Re: [rtc-linux] state of GEN_RTC vs rtc subsystem

2008-02-21 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:03:25 +0100, Alessandro Zummo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:11:23 -0600 > Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is the functionality provided by drivers/char/gen_rtc.c completely > > handled by the rtc subsystem in drivers/rtc? > > > > I

Re: [rtc-linux] state of GEN_RTC vs rtc subsystem

2008-02-21 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:03:25 +0100, Alessandro Zummo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:11:23 -0600 Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the functionality provided by drivers/char/gen_rtc.c completely handled by the rtc subsystem in drivers/rtc? I ask for two

Questions on rtc drivers...

2008-02-20 Thread J.A. Magallón
Hi all... since some time ago I have noticed that mplayer can't use the RTC for time accounting. Perhaps it is deprecated and should be migrated to hrtimers, that is what every reference I found said, but the fact is that nowadays it uses it. I thought I was because a misbuild of my kernel, but

Questions on rtc drivers...

2008-02-20 Thread J.A. Magallón
Hi all... since some time ago I have noticed that mplayer can't use the RTC for time accounting. Perhaps it is deprecated and should be migrated to hrtimers, that is what every reference I found said, but the fact is that nowadays it uses it. I thought I was because a misbuild of my kernel, but

Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?

2008-01-18 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:24:29 +0100, Olivier Galibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:53:44AM -0500, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > I'd say this implies the exact opposite. It almost sounds like the > > compiler is free to change: > > > > void foo(const int *x); > > foo(x);

Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?

2008-01-18 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:24:29 +0100, Olivier Galibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:53:44AM -0500, Andy Lutomirski wrote: I'd say this implies the exact opposite. It almost sounds like the compiler is free to change: void foo(const int *x); foo(x); printf(%d,

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7

2008-01-14 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:57:35 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J.A. Magallón wrote: > > I'm still pending to pysically remove the disks (or at least unplug the > > cable...), but I have realized a cusious thing: after some errors, the > > kernel is loweri

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7

2008-01-14 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:57:35 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J.A. Magallón wrote: I'm still pending to pysically remove the disks (or at least unplug the cable...), but I have realized a cusious thing: after some errors, the kernel is lowering the disk speed (UDMA/133, then 100

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7

2008-01-13 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:10:08 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > J.A. Magallón wrote: > > It reproduces also with 2.6.23.13. > > Finally I think the problematic disk is sdc: > > Okay, then, it's less likely a regression and more likely a n

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7

2008-01-13 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:10:08 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, J.A. Magallón wrote: It reproduces also with 2.6.23.13. Finally I think the problematic disk is sdc: Okay, then, it's less likely a regression and more likely a newly developed hardware problem. ICH5 PATA

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7

2008-01-10 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:56:02 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J.A. Magallón wrote: > > HI all... > > > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:19:16 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> It's been two weeks

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7

2008-01-10 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:56:02 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J.A. Magallón wrote: HI all... On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:19:16 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been two weeks since rc6, but let's face it, with xmas and new years (and birthdays

Re: PROBLEM: I/O scheduler problem with an 8 SATA disks raid 5 under heavy load ?

2008-01-08 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:52:35 +0100, Guillaume Laurès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1f02 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > > ata5.00: cmd 60/40:08:8f:eb:67/00:00:03:00:00/40 tag 1 cdb 0x0 data > > 32768 in > > res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask

Re: PROBLEM: I/O scheduler problem with an 8 SATA disks raid 5 under heavy load ?

2008-01-08 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:52:35 +0100, Guillaume Laurès [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1f02 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata5.00: cmd 60/40:08:8f:eb:67/00:00:03:00:00/40 tag 1 cdb 0x0 data 32768 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7

2008-01-07 Thread J.A. Magallón
HI all... On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:19:16 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's been two weeks since rc6, but let's face it, with xmas and new years > (and birthdays) in between, there hasn't actually been a lot of working > days, and the incremental patch from -rc6 is

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7

2008-01-07 Thread J.A. Magallón
HI all... On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:19:16 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been two weeks since rc6, but let's face it, with xmas and new years (and birthdays) in between, there hasn't actually been a lot of working days, and the incremental patch from -rc6 is about

Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels

2007-12-20 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:05:48 -0500, "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:27:37PM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >> > > It never

Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages

2007-12-20 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:08:53 +, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe though that printk messages are not sentences but are > > logging statements. Statements do not require full-stops. > > > > Opinions, of course, vary. > > I do not believe "opinions" are relevant here.

Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages

2007-12-20 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:08:53 +, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe though that printk messages are not sentences but are logging statements. Statements do not require full-stops. Opinions, of course, vary. I do not believe opinions are relevant here. Relevant would be

Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels

2007-12-20 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:05:48 -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:27:37PM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: It never gets to the printk(). You were

Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

2007-12-04 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 21:57:27 +, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You could write an equally effcient kernel in languages like C++, > > using C++ abstractions as a high level organization, where > > It's very very hard to generate good C code because of the numerous ways > objects get

Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

2007-12-04 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 12:54:13 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:19:50AM +0100, J.A. Magall??n wrote: > > I think BeOS was C++ and OSX is C+ObjectiveC (and runs on an iPhone). > > Original MacOS (fron 6 to 9) was Pascal (and a mac SE was very near > > to

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-12-04 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 12:54:13 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:19:50AM +0100, J.A. Magall??n wrote: I think BeOS was C++ and OSX is C+ObjectiveC (and runs on an iPhone). Original MacOS (fron 6 to 9) was Pascal (and a mac SE was very near to

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-12-04 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 21:57:27 +, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could write an equally effcient kernel in languages like C++, using C++ abstractions as a high level organization, where It's very very hard to generate good C code because of the numerous ways objects get

Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

2007-12-03 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 22:13:53 +0100, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > It just depends how many times a second it happens. For instance, consider > this trivial loop (fct is a two-function array which just return 1 or 2) : > > i = 0; > for (j = 0; j < (1 << 28);

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-12-03 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 22:13:53 +0100, Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It just depends how many times a second it happens. For instance, consider this trivial loop (fct is a two-function array which just return 1 or 2) : i = 0; for (j = 0; j (1 28); j++) {

Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

2007-11-30 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 00:31:19 +, Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:19:50AM +0100, J.A. Magall??n wrote: > > An vtable in C++ takes exactly the same space that the function > > table pointer present in every driver nowadays... and probably > > the virtual method

Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

2007-11-30 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:29:55 +0100, "Loïc Grenié" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/11/29, Ben Crowhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? > > > > regards, > > BPC > Well, I really would like to learn some things here, could we keep this

Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

2007-11-30 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:09:45 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? > > > > Why not C# instead ? > > Why not Haskell nor Erlang instead ? :-D > Flash http://www.lagmonster.info/humor/windowsrg.html -- J.A.

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-11-30 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:29:55 +0100, Loïc Grenié [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/11/29, Ben Crowhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? regards, BPC Well, I really would like to learn some things here, could we keep this off-topic thread

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-11-30 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 00:31:19 +, Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:19:50AM +0100, J.A. Magall??n wrote: An vtable in C++ takes exactly the same space that the function table pointer present in every driver nowadays... and probably the virtual method call that

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-11-30 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:09:45 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? Why not C# instead ? Why not Haskell nor Erlang instead ? :-D Flash http://www.lagmonster.info/humor/windowsrg.html -- J.A. Magallon

void* arithmnetic

2007-11-28 Thread J.A. Magallón
Hi all... Since begin of the ages the build of the nvidia driver says things like this: include/asm/compat.h:210: warning: pointer of type 'void *' used in arithmetic There are several of this warnings. The code in question for this example is: static __inline__ void __user

void* arithmnetic

2007-11-28 Thread J.A. Magallón
Hi all... Since begin of the ages the build of the nvidia driver says things like this: include/asm/compat.h:210: warning: pointer of type 'void *' used in arithmetic There are several of this warnings. The code in question for this example is: static __inline__ void __user

Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory

2007-11-05 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 13:50:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 07:45:21PM +0100, J.A. Magall?n wrote: > > Well, problem solved... > > > > I'm going to kill all pc assemblers in the world... Someone should teach > > them > > to learn mauals before

Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory

2007-11-05 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 13:10:46 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 12:18:47AM +0100, J.A. Magall?n wrote: > > Well, I was able to get about 3 Gb with MTRR=discrete in the BIOS, > > but I'm still in the process to find the 'software hole' option to get > > the

Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory

2007-11-05 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 13:10:46 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 12:18:47AM +0100, J.A. Magall?n wrote: Well, I was able to get about 3 Gb with MTRR=discrete in the BIOS, but I'm still in the process to find the 'software hole' option to get the rest

Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory

2007-11-05 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 13:50:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 07:45:21PM +0100, J.A. Magall?n wrote: Well, problem solved... I'm going to kill all pc assemblers in the world... Someone should teach them to learn mauals before assembling

Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory

2007-11-04 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:58:10 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J.A. Magallon wrote: > > Hi... > > > > I have some Quad-Opteron boxes with 4Gb memory and two of them are > > running two different Linux distros. > > > > Box one sees 4Gb of memory, but box two just sees 3. > >

Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory

2007-11-04 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:58:10 -0700, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J.A. Magallon wrote: Hi... I have some Quad-Opteron boxes with 4Gb memory and two of them are running two different Linux distros. Box one sees 4Gb of memory, but box two just sees 3. Their mtrr setups

Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory

2007-10-25 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:58:10 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J.A. Magallon wrote: > > Hi... > > > > I have some Quad-Opteron boxes with 4Gb memory and two of them are > > running two different Linux distros. > > > > Box one sees 4Gb of memory, but box two just sees 3. > >

Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory

2007-10-25 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:58:10 -0700, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J.A. Magallon wrote: Hi... I have some Quad-Opteron boxes with 4Gb memory and two of them are running two different Linux distros. Box one sees 4Gb of memory, but box two just sees 3. Their mtrr setups

Re: [PATCH 0/3] debloat aic7xxx and aic79xx drivers

2007-10-18 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:58:26 +0100, Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Following patches debloat drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/*. > I also had to add prototypes for ahc_lookup_scb > and ahd_lookup_scb to .h files. > Sorry for the late replay, but.. working fine on annwn:~# lspci |

Re: [PATCH 0/3] debloat aic7xxx and aic79xx drivers

2007-10-18 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:58:26 +0100, Denys Vlasenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Following patches debloat drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/*. I also had to add prototypes for ahc_lookup_scb and ahd_lookup_scb to .h files. Sorry for the late replay, but.. working fine on annwn:~# lspci | grep Adap

Oops with touch and unknown uid [was Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1]

2007-07-22 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:43:21 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc6/2.6.22-rc6-mm1/ > I have noticed a funny problem. Lets say 666 is not an uid used on you system. This oopses: rm -f dummy touch dummy chown

Oops with touch and unknown uid [was Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1]

2007-07-22 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:43:21 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc6/2.6.22-rc6-mm1/ I have noticed a funny problem. Lets say 666 is not an uid used on you system. This oopses: rm -f dummy touch dummy chown 666

Re: Slow Soft-RAID 5 performance

2007-07-18 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:56:11 +0100, Rui Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting a strange slow performance behavior on a recently installed > Server. Here are the details: > ... > > I can get a write throughput of 60 MB/sec on each HD by issuing the > command 'time `dd

Re: Slow Soft-RAID 5 performance

2007-07-18 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:56:11 +0100, Rui Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm getting a strange slow performance behavior on a recently installed Server. Here are the details: ... I can get a write throughput of 60 MB/sec on each HD by issuing the command 'time `dd if=/dev/zero

Re: md device files missing at boot time

2007-07-04 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:32:55 +0200, Ingo Freund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > one of the systems I'm working with was changed (copied) from single (scsi - > sda1) > to multiple disk (raid1) (sdb1,sdc1 --> md0). > When I try to boot from the new created md-device it stops with: >

Re: md device files missing at boot time

2007-07-04 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:32:55 +0200, Ingo Freund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, one of the systems I'm working with was changed (copied) from single (scsi - sda1) to multiple disk (raid1) (sdb1,sdc1 -- md0). When I try to boot from the new created md-device it stops with: ... loading

Problems with fb console [was Re: 2.6.12-rc4-mm2]

2007-06-26 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 16 May 2005 02:13:02 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc4/2.6.12-rc4-mm2/ > > Hi... I have a (stupid, I suppose) problem with framebuffer console. I have builtin VESAFB in this kernel, so:

Problems with fb console [was Re: 2.6.12-rc4-mm2]

2007-06-26 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 16 May 2005 02:13:02 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc4/2.6.12-rc4-mm2/ Hi... I have a (stupid, I suppose) problem with framebuffer console. I have builtin VESAFB in this kernel, so:

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2

2007-06-20 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:23:07 +0200, Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J.A. Magallón napsal(a): > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:53:57 +0200, "J.A. Magallón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:03:13 -0700, And

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2

2007-06-20 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:23:07 +0200, Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J.A. Magallón napsal(a): On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:53:57 +0200, J.A. Magallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:03:13 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2

2007-06-19 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:53:57 +0200, "J.A. Magallón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:03:13 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm2/

