Re: [Fastboot] Re: kdump on non-boot cpu

2005-02-06 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Itsuro Oda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So I believe the fix needs to be to enable apics before we calibrate > > the delay timer. I'm not certain off the top of my head what that > > patch will look like but it should not be fundamentally hard. > > With that code in place we also don't need

2.6.11-rc3-mm1 bad scheduling while atomic + lockup

2005-02-06 Thread Maciej Soltysiak
Hello, I just want to report a lockup on my 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 machine. I was working on it via ssh and suddenly the machine stopped responding. When, the next day I came up to the console it was printing over and over this oops. In the logs I could find the oops. I am posting it inline here along w

Re: COMMAND_LINE_SIZE increasing in 2.6.11-rc1-bk6

2005-02-06 Thread Werner Almesberger
Andi Kleen wrote: > It's dependent on the architecture already. I would like to enable > it on i386/x86-64 because the kernel command line is often used > to pass parameters to installers, and having a small limit there > can be awkward. Something to keep in mind when extending the command line is

Re: [PATCH] Linux joydev joystick disconnect patch 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-06 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:21:13PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Sunday 06 February 2005 08:12, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:24:39AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:52:15 -0600, David Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Currently a blockin

Re: [PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying

2005-02-06 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/2005 09:36 AM, Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:21:08AM +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote: > >>On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:06:59AM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> >>>On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:33:43AM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: >>

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-06 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 21:15 -0800, David Brownell wrote: > And I didn't see an "unusual_devs.h" entry for it, but it does > look to need the CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_HP8200e support, which I > see is labeled "experimental". I don't know how solid the > support for that is. But I see Greg's checked in

Re: How to read file in kernel module?

2005-02-06 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 22:17 -0800, linux lover wrote: > Hello, > I have written one /proc file creation kernel > module. This module creates /proc/file and defied > operations on it. Also i have written user program > that will read & write to /proc files from user space. > Now what i want

out-of-line x86 "put_user()" implementation

2005-02-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
I was looking at some of the code we generate, and happened to notice that we have this strange situation where the x86 "get_user()" macros generate out-of-line code to do all the address verification etc, but the "put_user()" ones do not, and do everything inline. I also noticed that (probabl

How to read file in kernel module?

2005-02-06 Thread linux lover
Hello, I have written one /proc file creation kernel module. This module creates /proc/file and defied operations on it. Also i have written user program that will read & write to /proc files from user space. Now what i want is to use same bufproc_read & bufproc_write functions defined in

Kernel 2.4.21 gives kernel panic at boot time

2005-02-06 Thread baswaraj kasture
Hi, I have compiled the kerne 2.4.21. Compilation went well. but i got follwing message at boot time. = . . /lib/mptscsih.o : unresolved symbol mpt_deregister_Rsmp_6fb5ab71 /lib/mptscsih.o : Unresolved symbol mpt_event_register_Rsmp_34ace96b ERROR : /bi

Generating NLS modules

2005-02-06 Thread Pavel Fedin
Nobody answered so i repeat the question. I think i found a way to make use of NLS table for HFS filesystem and i'm going to try to implement it. But first i need to create NLS module for codepage 10007 (Mac cyrillic). In the beginning of every existing NLS module code i see comment which says th

Re: [RFC/RFT] Better handling of bad xfers/interrupt delays in psmouse

2005-02-06 Thread Ryan Anderson
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:55:00PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Hmm, wouldn't it be nice if they put spell checker in GCC? ;) Isn't the resulting beast called "emacs"? -- Ryan Anderson sometimes Pug Majere - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [PATCH] module-init-tools: generate modules.seriomap

2005-02-06 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Sunday 06 February 2005 22:41, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 02:55 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Hi Rusty, > > > > I have converted serio bus to use ID matching and changed serio drivers > > to use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE. Now that Vojtech pulled the changes into his > > tree it

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-06 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 06 February 2005 6:55 pm, Rusty Russell wrote: > Device Descriptor: > bLength18 > bDescriptorType 1 > bcdUSB 2.00 > bDeviceClass0 (Defined at Interface level) > bDeviceSubClass 0 > bDeviceProtocol 0 > bMaxPack

