Re: int. assignment on SMP + ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-22 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Duncan Laurie wrote: ... The output you are looking for should look something like this: Device 00:0f.0 (slot 0): ISA bridge INTA: link 0x01, irq mask 0x0400 [10] ... Good luck, and feel free to send me the output from "dump_pirq" and "mptable" if it doesn't work.. Hi Duncan,

Re: [PATCH] videodev_init() - initcall

2001-05-18 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Al's patch gives me: videodev.c:550: warning: static declaration for `videodev_init' follows non-static videodev.c: In function `videodev_exit': videodev.c:579: warning: implicit declaration of function `videodev_proc_destroy' Patch to use after Al's patch is attached. ~Randy Alexander Viro

Re: PROC under 2.4

2001-06-08 Thread Randy.Dunlap
http://www.kernelnewbies.org/documents/ then ProcFS guide. ~Randy sebastien person wrote: Hi, I'm trying to port a driver to 2.4, but it seem that proc use has changed. Is somebody have any docs about ? Thanks sebastien person - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

[announce] US$25K Award

2001-06-28 Thread Randy.Dunlap
~~~ OSDL (Open Source Development Lab) is offering a $25,000 Enterprise Achievement Award to the developer(s) of technological advances in the field of enterprise Linux, pursuant to some contest rules. The award will be issued to the

Re: Sticky IO-APIC problem

2001-07-03 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Colin Bayer scribed: | I have a Pentium III 933/133 (Coppermine, stepping 6) in an Intel-manufactured | i810 motherboard (hey, I What mobo (model/name) is it? Can you give us the output from lspci -vv? | know it's a lame chipset, but it was on sale). On boot, the kernel (version | 2.4.6-pre8)

Re: Style Question

2007-03-11 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Mar 12 2007 13:37, Cong WANG wrote: The following code is picked from drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c: static struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu_load(struct kvm *kvm, int vcpu_slot) { struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = kvm-vcpus[vcpu_slot]; mutex_lock(vcpu-mutex);

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix some coding-style errors in autofs

2007-03-12 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fix some coding-style errors in autofs Fix coding style errors (extra spaces, long lines) in autofs and autofs4 files being modified for container/pidspace issues. ---

Re: [Bug 8040] Hang before INIT when CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y

2007-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:13:25 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8040 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-03-14 03:13 --- Any news on that bug please ? None whatsoever. Three

taskstats accounting info

2007-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Hi, Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt says that the getdelays program has a -c cmd argument, but that option does not seem to exist in Documentation/account/getdelays.c. Do you have an updated version of getdelays.c? If not, please correct that documentation. Is getdelays.c the best

Re: [PATCH] network configs: disconnect network options from drivers

2005-04-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:11:33PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: - in Networking support, move Network testing and Netpoll support to the end of the menu (basically put the devel. tools toward the bottom of the menu) Done - I would rather not hide Amateur Radio, IrDA

Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode

2005-04-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Ross Biro wrote: Currently Linux 2.6 assumes the BIOS (or firmware) sets the master abort mode flag on PCI bridge chips in a coherent fashion. This is not always the case and the consequences of getting this flag incorrect can cause hardware to fail or silent data corruption. This patch lets

Re: [03/08] fix ia64 syscall auditing

2005-04-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Greg KH wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 13:27 -0700, David Mosberger wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:46:48 -0700, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Greg -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please Greg let us know. Nitpick: the patch introduces trailing whitespace. Sorry about that,

Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU

2005-04-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Derek Cheung wrote: Below please find the patch file I diff against Linux 2.6.11.6. It contains the I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU. Since most ColdFire CPU shares the same I2C register set, the code can be easily adopted for other ColdFire CPUs for I2C operations. I have tested the code on a

Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU

2005-04-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Derek Cheung wrote: Below please find the patch file I diff against Linux 2.6.11.6. It contains the I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU. Since most ColdFire CPU shares the same I2C register set, the code can be easily adopted for other ColdFire CPUs for I2C operations. I have tested the code on a

Re: [PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2

2005-04-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:23:32 +0200 Magnus Damm wrote: | On Apr 7, 2005 4:23 AM, Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | -#define module_init(x) __initcall(x); | +#define module_init(x) __initcall(x); __module_init_disable(x); | |It would be better if there is brackets around

