Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-05 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:31:29AM -0400, Sean wrote: On Mon, September 5, 2005 1:01 am, Willy Tarreau said: But how do you think Linux has penetrated the enterprise market ??? We all have put dual boots on every windows machine we had access to, eventhough this was clearly forbidden. And

Re: R: [Linux-ATM-General] [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-05 Thread Zoran Stojsavljevic
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Also, I believe that adsl will carry much more services then just AAL5 for internet connection in the future. Even if the ATMSAR actually lacks of AAL1 and AAL2/3 capabilities, adding them in a single, specialized module is much easier than swimming in a usb+atm

R: R: [Linux-ATM-General] [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-05 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Giampaolo, Should read: ...even if the ATMSAR actually lacks of AAL1, AAL2 and AAL3/4 [where AAL3/4 is obsolete] capabilities... Just wanted to make it more precise according to the ATM standards, this was the only intention of my patch. You're right. Sorry about that. Thanks,

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-05 Thread Sean
On Mon, September 5, 2005 2:04 am, Willy Tarreau said: They don't mind. Those people install Checkpoint on Linux. A product of which previous releases were even incompatible with security updates ! Heh.. well all the power to them. Still no reason for an open source developer to waste one

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread David Teigland
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:35:23PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: +static unsigned int handle_roll(atomic_t *a) +{ + int x = atomic_read(a); + if (x 0) { + atomic_set(a, 0); + return 0; + } + return (unsigned int)x; +} this is just plain scary.

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 10:33:44PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! - read-only mount - specatator mount (like ro but no journal allocated for the mount, no fencing needed for failed node that was mounted as specatator) I'd call it real-read-only, and yes, that's very usefull mount.

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-05 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 9/5/05, Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except that someone has to maintain the patch, because with the speed the kernel is changing, a patch against 2.6.14 will not work on 2.6.15. Indeed. It has to be maintained in tree as well and I don't see any justification for making mainline

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-05 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 10:48:13PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: Admittedly, I don't think SMP ARM has been around all that long? Maybe the existing code just has not been extended. Yeah, maybe ARM never cared for SMP. But we do care :) I'm not sure on this. It's going to be NULL for

Immediate general protection errors on Tyan board

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Richmond
Immediately upon boot on this system, most userland programs will segfault, including mount. This causes the system to come up in a bizarre state with the root filesystem mounted read-only, and nothing runs without segfault. There have been numerous similar posts about this problem, but they

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-05 Thread Sander
Willy Tarreau wrote (ao): So you're both half-right from your point of view. But you're both half-wrong too : no, people can't always choose, and no, people who don't choose their laptop are not impacted by development kernels. So let's turn the page and wait for a stable kernel. If the

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-05 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 05.09.2005 [12:02:29 +0530], Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 10:48:13PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: Admittedly, I don't think SMP ARM has been around all that long? Maybe the existing code just has not been extended. Yeah, maybe ARM never cared for SMP. But we do

Re: Immediate general protection errors on Tyan board

2005-09-05 Thread Parag Warudkar
Bob Richmond wrote: Immediately upon boot on this system, most userland programs will segfault, including mount. This causes the system to come up in a bizarre state with the root filesystem mounted read-only, and nothing runs without segfault. There have been numerous similar posts about

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-05 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Nishanth Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050904 23:38]: On 04.09.2005 [21:26:16 +0100], Russell King wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:10:54PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: I've got a few ideas that I think might help push Con's patch coalescing efforts in an arch-independent fashion.

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-05 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:10:54PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: First of all, and maybe this is just me, I think it would be good to make the dyn_tick_timer per-interrupt source, as opposed to each arch? Nish, may be a good idea as it may make the code more cleaner (it will remove the 'if

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:35:23PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: +void gfs2_glock_hold(struct gfs2_glock *gl) +{ + glock_hold(gl); +} eh why? On 9/5/05, David Teigland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You removed the comment stating exactly why, see below. If that's not a accepted

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

2005-09-05 Thread Jan Beulich
Stas, Petr, I know it's been a while since this was discussed and integrated into mainline, but I just now came across this, and following all of the original discussion that I was able to locate I didn't see any mention of a potential different approach to solving the problem which, as it would

