[PATCH] jumbo all-NICs ethtool count cleanup

2007-09-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
Just checked this in locally... The hooks -self_test_count() and -get_stats_count() are now unused in the main tree. (based off of latest davem/net-2.6.24.git) drivers/net/3c59x.c | 11 +++- drivers/net/8139cp.c| 11 +++- drivers/net/8139too.c

Re: [PATCH] jumbo all-NICs ethtool count cleanup

2007-09-16 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Jeff. You wrote: The hooks -self_test_count() and -get_stats_count() are now unused in the main tree. So I'm suprised to see more lines added than deleted: 35 files changed, 346 insertions(+), 246 deletions(-) Puzzled - may need a bit more coffee (morning here).. Sam - To

Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.

2007-09-16 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Sep 15, 2007, at 13:24:46, Andreas Dilger wrote: On Sep 15, 2007 16:29 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: Yes, block device itself is not able to scale well, but it is the place for redundancy, since filesystem will just fail if underlying device does not work correctly and FS actually does

Re: On thread scheduling

2007-09-16 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Sep 14, 2007, at 18:40:00, Heikki Orsila wrote: Consider a simple embedded system: void interrupt_handler(void) int main(void) I would like to emulate this system with a workstation to make development faster. I would create two threads, one executing the main() function, and the other

Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?

2007-09-16 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Sep 15, 2007, at 07:19:01, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 11:50 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: I haven't word wrapped it at all. The lines appear as whole lines in Apple Mail (my email client). It must be your email client that is wrapping them... Oddly, this line is

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Sep 15, 2007, at 06:33:18, J.C. Roberts wrote: Would Linus put up a fight if someone took his source tree and relicensed the whole thing as GPLv3 without his permission? Yep, you betcha he'd fight and he has already had to put up with a lot of strong arm nonsense from the GPLv3/FSF

Re: [PATCH] jumbo all-NICs ethtool count cleanup

2007-09-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
Sam Ravnborg wrote: Hi Jeff. You wrote: The hooks -self_test_count() and -get_stats_count() are now unused in the main tree. So I'm suprised to see more lines added than deleted: 35 files changed, 346 insertions(+), 246 deletions(-) Puzzled - may need a bit more coffee (morning here)..

Re: SPARC{,64}: kernel_termios_to_user_termios_1 missing

2007-09-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:36:02 -0700 (PDT) David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Horst H. von Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:37:55 -0400 git-describe says this is v2.6.23-rc6-168-g53a3f30 I'm getting: drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c: In function 'n_tty_ioctl':

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Consolidate host virtualization support under Virtualization menu

2007-09-16 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 11:49 +0300, Alexey Eremenko wrote: We turn Virtualization into a menu, not a config option, since it's actually only used as a menu. Then we move lguest under that menu. What about containerization bits ? IPC_Namespaces, *_Namespaces - I think we should evaluate

Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH] RDMA/CMA: Use neigh_event_send() to initiate neighbour discovery.

2007-09-16 Thread Or Gerlitz
Steve Wise wrote: RDMA/CMA: Use neigh_event_send() to initiate neighbour discovery. Calling arp_send() to initiate neighbour discovery (ND) doesn't do the full ND protocol. Namely, it doesn't handle retransmitting the arp request if it is dropped. The function neigh_event_send() does all this.

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sunday 16 September 2007, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Sep 15, 2007, at 06:33:18, J.C. Roberts wrote: Would Linus put up a fight if someone took his source tree and   relicensed the whole thing as GPLv3 without his permission? Yep,   you betcha he'd fight and he has already had to put up with

Re: ICH Intel PATA short cable override...

