[patch 15/24] ALPS: Fix resume for DualPoints

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
From: David Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Input: ALPS - fix resume (for DualPoints) The driver would not reset pass-through mode when performing resume of a DualPoint touchpad causing it to stop working until next reboot. Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov

[patch 05/24] Add usb_to_input_id

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Input: introduce usb_to_input_id() to uniformly produce struct input_id for USB input devices. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/usb/input/acecad.c |6 ++ drivers/usb/input/aiptek.c |6 ++ drivers/usb/input/ati_remote.c |8

Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread James Morris
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, David S. Miller wrote: From: Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:14:55 +0400 Andrew has no objection against connector and it lives in -mm A patch sitting in -mm has zero significance. The significance I think is that Andrew is trying to gently

[patch 08/24] input: make name, phys and uniq const char

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Input: make name, phys and uniq be 'const char *' because once set noone should attempt to change them. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/char/sonypi.c | 24 ++-- drivers/input/misc/uinput.c | 23 ---

[patch 16/24] ALPS: fix enabling tapping mode

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
From: Peter Osterlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Input: ALPS - unconditionally enable tapping mode The condition in alps_init() was also inverted and the driver was enabling tapping mode only if it was already enabled. Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL

Stripping in module

2005-07-25 Thread Budde, Marco
Hi, at the moment I am packaging a Linux module as an RPM archive. Therefor I would like to remove some of the not exported/needed symbols (like e.g. static functions or constants) from the Linux module. What is the best way to do this with v2.6. I have tried e.g. to remove all symbols

[patch 12/24] i8042 - add Alienware Sentia to NOMUX blacklist

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Input: i8042 - add Alienware Sentia to NOMUX blacklist. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h |7 +++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+) Index: work/drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h

[PPC64] Remove another fixed address constraint

2005-07-25 Thread David Gibson
Presently the LparMap, one of the structures the kernel shares with the legacy iSeries hypervisor has a fixed offset address in head.S. This patch changes this so the LparMap is a normally initialized structure, without fixed address. This allows us to use macros to compute some of the values in

Re: tx queue start entry x dirty entry y (was 8139too PCI IRQ issues)

2005-07-25 Thread Mark Burton
[I'm currently having nasty ISP problems, so I've removed myself from the list for the time-being, as e-mail is struggling to get through to me -- hence the delay in my reply to this, SORRY] Probably it's the miss config of PIC. Can you post more info? Thanks for helping! :-))) -

[patch 20/24] HID - only report events coming from interrupts to hiddev

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
From: Adam Kropelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Input: HID - only report events coming from interrupts to hiddev Currently hid-core follows the same code path for input reports regardless of whether they are a result of interrupt transfers or control transfers. That leads to interrupt events erroneously

[patch 13/24] i8042 - add Fujitsu T3010 to NOMUX blacklist

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
From: Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Input: i8042 - add Fujitsu T3010 to NOMUX blacklist. Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h |7 +++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+) Index:

[patch 17/24] HID: Add a quirk for Aashima gamepad

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
From: Luca T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Input: HID - add a quirk for Aashima Trust (06d6:0025) gamepad Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c |4 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+) Index:

[patch 06/24] sonypi: make sure input_work is not running when unloading

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Sonypi: make sure that input_work is not running when unloading the module; submit/retrieve key release data into/from input_fifo in one shot. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/char/sonypi.c | 122 +- 1

[patch 14/24] synaptics - limit rate on Toshiba Dynabooks

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
From: Simon Horman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Input: synaptics - limit rate to 40pps on Toshiba Dynabooks Toshiba Dynabooks require the same workaround as Satellites - Synaptics report rate should be lowered to 40pps (from 80), otherwise KBC starts losing keypresses. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1

2005-07-25 Thread Andrew Morton
Richard Purdie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 01:36 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ On the Zaurus I'm seeing a couple of false BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! reports. These didn't

[patch 01/24] uinput: formatting, cleanup

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Input: clean up uinput driver (formatting, extra braces) Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/input/misc/uinput.c | 81 +++- 1 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-) Index: work/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c

Re: CheckFS: Checkpoints and Block Level Incremental Backup (BLIB)

2005-07-25 Thread Amit S. Kale
On Sunday 24 Jul 2005 8:44 pm, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Maybe you want to put your development machines on ext*2* while doing this ;-). Or perhaps reiserfs/xfs/something. Or perhaps into at the VFS level, so any fs can benefit from it. We thought about that. While it's possible to do that, it

