Chase,
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Chase Venters wrote:
I don't think that it is fair to say that an unstable API/ABI, in of
itself, provides an incentive to open an existing proprietary driver.
Sure it does, depending on your perspective and what you're willing to
consider. The lack of a
Implement the ethtool eeprom operations for the 8139cp driver.
Tested on x86 and big-endian ARM.
Signed-off-by: Philip Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: linux-2.6.17-rc6/drivers/net/8139cp.c
===
---
The read command for the 93C46/93C56 EEPROMS should be 3 bits plus
the address. This doesn't appear to affect the operation of the
read command, but similar errors for write commands do cause failures.
Signed-off-by: Philip Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: linux-2.6.17-rc6/drivers/net/8139cp.c
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 01:06, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
The interface currently under discussion is ultimately derived from the BSD
socket-protocol interface, and IMHO should be EXPORT_SYMBOL instead of
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, if only because using _GPL serves no purpose here and
can be
Mark Lord wrote:
Further to this, the current behaviour is badly unpredictable.
A machine could be working perfectly, not (noticeably) affected
by this bug. And then the user adds another stick of RAM to it.
This bug already existed in 2.6.16 to a certain extent: you were
losing out on a
Chase,
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Chase Venters wrote:
One point I remember coming up in the discussion was that the
EXPORT_SYMBOL()/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() split was a compromise of sorts.
Interfaces that were needed to support users would reasonably be placed under
EXPORT_SYMBOL(). By contrast,
The Linux traffic's control engine inaccurately calculates
transmission times for packets sent over ADSL links. For
some packet sizes the error rises to over 50%. This occurs
because ADSL uses ATM as its link layer transport, and ATM
transmits packets in fixed sized 53 byte cells.
This changes
The Linux traffic's control engine inaccurately calculates
transmission times for packets sent over ADSL links. For
some packet sizes the error rises to over 50%. This occurs
because ADSL uses ATM as its link layer transport, and ATM
transmits packets in fixed sized 53 byte cells.
This changes
The Linux traffic's control engine inaccurately calculates
transmission times for packets sent over ADSL links. For
some packet sizes the error rises to over 50%. This occurs
because ADSL uses ATM as its link layer transport, and ATM
transmits packets in fixed sized 53 byte cells.
The
Ar Mer, 2006-06-14 am 00:07 -0600, ysgrifennodd Brian F. G. Bidulock:
I think that a policy that intentionally makes it hard for proprietary
modules to be developed defeats the purpose of ultimate opening and merging.
It isn't policy its called copyright law.
The interface currently under
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 07:53:19PM -0500, Chase Venters wrote:
It is the lack of an ABI that is most frustrating to these users.
And the presence of an ABI would be _very_ frustrating to core
developers. Not only would these people suffer, everyone would --
developer time would be wasted
Ar Mer, 2006-06-14 am 11:40 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jesper Dangaard Brouer:
option to calculate traffic transmission times (rate table)
over all ATM links, including ADSL, with perfect accuracy.
Pedant
Only if the lowest level is encoded in a time linear manner. If you are
using NRZ, NRZI etc at
Alan,
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Alan Cox wrote:
It isn't policy its called copyright law.
I know that I said I'd shut up, but I missed in TRIPS where it said
that symbols must be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL... Could you point that out?
(Just kidding.)
You don't seem to understand copyright law either. The
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:30:56 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
Unfortunately, that workaround doesn't work so well when you want to
have the ability to plug real orinoco (hermes) cards to your computer...
In other words and unless I'm missing something, there isn't currently a
way to have a
So whats the resolution on this? I actually have some cycles this coming
weekend that i was hopping to spend updating the doc instead.
cheers,
jamal
On Thu, 2006-01-06 at 10:24 -0400, James Morris wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Thomas Graf wrote:
It shouldn't be hard to split what is
I have taken linux-kernel off the list.