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 04/09] ide: convert REQ_DRIVE_TASK to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-02-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: I put some more thought into this change... details below... On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:15:56 +0900 (KST), Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: @@ -705,24 +705,17 @@ static int idedisk_issue_flush(request_q { ide_drive_t *drive = q->queuedata; struct requ

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 05/09] ide: map ide_task_ioctl() to ide_taskfile_ioctl()

2005-02-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:15:56 +0900 (KST), Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - int err = 0; - u8 args[7], *argbuf = args; - int argsize = 7; + u8 args[7]; + ide_task_t task; + task_ioreg_t *regs = task.tfRegister; u8 *regs ple

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 08/09] ide: map ide_cmd_ioctl() to ide_taskfile_ioctl()

2005-02-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: I have not fully reviewed it yet but I've noticed two things... @@ -648,11 +648,11 @@ u8 eighty_ninty_three (ide_drive_t *driv EXPORT_SYMBOL(eighty_ninty_three); -int ide_ata66_check (ide_drive_t *drive, ide_task_t *args) +int ide_ata66_check(ide_drive_t *drive, ta

Re: [PATCH] relayfs crash

2005-02-06 Thread Kingsley Cheung
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 10:42:27PM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote: > Kingsley Cheung writes: > > > > To solve the problem I applied a patch similar to the one you posted > > back in July and it fixed the problem. Could we consider putting this > > patch into relayfs? Its similar to the one posted i

Re: [rfc][patch] ide: fix unneeded LBA48 taskfile registers access

2005-02-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Bartlomiej. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [ against ide-dev-2.6 tree, boot tested on LBA48 drive ] This small patch fixes unneeded writes/reads to LBA48 taskfile registers on LBA48 capable disks for following cases: * Power Management requests (WIN_FLUSH_CACHE[_EXT], WIN_STANDBYNOW1, WI

Re: [PATCH] relayfs crash

2005-02-06 Thread Tom Zanussi
Kingsley Cheung writes: > > To solve the problem I applied a patch similar to the one you posted > back in July and it fixed the problem. Could we consider putting this > patch into relayfs? Its similar to the one posted in July 2004, except > it also moves clear_readers() before INIT_WORK i

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-06 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 06 February 2005 7:59 am, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > > I have a MAGNEX/ViPower USB/FirWire external HD enclosure. I > found that it works pretty fine (albeit slowly) when connected > to the USB 1.1 ports built in my Dell Inspiron 8200, but trying > to connect it via the Hamlet PCMCIA U

Re: [PATCH] module-init-tools: generate modules.seriomap

2005-02-06 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 02:55 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hi Rusty, > > I have converted serio bus to use ID matching and changed serio drivers > to use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE. Now that Vojtech pulled the changes into his > tree it would be nice if official module-init-tools generated the module >

Re: M7101

2005-02-06 Thread Grant Grundler
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 03:26:15PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Maarten Deprez then converted it to the proper kernel coding-style: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110726276414532 ... > Any chance we could get the PCI folks to review the code and push it > upwards if it is OK? I'm

Re: [PATCH]sched: Isochronous class v2 for unprivileged soft rt scheduling

2005-02-06 Thread Con Kolivas
Jack O'Quin wrote: Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ Cc:s trimmed, added abiss-general ] Con Kolivas wrote: Possibly reiserfs journal related. That has larger non-preemptible code sections. If I understand your workload right, it should consist mainly of computation, networking (?)

Re: [PATCH]sched: Isochronous class v2 for unprivileged soft rt scheduling

2005-02-06 Thread Jack O'Quin
Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ Cc:s trimmed, added abiss-general ] > > Con Kolivas wrote: >> Possibly reiserfs journal related. That has larger non-preemptible code >> sections. > > If I understand your workload right, it should consist mainly of > computation, networking (?),

Re: [PATCH] relayfs crash

2005-02-06 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Kingsley Cheung wrote: > To solve the problem I applied a patch similar to the one you posted > back in July and it fixed the problem. Could we consider putting this > patch into relayfs? Its similar to the one posted in July 2004, except > it also moves clear_readers() before INIT_WORK in relay_

Regression? in USB support w/r/t libusb

2005-02-06 Thread Thomas Frayne
Kernel developer's, if you don't think this is a kernel regression, please ignore this note. In FC3, with kernel 2.6.9-1.715_FC3smp, I hotplugged a formatted mini external hard drive in a new enclosure into a USB 2.0 hub. I expected to find its device node, but could not find it in my maze of USB