A Framework to automatically configure a Kernel

2005-09-05 Thread Ahmad Reza Cheraghi
Hi everybody For my endthesis I wrote a Framework that automatically generates a Kernel-Configuration . A Kernel-Patch, the sources and a readme are attached to this mail. For more details please read the README.txt. Comments and suggestion are welcome. Regards Ahmad Reze Cheraghi

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-09-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: The problem appeared between 2.6.12-git3 and 2.6.12-git4. Just for reference, that's git ID's 1d345dac1f30af1cd9f3a1faa12f9f18f17f236e..2a5a68b840cbab31baab2d9b2e1e6de3b289ae1e and that's 225 commits and the diff is 55,781 lines long. It would be

Re: [DVB patch 14/54] frontend: s5h1420: fixes

2005-09-05 Thread Andrew de Quincey
On Monday 05 Sep 2005 00:56, Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 9/4/05, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew de Quincey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Misc. fixes. snip --- linux-2.6.13-git4.orig/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/s5h1420.c 2005-09-04 22:24:24.0 +0200 +++

Re: [discuss] [2.6 patch] include/asm-x86_64 extern inline - static inline

2005-09-05 Thread Michael Matz
Hi, On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: extern inline doesn't make much sense. It does. It's a GCC extension which says never ever emit an out-of-line version of this function, not even if its address is taken, i.e. it's implicitely assumed, that if there is a need for such out-of-line

Re: 2.6.13-mm1: hangs during boot ...

2005-09-05 Thread Reuben Farrelly
Hi, On 5/09/2005 4:32 a.m., James Bottomley wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 01:24 +1200, Reuben Farrelly wrote: I am seeing it fill up my messages log as it is logging 1 or so messages each minute. I've emailed the SCSI maintainer James Bottomley twice about it but had no response either time.

Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Andrew Morton
David Teigland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We export our full dlm API through read/write/poll on a misc device. inotify did that for a while, but we ended up going with a straight syscall interface. How fat is the dlm interface? ie: how many syscalls would it take? - To unsubscribe from this

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Jörn Engel
On Mon, 5 September 2005 11:47:39 +0800, David Teigland wrote: Joern already suggested moving this out of line and into a function (as it was before) to avoid repeating string constants. In that case the function, file and line from BUG aren't useful. We now have this, does it look ok? Ok

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: 2.6.13-mm1

2005-09-05 Thread Reuben Farrelly
Hi Alan, On 3/09/2005 3:19 a.m., Alan Stern wrote: On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Reuben Farrelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm also observing some USB messages logged: Sep 2 13:26:22 tornado kernel: usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 13 Sep 2

Re: [PATCH] New: Omnikey CardMan 4040 PCMCIA Driver

2005-09-05 Thread Harald Welte
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 02:58:27PM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: just use return nonseekable_open(inode, filp); to really disable any file pointer positioning (e.g. pwrite/pread too). Addtionally cmx_llseek() is implement already as no_llseek() by the VFS, so you delete it from the

Re: kernel 2.6.13 - space not freed to kernel

2005-09-05 Thread Nix
On 2 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] murmured woefully: The usual malloc() never resets the break address or remaps memory because it is an expensive operation. This means that when new data space needs to be allocated, malloc() doesn't have to get anything from the kernel because it already has,

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread David Teigland
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:58:08AM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote: #define gfs2_assert(sdp, assertion) do { \ if (unlikely(!(assertion))) { \ printk(KERN_ERR GFS2: fsid=\n, (sdp)-sd_fsname); \ BUG();

Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread David Teigland
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:54:08AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: David Teigland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We export our full dlm API through read/write/poll on a misc device. inotify did that for a while, but we ended up going with a straight syscall interface. How fat is the dlm

Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Andrew Morton
David Teigland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:54:08AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: David Teigland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We export our full dlm API through read/write/poll on a misc device. inotify did that for a while, but we ended up going with a straight

Re: A Framework to automatically configure a Kernel

2005-09-05 Thread Emmanuel Fleury
Nice idea ! I really would like to have such feature. I tried a bit your stuff, unfortunately, I got this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.13-autoconf]$ make auconfig HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/auto_conf.o scripts/kconfig/auto_conf.c: In function 'auto_conf': scripts/kconfig/auto_conf.c:288:

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-05 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:32:21AM +0100, Russell King wrote: When you have a timer which constantly increments from 0 to MAX and wraps, and you can set the value to match to cause an interrupt, it makes more sense to handle it the way we're doing it (which incidentally leads to no loss of

Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Monday 05 September 2005 05:19, Andrew Morton wrote: David Teigland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:54:08AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: David Teigland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We export our full dlm API through read/write/poll on a misc device. inotify did

[git patches] libata update

2005-09-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please pull from the 'upstream' branch of rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git to receive some libata updates, described below. This does two vaguely notable things: * converts ATAPI from compile-time to runtime option, making it easier for people to

Re: forbid to strace a program

2005-09-05 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 09:32 +0200, Andreas Hartmann wrote: Chase Venters wrote: [...] Can I ask why you want to hide the database password from root? It's easy: for security reasons. There could always be some bugs in some software, which makes it possible for some other user, to gain

Re: [PATCH][1/2] fix for -mm add-sem_is_read-write_locked.patch

2005-09-05 Thread David Howells
Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is an incremental fix to the add-sem_is_read-write_locked patch in -mm. Also attached is a full version of that file, which can just be dropped into place - I've verified that none of the patches in your stack get rejects. The comment attached to

Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread David Teigland
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 02:19:48AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: David Teigland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Four functions: create_lockspace() release_lockspace() lock() unlock() Neat. I'd be inclined to make them syscalls then. I don't suppose anyone is likely to object if we

Re: [PATCH] custom PM support for 8250

2005-09-05 Thread Grigory Tolstolytkin
Hi Russel, I tried the patch provided by Vitaly Wool. And it works correctly. And now I'm successful with the PM support for my own serial8250 driver. Are you planning to commit the Vitlaly's changes into the mainstream? I guess it'll be helpful for the other people too. What I want is to

Re: Brand-new notebook useless with Linux...

2005-09-05 Thread Mathieu
Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait dernièrement que : I just bought a new notebook. Here is the output from lspci using the latest pci.ids file from sourceforge: I have got the same machine or so and it runs nicely a linux kernel. 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host

Re: [2.6.13+swsusp2] iounmap Oops

2005-09-05 Thread Dave Airlie
Sep 5 08:39:21 hermes vmunix: iounmap: bad address d72f2000 Sep 5 08:39:21 hermes vmunix: [c010e245] iounmap+0xc5/0xd0 Sep 5 08:39:21 hermes vmunix: [c015161b] page_remove_rmap+0x3b/0x60 Sep 5 08:39:21 hermes vmunix: [c020c9e8] radeon_do_cleanup_cp+0x348/0x410 Sep 5 08:39:21 hermes

Re: [PATCH] New: Omnikey CardMan 4040 PCMCIA Driver

2005-09-05 Thread Harald Welte
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 12:27:20AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: On 9/4/05, Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 12:12:18PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote: Hi! Below you can find a driver for the Omnikey CardMan 4040 PCMCIA Smartcard Reader. Sorry, the patch was

Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 21:33, Pavel Machek wrote: - read-only mount - specatator mount (like ro but no journal allocated for the mount, no fencing needed for failed node that was mounted as specatator) I'd call it real-read-only, and yes, that's very usefull mount. Could we get it

Re: [RFC][CFLART] ipmi procfs bogosity

2005-09-05 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi, On Thursday 01 September 2005 22:30, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:00:44PM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote: Plus the scanning function I wrote handles arbitrary leading and trailing space, etc. Not a big deal, but a little nicer. You can say from the beggining that

Re: [patch] Bring the Vaio's RA826G HDA (82801) to life ...

2005-09-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 4 Sep 2005 10:13:01 -0700 (PDT), Davide Libenzi wrote: Add the subsystem PCI devid to the list (on top of 2.6.13). - Davide Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi davidel@xmailserver.org Applied to ALSA tree. Thanks! Takashi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] fix some warnings in sound

2005-09-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sat, 3 Sep 2005 00:43:53 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: Some drivers don't control return values, that can fail. Generated in 2.6.13-mm1 kernel version. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] ali5451/ali5451.c |3 ++- cs46xx/cs46xx_lib.c |6 -- via82xx.c |

Re: [PATCH] ipw2200: Missing kmalloc check

2005-09-05 Thread Jiri Slaby
Panagiotis Issaris napsal(a): The ipw2200 driver code in current GIT contains a kmalloc() followed by a memset() without handling a possible memory allocation failure. Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c |4 1 files changed, 4

Regarding the booting the linux kernel on a PPC board.

