Re: [PATCH 5/6] tg3: Skip timer code during full lock

2006-03-28 Thread Michael Chan
David S. Miller wrote: From: Michael Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:10:10 -0800 Skip the main timer code if interrupts are disabled in the full lock state. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could this wedge the driver while we're trying to quiesce the

Re: [PATCH 5/6] tg3: Skip timer code during full lock

2006-03-28 Thread David S. Miller
From: Michael Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:58:59 -0800 David S. Miller wrote: From: Michael Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:10:10 -0800 Skip the main timer code if interrupts are disabled in the full lock state. Signed-off-by: Michael

Re: [INET]: Introduce tunnel4/tunnel6

2006-03-28 Thread David S. Miller
From: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:17:59 +1100 Basically this patch moves the generic tunnel protocol stuff out of xfrm4_tunnel/xfrm6_tunnel and moves it into the new files of tunnel4.c and tunnel6 respectively. Ok, this seems reasonable, applied. BTW, can you

Re: [INET]: Introduce tunnel4/tunnel6

2006-03-28 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 01:13:11AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: Ok, this seems reasonable, applied. Thanks. BTW, can you sanity check your patches with something like: git apply --check --whitespace=error-all diff This patch here had a bunch of trailing whitespace I had to fixup

Re: Fix memory allocation in com90xx.c

2006-03-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Monday 27 March 2006 17:41, Darren Jenkins\ wrote: - shmems = kzalloc(((0x1-0xa) / 0x800) * sizeof(unsigned long), + shmems = kcalloc(((0x1-0xa) / 0x800), sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_KERNEL); If it's too big for kzalloc then it's too big for

[softmac] Re: internal functions send packets even when queue is full

2006-03-28 Thread Johannes Berg
Hi, It doesn't, but softmac tries to send 2 separate frames in quick succession when associating, the second of which is a probereq (haven't looked at the first), and the first one hasn't had quite enough time to complete at that point. Ah ok. The second one should only come in after a

Re: Fix memory allocation in com90xx.c

2006-03-28 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 01:12:25PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Monday 27 March 2006 17:41, Darren Jenkins\ wrote: - shmems = kzalloc(((0x1-0xa) / 0x800) * sizeof(unsigned long), + shmems = kcalloc(((0x1-0xa) / 0x800), sizeof(unsigned long),

Re: Fix memory allocation in com90xx.c

2006-03-28 Thread Darren Jenkins\\
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:12 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: GFP_KERNEL); If it's too big for kzalloc then it's too big for kcalloc too. -Andi Thanks for that. I seem to have been rather confused about the difference between kzalloc, and kcalloc. Darren J. - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 1/6] tg3: Fix probe failure due to invalid MAC address

2006-03-28 Thread walt
Michael Chan wrote: Some older bootcode in some devices may report 0 MAC address in SRAM when booting up from low power state. This patch fixes the problem by checking for a valid MAC address in SRAM and falling back to NVRAM if necessary. Seems to fix the problem, thanks. Thanks to walt

[PATCH] spidernet : reduce console spam

2006-03-28 Thread Jens Osterkamp
This patch reduces the message level of the RX ram full messages from err to debug to prevent spamming the console leaving it in the logfiles though. Please apply. From: Jens Osterkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.16/drivers/net/spider_net.c

[RFC] [PATCH] spidernet : move BCM5421 and BCM 5461 init code for fiber mode

2006-03-28 Thread Jens Osterkamp
Hi, the BCM5421 and (now) 5461 chips that we use on our boards contain a serdes/fiber interface in addition to the copper interface. Up to now we were using the generic init code in drivers/net/sungem_phy.c and some additional code to set up the serdes/fiber mode in our driver

hostap on linux2.6

2006-03-28 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Hi, I was compiling a new kernel to test some of the new IPW stuff in kernel, but looks like hostap is also, not compiling so far. I didn't wanted to bother people by addling LKML. CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.o drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_80211_rx.c:2:33:

[PATCH] smc91x: add support for LogicPD PXA270 platform

2006-03-28 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
This patch adds support for the smc91x on the LogicPD PXA270 to the smc91x driver. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.16/drivers/net/smc91x.h === --- linux-2.6.16.orig/drivers/net/smc91x.h +++

Re: [PATCH] smc91x: add support for LogicPD PXA270 platform

2006-03-28 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: This patch adds support for the smc91x on the LogicPD PXA270 to the smc91x driver. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.16/drivers/net/smc91x.h

Re: hostap on linux2.6

2006-03-28 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 09:10:38AM -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: Hi, I was compiling a new kernel to test some of the new IPW stuff in kernel, but looks like hostap is also, not compiling so far. I didn't wanted to bother people by addling LKML. CC [M]

Use pci_set_consistent_dma_mask in ixgb driver

2006-03-28 Thread Andreas Schwab
The ixgb driver is using pci_alloc_consistent, thus is should also use pci_set_consistent_dma_mask. This allows the driver to work on SGI systems. In case of an error during probing it should also disable the device again. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [PATCH] acenic: fix section mismatches

2006-03-28 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:10:30 +0200 Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:32:14PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: Nope, only with HOTPLUG enabled. I can try without also (but disabling it is a pain :). ugh, FW_LOADER is the beast (not CONFIG_HOTPLUG itself). Sam, I

kernel: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!

2006-03-28 Thread Paul Risenhoover
Greetings friends, I have been experiencing a number of networking issues with three new machines I have purchased. They are Dell SC1425 machines, each with two 64-bit processors. I have attached the dmesg log to this email for your review. The symptom is simply that every once and a

Re: [PATCH 1/8] [I/OAT] DMA memcpy subsystem

2006-03-28 Thread Andrew Grover
On 3/16/06, Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would seem that when a client registers (or shortly there after when they call dma_async_client_chan_request()) they would expect to get the number of channels they need by some given time period. For example, lets say a client registers but

Re: [PATCH 1/8] [I/OAT] DMA memcpy subsystem

2006-03-28 Thread Kumar Gala
On Mar 28, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Andrew Grover wrote: On 3/16/06, Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would seem that when a client registers (or shortly there after when they call dma_async_client_chan_request()) they would expect to get the number of channels they need by some given time

[patch] minor typo fix on RFC3465 comment

2006-03-28 Thread S P
signed off by speattle ~~~ tcp_cong_typo_patch Description: 3914340511-tcp_cong_typo_patch

Re: [PATCH 1/8] [I/OAT] DMA memcpy subsystem

2006-03-28 Thread Andrew Grover
On 3/28/06, Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, what do you think about adding an operation type (MEMCPY, XOR, CRYPTO_AES, etc). We can than validate if the operation type expected is supported by the devices that exist. No objections, but this speculative support doesn't need to

[PATCH] Janitor: drivers/net/pcnet32: fix incorrect comments

2006-03-28 Thread Linas Vepstas
Please sign-off/ack/apply and/or forward upstream. [PATCH] Janitor: drivers/net/pcnet32: fix incorrect comments The comments concerning how the pcnet32 ethernet device driver selects the MAC addr to use are incorrect. A recent patch (in the last 3 months) changed how the code worked, but did

Re: [PATCH 1/8] [I/OAT] DMA memcpy subsystem

2006-03-28 Thread Kumar Gala
On Mar 28, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Andrew Grover wrote: On 3/28/06, Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, what do you think about adding an operation type (MEMCPY, XOR, CRYPTO_AES, etc). We can than validate if the operation type expected is supported by the devices that exist. No

Re: [patch] minor typo fix on RFC3465 comment

2006-03-28 Thread David S. Miller
From: S P [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:53:01 -0800 (PST) signed off by speattle ~~~ Applied, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[Fwd: [Bug 6295] New: unregister_netdevice loops indefinitely when bringing down an interface if static ARP entries are present]

2006-03-28 Thread Stephen Hemminger
---BeginMessage--- http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6295 Summary: unregister_netdevice loops indefinitely when bringing down an interface if static ARP entries are present Kernel Version: 2.6.16 Status: NEW Severity: normal