Russell's site is inaccessible to me (I actually think this is related
to some DNS issues i may be having) and your masters is too long to
spend 2 minutes and glean it; so heres a question or two for you:
- Have you tried to do a long-lived session such
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 08:06 -0400, jamal wrote:
Russell's site is inaccessible to me (I actually think this is related
to some DNS issues i may be having)
Strange, I have access to Russell's site. Maybe its his redirect
feature that confuses your browser, try:
On Wed, 2006-31-05 at 19:52 +0200, Robert Olsson wrote:
jamal writes:
Latency-wise: TX completion interrupt provides the best latency.
Processing in the poll() -aka softirq- was almost close to the hardirq
variant. So if you can make things run in a softirq such as transmit
one,
Hi,
I have configured two Linux PC's to use IPSec to encrypt some mcast traffic, using ip
xfrm. Each PC has two network cards, one connected to a LAN (unencrypted side, also
called red side) and one connected to the other node (encrypted side, also called black side).
Currently the setup uses
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 11:06:19AM +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have developed the driver for Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP).
great news. something that I always thought of a nice-to-have.
I have published the project on http://accel-pptp.sourceforge.net/
Please don't expect
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:44:12PM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 08:33:22PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Grant Grundler wrote:
o tulip_stop_rxtx() has to be called _after_ free_irq().
ie. v2 patch didn't fix the original race condition
and when under test, dies
I've asked for this feature several years ago and evidently
it is not trivial to increase the number of routing tables.
But, perhaps someone now has time inclination?
I would like to have more (a few thousand) routing tables
available in the kernel so that I can use a routing table for
each of
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 11:57 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
Ar Mer, 2006-06-14 am 11:40 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jesper Dangaard Brouer:
option to calculate traffic transmission times (rate table)
over all ATM links, including ADSL, with perfect accuracy.
The other problem I see with this code is it is
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:12:41PM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
This has the makings of a nice stable internal kernel api. Why do we want
to provide this nice stable internal api to proprietary modules?
because there is IMHO legally nothing we can do about it anyway. Use of
an
Michael Tokarev wrote:
Patrick McHardy wrote:
[]
He patched his kernel with the IMQ device, which is known to cause all
kinds of weird problems.
Wich problems? Known to whom?
Known to me (who wrote the original implementation of the current IMQ
device) and numerous people who were hit
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:05:06AM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
I think the correct sequence would be:
reset tulip interrupt mask
flush posted write
synchronize irq /* make sure we got 'em all */
tulip_stop_rxtx /* turn off dma */
Grant Grundler wrote:
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 08:33:22PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Grant Grundler wrote:
o tulip_stop_rxtx() has to be called _after_ free_irq().
ie. v2 patch didn't fix the original race condition
and when under test, dies about as fast as the original code.
You made the
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 10:27 -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
The Linux traffic's control engine inaccurately calculates
transmission times for packets sent over ADSL links. For
some packet sizes the error rises to over 50%. This occurs
because ADSL uses ATM as
Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
The Linux traffic's control engine inaccurately calculates
transmission times for packets sent over ADSL links. For
some packet sizes the error rises to over 50%. This occurs
because ADSL uses ATM as its link layer transport, and ATM
transmits packets in fixed
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:30:22PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote:
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:12:41PM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
This has the makings of a nice stable internal kernel api. Why do we want
to provide this nice stable internal api to proprietary modules?
because there is
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, jamal wrote:
So whats the resolution on this? I actually have some cycles this coming
weekend that i was hopping to spend updating the doc instead.
Haven't had a chance to look at it since.
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:29:04PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:30:22PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote:
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:12:41PM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
This has the makings of a nice stable internal kernel api. Why do we want
to provide this nice
jamal wrote:
I have taken linux-kernel off the list.
Russell's site is inaccessible to me (I actually think this is related
to some DNS issues i may be having) and your masters is too long to
spend 2 minutes and glean it; so heres a question or two for you:
- Have you tried to do a long-lived
Hi John,
Sorry, took a little bit longer than expected, but here it is. :)
Please queue for 2.6.18.
--
From: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use Softmac-suggested TX ratecode:
ieee80211softmac_suggest_txrate()
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch [EMAIL
This is a patch for rt2x00 driver to do TX flow control.
