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.10/init

[PATCH] Configurable delay before mounting root device

2005-01-20 Thread Daniel Drake
devices which require some spin-up time. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.10/init/do_mounts.c.orig 2005-01-20 20:37:01.0 + +++ linux-2.6.10/init/do_mounts.c 2005-01-20 20:44:47.190899080 + @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ #include linux/suspend.h #include linux

Re: [PATCH] Configurable delay before mounting root device

2005-01-21 Thread Daniel Drake
which no longer make their partitions immediately available, and for other storage devices which require some spin-up time. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.10/init/do_mounts.c.orig 2005-01-20 20:37:01.0 + +++ linux-2.6.10/init/do_mounts.c 2005-01-20 20:44

[PATCH 1/2] olpc-battery: Add VOLTAGE_MAX_DESIGN property

2012-07-15 Thread Daniel Drake
a slightly different energy capacity. Adding the VOLTAGE_MAX_DESIGN property allows upowerd to compute the same energy every time. Signed-off-by: Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org --- drivers/power/olpc_battery.c | 54

[PATCH 2/2] olpc-battery: update CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN property for BYD LiFe batteries

2012-07-15 Thread Daniel Drake
From: Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org Reduce the mAh value for the BYD LiFe battery from 3100mAh to 2800mAh to better reflect the average usable capacity as measured by olpc-pwr-log. Signed-off-by: Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org --- drivers

Loop device partition scanning is unreliable

2012-07-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I'm having trouble with the loop device partition scanning code. If I create a blank file, put a partition table on it with fdisk, and then immediately turn it into a partitioned loop device, the partitions dont always show up. Here is a script to test this:

Re: [PATCH] libertas sdio: remove CMD_FUNC_INIT call

2013-02-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Bing Zhao bz...@marvell.com wrote: Do you have any concern for OLPC platforms with above change? If it doesn't seem to break OLPC I will send a patch to the list. Looks fine to me. Thanks for investigating. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [Techteam] [RFC PATCH] x86-32: Start out eflags and cr4 clean

2013-01-19 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:35 PM, H. Peter Anvin h...@linux.intel.com wrote: Can we simply disable paging before mucking with CR4? The other option that I can see is to always enable PSE and PGE, since they are simply features opt-ins that don't do any harm if unused. At the same time,

Re: Bad page state on AMD Opteron Dual System with kernel 2.6.13-rc6-git13

2005-08-27 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Tim Weippert wrote: i have read some postings concerning the following Kernel Messages: Aug 26 18:04:01 montdsnsu3 kernel: grep[11619] general protection rip:2aaaed43 rsp:7f9c0740 error:0 Aug 26 18:08:02 montdsnsu3 kernel: ping[14867] general protection rip:2aaaed43

Re: Bad page state on AMD Opteron Dual System with kernel 2.6.13-rc6-git13

2005-08-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Tim Weippert wrote: As this is an Server, i don't even use cpufreq on this machine. So it think this isn't the same problem ... Maybe you could post your experiences here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5133 Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

ppp_mppe+pptp for 2.6.14?

2005-08-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, If there are no known issues it would be nice to push this for inclusion in 2.6.14. The relevant patches from -mm are named ppp_mppe-add-ppp-mppe-encryption-module.patch and ppp_mppe-add-ppp-mppe-encryption-module-update.patch Judging by the feedback I get from Gentoo users, there is

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Steve Kieu wrote: Are you using skge or sk98lin? sk98lin thanks Can you test the new skge driver instead? If that one is broken then we probably have more chance of getting it fixed :) Thanks, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Steve Kieu wrote: Ok it sound wierd enough to assume that the latest kernel 2.6.13 ethernet driver has done something wrong with the NIC and sustain the condition after reboot or turn off the machine. Here is my configuration. Laptop Asus A4500d. dmesg shows: eth0: Yukon Gigabit Ethernet

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Stephen, This looks like an issue I reported previously. After you use a recent skge, you can't use any older drivers or the windows driver, but skge still works fine every time. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdevm=112268414417743w=2 The Gentoo bug report is here:

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Forwarding on, please reply-to-all in future. Steve Kieu wrote: Hi all, I have fixed the problem in a very wierd way.Reading your post I thought maybe when removing the driver itself it set some bit incorrectly. Then I decided to do: Boot with init=/bin/bash so bypass all other things.

[PATCH] Add VIA VT6410 support

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
this, and Sergey Vlasov recently asked the same question on LKML. If the patch isn't acceptable then please at least say _something_ :) Thanks! -- From: Mathias Kretschmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add VIA VT6410 IDE support Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -Naru a/drivers/ide/pci/via82cxxx.c b

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Stephen Hemminger wrote: You have a version of the Marvell Yukon that was affected by a fix in 2.6.13. skge addr 0xfeaf8000 irq 19 chip Yukon-Lite rev 9 Both the skge and sk98lin driver were fixed to check for this. Without the fix, the chip will be in the wrong power mode. The version

Re: 2.6.13-rc7-git2 crashes on iBook

2005-09-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Stelian Pop wrote: Confirmed on an Apple Powerbook too. For reference, the (already reverted) patch which needs to be applied is below. Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.git/drivers/pci/setup-res.c

[PATCH] via82cxxx IDE: Support multiple controllers

2005-09-01 Thread Daniel Drake
hardware with two VIA controllers, however I have tested this on a pc which has a single vt8233a controller. --- Support multiple controllers in the via82cxxx IDE driver Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux/drivers/ide/pci/via82cxxx.c.orig 2005-08-31 01:32:05.0 +0100

Re: irqpoll causing some breakage?

