Re: PCI interrupt problem: e1000 Super-Micro X6DVA motherboard

2005-03-24 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:03:30PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote: I have two 4-port e1000 NICs in the system, on a riser card. How is the riser card wired? F.e. does it have a single edge connector, and provides two PCI slots, or does it have a tiny additional edge connector that routes

Re: PCI interrupt problem: e1000 Super-Micro X6DVA motherboard

2005-03-24 Thread Ben Greear
Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:03:30PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote: I have two 4-port e1000 NICs in the system, on a riser card. How is the riser card wired? F.e. does it have a single edge connector, and provides two PCI slots, or does it have a tiny additional edge connector

[WATCHDOG] wdt285.c-printk-patch

2005-03-24 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
Hi Linus, Andrew, please do a bk pull http://linux-watchdog.bkbits.net/linux-2.6-watchdog This will update the following files: drivers/char/watchdog/wdt285.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) through these ChangeSets: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (05/03/24 1.2191)

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-07

2005-03-24 Thread Steven Rostedt
Ingo, I've noticed the following situation which is caused by __up_mutex assigning an owner right away. Given 3 processes, with priorities 1, 2, 3, where 3 is highest and 1 is lowest, and call them process A, B, C respectively. 1. Process A runs and grabs Lock L. 2. Process B preempts A,

Re: [2.6.11.5][BUILD] i2c.h breakage in 2.6.12-rc1 + -mm only

2005-03-24 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:39:29AM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: include/linux/i2c.h:58: error: array type has incomplete element type include/linux/i2c.h:197: error: array type has incomplete element type /usr/local/src/sources/r300_driver/drm/linux-core/radeon_drv.h:274: confused by earlier

Re: Add myself to MAINTAINERS

2005-03-24 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 03:36:51PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote: A Jan Kasprzak asked a few days ago to have a MAINTAINERS entry for ub. This patch updates my entries in MAINTAINERS (ub ymfpci). Signed-Off-By: Pete Zaitcev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied, thanks. greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH 0/5] I8K driver facelift

2005-03-24 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:39:32AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2005 02:25, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:40:48AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Wednesday 16 March 2005 16:38, Frank Sorenson wrote: Okay, I replaced the sysfs_ops with ops of my own, and

Re: ext3 journalling BUG on full filesystem

2005-03-24 Thread Jacky Malcles
Mark Wong wrote: I originally reported this to the linuxppc64-dev list, since I made it happen on a POWER system. I'm told this might be more generic... Anyone run into something like this? Mark If i'm not wrong I think I have had something around the same place ext3 journalling: 1) The

Re: Fix agp_backend usage in drm_agp_init (was: 2.6.11-mm3 - DRM/i915 broken)

2005-03-24 Thread Dave Airlie
I assume this bug is going to occur on i8x0 chipsets where the X server may acquire the agp to do 2D stuff and the drm then acquires it later for 3D stuff this may be a bit broken but it is out there now ... I've confirmed this is the problem, the intel drivers need AGP for 2D code paths,

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-07

2005-03-24 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: I've noticed the following situation which is caused by __up_mutex assigning an owner right away. I also see this with non rt tasks causing a burst of schedules. 1. Process A runs and grabs lock L. then finishes its time slice. 2. Process B runs and

Re: md: bug in file drivers/md/md.c, line 1513

2005-03-24 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 24 Mar 2005, Neil Brown wrote: On Tuesday March 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is on kernel 2.6.11, mdadm 1.4.0 The system has MD devices that are auto-configured on boot. However, there are also devices connected via another SCSI adapter (actually, a Qlogic QLA2300). I'm

How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Asfand Yar Qazi
Hi, I'm currently contemplating going for an Athlon 64 system. However, I'll primarily be using a Linux-based OS (Gentoo, namely), so I need to know how well the chipsets are supported currently. I'd really like to go Via - but the crummy KT890 / VT8237 combo sucks - mainly due to the lack of

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm1: Kernel BUG at pci:389

2005-03-24 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! You can't put -ENODEV into pci_power_t ... but maybe we should create PCI_ERROR and pass it in cases like this one? That makes sense, please do it. Added: #define PCI_POWER_ERROR ((pci_power_t __force) -1) Pavel

