Re: so what *is* obsolete and removable?

2007-04-16 Thread Tilman Schmidt
to resolve that situation. What I do know is that it would be very wrong to remove isdn4linux, because it has an existing userbase with nowhere else to go. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wehrhausweg 66 Fax: +49 228 4299019

Re: so what *is* obsolete and removable?

2007-04-17 Thread Tilman Schmidt
not sure I understand. What do you mean by obsolete interface usage? What sort of cleaning up needs to be done? What sort of breakage do you anticipate in the event of a clean up? Thanks Tilman -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100

Re: so what *is* obsolete and removable?

2007-04-17 Thread Tilman Schmidt
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:13:37 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:39:10 +0200 Tilman Schmidt wrote: We *did* reach a consensus that isdn4linux is not obsolete in the accepted sense of the word, because there is no replacement for it so far. OTOH I have since submitted (twice

Re: so what *is* obsolete and removable?

2007-04-17 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 17.04.2007 17:33 schrieb Alan Cox: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:03:58 +0200 Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:40:54 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: If the obsolete tag is to be removed then it needs a formal maintainer, all the obsolete interface usage cleaning up

Re: other potentially deletable, dead stuff

2007-04-21 Thread Tilman Schmidt
ISDN4Linux (obsolete) message type=recorded The obsolete label on the ISDN_I4L Kconfig option is, and has always been, incorrect. isdn4linux is not obsolete. isdn4linux is in active use, and there is no replacement. Removing isdn4linux would constitute a serious regression. /message -- Tilman

[PATCH] Remove obsolete label from ISDN4Linux (v3)

2007-04-21 Thread Tilman Schmidt
From: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] The obsolete label on the ISDN_I4L Kconfig option is not, and has never been, accurate. It has already prompted repeated attempts to remove actively used functionality from the kernel without a working replacement. This patch removes the incorrect label

Re: other potentially deletable, dead stuff

2007-04-21 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 21.04.2007 15:11 schrieb Robert P. J. Day: On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Tilman Schmidt wrote: [...] Removing isdn4linux would constitute a serious regression. i know. believe me, i *know that*, since i'm fairly sure it was my observation that initially started that discussion about isdn4linux

Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete label from ISDN4Linux (v3)

2007-04-22 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 22.04.2007 00:10 schrieb David Miller: From: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:58:44 +0100 On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:07:51 +0200 Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] The obsolete label on the ISDN_I4L Kconfig option

Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete label from ISDN4Linux (v3)

2007-04-22 Thread Tilman Schmidt
, it can be obsoleted, but not before. I know people are less than happy this hasn't happened yet, but the way to promote the move to CAPI is not to kill off I4L before the time and leave users standing in the rain. Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete label from ISDN4Linux (v3)

2007-04-23 Thread Tilman Schmidt
of that API. As long as they didn't finish that job, the old API would stay. Nobody advocates moving reiserfs to BROKEN for still using lock_kernel(), to cite a recent issue. So why isdn4linux? -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany - Undetected errors

Re: [ANNOUNCE][PATCH] Kcli - Kernel command line interface.

2007-04-24 Thread Tilman Schmidt
], maintaining it in-tree might turn out to be not that much better. SCNR T. [1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/22/139 -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Tilman Schmidt
not supporting power management. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany - In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Tilman Schmidt
to debug, at least when the user expects his notebook to suspend and sees that it refuses, he can complain about the drivers which do not support it, and can even unload them first if unneeded. I agree wholeheartedly. That's the correct way to handle this. -- Tilman Schmidt E

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-11 Thread Tilman Schmidt
whether or not the device requires .suspend and .resume, define .suspend that will always return -ENOSYS. Sounds ok to me. Where should this text go? Documentation/SubmittingDrivers ? Documentation/power/devices.txt? -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn

Re: [PATCH] keep track of network interface renaming

2007-02-11 Thread Tilman Schmidt
, there are lots of other candidates. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-11 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Hi, Am 11.02.2007 23:37 schrieb Nigel Cunningham: On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 00:45 +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 10.02.2007 23:37 schrieb Nigel Cunningham: If your device requires power management, and you know it requires power management, why not just implement power management? [...] Like

