Modprobe as script breaks initramfs kernel?

2007-02-21 Thread Deepak Saxena
another process this early in the boot sequence? Tnx, ~Deepak ps: Yes, I know this is fix to error messages is ugly. :) -- Deepak Saxena - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.plexity.net in the end, they will not say, those were dark times, they will ask why were their poets silent? - Bertold Brecht

[PATCH] Allow kernel to build on Cygwin

2007-02-22 Thread Deepak Saxena
This patch contains a set of small fixes to allow the kernel to build under the Cygwin environment, which is unfortunately used by more people than one would think in the embedded world. :( Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- lib/gen_crc32table.c |2

Re: Modprobe as script breaks initramfs kernel?

2007-02-22 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Feb 22 2007, at 19:44, Jan Engelhardt was caught saying: On Feb 22 2007 14:30, Michael Tokarev wrote: Deepak Saxena wrote: We attempted an experiment in cleaning up some modprobe messages during initramfs bootup when the modules directory is missing by moving modprobe to modprobe

Re: [PATCH] Allow kernel to build on Cygwin

2007-02-23 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Feb 23 2007, at 20:37, Matthieu CASTET was caught saying: Hi, Deepak Saxena dsaxena at plexity.net writes: This patch contains a set of small fixes to allow the kernel to build under the Cygwin environment, which is unfortunately used by more people than one would think

[PATCH] Fix building kernel under Solaris

2007-03-06 Thread Deepak Saxena
does not provide strsep Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uNr -X /home/src/dontdiff /home/src/mvista/kernel/PRO5-CLEAN/linux-2.6.18/include/linux/input.h linux-2.6.18_pro500/include/linux/input.h --- /home/src/mvista/kernel/PRO5-CLEAN/linux-2.6.18/include/linux/input.h

Re: [PATCH] Fix building kernel under Solaris

2007-03-06 Thread Deepak Saxena
SIGRETRACT I have -rt merged into my tree so this won't apply cleanly to mainline. ~Deepak On Mar 06 2007, at 10:09, Deepak Saxena was caught saying: Fix varous build breakages that occur when building on a Solaris system (SunOS 4.8 to be exact) - No asm/types.h - lpptest doesn't

[PATCH -rt] Remove duplicate CONFIG_CLOCKEVENTS in ARM kconfig

2007-03-27 Thread Deepak Saxena
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5/arch/arm/Kconfig === --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -33,10 +33,6 @@ config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS bool

[PATCH -rt] Fix build on MIPS

2007-03-28 Thread Deepak Saxena
Extra #endif got into atomic.h Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5/include/asm-mips/atomic.h === --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/include/asm-mips/atomic.h +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/include/asm-mips/atomic.h

[PATCH] kbuild: Disable depmod in cross-compile kernel build

2007-10-18 Thread Deepak Saxena
in the cross-compile case and we just run depmod on the target at bootup. Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 529b904..1705a91 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1032,7 +1032,11 @@ depmod_opts

[PATCH -rt] Disable lpptest on !Linux hosts

2007-07-24 Thread Deepak Saxena
build w/o some makefile uglyiness AFAICT. Is there some sort of -rt userland package this could move to instead of being in the kernel itself...? Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6/scripts/Makefile

Re: [PATCH -rt] Disable lpptest on !Linux hosts

2007-07-24 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Jul 24 2007, at 13:51, Deepak Saxena was caught saying: Even this patch isn't really the right solution b/c you really want to cross-build the may be cross-building for another architecture from Linux you want cross-compile, not host compile but there's no really easy Sigh, not enough

Re: 64-bit resources?