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:20:29AM +, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Hi, I'm currently contemplating going for an Athlon 64 system. However, I'll primarily be using a Linux-based OS (Gentoo, namely), so I need to know how well the chipsets are supported currently. I'd really like to go Via

Re: sched.c function

2005-03-24 Thread sounak chakraborty
What exactly do you want to know about the scheduler? I had a wild idea to process one function that repeatedly checks the task list and find out which process is in which state At first i retrieve the information from fork.c in do_fork() and exit.x in do_exit() but the problem it showed

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Arjan van de Ven
* hardware firewall -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support it in any case. probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the hardware IDE raid is most of the time (3ware being the positive exception there) - To unsubscribe from

Re: sched.c function

2005-03-24 Thread Jan Engelhardt
I had a wild idea to process one function that repeatedly checks the task list and find out which process is in which state Why do not you do so, then? Note that on uniprocessors, all other tasks are suspended, so their state does not change in between. Tasks do not change their state without

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Asfand Yar Qazi
Arjan van de Ven wrote: * hardware firewall -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support it in any case. probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the hardware IDE raid is most of the time (3ware being the positive exception there)

[PATCH] the nommu support for ARM linux 2.6.10

2005-03-24 Thread Hyok S. Choi
Hi all, I'm glad to release the first MPU and NO-MMU support patch for ARM linux 2.6.10 at : http://opensrc.sec.samsung.com/download/linux-2.6.10-hsc0.patch.gz Previously, it was released as armnommu architecture which was called uClinux/ARM and now is merged with arm architecture. You can

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Tupshin Harper
Arjan van de Ven wrote: * hardware firewall -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support it in any case. probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the hardware IDE raid is most of the time (3ware being the positive exception there)

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Asfand Yar Qazi
Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: * hardware firewall -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support it in any case. probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the hardware IDE raid is most of the time (3ware being the positive

[PATCH 2.6.12-rc1] drivers/net/amd8111e.c: fix NAPI interrupt in poll

2005-03-24 Thread Tao Liu
This patch makes the netif_rx_complete() and rx_interrupt_enable atomic when exiting the poll() method, so to avoid interrupt in poll. It also fixes the rx interrupt check logic in interrupt handler. Signed-off-by: Liu Tao [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-orig/drivers/net/amd8111e.c

[OT] Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Pawel Sikora
OT Do You really need nforce4? Maybe sis76[01]GX will be enough? :-) http://www.sis.com/products/sis760gx.htm http://www.sis.com/pressroom/pressrelease_000184.htm /OT - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:00 +, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: * hardware firewall -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support it in any case. probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the hardware IDE raid

[PATCH] Re: Bitrotting serial drivers

2005-03-24 Thread Hirokazu Takata
Hi, I made a patch to update m32r_sio driver. Compile checked and tested on a M32700UT eva board with SMP kernel. It looks working... Could you please accept the following patch? Thanks, -- Takata From: Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:21:01 + m32r_sio

Re: [RFC] Obtaining memory information for kexec/kdump

2005-03-24 Thread Hariprasad Nellitheertha
Dave Hansen wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 11:19 +0530, Hariprasad Nellitheertha wrote: ... I think there's likely a lot of commonality with the needs of memory hotplug systems here. We effectively dump out the physical layout of the system, but in sysfs. We do this mostly because any memory

Re: PCI interrupt problem: e1000 Super-Micro X6DVA motherboard

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Egger
On 24.03.2005, at 03:03, Ben Greear wrote: When trying to send/receive traffic, I get TX watchdog timeouts. The other interfaces seem to work just fine. No idea whether my problem is related but due to a broken motherboard I had to switch from a SiS based Athlon board (ECS K7S5A) to a new one

Re: [PATCH] ppc32: Report chipset version in common /proc/cpuinfo handling

2005-03-24 Thread Andrew Morton
Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Moved reporting of chipset revision from board specific to common handing of /proc/cpuinfo. In light of numerous PPC system-on-chip devices, we report both the cpu version (reflects the core version) and the chipset version (reflects the

Re: [OT] Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Asfand Yar Qazi
Pawel Sikora wrote: OT Do You really need nforce4? Maybe sis76[01]GX will be enough? :-) http://www.sis.com/products/sis760gx.htm http://www.sis.com/pressroom/pressrelease_000184.htm /OT No, but I do need NCQ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

drm bugs hopefully fixed but there might still be one..