It is compile-tested only.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/wireless/d80211/rt2x00/rt2400pci.c | 26 ++---
drivers/net/wireless/d80211/rt2x00/rt2500pci.c | 26 ++---
+tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
+ If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
+ window after an idle period. An idle period is defined at
+ the current RTO. If unset, the congestion window will not
+ be timed out after an idle period.
+
David Miller wrote:
Bringing back up this old topic:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdevm=114564962420171w=2
I've decided to add this tunable to the net-2.6.18 tree, patch below.
Nice, thanks for the heads-up. I'll pass the notice on to the guys who
were asking about this
Hi all,
I had a few question regarding how interrupt handling work on linux
within a SMP systems.
1. Which processor gets the interrupt when a new packet arrives? Is
there any policy mechanism which can guide the interrupt to the idle
processor etc? Do the processors share an interrupt line and
Hi Harald,
You wrote:
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:12:41PM -0700, I wrote:
This has the makings of a nice stable internal kernel api. Why do we want
to provide this nice stable internal api to proprietary modules?
because there is IMHO legally nothing we can do about it anyway.
Speaking as
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 16:46 -0500, Steve Wise wrote:
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 14:36 -0700, Sean Hefty wrote:
Er...no. It will lose this event. Depending on the event...the carnage
varies. We'll take a look at this.
This behavior is consistent with the Infiniband CM (see
Daniel,
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Daniel Phillips wrote:
Speaking as a former member of a grey market binary module vendor that
came in from the cold I can assure you that the distinction between EXPORT
and EXPORT_GPL _is_ meaningful. That tainted flag makes it extremely
difficult to do deals
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:03:48AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Grant Grundler wrote:
Switching the order to be:
tulip_stop_rxtx(tp);/* Stop DMA */
free_irq (dev-irq, dev); /* no more races after this */
still leaves us open to IRQs being delivered _after_
Hi,
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 18:36, Jiri Benc wrote:
This is a patch for rt2x00 driver to do TX flow control.
It is compile-tested only.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'll put my comments for the rt2400pci driver only,
since the same changes are made for each rt2x00 driver.
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:24:49PM +0300, Jar wrote:
It always loads itself with or without blacklist. That's why I have to
do 'rm -f orinoco*.* depmod -a' when the new kernel arrives. Seems
that users are directed to use unsecure orinoco (wep) driver rather than
secure hostap
Grant Grundler wrote:
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:03:48AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Grant Grundler wrote:
Switching the order to be:
tulip_stop_rxtx(tp);/* Stop DMA */
free_irq (dev-irq, dev); /* no more races after this */
still leaves us open to IRQs being
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix lock usage in udp_ioctl().
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
udp_poll() seems to have the same problem, right?
As reported by the lock validator:
[ BUG: illegal lock usage! ]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 16:46 -0500, Steve Wise wrote:
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 14:36 -0700, Sean Hefty wrote:
Er...no. It will lose this event. Depending on the event...the
carnage varies. We'll take a look at this.
This behavior is consistent with the Infiniband CM
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:06:00PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:42:14AM -0700, Mitch Williams wrote:
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 17:13 -0700, Neil Horman wrote:
Any further thoughts on this guys? I still think my last solution
solves all of
the netpoll problems, and
Grant Grundler [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
[...]
I'm not keen on adding more code to tulip_interrupt() routine
for something that rarely happens (compared to IRQs) and is handled
outside the interrupt routine. I'm pretty sure stopping interrupts
before stopping DMA is sufficient.
Can you show an
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 10:48 -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
Did we settle the question of whether these particular exports should be
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?
When i submitted this patch, i didn't really think about the different
ways to export these symbols. I simply used the EXPORT_SYMBOL() that is
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:43:05 +0200
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix lock usage in udp_ioctl().
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More likely the qeth driver shouldn't call into the socket code in
hardware interrupt context.
Hi David and folks,
In include/linux/pfkeyv2.h, is the type 'u_int32_t' for
sadb_x_kmprivate_reserved intentional or just an error while bringing in
the PF_KEY IPsec extensions from KAME?
struct sadb_x_kmprivate {
uint16_tsadb_x_kmprivate_len;
uint16_t
From: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[UBUNTU:nsc-ircc] Add some IBM think pads
Add Thinkpad T60/X60/Z60/T43/R52 Infrared driver support.