Re: kernel 2.6 speed

2005-07-25 Thread Ciprian
Thanks guys for your help. I should have asked you this right from the beginning. :) Ciprian __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

[patch 21/24] psmouse: wheel mice always have middle button

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
From: Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Input: psmouse - wheel mice (imps, exps) always have 3rd button There are wheel mice that respond to Logitech probes and report that they have only 2 buttons (such as e-Aser mouse) and this stops the wheel from being used as a middle button. Change the

[PATCH] DVB: rename lgdt3302 frontend module to lgdt330x

2005-07-25 Thread Michael Krufky
This patch depends on the following patches to be applied first in order to apply cleanly: 01-lgdt3302-isolate-tuner.patch 02-lgdt3302-rf-input.patch 03-lgdt3302-suppress-compile-warning.patch 04-cx88-dvb-cleanup.patch [-mm PATCH] v4l: hybrid dvb: fix warnings with -Wundef [-mm PATCH] v4l:

[patch 22/24] i8042 - dont use negation in i8042_command()

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Input: i8042 - don't use negation to mark AUX data Currently i8042_command() negates data coming from the AUX port of keyboard controller; this is not a very reliable indicator. Change i8042_command() to fail if response to I8042_CMD_AUX_LOOP is not coming from AUX channel and get rid of

Re: 2.6.11-rc5 and 2.6.12: cannot transmit anything

2005-07-25 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Monday 25 July 2005 08:28, David S. Miller wrote: Probably your link is never coming up. We won't send packets over the wire unless the device is in the link-up state. However, if -dequeue() is returning NULL, there really aren't any packets in the device queue to be sent. If you want,

[patch 07/24] input: rearrange procfs code

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Input: rearrange procfs code to reduce number of #ifdefs Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/input/input.c | 389 +- 1 files changed, 198 insertions(+), 191 deletions(-) Index: work/drivers/input/input.c

[patch 18/24] joydev - remove MSECS macro

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
From: Tobias Klauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Input: joydev - remove custom conversion from jiffies to msecs Replace the MSECS() macro with the jiffies_to_msecs() function provided in jiffies.h Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by:

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:02:10AM -0400, James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, David S. Miller wrote: From: Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:14:55 +0400 Andrew has no objection against connector and it lives in -mm A patch sitting in

[patch 00/24] Input patches for 2.6.13

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi Vojtech, I have a bunch of changes for input subsystem I would like to get in. Half of the stuff is patches I picked from your quilt tree (ALPS dualpoint resume fix, ALPS tapping mode, couple HID changes, etc) plus some of my changes (usb_to_input_id, small acecad cleanup, add modalias for

[patch 24/24] Synaptics - fix setting packet size on passthrough port

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
From: Sergey Vlasov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Input: synaptics - fix setting packet size on passthrough port. Synaptics driver used child-type to select either 3-byte or 4-byte packet size for the pass-through port; this gives wrong results for the newer protocols. Change the check to use child-pktsize

Re: [PATCH] reset VGA adapters via BIOS on resume... (non-fbdev/con)

2005-07-25 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Pavel Machek wrote: Anyway, this patch is really good, and enables S3 to work on more machines. Thats good. It is not intrusive and I'll probably (try to) push it. which acpi_sleep=... parameter enables it? I have machines resuming perfectly fine without it that i don't want to break ;-) --

Re: [PATCH] vfree and kfree cleanup in drivers/

2005-07-25 Thread Jörn Engel
On Sat, 23 July 2005 22:27:58 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: drivers/mtd/devices/mtdram.c|3 +-- drivers/mtd/ftl.c | 11 --- This part of the patch has my blessing. Jörn -- The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and

accessing CD fs from initrd

2005-07-25 Thread zvi Dubitzki
Hi there I want to be CC-ed on a possible answer to the following question. I have not found yet an answer to the question in the Linux archives. In need access the CD filesystem (iso9660) from within the Linux initrd or right after that (make it root fs). I need an example for that since

Re: Stripping in module

2005-07-25 Thread Jan Engelhardt
What is the best way to do this with v2.6. I have tried e.g. to remove all symbols starting with telos from the module like this (after kbuild): strip -w -K '!telos*' -K 'telosi2c_usb_driver' telosi2c_linux.ko Yes, I'd also be interested in what sections can actually be stripped, if any.