2005-03-24 Thread Dave Airlie
Hi Andrew, Dave, I've put a couple of patches into my drm-2.6 tree that hopefully fix up the multi-bridge on i915 and the XFree86 4.3 issue.. Andrew can you drop the two patches in your tree.. the one from Brice and the one I attached to the bug? you'll get conflicts anyway I'm sure. I had to

Re: ext3 journalling BUG on full filesystem

2005-03-24 Thread Jan Kara
Hi, Looks like you need to apply the attached patch (for the current bk kernel or see the link below for an earlier version (which will require some modification to remove implicit warnings, see to extern and prototype declarations for __journal_temp_unlink_buffer in attached patch).

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-07

2005-03-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This way when process C tries to get the lock again, it sees that it's owned, but B hasn't executed yet. So it would be safe for C to take the lock back from B, that is if C is greater priority than B, otherwise it would act the same. agreed. In

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-07

2005-03-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also see this with non rt tasks causing a burst of schedules. 1. Process A runs and grabs lock L. then finishes its time slice. 2. Process B runs and tries to grab Lock L. 3. Process A runs and releases lock L. 4. __up_mutex gives process B lock

swapper process

2005-03-24 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hello, when stuffing a minimalistic environment into initrd (bash,libc and ps) into an initrd, and I run ps from within, I get [swapper] with PID 1 and linuxrc as PID 123 (think one up). What's the swapper doing? As booting with root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc puts linuxrc in pid 1. Jan

Re: [Bug] invalid mac address after rebooting (kernel 2.6.11.5)

2005-03-24 Thread Peter Baumann
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:52:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Peter Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hitting an annoying bug in kernel 2.6.11.5 Every time I _reboot_ (warmstart) my pc my two network cards won't get recognized any longer. Following error message appears on

Re: sched.c function

2005-03-24 Thread sounak chakraborty
Tasks do not change their state without holding a lock. (There is an exception, but it is justified.) list after that.. So you want to record task state changes? That is better done at the right places in the kernel rather than traversing the task list repeatedly (the latter is not

Re: [Bug] invalid mac address after rebooting (kernel 2.6.11.5)

2005-03-24 Thread Andrew Morton
Peter Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only PCI change I see is --- drivers/pci/pci.c 22 Jan 2005 03:20:37 - 1.71 +++ drivers/pci/pci.c 24 Feb 2005 18:02:37 - 1.72 @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ return -EIO; pci_read_config_word(dev,pm

Re: drm bugs hopefully fixed but there might still be one..

2005-03-24 Thread Andrew Morton
Dave Airlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've put a couple of patches into my drm-2.6 tree that hopefully fix up the multi-bridge on i915 and the XFree86 4.3 issue.. Andrew can you drop the two patches in your tree.. the one from Brice and the one I attached to the bug? you'll get conflicts

Re: [PATCH] via-rhine.c, wol-bugfix, Kernel 2.6.11.5

2005-03-24 Thread Thomas Skora
Roger Luethi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This patch won't apply to the 2.6.11.5 I have here -- the driver is clearing ~0xFC already. The description makes me suspect that the patch is meant to go the other way, and that would be wrong. You are right. I don't know what happened, but in my

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-07

2005-03-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here we have more unnecessary schedules. So the condition to grab a lock should be: 1. not owned. 2. partially owned, and the owner is not RT. 3. partially owned but the owner is RT and so is the grabber, and the grabber's priority is = the

[PATCH 1/3] Keys: Pass session keyring to call_usermodehelper() [try #2]

2005-03-24 Thread David Howells
The attached patch makes it possible to pass a session keyring through to the process spawned by call_usermodehelper(). This allows patch 3/3 to pass an authorisation key through to /sbin/request-key, thus permitting better access controls when doing just-in-time key creation. Signed-Off-By:

Re: security/keys/key.c broken with defconfig

2005-03-24 Thread David Howells
Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I just do a 'make defconfig' and then try to build security/keys/ the build breaks. Doing 'make allyesconfig' fixes it by defining CONFIG_KEYS which makes include/linux/key-ui.h include the full struct key definition. I've not attempted to fix this