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/bcollins/ubuntu-dapper.git;a=commitdiff;h=7b8d2713435a9fb69719a282ba75e117f3f76a5b
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins
Make tulip driver not handle Davicom NICs, let dmfe take over
Reference: https://launchpad.net/bugs/48287
Source URL of Patch:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/bcollins/ubuntu-dapper.git;a=commitdiff;h=1804482911a71bee9114cae1c2079507a38e9e7f
---
From: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[UBUNTU:forcedeth] Let the driver work when no PHY is found
This matches breezy behavior.
Reference: https://launchpad.net/products/launchpad/+bug/45257
From: Zach Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:09:52 -0700
Nice, thanks for the heads-up. I'll pass the notice on to the guys who
were asking about this in that thread.
Which Wall Street brokerage firm was it? :-)
That's basically who wants this stuff, people doing financial
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:47:20PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
Grant Grundler [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
[...]
I'm not keen on adding more code to tulip_interrupt() routine
for something that rarely happens (compared to IRQs) and is handled
outside the interrupt routine. I'm pretty sure
From: Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Broadcom wireless patch, PCIE/Mactel support
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/bcollins/ubuntu-dapper.git;a=commitdiff;h=1373a8487e911b5ee204f4422ddea00929c8a4cc
This patch adds support for PCIE cores to the bcm43xx driver. This is
needed for
From: Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:46:58 -0700
Also, does the congestion window time out or does it decay?
The modification made to the cwnd is indeed a decay function,
but the event is a time out, and it is also termed a restart
in other writings and contexts.
I
Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As reported by the lock validator:
[ BUG: illegal lock usage! ]
illegal {in-hardirq-W} - {hardirq-on-W} usage.
syslogd/739 [HC0[0]:SC0[1]:HE1:SE0] takes:
(list-lock){++..}, at: [002e36d6]
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Neil Horman wrote:
Hey, as promised, I've done some rudimentary performance benchmarking on
various
ways that we have talked about to solve this problem. As I previously
mentioned
We see the same results here, Neil. However, we've got a much less
invasive patch
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 11:57 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
The other problem I see with this code is it is very tightly tied to ATM
cell sizes, not to solving the generic question of packetisation.
Others have made this point also. I can't speak for Jesper,
but I did consider making it generic. The
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 03:13:02PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
Most user don't want their kern.log/dmesg filled with
debugging gibberish, and could turn it on if prompted.
( Example:
wifi0: TXEXC - status=0x0004 ([Discon]) tx_control=000c
retry_count=0 tx_rate=0 fc=0x0108 (Data::0 ToDS)
Hi All:
When I test linux kernel(2.6.9-16), I found that maybe there is a bug
in e100 driver. See function e100_rx_indicate() at line 1847:
nic-net_stats.rx_bytes += actual_size;
Here, actual_size is the actual size of an ethernent frame sans FCS.And
the e100 driver gets it from skb.
Wei Dong wrote:
Hi All:
When I test linux kernel(2.6.9-16), I found that maybe there is a bug
in e100 driver. See function e100_rx_indicate() at line 1847:
nic-net_stats.rx_bytes += actual_size;
Here, actual_size is the actual size of an ethernent frame sans FCS.And
the e100 driver
Hello, John!
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 11:24 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:49:54AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
Having two drivers supporting the same set of hardware seems pretty
pointless to me. Plus, it confuses hotplugging/automatic detection.
This subject
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 17:10 -0700, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
my problem is that for my prism 2 adapter both drivers are loaded at
which point neither of them works. I'm running FC5, and i have to
keep removing the orinoco*.ko files to keep them from loading, so I'm
all for this patch.
I
* Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is bogus. These two locks belong to two different queues and
they never intersect.
yeah - qeth does its own skb-queue management here, and it's done in an
irq-safe manner.
Heiko, in qeth_main.c, could you do something like:
+ static struct
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