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Alan Cox wrote: What do the other reports look like ? Here's one: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-361718-highlight-irqpoll.html This possibly suggests that the irqpoll patch actually caused a nobody cared which wasn't there previously. (Now that I have looked closer at the patch, I

Re: captive-ntfs FUSE support?

2005-08-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Kristoffer wrote: why?: Since LUFS is no longer maintained and FUSE is. since to use the LUFIS bridge you have to install LUFS, This is not true. lufis is a compatibility layer on top of FUSE which provides the same API as lufs (thereby allowing you to load lufs modules into fuse). It does

Re: captive-ntfs FUSE support?

2005-08-11 Thread Daniel Drake
Joseph Fannin wrote: I haven't seen any real changes in NTFS support in the kernel since the mid-2.5 series. Is there somewhere else I should be looking? The development tree is here: http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/aia21/ntfs-2.6-devel.git;a=summary Right now, I

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Daniel Drake
CaT wrote: 1. Alan Cox's IDE driver that was included in his ac patchset, which seems to have died at 2.6.11ac7. 2. A brief visit from a SCSI IDE driver in Andrew Mortons mm patchset. It lived a brief but noted life before being taken out without any reason (that I spotted) in

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Daniel Drake
CaT wrote: 1. Alan Cox's IDE driver that was included in his ac patchset, which seems to have died at 2.6.11ac7. Alan's driver has been merged into 2.6.13. You can get the up-to-date Wooo! patches here:

Re: [git] libata-dev queue updated

2005-08-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Jeff, Jeff Garzik wrote: I finally got around to creating something that has been missing since BitKeeper disappeared, and something that Andrew has been wanting from me for a while: an amalgamation of all the libata-dev branches that I maintain internally. You are missing two

Re: irq 11: nobody cared

2005-08-23 Thread Daniel Drake
Nigel Rantor wrote: Who should I be talking to wrt to the irq 11: nobody cared issue? I'm happy to provide as much info as possible but need to know what info is required. I'm happily running 2.6.7, tried the latest and greatest (2.6.12) and found the problem, then started by looking at

Re: Regression in 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 for snd_hda_intel

2006-12-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Larry Finger wrote: When this commit is reverted, I get sound, but playing a sound file results in about an 0.5 sec fragment being replayed over and over forever. If commit 7376d013fc6d3a45..., which is entitled Simple patch to enable Message Signalled Interrupts for the HDA Intel audio

Re: Regression in 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 for snd_hda_intel

2006-12-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Larry Finger wrote: You are correct. Only the hda_codec-Add independent headphone volume control needs to be reverted. The best course of action is probably to file a report here: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

2.6.19 bluetooth PPP (rfcomm) regression

2006-12-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Testing from Bill Kenworthy indicates that commit 0a85b964e141a4b8db6eaf500ceace12f8f52f93 introduces a ppp-over-bluetooth regression. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159277 Dec 28 21:56:54 rattus hcid[22749]: pin_code_request (sba=00:0A:3A:59:39:38, dba=00:07:E0:06:AC:7A) Dec

Re: Using _syscall3 to manipulate files in a driver

2007-01-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Jon Smirl wrote: I have the source code for a vendor written driver that is targeted at 2.6.9. It includes this and then proceeds to manipulate files from the driver. In future just kill the code in question, it's wrong and not needed. It's already mostly disabled in the code, based on my

CVE-2006-6106 (bluetooth CAPI) not fixed in mainline?

2007-01-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, This patch went into 2.6.18.6: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=116614741607528w=2 However it is not included in 2.6.19.x or 2.6.20-rc3. Was this solved in mainline another way, are there issues with the patch, or was this simply overlooked? Thanks, Daniel - To unsubscribe

Shared mmap'ed page writeback 2.6.18 backport

2007-01-03 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Has anyone backported the recent shared mmap page writeback fix (7658cc289288b8ae7dd2c2224549a048431222b3) to 2.6.18 or previous? It looks like there will be at least one more 2.6.18-stable release and I'd like to see it fixed there. I don't know enough about the VM layer to understand

Re: minix-v3-support.patch

2007-01-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Daniel Aragonés wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 04:06:53PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Daniel, it'd be good if you could review and test these changes please. Also, a signed-off-by from yourself and from Andries, please... Thanks a lot to Andries! The patch looks much more elegant now than

percpu_modalloc oops when loading netfilter modules

2005-07-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Pete, Rusty, I found a snippet of a previous discussion of yours here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.3/2901.html http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0409.0/0768.html Did anything become of this issue? A Gentoo user has reported what appears to be the same

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Otto Meier wrote: This card use the sata chip pdc 40718 (as of my card) the lastest sata_promise kernel with sata promise patch driver doesn't recognise this card. I added the following line to static struct pci_device_id pdc_ata_pci_tbl[] in sata_promise.c: {

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