On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:23 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:
Temporarily at
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/
Will appear later at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/
Changes since 2.6.21-rc3-mm1:
LD
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:23 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:
Temporarily at
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/
Will appear later at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Avoid
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:20:16 -0700 Kees Cook wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:31:51AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
kernel/built-in.o:(.data+0xfc0): undefined reference to `maps_protect'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
with CONFIG_PROC_FS=n
Gah! Apologies
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:34:01 -0600 Cliff Wickman wrote:
From: Cliff Wickman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch corrects a situation that occurs when one disables all the cpus
in a cpuset.
At that point, any tasks in that cpuset are incorrectly moved (as I recall,
they were move to a sibling
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:23 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:
Temporarily at
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/
Will appear later at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/
I think that this:
config EEPROM_93CX6
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:23 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:
Temporarily at
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/
Will appear later at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/
UIO_CIF should depend on PCI ??
With
drivers/md/md.c calls csum_partial().
IF CONFIG_NET=n and BLK_DEV_MD=y, if arch/*/lib/Makefile
puts csum-partial.o or checksum.o into lib-y, the function
is present. (Of course, if the function is placed in
obj-y, there is no problem.)
If CONFIG_NET=n and BLK_DEV_MD=n, if arch/*/lib/Makefile
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:13:31 +0200 (EET) Tasos Parisinos wrote:
This patch changes the crypto/Kconfig crypto/Makefile and adds
crypto/rsa.c. These files add module named rsa.o (rsa.ko) built-in or as
a kernel module and offer an API to do fast modular exponentiation
and other multi-precision
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:08:58 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:13:31 +0200 (EET) Tasos Parisinos wrote:
+/*
+ * mpi_alloc - allocate an mpi
+ * @n: pointer pointer to the allocated mpi
+ * @limbs: number
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:03:24 -0500 Larry Finger wrote:
Matt Mackall wrote:
With the latest -mm, I'm now getting this:
Mar 21 15:06:52 cinder kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless
2200BG Network Connection
Mar 21 15:06:52 cinder kernel: firmware_loading_store: unexpected
value
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:22:33 -0700 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Randy Dunlap wrote:
The we duplicate all the relevant /proc knobs:
cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
30
cat /proc/sys/vm/hires-dirty_ratio/
30
Or we do something else ;)
Sounds better. I wasn't very keen
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:39:40 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote:
Fix remaining misspellings of depreciated to deprecated.
More of these.
---
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix more deprecated spellos.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/fb/aty128fb.txt
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:32:36 + Sid Boyce wrote:
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 05:43:11PM +, Sid Boyce wrote:
Sid Boyce wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
(cc restored. Please always do
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A 1-bit bitfield has no room for a sign bit.
drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c:54:16: error: dubious bitfield without
explicit `signed' or `unsigned'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c |2 +-
1 file
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix function declaration:
drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless_cs_tty.c:730:29: warning: non-ANSI function
declaration of function 'ipwireless_tty_release'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless_cs_tty.c |2 +-
1 file
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use NULL instead of 0 for pointers:
drivers/char/nozomi.c:1028:68: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
drivers/char/nozomi.c:1029:68: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
drivers/char/nozomi.c:1031:68: warning: Using plain integer as NULL
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:02:46 +0100 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 08:26:21PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:05:38 -0700
Build a kernel with CONFIG_NET-n and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=m.
Unless csum_partial() is built
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:36:16 +0200 Tasos Parisinos wrote:
Hi,
Lots of good progress here, but still a few comments below.
Needs to apply to current mainline.
What do you mean by mainline?
Linus's current kernel tree, i.e., the latest git tree or
git snapshot preferably, or at
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:01:01 -0500 Timur Tabi wrote:
If I were to write a non-USB audio device driver from scratch (for new
hardware), what
interface would I use? Has ALSA become the official Linux kernel audio
subsystem? Is
Yes.
there a specific device driver I should use as a
Kyle Moffett wrote:
On Mar 21, 2007, at 19:11:40, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:01:32 -0700 Randy Dunlap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I prefer the fixed-point values for pressure and dirty* to having
duplicated entries for each of them. I'll proceed with that idea.
Problem
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:13:21 + Alan Cox wrote:
For reference this is what I am currently using with 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 and
it is working for all my test cases so far: Its basically Kyle's patch
with a libata switch to turn it on/off and some minor fixups from
the original patch as posted
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:08:19 + Alan Cox wrote:
+static int ata_ignore_hpa = 0;
Don't init to 0. Not needed, bloats binary files.