[PATCH 3/3] Keys: Make request-key create an authorisation key [try #2]

2005-03-24 Thread David Howells
The attached patch makes the following changes: (1) There's a new special key type called .request_key_auth. This is an authorisation key for when one process requests a key and another process is started to construct it. This type of key cannot be created by the user; nor can

Re: [Bug] invalid mac address after rebooting (kernel 2.6.11.5)

2005-03-24 Thread Peter Baumann
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:07:51AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Peter Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only PCI change I see is --- drivers/pci/pci.c 22 Jan 2005 03:20:37 - 1.71 +++ drivers/pci/pci.c 24 Feb 2005 18:02:37 - 1.72 @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:27 +1000, David McCullough wrote: Hi all, Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords); so that true random number generator device drivers can add a entropy to the system. Drivers that use this can be

[PATCH] [IPV6] Fix address/interface handling according to the scoping architecture (is Re: 2.6.11: USB broken on nforce4, ipv6 still broken, centrino speedstep even more broken than in 2.6.10)

2005-03-24 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / $B5HF#1QL@(B
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:33:08 -0800), Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: Felix von Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now about IPv6: npush and npoll are two applications I wrote. npush sends multicast announcements and opens a TCP socket. npoll receives

Re: [Alsa-devel] [2.6 patch] sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.c: kill dead code

2005-03-24 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:41:28 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: The Coverity checker found this obviously dead code. I'mnot sure which of the if (plugin == NULL) is correct - this patch removes the one that couldn't be true. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, I applied it to

Re: sched.c function

2005-03-24 Thread Jan Engelhardt
So you want to say that only one task could be running at a single time per processor, yes. but how to know which one The kernel is not a separate task. If you call read() for example, you change from user to kernel space, so there can be multiple threads being in kernel space at the same

Re: repeat a function after fixed time period

2005-03-24 Thread linux-os
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, sounak chakraborty wrote: --- linux-os [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 15:56 -0500, linux-os wrote: static void start_timer(void) { if(!atomic_read(info-running)) { atomic_inc(info-running); same

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 20:38 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: David McCullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords); It neither applies correctly nor compiles in current kernels. 2.6.11 is very old

Re: [PATCH] Re: Bitrotting serial drivers

2005-03-24 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:14:24PM +0900, Hirokazu Takata wrote: Could you please accept the following patch? Probably, but I'd like to have a reply to my comments below first. diff -ruNp a/include/asm-m32r/serial.h b/include/asm-m32r/serial.h --- a/include/asm-m32r/serial.h 2004-12-25

Re: [PATCH 1/6] freepgt: free_pgtables use vma list

2005-03-24 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:11:34PM +, Hugh Dickins wrote: Recent woes with some arches needing their own pgd_addr_end macro; and 4-level clear_page_range regression since 2.6.10's clear_page_tables; and its long-standing well-known inefficiency in searching throughout the higher-level page

[PATCH 2.6.12-rc1] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy

2005-03-24 Thread David McCullough
Hi all, Here is a revised patch for 2.6.12-rc1 that adds a routine: add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords); so that true random number generator device drivers can add a entropy to the system. Cheers, Davidm Signed-off-by: David McCullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Also, there are other entropy daemons floating about. I think there is one that obtains noise from an audio device. That's correct: http://www.vanheusden.com/aed/ audio-entropyd There's also one for doing the same with video4linux devices: http://www.vanheusden.com/ved/ Folkert van

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread David McCullough
Jivin Andrew Morton lays it down ... David McCullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords); It neither applies correctly nor compiles in current kernels. 2.6.11 is very old in kernel time.