Re: [PATCH]sched: Isochronous class v2 for unprivileged soft rt scheduling

2005-02-06 Thread Werner Almesberger
[ Cc:s trimmed, added abiss-general ] Con Kolivas wrote: > Possibly reiserfs journal related. That has larger non-preemptible code > sections. If I understand your workload right, it should consist mainly of computation, networking (?), and disk reads. I don't know much about ReiserFS, but in s

[PATCH] relayfs crash

2005-02-06 Thread Kingsley Cheung
Hi Tom, I've been stress testing a module that uses relayfs on a custom built 2.6 kernel with relayfs patches in it. This test simply loaded and unloaded the module while a script loaded the system with forks of 'ls' in the background. It was conducted on a dual 3.00GHz Xeon box (I couldn't repr

[PATCH] twiddler compile fix.

2005-02-06 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi, Somehow this part of one of the earlier patches was lost... -- Dmitry === [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-02-06 20:25:21-05:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Input: fix compie error in twidjoy.c Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-06 Thread Rusty Russell
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 12:41 -0800, David Brownell wrote: > On Friday 04 February 2005 4:16 am, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > > Is USB/SCSI just terminally broken under 2.6? > > I don't think so, but there are problems that appear in some > hardware configs and not others. Many folk report no prob

Re: [PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying

2005-02-06 Thread Nuno Monteiro
On 2005.02.07 00:42, Pozsár Balázs wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:36:10AM +, Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:21:08AM +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:06:59AM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > filesystem detection isn't handled at the kerne level.

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-06 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:45:22AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: [same wankfest] *plonk* If you ever need to send me mail - send it directly. Anything from you to l-k will be handled by /dev/null here. And it would better on saner topics not involving your crusades, TYSoFsckingM. - To unsubscribe

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-06 Thread Larry McVoy
> Bzzt. Larry, I will make this one very easy, so that even you can follow > it. Let's take a simple file: > > $ rlog REPORTING-BUGS,v | grep 'total revisions' > total revisions: 3; selected revisions: 3 > $ rlog REPORTING-BUGS,v | egrep '\(Logical change 1.[0-9]+\)' > (Logical change 1.31) > (

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

2005-02-06 Thread Adam Sulmicki
hi all, I would like point to work done by Li-Ta Lo. It allows you to completely initalize the VGA BIOS w/out using PC BIOS at all. http://www.clustermatic.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2005-January/010236.html unforunatelly the information the web is somewhat spar

Executive Summary: Bad page state at prep_new_page

2005-02-06 Thread Jay Roplekar
This might or might not be useful to anybody but I googled with the above error and tried to track down how many of these errors had actually been resolved. [It is possible that people don't come back to summarize once the problem is resolved]. I only tracked once that did not get reported on

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-06 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: > > $ find -name \*,v -a ! -path ./BitKeeper\* -a ! -name ChangeSet,v | xargs > > rlog | egrep '\(Logical change 1.[0-9]+\)' | wc -l > > 187576 > > Bzzt. You forgot all the intial deltas which are not marked with the > logical change comment. And jus

Re: Linux-tracecalls, a clarification

2005-02-06 Thread Werner Almesberger
Carl Spalletta wrote: > +#The name of an operations structure member, wrongly interpreted by > +#cscope as the name of an actual function - it should be ignored, > +#since it has been confused by cscope with the name of some actual > +#caller. HOWEVER the callbacks are found anyway,

Re: [PATCH] Linux joydev joystick disconnect patch 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-06 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Sunday 06 February 2005 08:12, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:24:39AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:52:15 -0600, David Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Currently a blocking read, select, or poll call will not return if a > > > joystick device i

Re: [PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying

2005-02-06 Thread Pozsár Balázs
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:36:10AM +, Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:21:08AM +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:06:59AM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:33:43AM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > > > > I dunno. I can never un

Re: [PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying

2005-02-06 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:21:08AM +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:06:59AM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:33:43AM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > > > I dunno. I can never understand the innards of the kernel devs' minds. > > > > filesyst

[2.6 patch] tridentfb.c: make some code static

2005-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/video/tridentfb.c | 16 +--- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) This patch was already sent on: - 21 Nov 2004 --- linux-2.6.10-rc2-mm2-full/drivers/video