Re: [PATCH] reset VGA adapters via BIOS on resume... (non-fbdev/con)

2005-07-25 Thread Dave Airlie
Anyway, this patch is really good, and enables S3 to work on more machines. Thats good. It is not intrusive and I'll probably (try to) push it. which acpi_sleep=... parameter enables it? I have machines resuming perfectly fine without it that i don't want to break ;-) I'll clean it up

Re: [PATCH] reset VGA adapters via BIOS on resume... (non-fbdev/con)

2005-07-25 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Dave Airlie wrote: Anyway, this patch is really good, and enables S3 to work on more machines. Thats good. It is not intrusive and I'll probably (try to) push it. which acpi_sleep=... parameter enables it? I have machines resuming perfectly fine without it that i don't want to break ;-)

Re: diskstat 0.1: simple tool to study io patterns via relayfs

2005-07-25 Thread Sonny Rao
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 03:07:30AM +0200, bert hubert wrote: It is with distinct lack of pride that I release version 0.1 of diskstat 'Geeks in Black Thorn', a tool that allows you to generate the kinds of graphs as presented in my OLS talk 'On faster application startup times: Cache stuffing,

Re: Lack of Documentation about SA_RESTART...

2005-07-25 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:56:08 -0400 Theodore Ts'o [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The spect says unless otherwise specified. The description for pause() states that the process will sleep until receiving a signal that terminates the process or causes it to call signal-handling function. That would

[PATCH] I2C: ds1337 - fix 12/24 hour mode bug

2005-07-25 Thread Ladislav Michl
DS1339 manual, page 6, chapter Date and time operation: The DS1339 can be run in either 12-hour or 24-hour mode. Bit 6 of the hours register is defined as the 12-hour or 24-hour mode-select bit. When high, the 12-hour mode is selected. Patch below makes ds1337 driver work as documented in

int pci_register_driver(pci_driver) and void driver_attach(struct device_driver * drv)

2005-07-25 Thread Loïc MARTIN
kernel: 2.6.11.10 Currently writting down a pci driver, I notice that pci_register_driver(pci_driver) don't forward my probe function errors. Actually errors are noticed in the kernel ring buffer but don't make pci_register_driver fail. It returns a zero value in any case. I traced back to the

Re: xor as a lazy comparison

2005-07-25 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 18:15 -0400, Puneet Vyas wrote: [...] I just compiled two identical program , one with != and other with ^. The assembly output is identical. Hmm, which compiler and which version? You might want to try much older and other compilers. Bernd -- Firmix Software

[patch] Stop the nand functions triggering false softlockup reports

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Purdie
Stop the nand functions triggering false softlockup reports. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.12/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c === --- linux-2.6.12.orig/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c 2005-07-24

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-25 Thread Seiji Kihara
Hello, At Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:40:19 -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: I'm using the kernel-source package and trying to compiling the source (in /usr/src/linux-2.4 directory) with make config, make dep, make clean, make bzImage, make modules and make modules_install. I also try to

help! kernel errors?

2005-07-25 Thread msmulders
Hello, I'm getting loads and loads of kernel errors in my syslog, but am unable to decipher them into anything meaningful. It occurs during a backup procedure and looking at the error it's got something to do with process 'rsync' but I haven't got a clue what's going wrong here (hardware?

Re: [PATCH] Dynamic tick for x86 version 050610-1

2005-07-25 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050719 06:55]: On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 14:51 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 04:30:32PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: I'm try to port it powerpc, Here is a patch. Port Dynamic Tick Timer to new platform

Re: 2.6.13-rc3 Battery times at 100/250/1000 Hz = Zero difference

2005-07-25 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Voluspa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050722 11:46]: On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:02:36 +0200 Pavel Machek wrote: will not help. It seems like your machine is simply not able to do reasonable powersaving. Digging up this patch from last month regarding C2 on a AMD K7 implies that the whole blame can be

Re: accessing CD fs from initrd

2005-07-25 Thread Glennie Vignarajah
Le Monday 25 July 2005 09:27, zvi Dubitzki(zvi Dubitzki [EMAIL PROTECTED]) disait: Hello, In need access the CD filesystem (iso9660) from within the Linux initrd or right after that (make it root fs). I need an example for that since allocating enough ramdisk space (ramdisk_size=90k in

Re: help! kernel errors?

