Re: Incorrect driver getting loaded for Qlogic FC-HBA

2005-07-27 Thread Rajat Jain
On 7/27/05, Andrew Vasquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Rajat Jain wrote: On 7/26/05, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:02:39AM +0900, Rajat Jain wrote: I'm using Kernel 2.6.9 and am having a Qlogic QLE2362 FC-HBA in my system. I selected

Re: Reclaim space from unused ramdisk?

2005-07-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
I wonder if it would be possible to somehow reclaim space that has been previously reserved for a ramdisk without rebooting. free_ramdisk.c: #include sys/ioctl.h #include sys/mount.h #include sys/stat.h #include sys/types.h #include errno.h #include fcntl.h #include stdio.h #include string.h

Build error in Kernel 2.6.13-rc3 git current

2005-07-27 Thread Michael Berger
Dear Kernel Hackers I would like to report following build error in Kernel 2.6.13-rc3 git current: gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,init/.do_mounts_initrd.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs

Why this is not working ....

2005-07-27 Thread Vikas
PATH=' \ /home\ / $2 \ / $3 \ / lib ' Why $2 and $3 are not replaced by user passed argument -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Berger Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 12:19 PM To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Build error in

Re: Reclaim space from unused ramdisk?

2005-07-27 Thread Andrew Morton
Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if it would be possible to somehow reclaim space that has been previously reserved for a ramdisk without rebooting. free_ramdisk.c: #include sys/ioctl.h #include sys/mount.h #include sys/stat.h #include sys/types.h #include errno.h

Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! 2) An attacker breaks into your machine remotely while you're using it. He has access to all your RAM, which if you're actually using it, very likely including the same IPSEC, dm_crypt, and ssh-agent keys as are saved on suspend. Further, he can trivially capture your

Re: [PATCH linux-2.6-block:master 07/10] blk: add FUA support to libata

2005-07-27 Thread Tejun Heo
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:55:50AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: 07_blk_libata-add-fua-support.patch Add FUA support to libata. NAK -- doesn't appear to take into account that read/write(6) don't support FUA. Correct me if I'm wrong. Otherwise, looks OK.

Re: [patch] properly stop devices before poweroff

2005-07-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I started on my OLS homework from Andrew ... and began looking into what is going on here. Thanks ;) I guess we'll end up with a better kernel, even though you appear to be an innocent victim here. The Badness in iosapic_unregister_intr at arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c:851

Re: Power consumption HZ250 vs. HZ1000

2005-07-27 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050725 08:57]: USB devices prevent entering C3 and any interesting powersaving, try without USB... Why do USB devices prevent C3? If it was because of the timer polling in the root hub, I believe that should be fixed now. Or is there some other reason? Tony

Re: Reclaim space from unused ramdisk?

2005-07-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
} hmm, yes. That's a special-case in the ramdisk driver. The command `blockdev --flushbufs /dev/ram0' should have the same effect. Interesting. Command not found, here. URL? Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: Why this is not working ....

2005-07-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
PATH=' \ /home\ / $2 \ / $3 \ / lib ' Why $2 and $3 are not replaced by user passed argument Because it is in single quotes, and single quotes do not provide interpolation^1. ^1 The term used by by perlop(1), section Quote and Quote-like Operators. Interpolation yes/no holds true for bash,

Re: Reclaim space from unused ramdisk?

2005-07-27 Thread Andrew Morton
Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: } hmm, yes. That's a special-case in the ramdisk driver. The command `blockdev --flushbufs /dev/ram0' should have the same effect. Interesting. Command not found, here. URL? It ships with util-linux. Weird that a distro would omit it. -

Re: Power consumption HZ250 vs. HZ1000

2005-07-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! USB devices prevent entering C3 and any interesting powersaving, try without USB... Why do USB devices prevent C3? If it was because of the timer polling in the root hub, I believe that should be fixed now. Or is there some other reason? Yes. UHCI zas keeps doing DMA all the

RE: Variable ticks

2005-07-27 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 17:19 -0400, Brown, Len wrote: Question one, are there other actions to consider? Yes. Speaking for ACPI C3 state, note that DMA also wakes up the CPU -- even if there was no device interrupt. (aka, the trouble

[PATCH] Fix incorrect Asus k7m irq router detection

2005-07-27 Thread Giancarlo Formicuccia
Hi, this patch: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bk-commits-headm=111955644929114w=2 uncovered a k7m bios bug, where the VT82C686A router is reported as being 586-compatible. The two chips have different pirq mapping, so this leads to irq routing conflict on many pci devices. The suggested fix

Re: 2.6.12 sound problem

2005-07-27 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:35:55 -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: Hello List, I recently upgraded my laptop, HP Pavilion N5430, from a 2.4.21 kernel to 2.6.12. As a result of doing this my sound no longer works correctly. It plays the same thing repeatedly some number of times - if it plays at

Re: Reclaim space from unused ramdisk?