[2.6 patch] kernel/intermodule.c: make inter_module_get static

2005-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
There's no longer any user of inter_module_get outside of intermodule.c . Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/module.h |1 - kernel/intermodule.c |3 +-- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) This patch was already sent on: - 12 Dec 2004 --- l

[2.6 patch] SCSI ultrastor.c: make a variable static

2005-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global variable static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 15 Nov 2004 --- linux-2.6.10-rc1-mm5-full/drivers/scsi/ultrastor.c.old 2004-11-14 01:31:07.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.10-rc1-mm5-full/drivers/scsi/

[2.6 patch] SCSI sym53c416.c: make a function static

2005-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global function static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 15 Nov 2004 --- linux-2.6.10-rc1-mm5-full/drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c.old 2004-11-14 01:30:23.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.10-rc1-mm5-full/drivers/scsi/

[PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying

2005-02-06 Thread Pozsar Balazs
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:06:59AM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:33:43AM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > > I dunno. I can never understand the innards of the kernel devs' minds. > > filesystem detection isn't handled at the kerne level. Yeah, but the link order

Re: VIA VT610 IDE support for 2.4.28 (trivial) - now for 2.4.29/via82cxxx

2005-02-06 Thread Mathias Kretschmer
Mathias Kretschmer wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Mathias Kretschmer wrote: hi, I found an older version of this patch (against 2.4.22) on some website. After a little bit of editing it applied cleanly to 2.4.27 (and now 2.4.28). It works fine for me on a ASUS P4P800-Deluxe with 4x 300GB disks. Mayb

[rfc][patch] ide: fix unneeded LBA48 taskfile registers access

2005-02-06 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
[ against ide-dev-2.6 tree, boot tested on LBA48 drive ] This small patch fixes unneeded writes/reads to LBA48 taskfile registers on LBA48 capable disks for following cases: * Power Management requests (WIN_FLUSH_CACHE[_EXT], WIN_STANDBYNOW1, WIN_IDLEIMMEDIATE commands) * special commands (WIN

Re: Problem in accessing executable files

2005-02-06 Thread Vineet Joglekar
Hi John, Thanks for suggesting the single / few bytes encryption test. I tried doing that, but in vain. Maybe I am going wrong somewhere else. I will briefly tell the functions I have written and the sequence if I am doing any mistake in the logic, please let me know. In file.c I have add

Re: Dell Inspiron sensors (was: Re: Huge unreliability - does Linux have something to do with it?)

2005-02-06 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
kernel wrote: > You might want to try this; > > Remove the keyboard, remove the cover beneath. Take a can of air dust > (or equivalent) and *carefully* blow out the inside of the laptop. > > -then- > > Look at the back side and the right side of the laptop. You'll see the > intake for air an

Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] [2.6 patch] DVB: remove bouncing address of Alex Woods

2005-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 09:59:21PM +0100, Holger Waechtler wrote: > Have you ever considered asking on the linux-dvb mailing list for a more > recent address? stop trolling and do something useful. please. I sent this patch to linux-dvb-maintainer (linux-dvb is useless for me since it requires

Re: Intel AGP support attaching to wrong PCI IDs

2005-02-06 Thread Ian Pilcher
Dave Jones wrote: Another way forward (somewhat hacky in one sense, but a lot cleaner in another) would be to change the PCI code so that it'll load and init multiple drivers that claim to support the same PCI ID. This may cause issues for some other drivers however where we have an old and a new d

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

2005-02-06 Thread Peter Osterlund
Peter Osterlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 11:07 +0100, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/

[BK PATCHES] ide-dev-2.6 update

2005-02-06 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, ChangeLog: * sync with linux-2.6 tree * merge "convert IDE device drivers to driver model" serie (except the last patch which is the actual conversion :) * fix ATAPI Power Management BK users: bk pull bk://bart.bkbits.net/ide-dev-2.6 This will update the following files: drive

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0)

2005-02-06 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 09:30:18PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ wrote: > > How about this; Ignore entries addrconf_dst_alloc'ed entries in rt6_ifdown()? Great, that definitely fixes the local address problem. I'm not sure about anycast routes though. Who's going to delete them when th

Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] [2.6 patch] DVB: remove bouncing address of Alex Woods

2005-02-06 Thread Holger Waechtler
Have you ever considered asking on the linux-dvb mailing list for a more recent address? stop trolling and do something useful. please. Bounces are sometimes temporary, contacting linux dvb developers is usually easiest over the linux-dvb mailing list. Subscribe there if you have a dvb-related

Re: RFC: [PATCH-2.6] Add helper function to lock multiple page cache pages.

