[2.6 patch] drivers/isdn/divert/isdn_divert.c: make 5 functions static

2005-03-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes five needlessly global functions static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 6 Feb 2005 drivers/isdn/divert/isdn_divert.c | 10 +- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) ---

[2.6 patch] drivers/isdn/capi/: make some code static

2005-03-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 6 Feb 2005 drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c | 10 +- drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi_proc.c | 10 +- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10

Re: AGP bogosities

2005-03-12 Thread Dave Jones
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 07:13:05PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: On Friday, March 11, 2005 7:58 pm, Dave Jones wrote: sgi-agp.c was sent to Dave about 2 weeks ago. I assumed he was waiting for the TIO header files to make it from the ia64 tree into Linus's tree. Actually I just

Re: Linux 2.6 : physical memory address and pid

2005-03-12 Thread Allison
Thanks for the answer! Another related question : I need to gather all application pages by reading the page tables. The hard part is, I need to do this from a PCI device using DMA. As I understand it, when a DMA is being performed, the pages are pinned in memory . Since the PCI device has

[2.6 patch] drivers/isdn/act2000/capi.c: #if 0 an unused function

2005-03-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch #if 0's an unused function. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 6 Feb 2005 drivers/isdn/act2000/capi.c |2 ++ drivers/isdn/act2000/capi.h |1 - 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) ---

[2.6 patch] drivers/isdn/pcbit/: possible cleanups

2005-03-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make some needlessly global functions static - remove the following unused global functions: - callbacks.c: cb_out_3 - capi.c: capi_decode_disc_conf Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 9

Re: [PATCH 0/5] I8K driver facelift

2005-03-12 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Saturday 12 March 2005 22:41, Frank Sorenson wrote: Dmitry Torokhov wrote: | Hi, | | here are some changes that freshen I8K driver (Dell Inspiron/Latitude | platform driver). The patches have been tested on Inspiron 8100. snip | Please consider for inclusion. | | Thanks! These

nvidia fb licensing issue.

2005-03-12 Thread Dave Jones
The nvidia framebuffer code added recently is marked as MODULE_LICENSE(GPL), but some things seem a little odd to me.. 1. The boilerplate at the top of drivers/video/nvidia/nv_dma.h, drivers/video/nvidia/nv_local.h, and drivers/video/nvidia/nv_hw.c doesn't seem to be a GPL-compatible

[2.6 patch] drivers/isdn/i4l/: possible cleanups

2005-03-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - remove the following unused global function: - isdn_audio.c: isdn_audio_2adpcm_flush - remove the following unused struct: - isdn_net.c: isdn_concap_demand_dial_dops Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL

[PATCH] Auto-append localversion for BK users needs to use CONFIG_SHELL

2005-03-12 Thread Ryan Anderson
(trimming cc: down a bit) On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:40:11AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:25:56PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: BTW, Linus: Any chance you ever change something to version or extraversion in bk

Re: AGP bogosities

2005-03-12 Thread Dave Jones
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 11:08:20PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 07:13:05PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: On Friday, March 11, 2005 7:58 pm, Dave Jones wrote: sgi-agp.c was sent to Dave about 2 weeks ago. I assumed he was waiting for the TIO header files to

[2.6 patch] drivers/isdn/hardware/avm/: misc cleanups

2005-03-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following cleanups: - make some needlessly global functions static - b1dma.c __init/__exit the functions b1dma_{init,exit} Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 6 Feb 2005 drivers/isdn/hardware/avm/b1dma.c |4 ++--

[PATCH] Add sysfs support to the IPMI driver

2005-03-12 Thread Corey Minyard
The IPMI driver has long needed to tie into the device model (and I've long been hoping someone else would do it). I finally gave up and spent the time to learn how to do it. I think this is right, it seems to work on on my system. -Corey Add support for sysfs to the IPMI device interface.