2005-09-05 Thread vinay hegde
Hi All, I am working on bringing up a PowerPC based board with Linux 2.6 kernel (Board supoort package). However, I am facing some problem with respect to debugging. When I boot the board with the Linux kernel (BSP), the board hangs after printing the following information.

Re: [patch] KGDB for Real-Time Preemption systems

2005-09-05 Thread Serge Noiraud
mercredi 17 Août 2005 02:53, George Anzinger wrote/a écrit : I have put a version of KGDB for x86 RT kernels here: http://source.mvista.com/~ganzinger/ The common_kgdb_cfi_ stuff creates debug records for entry.S and friends so that you can bt through them. Apply in this order: Ingo's

Machine dies under heavy I/O or network-access ..?

2005-09-05 Thread Christiaan den Besten
Hi all ! We have recently installed two new Usenet feeders, but are having issue's keeping them alive under 'heavy' load. Both are SuperMicro based models with onboard Intel GB NICS and have a Areca 16 ports SATA-II controller. Both are Dual Xeon 2.8 with 4G ram, swap disabled. Filesystems are

Re: Bug#321442: kernel-source-2.6.8: fails to compile on powerpc (drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c)

2005-09-05 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Should be fixed in 2.6.13. On 8/16/05, Kyle Moffett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 13, 2005, at 18:54:30, LT-P wrote: Le lun 08 aoû 2005 17:57:04 CEST, Horms [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Can you please enable BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI and see if that resolves your problem. If it does, then the

Kernel 2.6.13 repeated ACPI events?

2005-09-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have a box where I keep getting this in dmesg: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] - Link [LNKD] - GSI 5 (level, low) - IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] - Link [LNKD] - GSI 5 (level, low) - IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] - Link [LNKD] - GSI 5 (level, low) - IRQ 5 ACPI:

Re: 2.6, devfs, SMP, SATA

2005-09-05 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 9/5/05, Howard Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, any guesses why with otherwise identical config options, a kernel with SMP enabled doesn't boot up with all of the device nodes that it should? (Both drives are on the same controller. I haven't checked to see if any other device files are

Re: Kernel 2.6.13 repeated ACPI events?

2005-09-05 Thread Manuel Lauss
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:54:59AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: I have a box where I keep getting this in dmesg: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] - Link [LNKD] - GSI 5 (level, low) - IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] - Link [LNKD] - GSI 5 (level, low) - IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI

Re: Kernel 2.6.13 repeated ACPI events?

2005-09-05 Thread Jan De Luyck
I'm seeing repeated ACPI events too, but of the battery kind: [Mon Sep 5 15:13:52 2005] received event battery BAT2 0080 0001 [Mon Sep 5 15:13:52 2005] completed event battery BAT2 0080 0001 [Mon Sep 5 15:14:53 2005] received event battery BAT1 0080 0001 [Mon Sep 5

netif_rx for ATM

2005-09-05 Thread manomugdha biswas
Hi, I am writing a new driver module for ATM. I want to send a packet to protocol stack using netif_rx(). For ethernet i am using netif_rx() in the following way. I have dev pointer. skbuff-dev = device; skbuff-protocol = eth_type_trans(skbuff, device); netif_rx(skbuff); It works for

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-05 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:30:53PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: Thus, for x86, we would have a dyn_tick_timer structure for the PIT, APIC, ACPI PM-timer and the HPET. These structures could be put in Does the ACPI PM-timer support generating interrupts also? Same question I have for

DVD+-R[W] regression in 2.6.12/13

2005-09-05 Thread Oliver Tennert
Hello together, with my machine, an hdparm -I /dev/dvdrecorder leads to the output: /dev/dvdrecorder: HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error The kernel tells me: [4296893.262000] hdd: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [4296893.262000] hdd: drive_cmd:

Re: [PATCH][1/2] fix for -mm add-sem_is_read-write_locked.patch

2005-09-05 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, David Howells wrote: The comment attached to the drop-in replacement patch is wrong: Indeed it is. Good thing Andrew doesn't seem to have dropped it in ;) | +static inline int sem_is_read_locked(struct rw_semaphore *sem) | +{ | + return (sem-count != 0); | +} | +

2.6.13-ck2

2005-09-05 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 2.6.13

Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-05 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 05 September 2005 10:36, David Woodhouse wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 17:20 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Just out of curiosity, is there ANY reason why this has to be done in the kernel? The PPPoATM module for pppd implements (via linux-atm) a completely userspace ATM

Re: [PATCH][1/2] fix for -mm add-sem_is_read-write_locked.patch

2005-09-05 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, David Howells wrote: | Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-ppc64/rwsem.h This uses the function wrong name. And: I really shouldn't make patches like this in the morning on weekends, when I'm still sleepy. Well, here is the trivial fix... Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel [EMAIL

swsusp: update documentation

2005-09-05 Thread Pavel Machek
This updates documentation a bit (mostly removing obsolete stuff), and marks swsusp as no longer experimental in config. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt --- a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt +++

Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-05 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 14:52 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: I'm not sure which module you're referring to, but the patch recommended by the speedtouch people links to linux-atm, and does not require kernel ATM or kernel pppoatm functionality, or use any kernel modules. I do notice it

Re: real read-only [was Re: GFS, what's remaining]

2005-09-05 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:27:35AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: There's a better reason, too. I do swsusp. Then I'd like to boot with / mounted read-only (so that I can read my config files, some binaries, and maybe suspended image), but I absolutely may not write to disk at this point,

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:09:23AM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote: Btw, I'm curious to know how useful folks find the ext3 mount options errors=continue and errors=panic. I'm extremely likely to implement the errors=read-only behavior as default in OCFS2 and I'm wondering whether the other two are

Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-05 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 05 September 2005 14:56, David Woodhouse wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 14:52 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: I'm not sure which module you're referring to, but the patch recommended by the speedtouch people links to linux-atm, and does not require kernel ATM or kernel pppoatm

Re: 2.6.13 (was 2.6.11.11) and rsync oops (SATA or NFS related?)

2005-09-05 Thread Kalin KOZHUHAROV
Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: Hi, there. Long time no posting - didn't have kernel problems for long time :-) That is why I am still running 2.6.11.11 (2.6.12 elsewhere). Will move to 2.6.13 soon. Yesterday just bought a new SATAII drive (Seagate Barracuda 7200.8

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2005-09-03T09:27:41, Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh thats interesting, I never thought about putting data files (tablespaces) in a clustered file system. Does that mean you can run supported RAC on shared ocfs2 files and anybody is using that? That is the whole point why OCFS

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2005-09-03T01:57:31, Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only current users of dlms are cluster filesystems. There are zero users of the userspace dlm api. That is incorrect, and you're contradicting yourself here: What does have to be resolved is a common API for node

Re: [PATCH] ipw2200: Missing kmalloc check

2005-09-05 Thread Takis
On 9/5/05, Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rxq = (struct ipw_rx_queue *)kmalloc(sizeof(*rxq), GFP_KERNEL); + if (unlikely(!rxq)) { + IPW_ERROR(memory allocation failed\n); + return NULL; + } memset(rxq, 0, sizeof(*rxq)); and use

Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-05 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 15:18 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Still, I don't feel this detracts from the point that client ATM DSL device drivers can exist happily in userspace. Indeed they can. There's been lots of academic research into microkernels which supports your assertion. --

Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-05 Thread Duncan Sands
Hi Alistair, Just out of curiosity, is there ANY reason why this has to be done in the kernel? The PPPoATM module for pppd implements (via linux-atm) a completely userspace ATM decoder.. if anything, now redundant ATM stack code should be REMOVED from Linux! the main advantage of the

Re: A Framework to automatically configure a Kernel

2005-09-05 Thread Ahmad Reza Cheraghi
--- Emmanuel Fleury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Ahmad Reza Cheraghi wrote: I install right now a gcc 4.0 debian-packege on my system and it still works. But I attached another patch(I thik I did a mistake in the patch;-)). Might be as well ! :) But, I'll give it a try when

promisc mode question

2005-09-05 Thread Catalin Toda
hi, I appreciate what you guys are doing here, congratulations for your work. My question is: in promiscous mode for an ethernet card, why linux kernel is not accepting frames (packets ) that have other mac address diffrent from one that is on the card ( or set with ifconfig ). Accepting

