Re: adapter, what's in a name

2008-02-20 Thread Frans Pop
Karl Dahlke wrote: > Meantime, I pulled the emails out of the headers and pasted them in. > Hope that reasonably works. Well, you're still breaking the thread by starting a new one. Guess when you're implementing reply-to-all, you should also think about implementing support for In-Reply-To: and

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The "or any other emulator" is exactly where my question is directed at. > > Xen, KVM or even qemu come into my mind, but considering how loudly you > complained about a temporary breakage for VirtualBox there must be a > reason why your work on the

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 February 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:38:51 -0600 Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Adrian wrote: > > > So let's fix the problem (kernel lacks functionality) > > > > That's the problem as understood by Adrian. > > > > I hear another problem as well .

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 February 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The real problem is that the kernel seems to lack functionality you > require for doing some work. Not sure how you reached that conclusion. > Why does your work on the Debian Installer depend on VirtualBox and > can't be done with what the kernel

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.25-rc2 - Kernel Ooops while running dbench

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
Jeff Garzik wrote: > Two x86-64 boxes here lock up here on 2.6.25-rc2, shortly after boot. > One running Fedora 8 + X (GNOME) and one a headless file server. > configs and lspci attached. Unable to capture any splatter so far. Sounds like it may be http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/17/78. Suggest you

Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 CD/DVD burning broken

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 February 2008, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 09:46 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > This fragment is much too short to allow to judge on possible > > > reasons. There is a high probability that your problem is caused

Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 CD/DVD burning broken

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
Joerg Schilling wrote: > This fragment is much too short to allow to judge on possible reasons. > There is a high probability that your problem is caused by the cdrecord > fork called "wodim". There is also the 100% certainty that this reply was from a known troll and should just be ignored. -- To

Re: [REGRESSION 2.6.23] no vga console and no messages

2008-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 February 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > > For some reason I can't see and don't know how to debug, in 2.6.23 on > > > my server I don't get the vga console, but only get the

Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
Yesterday, after spending quite a few hours over the last days on bisecting some serious regressions and finding workarounds for them, I thought I could start using 2.6.25-rc2 as the new kernel for my desktop. Unfortunately I found that I cannot because it would make my other main activity - wo

Re: [REGRESSION 2.6.23] no vga console and no messages

2008-02-16 Thread Frans Pop
Daniel Barkalow wrote: > For some reason I can't see and don't know how to debug, in 2.6.23 on my > server I don't get the vga console, but only get the dummy console. Please check if this bug report matches the issue you are seeing: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9310 Cheers, FJP --

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 15 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: > I swear someone sent this patch in before. Can you try this one below, > there seems to be an imbalance with kobject_get and _put. I did remember seeing this patch before [1] and can confirm that it does indeed fix the issue: with this patch applied t

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > futex_lock_pi is called with an absolute timeout, which is based on > CLOCK_REALTIME. Nothing wrong with that, but the clockevents WARN_ON > might trap over a false positive, when the expiry value is less than > base->offset. This was intention

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > can you please apply the following patch ? I really should have > thought about that, when I fixed the above one. I still get the bug with this patch. At least I'm now certain it happens during glibc compilation and that I can reproduce it.

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > So, just on the off chance, I applied the patch below and bingo, the > > system powers off again. I doubt this will be the correct solution, but > > just in case it is, here's my signed off. A comment why the double put > > is needed would probably

[PATCH] kbuild: allow alternative hook script dir in .deb packages

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hook scripts in the default directory /etc/kernel are also executed by packages created using make-kpkg (including official Debian kernels). Allow to specify an alternative hook scripts directory by exporting the environment variable KERNELDEBHOOK

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:39:14PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Monday 11 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > > In general 2.6.25 if looking quite good on my desktop, but there's > > > one important issue: the s

[PATCH] kbuild: allow to specify a custom revision for .deb packages

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Allow to specify a custom revision for the generated .deb package by exporting the environment variable KERNELDEBREVISION. Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb index ba6b

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, you wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:45:09 +0100 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Symptom is that the system shuts down normally and completely, it just > > does not power off. > > I've been struggling with an identically-manif

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:40:21 +0100 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the hrtimer code is preparing an invalid ktime_t. Note that > > clockevents_program_event