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-12 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You wanna give me a quick run-down on x86 of CPL and Ring levels? It's been bugging me. I know they're there and have a basic idea that they control what a context can do, don't know what CPL stands for, and there's a visible gap in my knowledge. I

Re: [CHECKER] inconsistent NFS stat cache (NFS on ext3, 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Trond Myklebust
lau den 12.03.2005 Klokka 03:56 (-0800) skreiv Junfeng Yang: Hi, We checked NFS on top of ext3 using FiSC (our file system model checker) and found a case where NFS stat cache can contain inconsistent entries. Basically, to trigger this inconsistency, just do the following steps: 1.

IA32 (2.6.11 - 2005-03-12.16.00) - 56 New warnings

2005-03-12 Thread John Cherry
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c:104: warning: (near initialization for `dvb_pll_unknown_1.entries') drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c:104: warning: excess elements in array initializer drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c:105: warning: (near initialization for

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Apply umask to /proc/pid

2005-03-12 Thread Paul Jackson
patch below makes procfs apply the umask of the processes to their respective /proc/pid directories and the files below them. Ugh ... Since there are already various umask settings done by various /etc/*profile* and /etc/*init* scripts that head up various logins and task families, this means

Re: Bad patch to schedule()

2005-03-12 Thread Roland McGrath
called from schedule(). The problem with this is that it completely messes up the register allocation for i386 schedule() because it does long long arithmetic. This causes gcc to spill everything else because it needs four registers, and i386 only has 6 usable ones. The generated code I've

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Re: [PATCH] Add sysfs support to the IPMI driver

2005-03-12 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:57:24PM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote: The IPMI driver has long needed to tie into the device model (and I've long been hoping someone else would do it). I finally gave up and spent the time to learn how to do it. I think this is right, it seems to work on on my

indirect lcall without `*'

2005-03-12 Thread Hacksaw
In compiling 2.4.29 I get this during the compilation of pci-pc.c: Warning: indirect lcall without `*' I note from looking around the net that this is an old problem, dating back at least to 2.4.18, if not earlier. What does it mean? Should I care? If I shouldn't, shouldn't there be a message

Re: [PATCH] Fix warning in gkc (make gconfig) {Scanned}

2005-03-12 Thread Andrew Morton
Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:36:12AM +0100, Romain Lievin wrote: Hi, this patch against 2.6.11-rc3 fixes some warnings about GtkToolButton in gkc (the GTK Kernel Configurator). Applied, 2 warnings fixed - 10 more to go. Care to take a look at

Re: [PATCH][2.6.11-mm3] perfctr ia32 syscalls on x86-64 fix

2005-03-12 Thread Andrew Morton
Mikael Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ia32 perfctr syscalls were moved due to addition of ioprio syscalls, but the ia32 emulation code in x86-64 wasn't updated. Ho hum. The perfctr syscall API has changed so many times that whenever someone adds a syscall I have rejects to fix up in

Re: [CHECKER] crash + fsck cause file systems to contain loops (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Junfeng Yang
Interesting. $ /devel/linux/works/fatfs/fatfstools/dosfstools-2.10/dosfsck/dosfsck -a bug10/crash.img dosfsck 2.10, 22 Sep 2003, FAT32, LFN /0006 Directory does not have any cluster (. and ..). Dropping it. Reclaimed 3 unused clusters (6144 bytes) in 3 chains. Performing changes.

Re: nvidia fb licensing issue.

2005-03-12 Thread Andrew Morton
Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The nvidia framebuffer code added recently is marked as MODULE_LICENSE(GPL), but some things seem a little odd to me.. 1. The boilerplate at the top of drivers/video/nvidia/nv_dma.h, drivers/video/nvidia/nv_local.h, and drivers/video/nvidia/nv_hw.c

[KBUILD] Bug in make deb-pkg when using seperate source and object directories

2005-03-12 Thread Ryan Anderson
Sam, When running make O=something deb-pkg, I get a failure that claims I haven't configured my kernel (I have). Running it a second time tells me to run make mrproper (include/linux/version.h got built on the first run) I did some preliminary poking around, but kbuild is still, well, mostly