2005-07-25 Thread msmulders
I'm sorry, here's some info on the backup procedure and system info: The backup script mounts an smbfs filesystem (smbmnt v2.2.10) over a direct (crosslink) 1000mbps link and uses rsync to backup the remote files from the mountpoint to a local removable disk. (yeah I know. I tried nfs, but it's

Re: [2.6.12.3] dyntick 050610-1 breaks makes S3 suspend

2005-07-25 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Christian Hesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050723 05:51]: On Saturday 23 July 2005 14:35, Jan De Luyck wrote: Hello, I recently tried out dyntick 050610-1 against 2.6.12.3, works great, it actually makes a noticeable difference on my laptop's battery life. I don't have hard numbers, lets just

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-25 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I now could compile the amd64-kernel successfully. I installed it on my machine, rebooted and in the beginning everything seemed fine. But after mounting the root (ext 3) filesystem (or before mounting, I do not know exactly) the machine hangs. The last message I see is: Mounting root

2.6.12 Boot Hang Disabled IRQ 11

2005-07-25 Thread Nigel Rantor
Hi all, I downloaded and compiled 2.6.12 yesterday, I am currently running 2.6.7-rc3. The boot eventually hangs (irq 11, nobody cared) but since the disks aren't mounted yet I have no dmesg output. So, before I can provide a decent report I need some way of getting this output, is there

Re: [2.6.12.3] dyntick 050610-1 breaks makes S3 suspend

2005-07-25 Thread Christian Hesse
On Monday 25 July 2005 12:27, Tony Lindgren wrote: * Christian Hesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050723 05:51]: On Saturday 23 July 2005 14:35, Jan De Luyck wrote: Hello, I recently tried out dyntick 050610-1 against 2.6.12.3, works great, it actually makes a noticeable difference on my

Re: accessing CD fs from initrd

2005-07-25 Thread Jan Engelhardt
I suppose any live CDs based distributions (like knopix) do such things too Only using (syslinux), mkisofs and mksquashfs here. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: help! kernel errors?

2005-07-25 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm getting loads and loads of kernel errors in my syslog, but am unable to decipher them into anything meaningful. You may want to take a look at linux/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt It occurs during a backup procedure and looking at the error it's

Re: Stripping in module

2005-07-25 Thread Wakko Warner
Jan Engelhardt wrote: What is the best way to do this with v2.6. I have tried e.g. to remove all symbols starting with telos from the module like this (after kbuild): strip -w -K '!telos*' -K 'telosi2c_usb_driver' telosi2c_linux.ko Yes, I'd also be interested in what sections can

Re: Stripping in module

2005-07-25 Thread Michael Tokarev
Wakko Warner wrote: [] I would also be interested in this. For instance the AIC7xxx driver has every PCI id in the module I think in the .modinfo section which is not truely required once depmod has been run. [] The .modinfo section, for example the PCI IDs, IS required for the module to

Re: [PATCH] Re: itimer oddness in 2.6.12

2005-07-25 Thread Paulo Marques
George Anzinger wrote: Tom Marshall wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 08:21:25PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: [...] Unfortunately, this is not so clear cut as it seems :( Oops! That patch is wrong. The +1 should be applied to the initial interval _only_. We KNOW when the repeating intervals

Re: help! kernel errors?

2005-07-25 Thread msmulders
Beantwoorden Vladimir V. Saveliev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You may want to take a look at linux/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt Does this get us any closer? Still gibberish to me? ~/ksymoops-2.4.9# ./ksymoops err.txt ksymoops 2.4.9 on i686 2.4.31. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms

Re: [BUG] Tulip for ULi M5263: No packets transmitted

2005-07-25 Thread Jiri Benc
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:22:04 +0100, Ricardo Bugalho wrote: the tulip driver isn't work out for my ULi M5263 network adapter. The driver loads and the interface receives packets but it won't transmit any. Running a packet capture on it shows no outbound packets, so I guess the driver thinks the

Re: diskstat 0.1: simple tool to study io patterns via relayfs

2005-07-25 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:56:48AM -0400, Sonny Rao wrote: Hi, I had some trouble compiling it, I figured out that one needs libboost, but then I've also discovered that g++-3.4.4 and g++-4.0.1 don't want to compile it while g++-3.3.5 works. (FYI, all of these were Ubuntu versions) Yes, you