It'll be one for the final release 8)
+module_param_named(ignore_hpa, ata_ignore_hpa, int, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(ignore_hpa, Ignore HPA
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:21:16 +0100 Boris Andratzek wrote:
Boris Andratzek wrote:
Hello members of the kernel-list,
I'm new to this and hope I don't misuse the list in any way.
Doing the update from debian sarge to etch on my server I ran into the
bug documented here:
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:51:38 -0700 Wink Saville wrote:
This is the Trec driver, Makefile, header files.
Enable trec in Kernel hacking configuration menu.
Signed-off-by: Wink Saville [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
diff --git a/drivers/trec/trec.c b/drivers/trec/trec.c
new file mode 100644
index
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:51:37 -0700 Wink Saville wrote:
Trec is a light weight tracing mechanism that places
trace information into a buffer. The contents of the
buffer is dumped when errors occurs or when enabled
via SYSRQ commands.
Signed-off-by: Wink Saville [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:12:31 +0100 Jan Beulich wrote:
Based on replies to a respective query, remove the pci_dac_dma_...() APIs
(except for pci_dac_dma_supported() on Alpha, where this function is used
in non-DAC PCI DMA code).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Andi Kleen
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:17:06 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
On 3/27/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:34:25AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
On 3/26/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You should really consider the latter for getting updates merged in the
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:40:45 +0800 Wu, Bryan wrote:
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 22:27 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:17:06 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
On 3/27/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:34:25AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote
David Brownell wrote:
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 9:18 pm, Randy Dunlap wrote:
I don't think it's a MUA thing. I think David is talking about the
spaces after the ^\t that are used for indenting immediately under
the if.
Exactly.
if (There was a young lady named Bright
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unfortunately, kernel-doc has problems with a struct field like this:
uint8_t databuf[NAND_MAX_PAGESIZE + NAND_MAX_OOBSIZE];
simply due to the spaces around the + sign, so drop all spaces inside
[...] so that parsing is done correctly (in some sense
David Brownell wrote:
On Friday 06 April 2007 12:03 pm, Stefan Richter wrote:
I usually indent this way if expressions exceed the 80 columns limit:
if (foo___
bar___) {
doit;
}
and
if ((one___ ||
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 21:24:48 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Apr 6 2007 11:47, Randy Dunlap wrote:
Unfortunately, kernel-doc has problems with a struct field like this:
uint8_t databuf[NAND_MAX_PAGESIZE + NAND_MAX_OOBSIZE];
simply due to the spaces around the + sign, so drop all
Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
scripts/kernel-doc |5 +
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- linux-2.6.21-rc6.orig/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc6/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -1452,6 +1452,11 @@ sub create_parameterlist($$$) {
$arg =~ s
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:04:44 +0200 Borislav Petkov wrote:
In a different approach here's a patch that handles the special case of
composite arithmetic expressions in array size initializers. With it,
prior to pushing the split strings on the @first_arg array, I split the
keywords before the
]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
scripts/kernel-doc | 11 ++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-2.6.21-rc6.orig/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc6/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -1456,7 +1456,16 @@ sub create_parameterlist($$$) {
if ($args
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 19:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote:
Ok,
I don't think there really is anything very interesting here, but we're
hopefully whittling down the list of regressions, and fixing various
random other small issues while at it.
Some smallish MIPS updates, networking
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 11:46:13 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
Is it too late to get a v2.6.21-rc6 tag ?
It's definitely there, I can see it in gitweb..
Do you have some really ancient git that didn't fetch the tags
automatically?
Could
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 18:47:20 -0400 (EDT) John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
(Linux v2.6.20.6.)
The function md_autodetect_dev is defined in drivers/md/md.c. Its
declaration is on line 1443, outside of conditionals. However, both its
use on line 1455 and its definition on line 5600 are inside
is the best way to report the syntax
error. Could there be a more gentle failure?
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Catch malformed kernel parameter usage of param = value.
Spaces are not supported, but don't cause a kernel fault on
such usage, just report an error.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 23:40:50 -0400 (EDT) John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
From: John Anthony Kazos Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Functions of the form adfspart_check_FOO and foo_partition defined in
fs/partitions/*.h are helper functions called in a deliberate order by
check_partition in check.c. Add
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 23:42:00 -0400 (EDT) John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
From: John Anthony Kazos Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Removes the entire check_part array and uses the presence of new stub
functions in header files in fs/partitions to call them directly in a list
and let the compiler
On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:22:01 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Most of asm-x86_64/bugs.h is code which should be in a C file, so put it
there.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 09:25:47 -0400 Prarit Bhargava wrote:
The use of apic= on the boot line is overloaded. It is used once to
override the type of genapic, and then later on it is used to determine a
debug
level. Because of this a bogus error message is sent to the console when
using
the
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:45:33 -0400 Stuart MacDonald wrote:
From: Paolo Ornati [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think this should work:
1) look at git-bisect log and take the last good/bad pair
2) cat .git/refs/heads/bisect to see where you are now
3) git-log --pretty=oneline
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:26:20 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
-- CUT -
/* probe-example.c
*
- * Loads a function at a marker call site.
