Re: [PATCH 001/001] drivers/gpu/radeon: NULL pointer deference workaround

2016-09-09 Thread Mark Fortescue
On 09/09/16 13:20, Deucher, Alexander wrote: -Original Message- From: Koenig, Christian Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 4:16 AM To: Mark Fortescue; Koenig, Christian; David Airlie Cc: Deucher, Alexander; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; dri- de...@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [PATCH

Re: [PATCH 001/001] drivers/gpu/radeon: NULL pointer deference workaround

2016-09-09 Thread Mark Fortescue
On 09/09/16 13:20, Deucher, Alexander wrote: -Original Message- From: Koenig, Christian Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 4:16 AM To: Mark Fortescue; Koenig, Christian; David Airlie Cc: Deucher, Alexander; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; dri- de...@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [PATCH

Re: [PATCH 001/001] drivers/gpu/radeon: NULL pointer deference workaround

2016-09-08 Thread Mark Fortescue
On 08/09/16 11:25, Christian König wrote: Am 08.09.2016 um 11:09 schrieb Mark Fortescue: Hi Christian, Thank you for the feedback. On 08/09/16 08:14, Christian König wrote: Am 07.09.2016 um 19:38 schrieb Mark Fortescue: On an LV-683 (AMD Dual-core G-T56N) Mini-ITX board, I get a Kernel

Re: [PATCH 001/001] drivers/gpu/radeon: NULL pointer deference workaround

2016-09-08 Thread Mark Fortescue
On 08/09/16 11:25, Christian König wrote: Am 08.09.2016 um 11:09 schrieb Mark Fortescue: Hi Christian, Thank you for the feedback. On 08/09/16 08:14, Christian König wrote: Am 07.09.2016 um 19:38 schrieb Mark Fortescue: On an LV-683 (AMD Dual-core G-T56N) Mini-ITX board, I get a Kernel

Re: [PATCH 001/001] drivers/gpu/radeon: NULL pointer deference workaround

2016-09-08 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi Christian, Thank you for the feedback. On 08/09/16 08:14, Christian König wrote: Am 07.09.2016 um 19:38 schrieb Mark Fortescue: On an LV-683 (AMD Dual-core G-T56N) Mini-ITX board, I get a Kernel Oops because Connector 0 (LCD Panel interface) does not have DDC. I'm not an expert

Re: [PATCH 001/001] drivers/gpu/radeon: NULL pointer deference workaround

2016-09-08 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi Christian, Thank you for the feedback. On 08/09/16 08:14, Christian König wrote: Am 07.09.2016 um 19:38 schrieb Mark Fortescue: On an LV-683 (AMD Dual-core G-T56N) Mini-ITX board, I get a Kernel Oops because Connector 0 (LCD Panel interface) does not have DDC. I'm not an expert

[PATCH 001/001] drivers/gpu/radeon: NULL pointer deference workaround

2016-09-07 Thread Mark Fortescue
in to sorting the issue resulting in this patch. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1587885 for more details. Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue <m...@thurning-instruments.co.uk> Tested-by: Mark Fortescue <m...@thurning-instruments.co.uk> --- Looks like Thunderbird may have made a mess of th

[PATCH 001/001] drivers/gpu/radeon: NULL pointer deference workaround

2016-09-07 Thread Mark Fortescue
in to sorting the issue resulting in this patch. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1587885 for more details. Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue Tested-by: Mark Fortescue --- Looks like Thunderbird may have made a mess of the patch when pasting the contents into the mail message - my alternate mail

[PATCH] Re: [SPARC32] NULL pointer derefference

2007-07-31 Thread Mark Fortescue
ap(address)) == invalid_segment) { Regards Mark Fortescue.From: Mark Fortescue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This deals with a sun4c issue caused by commit b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba: mm: variable length argument support. The new way the code works means that sun4c_update_mmu_c

[PATCH] Re: [SPARC32] NULL pointer derefference

2007-07-31 Thread Mark Fortescue
)) == invalid_segment) { Regards Mark Fortescue.From: Mark Fortescue [EMAIL PROTECTED] This deals with a sun4c issue caused by commit b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba: mm: variable length argument support. The new way the code works means that sun4c_update_mmu_cache gets called before

Re: [SPARC32] NULL pointer derefference

2007-07-30 Thread Mark Fortescue
out the flush_cache_page callmade in the new code. This had no effect on the problem. Other tests have shown it is breaking earlier than this. I am going to try to narrow down exactly where the pointer gets messed up as this should help. Regards Mark Fortescue. - To unsubscribe from

Re: [SPARC32] NULL pointer derefference

2007-07-30 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi David, Thanks for the comments. On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, David Miller wrote: From: Mark Fortescue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:18:42 +0100 (BST) Unfortunatly Sparc32 sun4c low level memory management apears to be incompatible with