Re: [CHECKER] sync doesn't flush everything out (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Junfeng Yang
vfat and msdos doesn't support the link(), and the truncate() which extends size is not supported yet. This test seems to calling abort(0) by CHECK(ret)... I updated the test case (basically just set CHECk to be a NOP). Can you please download and re-run the test case? After reboot, run

Re: [CHECKER] inconsistent NFS stat cache (NFS on ext3, 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Junfeng Yang
This is a known problem. Turn off the (default - grrr) subtree checking export option on the server, and it will all work properly. The subtree checking option violates the NFS standards for filehandle generation in so many ways, that it isn't even funny. Thanks Trond. no_subtree_check fixes

Re: OSS Audio borked between 2.6.6 and 2.6.10

2005-03-12 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Saturday 12 March 2005 01:31 pm, Greg Stark wrote: OSS Audio doesn't work properly for Quake3 in 2.6.10 but it worked in 2.6.6. In fact I have the same problems in 2.6.9-rc1 so I assume 2.6.9 is affected as well. This is with the Intel i810 drivers. Why are you not using ALSA? -- Patrick

Re: Last night Linus bk - netfilter busted?

2005-03-12 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Friday 11 March 2005 17:55, Patrick McHardy wrote: Herbert Xu wrote: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right, good catch. IPT_RETURN is interpreted internally by ip_tables, but since the value changed it isn't recognized by ip_tables anymore and returned to nf_iterate()

[CHECKER] NFS on JFS doesn't sync all file system operations (NFS on JFS, 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Junfeng Yang
Hi, FiSC found that at link operation and unlink operation on a NFS partion on top of JFS are not sync'ed. These warnings show up in JFS but not in ext2, ext3, so I suspect it's a potential JFS problem. cat /etc/exports shows: /mnt/sbd0-export localhost(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

[PATCH] #2 ppc32: move powermac backlight stuff to a workqueue

2005-03-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 16:39 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Hi ! The powermac has a kernel-based driver for controlling the backlight from the keyboard that used to call into some fbdev's from interrupt contexts. This patch moves it to a workqueue (and additionally makes sure the

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
At 12:01 AM 3/13/2005 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You wanna give me a quick run-down on x86 of CPL and Ring levels? It's been bugging me. I know they're there and have a basic idea that they control what a context can do, don't know what CPL

[CHECKER] Need help on mmap on FUSE (linux user-land file system)

2005-03-12 Thread Junfeng Yang
Does anyone know how to set up mmap on FUSE (linux user-land file system)? Or is it even possible to have mmap on FUSE? Our file system checker can potentially check a lot more things if we can have mmap working on a FUSE file system. Your help on this are well appreciated! -Junfeng - To

Re: [MC] [CHECKER] Need help on mmap on FUSE (linux user-land file system)

2005-03-12 Thread Junfeng Yang
Forget to mention, we are checking linux 2.6. It appears to us that mmap doesnt' work for FUSE in linux 2.6. -Junfeng On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Junfeng Yang wrote: Does anyone know how to set up mmap on FUSE (linux user-land file system)? Or is it even possible to have mmap on FUSE? Our file

Linux 2.6.11.3

2005-03-12 Thread Greg KH
As there were no complaints about the patches posted a few days ago, I've released 2.6.11.3 with them in it. It's available now in the normal kernel.org places: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.11.3.gz which is a patch against the 2.6.11 release (note, this is different than

Re: Linux 2.6.11.3

2005-03-12 Thread Greg KH
diff -Nru a/Makefile b/Makefile --- a/Makefile 2005-03-12 22:45:06 -08:00 +++ b/Makefile 2005-03-12 22:45:06 -08:00 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 11 -EXTRAVERSION = .2 +EXTRAVERSION = .3 NAME=Woozy Numbat # *DOCUMENTATION* diff -Nru