Re: gigaset build broken on current linux-2.6.git

2007-02-11 Thread Tilman Schmidt
-off-by: Jiri Kosina [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] I notice that 2.6.20-git6 still doesn't include either of these fixes. Is there anything I need to do in order to push it? Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH] drivers/isdn/gigaset: new M101 driver

2007-02-12 Thread Tilman Schmidt
hope that's ok. Regards, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-13 Thread Tilman Schmidt
message. -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-13 Thread Tilman Schmidt
, one for nothing to do and one for not supported. -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

sparse chokes on arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c (was: 2.6.20-mm1)

2007-02-15 Thread Tilman Schmidt
, though. HTH -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [2.6 patch] correct CONFIG_GIGASET_M101 Makefile entry

2007-02-15 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 15.02.2007 22:56 schrieb Adrian Bunk: Advanced Mathematics, lesson 1: 101 != 105 Ouch. Sorry. Thanks for catching that one. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.20-mm1/drivers/isdn/gigaset/Makefile.old2007-02

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/isdn/gigaset/: build asyncdata.o into the gigaset module

2007-02-15 Thread Tilman Schmidt
/built-in.o] Error 1 How did you manage to produce that error? I have never encountered it. Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe

Kbuild problem (was: [2.6 patch] drivers/isdn/gigaset/: build asyncdata.o into the gigaset module)

2007-02-16 Thread Tilman Schmidt
builds modular usb_gigaset.ko and/or ser_gigaset.ko like the present one (including asyncdata.o), but when linking usb-gigaset.o and ser-gigaset.o into the kernel includes asyncdata.o only once. Trouble is, I don't know how to express that in Kbuild. Any ideas? Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt

Re: Kbuild problem

2007-02-17 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 17.02.2007 11:52 schrieb Adrian Bunk: On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:04:33AM +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote: [...] I'd prefer a Makefile which builds modular usb_gigaset.ko and/or ser_gigaset.ko like the present one (including asyncdata.o), but when linking usb-gigaset.o and ser-gigaset.o

2.6.21-rc3-mm2: KDE processes die while system is idle

2007-03-21 Thread Tilman Schmidt
is not easily reproduced. So far it only happened when I left the machine running logged in but idle, sometimes after a few hours, but sometimes not even after two days. So bisecting appears impractical. I'll try 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 next. Ideas? -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.21-rc5 possible regression: KDE processes die silently [fixed]

2007-04-09 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 03.04.2007 00:50 schrieb Adrian Bunk: We also have one bug kwin ran into that got fixed after -rc5: Subject: kwin dies silently References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/28/112 Submitter : Sid Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boris Mogwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael

Re: Kbuild problem

2007-02-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Adrian Bunk schrieb: On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:22:10AM -0500, Kai Germaschewski wrote: On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Tilman Schmidt wrote: asyncdata.o is only needed for M105 and M101, not for the base driver. How do I express in Kbuild that asyncdata.o is to be added to gigaset-y only

Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Add the code maturity levels DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.

2007-02-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
and alternatives should be preferred * OBSOLETE == replacement available, no reason to use this code anymore -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe

Re: Kbuild problem

2007-02-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
the advice. I'll do a new patch. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[PATCH] drivers/isdn/gigaset: build asyncdata.o into the gigaset module (v2)

2007-02-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
a) Fix link error from double inclusion of asyncdata.o when building both M10x drivers into the kernel, by moving it into the common part. b) Correct the rule for building the common part into the kernel when some or all hardware specific parts are built as modules. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt

Re: 2.6.20-mm2: possible recursive locking detected (reiserfs-related)

2007-02-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
reported it a couple of times, and Srinivasa Ds tried a few fixes on me during 2.6.19-rc4, but we never got to the bottom of it. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar

Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Add the code maturity levels DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.

2007-02-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
(CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI) doesn't support all the hardware currently supported by old i4l. Or did I misunderstand something there? Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet

[PATCH] Remove obsolete label from ISDN4Linux (was: any value to fixing apparent bugs in old ISDN4Linux?)

