Re: [RFC] Changing COW detection to be memory hotplug friendly

2005-02-10 Thread IWAMOTO Toshihiro
At Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:26:26 + (GMT), Hugh Dickins wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, IWAMOTO Toshihiro wrote: The current implementation of memory hotremoval relies on that pages can be unmapped from process spaces. After successful unmapping,

Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-10 Thread Eugeny S. Mints
Russell King wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:41:10AM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: All I want to do is integrate the common IRQ threading code. To do that I need things , from Russell, like per descriptor locks .. And I need things , from Ingo, like pulling out the IRQ threading code..

Re: Spontaneous reboot with 2.6.10 and NFSD

2005-02-10 Thread Kim Holviala
Kim Holviala wrote: To narrow down the problem, I've tried the following: - copied files from a different client running Gentoo: reboot - exported a non-raided partition (hdc9) and tried that: reboot - switched 2.6.10 to 2.6.11-rc3: reboot, but it took longer - tried with both udp and tcp mounts

Re: How to retrieve version from kernel source (the right way)?

2005-02-10 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi. Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: A backward-compatible replacement for the new kernelrelease (which was added only 8 weeks ago) rule is: echo -e 'foo:[EMAIL PROTECTED] $(KERNELRELEASE)\ninclude Makefile' \ | make -f- Thanks a lot, that works great! Bye, Mike - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-10 Thread Stephane Raimbault
That's a different bug that has already been fixed in 2.6.11-rc3-bk6. http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Works fine, thanks. Stephane - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 00/11] ide: ide driver updates series 2, round 2

2005-02-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Bartlomiej. This is the second round of series 2 patches. This series focuses mainly on removing CMD and TASK drive commands. Patches are against the latest ide-dev-2.6 bk tree. Newly added are #01, #04 and #05. #01 was #20 in the first posting of 29 patches. I pushed it back for

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 01/11] ide: task_end_request() fix

2005-02-10 Thread Tejun Heo
01_ide_task_end_request_fix.patch task_end_request() modified to always call ide_end_drive_cmd() for taskfile requests. Previously, ide_end_drive_cmd() was called only when task-tf_out_flags.all was set. Also, ide_dma_intr() is modified to use

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 04/11] ide: removes unneeded HOB access using ATA_TFLAG_LBA48 flag

2005-02-10 Thread Tejun Heo
04_ide_ATA_TFLAG_LBA48.patch This small patch fixes unneeded writes/reads to LBA48 taskfile registers on LBA48 capable disks for following cases: * Power Management requests (WIN_FLUSH_CACHE[_EXT], WIN_STANDBYNOW1, WIN_IDLEIMMEDIATE commands) * special

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 10/11] ide: make ide_cmd_ioctl() use TASKFILE

2005-02-10 Thread Tejun Heo
10_ide_taskfile_cmd_ioctl.patch ide_cmd_ioctl() rewritten to use taskfile transport. This is the last user of REQ_DRIVE_CMD. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c | 118 - include/linux/ide.h

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 06/11] ide: make disk flush functions use TASKFILE instead of TASK

2005-02-10 Thread Tejun Heo
06_ide_taskfile_flush.patch * idedisk_issue_flush() converted to use REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE. This and the changes in ide_get_error_location() remove a possible race condition between ide_get_error_location() and other requests. * ide_queue_flush_cmd()

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 05/11] ide: fixes io_32bit race in ide_taskfile_ioctl()

2005-02-10 Thread Tejun Heo
05_ide_ATA_TFLAG_IO_16BIT.patch In ide_taskfile_ioctl(), there was a race condition involving drive-io_32bit. It was cleared and restored during ioctl requests but there was no synchronization with other requests. So, other requests could execute with the altered

Re: Spontaneous reboot with 2.6.10 and NFSD

2005-02-10 Thread Kim Holviala
Kim Holviala wrote: Kim Holviala wrote: To narrow down the problem, I've tried the following: - copied files from a different client running Gentoo: reboot - exported a non-raided partition (hdc9) and tried that: reboot - switched 2.6.10 to 2.6.11-rc3: reboot, but it took longer - tried with both