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread David McCullough
Jivin Jeff Garzik lays it down ... David McCullough wrote: Jivin Jeff Garzik lays it down ... On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:27:08PM +1000, David McCullough wrote: Hi all, Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords); so that

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:27 +1000, David McCullough wrote: Hi all, Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords); so that true random number generator device drivers can add a entropy to the system. Drivers that

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 07:48 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:27 +1000, David McCullough wrote: Hi all, Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords); so that true random number

USB problems 2.6.10

2005-03-24 Thread Wakko Warner
Please keep me CCd. I have a system that I just updated to 2.6 and USB fails to work after some time (~6-8 hours) giving me the irq 11:nobody cared message. This system is a supermicro p3tdde (via chipset) I have ACPI and Preempt enabled (which I will disable and try again) I notice this rather

Extra keys not working with 2.6

2005-03-24 Thread Wakko Warner
Please keep me CCd especially because I'm not on inux-input. I'm emailing the USB list since this is a usb keyboard (wireless HP) This keyboard has 8 extra keys on the top row. Under 2.4, all the keys worked fine. Under 2.6 only 2 of those keys are recognised. This is a partial dmesg when

8250_hp300: unuse register_serial/unregister_serial

2005-03-24 Thread Russell King
Kars, Geert, Here's a patch which converts 8250_hp300 to use serial8250_register_port and serial8250_unregister_port, rather than register_serial/ unregister_serial. The 8250-variants allow you to associate the struct device with the port, allowing sysfs to indicate which device owns which

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread David McCullough
Jivin Jeff Garzik lays it down ... Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:27 +1000, David McCullough wrote: Hi all, Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords); so that true random number generator device drivers

[patch 1/9] s390: kernel faults.

2005-03-24 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 1/9] s390: kernel faults. From: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Correct check for user space faults. If the failing address space is in the secondary address space and uaccess has been switched to KERNEL_DS with set_fs, check_user_space() erroneously returns 1. Signed-off-by: Martin

[patch 2/9] s390: signal stack bug.

2005-03-24 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 2/9] s390: signal stack bug. From: Bodo Stroesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] If a signal handler is set to use the signal stack (SA_ONSTACK), but the signal stack is disabled, the signal frame should be written to the current stack without stack switching. The reason for the bug is get_sigframe()

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 23:23 +1000, David McCullough wrote: Jivin Jeff Garzik lays it down ... Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:27 +1000, David McCullough wrote: Hi all, Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm1: resume regression [update] (was: Re:2.6.12-rc1-mm1: Kernel BUG at pci:389)

2005-03-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Thursday, 24 of March 2005 02:27, Li Shaohua wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 09:03, Len Brown wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 18:49, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi, On Wednesday, 23 of March 2005 23:39, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Will this do it for the moment?

[PATCH] earlyquirk.o is needed for CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT

2005-03-24 Thread Horms
I think that this patch to the Makefile is needed to ensure earlyquirk.c is compiled if CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT is enabled. Signed-off-by: Horms [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- a/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile 2005-03-24 15:47:08.391718540 +0900 +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile.noedit 2005-03-24 15:46:56.433281792

Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Add mem=X option, updated NUMA support

2005-03-24 Thread Maneesh Soni
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:11:10PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: Hi Mike, Here's an updated version of my mem=X patch with new NUMA code. Sorry it took so long I've been a bit crook. Can you test this on your 720 or whatever it was? And if anyone else has an interesting NUMA machine they

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread Jean-Luc Cooke
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:48:18AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: If you want to add entropy to the kernel entropy pool from hardware RNG, you should use the userland daemon, which detects non-random (broken) hardware and provides throttling, so that RNG data collection does not consume 100%

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-07

2005-03-24 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: there's another approach that could solve this problem: let the scheduler sort it all out. Esben Nielsen had this suggestion a couple of months ago - i didnt follow it because i thought that technique would create too many runnable tasks, but maybe

Re: [PATCH 0/5] I8K driver facelift

2005-03-24 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:00:48 -0800, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:39:32AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2005 02:25, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:40:48AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Wednesday 16 March 2005 16:38, Frank

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2

2005-03-24 Thread Stefano Rivoir
Alle 13:41, giovedì 24 marzo 2005, Andrew Morton ha scritto: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc1/2. 6.12-rc1-mm2/ - Some fixes for the recent DRM problems. Hi Andrew, While I was OK with DRM up to 2.6.12-rc1-mm1, now I get this at startup, and Xorg fails

Re: [PATCH] User Level Interrupts

2005-03-24 Thread Michael Raymond
I did the test you suggested. The turning-on and turning-off appeared to work but our SN Hub ASIC still sent interrupts to the specific CPU. I looked at my code again and from your description of Hotplug I do not see any conflicts. Thanks,

[PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [1/12]: remove too-low cap on minor number

2005-03-24 Thread ecashin
remove too-low cap on minor number Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uprN a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h 2005-03-10 11:59:55.0 -0500 +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h 2005-03-10 12:19:04.0 -0500 @@ -2,9 +2,14

Kernel crash problem and Madwifi

2005-03-24 Thread govind raj
Hi all, kernel version:2.4.29 board :net4521 wireless card : Atheros-5212 diriver madwifi-cvs-current.tar.bz2(v 1.30 2005/02/22) I built the customized image from 2.4.29 and booted from this image The following sequence restarts the board insmod wlan insmod wlan_wep insmod ath_rate-onoe insmod

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2 (build error In function `zft_init')

2005-03-24 Thread Steven Cole
I'm getting the following build error with 2.6.12-rc1-mm2: CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o(.init.text+0x4323): In function `zft_init': : undefined reference to `class_device_creat' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 built

[PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [2/12]: allow multiple aoe devices with same MAC addr

2005-03-24 Thread ecashin
allow multiple aoe devices with same MAC addr Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uprN a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h 2005-03-10 12:19:04.0 -0500 +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h 2005-03-10 12:19:11.0 -0500 @@

[PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [3/12]: update driver version to 6

2005-03-24 Thread ecashin
update driver version to 6 Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uprN a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h 2005-03-10 12:19:11.0 -0500 +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h 2005-03-10 12:19:14.0 -0500 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /*

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2

2005-03-24 Thread Manuel Lauss
Stefano Rivoir wrote: Alle 13:41, giovedì 24 marzo 2005, Andrew Morton ha scritto: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc1/2. 6.12-rc1-mm2/ - Some fixes for the recent DRM problems. Hi Andrew, While I was OK with DRM up to 2.6.12-rc1-mm1, now I get

RE: [Pcihpd-discuss] RE: [RFC/Patch 0/12] ACPI based root bridgehot-add

2005-03-24 Thread Sy, Dely L
On Wednesday, March 23, 2005 3:03 PM, Tom Duffy wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 19:13 -0800, Dely Sy wrote: I just did a test of Rajesh's latest patch on 2.6.11.5 with Wilcox's acpiphp rewrite and the following patch. Hot-plug of PCI Express card worked fine on my i386 system I have

[PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [4/12]: handle distros that have a udev rules file instead of dir

2005-03-24 Thread ecashin
handle distros that have a udev rules file instead of dir Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uprN a/Documentation/aoe/udev-install.sh b/Documentation/aoe/udev-install.sh --- a/Documentation/aoe/udev-install.sh 2005-03-10 11:59:55.0 -0500 +++

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2

2005-03-24 Thread Brice Goglin
Stefano Rivoir a écrit : Alle 13:41, giovedì 24 marzo 2005, Andrew Morton ha scritto: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc1/2. 6.12-rc1-mm2/ - Some fixes for the recent DRM problems. Hi Andrew, While I was OK with DRM up to 2.6.12-rc1-mm1, now I get this at

[PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [6/12]: Alexey Dobriyan sparse cleanup

2005-03-24 Thread ecashin
Alexey Dobriyan sparse cleanup Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uprN a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h 2005-03-10 12:19:14.0 -0500 +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h

[PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [5/12]: don't try to free null bufpool

2005-03-24 Thread ecashin
don't try to free null bufpool Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uprN a/drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c2005-03-10 12:19:11.0 -0500 +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c2005-03-10 12:19:25.0

Re: vfat broken in 2.6.10?