2007-02-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 15.01.2007 18:29 schrieb Karsten Keil: On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:17:37PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: [...] but if it's still in actual use, then it really should be re-labelled from obsolete to deprecated, no? Good point. May I? From: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove

[PATCH] drivers/isdn/gigaset: build asyncdata.o into the gigaset module (fix)

2007-02-22 Thread Tilman Schmidt
a) Remove #define acrobatics that have become unnecessary by the move of asyncdata.o into the common part. b) Correct the rule for building the common part into the kernel when some or all hardware specific parts are built as modules. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED

[PATCH] drivers/isdn/gigaset: mark some static data as const

2007-02-23 Thread Tilman Schmidt
From: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark some static arrays as const that aren't and shouldn't be modified, and remove incorrect static attribute from some variables. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch applies

[PATCH] drivers/isdn/gigaset: mark some static data as const (v2)

2007-02-23 Thread Tilman Schmidt
From: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark some static arrays as const that aren't and shouldn't be modified, and remove incorrect static attribute from some variables. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- In the first submission

Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Add the code maturity levels DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.

2007-02-25 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 25.02.2007 11:42 schrieb Pavel Machek: On Wed 2007-02-21 00:12:28, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 20.02.2007 23:52 schrieb Robert P. J. Day: deprecated means that there *is* a complete replacement available *right now* and you should consider switching to it. if you can't offer someone

Re: resource_size_t printk whinging

2007-02-27 Thread Tilman Schmidt
was not declared. Should it be static? and symbol shadows an earlier one varieties. -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite) signature.asc Description

Re: Question on tty line discipline

2007-03-03 Thread Tilman Schmidt
on eg. /dev/ttyS1 to N_GIGASET_M101 from the user space daemon I have written for that purpose, and that user space daemon exits, my line discipline is removed, ie. its .close method is called. That is true even if I kill the user space daemon by sending it an uncaught signal. -- Tilman Schmidt

Suspend/resume semantics for ISDN drivers (was: NAK new drivers without proper power management?)

2007-03-03 Thread Tilman Schmidt
to suspend while a connection is still active? Thanks for any insights, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite) signature.asc

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-28 Thread Tilman Schmidt
decisions ;) [CC list trimmed] It's not on that list, but would you mind slipping drivers-isdn-gigaset-mark-some-static-data-as-const-v2.patch into 2.6.21 too? It's largely trivial but I'd like to get it out of the door. Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL

[Repost][PATCH] Remove obsolete label from ISDN4Linux

2007-03-28 Thread Tilman Schmidt
From: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove incorrect obsolete label from ISDN4Linux. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- a/drivers/isdn/Kconfig 2006-11-29 22:57:37.0 +0100 +++ b/drivers/isdn/Kconfig 2007-02-21 01:19:19.0 +0100 @@ -25,7 +25,7

Re: 2.6.21-rc5 possible regression: KDE processes die silently

2007-04-04 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 03.04.2007 00:50 schrieb Adrian Bunk: On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 05:21:06PM +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote: I'm sorry to say this has now happened with kernel 2.6.21-rc5, too. [...] it's not reproducible and invariably happens when I'm away from the machine. I have now finally once seen

Re: [RFC PATCH] Add a 'minimal tree install' target

2007-09-14 Thread Tilman Schmidt
kernel ; make devel-pkg reads almost literally like make kernel-devel.rpm. -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite) signature.asc Description

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1

2007-09-19 Thread Tilman Schmidt
need them in order to access your RTC, and none of them even mentions the other, so it's way too easy to end up enabling both of them. So are all my other woes a consequence of that one? Thanks, T. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1

2007-09-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
round of tests. Did that now. It does get rid of the Duplicate file names rtc detected. message. The other problems remain. So are all my other woes a consequence of that one? Apparently not. Thanks, T. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1

2007-09-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
] [c01072e5] work_notifysig+0x13/0x1a Sep 20 20:54:36 xenon kernel: [ 39.711169] [b7cf9f10] 0xb7cf9f10 Sep 20 20:54:36 xenon kernel: [ 39.711175] === As this seems to concern USB and sysfs, I guess Greg's the man? HTH T. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail

[PATCH] USB: power-management.txt - disconnect clarification

2007-11-12 Thread Tilman Schmidt
From: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add a paragraph to Documentation/usb/power-management.txt about the interaction between suspend and disconnect. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt2007-10-14 00:41:08.0 +0200