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 11 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > In general 2.6.25 if looking quite good on my desktop, but there's one > important issue: the system no longer powers off after shutdown. > This works fine with 2.6.24. I was wrong :-( I'd not really done any real wor under

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:39:14PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Monday 11 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > > In general 2.6.25 if looking quite good on my desktop, but there's > > > one important issue: the s

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 10 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > I have no idea yet what triggers it and am unsure if I'll be able to > reproduce. I think I know at least _when_ it happens: during compilation of glibc. This was almost certainly while compiling in the normal amd64 environment: > P

[stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
Kernel: vanilla 2.6.24 x86_64 SMP Environment: Debian unstable Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz (dual core) I've been running this kernel without problems since its release, but yesterday evening I suddenly got the following error, and this afternoon it was repeated (below). The syst

Re: [PATCH] x86: restore correct module name for apm

2008-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
Sam Ravnborg wrote: > The apm module were renamed to apm_32 during the merge of 32 and 64 bit > x86 which is unfortunate. > As apm is 32 bit specific we like to keep the _32 in the filename > but the module should be named apm. > > Fix this in the Makefile. > Reported by "A.E.Lawrence" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [REVIEW for merge] kbuild updates including silence of section mismatch check

2008-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
Sam Ravnborg wrote: > --- a/scripts/setlocalversion > +++ b/scripts/setlocalversion > @@ -45,3 +45,18 @@ if hgid=`hg id 2>/dev/null`; then > # All done with mercurial > exit > fi > + > +# Check for svn and a svn repo. > +if rev=`svn info 2>/dev/null | grep '^Revision' | awk '{print $NF}'` ; then >

Re: Incompatibility of "const" and __xxxinitdata?

2008-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
Peter Teoh wrote: > In include/linux/init.h, it is documented that all __xxxinitdata > declaration must not have constant, as show below: See: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/26/182 There's a fairly major cleanup happening at the moment as you could see from the mailing list archives for the past wee

Re: Typo in net/netfilter/xt_iprange.c (git tree)

2008-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
Forward to netdev list. --- Forwarded message (begin) Subject: Typo in net/netfilter/xt_iprange.c (git tree) From: Jiri Moravec <...> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:50:15 +0100 Function iprange_mt4 belong to IPv4 family - AF_INET. Right? .name = "iprange", .revision

Re: Mostly revert "e1000/e1000e: Move PCI-Express device IDs over to e1000e"

2008-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
Adrian Bunk wrote: >> Jeff, Auke, would something like this be acceptable? It makes it very >> obvious in the driver table which entries are for the PCIE versions that >> would be handled by the E1000E driver if it is enabled.. > > I don't like it: > We should aim at having exactly one driver for

Re: [PATCH 1/2] dm-band: The I/O bandwidth controller: Source code patch

2008-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Frans Pop wrote: > The help should probably be a bit more verbose as this does not tell > anybody much who has not already read the documentation. > > Maybe something like: > > This device-mapper target allows to define how the > available bandwith of a storage device shoul

[PATCH] Use on-board instead of built-in in config options

2008-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 26 January 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Saturday 26 January 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jan 26 2008 21:31, Frans Pop wrote: > > >> config BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC > > >> - bool "Builtin PowerMac IDE support" > >

Re: From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (linux.* mail to news gateway)

2008-01-26 Thread Frans Pop
> config BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC > - bool "Builtin PowerMac IDE support" > + tristate "Builtin PowerMac IDE support" This does not seem to make sense: if the option is now tristate, it is no longer "Builtin", so probably s/Builtin // in the description. Cheers, FJP -- To unsubscribe from th

Re: [PATCH] [NET]: Remove PowerPC code from fec.c

2008-01-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 25 January 2008, Jochen Friedrich wrote: > > Jochen Friedrich wrote: > >> +++ b/drivers/net/fec.c > >> @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ > >> * > >> * Bug fixes and cleanup by Philippe De Muyter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >> * Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Macq Electronique SA. > >> + * > >> + * This driver i

Re: [PATCH] [NET]: Remove PowerPC code from fec.c

2008-01-25 Thread Frans Pop
Jochen Friedrich wrote: > +++ b/drivers/net/fec.c > @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ > * > * Bug fixes and cleanup by Philippe De Muyter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > * Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Macq Electronique SA. > + * > + * This driver is now only used on ColdFire processors. Remove conditional > + * Powerpc cod