Re: Linux 2.6 : physical memory address and pid

2005-03-12 Thread Robert Hancock
Allison wrote: Thanks for the answer! Another related question : I need to gather all application pages by reading the page tables. The hard part is, I need to do this from a PCI device using DMA. As I understand it, when a DMA is being performed, the pages are pinned in memory . Since the

Re: [PATCH 3/6] PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Driver

2005-03-12 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:14:40PM -0800, long wrote: This patch includes the source code of event-logged component of PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting driver. Signed-off-by: T. Long Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff

Re: [PATCH 2/6] PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Driver

2005-03-12 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:13:33PM -0800, long wrote: +static ssize_t aer_sysfs_consume_show(struct device_driver *dev, char *buf) +{ + return aer_fsprint_record(buf); +} + +static ssize_t aer_sysfs_status_show(struct device_driver *dev, char *buf) +{ + return

Re: [PATCH 0/6] PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Driver

2005-03-12 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:10:28PM -0800, long wrote: - Report the errors to user. This is done through the syslog, right? Is that acceptable? It looks like you are logging a lot of stuff, all without a kernel log level, which is going to really mess up syslog parsers. Have you thought

Re: [PATCH 5/6] PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Driver

2005-03-12 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:16:54PM -0800, long wrote: This patch includes the source code of core component of PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting driver. Signed-off-by: T. Long Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urpN

Re: [PATCH] Prefaulting

2005-03-12 Thread Arjan van de Ven
From a quick peek it seems that the patch makes negligible difference for a kernel compilation when prefaulting 1-2 pages and slows the workload down quite a lot when prefaulting up to 16 pages. well the last time I saw prefaulting experiments (Ingo was involved iirc) the problem was that the

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

2005-03-12 Thread Andi Kleen
long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I haven't read your code in detail, just a high level remark. +6. Enabling AER Aware Support in PCI Express Device Driver + +To enable AER aware support requires a software driver to configure +the AER capability structure within its device, to initialize its

[CHECKER] fsync doesn't sync data properly (JFS, Linux 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Junfeng Yang
Hi, FiSC founds a potential error on JFS (Linux 2.6.11) where fsync doesn't properly flushes out file data. Crash after this fsync causes data loss. The test case can be found at http://fisc.stanford.edu/bug9/crash.c To reproduce it, download and compile crash.c, and run it on a fresh jfs

Re: ethX interface rx errors

2005-03-12 Thread Nils Radtke
Hi Omer, hi others, # i'm wondering if you ever found a solution to the problem you # have described here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/5/81 I'll send a small update today with this email. # i'm having the exact same issue with one of my linux machines, # and i would really appreciate

[CHECKER] XFS doesn't respect mount -o sync (XFS, 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Junfeng Yang
Hi, We are from the Stanford Checker team and are working on a file system checker called FiSC. We checked XFS and found that even when a XFS partition is mounted -o sync, file system operations are still not sync'ed correctly. A simple test case would be something like this: mkdir 0001 reboot

Re: 2.6.11: USB broken on nforce4, ipv6 still broken, centrino speedstep even more broken than in 2.6.10

2005-03-12 Thread Stefan Rompf
Hi, Felix von Leitner wrote: Did I mention that I'm really tired of you putting stones into ATI's way? You might believe you have a right to piss everyone off, after all people get what they paid for. Or maybe you think you are on a crusade to promote open source software. But if you keep

[CHECKER] crash + fsck cause file systems to contain loops (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Junfeng Yang
Hi, We are from the Stanford Checker team and are currently developing a file system checker call FiSC. FiSC mainly focuses on finding crash-recovery errors. We applied it to FiSC and found a serious error where crash then recovery cause the file system to contain loops. To reproduce the

[CHECKER] sync doesn't flush everything out (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Junfeng Yang
Hi, This is yet another report from FiSC :) This time FiSC complains that sync on msdos and vfat doesn't flush everything out. Crash after sync still causes data loss. Test cases and crashed disk images can be found at http://fisc.stanford.edu/bug8(msdos) http://fisc.stanford.edu/bug11