+ * Connects a two functions to marker call sites.
s/a //
*
* (C) Copyright 2007
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:44:22 +0200 Borislav Petkov wrote:
Here's a patch for kernel-doc that enables the generation of a global,
TOC-like index.html
page after building 'htmldocs'
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nice idea
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:02:12 +0200 Borislav Petkov wrote:
This patch sorts the DOCBOOKS entries in Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
alphabetically.
---
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Make docbook index.html contain sorted output.
I prefer to let the computer do it. This also avoids
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Johannes Berg reported that struct names are not highlighted
(bold, italic, etc.) in html kernel-doc output. (Also not in
text-mode output, but I don't see that changing.)
This patch adds the following:
- highlight struct names in html output mode
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Make kernel-doc comments match macro names.
Correct parameter names in a few places.
Remove '#' from beginning of kernel-doc comment macro names.
Remove extra (erroneous) blank lines in kernel-doc.
Warning(plist.h:100): Cannot understand * #PLIST_HEAD_INIT
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:25:03 +0400 Anton Vorontsov wrote:
Here is battery monitor class. According to first copyright string, we're
maintaining it since 2003. I've took few days and cleaned it up to be
more suitable for mainline inclusion.
---
drivers/Kconfig |2 +
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:50:12 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:17:40 +0200 (MEST)
Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the following patch series turns some menus into menuconfigs, so they
can be disabled whilst walking thorugh the parent menu
So I merged the 23 of
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Hi,
On Apr 12 2007 16:07, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:50:12 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:
So I merged the 23 of these which survived review and which do not
intersect with other outstanding work.
I don't think I have an opinion on whether the change
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:38:42 +0200 Borislav Petkov wrote:
When building pdfdocs, the db2pdf converter bails out because of an
latex-reserved token - '#' - in the intermediary .tex file which ends up in a
conversion error with the following error message:
log
[15.0.32])
! Incomplete
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:22:18 -0400 Christopher S. Aker wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
Indeed. So useful that in current kernels you can set the core dump
path to be
|application
Cool stuff! However, it's not working (2.6.20.6):
Core dump to |/home/caker/bin/dumper.pl.4442
Andi Kleen wrote:
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I saw that too, and unfortunately I don't know what what that condition
represents, either. It's the only other element in that if statement
that could make it take that path, so I'm assuming that's part of the
problem.
Multiple mm's
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:35:00 +0200 Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 04:48:51PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:38:42 +0200 Borislav Petkov wrote:
When building pdfdocs, the db2pdf converter bails out because of an
latex-reserved token
Hi Sam,
'make clean' doesn't seem to descend into Documentation/DocBook/.
At least 'make V=1 clean' doesn't show me any references in DocBook.
I guess that this is because DocBook doesn't have anything that
qualifies in obj-y/m/n and subdir-y/m/n. (?)
Do you have any recommendations for this?
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:50:50 +0200 (CEST) Bernhard Kaindl wrote:
---
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c | 16 +++-
include/asm-i386/mtrr.h |2 ++
include/asm-x86_64/proto.h |2 ++
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:41:42 +0200 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:06:58AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
Hi Sam,
'make clean' doesn't seem to descend into Documentation/DocBook/.
At least 'make V=1 clean' doesn't show me any references in DocBook.
I guess
.
Let me know if this works for you.
Yes, thanks.
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sam
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index 867608a..960f402 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:14:22 +0200 Borislav Petkov wrote:
This patch shuts warnings of the sort:
make -C /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/build \
KBUILD_SRC=/mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6 \
KBUILD_EXTMOD= -f /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/Makefile
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Allow space(s) between __attribute__ and ((blah)) so that
kernel-doc does not complain like:
Warning(/tester/linsrc/linux-2.6.20-git15//kernel/timer.c:939): No description
found for parameter 'read_persistent_clock(void'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix kernel-doc warnings in 2.6.20-git15 (lib/, mm/, kernel/, include/).