2005-07-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
} hmm, yes. That's a special-case in the ramdisk driver. The command `blockdev --flushbufs /dev/ram0' should have the same effect. Interesting. Command not found, here. URL? It ships with util-linux. Weird that a distro would omit it. Don't look at me, look at SUSE. Euh, is it

2.6.12.3 network slowdown?

2005-07-27 Thread Howard Chu
I just recently compiled the 2.6.12.3 kernel for my x86_64 machine (Asus A8V motherboard); was previously running a SuSE-compiled 2.6.8 kernel (SuSE 9.2 distro). I'm now seeing extremely slow throughput on the onboard Yukon (Marvell) ethernet interface, but only in certain conditions. Going back

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] 2.6.13-rc3-git5: fix Bug #4416 (1/2)

2005-07-27 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:51:47 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: The following patch adds free_irq() and request_irq() to the suspend and resume, respectively, routines in the snd_intel8x0 driver. The patch looks OK to me although I have some concerns. - The error in resume can't be handled

Re: Reclaim space from unused ramdisk?

2005-07-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
It ships with util-linux. Weird that a distro would omit it. Euh, is it already included in util-linux-2.12q? I hate me. It was not in $PATH (/sbin). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[patch] Support powering sharp zaurus sl-5500 LCD up and down

2005-07-27 Thread Pavel Machek
This adds support for powering Zaurus's video up and down. PDA without screen is kind of useless, so it is quite important... I'll have to figure out how to really control the frontlight, because LCD without that is quite hard to read. diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/Makefile

Re: [patch] Support powering sharp zaurus sl-5500 LCD up and down

2005-07-27 Thread Andrew Morton
Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This adds support for powering Zaurus's video up and down. I assume you have a new toy ;) PDA without screen is kind of useless, so it is quite important... I'll have to figure out how to really control the frontlight, because LCD without that is

2.6.13-rc3-mm2

2005-07-27 Thread Andrew Morton
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm2/ - Lots of fixes and updates all over the place. There are probably over 100 patches here which need to go into 2.6.13. - A reminder that -mm commit activity may be monitored by subscribing to the

Re: 2.4.31 panics on boot on 486 box: TSC requires pentium

2005-07-27 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Willy Tarreau wrote: Seems to me that it simply disables use of TSC. But if you see this option, it means that your kernel has been compiled with SMP enabled, which is not possible on 486 (I may be wrong here). Most probably, you took a config from an inadequate kernel

Re: [patch] Support powering sharp zaurus sl-5500 LCD up and down

2005-07-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This adds support for powering Zaurus's video up and down. I assume you have a new toy ;) Actually very old toy, but I decided to make it working with 2.6 kernel (needed for bluetooth). Which is not quite an easy task. PDA without screen is kind of useless, so it is quite

[patch] Support powering sharp zaurus sl-5500 LCD up and down

2005-07-27 Thread Pavel Machek
This adds support for powering Zaurus's video up and down. PDA without screen is kind of useless, so it is quite important... I'll have to figure out how to really control the frontlight, because LCD without that is quite hard to read. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git

Re: [PATCH 0/23] reboot-fixes

2005-07-27 Thread Andrew Morton
My fairly ordinary x86 test box gets stuck during reboot on the wait_for_completion() in ide_do_drive_cmd(): (gdb) thread 73 [Switching to thread 73 (Thread 2906)]#0 ide_do_drive_cmd (drive=0xc072dd10, rq=0x0, action=ide_wait) at drivers/ide/ide-io.c:1671 1671

Re: [patch] Support powering sharp zaurus sl-5500 LCD up and down

2005-07-27 Thread Andrew Morton
Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! This adds support for powering Zaurus's video up and down. I assume you have a new toy ;) Actually very old toy, but I decided to make it working with 2.6 kernel (needed for bluetooth). Which is not quite an easy task. PDA without

Re: [patch] Support powering sharp zaurus sl-5500 LCD up and down

2005-07-27 Thread Richard Purdie
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:53 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: + /* read comadj */ +#ifdef CONFIG_MACH_POODLE + comadj = 118; +#else + comadj = 128; +#endif Can you go back to the Sharp source and confirm that these values should be hardcoded in both the poodle and collie cases please?