Re: [CHECKER] crash + fsck cause file systems to contain loops (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Andrew Morton
Junfeng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are from the Stanford Checker team and are currently developing a file system checker call FiSC. FiSC mainly focuses on finding crash-recovery errors. We applied it to FiSC and found a serious error where crash then recovery cause the file system

Re: User mode drivers: part 2: PCI device handling (patch 1/2 for 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Andrew Grover
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:37:17 +1100, Peter Chubb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + npages = get_user_pages(current, + current-mm, + (unsigned long)m.virtaddr, + maxpages, +

Re: bouncing keys and skipping sound with 2.6.11

2005-03-12 Thread Jan Niehusmann
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:26:32AM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote: I bet you have CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG enabled. Disable it or try to put #define ACPI_ENABLE_OBJECT_CACHE 1 at the end of include/acpi/acpi.h (before the last #endif) This fixed it for me (and some others). ...and for me - thanks for

[PATCH] s3c2410 watchdog power management

2005-03-12 Thread Ben Dooks
Patch from Dimitry Andric [EMAIL PROTECTED], updated by Ben Dooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Patch is against 2.6.11-mm2 Add power management support to the s3c2410 watchdog, so that it is shut-down over suspend, and re-initialised on resume. Also add Dimitry to the list of authors. Signed-off-by:

Re: [CHECKER] crash + fsck cause file systems to contain loops (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Junfeng Yang
Linus's current tree includes support for `mount -o sync' on the msdos and vfat filesystems. Thanks Andrew. I can just do a bk clone from http://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.6 to get Linus's current tree, right? The warning reported here doesn't need mount -o sync to trigger though. A simple

[PATCH] s3c2410 watchdog - replace reboot notifier

2005-03-12 Thread Ben Dooks
Patch from Dimitry Andric [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change to using platfrom driver's .shutdown method instead of an reboot notifier Signed-off-by: Dimitry Andric [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urN -X ../dontdiff

Re: 2.6: unused code under drivers/message/fusion/

2005-03-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:58:47PM +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:11:51AM +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: Moore, Eric Dean wrote: We need to hold off on this change. Yes, there are customers of LSI Logic using mptstm.c, as part of

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Capabilities across execve

2005-03-12 Thread Alexander Nyberg
This makes it possible for a root-task to pass capabilities to nonroot-task across execve. The root-task needs to change it's cap_inheritable mask and set prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, 1) to pass on capabilities. At execve time the capabilities will be passed on to the new nonroot-task and any

[CHECKER] inconsistent NFS stat cache (NFS on ext3, 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Junfeng Yang
Hi, We checked NFS on top of ext3 using FiSC (our file system model checker) and found a case where NFS stat cache can contain inconsistent entries. Basically, to trigger this inconsistency, just do the following steps: 1. create a file A1, write a few bytes to it, so A1 is 4 words 2. create a

[CHECKER] sync, fsync and mount -o sync all not flush things out properly (hfsplus, 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Junfeng Yang
Hi, We developed a file system checker called FiSC and recently applied it to hfsplus. It complains 3 things about hfsplus: 1. sync on hfsplus doesn't actually flush everything out. Immediate crash after sync still causes data-loss (testcase: http://fisc.stanford.edu/bug13/crash.c) 2. fsync

Re: 2.6.11-mm3

2005-03-12 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, Mar 12 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm3/ - A new version of the acpi poweroff fix. People who were having trouble with ACPI poweroff, please test and report. - A very large update to the CFQ I/O

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-12 Thread Tobias Hennerich
Hello, On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:23:40PM +0100, Alexander Nyberg wrote: Yikes something isn't right with these backtraces that page_owner is showing. Even without frame pointers it shouldn't be this noisy. If you could send me some pointers to documents how to interpret this output, i would

Re: 2.6.11-mm3

2005-03-12 Thread Reuben Farrelly
At 12:42 a.m. 13/03/2005, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm3/ - A new version of the acpi poweroff fix. People who were having trouble with ACPI poweroff, please test and report. - A very large update to the CFQ I/O scheduler.