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 09/11] ide: convert uses of REQ_DRIVE_CMD to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-02-10 Thread Tejun Heo
09_ide_taskfile_cmd.patch All in-kernel REQ_DRIVE_CMD users except for ide_cmd_ioctl() converted to use REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ide-disk.c |1 - ide.c | 15 --- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 02/11] ide: ide_init_drive_cmd() now defaults to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-02-10 Thread Tejun Heo
02_ide_taskfile_init_drive_cmd.patch ide_init_drive_cmd() now initializes rq-flags to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE instead of REQ_DRIVE_CMD. This is preparation for removal of REQ_DRIVE_CMD. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ide-io.c |4 ++-- ide-taskfile.c |

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 07/11] ide: make ide_task_ioctl() use TASKFILE

2005-02-10 Thread Tejun Heo
07_ide_taskfile_task_ioctl.patch ide_task_ioctl() rewritten to use taskfile transport. This is the last user of REQ_DRIVE_TASK. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ide-taskfile.c | 50 +++--- 1 files changed, 31

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 08/11] ide: remove REQ_DRIVE_TASK handling

2005-02-10 Thread Tejun Heo
08_ide_remove_task.patch Unused REQ_DRIVE_TASK handling removed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c |1 drivers/ide/ide-io.c | 48 +++--- drivers/ide/ide-lib.c |2 - include/linux/blkdev.h

Re: relayfs redux, part 4

2005-02-10 Thread Pekka J Enberg
I wrote: Please consider inlining alloc_page_array() and populate_page_array() into relay_alloc_rchan_buf() as they're only used once. You'd get rid of passing page_count as a pointer this way. If inlining is unacceptable, please at least move the n_pages calculation to relay_alloc_rchan_buf() to

Re: [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities

2005-02-10 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:30:04PM -0500, Adam Belay wrote: Hi, This patch adds initial support for driver matching priorities to the driver model. It is needed for my work on converting the pci bridge driver to use struct device_driver. It may also be helpful for driver with more complex

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-10 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 9, 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry McVoy) wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:06:02AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: So you've somehow managed to trick most kernel developers into granting you power over not only the BK history It's exactly the same as a file system. If you put some

Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm

2005-02-10 Thread Fruhwirth Clemens
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 17:19 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Fruhwirth Clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It must be possible to process more than 2 mappings in softirq context. Adding a few more fixmap slots wouldn't hurt anyone. But if you want an arbitrarily large number of them then no,

Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm

2005-02-10 Thread Fruhwirth Clemens
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 20:42 -0500, James Morris wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: Because a tweak is different from an IV. There can be an arbitrary number of tweaks. For instance, EME takes 1 tweak per 512 bytes. If you have a 4k page to encrypt, you have to process 8

Re: 2.6.10 devfs oops without devfs mounted at all

2005-02-10 Thread Sergey S. Kostyliov
On Thursday 10 February 2005 03:36, Andrew Morton wrote: Sergey S. Kostyliov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is an oops I've just get on my smp system: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 001c printing eip: c01afe5b *pde = Oops:

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-10 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: This problem is nowhere near as hard as you are making it out to be but it is hard. But it's not that bad, we do this every time we do a CVS import, we have to intuit the changeset boundaries themselves, which is actually harder than what you are

Re: Spontaneous reboot with 2.6.10 and NFSD

2005-02-10 Thread Kim Holviala
Neil Brown wrote: On Thursday February 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I mount the export to a Linux client (tried with a few with different 2.6 kernels and distros) and then start copying files from clients CDROM to the server through NFS. After copying a few small files, the first big

Re: 2.6.10 devfs oops without devfs mounted at all

2005-02-10 Thread Sergey S. Kostyliov
On Thursday 10 February 2005 12:49, Sergey S. Kostyliov wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2005 03:36, Andrew Morton wrote: Sergey S. Kostyliov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is an oops I've just get on my smp system: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-10 Thread linux
I really got bored of this thread.Can you all question your self on thing? If someone starts reading right now the sources of the linux kernel will be able to understand every aspect and part of the code??? Do you understand every aspect? Is it still opensource or starts to be a closedsource

oops with 2.4.28

2005-02-10 Thread Gabor Z. Papp
paging request at virtual address 2048c500 Details can be found at: http://gzp.odpn.net/tmp/linux-2.4.28-20050210/ linux-2.4.28-20050210.tgz Description: Binary data

Floppy driver DMA question - PLEASE answer me, it's important for fixing

2005-02-10 Thread Pavel Fedin
I'd like to ask some questions about floppy driver. I am owner of Pegasos-II PowerPC-based mainboard (http://www.pegasosppc.com) and floppy drive doesn't work on my machine. It doesn't read any data, sometimes even causes random crashes. Sometimes operation looks like completed ok but wrong

Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew Morton
Fruhwirth Clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 17:19 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Fruhwirth Clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It must be possible to process more than 2 mappings in softirq context. Adding a few more fixmap slots wouldn't hurt anyone. But if you

2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew Morton
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/2.6.11-rc3-mm2/ - Added the mlock and !SCHED_OTHER Linux Security Module for the audio guys. It seems that nothing else is going to come along and this is completely encapsulated. - Various other stuff. If anyone

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-10 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2005-02-09 22:53:35 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That cannot be done. Just hit a resistor-based touchscreen once with a hammer. You'll probably see that you need a physical recalibration then... Or flood it with water-solved citronic

Re: Spontaneous reboot with 2.6.10 and NFSD

2005-02-10 Thread Kim Holviala
Kim Holviala wrote: Also, what filesystem is being used on the server, what mount flags (if any) and what export options. All the files are here: http://www.holviala.com/~kimmy/crash/mount Umph... Actually, the files are here: http://www.holviala.com/~kimmy/crash/ Mount options: /dev/md8 on /boot

Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm

2005-02-10 Thread Fruhwirth Clemens
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 02:33 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Fruhwirth Clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 17:19 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Fruhwirth Clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adding a few more fixmap slots wouldn't hurt anyone. But if you want an arbitrarily

Re: 2.6.10 kprobes/jprobes panic

2005-02-10 Thread Maneesh Soni
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 04:03:36PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 21:07, Prasanna S Panchamukhi wrote: [..] Error check and graceful exit can be done in the jprobe handler module. In the jprobe network packet logging patch, error check was taken care by using

Le meilleur des sites web et son gestionnaire de contenu.

2005-02-10 Thread site web
Bonjour, Votre site Internet est obsolète ou manque de dynamisme ? Vous souhaitez l'administrer vous-même et avoir une autonomie totale ? Vous avez un projet de développement ? Notre agence vous propose, clef en main, un site dynamique avec son gestionnaire de contenu. Son concept original,

Re: [Alsa-devel] [2.6 patch] fix sound/isa/gus/interwave.c compile with PNP=n

2005-02-10 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 6 Feb 2005 19:44:21 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: Emmanuel Colbus sent this patch one month ago with the following description: There is a trivial bug in the file sound/isa/gus/interwave.c . The variable isapnp is defined only if CONFIG_PNP is enabled, but it is always used few lines

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-bk5: XFS: fcron: could not write() buf to disk: Resource temporarily unavailable

2005-02-10 Thread Alexander Y. Fomichev
On Thursday 10 February 2005 07:54, Nathan Scott wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:44:54PM +0300, Alexander Y. Fomichev wrote: On Wednesday 09 February 2005 04:29, Nathan Scott wrote: Is that an O_SYNC write, do you know? Or a write to an inode with the sync flag set? Yes, it is

Linux 2.4.30-pre1

2005-02-10 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, Here goes v2.4.30-pre1. It contains, amongst others, a SATA update, series of networking bug fixes, and v2.6 hardening backports. Please read the changelog for detailed information. (this is the second announcement I'm sending because I haven't seen the first one hit LKML). Summary

sysfs/kobject update breaks ACPI?

2005-02-10 Thread Jan Kasprzak
Hi all, my laptop (Asus M6R, http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/m6r/) has problems with ACPI with newer kernels - most of ACPI operations fail - here is the sample of error messages printed during boot. All other error messages contain the AE_TIME line as well: Initializing Cryptographic API

Thinkpad R40 freezes after swsusp resume

2005-02-10 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
I can suspend my R40 with swsusp, then boot it and resume fine most of the time. I'd say nearly 50$ of the time though, the machine will freeze within 5 minutes of resuming. SysRq doesn't work, no oops when in console mode, no network, no disk activity, just frozen. Occassionally, I've seen a

Re: Irix NFS server usual problem [patch, fc3 2.6.10-1,760_FC3]

2005-02-10 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:48:44PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: Have you applied SGI's IRIX patches to your server (the one that makes the cookies take 32-bit values)? Can't. They're 6.4. And in any case it's 31-bits values glibc is limited to, which is the problem with the sgis (they're