Re: [patch] Support powering sharp zaurus sl-5500 LCD up and down

2005-07-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! +/* + * Backlight control code for Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 + * + * Copyright 2005 John Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] + * GPL v2 Who is the maintainer for this stuff? I guess I'll maintain in. +static struct locomo_dev *locomolcd_dev = NULL; bah. Well,

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2

2005-07-27 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:43:30AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm2/ - Lots of fixes and updates all over the place. There are probably over 100 patches here which need to go into 2.6.13. - A reminder

Re: Should activate_page()/__set_page_dirty_buffers() use _irqsave locking?

2005-07-27 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 11:38 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Richard Purdie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been experimenting with oprofile on an arm system without a PMU. Whenever I enable callgraphing I see a BUG from run_posix_cpu_timers() due to irqs being enabled when they should be

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2

2005-07-27 Thread Andrew Morton
Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:43:30AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm2/ - Lots of fixes and updates all over the place. There are probably over 100 patches here

Re: Linux BKCVS kernel history git import..

2005-07-27 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 11:57 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: If somebody adds some logic to parse_commit() to do the fake parent thing, you can stitch the histories together and see the end result as one big tree. Even without that, you can already do things like git diff

Re: 2.6.12.3 network slowdown?

2005-07-27 Thread Mihai Rusu
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:44:43AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: I just recently compiled the 2.6.12.3 kernel for my x86_64 machine (Asus A8V motherboard); was previously running a SuSE-compiled 2.6.8 kernel (SuSE 9.2 distro). I'm now seeing extremely slow throughput on the onboard Yukon (Marvell)

2.6.12-ck4

2005-07-27 Thread Con Kolivas
These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity. It is configurable to any workload but the default ck* patch is aimed at the desktop and ck*-server is available with more emphasis on serverspace. Apply to 2.6.12 (This includes all patches in 2.6.12.3):

Re: Question re the dot releases such as 2.6.12.3

2005-07-27 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 22:34 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even more to the point - when 2.6.13 comes out, there will be a patch against 2.6.12, not 2.6.12.N, which means you get to download the 2.6.12.N tarball, the 2.6.12.N patch, patch -R that, and *then* apply the 2.6.13 patch. The sad

serial device driver

2005-07-27 Thread Rahul Tank
hello all, i am writing a serial device driver. After going thru few linux journals i have understood that serial ports get mapped at standard addrerss.We need to take these regions, register driver and talk to them (read,write). however i am unable to do the same. plz help me

Re: Power consumption HZ250 vs. HZ1000

2005-07-27 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050727 01:00]: Hi! USB devices prevent entering C3 and any interesting powersaving, try without USB... Why do USB devices prevent C3? If it was because of the timer polling in the root hub, I believe that should be fixed now. Or is there some

Re: 2.6.12-ck4

2005-07-27 Thread Christian Hesse
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 13:11, Con Kolivas wrote: HZ-864.diff +My take on the never ending config HZ debate. Apart from the number not being pleasing on the eyes, a HZ value that isn't a multiple of 10 is perfectly valid. Setting HZ to 864 gives us very similar low latency performance to a

Re: [patch 2/6] mm: micro-optimise rmap

2005-07-27 Thread Alexander Nyberg
[Nick, your mail bounced while sending this privately so reply-all this time] Index: linux-2.6/mm/rmap.c === --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/rmap.c +++ linux-2.6/mm/rmap.c @@ -442,22 +442,23 @@ int page_referenced(struct page *page, i

2.6.13-rc3-git8 make install error

2005-07-27 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi Just got the following with patch-2.6.13-rc3-git8: # make install CHK include/linux/version.h make[1]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date. CHK include/linux/compile.h CC init/do_mounts_initrd.o In file included from include/asm/unistd.h:426,

[no subject]

2005-07-27 Thread Horst von Brand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently using Slackware 10.1 with 2.4.29 kernel and encountered following problem: I use Sagem Fast 800 ADSL modem of my provider and use my linux station as a router (iptables+masquerade). The problem is that after a few hours of working my linux crashes