[2.6.24-rc2] make C=1 killed by sparse 0.4 choking on kernel/sched.c

2007-11-13 Thread Tilman Schmidt
either. Also it doesn't seem right that the entire kernel compilation aborts just because of a failed sparse run. Opinions? Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet

Re: [PATCH] USB: power-management.txt - disconnect clarification

2007-11-15 Thread Tilman Schmidt
/usb/persist.txt.) Fine by me. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [PATCH 3/4] bas_gigaset: suspend support (v2)

2007-11-15 Thread Tilman Schmidt
a prehistoric leftover. That variable was originally accessed using atomic_set_mask() and atomic_clear_mask() which are unfortunately x86 platform specific. I'll prepare a cleanup patch. Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese

Re: git guidance

2007-11-29 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Haavard Skinnemoen schrieb: No, use git rebase --interactive ;-) What's that? I can't find it in man git-rebase. -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe

Re: git guidance

2007-11-29 Thread Tilman Schmidt
instead of having to sit through a one hour videostream, that would be nice. -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite) signature.asc Description

git guidance

2007-11-27 Thread Tilman Schmidt
tutorial for doing the standard edit - test - modify - retest - submit - edit - resubmit sequence with GIT? Is there a GIT newsgroup or mailinglist? Or should I just post my silly questions to LKML? TIA -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht

Re: git guidance

2007-11-28 Thread Tilman Schmidt
? -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Yes, I have searched Google! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: git guidance

2007-11-28 Thread Tilman Schmidt
thinking. What I'm trying to do can't be that different from what all those happy git users are doing. I guess if I could just watch an experienced git user at work for a day most of my problems would vanish. Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn

Re: git guidance

2007-11-28 Thread Tilman Schmidt
level of complexity. Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Yes, I have searched Google! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [2.6.22.1] spurious (?) message BUG: lock held at task exit time

2007-12-13 Thread Tilman Schmidt
still held! 1 lock held by gigasetm101d/5970: #0: (cs-hw.ser-dead_mutex){--..}, at: [c02d8bc7] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f [...] Who is at fault here? Ok, I accidentally solved this myself now, so please don't bother answering. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Linux Security *Module* Framework (Was: LSM conversion to static interface)

2007-10-25 Thread Tilman Schmidt
that isn't fit to be included in the mainline kernel isn't fit to exist at all. I'm not sure I can agree with that. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis

Re: Linux Security *Module* Framework (Was: LSM conversion to static interface)

2007-10-26 Thread Tilman Schmidt
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:56:47 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 01:09:14AM +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 25.10.2007 00:31 schrieb Adrian Bunk: Generally, the goal is to get external modules included into the kernel. [...] even though it might sound harsh breaking external

eradicating out of tree modules (was: Linux Security *Module* Framework)

2007-10-27 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Greg KH schrieb: On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 11:46:39AM +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote: [...] I still think there will always be a number of external modules that cannot be merged right now or at all, and deliberately making life difficult for out-of-tree code maintainers in order to coerce them

eradicating out of tree modules (was: : Linux Security *Module* Framework)

2007-10-27 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Adrian Bunk schrieb: On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 11:46:39AM +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:56:47 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 01:09:14AM +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote: [...] Once you admit that there is code which, for very good reasons, won't ever be accepted

Re: [2.6.23-mm1] CONFIG_LOCALVERSION handling broken

2007-10-27 Thread Tilman Schmidt
/me wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/kernel/linux-2.6.23-mm1-work make include/config/kernel.release [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/kernel/linux-2.6.23-mm1-work cat include/config/kernel.release 2.6.23-mm1-testing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/kernel/linux-2.6.23-mm1-work make [...] [EMAIL

Re: eradicating out of tree modules

2007-10-28 Thread Tilman Schmidt
the kernel. That's good. If that was consensus then this discussion would not be necessary. What I am protesting against is attempts to change the API purposely to obstruct out-of-tree code. That is not a way to improve the kernel. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn

Re: eradicating out of tree modules

2007-10-28 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 28.10.2007 15:37 schrieb Stefan Richter: Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 28.10.2007 10:25 schrieb Stefan Richter: You two are hypothesizing. No, we're not. We're discussing the very real issue of whether LSM should be amputated in such a way as to make life difficult for out of tree security