Re: [PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2

2005-04-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:22:57 -0400 (EDT) Richard B. Johnson wrote: | On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | | On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:23:32 +0200 Magnus Damm wrote: | | | On Apr 7, 2005 4:23 AM, Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | -#define module_init(x) __initcall(x

Re: Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:16:14 -0400 (EDT) Richard B. Johnson wrote: | | In the not-too distant past, one could disable Ctl-Alt-DEL. | Can't do it anymore. What should disabling C_A_D do? | Script started on Thu 07 Apr 2005 10:58:11 AM EDT | [SNIPPED leading stuff...] | | mprotect(0xb7fe4000,

Re: Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:46:20 -0400 (EDT) Richard B. Johnson wrote: | On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | | On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:16:14 -0400 (EDT) Richard B. Johnson wrote: | | | | | In the not-too distant past, one could disable Ctl-Alt-DEL. | | Can't do it anymore. | | What should

[PATCH] Add dontdiff file

2005-04-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:37:51 -0700 Matt Mackall wrote: | On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:10:27PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | There is a fairly up-to-date dontdiff file available at | http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/doc/dontdiff-osdl | | Can we stash a copy in Documentation? certainly. Add

Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

2005-04-08 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:43:55 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote: | On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:24:42PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: | Adrian Bunk wrote: | [...] | On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:26:31PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: | | Hi Adrian, | | ... | Joerg's list of recursions should be valid

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-09 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 04:53:57 +0200 Petr Baudis wrote: | Hello, | | Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:50:21PM CEST, I got a letter | where Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... | | | On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Here's a partial solution. It does

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:23:11 -0700 Paul Jackson wrote: | Petr wrote: | That reminds me, is there any | tool which will take .rej files and throw them into the file to create | rcsmerge-like conflicts? | | Check out 'wiggle' | http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/wiggle/ or Chris

Re: increasing scsi_max_sg / max_segments for scsi writes/reads

2005-04-10 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:35:52 -0700 (PDT) sai narasimhamurthy wrote: | Hi, | I had posted a question on increasing the scsi | read/write sectors per command. I figured out some of | the things, but many questions still exist. | | I was wondering why the maximum writes I could get | from a

Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU

2005-04-10 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:47:42 -0400 Derek Cheung wrote: | Enclosed please find the updated patch that incorporates changes for all | the comments I received. (yes, almost all) | The volatile declaration in the m528xsim.h is needed because the | declaration refers to the ColdFire 5282 register

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-11 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: | | | On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Paul Jackson wrote: | | Useful explanation - thanks, Linus. | | Hey. You're welcome. Especially when you create good documentation for | this thing. | | Because: | | Is this picture and description

[PATCH] scripts/patch-kernel: EXTRAVERSION patches are not incremental

2005-04-11 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:15:54 + David Greaves wrote: | Old thread (!) but this is the last time I could find patch-kernel updated. I found a little time to update patch-kernel if anyone wants to use it. OTOH, using Matt Mackall's ketchup is OK too. I also use 'kcurrent' to keep up with the

Re: read failed EINVAL with O_DIRECT flag

2005-04-11 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:14:17 +0200 Yves Crespin wrote: | Hello, | | Using O_DIRECT flag, read() failed and errno is EINVAL. | kernel 2.4.22 | Filesystem Ext3 mount on /home | What's wrong ? | Thanks In fs/buffer.c, it wants the buffer the length (size) to be aligned: function: brw_kiovec()

Re: read failed EINVAL with O_DIRECT flag

2005-04-12 Thread Randy.Dunlap
I used to test it, but if it works, it should be a good choice. | Randy.Dunlap wrote: | | On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:14:17 +0200 Yves Crespin wrote: | | | Hello, | | | | Using O_DIRECT flag, read() failed and errno is EINVAL. | | kernel 2.4.22 | | Filesystem Ext3 mount on /home | | What's wrong

Re: read failed EINVAL with O_DIRECT flag

2005-04-13 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:15:47 +0200 Yves Crespin wrote: | | | How can I obtains an buffer alignement from a user program ? | | I actually left that as an exercise (after I did it at home | last night). Did you read the hint (below)? | | Well ... either with malloc() and alignement or

Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix a few 'empty body in an if-statement' warnings.