2005-02-06 Thread Andrew Morton
Anton Altaparmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I did a patch which switched loop to use the file_operations.read/write > > about a year ago. Forget what happened to it. It always seemed the right > > thing to do.. > > How did you implement the writ

[PATCH 2.6] I2C: New chip driver: sis5595 (resubmit)

2005-02-06 Thread Aurélien Jarno
Hi Greg, Please find below the new version of the patch against kernel 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 to add the sis5595 driver (sensor part). As you suggested, I have changed the PCI part of the driver, taking the via686a driver as an example. I have also changed the comparison of jiffies by using time_after.

Re: Intel AGP support attaching to wrong PCI IDs

2005-02-06 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > Another way forward (somewhat hacky in one sense, but a lot cleaner in > another) > would be to change the PCI code so that it'll load and init > multiple drivers that claim to support the same PCI ID. That might actually be useful to support some weird h

[OOPS] 2.6.10-ac9 while watching TV and disk IO

2005-02-06 Thread Bodo Eggert
This oops happened while watching TV and burning a CD. Other oopses (I guess, didn't verify at that time) happened while copying many large files and watching TV at the same time. Note1: /proc/ksyms does not exist. What to do? Note2: ksymoops prints this error message to /dev/stderr: ksym

[2.6 patch] DVB: remove bouncing address of Alex Woods

2005-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes the bouncing email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] of Alex Woods. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/media/dvb/ttusb-dec/ttusb_dec.c |4 ++-- drivers/media/dvb/ttusb-dec/ttusbdecfe.c |2 +- drivers/media/dvb/ttusb-dec/ttusbdecfe.h |2 +- 3 files

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-06 Thread Domen Puncer
I'm a bit late, sorry. Haven't seen these mentioned in replies: On 03/02/05 17:43 -0500, Stephen Evanchik wrote: > +int tp_sens = TP_DEF_SENS; > +module_param_named(sens, tp_sens, uint, 0); > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(sens, "Sensitivity"); I don't see out-of-file usages... these could be static. ... >

Re: 2.6.11-rc3 BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000001] code: ip/6840

2005-02-06 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Frank van Maarseveen wrote: While executing iptables -t nat -D OUTPUT -d 80.126.170.174 -p tcp --dport https -j DNAT --to 192.168.0.1 iptables -t nat -D OUTPUT -d 80.126.170.174 -p tcp --dport http -j DNAT --to 192.168.0.1 ip route del default ip addr del 80.126.170.174 dev eth0 on a dual PIII d

Re: [PATCH] hid-core: Configurable USB HID Mouse Interrupt Polling Interval

2005-02-06 Thread Mikkel Krautz
Thanks for the suggestions. :) I'm wondering if there perhaps is a more clean way to do this? Perhaps something that would give the user the possibility to change the polling interface per device, or something like that, perhaps exported to sysfs? Though, since you mentioned that the endpoint desc

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/input/gameport/cs461x.c: remove bouncing email address

2005-02-06 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:30:14PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch remoces the bouncing email address of Victor Krapivin from > MODULE_AUTHOR. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm1-full/drivers/input/gameport/cs461x.c.old > 2005-02-06 20:24:3

2.6.11-rc3 BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000001] code: ip/6840

2005-02-06 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
While executing iptables -t nat -D OUTPUT -d 80.126.170.174 -p tcp --dport https -j DNAT --to 192.168.0.1 iptables -t nat -D OUTPUT -d 80.126.170.174 -p tcp --dport http -j DNAT --to 192.168.0.1 ip route del default ip addr del 80.126.170.174 dev eth0 on a dual PIII during a shutdown: kernel:

Re: [PATCH] remove pointless <0 comparisons for unsigned vars, and avoid a few signed vs unsigned comparisons in drivers/char/keyboard.c

2005-02-06 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:21:55AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > Hi, > > Sorry about the possibly irrelevant CC list, but I couldn't find a > maintainer for drivers/char/keyboard.c listed anywhere, so I ended up > sending to lkml and CC'ing a few people who has worked on the file, and > akpm a

Re: [2.6 patch] i386/x86_64: acpi/sleep.c: kill unused acpi_save_state_disk

2005-02-06 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:44:47PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > acpi_save_state_disk does nothing and is completely unused. > > This patch was already ACK'ed by Pavel Machek. Since it affects both i386 and x86-64 it should be pushed by the ACPI people. However it's no bugfix and so definitely noth

Re: RFC: [PATCH-2.6] Add helper function to lock multiple page cache pages.