Re: eradicating out of tree modules

2007-10-28 Thread Tilman Schmidt
a pragmatic stance with regard to that: not going to any great lengths to support it, but acknowledging its existence and legitimacy - and not inciting to deliberately break it. Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht

Re: Linux Security *Module* Framework

2007-10-28 Thread Tilman Schmidt
how you feel about it. sarcasmHmm. So lets add automagic security module. It magically fixes security holes, and you can feel good about it./sarcasm Send patch. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH 1/2] usb_gigaset: suspend support

2007-10-29 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 29.10.2007 20:10 schrieb Alan Stern: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Tilman Schmidt wrote: From: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add basic suspend/resume support to the usb_gigaset driver. @@ -117,6 +122,11 @@ static struct usb_driver gigaset_usb_dri .probe =gigaset_probe

Re: [PATCH resend] Make the dev_*() family of macros in device.h complete

2007-10-29 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 29.10.2007 23:43 schrieb Emil Medve: Removed duplicates defined elsewhere Signed-off-by: Emil Medve [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] for: diff --git a/drivers/isdn/gigaset/gigaset.h b/drivers/isdn/gigaset/gigaset.h index a0317ab..02bdaf2 100644

Re: eradicating out of tree modules

2007-10-29 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 28.10.2007 20:25 schrieb Adrian Bunk: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 07:51:12PM +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 28.10.2007 02:55 schrieb Adrian Bunk: Justifying anything with code with not GPL compatible licences has zero relevance here. And there's value in making life harder for such modules

Re: [2.6.23-mm1] CONFIG_LOCALVERSION handling broken

2007-10-17 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 14.10.2007 00:11 schrieb Tilman Schmidt: CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=-testing [...] has worked fine for all of 2.6.23{-rc?{,-mm?},}. For 2.6.23-mm1 [there is] make modules_install installing the modules into /lib/modules/2.6.23-mm1 instead of /lib/modules/2.6.23-mm1-testing, and make install

Re: [PATCH] isdn/gigaset: use tasklet_kill in device remove/release process

2012-11-02 Thread Tilman Schmidt
to be excuted. This might lead to a heavy loaded ksoftirqd, wakeup with pending_softirq, but tasklet is disabled. tasklet_kill should be used in this case. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng dannyf...@tencent.com Cc: Hansjoerg Lipp hjl...@web.de Cc: Tilman Schmidt til...@imap.cc Cc: Karsten Keil i

[PATCH] bas_gigaset: fix pre_reset handling

2012-10-24 Thread Tilman Schmidt
by int_in_work() this might cause int_in_work() to run after the post_reset method, with urb_int_in already resubmitted, so handle that case gracefully. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt til...@imap.cc --- drivers/isdn/gigaset/bas-gigaset.c | 19 --- 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3

Re: [PATCH 1/1] isdn: Make CONFIG_ISDN depend on CONFIG_NETDEVICES

2012-11-12 Thread Tilman Schmidt
fine without network devices. But I guess not many kernels will actually be built with CONFIG_NETDEVICES=n, so the inconvenience is small. -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: til...@imap.cc Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1

2007-09-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
, and all of the segfault/invalid context/scheduling while atomic messages have disappeared. Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe

Re: Kernel panic with 2.6.23-rc5

2007-09-04 Thread Tilman Schmidt
://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/2/219 HTH T. -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Clock trouble retest results with 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 (was: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1)

2007-09-05 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 25.08.2007 05:30 schrieb Andrew Morton: On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:47:59 +0200 Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - on console early during boot, also in SuSE's /var/log/boot.msg: your system time is not correct: Wed Jul 13 13:15:31 UTC 1910 setting system time to: Tue Jul 24 00:00:00

Re: [more PATCHes] Use menuconfig objects - CONFIG_ISDN_I4L

2007-07-21 Thread Tilman Schmidt
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processor family setting for Pentium D

2007-07-22 Thread Tilman Schmidt
I cannot figure out how. Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

2.6.22-git17 boot failure

2007-07-22 Thread Tilman Schmidt
On my test machine with a Pentium D 940 processor, Intel DQ965GF mainboard and SATA disks, kernel 2.6.22-git17 (32 bit build) fails to come up because it cannot find the disk drives. Same issue with a clone of the 'linus' git tree. Anything known? -- Tilman Schmidt E