Maintainer change for the sis900 driver

2005-03-12 Thread Daniele Venzano
The attached patch updates the sis900 record of MAINTAINERS file. Signed-off-by: Daniele Venzano [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Daniele Venzano Web: http://www.brownhat.org --- a/MAINTAINERS 2005-03-12 11:40:46.0 +0100 +++ b/MAINTAINERS 2005-03-12

Re: [ patch 1/5] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver

2005-03-12 Thread Domen Puncer
Just some nitpicking... On 11/03/05 10:29 -0500, Wen Xiong wrote: + * Globals + */ +int jsm_driver_state = DRIVER_INITIALIZED; +spinlock_t jsm_board_head_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; DEFINE_SPINLOCK() +LIST_HEAD(jsm_board_head); + +static struct pci_device_id jsm_pci_tbl[] = {

spin_lock error in arch/i386/kernel/time.c on APM resume

2005-03-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On APM resume this morning on my Thinkpad X31, I got a spin_lock is already locked error; see below. This doesn't happen on every resume, though it's happened before. The kernel is 2.6.11 plus a bunch of (hopefully unrelated...) NFS patches. Any ideas? --Bruce Fields Mar 12 07:07:29 puzzle

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-12 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jon Smirl wrote: Here's a big clue, if I build ata_piix in I can boot. If it is a module I can't. The console output definitely shows that the module is being loaded. Of course I am not an expert here, but I want to rule out some trivial userspace things first. Some time ago Greg KH said

2.6.11: keyboard stopped working after memory upgrade

2005-03-12 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, I'm just having a weird problem with 2.6.11. Namely, the keyboard stopped working after I'd added more RAM to the box (Asus L5D notebok, x86-64 kernel). It works on 2.6.11-mm1. Greets, Rafael -- - Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? - That depends a good deal

2.6.11-mm3: saa7134-core.c compile error

2005-03-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:42:22AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.11-mm2: ... +saa7134-update.patch ... v4l updates ... This doesn't compile with CONFIG_MODULES=n: -- snip -- ... CC drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-core.o

Re: 2.6.11-mm3

2005-03-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Saturday 12 March 2005 06:42, Andrew Morton wrote: 2.6.11-mm3 From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm3/ - A new version of the acpi poweroff fix.  People who were having

Re: [PATCH] mm counter operations through macros

2005-03-12 Thread Nikita Danilov
Christoph Lameter writes: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Dave Jones wrote: Splitting this last one into inc_mm_counter() and dec_mm_counter() means you can kill off the last argument, and get some of the readability back. As it stands, I think this patch adds a bunch of obfuscation for no

Strange Linking Problem

2005-03-12 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Hi! I hope I'm right here. I've the following assembler code: SECTION .DATA hello: db 'Hello world!',10 helloLen: equ $-hello SECTION .TEXT GLOBAL main main: ; Write 'Hello world!' to the screen mov eax,4; 'write' system call mov ebx,1

Re: [CHECKER] crash + fsck cause file systems to contain loops (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Junfeng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Linus's current tree includes support for `mount -o sync' on the msdos and vfat filesystems. Thanks Andrew. I can just do a bk clone from http://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.6 to get Linus's current tree, right? The warning reported here doesn't need

Re: Strange Linking Problem

2005-03-12 Thread linux-os
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Hi! I hope I'm right here. I've the following assembler code: SECTION .DATA hello: db 'Hello world!',10 helloLen: equ $-hello SECTION .TEXT GLOBAL main main: ; Write 'Hello world!' to the screen mov eax,4