2005-04-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 02:58:54 +0200 (CEST) Jesper Juhl wrote: | When building with gcc -W fs/reiserfs/namei.c:602 has a few warnings | about 'empty body in an if-statement'. This patch silences those warnings. So fix include/linux/reiserfs_xattr.h: change #define

Re: 2.6.12-rc2: 100% memory usage

2005-04-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:59:05 +1000 Nick Piggin wrote: | On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 12:48 +0800, Michael Deegan wrote: | Hi folks, | | I noticed something unusual on my home desktop machine (K6II, 448M RAM, runs | KDE, samba, nfsd. 2.6.12-rc2 on Debian sarge). The machine seems to feel | slightly

Re: intercepting syscalls

2005-04-15 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:41:34 -0400 Igor Shmukler wrote: | Hello, | | Thanks to everyone for replying. | It is surprising to me that linux-kernel people decided to disallow | interception of system calls. | I don't really see any upside to this. Upside ? | I guess if there is no clean way to do

Re: intercepting syscalls

2005-04-18 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:48:03 -0400 Igor Shmukler wrote: | Rik, (and everyone), | | Everything is IMHO only. | | It all boils down to whether: | 1. it is hard to correctly implement such LKM so that it can be safely | loaded and unloaded and when these modules are combined they may not | work

Re: Simple question regarding loop devices.

2005-02-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Justin Piszcz wrote: Why are there only 7-8 loop devices available? What options do I have if I want to mount, say, 100 isos? Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt say: max_loop= [LOOP] Maximum number of loopback devices that can be mounted Format: 1-256 --

Re: [PATCH] hid-core: Configurable USB HID Mouse Interrupt Polling Interval

2005-02-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Mikkel Krautz wrote: And, here's an updated version of hid-core.c: Signed-off-by: Mikkel Krautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- clean/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c +++ dirty/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c @@ -37,13 +37,20 @@ * Version Information */ -#define DRIVER_VERSION v2.0 +#define

Re: IO port conflict between timer watchdog on PCISA-C800EV board ?

2005-02-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: Hi All, i wrote a driver for the watchdog timer provided by a small form factor board from IEI ( the PCISA-C800EV : http://www.iei.com.tw/en/product_IPC.asp?model=PCISA-C800 ). This board has a Via Apollo PLE133 ( VT8601A and VT82C686B ) chipset. The watchdog uses

Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

2005-02-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Chris Friesen wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 21:50 -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: It's not like somebody will have some innate commercial advantage over you because they have your driver source code. For a hardware vendor that's not a very compelling argument. Especially compared to

Re: [PATCH] hid-core: Configurable USB HID Mouse Interrupt Polling Interval

2005-02-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Domen Puncer wrote: On 07/02/05 07:59 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: +static unsigned int hid_mousepoll_interval; +module_param_named(mousepoll, hid_mousepoll_interval, uint, 0644); Why is it writable by root? IOW, will writing a new value to it change the operational value dynamically? Also, from

Re: ieee1394 needs CONFIG_NET but does not depend on it

2005-02-08 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! If I attempt to compile IEE1394 without CONFIG_NET, I get: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xcf885): In function `hpsb_alloc_packet': : undefined reference to `alloc_skb' drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xd03a6): In function `hpsb_send_packet': : undefined reference to `skb_queue_tail'

[PATCH] i386 defconfig: trim modules

2005-02-09 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Hi, Is there some logical reason that these modules are selected in i386/defconfig? Can we not default them to =m ? Reduce number of modules built via defconfig. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] diffstat:= arch/i386/defconfig | 12 ++-- 1 files changed, 6