2005-02-06 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > I did a patch which switched loop to use the file_operations.read/write > about a year ago. Forget what happened to it. It always seemed the right > thing to do.. How did you implement the write? At the moment the loop driver gets hold of both source

[PATCH] raw1394 : Fix hang on unload

2005-02-06 Thread Parag Warudkar
I was seeing rmmod getting stuck consistently in D state while removing raw1394. Looking at raw1394.c:cleanup_raw1394 - the order of doing things seemed incorrect to me after comparing other places in raw1394.c which do the same thing but with a different order. bash R running task

[2.6 patch] drivers/input/gameport/cs461x.c: remove bouncing email address

2005-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch remoces the bouncing email address of Victor Krapivin from MODULE_AUTHOR. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm1-full/drivers/input/gameport/cs461x.c.old 2005-02-06 20:24:35.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm1-full/drivers/input/gameport/cs

Re: [PATCH] Bug in tty_io.c after changes between 2.6.9-rc1-bk1 and 2.6.9-rc1-bk2

2005-02-06 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sun, Feb 06, Olaf Hering wrote: > Do you have an outdated udev package with bogus udev.rules? Your strace clearly shows /dev/tty as a directory. Go and ask Linus to revert your broken patch. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: softlockup and suspend/resume

2005-02-06 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Saturday, 5 of February 2005 20:07, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've attached a patch for touch_softlockup_watchdog() below - but i think > > > what we really need is another mechanism. I'm wondering what the primary > > > reason for the l

Re: [PATCH] hid-core: Configurable USB HID Mouse Interrupt Polling Interval

2005-02-06 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 01:52:06AM +, Mikkel Krautz wrote: > On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:53:31 -0800, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 05:39:25PM +, Mikkel Krautz wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:59:48 -0800, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What about

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 04/09] ide: convert REQ_DRIVE_TASK to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-02-06 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
I forgot about this one... > @@ -55,22 +55,19 @@ > #include > #include > > -static void ide_fill_flush_cmd(ide_drive_t *drive, struct request *rq) > +void ide_init_flush_task(ide_drive_t *drive, ide_task_t *args) > { > - char *buf = rq->cmd; > - > - /* > -* reuse cdb spac

Logitech MX-Series "Cruise Control" buttons

2005-02-06 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
I recently posted an update to http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1786 that shows the bug escalating on newer hardware, such that there is no user-accessable workaround. It seem that where an MX-series mouse's cruise-control buttons are concerned, the mouse (by default) produces two events f

Re: 3TB disk hassles

2005-02-06 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Neil Conway wrote: > Since writing the above, I've been searching for more info. I > downloaded four different versions of grub (GNU Grub Legacy, GNU Grub2, > gentoo and Fedora Core 3). NONE of these showed any evidence of GPT > support (I was in a hurry, so I searched for st

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 08/09] ide: map ide_cmd_ioctl() to ide_taskfile_ioctl()

2005-02-06 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
I have not fully reviewed it yet but I've noticed two things... > @@ -648,11 +648,11 @@ u8 eighty_ninty_three (ide_drive_t *driv > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(eighty_ninty_three); > > -int ide_ata66_check (ide_drive_t *drive, ide_task_t *args) > +int ide_ata66_check(ide_drive_t *drive, task_ioreg_t *regs)

[2.6 patch] fs/nfs/: make some code static

2005-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 8 Jan 2005 fs/nfs/inode.c |8 +--- fs/nfs/mount_clnt.c |4 ++-- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c |9 + fs/nfs/nfsroot.c|

[2.6 patch] fs/nfsd/: possible cleanups

2005-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
The patch below contains the following possible cleanups: - make some needlessly global code static - #if 0 the following EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed but unused function: - nfs4acl.c: nfs4_acl_permission - remove the following unused global function: - nfs4state.c: set_no_grace Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[2.6 patch] smp{,boot}.c cleanups