Re: out-of-line x86 put_user() implementation

2005-03-12 Thread Coywolf Qi Hunt
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:23:51 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking at some of the code we generate, and happened to notice that we have this strange situation where the x86 get_user() macros generate out-of-line code to do all the address verification etc, but the

[PATCH] Support for new ipod mini (and possibly others) + usb + linux 2.6

2005-03-12 Thread Guillermo Menguez Alvarez
Just a little patch to unusual_devs.h in usb-storage in order to support new ipods mini (ie. the new 6 gig model) and possibly other new big models reported to have problems through usb in linux 2.6. Regards, Guillermo. --- linux-2.6.11/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h 2005-03-12

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-12 Thread Alexander Nyberg
Yikes something isn't right with these backtraces that page_owner is showing. Even without frame pointers it shouldn't be this noisy. If you could send me some pointers to documents how to interpret this output, i would appreciate it. The whole output indicates who has allocated whole

The address displayed by ldd

2005-03-12 Thread gan_xiao_jun
Hi, I have a small question, I am not sure if it belongs to kernel. I often use ldd to find librarys needed. In some systems,the address display by ldd not changes, But in other systems, it changes. What is the reason of the difference? Is it cause by some setting in kernel? Thanks in advance.

[PATCH] APM: fix interrupts enabled in device_power_up

2005-03-12 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, J. Bruce Fields wrote: On APM resume this morning on my Thinkpad X31, I got a spin_lock is already locked error; see below. This doesn't happen on every resume, though it's happened before. The kernel is 2.6.11 plus a bunch of (hopefully unrelated...) NFS patches. Mar

[PATCH] Use __init and __exit in pktcdvd

2005-03-12 Thread Peter Osterlund
This patch adds __init and __exit annotations to the pktcdvd driver. Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-petero/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/block/pktcdvd.c~pktcdvd-module-init

[PATCH] DVD-RAM support for pktcdvd

2005-03-12 Thread Peter Osterlund
This patch makes it possible to use the packet writing driver with DVD-RAM discs. The pktcdvd driver is not needed for writing to DVD-RAM discs but it can improve write performance. Polgár István reports: I wrote 178716Kb data to DVD-RAM without pktcdvd driver within 4.54 minutes.

Re: 2.6.11-mm3

2005-03-12 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Reuben Farrelly wrote: At 12:42 a.m. 13/03/2005, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm3/ - A new version of the acpi poweroff fix. People who were having trouble with ACPI poweroff, please test and report.

Re: [CHECKER] sync doesn't flush everything out (msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Junfeng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Test cases and crashed disk images can be found at http://fisc.stanford.edu/bug8(msdos) http://fisc.stanford.edu/bug11 (vfat) vfat and msdos doesn't support the link(), and the truncate() which extends size is not supported yet. This test seems to

Re: 2.6.11-mm3

2005-03-12 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Ed Tomlinson wrote: On Saturday 12 March 2005 06:42, Andrew Morton wrote: 2.6.11-mm3 From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm3/ - A new version of

Badness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:140

2005-03-12 Thread Kimmo Sundqvist
Hello A bug I've been with for a while. Any thoughts on this? Just ask if you want more details. This is a little firewall machine at home, with a HFC PCI ISDN card. These appear in /var/log/messages about once an hour to once a day. Linux shadowgate 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 #3 Thu Mar 10

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-12 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:32:39 -0500, John Richard Moser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CPL=3 scares me; context switches are expensive. can they have direct hardware access? I'm sure a security model to isolate user mode drivers could be in place. . . . . . huh. Xen seems to run Linux at CPL=3

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/sis900.c: fix a warning

2005-03-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch fixes the following warning, that comes from Linus' tree #if CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER=n: -- snip -- ... CC drivers/net/sis900.o drivers/net/sis900.c:199: warning: 'sis900_poll' declared `static' but never defined ... -- snip -- Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL

[2.6 patch] sound/oss/rme96xx.c: remove kernel 2.2 #if's

2005-03-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes #if's for kernel 2.2 . Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-mm2-full/sound/oss/rme96xx.c.old 2005-03-12 12:24:43.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-mm2-full/sound/oss/rme96xx.c 2005-03-12 12:25:02.0 +0100 @@ -1750,9 +1750,7 @@

Re: spin_lock error in arch/i386/kernel/time.c on APM resume

2005-03-12 Thread George Anzinger
J. Bruce Fields wrote: On APM resume this morning on my Thinkpad X31, I got a spin_lock is already locked error; see below. This doesn't happen on every resume, though it's happened before. The kernel is 2.6.11 plus a bunch of (hopefully unrelated...) NFS patches. Any ideas? Yesterday's night

Re: User mode drivers: part 1, interrupt handling (patch for 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Jon Smirl
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:36:10 +1100, Peter Chubb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As many of you will be aware, we've been working on infrastructure for user-mode PCI and other drivers. The first step is to be able to handle interrupts from user space. Subsequent patches add infrastructure for

[2.6 patch] drivers/char/mwave/tp3780i.c: remove kernel 2.2 #if's

2005-03-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes #if's for kernel 2.2 . Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/char/mwave/tp3780i.c |8 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.11-mm2-full/drivers/char/mwave/tp3780i.c.old 2005-03-12 12:19:55.0 +0100 +++

Error with Sil3112A SATA controller and Maxtor 300GB HDD

2005-03-12 Thread Guido Villa
Hello, I have an error as described in subject. I couldn't find a previous report for this kind of error, so maybe you are interested in it. Motherboard: ASUS TUV4X, BIOS rev. 1005 SATA controller: Silicon Image 3112A, bios rev. 4.2.50 Hard disk: Maxtor Maxtor 6B300S0 (300GB, SATA) This is

[2.6 patch] drivers/scsi/dpti.h: remove kernel 2.2 #if's

2005-03-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes #if's for kernel 2.2 . Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/scsi/dpti.h | 10 -- 1 files changed, 10 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.11-mm2-full/drivers/scsi/dpti.h.old 2005-03-12 12:22:23.0 +0100 +++

Re: spin_lock error in arch/i386/kernel/time.c on APM resume

2005-03-12 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, George Anzinger wrote: Looks like we need the irq on the read clock also. This is true both before and after the prior cmos_time changes. The attached replaces the patch I sent yesterday. For those wanting to fix the kernel with out those patches, all that is needed

Re: User mode drivers: part 1, interrupt handling (patch for 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Jon Smirl
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:29:20 +0100, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! As many of you will be aware, we've been working on infrastructure for user-mode PCI and other drivers. The first step is to be able to handle interrupts from user space. Subsequent patches add infrastructure

Re: spin_lock error in arch/i386/kernel/time.c on APM resume

2005-03-12 Thread Venkatesh Pallipadi
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 09:25:13AM -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, George Anzinger wrote: And more... That this occures implies we are attempting to update the cmos clock on resume seems wrong. One would presume that the time is wrong at this time and we are about

Proposal: Latest Base Kernel on kernel.org

2005-03-12 Thread Mikhail Ramendik
Hello, The Latest Stable Kernel on the main page of www.kernel.org is 2.6.11.2 and this is of course right. But people who want to apply an -rc patch, or some other patchsets (e.g. -ck) want 2.6.11. They can currently get it only by browsing directories. Perhaps, to enable easier usage of

Implementation of Buffer Headers in Linux kernel

2005-03-12 Thread Dinesh Ahuja
I have a few queries regarding the buffer headers in linux. I a newbie so these queries may sound stupid to linux gurus. 1. As per my understanding, block number in this stucture corresponds to the block no of the data on a logical device rather than on a physical device (hard disk). 2. Why do

Re: spin_lock error in arch/i386/kernel/time.c on APM resume

2005-03-12 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 09:25:13AM -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, George Anzinger wrote: And more... That this occures implies we are attempting to update the cmos clock on resume seems wrong. One would presume that

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