Re: latest version of /proc fs documentation

2005-02-09 Thread Randy.Dunlap
pranay pramod345678 wrote: Hi, i tried for the latest versionof the /proc fs document supposed to be available online at http://skaro.nightcrawler.com/~bb/Docs/Proc but couldn't get it. can i get some help in this regard ? Hi, Try

Re: 2.6.10 parport_pc: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones

2005-02-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I run modprobe parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 and found parport_pc: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones in dmesg output and of course my paralel port does not use irq. Have no way to tell parport_pc to use IRQ? With 2.6.8 the above command is

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: for the google archives : I work with Linux more than 10 years and this messages are a great sheet ! I can't understand a thing of the fuck is going in the mind of the author. Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device cracks me up , Can someone translate this to

Re: RTC Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-02-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: Hi, Having CONFIG_RTC=y, I tried on x86 the rtctest program found in linux-2.6.10/Documentation/rtc.txt. However, it failed at: ioctl(fd, RTC_UIE_ON, 0); with: ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device Did I miss something? Maybe something else conflicts with CONFIG_RTC? Cheers.

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
and I can burn CDs, so that's not needed AFAIK. 2- as hdc already is ide-cd by default, therefore is not necessary to write it and what should be made is erase the line hdc=ide-scsi. Correct ? Ah, yes, we seem to agree on that. HTH. ~Randy On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 18:25 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: Sergio

Re: RTC Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-02-15 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 07:45:11PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: Hi, Having CONFIG_RTC=y, I tried on x86 the rtctest program found in linux-2.6.10/Documentation/rtc.txt. However, it failed at: ioctl(fd, RTC_UIE_ON, 0); with: ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-15 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Alan Cox wrote: On Maw, 2005-02-15 at 02:25, Randy.Dunlap wrote: It means: don't use the ide-scsi driver. Support for it is lagging (not well-maintained) because it's really not needed for burning CDs. Just use the ide-cd driver (module) and specify the CD burner device as /dev/hdX

[PATCH] isicom: use NULL for ptr.

2005-02-16 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Use NULL instead of 0 for pointer value: drivers/char/isicom.c:1274:14: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] diffstat:= drivers/char/isicom.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -Naurp

[PATCH] procfs: use C99 struct inits

2005-02-16 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Al, Please add this to your patch queue if you don't already have it. Use C99 struct inits as requested by sparse: fs/proc/base.c:738:2: warning: obsolete struct initializer, use C99 syntax fs/proc/base.c:739:2: warning: obsolete struct initializer, use C99 syntax Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap

Re: Oops in 2.6.10-ac12 in kjournald (journal_commit_transaction)

2005-02-17 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Ralf Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The best way to do that is to ensure that the kernel was built with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO, note the offending EIP value, then do # gdb vmlinux (gdb) l *0xc0whatever I'm rebuilding the ac12 kernel which crashed on me after just one day and

checkstack.pl large_number

2005-02-18 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Hi, In checkstack.pl, do you recall the reason for this code snippet: if ($size 0x8000) { $size = - $size; $size += 0x8000; $size += 0x8000; } There is one (unusual:) case where it

Re: [2.6 current BK] Unnecesary code gets compiled in during build?