Re: [PATCH 1/2] dm-band: The I/O bandwidth controller: Source code patch

2008-01-23 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, I'm not qualified to comment on the code, but here are some suggestions on config option and comments. Cheers, FJP Ryo Tsuruta wrote: > +config DM_BAND > + tristate "I/O band width control " s/band width/bandwidth/ (it seems to be used correctly elsewhere, but you may want to double-che

Re: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE

2008-01-20 Thread Frans Pop
Andi Kleen wrote: > My workstation running 2.6.24-rc8 just hung during shutdown with an > endless (or rather I didn't wait more than a few minutes) loop of > > unregister_netdev: waiting for ppp-device to become free. Usage count = 1 Same as http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/20/27? See also follow-up t

Re: pnpacpi : exceeded the max number of IO resources

2008-01-19 Thread Frans Pop
Dave Young wrote: > I noticed the port number changed to 40 in 2.6.24-rc8, but it's not > enough for me still. Same here, though the extreme noise has gone. >From /proc/ioports and dmesg it looks like I'm short by either 1, or 3 :-( Cheers, FJP -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 17 January 2008, David Miller wrote: > From: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > We spent Wednesday trying to reproduce (without the patch) these issues > > without much luck, and have applied the patch cleanly and will continue > > testing it. Given the simplicity of the cha

Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86: Reduce memory and intra-node effects with large count NR_CPUs V3

2008-01-16 Thread Frans Pop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >8472457 Total 30486950 +259% 30342823 +258% Hmmm. The table for previous versions looked a lot more impressive. now:8472457 Total+22014493 +259% +21870366 +258% V2 :7172678 Total+23314404 +325% -147590 -2% (recalc

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, David Miller wrote: > Ok, here is the patch I'll propose to fix this. The goal is to make > it as simple as possible without regressing the thing we were trying > to fix. Looks good to me. Tested with -rc8. Cheers, FJP -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 15 January 2008, David Miller wrote: > From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang > > Does this make the problem go away? Yes, it very much looks like that solves it. I ran with the patch for 6 hours or

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-14 Thread Frans Pop
Wow. That's fast! :-) On Tuesday 15 January 2008, David Miller wrote: > From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang > > Does this make the problem go away? I'm compiling a kernel with the patch now.

[REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-14 Thread Frans Pop
After compiling v2.6.24-rc7-163-g1a1b285 (x86_64) yesterday I suddenly see this error repeatedly: kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang kernel: Tx Queue <0> kernel: TDH kernel: TDT kernel: next_to_use kernel

Re: > 100% CPU usage

2008-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
James Kosin wrote: > Anyone remember the patch / patches done for the 2.6 series that related > to top reporting > 100% CPU usage? Do you mean these perhaps? - 73a2bcb0edb9ffb0b007b3546b430e2c6e415eee - 9301899be75b464ef097f0b5af7af6d9bd8f68a7 Cheers, FJP -- To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: pnpacpi : exceeded the max number of IO resources

2008-01-09 Thread Frans Pop
Len Brown wrote: >> > Well, yes, the warning is actually new as well. Previously your kernel >> > just silently ignored 8 more mem resources than it does now it seems. >> > >> > Given that people are hitting these limits, it might make sense to just >> > do away with the warning for 2.6.24 again w

Re: pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of IO resources: 24

2008-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
(Mail below was sent to me privately, forwarding to the lists.) On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 00:48 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > (Adding the kernel list back. Any reason you did not send the reply > there?) > > Sorry for the late reply: Christmas, New Year, the flue, etc. > Thank you

Re: pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of IO resources: 24

2008-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
(Adding the kernel list back. Any reason you did not send the reply there?) Sorry for the late reply: Christmas, New Year, the flue, etc. On Friday 28 December 2007, Zhao Yakui wrote: > On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 06:12 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > During boot with v2.6.24-rc6-125-g5356

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc5: 'sysctl table check failed' when turning on printer

2008-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Short of two programs coming in and simultaneously trying to claim > the parallel port and there being not exclusion in ppdev.c I don't > have a clue what could cause the reported error. That could well be the root cause as the full log shows:

[BUG] 2.6.24-rc5: 'sysctl table check failed' when turning on printer

2008-01-05 Thread Frans Pop
(Resending as there were no replies on my first post mid December; issue is still there with -rc6.) This is the first time I've seen this error. Last time I used the printer was with 2.6.24-rc3 and that time this error did not occur. The error occurs when I start a print job, not when I turn the

Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages

2007-12-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > The kernel printk messages are sentences. I'm afraid that I completely and utterly disagree. Kernel messages are _not_ sentences. The vast majority is not well-formed and does not contain any of the elements that are required for a proper sentence.