Re: [SPARC32] NULL pointer derefference

2007-07-30 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi David, Thanks for the comments. On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, David Miller wrote: From: Mark Fortescue [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:18:42 +0100 (BST) Unfortunatly Sparc32 sun4c low level memory management apears to be incompatible with commit

Re: [SPARC32] NULL pointer derefference

2007-07-30 Thread Mark Fortescue
out the flush_cache_page callmade in the new code. This had no effect on the problem. Other tests have shown it is breaking earlier than this. I am going to try to narrow down exactly where the pointer gets messed up as this should help. Regards Mark Fortescue. - To unsubscribe from

[SPARC32] NULL pointer derefference

2007-07-29 Thread Mark Fortescue
hat is going on, but I could not see any. Can any one help? Regards Mark Fortescue. - 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: Sparc32 not working:2.6.23-rc1 (git commit 1e4dcd22efa7d24f637ab2ea3a77dd65774eb005)

2007-07-29 Thread Mark Fortescue
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 07:26:29PM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: ... I am going to try to cherry pick a set of commits to see if I can't get a better idear of where the memory corruption on sun4c is coming from. Build problems sue to the DMA changes

Re: Sparc32 not working:2.6.23-rc1 (git commit 1e4dcd22efa7d24f637ab2ea3a77dd65774eb005)

2007-07-29 Thread Mark Fortescue
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Krzysztof Helt wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:21:06 +0100 (BST) Mark Fortescue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Krzysztof, There have been lots of changes to the DMA system (git bisect is not viable form my working 2.6.22 kernel as the dma changes kill the build fo

Re: Sparc32 not working:2.6.23-rc1 (git commit 1e4dcd22efa7d24f637ab2ea3a77dd65774eb005)

2007-07-29 Thread Mark Fortescue
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Krzysztof Helt wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:21:06 +0100 (BST) Mark Fortescue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Krzysztof, There have been lots of changes to the DMA system (git bisect is not viable form my working 2.6.22 kernel as the dma changes kill the build for over

Re: Sparc32 not working:2.6.23-rc1 (git commit 1e4dcd22efa7d24f637ab2ea3a77dd65774eb005)

2007-07-29 Thread Mark Fortescue
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 07:26:29PM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: ... I am going to try to cherry pick a set of commits to see if I can't get a better idear of where the memory corruption on sun4c is coming from. Build problems sue to the DMA changes

[SPARC32] NULL pointer derefference

2007-07-29 Thread Mark Fortescue
is going on, but I could not see any. Can any one help? Regards Mark Fortescue. - 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

Re: [PATCH] Add in SunOS 4.1.x compatible mode for UFS

2007-07-25 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi Evgeniy, On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Evgeniy Dushistov wrote: Looks good. Just a few minor things: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:27:46PM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: Macros have been put in to alow suport for the old static table Cylinder Groups but this implementation does not use them yet

[PATCH] Add in SunOS 4.1.x compatible mode for UFS

2007-07-25 Thread Mark Fortescue
partition. Using SunOS 4.1.1 to verify the filing system is OK and to check the files. The test host is a sun4c SS1 Clone. The patch has been attached to prevent it getting mangled. Regards Mark Fortescue.From: Mark Fortescue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add in support for SunOS 4.1.x flavor

[PATCH] Add in SunOS 4.1.x compatible mode for UFS

2007-07-25 Thread Mark Fortescue
partition. Using SunOS 4.1.1 to verify the filing system is OK and to check the files. The test host is a sun4c SS1 Clone. The patch has been attached to prevent it getting mangled. Regards Mark Fortescue.From: Mark Fortescue [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add in support for SunOS 4.1.x flavor of BSD 4.2

Re: [PATCH] Add in SunOS 4.1.x compatible mode for UFS

2007-07-25 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi Evgeniy, On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Evgeniy Dushistov wrote: Looks good. Just a few minor things: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:27:46PM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: Macros have been put in to alow suport for the old static table Cylinder Groups but this implementation does not use them yet

Re: [PATCH] Mark sparc and sparc64 as not having virt_to_bus

2007-07-18 Thread Mark Fortescue
to the floppy driver module, or the exporting of a number of variables and functions used by the handler so that they can be picked up by the floppy driver module. Moving the low level handeler would be better from the point of view of modular code. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Wed

Re: [PATCH] Mark sparc and sparc64 as not having virt_to_bus

2007-07-18 Thread Mark Fortescue
to the floppy driver module, or the exporting of a number of variables and functions used by the handler so that they can be picked up by the floppy driver module. Moving the low level handeler would be better from the point of view of modular code. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Wed

Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-04 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi David, I have sucessfully tested the attached patch on Sparc32:sun4c. Is there any chance of this getting sufficiantly tested on other architectures to get in into v2.6.22 ? Regards Mark Fortescue.From: Mark Fortescue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Woodhouse <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-04 Thread Mark Fortescue
the alignment need to be that of unsigned long long ? Regards Mark Fortescue. On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 04:27 +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: I tried the previous patch and it looks like it fixes the issue however one of the test builds I did caused depmod

Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-04 Thread Mark Fortescue
the alignment need to be that of unsigned long long ? Regards Mark Fortescue. On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 04:27 +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: I tried the previous patch and it looks like it fixes the issue however one of the test builds I did caused depmod

Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-04 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi David, I have sucessfully tested the attached patch on Sparc32:sun4c. Is there any chance of this getting sufficiantly tested on other architectures to get in into v2.6.22 ? Regards Mark Fortescue.From: Mark Fortescue [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verious

Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Fortescue
} #if FORCED_DEBUG && defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) if (size >= malloc_sizes[INDEX_L3 + 1].cs_size --- Let me know if you would like an un-mangled copy of the patch as an attachement. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 20

Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi David, I will try out your patch shortly. On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 22:25 +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: The problem is that sun4c Sparc32 can't handle un-aligned variables so having a 64bit readzone word that is not aligned on a 64bit boundary

Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Fortescue
words. This may be part of the problem. By making BYTES_PER_WORD 64bit aligned (Sparc32) this is nolonger an issue. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 19:57 +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: Commit

[PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Fortescue
Mark Fortescue. On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Mark Fortescue wrote: Hi all, I think I have found the cause of the problem. Commit b46b8f19c9cd435ecac4d9d12b39d78c137ecd66 partially fixed alignment issues but does not ensure that all 64bit alignment requirements of sparc32 are met. Tests have shown

Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Fortescue
currently working on a posible fix. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc7. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces Name

Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Fortescue
currently working on a posible fix. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc7. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces Name

[PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Fortescue
Mark Fortescue. On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Mark Fortescue wrote: Hi all, I think I have found the cause of the problem. Commit b46b8f19c9cd435ecac4d9d12b39d78c137ecd66 partially fixed alignment issues but does not ensure that all 64bit alignment requirements of sparc32 are met. Tests have shown

Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Fortescue
words. This may be part of the problem. By making BYTES_PER_WORD 64bit aligned (Sparc32) this is nolonger an issue. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 19:57 +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: Commit

Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi David, I will try out your patch shortly. On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 22:25 +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: The problem is that sun4c Sparc32 can't handle un-aligned variables so having a 64bit readzone word that is not aligned on a 64bit boundary

Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Fortescue
= malloc_sizes[INDEX_L3 + 1].cs_size --- Let me know if you would like an un-mangled copy of the patch as an attachement. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 23:47 +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: Hi David, I will try out your patch

Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc6: known regressions

2007-06-27 Thread Mark Fortescue
Mark Fortescue. On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc6. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions *STATISTICS* (a.k.a. list of aces) NameRegressions

Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc6: known regressions

2007-06-27 Thread Mark Fortescue
Mark Fortescue. On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc6. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions *STATISTICS* (a.k.a. list of aces) NameRegressions

Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions v3

2007-06-17 Thread Mark Fortescue
narrow down the cause. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:30:25AM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: They apear as soon as simpleinit starts up. Somtimes I get to a login prompt before seeing any. Other times, commands

Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions v3

2007-06-17 Thread Mark Fortescue
narrow down the cause. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:30:25AM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: They apear as soon as simpleinit starts up. Somtimes I get to a login prompt before seeing any. Other times, commands

Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions v3

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Fortescue
oes that I have during kernel fault location had are terminal to a sun4c (they cause a processor lockup). Regards Mark Fortescue. On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:30:25AM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: They apear as soon as simpleinit starts

Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions v3

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Fortescue
cat ..). The test I did use the same binaries with both the OK and problem kernels so it is not a change to the application code, it is definatly a kernel issue. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:25:20PM +0100, Mark

Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions v3

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Fortescue
cat ..). The test I did use the same binaries with both the OK and problem kernels so it is not a change to the application code, it is definatly a kernel issue. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:25:20PM +0100, Mark

Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions v3

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Fortescue
have during kernel fault location had are terminal to a sun4c (they cause a processor lockup). Regards Mark Fortescue. On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:30:25AM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: They apear as soon as simpleinit starts up

Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions v3

2007-06-13 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi all, The random seg faults on x86_64 is interesting as I have been getting random illegal instruction faults on sparc (sun4c) with 2.6.22-rc3. I have not yet tried to track it down. All I know at present is that it is not a problem on 2.6.20.9. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Wed, 13

Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions v3

2007-06-13 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi all, The random seg faults on x86_64 is interesting as I have been getting random illegal instruction faults on sparc (sun4c) with 2.6.22-rc3. I have not yet tried to track it down. All I know at present is that it is not a problem on 2.6.20.9. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Wed, 13

[PATCH] drivers/serial/sunzilog: Interrupt enable before ISR handler installed

2007-05-09 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi all, I have added a from line, comment and signed-off-by line to the attached patch file. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Mon, 7 May 2007, David Miller wrote: Regards Mark Fortescue. From: Mark Fortescue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:00:29 +0100 (BS

[PATCH] drivers/serial/sunzilog: Interrupt enable before ISR handler installed

2007-05-09 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi all, I have added a from line, comment and signed-off-by line to the attached patch file. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Mon, 7 May 2007, David Miller wrote: Regards Mark Fortescue. From: Mark Fortescue [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:00:29 +0100 (BST) I have

[TESTING NEEDED] drivers/serial/sunzilog: Interrupt enable before ISR handler installed

2007-05-02 Thread Mark Fortescue
/drivers/serial/sunzilog.c2007-04-28 14:54:49.0 +0100 @@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ * work there. * * Copyright (C) 2002, 2006 David S. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) + * + * Thu Apr 19 02:59:49 BST 2007 + * Mark Fortescue ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) + * + * Change R9 handling to ensure interrupts

[TESTING NEEDED] drivers/serial/sunzilog: Interrupt enable before ISR handler installed

2007-05-02 Thread Mark Fortescue
/drivers/serial/sunzilog.c2007-04-28 14:54:49.0 +0100 @@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ * work there. * * Copyright (C) 2002, 2006 David S. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) + * + * Thu Apr 19 02:59:49 BST 2007 + * Mark Fortescue ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) + * + * Change R9 handling to ensure interrupts

Re: [TESTING NEEDED] drivers/serial/sunzilog: Interrupt enable before ISR handler installed

2007-04-29 Thread Mark Fortescue
I have altered the patch as advised and I have attached it to prevent my email client from making a mess of it. The attached patch changes the interrupt enable sequence for the sunzilog driver so that interrupts are not enabled untill after the interrupt handler has been installed. If this is

Re: [TESTING NEEDED] drivers/serial/sunzilog: Interrupt enable before ISR handler installed

2007-04-29 Thread Mark Fortescue
I have altered the patch as advised and I have attached it to prevent my email client from making a mess of it. The attached patch changes the interrupt enable sequence for the sunzilog driver so that interrupts are not enabled untill after the interrupt handler has been installed. If this is

Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!.

2005-03-28 Thread Mark Fortescue
terms and conditions in the "COPYING" file in the kernel source tree. I wait with interest for your comments. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 05:52:20PM +, Mark Fortescue wrote: > > > > I am writing a &quo

Re: Can't use SYSFS for Proprietry driver modules !!!.

2005-03-28 Thread Mark Fortescue
in the COPYING file in the kernel source tree. I wait with interest for your comments. Regards Mark Fortescue. On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 05:52:20PM +, Mark Fortescue wrote: I am writing a Proprietry driver module for a Proprietry PCI card and I have

Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!.

2005-03-26 Thread Mark Fortescue
ment in all areas and should be chanaged in a way that promotes diversified software development. Regards Mark Fortescue. - 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

Can't use SYSFS for Proprietry driver modules !!!.

2005-03-26 Thread Mark Fortescue
in a way that promotes diversified software development. Regards Mark Fortescue. - 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

Re: linux-2.6.8.1 to linux-2.6.10: Kernel Patching Issues.

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Fortescue
). A quick google search sugests that I am not the only person to have issues with this. Is there any chance that at some point in the future, the kernel filenames will be changed so that dumb OS like MS Windows don't mess it all up ? Regards Mark Fortescue. On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Tim

linux-2.6.8.1 to linux-2.6.10: Kernel Patching Issues.

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Fortescue
her <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - * - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify - * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as - * published by the Free Software Foundation. - */ - - -#include -#include - -#include -#include - -MODULE_LICENSE("GP

linux-2.6.8.1 to linux-2.6.10: Kernel Patching Issues.

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Fortescue
, - const void *targinfo, - void *userinfo) - { Regards Mark Fortescue. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: linux-2.6.8.1 to linux-2.6.10: Kernel Patching Issues.

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Fortescue
). A quick google search sugests that I am not the only person to have issues with this. Is there any chance that at some point in the future, the kernel filenames will be changed so that dumb OS like MS Windows don't mess it all up ? Regards Mark Fortescue. On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Tim