2007-09-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mark Lord wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Ditto for selecting transfer modes. Waiting on one thing AFAICS: ability to drain/idle all ports + issue a command on one port + resume normal parallel port operation SET FEATURES - XFER MODE is special in that it requires

[RFC] container cpusets - decrustify cpuset mask update code

2007-09-16 Thread Paul Jackson
Paul Menage, The kernel/cpuset.c code handling the updating of a cpusets 'cpus' and 'mems' masks was starting to look a little bit crufty to me. So I rewrote it a little bit. Other than subtle improvements in the consistency of identifying white space at the beginning and end of passed in

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
J.C. Roberts wrote: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wirelessm=118857712529898w=2 Link with outdated info. http://madwifi.org/browser/branches/ath5k Link with outdated info. I suggest actually taking the time to get the facts before making completely baseless statements. When you make

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Kyle Moffett
There's no need to CC all those FSF people on this as I'm sure they're plenty busy with other things, have lots of people to dispel FUD for them, and certainly don't need the excess email in their inboxes. On Sep 16, 2007, at 03:52:43, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Sunday 16 September 2007, Kyle

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Rene Herman
On 09/16/2007 10:12 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: So let's everybody calm down, ok? Or rather, can everybody please just shitcan those perverted dipshits you are replying to and get on with it? These people are here for one reason only and that's to cause a stir -- however righteous they may feel

Re: [PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure (v2)

2007-09-16 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: This patch refactors the current hypercall infrastructure to better support live migration and SMP. It eliminates the hypercall page by trapping the UD exception that would occur if you used the wrong hypercall instruction for the underlying architecture and replacing it

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sunday 16 September 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: J.C. Roberts wrote: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wirelessm=118857712529898w=2 Link with outdated info. http://madwifi.org/browser/branches/ath5k Link with outdated info. I suggest actually taking the time to get the facts before making

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc4] qconf (make xconfig) Search Dialog Enhancement (rev8)

2007-09-16 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:45:03PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! [ I'm not subscribed to this list so please CC me on your replies. ] This patch adds an option to use either substring match, regular expression match, or keywords search in the make xconfig Edit-Find dialog. It also

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
That's the wonderful thing about open development: our mistakes, and the corrections made to fix mistakes, are out in the open for all to see. And we wouldn't have it any other way. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: [1/3] 2.6.23-rc6: known regressions v2 --- ieee1394, empty suspend stopped working

2007-09-16 Thread Stefan Richter
Michal Piotrowski wrote: FireWire Could you title it IEEE1394 instead? (According to the information so far, it's in drivers/ieee1394, not drivers/firewire.) Subject : empty suspend stopped working around 2.6.23-rc4 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/11/326 Last known

Re: [1/3] 2.6.23-rc6: known regressions v2 --- ieee1394, empty suspend stopped working

2007-09-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:35:04 +0200 Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michal Piotrowski wrote: FireWire Could you title it IEEE1394 instead? (According to the information so far, it's in drivers/ieee1394, not drivers/firewire.) Subject : empty suspend stopped working

kbuild update

2007-09-16 Thread Sam Ravnborg
A summary of what is planned to be submitted in next merge window for kbuild. The shortlog below have additional details but the headlines are: o Make the kernel buildable on a cygwin box (but not without a few glitches) o detect unterminated device id list o add export_report as a valid

Re: [ofa-general] InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

2007-09-16 Thread Or Gerlitz
Roland Dreier wrote: With 2.6.24 probably opening in the not-too-distant future, it's probably a good time to review what my plans are for when the merge window opens. Core: - Sean's QoS changes. These look fine at first glance, and I just plan to understand the backwards compatibility

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sunday 16 September 2007, Kyle Moffett wrote: Secondly, what the HELL is with you guys and the personal   attacks?!?!?  You said I am hopelessly misinformed, or a habitual   liar???   You are right and I apologize. I've received plenty of personal attacks from your group, and failed to

Re: [PATCH] x86: constify stacktrace_ops

2007-09-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:02:17 +0100 Jan Beulich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. as they're never written to. arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: In function 'dump_trace': arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:197: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type Due to struct

Re: [1/3] 2.6.23-rc6: known regressions v2 --- ieee1394, empty suspend stopped working

2007-09-16 Thread Stefan Richter
Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:35:04 +0200 Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regardless whether swap is on or off and whether ieee1394 and ohci1394 are loaded or not, it always behaves the same. It does something, then ends up with power LED off but a non-blinking cursor,

Re: [PATCH 0/13] Reduce external fragmentation by grouping pages by mobility v30

2007-09-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:33:55 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mel Gorman) wrote: Go ahead with the patches you already have if you prefer. Just make sure not to include breakout-page_order-to-internalh-to-avoid-special-knowledge-of-the-buddy-allocator.patch as it's only required for

