Re: [PATCH 08/29] drivers, md: convert mddev.active from atomic_t to refcount_t

2017-03-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 12:29 +, Reshetova, Elena wrote: > > Elena Reshetova writes: > > > > > refcount_t type and corresponding API should be > > > used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as > > > a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental > > >

Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents

2016-11-21 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2016-11-21 at 12:06 -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:39:41 +0100 > Johannes Berg escreveu: > > On Sat, 2016-11-19 at 10:15 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > > > > Rather than beating our heads against the wall trying to convert > > >

Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents

2016-11-17 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2016-11-17 at 13:16 -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Hi Ted, > > Em Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:52:44 -0500 > Theodore Ts'o escreveu: > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:07:15PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > [adding Linus for clarification] > > > > > > I understood the

Re: IR remote stopped working in kernels 4.5 and 4.6

2016-07-04 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 23:08 +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote: > Am 04.07.2016 um 22:36 schrieb James Bottomley: > > This looks to be a problem with the rc subsystem. The IR > > controller in question is part of a cx8800 atsc card. In the 4.4 > > kernel, where it works, this is

IR remote stopped working in kernels 4.5 and 4.6

2016-07-04 Thread James Bottomley
This looks to be a problem with the rc subsystem. The IR controller in question is part of a cx8800 atsc card. In the 4.4 kernel, where it works, this is what ir-keytable says: Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event12) with: Driver cx88xx, table rc-hauppauge Supported

Re: [PATCH 29/31] parisc: handle page-less SG entries

2015-08-13 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 20:30 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Christoph Hellwig h...@lst.de wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 09:01:02AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: I'm assuming that anybody who wants to use the page-less scatter-gather lists always does so on memory

Re: RFC: prepare for struct scatterlist entries without page backing

2015-08-12 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 09:05 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Dan Williams started to look into addressing I/O to and from Persistent Memory in his series from June: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/27944 I've started looking into DMA mapping of these SGLs

Re: [Xen-devel] RIP MTRR - status update for upcoming v4.2

2015-06-12 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 16:15 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: On Jun 12, 2015 12:59 AM, Jan Beulich jbeul...@suse.com wrote: On 12.06.15 at 01:23, toshi.k...@hp.com wrote: There are two usages on MTRRs: 1) MTRR entries set by firmware 2) MTRR entries set by OS drivers We can

Re: [REPOST PATCH 1/8] fence: dma-buf cross-device synchronization (v17)

2014-06-19 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 11:19 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 01:45:30PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:00:18AM -0400, Rob Clark wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Greg KH

Re: [REPOST PATCH 1/8] fence: dma-buf cross-device synchronization (v17)

2014-06-19 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 15:39 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 06/19/2014 01:01 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 09:15:36PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: + BUG_ON(f1-context != f2-context); Nice, you

Re: [PATCH 6/8] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator

2011-08-03 Thread James Bottomley
[cc to ks-discuss added, since this may be a relevant topic] On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 14:27 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Tuesday 05 July 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 09:41:48AM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote: The Contiguous Memory Allocator is a set of helper

Re: [PATCH 0/6] get rid of on-stack dma buffers

2011-03-22 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 22:03 +0100, Florian Mickler wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:26:43 -0400 Andy Walls awa...@md.metrocast.net wrote: Florian Mickler flor...@mickler.org wrote: Hi all! These patches get rid of on-stack dma buffers for some of the dvb-usb drivers. I do not own

Re: [Security] [PATCH 00/20] world-writable files in sysfs and debugfs

2011-03-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 20:09 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:26:05PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 23:23 +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote: Vasiliy Kulikov (20): mach-ux500: mbox-db5500: world-writable sysfs fifo file leds: lp5521: world-writable

Re: [Security] [PATCH 00/20] world-writable files in sysfs and debugfs

2011-03-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 07:18 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 07:50:28AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 20:09 -0700, Greg KH wrote: There are no capability checks on sysfs files right now, so these all need to be fixed. That statement is true

Re: [Security] [PATCH 00/20] world-writable files in sysfs and debugfs

2011-03-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 19:08 +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 07:50 -0400, James Bottomley wrote: 1. Did anyone actually check for capabilities before assuming world writeable files were wrong? I didn't check all these files as I haven't got these hardware

Re: [PATCH 00/20] world-writable files in sysfs and debugfs

2011-03-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 23:23 +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote: Vasiliy Kulikov (20): mach-ux500: mbox-db5500: world-writable sysfs fifo file leds: lp5521: world-writable sysfs engine* files leds: lp5523: world-writable engine* sysfs files misc: ep93xx_pwm: world-writable sysfs files

Re: [PATCH 02/15]drivers:spi:dw_spi.c Typo change diable to disable.

2010-12-31 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 06:17 -0800, Justin P. Mattock wrote: On 12/31/2010 01:11 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:52:30PM -0800, Justin P. Mattock wrote: On 12/30/2010 10:45 PM, Grant Likely wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 03:07:51PM -0800, Justin P. Mattock wrote: The