2005-03-11 Thread Deepak Saxena
of the kernel tree up due to the changes required. Unless someone else wants to volunteer to do the work :) Will, I might be able to, what major things need fixing? Kumar, I'll help you on this b/c I need 64-bit resources ASAP to support some new CPUs. ~Deepak -- Deepak Saxena - [EMAIL

[PATCH] Allow for arch-specific IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER

2005-08-24 Thread Deepak Saxena
preferred solution which is to allow the architecture to override the IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER constant with it's own version. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h --- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h +++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc7] Fix IXP4xx flash resource range

2005-08-24 Thread Deepak Saxena
if another driver tries to request the next expansion bus window. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/coyote-setup.c b/arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/coyote-setup.c --- a/arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/coyote-setup.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/coyote-setup.c @@ -36,7 +36,7

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-26 Thread Deepak Saxena
. There's something strange going on with either ACPI or cpufreq. When Is there ever anything not strange going on with ACPI. :p /me goes back to beer. ~Deepak -- Deepak Saxena - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.plexity.net Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day. - To unsubscribe

[PATCH 2.6.13-git] Fix IXP4xx CLOCK_TICK_RATE

2005-08-23 Thread Deepak Saxena
/030950.html Tnx to George Anziger and Egil Hjelmeland for finding the issue. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/timex.h b/include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/timex.h --- a/include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/timex.h +++ b/include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/timex.h

Re: RFC: 64-bit resources and changes to pci, ioremap, ...

2005-07-29 Thread Deepak Saxena
thing to do b/c on really small systems that don't have 64-bit needs, we'll just be wasting memory with the extra data structure size. We need to scale down to PCI systems with just 8MB of RAM. ~Deepak -- Deepak Saxena - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.plexity.net Even a stopped clock gives

Re: [PATCH] Allow for arch-specific IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER

2005-09-06 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Aug 28 2005, at 18:39, Russell King was caught saying: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:12:02PM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: Version 6 of the ARM architecture introduces the concept of 16MB pages (supersections) and 36-bit (40-bit actually, but nobody uses this) physical addresses. 36-bit

[PATCH RT] Fix NR_syscalls in ARM

2007-06-01 Thread Deepak Saxena
The -rt patch adds a NR_syscalls symbol to the arm/unistd.h but it is not the correct value as there are 348 syscalls on ARM and the existing change sets the symbol to 322. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Russell: Why isn't this in mainline? Other arches all seem to have

[PATCH] Add ip6_tunnel.h to headers_install

2007-05-19 Thread Deepak Saxena
The Mobile IPv6 package (http://www.mobile-ipv6.org/software/) needs this header file to build the tunnelctl component. The header already looks sanitized so is safe to export. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/include/linux/Kbuild b/include/linux/Kbuild index

Re: 64-bit resources?

2005-03-11 Thread Deepak Saxena
u on this b/c I need 64-bit resources ASAP to support some new CPUs. ~Deepak -- Deepak Saxena - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.plexity.net Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

[PATCH 2.6.13-git] Fix IXP4xx CLOCK_TICK_RATE

2005-08-23 Thread Deepak Saxena
/030950.html Tnx to George Anziger and Egil Hjelmeland for finding the issue. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/timex.h b/include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/timex.h --- a/include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/timex.h +++ b/include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/t

[PATCH] Allow for arch-specific IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER

2005-08-24 Thread Deepak Saxena
e case. - My preferred solution which is to allow the architecture to override the IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER constant with it's own version. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h --- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h +++ b/include/lin

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc7] Fix IXP4xx flash resource range

2005-08-24 Thread Deepak Saxena
if another driver tries to request the next expansion bus window. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/coyote-setup.c b/arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/coyote-setup.c --- a/arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/coyote-setup.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/coyote-setup.c @@ -36,7

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-26 Thread Deepak Saxena
gt; best to do a -rc7 first. > > There's something strange going on with either ACPI or cpufreq. When Is there ever anything not strange going on with ACPI. :p /me goes back to beer. ~Deepak -- Deepak Saxena - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.plexity.net Even a stopped clock gives

Re: RFC: 64-bit resources and changes to pci, ioremap, ...

2005-07-29 Thread Deepak Saxena
de accessor macros to ensure proper use? Probably the best thing to do b/c on really small systems that don't have 64-bit needs, we'll just be wasting memory with the extra data structure size. We need to scale down to PCI systems with just 8MB of RAM. ~Deepak -- Deepak Saxena - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http:

Re: [PATCH] Allow for arch-specific IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER

2005-09-06 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Aug 28 2005, at 18:39, Russell King was caught saying: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:12:02PM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: > > Version 6 of the ARM architecture introduces the concept of 16MB pages > > (supersections) and 36-bit (40-bit actually, but nobody uses this) > > p

[PATCH] Allow kernel to build on Cygwin

2007-02-22 Thread Deepak Saxena
This patch contains a set of small fixes to allow the kernel to build under the Cygwin environment, which is unfortunately used by more people than one would think in the embedded world. :( Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- lib/gen_crc32table.c

Re: Modprobe as script breaks initramfs kernel?