Re: [PATCH] finish processor.h integration

2007-12-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > On Dec 18, 2007 6:54 PM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > > > What's left in processor_32.h and processor_64.h cannot be cleanly > > > integrated. Howe

Re: [PATCH] finish processor.h integration

2007-12-18 Thread Frans Pop
Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > What's left in processor_32.h and processor_64.h cannot be cleanly > integrated. However, it's just a couple of definitions. They are moved > to processor.h around ifdefs, and the original files are deleted. Note > that there's much less headers included in the fi

[BUG] 2.6.24-rc5: 'sysctl table check failed' when turning on printer

2007-12-16 Thread Frans Pop
This is the first time I've seen this error. Last time I used the printer was with 2.6.24-rc3 and that time this error did not occur. System is Pentium D x86_64 kernel running Debian unstable. Printer is a HP Photosmart P1100 connected via parallel port. Not sure who should be CCed on this. ppd

Re: PROBLEM: /proc/cpuinfo reports erroneous CPU frequency. (2.6.23 & 2.6.22)

2007-12-09 Thread Frans Pop
Alexander Rajula wrote: > While overclocking an AMD Athlon X2 (2GHz) CPU /proc/cpuinfo reports the > wrong CPU frequency. I am quite puzzled by this. > Is this an error in the kernel, or is there something strange going on? You may want to read some old threads on this list and check if that match

Re: menuconfig: fail with clearer error if curses.h N/A

2007-12-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 09 December 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > This is much better. Thanks! A few minor corrections maybe (nitpicks really). >  *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries >  *** or the required header files. That first line is strangely short like this. Move "or the" to the first line? >  ***

Re: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-12-07 Thread Frans Pop
Jeff Garzik wrote: > libata disabling command queueing (aka NCQ) based on some hueristics for > detection device brokenness that ultimately turned out to be broken. > > Remove the broken hueristic and turn NCQ back on for all the wrongfully > maligned hard drives. Yay! -- To unsubscribe from

Re: [s390] build failure

2007-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 11:27 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >> arch/s390/kernel/built-in.o: In function `cleanup_io_leave_insn': >> diag.c:(.text+0xc29a): undefined reference to `preempt_schedule_irq' >> make[2]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 >

Re: constant_tsc and TSC unstable

2007-11-29 Thread Frans Pop
Paul Rolland wrote: > Total of 2 processors activated (6919.15 BogoMIPS). > ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs > ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 > checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: > Measured 3978592228 cycles TSC warp between CPUs, turning off TSC clock. > Marking TSC unstable

Trailing periods in kernel messages (was: [PATCH 6/6] tick: add a missing dot in prink)

2007-11-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 November 2007, Li Zefan wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > Li Zefan wrote: > >> Add a missing '.' in prink information. > >> - printk(" no tick device\n"); > >> + printk(" no tick devic

Re: [PATCH 6/6] tick: add a missing dot in prink

2007-11-29 Thread Frans Pop
Li Zefan wrote: > Add a missing '.' in prink information. > - printk(" no tick device\n"); > + printk(" no tick device.\n"); I wonder if that is correct. CodingStyle says: Chapter 13: Printing kernel messages [...] Kernel messages do no

Re: [patch 1/1] Writeback fix for concurrent large and small file writes

2007-11-28 Thread Frans Pop
Two typos in comments. Cheers, FJP Michael Rubin wrote: > + * The flush tree organizes the dirtied_when keys with the rb_tree. Any > + * inodes with a duplicate dirtied_when value are link listed together. > This + * link list is sorted by the inode's i_flushed_when. When both the > + * dirited_w

Re: [s390] networking related oops during boot on Hercules (was: build failure)

2007-11-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > This seems to be related to the new network namespace code by Eric > Biederman (CCed). Can you try the following (untested) patch? I also > CCed Ursula and Peter as they know the ctc code better than me. Yes, that fixes it. Boots fine n