2005-03-24 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
John Richard Moser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It appears dosfsck may not be working quite right. I've taken this into account, hence the second pass after each fsck. This is either a dosfsck issue, a usb-storage issue for the PNY compact flash drive, or an issue with vfat itself. So either

[PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [8/12]: document env var for specifying number of partitions per dev

2005-03-24 Thread ecashin
document env var for specifying number of partitions per dev Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uprN a/Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh b/Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh --- a/Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh 2005-03-07 17:37:14.0 -0500 +++ b/Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh

[PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [9/12]: add note about the need for deadlock-free sk_buff allocation

2005-03-24 Thread ecashin
add note about the need for deadlock-free sk_buff allocation Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uprN a/Documentation/aoe/todo.txt b/Documentation/aoe/todo.txt --- a/Documentation/aoe/todo.txt1969-12-31 19:00:00.0 -0500 +++ b/Documentation/aoe/todo.txt

Re: [SATA] sata-via : bug?(Closed No Bug)

2005-03-24 Thread Jayant Roplekar
This turns out to be a motheboard/bios issue + my lack of careful thinking. And the driver seems to work ok so far. Sorry for the false alarm.. Jay Roplekar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

[PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [10/12]: Randy Dunlap: avoid warnings on sparc64

2005-03-24 Thread ecashin
Andrew Morton has already merged this patch. Randy Dunlap: avoid warnings on sparc64 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uprN a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2

2005-03-24 Thread Stefano Rivoir
Alle 16:18, giovedì 24 marzo 2005, Brice Goglin ha scritto: Stefano Rivoir a écrit : Alle 13:41, giovedì 24 marzo 2005, Andrew Morton ha scritto: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc1/ 2. 6.12-rc1-mm2/ - Some fixes for the recent DRM problems. Hi

[PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [12/12]: send outgoing packets in order

2005-03-24 Thread ecashin
I can't use list.h, since sk_buff doesn't have a list_head but instead has two struct sk_buff pointers, and I want to avoid any extra memory allocation. send outgoing packets in order Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uprN a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-24 Thread Alexander Nyberg
Just to follow up, did the problems go away when switching to ext3? The switch has been delayed. Up to now we just reboot the machine every 48h - the administrator responsible for the machine is on holiday... Meanwhile, I noticed, that the latest release candidate has several changes

Re: [RFC] Obtaining memory information for kexec/kdump

2005-03-24 Thread Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 15:49 +0530, Hariprasad Nellitheertha wrote: Dave Hansen wrote: I think there's likely a lot of commonality with the needs of memory hotplug systems here. We effectively dump out the physical layout of the system, but in sysfs. We do this mostly because any memory

[PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [7/12]: support configuration of AOE_PARTITIONS from Kconfig

2005-03-24 Thread ecashin
support configuration of AOE_PARTITIONS from Kconfig Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uprN a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig 2005-03-07 17:37:58.0 -0500 +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig 2005-03-10 12:19:54.0 -0500

Re: Kernel crash problem and Madwifi

2005-03-24 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 08:35:49PM +0530, govind raj wrote: kernel version:2.4.29 board :net4521 wireless card : Atheros-5212 diriver madwifi-cvs-current.tar.bz2(v 1.30 2005/02/22) According to the FAQ at http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk/madwifi-1.htm#2 , Madwifi is based on a binary-only

[PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [11/12]: add support for disk statistics

2005-03-24 Thread ecashin
add support for disk statistics Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uprN a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h 2005-03-10 12:19:54.0 -0500 +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h 2005-03-10 12:20:02.0 -0500 @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@

select() not returning though pipe became readable

2005-03-24 Thread Lutz Vieweg
Hi everyone, I'm currently investigating the following problem, which seems to indicate a misbehaviour of the kernel: A server software we implemented is sporadically hanging in a select() call since we upgraded from kernel 2.4 to (currently) 2.6.9 (we have to wait for 2.6.12 before we can upgrade

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2 (patch to fix build error In function `zft_init')

2005-03-24 Thread Steven Cole
Steven Cole wrote: I'm getting the following build error with 2.6.12-rc1-mm2: CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o(.init.text+0x4323): In function `zft_init': : undefined reference to `class_device_creat' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 I

Re: [PATCH] wbsd update

2005-03-24 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:29:35PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote: @@ -1581,7 +1895,7 @@ #define wbsd_resume NULL #endif -static void wbsd_release(struct device *dev) +static void wbsd_release_dev(struct device *dev) { } @@ -1589,7 +1903,7 @@ .name = DRIVER_NAME,

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [5/12]: don't try to free null bufpool

2005-03-24 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 07:17 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't try to free null bufpool in linux there is a rule that all memory free routines are supposed to also accept NULL as argument, so I think this patch is not needed (and even wrong) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

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