Ooops with 2.6.13-rc3

2005-07-27 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Happened while untarring large tarball. fsck did not find anything serious after reboot. Haven't been able to reproduce yet. --j ksymoops 2.4.9 on i686 2.6.13-rc3. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o

Re: [2.6 patch] include/linux/bio.h: extern inline - static inline

2005-07-27 Thread Horst von Brand
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: extern inline doesn't make much sense. The gcc info here (4.0.1-4 on Fedora rawhide) says it means that the function should be inlined, and no local copy should be generated ever. This way the build will bomb out when something isn't inlined. It also says

Re: 2.6.12-ck4

2005-07-27 Thread Con Kolivas
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:28, Christian Hesse wrote: On Wednesday 27 July 2005 13:11, Con Kolivas wrote: HZ-864.diff +My take on the never ending config HZ debate. Apart from the number not being pleasing on the eyes, a HZ value that isn't a multiple of 10 is perfectly valid. Setting HZ to

Re: [2.6 patch] include/linux/bio.h: extern inline - static inline

2005-07-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:49:02PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: extern inline doesn't make much sense. The gcc info here (4.0.1-4 on Fedora rawhide) says it means that the function should be inlined, and no local copy should be generated ever. This way

[RFC] Races in aio call back path.

2005-07-27 Thread Suzuki
Hi all, I found some races in the AIO call back path which is the root cause for a few problems in the AIO code. The race is between the aio call back path ( executed by softirqs ) and the aio_run_iocb(). (1) Suppose a retry returned -EIOCBRETRY and wait has been queued. Now, whenever the wait

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2 (kbuild broken for external modules)

2005-07-27 Thread Miklos Szeredi
git-kbuild.patch This breaks building of external modules: make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc3-mm2 M=/home/miko/fuse/kernel modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc3-mm2' WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc3-mm2/Module.symvers

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2

2005-07-27 Thread Reuben Farrelly
Hi, On 27/07/2005 9:45 a.m., Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm2/ - Lots of fixes and updates all over the place. There are probably over 100 patches here which need to go into 2.6.13. - A reminder that -mm commit

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2 (kbuild broken for external modules)

2005-07-27 Thread Brice Goglin
Le 27.07.2005 14:08, Miklos Szeredi a écrit : git-kbuild.patch This breaks building of external modules: scripts/Makefile.build:14: /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc3-mm2//home/miko/fuse/kernel/Makefile: No such file or directory make[2]: *** No rule to make target

Reiserfs 3.6 + quota enabled, crash on delete

2005-07-27 Thread Guillaume Pelat
Hi, I'm having a crash with reiserfs 3.6 + user quota enabled, on 2.6.11.10 kernel (no smp), apparently when deleting files (or maybe during a truncate operation). The problem seems to happen under high load. When the error occurs, all the processes accessing the reiserfs partition seems to

v850, which gcc and binutils version?

2005-07-27 Thread Jan Dittmer
Miles, my autobuilder picked up the defconfigs in 2.6.13-rc3-mm2 for v850 but my toolchain (binutils I expect) seems to be wrong: AS arch/v850/kernel/intv.o /usr/src/ctest/mm/kernel/arch/v850/kernel/intv.S: Assembler messages: /usr/src/ctest/mm/kernel/arch/v850/kernel/intv.S:36: Error: mov

Re: 2.6.12.3 network slowdown?

2005-07-27 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 12:30, Mihai Rusu wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:44:43AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: I just recently compiled the 2.6.12.3 kernel for my x86_64 machine (Asus A8V motherboard); was previously running a SuSE-compiled 2.6.8 kernel (SuSE 9.2 distro). I'm now seeing

[PATCH][RFC] procfs_failure possible uses

2005-07-27 Thread Christophe Lucas
description: audit return code of create_proc_* function is a entry in janitors TODO list. Audit this return and printk() when it fails, spams log of system without compiled proc support. So this patch can correct it. Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] arch/arm/kernel/apm.c |

Re: [ck] 2.6.12-ck4

2005-07-27 Thread André Goddard Rosa
Apply to 2.6.12 (This includes all patches in 2.6.12.3): http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.12/2.6.12-ck4/patch-2.6.12-ck4.bz2 or for server version: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.12/2.6.12-ck4/patch-2.6.12-ck4-server.bz2 Someone has a version who applies to 2.6.13.-rc3? Thanks!