2005-02-18 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Maciej Soltysiak wrote: Hi, I am compiling 2.6.11-rc4-cset And I see during the compilation: LD drivers/media/common/built-in.o LD drivers/media/dvb/b2c2/built-in.o LD drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/built-in.o LD drivers/media/dvb/cinergyT2/built-in.o LD

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH] arch/xx/pci: remap_pfn_range - io_remap_pfn_range

2005-07-28 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:57:51 +0100 Ian Pratt wrote: Greg Hm, you do realize that io_remap_pfn_range() is the same Greg thing as remap_pfn_range() on i386, right? Greg So, why would this patch change anything? It's not the same thing under Xen. I think this patch

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2] aoe [1/6]: improve allowed interfaces configuration

2005-04-20 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:02:12 -0400 Ed L Cashin wrote: Just a nit/typo: | +modprobe aoe_iflist=eth1 eth3 | static char aoe_iflist[IFLISTSZ]; | +module_param_string(aoe_iflist, aoe_iflist, IFLISTSZ, 0600); | +MODULE_PARM_DESC(aoe_iflist, aoe_iflist=\dev1 [dev2 ...]\n); No leading space (

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2] aoe [5/6]: add firmware version to info in sysfs

2005-04-20 Thread Randy.Dunlap
| add firmware version to info in sysfs | | +static struct disk_attribute disk_attr_fwver = { | + .attr = {.name = fwver, .mode = S_IRUGO }, | + .show = aoedisk_show_fwver | +}; | @@ -64,6 +76,7 @@ aoedisk_rm_sysfs(struct aoedev *d) | sysfs_remove_link(d-gd-kobj, state); |

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/skfp/: fix LITTLE_ENDIAN

2005-04-20 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 04:17:08 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote: | This patch fixes the LITTLE_ENDIAN #define. and a function prototype. | Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | --- | | drivers/net/skfp/h/osdef1st.h |2 ++ | drivers/net/skfp/smt.c|2 +- | 2 files changed, 3

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:19:10 +0200 Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: | It's available both as a patch (against 2.6.11) and as a tar-ball, and | Where IS the tarball? Not on www.kernel.org, that's for sure. in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2] aoe [1/6]: improve allowed interfaces configuration

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:30:06 -0400 Ed L Cashin wrote: | Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:36:17AM -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote: | Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Ed L Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | +++

Re: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:33:29 -0700 David Mosberger wrote: | On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:19:28 -0700, Luck, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: | |I just checked 2.6.12-rc3 and the fls() fix is indeed missing. |Do you know what happened? | | Tony If BitKeeper were still in use, I'd have dropped

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] Documentation: correct minor mistake and remove redundant info from SubmittingPatches

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:51:09 -0400 Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: | The first fix is to reverse the order of the files being diffed. Since | we make the change in $MYFILE (and not $MYFILE.orig}, the diff should | have the .orig file first followed by $MYFILE (which has been | modified). But the patch

Re: netdev watchdog

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:21:30 -0700 Shaun Jackman wrote: | Upon booting my system, the boot fails and the following message is | displayed repeatedly: | | NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out | eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status eb01. | diagnostics: net 0cfa media 88c0 dma

Re: [PATCH 1/6] PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Driver

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Nguyen, Tom L wrote: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:01 AM David Vrabel wrote: This patch includes PCIEAER-HOWTO.txt, which describes how the PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Root driver works. --- linux-2.6.11-rc5/Documentation/PCIEAER-HOWTO.txt Could this be placed in a sub-system subdirectory

[PATCH] buildcheck: reduce DEBUG_INFO noise from reference* scripts

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Reduce noise in 'make buildcheck' that is caused by CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] diffstat:= scripts/reference_discarded.pl |3 +++ scripts/reference_init.pl |1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -Naurp

Re: Devices/Partitions over 2TB

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Berkley Shands [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not found any documentation of efforts to overcome the 2TB partition limit, config LBD bool Support for Large Block Devices depends on X86 || MIPS32 || PPC32 || ARCH_S390_31

Re: [PATCH] buildcheck: reduce DEBUG_INFO noise from reference* scripts