Re: 2.6.22-git17 boot failure

2007-07-22 Thread Tilman Schmidt
? Ok, scrap this. Turns out it wasn't a good idea to answer 'Y' to the new XEN config option during make oldconfig. After changing it to CONFIG_XEN=n, all's well again. Sorry for the noise. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht

Re: 2.6.22-git17 boot failure

2007-07-23 Thread Tilman Schmidt
and CONFIG_XEN=y, I suppose. The resulting logs are a bit biggish, so I have put them on http://www.phnxsoft.com/~ts/linux/ for download. Let me know if you prefer having them mailed. HTH T. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100

Re: 2.6.22-git17 boot failure

2007-07-24 Thread Tilman Schmidt
? J listening eagerly T. -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-24 Thread Tilman Schmidt
to measure subjective usability issues (aka user experience) when simple reports along the lines of A is much better than B for everyday work are not enough. The same problem already impaired the fair scheduler discussion. It would really help to have a clear direction there. -- Tilman Schmidt

Re: 2.6.22-git17 boot failure

2007-07-24 Thread Tilman Schmidt
udev comes into play. Booting with 'confirm' will allow you to step each runlevel script, see /etc/init.d/boot, look for DO_CONFIRM=. Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet

Re: 2.6.22-git17 boot failure

2007-07-24 Thread Tilman Schmidt
ado. So there, case solved. Now you sort it out who's to fix what. :-) Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite

Re: 2.6.22-git17 boot failure

2007-07-24 Thread Tilman Schmidt
: DOM0 image is not an Xen-compatible Elf image. So I guess the point is moot, because you cannot use the same image as dom0 and natively, anyway. Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten

Re: [2/2] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions

2007-07-24 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 23.07.2007 11:47 schrieb Michal Piotrowski: Virtualization Subject : 2.6.22-git17 boot failure (XEN) References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/266 Last known good : ? Submitter : Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caused-By : ? Handled-By : ? Status

Re: updatedb

2007-07-27 Thread Tilman Schmidt
responsiveness of a desktop system, but apparently no one can conclusively explain why or how they achieve that, and therefore they cannot be merged into mainline. I don't have a solution to that dilemma either. -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese

Re: serial flow control appears broken

2007-07-27 Thread Tilman Schmidt
? http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/18/245 Quote: I've recently found (using 2.6.21.4) that configuring a serial ports (ST16654) which use the 8250 driver using setserial results in the UART's FIFOs being disabled (unless you specify autoconfig). -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-24 Thread Tilman Schmidt
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Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-24 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 25.08.2007 02:07 schrieb Andrew Morton: On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:27:25 +0200 Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 22.08.2007 11:06 schrieb Andrew Morton: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc3/2.6.23-rc3-mm1/ After applying Matthew Wilcox' patch

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-25 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 25.08.2007 02:21 schrieb john stultz: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - on console early during boot, also in SuSE's /var/log/boot.msg: your system time is not correct: Wed Jul 13 13:15:31 UTC 1910 setting system time to: Tue Jul 24 00:00:00 UTC 2007 Hrmm. I'm not super

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-25 Thread Tilman Schmidt
with CPU Frequency scaling. In make menuconfig the option is there, though. After activating it, these two errors are indeed gone, and the thermal: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_set_thermal_limit one as well. HTH T. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-25 Thread Tilman Schmidt
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Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-27 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 26.08.2007 01:57 schrieb Randy Dunlap: On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:26:21 +0200 Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 25.08.2007 02:38 schrieb Pallipadi, Venkatesh: Tilman: Can you configure CONFIG_CPU_IDLE in your config (under Power Management option) and double check that the frequency part works

Re: How to make -mm a more viable testbed

2007-08-14 Thread Tilman Schmidt
. (downloading ... running ... failing ... installing python-twisted ... running ...) Ok, now I do. HTH T. -- Tilman SchmidtE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite

Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS

2007-08-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Joe Perches schrieb: Added patterns to describe files maintained. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED] For: GIGASET ISDN DRIVERS P: Hansjoerg Lipp M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: Tilman Schmidt M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http

[2.6.23-mm1] CONFIG_LOCALVERSION handling broken

2007-10-13 Thread Tilman Schmidt
creation fails. Ideas? -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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