Re: [rfc] keytables - the new keycode-keysym mapping

2005-02-10 Thread Jirka Bohac
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:03:30PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 06:19:21PM +0100, Jirka Bohac wrote: There are presently two ways around this, neither of them good enough 1) assigning one of the other modifier keysyms to the CapsLock key -- the LED will not

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-10 Thread Paulo Marques
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-09 22:53:35 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That cannot be done. Just hit a resistor-based touchscreen once with a hammer. You'll probably see that you need a physical recalibration then... Or flood it with

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:35:08AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/2.6.11-rc3-mm2/ - Added the mlock and !SCHED_OTHER Linux Security Module for the audio guys. It seems that nothing else is going to come along and

Re: the Turing Attack (was: Sabotaged PaXtest)

2005-02-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the bigger problem is however that you're once again fixing the symptoms, instead of the underlying problem - not the correct approach/mindset. i'll change my approach/mindset when it is proven that the underlying problem can be solved. (in a

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-10 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Thu, 2005-02-10 13:06:46 +, Paulo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We are seriously diverging now Let me try to put things into perspective: --- | | | Touch|

EDD failures since edd=off patch

2005-02-10 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi Matt, it seems the edd=off patch has caused some problems with some machines I have access to. They simply don't boot anymore unless I specify edd=foo. foo can be {off,skip,bar} so it seems the hang on boot is related to the parser not finding the parameter it is looking for. I looked through

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc3-mm2] remove TANBAC_TB0219 doubly registered in kernel config

2005-02-10 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
This patch removes TANBAC_TB0219 doubly registered in kernel config. Yoichi Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urN -X dontdiff a-orig/arch/mips/Kconfig a/arch/mips/Kconfig --- a-orig/arch/mips/KconfigThu Feb 10 21:13:55 2005 +++ a/arch/mips/Kconfig Thu Feb 10 22:16:12 2005

platform_get_resource()

2005-02-10 Thread Thomas Koeller
Hi Patrick, I am writing a driver for a platform device, and I want the platform to communicate to the driver the resources allocted for the device. My platform has resources that are not of the standard kind IORESOURCE_[IO|MEM|IRQ|DMA], and while I can pass them into a call to

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-10 Thread Stelian Pop
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:08:20AM -0500, James Bruce wrote: Roman, please give up on importing 100% of the history. There's no point arguing something if you already know what the other person's answer will be. Larry will not change his mind under any currently foreseeable

Re: the Turing Attack (was: Sabotaged PaXtest)

2005-02-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jakob Oestergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:43:14PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the bigger problem is however that you're once again fixing the symptoms, instead of the underlying problem - not the correct

Re: [NFS] Re: Irix NFS server usual problem [patch, fc3 2.6.10-1,760_FC3]

2005-02-10 Thread Trond Myklebust
to den 10.02.2005 Klokka 13:48 (+0100) skreiv Olivier Galibert: If the patch looks like it's going to be accepted, I'll send the (trivial) mount changes to whoever the util-linux maintainer is. And does someone happens to know who maintains the mount/nfs options man page? No. No more hacks

Re: Fw: [Bug 4171] New: bttv seems broken here

2005-02-10 Thread Corey Minyard
JJ Luza and I found the problem. A patch to the I2C non-blocking changes is attached. JJ was a tremendous help on this. -Corey Andrew Morton wrote: Not sure who to blame here ;) Corey made some i2c changes... Begin forwarded message: Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 13:36:53 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH][2.4.30-pre1] preliminary fixes for gcc-4.0

2005-02-10 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Here is a preliminary set of patches to allow gcc-4.0 (20050130) to compile the 2.4.30-pre1 kernel. I make no claim that the patches are complete, but they have been tested successfully on i386 (multiple boxes), x86-64, and ppc32. The changes fall into these categories: - static-vs-non-static

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-10 Thread Paulo Marques
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-10 13:06:46 +, Paulo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] To get raw values that are (xmax-xmin)=20, the TS controller must be trying to do some calibration itself. All touchscreens get calibrated once during their

Re: [tpmdd-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] tpm: update tpm sysfs file ownership - updated version

2005-02-10 Thread Kylene Hall
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 16:04, Chris Wright wrote: +#define TPM_DEVICE_ATTRS { \ + __ATTR(pubek, S_IRUGO, show_pubek, NULL), \ + __ATTR(pcrs, S_IRUGO, show_pcrs, NULL), \ + __ATTR(caps, S_IRUGO, show_caps, NULL), \ + __ATTR(cancel, S_IWUSR | S_IWGRP, NULL, store_cancel) } This