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Keith Owens wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:02:09 -0800, Randy.Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reduce noise in 'make buildcheck' that is caused by CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] diffstat:= scripts/reference_discarded.pl |3 +++ scripts/reference_init.pl

Re: [PATCH] buildcheck: reduce DEBUG_INFO noise from reference* scripts

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:38:11PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: Indeed, it's actually much worse with that patch section added. :( I don't know how I got there. Sam, can you drop the very first patch section here, or shall I send a new patch for this? Incremental patch please

Re: [patch] teles3 eliminate bad section references

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
maximilian attems wrote: Fix teles3 section references: convert __initdata to __devinitdata. Error: ./drivers/isdn/hisax/teles3.o .text refers to 11ab R_386_32 .init.data Error: ./drivers/isdn/hisax/teles3.o .text refers to 11ba R_386_32 .init.data Error: ./drivers/isdn/hisax/teles3.o

Re: [patch] w6692 eliminate bad section references

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
maximilian attems wrote: Fix w6692 section references: convert __initdata to __devinitdata. Error: ./drivers/isdn/hisax/w6692.o .text refers to 002f R_386_32 .init.data Signed-off-by: maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -pruN -X dontdiff linux-2.6.11-bk8/drivers/isdn/hisax/w6692.c

Re: [patch] sedlbauer eliminate bad section references

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
maximilian attems wrote: Fix sedlbauer section references: convert __initdata to __devinitdata. Error: ./drivers/isdn/hisax/sedlbauer.o .text refers to 235f R_386_32 .init.data Error: ./drivers/isdn/hisax/sedlbauer.o .text refers to 236e R_386_32 .init.data Error:

Re: [patch] elsa eliminate bad section references

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
maximilian attems wrote: Fix elsa section references: convert __initdata to __devinitdata. Error: ./drivers/isdn/hisax/elsa.o .text refers to 3d28 R_386_32 .init.data Error: ./drivers/isdn/hisax/elsa.o .text refers to 3d37 R_386_32 .init.data Error: ./drivers/isdn/hisax/elsa.o .text

Re: [patch] hfc_sx eliminate bad section references

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
maximilian attems wrote: Fix hfc_sx section references: convert __initdata to __devinitdata. Error: ./drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc_sx.o .text refers to 204d R_386_32 .init.data Error: ./drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc_sx.o .text refers to 205c R_386_32 .init.data Error: ./drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc_sx.o

[PATCH] tpm: fix gcc printk warnings

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
(Kylene, please add TPM info to MAINTAINERS or CREDITS) Fix gcc printk arg type warnings: drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c:145: warning: unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 5) drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c:153: warning: int format, different type arg (arg 4) drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c:190: warning: int

Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix gcc printk warnings

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Andrew Morton wrote: Randy.Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope. Please use %Z for size_t args. Yeps. Here it is. -- ~Randy Fix gcc printk arg type warnings: drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c:145: warning: unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 5) drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c:153: warning: int format

[PATCH] procfs: convert to C99 inits.

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
(resend) Use C99 struct inits as requested by sparse: fs/proc/base.c:738:2: warning: obsolete struct initializer, use C99 syntax fs/proc/base.c:739:2: warning: obsolete struct initializer, use C99 syntax Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] diffstat:= fs/proc/base.c |4 ++-- 1

[PATCH] mtd: use unsigned 1-bit fields

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
(resend) Fix (22) bitfield/boolean sparse warnings: include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h:65:23: warning: dubious one-bit signed bitfield include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h:66:23: warning: dubious one-bit signed bitfield Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] diffstat:= include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h

[PATCH] x86-64: add memcpy/memset prototypes

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
(resend) Put function prototypes for memset() and memcpy() ahead of where there are used, to kill sparse warnings: arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/../../../../lib/inflate.c:317:3: warning: undefined identifier 'memset' arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/../../../../lib/inflate.c:601:11: warning:

Re: [PATCH] procfs: convert to C99 inits.