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-07-27 Thread Zoran Dzelajlija
Zach Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the same hardware) for removal. I've Cc'ed the people listed in MAINTAINERS as being responsible for one or more of these drivers, and I've also Cc'ed the

Re: [PATCH 1/1] cs89x0 collect tx_bytes statistics.

2005-07-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 15:51 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cs89x0 driver does not collect tx_bytes statistics which breaks traffic monitoring on my firewall. The patch looks odd. It records the length of the current outgoing frame in the

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2

2005-07-27 Thread Sam Ravnborg
A few more warnings in mostly the reiser4 code in this one compared to -mm1: LD fs/ramfs/ramfs.o LD fs/ramfs/built-in.o LD fs/reiser4/built-in.o CC [M] fs/reiser4/debug.o In file included from fs/reiser4/plugin/plugin.h:26, from

Question about aic7yyy Domain Validation

2005-07-27 Thread Patrick Mau
Hallo everyone, I have a small question regarding the Domain Validation debugging output from my machine. It has four identical IBM drives, two on each channel. There's always a message saying target0:0:0: wide asynchronous., even without verbose booting. But in the verbose output below, there

US Robotics (Hardware) Modem Not Detected

2005-07-27 Thread Brad Davis
I'm trying to get a PCI-USRobotics Modem (Yes, it is a true hardware modem) working on a G4 with Kernel version 2.6.10/2.6.11. When I try to modprobe 8250_pci. I get the following error message: WARNING: Error inserting 8250 (/lib/modules/2.6.10enrock.2/kernel/drivers/serial/8250.ko): No such

Re: US Robotics (Hardware) Modem Not Detected

2005-07-27 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:45:21AM -0600, Brad Davis wrote: I'm trying to get a PCI-USRobotics Modem (Yes, it is a true hardware modem) working on a G4 with Kernel version 2.6.10/2.6.11. When I try to modprobe 8250_pci. I get the following error message: WARNING: Error inserting 8250

Re: Reiserfs 3.6 + quota enabled, crash on delete

2005-07-27 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello Guillaume Pelat wrote: Hi, I'm having a crash with reiserfs 3.6 + user quota enabled, on 2.6.11.10 kernel (no smp), apparently when deleting files (or maybe during a truncate operation). The problem seems to happen under high load. When the error occurs, all the processes accessing the

[RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-27 Thread Steven Rostedt
The following patch makes the MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable from the make *config. This is more of a proposal since I'm not really sure where in Kconfig this would best fit. I don't see why these options shouldn't be user configurable without going into the kernel headers to

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-27 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following patch makes the MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable from the make *config. This is more of a proposal since I'm not really sure where in Kconfig this would best fit. I don't see why these options shouldn't be user

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc2] pci: restore BAR values from pci_set_power_state for D3hot-D0

2005-07-27 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:36:02PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:49:34PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: This code doesn't even build, as need_restore isn't a global variable. Hmmm...you must be missing this hunk from the patch posted on July 8? Care to redo this patch

Re: [swsusp] encrypt suspend data for easy wiping

2005-07-27 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! 2) An attacker breaks into your machine remotely while you're using it. He has access to all your RAM, which if you're actually using it, very likely including the same IPSEC, dm_crypt, and ssh-agent keys as are saved on suspend. Further, he can trivially capture your

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

2005-07-27 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Morton wrote: Francisco Figueiredo Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed udev update solved my problem with preparing system to use udev hang. It now works like a charm. I had 030 version too. Only the mounting filesystem hangs persists :(

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-27 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:17 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: i'd not do this patch, mainly because the '100 priority levels' thing is pretty much an assumption in lots of userspace code. The patch to make it easier to redefine it is of course fine and was accepted, but i dont think we want to make

[patch 2.6.13-rc3] pci: restore BAR values after D3hot-D0 for devices that need it

2005-07-27 Thread John W. Linville
Some PCI devices (e.g. 3c905B, 3c556B) lose all configuration (including BARs) when transitioning from D3hot-D0. This leaves such a device in an inaccessible state. The patch below causes the BARs to be restored when enabling such a device, so that its driver will be able to access it. The

Re: [2.6 patch] include/linux/bio.h: extern inline - static inline

2005-07-27 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Jul 26 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: extern inline doesn't make much sense. Yep, thanks. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-27 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:17 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: i'd not do this patch, mainly because the '100 priority levels' thing is pretty much an assumption in lots of userspace code. I must argue though, any user app that assumes 100 is the max prio is already broken. That's why there are