2007-02-22 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Feb 22 2007, at 19:44, Jan Engelhardt was caught saying: > > On Feb 22 2007 14:30, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >Deepak Saxena wrote: > >> We attempted an experiment in cleaning up some modprobe messages during > >> initramfs bootup when the modules directory

Re: [PATCH] Allow kernel to build on Cygwin

2007-02-23 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Feb 23 2007, at 20:37, Matthieu CASTET was caught saying: > Hi, > > Deepak Saxena plexity.net> writes: > > > > > > > This patch contains a set of small fixes to allow the kernel to build under > > the Cygwin environment, which is unfortunately used

[PATCH] Fix building kernel under Solaris

2007-03-06 Thread Deepak Saxena
does not provide strsep Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -uNr -X /home/src/dontdiff /home/src/mvista/kernel/PRO5-CLEAN/linux-2.6.18/include/linux/input.h linux-2.6.18_pro500/include/linux/input.h --- /home/src/mvista/kernel/PRO5-CLEAN/linux-2.6.18/include/linux/i

Re: [PATCH] Fix building kernel under Solaris

2007-03-06 Thread Deepak Saxena
SIGRETRACT I have -rt merged into my tree so this won't apply cleanly to mainline. ~Deepak On Mar 06 2007, at 10:09, Deepak Saxena was caught saying: > > Fix varous build breakages that occur when building on a Solaris system > (SunOS 4.8 to be exact) > > - No asm/types.h

Modprobe as script breaks initramfs kernel?

2007-02-21 Thread Deepak Saxena
6a5e6<= I've done a quick skim of the code and don't quite see the issue there. Can the kernel not handle modprobe as a script that then executes another process this early in the boot sequence? Tnx, ~Deepak ps: Yes, I know this is "fix" to error messages is ugly

[PATCH -rt] Remove duplicate CONFIG_CLOCKEVENTS in ARM kconfig

2007-03-27 Thread Deepak Saxena
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5/arch/arm/Kconfig === --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -33,10 +33,6 @@ config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS

[PATCH -rt] Fix build on MIPS

2007-03-28 Thread Deepak Saxena
Extra #endif got into atomic.h Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5/include/asm-mips/atomic.h === --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/include/asm-mips/atomic.h +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/include/as

[PATCH] Add ip6_tunnel.h to headers_install

2007-05-19 Thread Deepak Saxena
The Mobile IPv6 package (http://www.mobile-ipv6.org/software/) needs this header file to build the tunnelctl component. The header already looks sanitized so is safe to export. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/include/linux/Kbuild b/include/linux/Kbuild

[PATCH RT] Fix NR_syscalls in ARM

2007-06-01 Thread Deepak Saxena
The -rt patch adds a NR_syscalls symbol to the arm/unistd.h but it is not the correct value as there are 348 syscalls on ARM and the existing change sets the symbol to 322. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Russell: Why isn't this in mainline? Other arches all seem t

[PATCH -rt] Disable lpptest on !Linux hosts

2007-07-24 Thread Deepak Saxena
from the kernel build w/o some makefile uglyiness AFAICT. Is there some sort of -rt userland package this could move to instead of being in the kernel itself...? Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6/script

Re: [PATCH -rt] Disable lpptest on !Linux hosts

2007-07-24 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Jul 24 2007, at 13:51, Deepak Saxena was caught saying: > Even this patch isn't really the right solution b/c you really want > to cross-build the may be cross-building for another architecture from > Linux you want cross-compile, not host compile but there's no really easy Sigh, n

[PATCH] kbuild: Disable depmod in cross-compile kernel build

2007-10-18 Thread Deepak Saxena
in the cross-compile case and we just run depmod on the target at bootup. Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 529b904..1705a91 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1032,7 +1032,11 @@