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Ben Dooks wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:03:29PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: (resend) Use C99 struct inits as requested by sparse: fs/proc/base.c:738:2: warning: obsolete struct initializer, use C99 syntax fs/proc/base.c:739:2: warning: obsolete struct initializer, use C99 syntax I posted

Re: [PATCH] mtd: use unsigned 1-bit fields

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Ben Dooks wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:07:01PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: (resend) Fix (22) bitfield/boolean sparse warnings: include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h:65:23: warning: dubious one-bit signed bitfield include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h:66:23: warning: dubious one-bit signed bitfield caught

[PATCH] reiserfs: use NULL instead of 0

2005-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
(resend) Use NULL instead of 0 for pointer (sparse warning): fs/reiserfs/namei.c:611:50: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] diffstat:= fs/reiserfs/namei.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -Naurp

Re: [patch] w6692 eliminate bad section references

2005-03-15 Thread Randy.Dunlap
maximilian attems wrote: thanks a lot for your review! you are right much better, added __init to W6692Version(). #Signed-off-by: maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -pruN -X dontdiff linux-2.6.11-bk8/drivers/isdn/hisax/w6692.c

Re: Intel Ethernet PRO 100

2005-03-15 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Laurent CARON wrote: shafa.hidee wrote: Hi All, Where we can find specs for writing driver for Intel PRO 100 card. Regards Shafahidee already supported. isn't it? Yes, it is. You can find a developer's manual for the 8255x NIC at

Re: [11/many] acrypto: crypto_main.c

2005-03-15 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: --- /tmp/empty/crypto_main.c 1970-01-01 03:00:00.0 +0300 +++ ./acrypto/crypto_main.c 2005-03-07 20:35:36.0 +0300 @@ -0,0 +1,374 @@ +/* + * crypto_main.c + * + * Copyright (c) 2004 Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] + * + */ +struct crypto_session

Re: [16/many] acrypto: crypto_user.h

2005-03-15 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: --- /tmp/empty/crypto_user.h 1970-01-01 03:00:00.0 +0300 +++ ./acrypto/crypto_user.h 2005-03-07 20:35:36.0 +0300 @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +/* + * crypto_user.h + * + * Copyright (c) 2004 Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] + * + */ + +#ifndef __CRYPTO_USER_H

Re: Taking strlen of buffers copied from userspace

2005-03-15 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Robert Hancock wrote: Artem Frolov wrote: Hello, I am in the process of testing static defect analyzer on a Linux kernel source code (see disclosure below). I found some potential array bounds violations. The pattern is as follows: bytes are copied from the user space and then buffer is accessed

Re: Taking strlen of buffers copied from userspace

2005-03-15 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Robert Hancock wrote: Randy.Dunlap wrote: The latter one does (before the listed code): memset(line, 0, LINE_SIZE); if (len LINE_SIZE) len = LINE_SIZE; if (copy_from_user(line, buf, len - 1)) return -EFAULT; so isn't line[LINE_SIZE - 1] always 0 ? In that case, yes (I

Re: [PATCH] Xen/i386 cleanups - io_remap_pfn_range

2005-03-16 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Keir Fraser wrote: This patch introduces a new interface function for mapping bus/device memory: io_remap_pfn_range. This accepts the same parameters as remap_pfn_range (indeed, by default it is implemented by this existing function) but should be used in any situation where the caller is not

[PATCH] kernel-parameters: IA-32/X86-64 cleanups

2005-03-16 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Convert kernel-parameters.txt to use IA-32 in place of x86 and X86-64 in place of x86_64, to be in line with other architecture documentation conventions. Add reference to Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt . Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] diffstat:=

[PATCH] i386: add kstack=N option (from x86_64)

2005-03-16 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Add kstack=N boot option for IA-32 (from x86_64). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] diffstat:= Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |3 +++ arch/i386/kernel/traps.c|7 +++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff -Naurp ./arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~kstack_i386