Re: [PATCH 1/2] amd76x_pm: C2 powersaving for AMD K7

2005-09-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! +NOTE: Currently there's a bug somewhere where the reading the + P_LVL2 for the first time causes the system to sleep instead of + idling. This means that you need to hit the power button once to + wake the system after loading the module for the first time after +

Re: [PATCH 2/2] amd76x_pm: C2 powersaving for AMD K7

2005-09-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This patch adds some experimental features to amd76x_pm, namely C3, NTH and POS support. These features are not enabled by default and are intended for kernel hackers only. Could those wait until ready? -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms -

who sets boot_params[].screen_info.orig_video_isVGA?

2005-09-05 Thread gl
Hi all, I am trying to get intelfb running on a system with a 855GM onboard chip, and the driver exits at intelfbdrv.c::intelfb_pci_register() (2.6.13, line 814: if (FIXED_MODE(dinfo) ORIG_VIDEO_ISVGA != VIDEO_TYPE_VLFB) { ERR_MSG(Video mode must be programmed at

Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-05 Thread Duncan Sands
Hi Alistair, The instalation is currently (with firmware loader instead of modem_run) very simple: USE=atm emerge ppp, download firmware and place it in /lib/firmware, compile the kernel with speedtch support. Compared to place the firmware in /lib/firmware on many other distros, this

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-05 Thread Horst von Brand
Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:47:03AM -0400, Sean wrote: [...] But the real crux of the argument here is not whether or not people should ever use binary-only drivers, it's whether the open source kernel developers should spend any time worrying about

Re: who sets boot_params[].screen_info.orig_video_isVGA?

2005-09-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get intelfb running on a system with a 855GM onboard chip, and the driver exits at intelfbdrv.c::intelfb_pci_register() (2.6.13, line 814: if (FIXED_MODE(dinfo) ORIG_VIDEO_ISVGA != VIDEO_TYPE_VLFB) {

Re: [PATCH] ISA DMA suspend for i386

2005-09-05 Thread Pierre Ossman
Jeff Garzik wrote: Where is CONFIG_PM? Jeff I'm not sure you're receiving my mails, but I'll give it a try anyway. It would also seem that my MTA is choking on your MX entries. I'll look into that once I get home. CONFIG_PM is missing because of consistency with i8259.c, on which the

kernel BUG at net/ipv4/tcp.c:775! with 2.6.13-git5

2005-09-05 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi I'm getting the following BUG report with 2.6.13-git5:- [ cut here ] kernel BUG at net/ipv4/tcp.c:775! invalid operand: [#5] PREEMPT Modules linked in: raw ipv6 snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_devic e snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_intel8x0

Re: [PATCH 1/2] amd76x_pm: C2 powersaving for AMD K7

2005-09-05 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050905 17:59]: Hi! +NOTE: Currently there's a bug somewhere where the reading the + P_LVL2 for the first time causes the system to sleep instead of + idling. This means that you need to hit the power button once to + wake the system

Re: [PATCHSET] 2.6.13-git3-bird1

2005-09-05 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:58:48AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While way overdue, fixes and sparse annotations tree is finally going public. This version is basically a starting point - there will be much more stuff to merge. Current patchset is on

Re: who sets boot_params[].screen_info.orig_video_isVGA?

2005-09-05 Thread gl
Thanks for the reply, Matthew. On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Matthew Garrett wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get intelfb running on a system with a 855GM onboard chip, and the driver exits at intelfbdrv.c::intelfb_pci_register() (2.6.13, line 814: if

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Monday 05 September 2005 10:14, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: On 2005-09-03T01:57:31, Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only current users of dlms are cluster filesystems. There are zero users of the userspace dlm api. That is incorrect... Application users Lars, sorry if I did

igmp problem

2005-09-05 Thread felix-linuxkernel
Hi! I wrote a few multicast tools, which use these multicast groups: 225.109.99.112 ff02::6d63:7030 224.110.99.112 ff02::6e63:7030 I have a Cisco in the middle, and both boxes are in different VLANs. The Cisco is sending out igmp queries. The kernel never answers, even after

Re: who sets boot_params[].screen_info.orig_video_isVGA?