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-27 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perfectly understood. I've had two customers ask me to increase the priorities for them, but those where custom kernels, and a config option wasn't necessary. But since I've had customers asking, I thought that this might be something that others

Re: [PATCH linux-2.6-block:master] overview of soon-to-be-posted patches

2005-07-27 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Jul 26 2005, Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Jens. I hope you had fun on your vacation and at OLS. I'm posting 18 welcome-back patches today. :-p This mail is to show the overview of the patches. All patches are against master head of linux-2.6-block tree. patch #1 :

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-27 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:17 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: i'd not do this patch, mainly because the '100 priority levels' thing is pretty much an assumption in lots of userspace code. I must argue though, any user app that assumes 100 is the max

Re: US Robotics (Hardware) Modem Not Detected

2005-07-27 Thread Brad Davis
On 7/27/05, Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: serial8250_init does not contain any such message, so you're not running a mainline kernel, but some patched version. Are these patches available somewhere? I'm compiling from the Ubuntu (based on Debian) sources. I'll either download a clean

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-27 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:38 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: a fair number of apps assume that there's _at least_ 100 levels of priorities. The moment you have a custom kernel that offers more than 100 priorities, there will be apps that assume that there are more than 100 priority levels, and

[PATCH] safty check of MAX_RT_PRIO = MAX_USER_RT_PRIO

2005-07-27 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:33 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: i'm not excluding that this will become necessary in the future. We should also add the safety check to sched.h - all i'm suggesting is to not make it a .config option just now, because that tends to be fiddled with. So Ingo, would you

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-27 Thread Esben Nielsen
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perfectly understood. I've had two customers ask me to increase the priorities for them, but those where custom kernels, and a config option wasn't necessary. But since I've had customers asking, I

[PATCH] SELinux: default labeling of MLS field

2005-07-27 Thread James Morris
The patch below implements kernel labeling of the MLS (multilevel security) field of security contexts for files which have no existing MLS field. This is to enable upgrades of a system from non-MLS to MLS without performing a full filesystem relabel including all of the mountpoints, which

Re: [2.6 patch] include/linux/bio.h: extern inline - static inline

2005-07-27 Thread Kimball Murray
Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Jul 26 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: extern inline doesn't make much sense. Yep, thanks. IIRC, there was a time when the extern inline construct was used to catch cases where the compiler did not inline the function (you'd get a link error). Seems like it

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-27 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:53 +0200, Esben Nielsen wrote: Isn't there a way to mark it warning! warning! dangerous! ? Sure, config MAX_RT_PRIO int Maximum RT priority (DANGEROUS!) Anyway: I think 100 RT priorities is way overkill - and slowing things down by making the scheduler

Re: [PATCH] safty check of MAX_RT_PRIO = MAX_USER_RT_PRIO

2005-07-27 Thread Steven Rostedt
The subject should be [PATCH] safety check of MAX_RT_PRIO = MAX_USER_RT_PRIO. Ever since I've upgraded my debian unstable, I've lost my spell checking! -- Steve - 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 net/ipv4 Kconfig syntax fix

2005-07-27 Thread Hans-Juergen Tappe (SYSGO AG)
Hi, Just a small patch to fix an LKC syntax error. Yours, Hans-Juergen --- linux/net/ipv4/Kconfig.orig 2005-06-17 21:48:29.0 +0200 +++ linux/net/ipv4/Kconfig 2005-07-27 16:29:56.215398144 +0200 @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED bool IP: equal cost

Re: 2.6.12 sound problem

2005-07-27 Thread Stephen Clark
Takashi Iwai wrote: At Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:35:55 -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: Hello List, I recently upgraded my laptop, HP Pavilion N5430, from a 2.4.21 kernel to 2.6.12. As a result of doing this my sound no longer works correctly. It plays the same thing repeatedly some number of times

Re: 2.6.12 sound problem

2005-07-27 Thread Stephen Clark
Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 19:35 -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: Additional info I don't see any interrupts in /proc/interrupts for the Allegro which is on int 5. I just tried the same laptop with knoppix and a 2.4.27 kernel and sound works great and I do see interrupts for Allegro

[PATCH 04/14] ppc32: Remove defconfig for CEDAR

2005-07-27 Thread Kumar Gala
Support for the CEDAR board no longer exists, removing the defconfig for it Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit e5e908e00ead5df5ff84495b79601a2519ed35bd tree d994f4efffa0fe4e3bfeae2529c9b90a790ffee1 parent d705b7bbc49cc238c742ce9a89fbece65e0ab9c2 author Kumar K. Gala [EMAIL