[s390] networking related oops during boot on Hercules (was: build failure)

2007-11-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > arch/s390/kernel/built-in.o: In function `cleanup_io_leave_insn': > > diag.c:(.text+0xc29a): undefined reference to `preempt_schedule_irq' > > make[2]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 > > We have a patch for that in our repository. That f

Re: [s390] build failure

2007-11-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > We have a patch for that in our repository. > Martin will send that fix with the next bunch of fixes. Thx. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majo

[s390] build failure

2007-11-28 Thread Frans Pop
$ git describe v2.6.24-rc3-342-g8c27eba arch/s390/kernel/built-in.o: In function `cleanup_io_leave_insn': diag.c:(.text+0xc29a): undefined reference to `preempt_schedule_irq' make[2]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.24-rc

Re: [RFC] New kobject/kset/ktype documentation and example code

2007-11-27 Thread Frans Pop
Greg KH wrote: > Based on an original article by Jon Corbet for lwn.net written October 1, > 2003 and located at http://lwn.net/Articles/51437/ > > Last updated November 27, 2008 ^^^ Wow, that's impressive: both kobjects de-mystified and time travel made possible!

[parisc] 2.6.24-rc3 (64-bit, smp) fails to boot on 9000/785/J5600

2007-11-27 Thread Frans Pop
(resending as address for port list was incorrect) v2.6.24-rc3-19-g2ffbb83 fails very early in the boot procedure. 2.6.23 compiled with similar config boots fine. System is running Debian unstable; kernel was compiled using gcc 4.1.2. Cheers, Frans Pop Boot messages for 2.6.24

[parisc] 2.6.24-rc3 (64-bit, smp) fails to boot on 9000/785/J5600

2007-11-27 Thread Frans Pop
v2.6.24-rc3-19-g2ffbb83 fails very early in the boot procedure. 2.6.23 compiled with similar config boots fine. System is running Debian unstable; kernel was compiled using gcc 4.1.2. Cheers, Frans Pop Boot messages for 2.6.24 Command line for kernel: 'root=/dev

Re: "buggy cmd640" message followed by soft lockup

2007-11-25 Thread Frans Pop
(Dropped Rafael from CC) On Sunday 25 November 2007, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > So either something went very very wrong or the oops itself is incorrect. > > Please put BUG() before the put_cmd640_reg() above so the next time > BUG happens we will know which one is it. I've spent quite a

Re: [BUG] jiffies counter leaps in 2.6.24-rc3

2007-11-24 Thread Frans Pop
Stefano Brivio wrote: > It looks like the jiffies counter sometimes jumps back and forth of some > hundreds seconds in 2.6.24-rc3. I observed that this happens when I use > the su(1) command, e.g.: Can you please explain what exactly the problem is here? Are you perhaps referring to the number be

Re: [PATCH revised] enable make ARCH=x86 (and stay backward compatible)

2007-11-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 12 November 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > This revised patchset does the followings things: > o unify the i386 and x86_64 Kconfig files > o introduce support for K64BIT to set CONFIG_64BIT on command line > o introdue support for "make ARCH=x86" > o degraded ARCH={i386,x86_64} to select bet

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-13 Thread Frans Pop
Romano Giannetti wrote: > This was what I did in my (in the end almost successful) bisecting when > trying to find the mmc problem (see the thread named "2.6.24-rc1 eat my > SD card"). This is true in theory, but it has some problem. The "this > commit does not compile is the easiest and in man git

Re: [PATCH 0/11 v3] enable "make ARCH=x86"

2007-11-12 Thread Frans Pop
s) by removing the compat symlinks too early may mean less testing of kernels by people like me. Cheers, Frans Pop P.S. The ARCH=x86 change would not have broken kernel-package as that could be worked around using its cross-compilation options. And it currently looks like the old options will be pre

Re: Bind mount bug?

2007-11-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 11 November 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >This mounts the bindtest/ tree on test/ _without_ copying the mount > >points which are found on subtrees. This is necessary to avoid loops > >in the filesystem (bind mounts are somewhat like hardlinks on > >directories, just without the headache

Re: Bind mount bug?