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11.2 1/1] PCI Allow OutOfRange PIRQ table address

2005-03-16 Thread Randy.Dunlap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Greg, PCI folk, I updated this to change pirq_table_addr to a long, and to add a warning msg if the PIRQ table wasn't found at the specified address, as per thread with Matthew Wilcox. Let me know if it's okay. Thanks. In our hardware situation, the BIOS is unable to

Re: [PATCH] Xen/i386 cleanups - io_remap_pfn_range

2005-03-16 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Keir Fraser wrote: This patch introduces a new interface function for mapping bus/device memory: io_remap_pfn_range. This accepts the same parameters as remap_pfn_range (indeed, by default it is implemented by this existing function) but should be used in any situation where the caller is not

[PATCH/RFC] io_remap_pfn_range: convert io_remap_page_range callers

2005-03-16 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Follow-up to http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mmm=111049473410099w=2 (which has a minor correction, full patch available at: http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/patches/ioremap_pfn_v6.patch) Built on 9 arches with OSDL PLM. io_remap_pfn_range() phase 2: convert all callers of

[PATCH 3/4] io_remap_pfn_range: fix some callers for XEN

2005-03-18 Thread Randy.Dunlap
(from Keir:) I have audited the drivers/ and sound/ directories. Most uses of remap_pfn_range are okay, but there are a small handful that are remapping device memory (mostly AGP and DRM drivers). Of particular driver is the HPET driver, whose mmap function is broken even for native (non-Xen)

[PATCH 2/4] io_remap_pfn_range: convert sparc callers

2005-03-18 Thread Randy.Dunlap
io_remap_pfn_range(): convert sparc32/64 callers of io_remap_page_range(with 6 args) to io_remap_pfn_range(with 5 args); drivers/char/drm/drm_vm.c |6 +++--- drivers/sbus/char/vfc_dev.c |6 -- drivers/video/fbmem.c |6 +++--- drivers/video/sbuslib.c |8

[PATCH 4/4] io_remap_pfn_range: convert last callers

2005-03-18 Thread Randy.Dunlap
io_remap_pfn_range() remaining callers: convert all remaining callers of io_remap_page_range() to io_remap_pfn_range(); add io_remap_page_range() to feature-removal-schedule.txt; Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |9 + arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4/sq.c|2

[PATCH 1/4] io_remap_pfn_range: add for all arch-es

2005-03-18 Thread Randy.Dunlap
io_remap_pfn_range(): add io_remap_pfn_range() for all arches; add MK_IOSPACE_PFN(), GET_IOSPACE(), and GET_PFN() for all arches but primarily for sparc32/64's extended IO space, sparc: kill the hack of using low bit of offset to mean write_combine or set side-effect

[PATCH 0/4] io_remap_pfn_range: intro.

2005-03-18 Thread Randy.Dunlap
This is a combination of io_remap_pfn_range patches posted in the last week or so by Keir Fraser and me. This description is mostly from Keir's original post. This patch introduces a new interface function for mapping bus/device memory: io_remap_pfn_range. This accepts the same parameters as

Re: [PATCH 1/4] io_remap_pfn_range: add for all arch-es

2005-03-18 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Paul Mackerras wrote: Just by inspection, this looks like pfn should be changed to paddr64 PAGE_SHIFT in that last line. Paul. Agreed, thank you. Patch is attached. -- ~Randy Fix asm-ppc argument, spotted by Paul Mackerras. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] diffstat:=

Re: memory leak in net/sched/ipt.c?

2005-03-23 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Thanks for confirming. Are you guys interested in this kind of leaks? I have a list of about a hundred generated by our tool. -yichen This list is not SUN (where you would have to enter a service contract to report bugs (efficiently)). Jan Engelhardt Just to be clear(er),

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/net/chelsio/osdep.h: small cleanups

2005-03-23 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Christoph Lameter wrote: We just send an update to Andrew and Jeff that also fixes this issue. Sadly that patch is 300k so we cannot post it to the list. you can post it to netdev@oss.sgi.com it doesn't seem to block large patches. -- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-23 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Jeff Garzik wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: David McCullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords); It neither applies correctly nor compiles in current kernels. 2.6.11 is very old in kernel time. Hrm. This is

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