[linux-usb-devel] Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc3

2006-02-13 Thread David S. Miller
From: "Brown, Len" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:07:50 -0500 > >- In http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5989, Sanjoy > >Mahajan has another regression, but he's off collecting more info. > > We're talking here about a system from 1999 where Windows 98 > refuses to run in

[linux-usb-devel] Re: [PATCH] macros to detect existance of unlocked_ioctl and ioctl_compat

2005-01-06 Thread David S. Miller
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:51:44 +0100 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DaveM can probably give you more details since he tried unsucessfully > to make it work. I think the problem is that there is no enough > information for the compat layer to convert everything. When the usbfs async stuff wr

[linux-usb-devel] Re: pwc+pwcx is not illegal

2004-08-27 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:06:29 +0200 Kenneth Lavrsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just look at the reaction everywhere. I have rarely seen so many angry > Linux users. I love sensationalism. And you're really good at twisting the facts my friend. People can still get their cameras working just f

[linux-usb-devel] Re: Summarizing the PWC driver questions/answers

2004-08-27 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:54:55 +0200 Kenneth Lavrsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - What is your excuse for forcing us to throw away worth 2000 dollars of > cameras? You, just like the rest of the world and even distribution makers if they choose to do so, can patch the driver back into the kernel

[linux-usb-devel] Re: [PATCH] (4/4) usbnet -- use random_ether_addr

2004-04-09 Thread David S. Miller
All 4 patches applied, thanks Stephen. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administra

[linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB update for 2.6.3

2004-02-19 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:10:41 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hrm... so if the USB device drivers are actually doing the dma mapping > themselves, it make sense for them to pass their own struct device, no ? That's right, at least that was the idea. I get the impression

[linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB update for 2.6.3

2004-02-19 Thread David S. Miller
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:03:31 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > Well, we do. The pcibios_xxx routines get called for all PCI devices > > > during discovery, and that's when you'd fill them in. > > > > But wh

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Why pass struct pt_regs to completion handlers?

2004-02-17 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:02:08 -0800 David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Stern wrote: > > Can anyone answer the question in the Subject: line? Is it just an > > historical relic? > > Dave Miller added them a while back, so that (as I recall) > some SPARC keyboard handling would work

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: serious 2.6 bug in USB subsystem?

2003-10-31 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:50:01 -0800 David Mosberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:28:20 -0800, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > David.B> You sound alarmed! If that's alarmed enough to find out > David.B> what the real problem is, maybe you'll end up fix

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] More USB changes for 2.5.50

2002-12-09 Thread David S. Miller
From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 20:55:23 -0800 > EHCI is problematic here, as it does the URB > work in a tasklet :( we need to decide whether > we can move the normal URB completion back into > the hw interrupt handler or

[linux-usb-devel] Re: PCI DMA to small buffers on cache-incoherent arch

2002-06-12 Thread David S. Miller
From: Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 21:58:55 +0200 Perhaps I might point out that we need a solution for 2.4. For 2.4.x just do the DMA alignment macro idea. That would be the easiest change to verify.

[linux-usb-devel] Re: [PATCH] sparc64 usb devrequest change

2002-01-08 Thread David S. Miller
From: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 13:05:59 -0800 diff -Nru a/arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c b/arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c --- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c Sun Jan 6 12:18:36 2002 +++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c Sun Jan 6 12:18:36 2002 Thank you.

[linux-usb-devel] another usb locking bug

2001-10-18 Thread David S. Miller
Again, drivers/usb/inode.c:usbdevfs_read_super() read_lock_irq(&usb_bus_list_lock) then does new_bus_inode() with that held, which goes iget() which obviously can sleep. Ho hum... Franks a lot, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [E

[linux-usb-devel] USB sleep-with-spinlock bug

2001-10-18 Thread David S. Miller
drivers/usb/inode.c:usbdevfs_root_readdir() read_lock_irq(&usb_bus_list_lock) then calls filldir callback with that held, which touches userspace. Franks a lot, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch[RFC: API]

2001-03-09 Thread David S. Miller
No, it is unacceptable. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel

[linux-usb-devel] Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch [RFC: API]

2001-03-09 Thread David S. Miller
ke this reverse mapping. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel

[linux-usb-devel] Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch [RFC: API]

2001-03-09 Thread David S. Miller
one start, add the offset to > the virtual and voila. Thankfully, some people are not lazy :-) Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel

[linux-usb-devel] Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch [RFC: API]

2001-03-09 Thread David S. Miller
ace neither should the pool routines. Drivers can keep track of this kind of information themselves, and that is what I tell every driver author to do who complains of a lack of a "bus_to_virt()" type thing, it's just lazy programming. Later, David

[linux-usb-devel] Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch

2001-03-05 Thread David S. Miller
Russell King writes: > A while ago, I looked at what was required to convert the OHCI driver > to pci_alloc_consistent, and it turns out that the current interface is > highly sub-optimal. It looks good on the face of it, but it _really_ > does need sub-page allocations to make sense for USB