2007-11-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 11 November 2007, Roland Kuhn wrote: > This mounts the bindtest/ tree on test/ _without_ copying the mount > points which are found on subtrees. Right. I guess this is the key point that tripped me up. > So, you see, test/test/test/a was (as it should) physically created   > in test/tes

Re: Bind mount bug?

2007-11-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 11 November 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > I'd expected the last command to list "foo", but it shows an empty dir. > Shouldn't it also show the original contents of test (as they were before > the first bind mount)? The problem is of course also that any changes

Bind mount bug?

2007-11-11 Thread Frans Pop
test/test type none (rw,bind) /root/bindtest on /root/test type none (rw,bind) Cheers, Frans Pop - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.6.23: No text consoles with FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY

2007-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 October 2007, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 20:13 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > I could solve this issue in two ways: > > - boot with VGA=791 parameter (initial boot was without VGA= parameter) > > - compile kernel without FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_

Re: [PATCH] Spelling fix: lenght->length

2007-11-03 Thread Frans Pop
Looks like word-wrapping by your mail client has corrupted the patch. Suggest you resend it. Cheers, FJP - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please

Re: Issue building kernel driver

2007-11-01 Thread Frans Pop
Chris Holvenstot wrote: > Since I try to be slightly useful and build as many of the "test" kernel > images I can I end up rebuilding the VirtualBox kernel driver (open > source) on an almost daily basis. > > I attempted to rebuild the driver today and got the following error > messages running 2.

Re: "Fix ATAPI transfer lengths" causes CD writing regression

2007-10-30 Thread Frans Pop
Daniel Drake wrote: > I have narrowed down the exact command submission which causes those > nasty messages in dmesg. The function which submits this is named > "brasero_medium_get_page_2A_write_speed_desc". Just as an extra data point... I've compiled the test program an ran it on my ICH7/Pentiu

Re: [stable] 2.6.23 regression: top displaying 9999% CPU usage

2007-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 29 October 2007, Balbir Singh wrote: > We'll also need this additional patch (untested), OK. Both patches together do the trick. Gave it a nice long test run and got no more weirdness. Tested-by: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > but in the long run I think the app

Re: [stable] 2.6.23 regression: top displaying 9999% CPU usage

2007-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 29 October 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Christian Borntraeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - return clock_t_to_cputime(utime); > > > + p->prev_utime = max(p->prev_utime, clock_t_to_cputime(utime)); > > > + return p->prev_utime; > > > } > > > > [...] > > > > I dont think it will work.

Re: [stable] 2.6.23 regression: top displaying 9999% CPU usage

2007-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
I've tried > reproducing the problem on my UML setup without any success. Let me > try and grab an x86 box. Any progress on this issue? I noticed that it's still there in current git. If a better implementation is not expected any time soon, how about an ACK on the reversio

Re: 2.6.24-rc1-git4: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-10-28 Thread Frans Pop
guration files, I decided to not follow up. Of course, not honoring 'all' is more obviously a bug than not honoring 'default' for existing interfaces. I've added a comment to #8519. Hope this helps, Frans Pop - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

Re: [PATCH 2/2] I8K: Adds i8k driver to the x86_64 Kconfig

2007-10-28 Thread Frans Pop
Bradley Smith wrote: > +config I8K > + tristate "Dell laptop support" Shouldn't that be config DELL_I8K, or even DELL_INSPIRON_8K? Cheers, Frans Pop - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

Re: [2.624-rc1 regression] lost battery information

2007-10-27 Thread Frans Pop
atch. With 'battery_allow_extract_string_from_integer.patch' all info in /proc is back and I now also see the new files in /sys/class/power_supply. The "OEM info" field (line 13 in BAT1/info) is empty, just as it was empty in 2.6.23 too. Tested-by: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ch

Re: [2.624-rc1 regression] lost battery information

2007-10-26 Thread Frans Pop
Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Andrey Borzenkov wrote: >> is it in -rc1 or can you point me to the patch (I'd rather avoid having >> to pull from different git trees). Thank you. > No, it should be rc1. >> >> And what about ACPI_PROCFS case? It still needs attention I believe. > As you can see, ther

Re: [2.624-rc1 regression] lost battery information

2007-10-26 Thread Frans Pop
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > I already have power_supply module, battery depends on it and it is > autloaded. But I fail to see where I can get battery info in /sys Ah, yes. I see what you mean now and I can confirm the same regression wrt missing battery data in /proc for my laptop. $ cat /proc/acp