Re: PROBLEM: kernel hang in ohci init

2007-09-16 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi Timo, On 7/15/07, Timo Lindemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To sum this up: the userspace 2.6.20.6 (the good kernel) and 2.6.22 (the bad kernel) were compiled in is exactly the same setup. I recompiled good to check for that, earlier, but good also works then. good does not exhibit the

TSC HPET calibration

2007-09-16 Thread Sami Farin
/var/log # grep -Ei hpet|tsc dmesg-2.6.19.7 dmesg.2.6.22.6-x86_64 dmesg-2.6.19.7:ACPI: HPET (v001 INTEL DQ965GF 0x15db MSFT 0x0113) @ 0x3e6f2000 dmesg-2.6.19.7:ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a201 base: 0xfed0 dmesg-2.6.19.7:[ 34.337155] hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed0, IRQs 2, 8, 0

Re: PROBLEM: kernel hang in ohci init

2007-09-16 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 9/16/07, Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Timo, On 7/15/07, Timo Lindemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To sum this up: the userspace 2.6.20.6 (the good kernel) and 2.6.22 (the bad kernel) were compiled in is exactly the same setup. I recompiled good to check for that,

Re: Latest git won't compile

2007-09-16 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 15/09/2007, Adrian McMenamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CC drivers/char/tty_ioctl.o drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c: In function 'n_tty_ioctl': drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c:799: error: implicit declaration of function 'kernel_termios_to_user_termios_1' drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c:806: error: implicit

Re: [PATCH] tristate choices with mixed tristate and boolean values

2007-09-16 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 01:58:02PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: Change kconfig behavior so that mixing bool and tristate config settings in a choice is possible and has the desired effect of offering just the tristate options individually if the choice gets set to M, and a normal boolean

Re: [PATCH]PCI:disable resource decode in PCI BAR detection

2007-09-16 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:53:58PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: In the first one, Linus talks about a USB controller whose SMM code chokes on the BAR being disabled. That explanation seems odd to me. If it chokes on the BAR disabled, how doesn't it choke on the BAR being moved to a

Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

2007-09-16 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 08:04:10PM +0200, Matej Laitl wrote: menuconfig currently represents options implied by another option ('select' directive in Kconfig) by prefixing them with '---'. Unfortunately the same notation is used for comments. This patch changes notation of

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Userspace tuner

2007-09-16 Thread Hans Verkuil
On Saturday 15 September 2007 18:58:34 Bernard Jungen wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:04:42AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: With respect to your kernel-userspace API for xc3028, you made something that seemed to be a dream: there's a consensus: not a single developer believed that

Re: [1/3] 2.6.23-rc6: known regressions v2 --- ieee1394, empty suspend stopped working

2007-09-16 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 16 September 2007 11:35, Stefan Richter wrote: Michal Piotrowski wrote: FireWire Could you title it IEEE1394 instead? (According to the information so far, it's in drivers/ieee1394, not drivers/firewire.) Subject : empty suspend stopped working around 2.6.23-rc4

Re: ata_piix, laptop cdrom, ICH7: EH, limiting speed to PIO

2007-09-16 Thread Tejun Heo
Michal Piotrowski wrote: Sergey Dolgov pisze: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:19:03PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Sergey Dolgov pisze: Hi Michal, On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 06:33:20PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi Sergey, On 11/09/2007, Sergey Dolgov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On my

[PATCH] 2.6.22.6 reiserfs: work around for dead loop in finish_unfinished

2007-09-16 Thread lepton
Hi, There is possible dead loop in finish_unfinished function. In most situation, the call chain iput - ... - reiserfs_delete_inode - remove_save_link will success. But for some reason such as data corruption, reiserfs_delete_inode fails on reiserfs_do_truncate -

Re: kbuild update

2007-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: A summary of what is planned to be submitted in next merge window for kbuild. The shortlog below have additional details but the headlines are: ... o add script to find unused kconfig symbols (try it!) based on my experiences with this, unless you