[PATCH 02/14] ppc32: Remove board support for ASH

2005-07-27 Thread Kumar Gala
Support for the ASH board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 7bf377b671252a945486325f3b3fdb7b53d19272 tree 0291b7debdec53173af884dced36e6fd23f0feac parent 9af0e382541b47e24af0f14624585132166dcd08 author Kumar K. Gala [EMAIL

[PATCH 07/14] ppc32: Remove board support for MENF1

2005-07-27 Thread Kumar Gala
Support for the MENF1 board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 9762d809e90f09f4507b7415fe1853c0fcc92ccb tree 0989867e7a6ae6f89ebbe57cc73318aa03c23433 parent f53cc898e2223283215cdcccb8d7218ebf51d2fa author Kumar K. Gala [EMAIL

[PATCH 11/14] ppc32: Remove board support for SM850

2005-07-27 Thread Kumar Gala
Support for the SM850 board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit b20e13cbb1c931860275b37d9bf7934974be6309 tree 17ece4e6a04e48ac5e976ed7e63691b6fd8c97ac parent 7dbed1f92ee7eeaee439e82f7dae6e43c410ef22 author Kumar K. Gala [EMAIL

[PATCH 14/14] ppc32: Remove board support for PCORE

2005-07-27 Thread Kumar Gala
Support for the PCORE board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit a287e1a2f397c7c4aeba88169b413500bd642fcc tree 5fce3a854f01aa7889bc684d9e6a81386ce1e293 parent 715aa4926267a11452ddd3f3abffc19bdefdcb88 author Kumar K. Gala [EMAIL

[patch] inotify: ppc32 syscalls.

2005-07-27 Thread Robert Love
Hey, Paulus, Add inotify system call stubs to PPC32. Signed-off-by: Robert Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S |3 +++ include/asm-ppc/unistd.h |5 - 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -urN linux-2.6.13-rc3-git8/arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S

[PATCH 13/14] ppc32: Remove board support for EP405

2005-07-27 Thread Kumar Gala
Support for the EP405 board is no longer maintained and thus being removed Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 715aa4926267a11452ddd3f3abffc19bdefdcb88 tree 6c3d041e5bc4058993dcd2707eb2c5657acfaa41 parent 13046e6e40e2f14b30e9a159791eb330f7204bf4 author Kumar K. Gala [EMAIL

[PATCH] ppc32: Mark boards that don't build as BROKEN

2005-07-27 Thread Kumar Gala
Marked APUS and GEMINI as BROKEN since they do not build at the platform level. We have requested that the maintainers of these boards/platforms fix them by the time 2.6.15 is released or we plan on concerning them unmaintained and thus removing them. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH 0/23] reboot-fixes

2005-07-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) writes: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My fairly ordinary x86 test box gets stuck during reboot on the wait_for_completion() in ide_do_drive_cmd(): Hmm. The only thing I can think of is someone started adding calls to device_suspend() before

[patch 1/1] Ptrace - i386: fix syscall audit interaction with singlestep

2005-07-27 Thread blaisorblade
From: Bodo Stroesser [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Roland McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Avoid giving two traps for singlestep instead of one, when syscall auditing is enabled. In fact no singlestep trap is sent on syscall entry, only on syscall exit, as

[patch] inotify: ia64 syscalls.

2005-07-27 Thread Robert Love
Hi, Tony. Attached patch adds the inotify syscalls to ia64. Signed-off-by: Robert Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S |6 +++--- include/asm-ia64/unistd.h |3 +++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -urN linux-2.6.13-rc3-git8/arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-27 Thread K.R. Foley
Esben Nielsen wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perfectly understood. I've had two customers ask me to increase the priorities for them, but those where custom kernels, and a config option wasn't necessary. But since I've had

Re: [PATCH 00/14] ppc32: Remove board ports that are no longer maintained

2005-07-27 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Kumar, I thought that we had some volunteers to take care of some of those. I know that I still care about ep405, and I'm willing to maintain the code. - -- ] Michael Richardson Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON | firewalls [ ] mcr @ xelerance.com

Re: Linux BKCVS kernel history git import..

2005-07-27 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 11:57 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: If somebody adds some logic to parse_commit() to do the fake parent thing, you can stitch the histories together and see the end result as one big tree. Even without that, you can already

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