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/linux/hrtimer.h |1 +
kernel/relay.c |3 +--
kernel/timer.c |1 +
lib/bitmap.c| 16
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:16:28 +0100 David Sterba wrote:
(patch against 2.6.21-rc1)
Fix several typos in help text in Kconfig* files.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looks good except for one item below. Thanks.
diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig
index
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:10:44 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote:
Fix the misspellings of propogate, writting and (oh, the shame
:-) kenrel in the source tree.
We also knohow to spel depreciated.
(well, only 6 in 2.6.21-rc1)
---
~Randy
*** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when
James Simmons wrote:
...
If you start doing this, there are a lot more entries that need to be
changed...
Which of Supported/Maintained/Odd Fixes is written doesn't matter in
practice.
What matters is that James' email address gets into the entry so that
patches and bug reports reach
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:23:21 -0800 Stephen Hemminger wrote:
BUilding with sparse shows lots of warnings.
$ make C=1
Checking kernel compatibility in:
/lib/modules/2.6.20.1/source
* Kernel supports required features for 'tip' version.
Building compatibility version in 'compatible/'
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:18:26 + Alan wrote:
me off, and in the meantime, you know where to find your keyboard's
stick my fingers in my ears and shout la-la-la-I-can't-hear-you key.
:-)
I was hoping you'd take the pseudo-legal noise elsewhere.
Yes. I find it interesting, but it
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:44:20 +0100 Mario Vanoni wrote:
2.6.18.7 vanilla 2.6.16.41 vanilla:
/dev/hda CD/DVD
/dev/hda1 / IDE HD 160GB
/dev/hda2 swap
/dev/sda1 /xyz SATA HD 320GB
/dev/sda2 swap
/dev/sdb1 /zzz SATA HD 320GB
/dev/sdb2 swap
/dev/sdc1 /usb USB KEY 512MB
all 100% OK since
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:05:58 +0100 Mario Vanoni wrote:
Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:44:20 +0100 Mario Vanoni wrote:
2.6.18.7 vanilla 2.6.16.41 vanilla:
/dev/hda CD/DVD
/dev/hda1 / IDE HD 160GB
/dev/hda2 swap
/dev/sda1 /xyz SATA HD 320GB
/dev/sda2 swap
/dev/sdb1
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:43:18 +0300 Dmitriy Monakhov wrote:
Since commit:553c4aa630af7bc885e056d0436e4eb7f238579b
ata_pci_device_do_resume() can return error code, all callers was updated
except this one.
Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/ata/sata_inic162x.c |
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:42:50 +0300 (MSK) malc wrote:
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
[..snip..]
The current situation ought to be documented. Better yet some flag
can
It probably _is_ documented, somewhere :-). If you find nice place
where to document it (top
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:26:06 + (GMT) Chris Rankin wrote:
Hi,
This looks like a memory fault to me; are those 0x6b characters slab
poisoning? This is the dual
Yes, from include/linux/poison.h:
#define POISON_FREE 0x6b/* for use-after-free poisoning */
Do you have any of the
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:15:21 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote:
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add Documentation/syslet-design.txt with a high-level description
of the syslet concepts.
Just a few comments questions...
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whitespace cleanup only: convert some series of spaces to tabs.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
scripts/kernel-doc | 96 ++---
1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
--- linux
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add -mm testing to SubmitChecklist.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/SubmitChecklist |4
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- linux-2621-rc1.orig/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
+++ linux-2621-rc1/Documentation
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:22:27 +0300 Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
Hello, I wrote:
3x59x-fix-pci-resource-management.patch causes the following compile
error with CONFIG_PCI=n:
-- snip --
...
CC drivers/net/3c59x.o
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:25:10 -0600 Timur Tabi wrote:
Hi,
(Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounces, so I'm sending this to lkml instead.)
cc: to Torben
I'm working on a UART device driver for the Freescale PowerPC QUICCEngine,
which
is a replacement for the CPM. Since the QE is basically
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:12:42 -0500 Rob Landley wrote:
I ran make ARCH=x86_64 menuconfig, did a lot of editing, and saved
the .config. Then I copied that to a backup, ran make oldconfig on the
config I'd just saved, and compared it with the backup:
--- .config 2007-02-27
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:22:56 + (GMT) Seetharam Dharmosoth wrote:
Hi,
I have one question regarding Crash Dump.
Is Kernel-2.6.20 having the default Crash dump in main
tree?
2.6.20 has a CRASH_DUMP config option for some processor
architectures, such as ia64, i386, x86_64, powerpc.
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:44:45 -0800 David Brown wrote:
Yes. I goofed, and missed that stupid case. The offending lines
should just die. Patch already sent to Linus.
Could the patch be posted? or could I see a git commit so I can get it myself?