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2

2007-06-19 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:03:13 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm2/ > > - Basically a bugfixed version of 2.6.22-rc4-mm1. None of the subsystem > trees were repulled, several bad patches were

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2

2007-06-19 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:03:13 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm2/ - Basically a bugfixed version of 2.6.22-rc4-mm1. None of the subsystem trees were repulled, several bad patches were

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2

2007-06-19 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:53:57 +0200, J.A. Magallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:03:13 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm2/ - Basically a bugfixed version of 2.6.22-rc4

idle=poll burns my box [was Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1]

2007-05-25 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 23 May 2007 00:42:33 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc2/2.6.22-rc2-mm1/ > Don't know if it's specific to this kernel, but as I have realized it now... I booted with idle=poll to check some issues

idle=poll burns my box [was Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1]

2007-05-25 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 23 May 2007 00:42:33 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc2/2.6.22-rc2-mm1/ Don't know if it's specific to this kernel, but as I have realized it now... I booted with idle=poll to check some issues

Re: 2.6.21-mm1

2007-05-07 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Sat, 5 May 2007 01:49:55 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21/2.6.21-mm1/ > ... > - The staircase CPU scheduler was dropped > Sorry, perhaps I missed the thread in LKML, but... why ? -- J.A. Magallon

Re: 2.6.21-mm1

2007-05-07 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Sat, 5 May 2007 01:49:55 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21/2.6.21-mm1/ ... - The staircase CPU scheduler was dropped Sorry, perhaps I missed the thread in LKML, but... why ? -- J.A. Magallon

Re: start_udev and devpts [Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1]

2007-04-25 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:39:54 +0200, "J.A. Magallón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:50:39 +0200, "J.A. Magallón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > But I think I found the problem. > In short, in /dev/pts is mounted before /dev

start_udev and devpts [Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1]

2007-04-25 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:50:39 +0200, "J.A. Magallón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:22:50 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:43:21 +0200 "J.A. Magallón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > &

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

2007-04-25 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:22:50 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:43:21 +0200 "J.A. Magallón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:58:01 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

2007-04-25 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:22:50 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:43:21 +0200 J.A. Magallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:58:01 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:10:41 +0200 J.A. Magallón [EMAIL

start_udev and devpts [Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1]

2007-04-25 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:50:39 +0200, J.A. Magallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:22:50 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:43:21 +0200 J.A. Magallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:58:01 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL

Re: start_udev and devpts [Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1]

2007-04-25 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:39:54 +0200, J.A. Magallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:50:39 +0200, J.A. Magallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... But I think I found the problem. In short, in /dev/pts is mounted before /dev. I remounted it and ssh worked fine again. I'll dig

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

2007-04-24 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:58:01 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:10:41 +0200 "J.A. Magallón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:35:59 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

2007-04-24 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:35:59 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc6/2.6.21-rc6-mm1/ > > > - Lots of x86 updates > Has somthing related with PTY's changed in this kernel ? I have to enable legacy PTY handling

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

2007-04-24 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:35:59 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc6/2.6.21-rc6-mm1/ - Lots of x86 updates Has somthing related with PTY's changed in this kernel ? I have to enable legacy PTY handling in a

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

2007-04-24 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:58:01 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:10:41 +0200 J.A. Magallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:35:59 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches

/proc/sef/fd/0 is a socket ?!

2007-04-20 Thread J.A. Magallón
Hi all... After a big update in my systems, two of them just does not let me ssh into it. It says that stdin is not a terminal. The same hapens if I try to open any terminal emulator, like aterm. It finally let me do somathing like ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin/bash -i, to get a terminal, and I

/proc/sef/fd/0 is a socket ?!

2007-04-20 Thread J.A. Magallón
Hi all... After a big update in my systems, two of them just does not let me ssh into it. It says that stdin is not a terminal. The same hapens if I try to open any terminal emulator, like aterm. It finally let me do somathing like ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin/bash -i, to get a terminal, and I

Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm4

2007-04-03 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:22:47 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:58:26 +0200, "J.A. =?UTF-8?B?TWFnYWxsw7Nu?=" said: > > > Anyways, I have just remembered I use the (in)famous nVidia driver. > > Will try to reproduce without it. This was more like a probe to see if > >

Re: getting processor numbers

2007-04-03 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 22:13:07 +0200, Ingo Oeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ulrich, > > On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > So, anybody else has a proposal? This is a pressing issue and cannot > > wait until someday in the distant future NUMA topology information is > > easily

Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm4

2007-04-03 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 15:51:35 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 00:40:05 +0200 > "J.A. Magall__n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:47:45 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >

Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm4

2007-04-03 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:47:45 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc5/2.6.21-rc5-mm4/ > > - The oops in git-net.patch has been fixed, so that tree has been restored. > It is huge. > > - Added the

Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm4

2007-04-03 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:47:45 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc5/2.6.21-rc5-mm4/ - The oops in git-net.patch has been fixed, so that tree has been restored. It is huge. - Added the device-mapper

Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm4

2007-04-03 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 15:51:35 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 00:40:05 +0200 J.A. Magall__n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:47:45 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: getting processor numbers

2007-04-03 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 22:13:07 +0200, Ingo Oeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ulrich, On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote: So, anybody else has a proposal? This is a pressing issue and cannot wait until someday in the distant future NUMA topology information is easily and

Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm4

2007-04-03 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:22:47 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:58:26 +0200, J.A. =?UTF-8?B?TWFnYWxsw7Nu?= said: Anyways, I have just remembered I use the (in)famous nVidia driver. Will try to reproduce without it. This was more like a probe to see if somebody else is

Re: Inlining can be _very_bad...

2007-03-29 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:52:54 +0200, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:18:38AM +0200, J.A. Magallón wrote: > > Hi all... > > > > I post this here as it can be of direct interest for kernel development > > (as I recall ma

Re: Inlining can be _very_bad...

2007-03-29 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:52:54 +0200, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:18:38AM +0200, J.A. Magallón wrote: Hi all... I post this here as it can be of direct interest for kernel development (as I recall many discussions about inlining yes

Inlining can be _very_bad...

2007-03-28 Thread J.A. Magallón
Hi all... I post this here as it can be of direct interest for kernel development (as I recall many discussions about inlining yes or no...). Testing other problems, I finally got this this issue: the same short and stupid loop lasted from 3 to 5 times more if it was in main() than if it was in

Inlining can be _very_bad...

2007-03-28 Thread J.A. Magallón
Hi all... I post this here as it can be of direct interest for kernel development (as I recall many discussions about inlining yes or no...). Testing other problems, I finally got this this issue: the same short and stupid loop lasted from 3 to 5 times more if it was in main() than if it was in

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:27:09 +0100, "J.A. Magallón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:23 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Temporarily at > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm

Re: Wrong IDE cable detection in libata [Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1]

2007-03-26 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:01:52 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J.A. Magallón wrote: > > Libata seems to misdetect my cable. > > I have double-checked and the cable is 80 pin... > > Does the following patch fix your problem? > > http://articl

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:27:09 +0100, J.A. Magallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:23 -0800, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Temporarily at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ Will appear later at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux

Re: Wrong IDE cable detection in libata [Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1]

2007-03-26 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:01:52 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J.A. Magallón wrote: Libata seems to misdetect my cable. I have double-checked and the cable is 80 pin... Does the following patch fix your problem? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/17444 (You can get

Wrong IDE cable detection in libata [Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1]

2007-03-25 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:23 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Temporarily at > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ > Libata seems to misdetect my cable. I have double-checked and the cable is 80 pin... ata1 is PATA ICH5 bus 1 with DVD-RW + ZIP and 40 pin

Wrong IDE cable detection in libata [Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1]

2007-03-25 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:23 -0800, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Temporarily at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ Libata seems to misdetect my cable. I have double-checked and the cable is 80 pin... ata1 is PATA ICH5 bus 1 with DVD-RW + ZIP and 40 pin cable

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-22 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:23 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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/ > Is anybody

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-22 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:23 -0800, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/ Is anybody having problems

Re: 2.6.21-rc4: extremely high power consumption

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:29:38 +0100, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Today I heard fans running a bit too much. I checked with top, and got > no obvious power hog. And now acpi battery says: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data/l/zaurus/oz.spitz.3541# cat > /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state

Re: 2.6.21-rc4: extremely high power consumption

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:29:38 +0100, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Today I heard fans running a bit too much. I checked with top, and got no obvious power hog. And now acpi battery says: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data/l/zaurus/oz.spitz.3541# cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-20 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:36:57 +0100, "J.A. Magallón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:23 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Temporarily at > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-20 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:23 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Temporarily at > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ > After applying hot-fixes, I get this: MODPOST vmlinux WARNING: init/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-20 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:23 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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/ > (oops, I forgot

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-20 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:23 -0800, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/ (oops, I forgot LKML) I

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