[PATCH 1/5] sonypi: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep()

2005-02-10 Thread Stelian Pop
=== Replace schedule_timeout() with msleep() - from janitors. Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] === sonypi.c | 11 --- 1 files changed, 4

[PATCH 0/5] sonypi driver update

2005-02-10 Thread Stelian Pop
Hi, Over the last few weeks I've collected a few patches in my tree coming from others and it's time to merge them upstream: 1/5: sonypi: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep() 2/5: sonypi: add another HELP button event 3/5: sonypi: use MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR in

[PATCH 2/5] sonypi: add another HELP button event

2005-02-10 Thread Stelian Pop
=== Add another HELP button event. Increment the version number. Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] === sonypi.h |5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3

[PATCH 3/5] sonypi: use MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR in miscdevice.minor assignment.

2005-02-10 Thread Stelian Pop
=== Use MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR in miscdevice.minor assignment. Patch-from: Olaf Hering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] === sonypi.c |5

[PATCH 5/5] sonypi: add fan and temperature status/control

2005-02-10 Thread Stelian Pop
=== 1. FAN Status/Control: you can now get the fan status (running or not) and also set the fan speed (for 5 seconds only). The problem is that there is an auto regulator that kicks in within about 5 seconds after that to

[PATCH 4/5] sonypi: fold the contents of sonypi.h into sonypi.c

2005-02-10 Thread Stelian Pop
=== Fold the contents of sonypi.h into sonypi.c making some structures static. Partly-from: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suggested-by: Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-10 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Thu, 2005-02-10 15:35:28 +, Paulo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: So you're seriously saying that a perfectly good touchscreen, that returned values in the range [350..3800] after being injured might give values in a range

Re: Real-Time Preemption and GFP_ATOMIC

2005-02-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Kevin Hilman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To produce the following trace, I wrote a simple moudle which just has this as its init_module routine: local_irq_disable(); p = __get_free_page(GFP_ATOMIC); local_irq_enable(); in the PREEMPT_RT kernel almost everything

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:35:28PM +, Paulo Marques wrote: By the way, this has nothing to do with the kernel. The input API can deliver at least 16 bit resolution to user space, so there is no limitation on the software side. It is the A/D resolution that matters. Make that 32-bit.

[no subject]

2005-02-10 Thread Andreas Maier
[patch] sundance.c - high interrupt load In at least some versions of Kernel 2.6 (2.6.8.1, 2.6.11-rc2) the driver drivers/net/sundance.c creates high interrupt load (~ 100 interrupts per second) even in case of no network traffic at all. It seems that some sort of TX overflow handling is

[PATCH, new ACPI driver] new sony_acpi driver

2005-02-10 Thread Stelian Pop
Hi, This driver has been submitted (almost unchanged) on lkml and on acpi-devel twice, first on July 21, 2004, then again on September 17, 2004. It has been quietly ignored. Privately I've had many positive feedbacks from users of this driver (and no negative feedback), including Linux

Re: sysfs/kobject update breaks ACPI?

2005-02-10 Thread Jan Kasprzak
Jan Kasprzak wrote: : my laptop (Asus M6R, http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/m6r/) has problems with : ACPI with newer kernels - most of ACPI operations fail [...] : However, the patch does not touch anything related to ACPI : (I think). It is a sysfs and kobject update. So I don't see how this :

[PATCH] sundance.c: high interrupt load [resent]

2005-02-10 Thread Andreas Maier
In at least some versions of Kernel 2.6 (2.6.8.1, 2.6.11-rc2) the driver drivers/net/sundance.c creates high interrupt load (~ 100 interrupts per second) even in case of no network traffic at all. It seems that some sort of TX overflow handling is misplaced and triggers interrupts very often even

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-10 Thread Steve Lee
Roman, besides BK being closed source, how exactly is it lacking for your needs? If what it lacks is a good idea and helps many, Larry and crew might be willing to add whatever it is you need. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: [NFS] Re: Irix NFS server usual problem [patch, fc3 2.6.10-1,760_FC3]

2005-02-10 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:20:44AM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: A permanent fix probably ought to involve removing our current dependency on using the server-generated readdir cookies as telldir/seekdir offsets. Remplacing it by? As in, I'm ready to do and test the code if I have a decent

Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm

2005-02-10 Thread James Morris
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: Hm, alright. So I'm going take the internal of kmap_atomic into scatterwalk.c. to test if the page is in highmem, with PageHighMem. If it is, I'm going to kmap_atomic and mark the fixmap as used. If it's not, I do the mapping on my own with

Re: EDD failures since edd=off patch

2005-02-10 Thread Matt Domsch
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:11:52PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Hi Matt, it seems the edd=off patch has caused some problems with some machines I have access to. They simply don't boot anymore unless I specify edd=foo. foo can be {off,skip,bar} so it seems the hang on boot is

Re: [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities

2005-02-10 Thread Adam Belay
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 00:41 -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:30:04PM -0500, Adam Belay wrote: Hi, This patch adds initial support for driver matching priorities to the driver model. It is needed for my work on converting the pci bridge driver to use struct

Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm

2005-02-10 Thread Fruhwirth Clemens
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 12:02 -0500, James Morris wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: Hm, alright. So I'm going take the internal of kmap_atomic into scatterwalk.c. to test if the page is in highmem, with PageHighMem. If it is, I'm going to kmap_atomic and mark the fixmap

Re: [PATCH 2/5] sonypi: add another HELP button event

2005-02-10 Thread Daniel K.
Stelian Pop wrote: === Add another HELP button event. Increment the version number. Index: drivers/char/sonypi.h === --- a/drivers/char/sonypi.h (revision

[patch 1/1] Uml: fix makefile typo [before 2.6.11]

2005-02-10 Thread blaisorblade
From: Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fix a typo in the Makefile cleanup merged earlier, which causes compile failures in some edge cases. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/Makefile |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2

NFS (ext3/VFS?) bug in 2.6.8/10

2005-02-10 Thread Neil Conway
Hi people... We're seeing lots of No such file or directory errors (ENOENT) coming back from NFS accesses of one of our data server machines. After (rather a lot of) investigation, we conclude that a kernel bug is probably involved. Happily, there's a really simple recipe to reproduce the

[RFC PATCH] add wait_event_*_lock() functions

2005-02-10 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
Hi David, LKML, It came up on IRC that the wait_cond*() functions from usb/serial/gadget.c could be useful in other parts of the kernel. Does the following patch make sense towards this? I did not add corresponding wait_event_exclusive() macros, as I don't think they would be used, but that is a

Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm

2005-02-10 Thread James Morris
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: Why should I pass the first thing of size X as scatterlist, and the second thing of size X as linear buffer? I could do that. It would be reasonable, because tweaks are more likely to be generated than transmitted, read or whatever. But what

[BK PATCH] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.11-rc3

2005-02-10 Thread James Bottomley
This is a set of four bug fixes each with a corresponding user oops report and one well tested driver update. The patch is available at bk://linux-scsi.bkbits.net/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6 The short changelog is Andreas Herrmann: o zfcp: bugfixes (without kfree) for -bk Andrew Vasquez: o qla2xxx:

Re: [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities

2005-02-10 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:18:37 -0500, Adam Belay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 00:41 -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:30:04PM -0500, Adam Belay wrote: Hi, This patch adds initial support for driver matching priorities to the driver model. It is needed

Re: [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities

2005-02-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:18:37PM -0500, Adam Belay wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 00:41 -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:30:04PM -0500, Adam Belay wrote: Hi, This patch adds initial support for driver matching priorities to the driver model. It is needed for my

Re: NFS (ext3/VFS?) bug in 2.6.8/10

2005-02-10 Thread Markus Plail
Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We're seeing lots of No such file or directory errors (ENOENT) coming back from NFS accesses of one of our data server machines. I can't help you, but just want to say that I also see those errors on a local xfs file system, so it doesn't seem to be a NFS

Re: [RFC PATCH] add wait_event_*_lock() functions

2005-02-10 Thread David Brownell
On Thursday 10 February 2005 9:39 am, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: Hi David, LKML, It came up on IRC that the wait_cond*() functions from usb/serial/gadget.c could be useful in other parts of the kernel. Does the following patch make sense towards this? I know that Al Borchers -- who wrote

Re: Thinkpad R40 freezes after swsusp resume

2005-02-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I can suspend my R40 with swsusp, then boot it and resume fine most of the time. I'd say nearly 50$ of the time though, the machine will freeze within 5 minutes of resuming. SysRq doesn't work, no oops when in console mode, no network, no disk activity, just frozen. Occassionally,

Re: [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities

2005-02-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:18:37PM -0500, Adam Belay wrote: The second *match function in struct device_driver gives the driver a chance to evaluate it's ability of controlling the device and solves a few problems with the current implementation. (ex. it's not possible to detect ISA Modems

Re: [RFC PATCH] add wait_event_*_lock() functions

2005-02-10 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:21:58AM -0800, David Brownell wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2005 9:39 am, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: Hi David, LKML, It came up on IRC that the wait_cond*() functions from usb/serial/gadget.c could be useful in other parts of the kernel. Does the following

Re: How to retrieve version from kernel source (the right way)?