I'm attaching it below. It hit the git
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:28:10 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
In other words, there is *zero* excuse for that braindamage.
To be clear:
- in header files, we put common definitions:
* #defines
* data structure
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:02:49 +0100 Jean Delvare wrote:
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:14:20 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
The writing on the wall seem to be that the parport stack is orphaned,
rather than maintained by four folk ... and having a webpage that says
the latest patches are based on a
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:29:04 +0100 Uwe Bugla wrote:
--- a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt
+++ b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt
@@ -9,9 +9,33 @@
Please see Documentation/dvb/cards.txt = o Cards based on the Conexant
Bt8xx PCI bridge:
Compiling kernel please enable:
-a.)Device drivers =
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:34:07 +0100 Uwe Bugla wrote:
Hi folks,
trying to compile kernel 2.6.21-rc1-git2 is impossible. The broken module
where the compiler gives up is /arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c.
Regards
Uwe
P. S.: Wouldn't it be a good idea to test at least error-free compilation
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:39:41 -0800 Thomas Davies wrote:
From: Thomas Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cleaned up comments and whitespace in /drivers/message/fusion/*.c and also
/lib/bitmap.c to remove make *docs warnings. An attempt by a newbie
to contribute
in some small way to the codebase. Did
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 02:40:41 +0100 Kandan Venkataraman wrote:
The patch is for tracking writes made to a loop device made through
mmap.
A file_operations structure variable called loop_fops is initialised
with the default block device file operations (def_blk_fops).
The mmap operation is
Thomas Davies wrote:
On 3/1/07, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:39:41 -0800 Thomas Davies wrote:
From: Thomas Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cleaned up comments and whitespace in /drivers/message/fusion/*.c
and also
/lib/bitmap.c to remove make *docs warnings
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:25:16 +1100 Kandan Venkataraman wrote:
Sorry, I missed seeing your reposted patch when I replied to the
earlier patch.
The patch is for tracking writes made to a loop device made through mmap.
How did you test this? (what program(s))
Two new ioctls have been added.
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:17:56 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today's print_symbol function dumps a kernel symbol with printk. This
patch extends the functionality of kallsyms.c so that the symbol lookup
function may be used without the printk. This is useful for modules that
want to dump
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 22:13:46 +1100 (EST) Kandan Venkataraman wrote:
I am resending the message. The first few lines in the diff of the
original message seemed to have an extra space added by the time it got to
the mailing list. Hopefully this does not happen the second time around.
Also, I
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:27:48 +0200 Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
From: Artem Bityutskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [RFC] [PATCH] Kconfig: enlarge printk buffer size limit
This patch makes the upper kernel ring buffer size limit larger. It
is often very handy to have huge ring-buffer for debugging
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 03:04:05 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 03:00:26 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Temporarily at
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc2-mm1/
Will appear later at
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 06:01:17 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote:
A small formatting fix, and add a few lines describing the origin of
the git-based localversion string for the kernel version.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
diff --git a/init/Kconfig
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:11:29 +0100 Michael Buesch wrote:
On Monday 05 March 2007 05:21, Miles Lane wrote:
WARNING: pcmcia_access_configuration_register [drivers/ssb/ssb.ko]
undefined!
WARNING: pccard_parse_tuple
[drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-mac80211.ko] undefined!
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:53:14 -0800 FN wrote:
That's not for you to decide.
Just pass down all variables that may be relevant to my module builds
and let me take it from there, for example
chdir $(M)
$(MYMAKE) CC=... LD=... AR=... CFLAGS=... MODFLAGS=...
INCL=...
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:13:41 +0100 francesco foresti wrote:
Hi,
i'm having problems trying to use 2.6.20-1 (taken from kernel.org, not
patched) on my ibook g4 (debian testing/unstable):
i'm getting two errors while trying to boot up, and i can only report the
second one because the other
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 15:55:06 -0800 David Brown wrote:
I was rtfc'ing the code one day and noticed somethings about the
PAGE_SIZE define that is kinda inconsistent around its relative
location to the __KERNEL__ define.
On some architectures the PAGE_SIZE is outside the __KERNEL__ define
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:03:59 -0600 Robert Peterson wrote:
This is try #2 for this patch, with corrections based on feedback.
It is the same as the previous patch except:
(1) The function has been renamed from lookup_symbol to sprint_symbol
as requested by Paulo Marques.
(2) I fixed the
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:37:00 -0600 NZG wrote:
Once the generic GPIO framework migrates upstream from -mm
Thank you, but I've reorganized my system to pass platform resources to a
driver, which then registers simple gpio/pwm/quadencoder type devices as
standard classes declared in a
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