TSC HPET calibration

2007-09-16 Thread Frans Pop
I'm seeing the same error as reported by Sami Farin earlier today [1], but from my logs I can see that the issue is intermittent (2/3 failures). The logs indicate that the issue was introduced with 2.6.22 as TSC sync was correct for all boots with 2.6.21-6. My system is also Pentium D: Intel(R)

Re: PROBLEM: kernel hang in ohci init

2007-09-16 Thread Satyam Sharma
Ok, opened up: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9026 and brought it up to date with the discussion and David's comments on this thread. Timo, please feel free to revisit this later and update us when you find the time to do so. [ BTW I think the add CC: thing in bugzilla is broken, I

Re: [1/3] 2.6.23-rc6: known regressions v2 --- ieee1394, empty suspend stopped working

2007-09-16 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 02:41 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: I did a quick test on my main test machine, a Mac mini running x86-64 Linux. Regardless whether swap is on or off and whether ieee1394 and ohci1394 are loaded or not, it always behaves the same. It does something, then ends up with

Re: Distributed storage. Move away from char device ioctls.

2007-09-16 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:24:46AM -0600, Andreas Dilger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When Chris Mason announced btrfs, I found that quite a few new ideas are already implemented there, so I postponed project (although direction of the developement of the btrfs seems to move to the zfs side

clockevents - regression fixes for 2.6.23

2007-09-16 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the clockevents regression fixes from my hrt tree. Thanks, tglx The following changes since commit d0174640eedc1cd756754f03afe2dbb3d56de74e: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/.../jgarzik/netdev-2.6 are available in the

Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread Eben Moglen
On Sunday, 16 September 2007, J.C. Roberts wrote: Let's say someone took the linux kernel source from the official repository, removed the GPL license and dedicated the work to public domain or put it under any other license, and for kicks back-dated the files so they are older than

Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

2007-09-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 10:14:44PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: - Userspace allocates a lot of memory in those slabs. If with slabs you mean slab/slub, I can't follow, there has never been a single byte of userland memory allocated there since

Re: Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:17:41AM -0400, Eben Moglen wrote: We will make no more public statements until the work is complete, and we will be neither hurried nor intimidated by people who shout at us instead of helping. http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/jul/31/openhal/ As I said in a

Re: [PATCH v2] iw_cxgb3: Support iwarp-only interfaces to avoid 4-tuple conflicts.

2007-09-16 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Hi Steve. On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 10:56:46AM -0500, Steve Wise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The iWARP driver must translate all listens on address 0.0.0.0 to the set of rdma-only ip addresses for the device in question. This prevents incoming connect requests to the TCP ipaddresses from going

Re: Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread Lars Noodén
Thanks for the detailed response. There have also been some very articulate and fact-oriented responses here from the OpenBSD Misc list as well. I will repeat and elaborate on what I wrote in my first response which I gave the subject Divide and conquer (was Re: Wasting our Freedom) Although

Re: Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread Lars Noodén
Thanks for the detailed response. There have also been some very articulate and fact-oriented responses here from the OpenBSD Misc list as well. I will repeat and elaborate on what I wrote in my first response which I gave the subject Divide and conquer (was Re: Wasting our Freedom) Although

Re: Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 16/09/2007, Marc Espie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:17:41AM -0400, Eben Moglen wrote: We will make no more public statements until the work is complete, and we will be neither hurried nor intimidated by people who shout at us instead of helping.

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Consolidate host virtualization support under Virtualization menu

2007-09-16 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Rusty Russell wrote: Well, containerization deserves its own menu, but the question is does i it belong under this menu? No, I don't think so. While there are some broad similarities in effect, the technology is completely different, as are the capabilities and tradeoffs. They're pretty much

Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

2007-09-16 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:54:56PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 10:14:44PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: - Userspace allocates a lot of memory in those slabs. If with slabs you mean slab/slub, I can't follow,

Re: kbuild update

2007-09-16 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:58:03AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: A summary of what is planned to be submitted in next merge window for kbuild. The shortlog below have additional details but the headlines are: ... o add script to find unused

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 16 September 2007 05:17:53 J.C. Roberts wrote: On Sunday 16 September 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: J.C. Roberts wrote: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wirelessm=118857712529898w=2 Link with outdated info. http://madwifi.org/browser/branches/ath5k Link with outdated info. I