2005-02-10 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:06:34AM +0100, Michael Renzmann wrote: Hi. Sam Ravnborg wrote: But... what is the right way to do this? I think you are looking for: make kernelrelease [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.10 $ make kernelrelease make: *** No rule to make target `kernelrelease'. Stop.

Re: [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities

2005-02-10 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:18:37PM -0500, Adam Belay wrote: I think the issue that Al raises about drivers grabbing devices, and then trying to unbind them might be a real problem. I agree. Do you think registering every in-kernel driver before probing hardware would solve this problem?

Re: [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities

2005-02-10 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:33:38 -0800, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:18:37PM -0500, Adam Belay wrote: The second *match function in struct device_driver gives the driver a chance to evaluate it's ability of controlling the device and solves a few problems with

[patch] inotify for 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-10 Thread Robert Love
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 02:35 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: -inotify.patch -inotify-fix_find_inode.patch I think my version is old, and it oopses. It is old. I have sent you multiple updates. ;-) Attached, find a patch against 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 of the latest inotify. This version has numerous

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

2005-02-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Alan Cox wrote: On Sad, 2005-02-05 at 09:35, Pavel Machek wrote: Rumors say that notebooks no longer have video bios at C000h:0; rumors say that video BIOS on notebooks is simply integrated into main system BIOS. I personaly do not know if rumors are true, but PCs are ugly machines

[patch 1/1] uml: use PTRACE_OLDSETOPTIONS instead of PTRACE_SETOPTIONS [before 2.6.11]

2005-02-10 Thread blaisorblade
From: Bodo Stroesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux 2.6, PTRACE_SETOPTIONS is redefined to 0x4200, while the old 2.4 value (21) is still available as PTRACE_OLDSETOPTIONS. So, if UML uses PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, an UML-kernel built on a 2.6 won't run on a 2.4

Re: [RFC] Changing COW detection to be memory hotplug friendly

2005-02-10 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:26:26PM +, Hugh Dickins wrote: Seems it was okay after all, I got confused by an unrelated issue. Here's what I had in mind, what do you think? Does it indeed help with your problem? I'm copying Andrea because it was he who devised that fix to the

Re: [PATCH] Fix ALPS sync loss

2005-02-10 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 18:40:12 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the promised patch. It turns out protocol validation code was a bit (or rather a byte ;) ) off. +++ b/drivers/input/mouse/alps.c 2005-02-08 18:16:27 -05:00 @@ -198,8 +198,8 @@ return

Re: How to retrieve version from kernel source (the right way)?

2005-02-10 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi. Sam Ravnborg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.10 $ make kernelrelease make: *** No rule to make target `kernelrelease'. Stop. I works with the 2.6 kernel. As Andreas Gruenbacher pointed out, this feature has been implemented just about 8 weeks ago. He also gave the following snippet as a

Re: [PATCH] Altix : ioc4 serial driver support

2005-02-10 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Tuesday, February 8, 2005 8:52 am, Patrick Gefre wrote: I've update the patch with changes from the comments below. ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sn2/sn2-update/033-ioc4-support Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:58:33AM -0600, Patrick Gefre wrote: Latest version with

Re: [PATCH] Altix : ioc4 serial driver support

2005-02-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:09:43AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: On Tuesday, February 8, 2005 8:52 am, Patrick Gefre wrote: I've update the patch with changes from the comments below. ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sn2/sn2-update/033-ioc4-support Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Feb 07,

[2.6.11-rc3-mm2 patch] mxser.c: remove unused variable

2005-02-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
The following warning comes from Linus' tree: -- snip -- ... CC drivers/char/mxser.o drivers/char/mxser.c: In function `mxser_initbrd': drivers/char/mxser.c:551: warning: unused variable `flags' ... -- snip -- The fis is simple: Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

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