2005-09-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I get it right, that, say, if I tell grub to load a kernel and specify vga=xxx on the kernel command line, grub will interpret it, issue some VESA BIOS calls and fill in the screen_info struct? If so, the card often supports several modes (VGA,

kernel 2.6.13 hangs / freezes with nvidia kernel module on switch to virtual console (also 2.6.12)

2005-09-05 Thread hanasaki
kernel 2.6.13 hangs / freezes with nvidia kernel module on switch to virtual console Running Debian testing and stable and built the kernel with the attached config. Then the NVidia installer was run. Everything boots and runs fine. X and Gnome come up and run. Switching to a Virtual Console

Re: [PATCHSET] 2.6.13-git3-bird1

2005-09-05 Thread viro
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 07:55:22PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:58:48AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While way overdue, fixes and sparse annotations tree is finally going public. This version is basically a starting point - there will be much more

Re: [PATCH 2/2] amd76x_pm: C2 powersaving for AMD K7

2005-09-05 Thread Joerg Sommrey
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:51:45PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! This patch adds some experimental features to amd76x_pm, namely C3, NTH and POS support. These features are not enabled by default and are intended for kernel hackers only. Could those wait until ready? There seems

Re: kernel 2.6.13 hangs / freezes with nvidia kernel module on switch to virtual console (also 2.6.12)

2005-09-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 9/5/05, hanasaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kernel 2.6.13 hangs / freezes with nvidia kernel module on switch to virtual console Running Debian testing and stable and built the kernel with the attached config. Then the NVidia installer was run. Everything boots and runs fine. X and

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Monday 05 September 2005 10:49, Daniel Phillips wrote: On Monday 05 September 2005 10:14, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: On 2005-09-03T01:57:31, Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only current users of dlms are cluster filesystems. There are zero users of the userspace dlm api.

Re: linux-2.6.13-mm1 fails to build

2005-09-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-09-05 at 14:17 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Hello, I tried to build linux-2.6.13-mm1 with the attached configuration, and it failed with: drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c: In function `rx_data_softint': drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c:1433: error: structure has no member

Re: DVD+-R[W] regression in 2.6.12/13

2005-09-05 Thread Mark Lord
Oh, you *should* be able to get the results you are looking for (hdparm -I) by trying it this way: hdparm --Istdin /proc/ide/hdd/identify Cheers - 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: DVD+-R[W] regression in 2.6.12/13

2005-09-05 Thread Mark Lord
Oliver Tennert wrote: hdparm -I /dev/dvdrecorder leads to the output: /dev/dvdrecorder: HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error The kernel tells me: [4296893.262000] hdd: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [4296893.262000] hdd: drive_cmd: error=0x04 {

Re: nfs4 client bug

2005-09-05 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
[Bret Towe] i encountered the following error while using nfs4 ive hit this error i think twice now not sure what causes it yet tho this time the only io related items going on was emerge sync running in the background (which shouldnt of touched nfs at all) and xmms playing some music

Re: igmp problem

2005-09-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 9/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I wrote a few multicast tools, which use these multicast groups: 225.109.99.112 ff02::6d63:7030 224.110.99.112 ff02::6e63:7030 I have a Cisco in the middle, and both boxes are in different VLANs. The Cisco is sending

Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-09-05 at 02:19 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: create_lockspace() release_lockspace() lock() unlock() Neat. I'd be inclined to make them syscalls then. I don't suppose anyone is likely to object if we reserve those slots. If the locks are not file descriptors then

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-05 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 05.09.2005 [13:08:20 +1000], Con Kolivas wrote: On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 06:37 am, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: On 04.09.2005 [21:26:16 +0100], Russell King wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:10:54PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: I've got a few ideas that I think might help push Con's

re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-09-04 at 07:51 -0700, Alex Davis wrote: I'm not asking you to debug crashes. I'm simply requesting that the kernel stack size situation remain as it is: with 8K as the default and 4K configurable. How about the relevant question - why hasn't someone fixed ndiswrapper yet - its

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