Re: kbuild update

2007-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:58:03AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: A summary of what is planned to be submitted in next merge window for kbuild. The shortlog below have additional details but the

Re: crashme fault

2007-09-16 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:21:51PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: I run almost-daily kernel testing. I haven't seen 'crashme' cause a kernel fault until today, and now I've seen it twice on 2.6.23-rc6-git2, Did the room temperature change in the server room? ;) Those early EM64T P4 core based are

Re: MTRR initialization

2007-09-16 Thread Howard Chu
Yinghai Lu wrote: On 9/14/07, Howard Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, was wondering if anyone else has been tripped up by this... I've got 4GB of RAM in my Asus A8V Deluxe and memory hole mapping enabled in the BIOS. By default, my system boots up with these MTRR settings: reg00:

Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?

2007-09-16 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:22:11 -0400 Kyle Moffett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 15, 2007, at 07:19:01, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 11:50 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: I haven't word wrapped it at all. The lines appear as whole lines in Apple Mail (my email client).

Re: crashme fault

2007-09-16 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:53:21 +0200 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:21:51PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: I run almost-daily kernel testing. I haven't seen 'crashme' cause a kernel fault until today, and now I've seen it twice on 2.6.23-rc6-git2, Did the room temperature

Re: crashme fault

2007-09-16 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:34:54 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: Command: ./crashme +2000 666 1000 1:00:00 1 Ok, that's close to what I was testing (one of the examples from the crashme docs). The original gjc crashme doesn't even do a

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc4] qconf (make xconfig) Search Dialog Enhancement (rev8)

2007-09-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Shlomi Fish wrote: This patch adds an option to use either substring match, regular expression match, or keywords search in the make xconfig Edit-Find dialog. It also allows searching on the help field of the menus as well as the name of the symbol. This

Re: SPARC{,64}: kernel_termios_to_user_termios_1 missing

2007-09-16 Thread David Miller
From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:42:31 -0700 Hopefully bb8bd3a52a5dbca8bea31bfc72dacfb384170e69 (merged six hours ago) will have fixed this. It Works For Me. Yep, looks good here too. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

Re: SPARC{,64}: kernel_termios_to_user_termios_1 missing

2007-09-16 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 16/09/2007, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hopefully bb8bd3a52a5dbca8bea31bfc72dacfb384170e69 (merged six hours ago) will have fixed this. It Works For Me. It also works on SH4 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

2007-09-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Matej Laitl wrote: menuconfig currently represents options implied by another option ('select' directive in Kconfig) by prefixing them with '---'. Unfortunately the same notation is used for comments. This patch changes notation of selected-by-another items by

Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

2007-09-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: But can you take a look at distingushing between non-selectable options due to dependency issues and seleted-by symbols. Do you have an example in mind? If a symbol is not changable, but still visible, a select is usually involved. bye, Roman -

Re: crashme fault

2007-09-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: I'll apply this patch today, but I haven't done so yet (for the 2 bug reports below). Actually, it's probably better that you don't change your situation unnecessarily, in case the bug goes away. Since you are triggering the problem even *without*

scheduler improvements : 2.6.21 vs 2.6.22-ck1 vs 2.6.23-rc6

2007-09-16 Thread FD Cami
Warning: I have not run any benchmarks. One thing I am (more or less) able to measure is my own ability to headshot in some games like UT99. The other thing is to see if flash videos stutter or die under load. Please remember, this is about desktop usage - not numbers. my computer: PIII-S 1400

Re: [PATCH] tristate choices with mixed tristate and boolean values

2007-09-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Jan Beulich wrote: --- linux-2.6.23-rc5/scripts/kconfig/menu.c 2007-09-07 16:48:23.0 +0200 +++ 2.6.23-rc5-tristate-choices/scripts/kconfig/menu.c2007-09-03 10:29:41.0 +0200 @@ -235,16 +235,23 @@ void menu_finalize(struct menu *parent)

Re: [PATCH]PCI:disable resource decode in PCI BAR detection

2007-09-16 Thread Robert Hancock
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:53:58PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: In the first one, Linus talks about a USB controller whose SMM code chokes on the BAR being disabled. That explanation seems odd to me. If it chokes on the BAR disabled, how doesn't it choke on the BAR being