Re: CheckFS: Checkpoints and Block Level Incremental Backup (BLIB)

2005-07-25 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:24:43AM +0530, Amit S. Kale wrote: On Sunday 24 Jul 2005 8:44 pm, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Maybe you want to put your development machines on ext*2* while doing this ;-). Or perhaps reiserfs/xfs/something. Or perhaps into at the VFS level, so any fs can benefit

Re: CheckFS: Checkpoints and Block Level Incremental Backup (BLIB)

2005-07-25 Thread Amit S. Kale
On Monday 25 Jul 2005 6:02 pm, Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:24:43AM +0530, Amit S. Kale wrote: On Sunday 24 Jul 2005 8:44 pm, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Maybe you want to put your development machines on ext*2* while doing this ;-). Or perhaps reiserfs/xfs/something.

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Andreas Baer
Hi, Thanks for reply. Sorry, but I've never done any vmstat operation before so next time I'll send the output in the first mail :) Willy Tarreau wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:50:05AM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: Hi everyone, First I want to say sorry for this BIG post, but it

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-25 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 04:40:46PM -0700, randy_dunlap wrote: On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 23:55:17 -0400 Lee Revell wrote: On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 19:35 -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: As you've seen, I think it depends on the timesource: for the PIT, it would be

Re: kernel page size explanation

2005-07-25 Thread VASM
On 7/25/05, Nix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, VASM wrote: i had one question does the linux kernel support only one default page size even if the processor on which it is working supports multiple ? No. Some architectures have compile-time support for multiple different

Please help with following NUMA-related questions

2005-07-25 Thread Sheo Shanker Prasad
I will greatly appreciate any help regarding the following matters: (1) How to know whether my machine is NUMA-aware or not, (2) Difference between memory bank interleaving and node interleaving (3) When the BIOS asks me to set bank interleaving as AUTO, then it says that AUTO allows memory

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Paulo Marques
Andreas Baer wrote: [...] Vmstat for Notebook P4 3.0 GHz 512 MB RAM: procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id wa 1 0 0 179620 14812 228832003321 557 184

Power consumption HZ250 vs. HZ1000

2005-07-25 Thread Marc Ballarin
Hi, I did some measurements in order to compare power drain with HZ250 and HZ1000. To measure the actual drain, I used the smart battery's internal measurement. (Available with acpi-sbs in /proc/acpi/sbs/SBS0/SB0/state.) No clue how accurate this is. Here some battery details, in case someone

Question re the dot releases such as 2.6.12.3

2005-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I just built what I thought was 2.6.12.3, but my script got a tummy ache because I didn't check the Makefile's EXTRA_VERSION, which was set to .2 in the .2 patch. Now my 2.6.12 modules will need a refresh build. :( So whats the proper patching sequence to build a 2.6.12.3? --

Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace

2005-07-25 Thread Jon Smirl
On 7/25/05, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 24 July 2005 23:09, Jon Smirl wrote: I just pulled from GIT to test bind/unbind. I couldn't get it to work; it isn't taking into account the CR on the end of the input value of the sysfs attribute. This patch will fix it but

RE: HELP: NFS mount hangs when attempting to copy file

2005-07-25 Thread Roger Heflin
A kde and gnome are well above MTU they don't know anything about MTU and neither does NFS, if those hang it up you have a network configuration problem, and should probably fix it, as a number of other things will show the problem also. Routers almost always have hard coded MTU limits, and they

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-25 Thread Neil Horman
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 10:40:19PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: Neil Horman wrote: On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:16:20PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: Neil, The best way I can think to do that is take a look at /proc/slabinfo. That will likely give you a pointer to which area

BUG: Yamaha OPL3SA2 does not work with ALSA on 2.6 kernels.