Re: [2.624-rc1 regression] lost battery information

2007-10-26 Thread Frans Pop
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > I have lost battery in 2.6.24-rc1. Without CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS I have > no /proc/acpi/battery and cannot test netlink interface because right now > there is no consumer of this. This is a known issue. Please see: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/22/110 Cheers, Frans

Re: [patch] portman2x4.c: fix boot hang

2007-10-24 Thread Frans Pop
Ingo Molnar wrote: > if ((parport_read_status(p) & ESTB) == ESTB) > - return 1; /* CODE 1 - Strobe Failure. */ > + return -EIO;/* CODE 1 - Strobe Failure. */ > > /* Set for RXDATA0 where no damage will be done. */ > /* 5 */ > @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ static int por

[PATCH] Remove double mention of Support for ACPI option

2007-10-22 Thread Frans Pop
From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Current description for CONFIG_ACPI includes the word "Support" twice. One effect of this is that in menuconfig the "--->" that indicates the presence of sub-options will not show up unless you have a very wide console. Sig

Re: latest 2.6.23 git missing ACPI POWER_SUPPLY

2007-10-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 October 2007, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > I must say that having these relatively top-level ACPI settings > > depending on something that is relatively buried away is not very > > intuitive! Especially not since at first glance you don'

Re: latest 2.6.23 git missing ACPI POWER_SUPPLY

2007-10-22 Thread Frans Pop
Jeff Chua wrote: > Just pulled latest linux-2.6, and couldn't get ACPI to detect > ACPI_BATTERY and ACPI_AC. > > It seems ACPI POWER_SUPPLY is still missing. I had the same problem. It turns out you need to enable drivers -> Power supply class support (either built in or as module) to get ACPI

Re: Why are ipmi modules being loaded?

2007-10-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 21 October 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 03:34:11PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > AFAICT from modules.pcimap, ipmi_si should only be loaded for PCI ID > > [103c:121a] (which I don't have), or for devices with class c0700 > > (which I als

Re: kbuild: disable depmod in cross-compile kernel build

2007-10-21 Thread Frans Pop
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Euh, is these really necessary? > > At work I have no problems running depmod on an i386 system for ppc64 > modules after I installed module-init-tools 3.3-pre2 (from Debian). That's right. I do depmod on i386 and amd64 for _all_ Debian architectures without any probl

Why are ipmi modules being loaded?

2007-10-21 Thread Frans Pop
don't have). I also cannot find anything in /etc that could be responsible. So I wonder what _is_ responsible for trying to load the ipmi modules on my system and if that shouldn't be avoided. My system is Debian testing running 2.6.23. Cheers, Frans Pop 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: In

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23] SysRq: print hotkey info while pressing undef key, try 2

2007-10-17 Thread Frans Pop
c Trigger a crashdump Most descriptions are capitalized. So for consistency this should be "Trigger a Crashdump". (Although my personal preference would be to drop the capitalization for all descriptions.) >p Show Regs Should "Regs" be expanded to "Registe

Re: Distinguishing releases from pre-rc snapshots

2007-10-16 Thread Frans Pop
it tag) by using the command 'git describe'. $ git checkout -b temp v2.6.23 Switched to a new branch "temp" $ git describe v2.6.23 $ git checkout master $ git describe v2.6.23-4223-g65a6ec0 Format is: last tag - # commits since last tag - id of HEAD commit Hope this helps, Fr

Re: [stable] 2.6.23 regression: top displaying 9999% CPU usage

2007-10-16 Thread Frans Pop
have both stime _and_ utime decreasing... 'ts' is a small utility that prints the timestamps before the readings; the test will work just as well without it. Note that it may take a while for the error to show up. In this case it was 40 seconds. Cheers, Frans Pop - To unsubscribe from this

undefined symbol 'APM_EMULATION' during 'make oldconfig' on HPPA

2007-10-14 Thread Frans Pop
$ git describe v2.6.23-3345-g52d4e66 $ make oldconfig >/dev/null drivers/macintosh/Kconfig:121:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'PMAC_APM_EMU' refers to undefined symbol 'APM_EMULATION' Cheers, FJP - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

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