[PATCH v3] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

2007-09-16 Thread Matej Laitl
menuconfig currently represents options implied by another option ('select' directive in Kconfig) by prefixing them with '---'. Unfortunately the same notation is used for comments. This patch changes notation of selected-by-another items by introducing new representations for implied options:

Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

2007-09-16 Thread Jörn Engel
On Sun, 16 September 2007 00:30:32 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Movable? I rather assume all slab allocations aren't movable. Then slab defrag can try to tackle on users like dcache and inodes. Keep in mind that with the exception of updatedb, those inodes/dentries will be pinned and you

Re: MTRR initialization

2007-09-16 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 9/16/07, Howard Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yinghai Lu wrote: On 9/14/07, Howard Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, was wondering if anyone else has been tripped up by this... I've got 4GB of RAM in my Asus A8V Deluxe and memory hole mapping enabled in the BIOS. By default, my system

Re: regression: fireware causes oops during system

2007-09-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 21:00 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: I noticed empty suspend stopped working around 2.6.23-rc4, and it is still present in 2.6.23-rc6. ... Unsetting CONFIG_IEEE1394=y solves the problem. ... Between -rc3 and -rc4: ieee1394: sbp2: fix

Re: regression: fireware causes oops during system

2007-09-16 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2007-09-11 21:45:58, Stefan Richter wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 21:00 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: I noticed empty suspend stopped working around 2.6.23-rc4, and it is still present in 2.6.23-rc6. ... Unsetting CONFIG_IEEE1394=y solves the problem. ... Between -rc3 and

Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

2007-09-16 Thread Jörn Engel
On Sat, 15 September 2007 01:44:49 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:12:26 +0200 Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I agree with your concern, those numbers are quite silly. The chances of 99.8% of pages being free and the remaining 0.2% being perfectly spread

Re: [PATCH v3] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

2007-09-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Matej Laitl wrote: +tristate sym_get_minimal_value(struct symbol *sym) +{ + return sym-rev_dep.tri; +} + +tristate sym_get_maximal_value(struct symbol *sym) +{ + return sym-visible; +} + Right now I prefer the previous version. This maximum value is

Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

2007-09-16 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 07:10:06PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: Hi, On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: But can you take a look at distingushing between non-selectable options due to dependency issues and seleted-by symbols. Do you have an example in mind? If a symbol is not

Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

2007-09-16 Thread Mel Gorman
On (15/09/07 14:14), Goswin von Brederlow didst pronounce: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:12:26 +0200 Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I agree with your concern, those numbers are quite silly. The chances of 99.8% of pages being free and the

Re: crashme fault

2007-09-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: I'm really starting to suspect some early EM64T bug, and I also suspect that it's harmless but that we should just do the trivial patch to say if the register state is in user mode, we don't care if the CPU says it was a kernel access. Namely

Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

2007-09-16 Thread Mel Gorman
On (15/09/07 17:51), Andrea Arcangeli didst pronounce: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:14:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I keep coming back to the fact that movable objects should be moved out of the way for unmovable ones. Anything else just allows That's incidentally exactly what the

Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

2007-09-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Jörn Engel wrote: I have been toying with the idea of having seperate caches for pinned and movable dentries. Downside of such a patch would be the number of memcpy() operations when moving dentries from one cache to the other. Totally inappropriate. I bet 99% of all

Re: Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sunday 16 September 2007, Eben Moglen wrote: Also, and again for the last time, let me state that SFLC's instructions from its clients are to establish all the facts concerning the development of the current relevant code (which means the painstaking reconstruction of several independent

Re: [PATCH v3] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

2007-09-16 Thread Matej Laitl
On Sunday 16 of September 2007 19:59:56 Roman Zippel wrote: Right now I prefer the previous version. The v2 was maybe more intuitive, but had at least one flaw, where it claimed the option was selected by another, while it was in fact only made unchangeable by 'bool Enable block layer if

Re: [patch 01/03] kbuild, asm-values: infrastructure

2007-09-16 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Oleg. On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:36:51AM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: * header with widely used value definitions * handle all asm-related things in one file (Makefile.asm) * move some asm bits from Makefile.build there (rule %.s:%.c) * add script to generate