2005-07-25 Thread Andrew Haninger
Hello. I have a 5 year old Gateway Solo 2500 that is currently running Linux 2.6.12.2. If I install ALSA and try to have alsaconf bruteforce-detect the OPL3SA2 sound card, it will say that it has detected it, but loading the modules will fail. If I install Linux 2.4 and recompile/rerun alsaconf,

Re: [warning: ugly, FYI] battery charging support for sharp sl-5500

2005-07-25 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I took battery charging code from sharp and placed it in arch/arm/mach-sa1100/battery-collie.c (hope that's good place...). It still does not link, and will need complete rewrite, but... If you have done this already please let me know. I replaced sharp functions with ucb_1x00 functions

Re: seeing minute plus hangs during boot - 2.6.12 and 2.6.13

2005-07-25 Thread Andrew Haninger
On 7/22/05, Francisco Figueiredo Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hangs appears just before mounting filesystems message and before configuring system to use udev. I don't know if this will help, but there were issues raised earlier about older versions of udev causing hangs on newer kernels. Look

[warning: ugly, FYI] battery charging support for sharp sl-5500

2005-07-25 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I took battery charging code from sharp and placed it in arch/arm/mach-sa1100/battery-collie.c (hope that's good place...). It still does not link, and will need complete rewrite, but... If you have done this already please let me know. /* * Battery routines for collie (Sharp Zaurus

Re: [patch 1/2] Touchscreen support for sharp sl-5500

2005-07-25 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This adds support for reading ADCs (etc), neccessary to operate touch screen on Sharp Zaurus sl-5500. I would like to know what the diffs are between my version (attached) and this version before they get applied. Hmm, diff looks quite big (attached), and I got it from lenz for 99%

Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 7/25/05, Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/25/05, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 24 July 2005 23:09, Jon Smirl wrote: I just pulled from GIT to test bind/unbind. I couldn't get it to work; it isn't taking into account the CR on the end of the input value of

Re: Fault tolerance. . .

2005-07-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:59:59 EDT, John Richard Moser said: I'm thinking of application level fault tolerance using roll-back states or something weird, to restore the system as affected by that application to a point before the error. The obvious visual effect would be that if an application

Re: kernel page size explanation

2005-07-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:12:47 +0530, VASM said: are there any specific reasons for not using large page size for userspace processes Assume you can use 4K or 4M page sizes. Compute the total memory usage for a system that has 50 processes running, each 1556K in size pgpcU7vVX9g8Z.pgp

Re: [warning: ugly, FYI] battery charging support for sharp sl-5500

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 07:46 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: I took battery charging code from sharp and placed it in arch/arm/mach-sa1100/battery-collie.c (hope that's good place...). It still does not link, and will need complete rewrite, but... If you have done this already please let me know.

Re: do_gettimeofday monotony?

2005-07-25 Thread Christopher Friesen
bert hubert wrote: Is do_gettimeofday supposed to be monotonous? Nope. I'm seeing time go backward by tiny amounts, and then progressing. Are you running NTP? Corrections could cause this. Is there another monotonous clock in the kernel that doesn't wrap (all that often)? Doesn't really

Re: [patch 1/2] Touchscreen support for sharp sl-5500

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi Pavel, On 7/24/05, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have made quite a lot of cleanups to touchscreen part, and it seems to be acceptable by input people. I think it should go into drivers/input/touchscreen/collie_ts.c... Also it looks to me like mcp.h should go into

RE: accessing CD fs from initrd

2005-07-25 Thread Roger Heflin
/dev/cdrom is a link to the proper device, if that link is not on the initrd /dev/cdrom won't work. I previously had some statically linked linuxrc C code (I don't have the code anymore- it was a work-for-hire), that scanned the various locations that the cd could be (/dev/hd[abcd...]) and

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Patrick McHardy
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:02:10AM -0400, James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, David S. Miller wrote: From: Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:14:55 +0400 Andrew has no objection against connector and it lives in

Re: Netlink connector

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Leblond
Le lundi 25 juillet 2005 à 16:32 +0200, Patrick McHardy a écrit : Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:02:10AM -0400, James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If I understand correctly it tries to workaround some netlink limitations (limited number of netlink families and

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: (...) I have (S-ATA-150 Disk 80GB) /dev/sda: 50.59 MB/sec /dev/sda1: 50.62 MB/sec(Windows FAT32) /dev/sda6: 41.63 MB/sec(Linux ReiserFS) On the Notebook I have at most an ATA-100 Disk with

Re: [patch 1/2] Touchscreen support for sharp sl-5500

2005-07-25 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:16:05AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: If the problem is that you have a single piece of hardware you need to bind several drivers to - I guess you will have to create a new sub-device bus for that. Or just register sub-devices on the same bus the parent device is

Re: Power consumption HZ250 vs. HZ1000

2005-07-25 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I did some measurements in order to compare power drain with HZ250 and HZ1000. To measure the actual drain, I used the smart battery's internal measurement. (Available with acpi-sbs in /proc/acpi/sbs/SBS0/SB0/state.) No clue how accurate this is. Here some battery details, in case

Re: [PATCH NFS 3/3] Replace nfs_block_bits() with roundup_pow_of_two()

2005-07-25 Thread Rene Scharfe
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 07:24:23PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: su den 24.07.2005 Klokka 19:09 (-0400) skreiv Trond Myklebust: What non-power-of-two target? Anything _not_ aligned to a power of two boundary is a BUG! So we could simply replace the loop in nfs_block_bits() with call to

Re: [patch 1/2] Touchscreen support for sharp sl-5500

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 7/25/05, Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:16:05AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: If the problem is that you have a single piece of hardware you need to bind several drivers to - I guess you will have to create a new sub-device bus for that. Or just register

Re: [patch 1/2] Touchscreen support for sharp sl-5500

2005-07-25 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 06:56:07AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! This adds support for reading ADCs (etc), neccessary to operate touch screen on Sharp Zaurus sl-5500. I would like to know what the diffs are between my version (attached) and this version before they get applied.

Re: Stripping in module

2005-07-25 Thread Wakko Warner
Michael Tokarev wrote: Wakko Warner wrote: [] I would also be interested in this. For instance the AIC7xxx driver has every PCI id in the module I think in the .modinfo section which is not truely required once depmod has been run. [] The .modinfo section, for example the PCI IDs, IS

Re: [patch 1/2] Touchscreen support for sharp sl-5500

2005-07-25 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:02:43AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On 7/25/05, Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:16:05AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: If the problem is that you have a single piece of hardware you need to bind several drivers to - I guess you

RE: Stripping in module

2005-07-25 Thread Aleksey Gorelov
Well, the best you can do is strip -R .note -R .comment --strip-unneeded. If you go for more, module might not be loaded/initialized properlly Aleks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Budde, Marco Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 11:24 PM To:

Re: help! kernel errors?

2005-07-25 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:03:03PM +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm getting loads and loads of kernel errors in my syslog, but am unable to decipher them into anything meaningful. You may want to take a look at linux/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt And

Re: Kernel doesn't free Cached Memory

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Al Boldi wrote: Dick Johnson wrote: { On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 08:27 -0300, Vinicius wrote: [...] I have a server with 2 Pentium 4 HT processors and 32 GB of RAM, this server runs lots of applications that consume lots of memory to. When I stop this applications, the kernel doesn't free

Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace

2005-07-25 Thread Jon Smirl
On 7/25/05, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/25/05, Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/25/05, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 24 July 2005 23:09, Jon Smirl wrote: I just pulled from GIT to test bind/unbind. I couldn't get it to work; it isn't

Re: do_gettimeofday monotony?

2005-07-25 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:12:25AM -0400, Christopher Friesen wrote: Is do_gettimeofday supposed to be monotonous? Nope. I'm seeing time go backward by tiny amounts, and then progressing. Are you running NTP? Corrections could cause this. No. I am running a machine which often changes

Re: Question re the dot releases such as 2.6.12.3

2005-07-25 Thread Brian Gerst
Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I just built what I thought was 2.6.12.3, but my script got a tummy ache because I didn't check the Makefile's EXTRA_VERSION, which was set to .2 in the .2 patch. Now my 2.6.12 modules will need a refresh build. :( So whats the proper patching sequence to

Re: Kernel cached memory

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gábor Lénárt wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 05:46:58PM +0800, Ashley wrote: I've a server with 2 Operton 64bit CPU and 12G memory, and this server is used to run applications which will comsume huge memory, the problem is: when this aplications exits, the free memory of the server is

Re: [patch 1/2] Touchscreen support for sharp sl-5500

2005-07-25 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 7/25/05, Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:02:43AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On 7/25/05, Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:16:05AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: If the problem is that you have a single piece of hardware

Re: [patch 1/2] Touchscreen support for sharp sl-5500

2005-07-25 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:47:25AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On 7/25/05, Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you look at _my_ version, you'll notice that it doesn't use the class interface stuff. A previous version of it did, and this seems to be what the collie stuff is based

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