Re: crashme fault

2007-09-16 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 10:14:46AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: I'll apply this patch today, but I haven't done so yet (for the 2 bug reports below). Actually, it's probably better that you don't change your situation unnecessarily, in case

Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

2007-09-16 Thread Jörn Engel
On Sun, 16 September 2007 11:15:36 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Jörn Engel wrote: I have been toying with the idea of having seperate caches for pinned and movable dentries. Downside of such a patch would be the number of memcpy() operations when moving dentries

Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

2007-09-16 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 08:04:10PM +0200, Matej Laitl wrote: menuconfig currently represents options implied by another option ('select' directive in Kconfig) by prefixing them with '---'. Unfortunately the same notation is used for comments. This is easy to fix - example below. Now a comment

Re: MTRR initialization

2007-09-16 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Yinghai Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 9/16/07, Howard Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yinghai Lu wrote: On 9/14/07, Howard Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, was wondering if anyone else has been tripped up by this... I've got 4GB of RAM in my Asus A8V Deluxe and memory hole mapping enabled

Re: regression: fireware causes oops during system

2007-09-16 Thread Stefan Richter
(Adding Cc: Rafael, Ingo) Pavel Machek wrote: Dmesg with the oops or/and bisection would be good. Sorry, had to hand-copy. It is oops at virtual adddress 6b6b6b7b -- looks like slab poison to me? EIP is in task_rq_lock, backtrace is try_to_wake_up highlevel_host_reset ohci_irq_handler

Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

2007-09-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Jörn Engel wrote: My approach is to have one for mount points and ramfs/tmpfs/sysfs/etc. which are pinned for their entire lifetime and another for regular files/inodes. One could take a three-way approach and have always-pinned, often-pinned and rarely-pinned. We

Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

2007-09-16 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 07:15:04PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: Except now as I've repeatadly pointed out, you have internal fragmentation problems. If we went with the SLAB, we would need 16MB slabs on PowerPC for example to get the same sort of results and a lot of copying and moving when Well

Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

2007-09-16 Thread Matej Laitl
On Sunday 16 of September 2007 20:41:10 Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 08:04:10PM +0200, Matej Laitl wrote: menuconfig currently represents options implied by another option ('select' directive in Kconfig) by prefixing them with '---'. Unfortunately the same notation is used

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Can E. Acar
On Sunday 16 September 2007 15:23:25 Daniel Hazelton wrote: On Sunday 16 September 2007 05:17:53 J.C. Roberts wrote: On Sunday 16 September 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: J.C. Roberts wrote: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wirelessm=118857712529898w=2 Link with outdated info.

Rename asm-offsets tool or not? (Re: [patch 01/03] kbuild, asm-values: infrastructure)

2007-09-16 Thread Oleg Verych
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:29:12PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: Hi Oleg. Hallo. Nice, you are bringing it back. I'll try to have LKML-like output this time, not a makefile mess and stuff: [] I see no value in renaming from asm_offset to asm_value - please drop it. Introducing the generic

Re: Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread bofh
I don't thinl this helps openbsd or anyone else. As Theo is already working with the individuals involved, and hasn't asked for help, I think rather than saying I think you're going to suck, let's see what happens. Going ovewrboard isn't going to help anyone. On 9/16/07, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] Configurable tap interface MTU

2007-09-16 Thread David Miller
From: Ed Swierk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:54:35 -0700 On 9/11/07, Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please make it 65535 without an Ethernet header and 65521 with an Ethernet header. Here is a revised patch that allows MTUs up to 65535 for tap interfaces and up to

Re: kbuild update

2007-09-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:58:03 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: A summary of what is planned to be submitted in next merge window for kbuild. The shortlog below have additional details but the headlines are: ... o add

iunique() fails to return ino_t (after commit 866b04fccbf125cd)

2007-09-16 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi Jeff, I think commit 866b04fccbf125cd39f2bdbcfeaa611d39a061a8 was wrong, and introduced a regression. The relevant changelog [*] of that patch says: on filesystems w/o permanent inode numbers, i_ino values can be larger than 32 bits, which can cause problems for some 32 bit userspace

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