2005-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following cleanups on several architectures: - make some needlessly global code static - remove the following write-only (except for printk's) variables: - cache_decay_ticks - smp_threads_ready - cacheflush_time I've only tried the compilation on i386, but I hope all

[2.6 patch] i386/x86_64: acpi/sleep.c: kill unused acpi_save_state_disk

2005-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
acpi_save_state_disk does nothing and is completely unused. This patch was already ACK'ed by Pavel Machek. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 16 Jan 2005 arch/i386/kernel/acpi/sleep.c |9 - arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi/sleep.c |9

[2.6 patch] i386/crypto/aes.c: make some code static

2005-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 16 Jan 2005 --- linux-2.6.11-rc1-mm1-full/arch/i386/crypto/aes.c.old2005-01-16 04:21:08.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc1-mm1-full/arch/i386/cryp

[2.6 patch] i386/kernel/i387.c: misc cleanups

2005-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following cleanups: - make a needlessly global variable static - #if 0 four unused global functions Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 16 Jan 2005 arch/i386/kernel/i387.c |8 +++- include/asm-i386/i387.h |6 -

[2.6 patch] i386/x86_64 i8259.c: make mask_and_ack_8259A static

2005-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
The patch below makes a needlessly global function static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 16 Jan 2005 arch/i386/kernel/i8259.c |4 ++-- arch/x86_64/kernel/i8259.c |4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- linu

[2.6 patch] fs/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c: make a function static

2005-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global function static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 8 Jan 2005 --- linux-2.6.10-mm2-full/fs/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c.old 2005-01-08 04:31:10.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.10-mm2-full/fs/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c

[2.6 patch] fix sound/isa/gus/interwave.c compile with PNP=n

2005-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
Emmanuel Colbus sent this patch one month ago with the following description: There is a trivial bug in the file sound/isa/gus/interwave.c . The variable isapnp is defined only if CONFIG_PNP is enabled, but it is always used few lines after. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- a/

Re: Linux input event extending tool exist?

2005-02-06 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:41:38PM -0500, Eric Lammerts wrote: > Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > >You can use evtest (attached). It's often found in the joystick RPMs. > >It's also in the linuxconsole.sf.net CVS repository. On recent kernels > >it'll show the scancodes as well as the generated keycodes. >

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 05/09] ide: map ide_task_ioctl() to ide_taskfile_ioctl()

2005-02-06 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:15:56 +0900 (KST), Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - int err = 0; > - u8 args[7], *argbuf = args; > - int argsize = 7; > + u8 args[7]; > + ide_task_t task; > + task_ioreg_t *regs = task.tfRegister; u8 *regs please > + int re

Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11

2005-02-06 Thread Andi Kleen
> [1] glibc-2.3.4 kill buggy bins at the load time. > (please look into: elf/dl-load.c, elf/dl-support.c, elf/rtld.c) I don't see how that can work for arbitary code executed in some arbitary mmap. Please explain. > This works on i386/PaX systems too (hardware NX isn't required). But i

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 04/09] ide: convert REQ_DRIVE_TASK to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-02-06 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
I put some more thought into this change... details below... On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:15:56 +0900 (KST), Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > @@ -705,24 +705,17 @@ static int idedisk_issue_flush(request_q > { > ide_drive_t *drive = q->queuedata; > struct request *rq; > + id

Re: [PATCH] Dynamic tick, version 050127-1

2005-02-06 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > Ok, works slightly better: time no longer runs 2x too fast. When TSC > > > > is used, I get same behaviour as before ("sleepy machine"). With > > > > "notsc", machine seems to work okay, but I still get 1000 timer > > > > interrupts a second. > > > > > > Sounds like dyn-tick did not

Re: [PATCH] Bug in tty_io.c after changes between 2.6.9-rc1-bk1 and 2.6.9-rc1-bk2

2005-02-06 Thread Olaf Hering
On Thu, Feb 03, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > ChangeSet 1.1992.2.73, 2005/02/02 08:48:23-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [PATCH] Bug in tty_io.c after changes between 2.6.9-rc1-bk1 and > 2.6.9-rc1-bk2 > > Fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3736 > >

Re: Dev documentation?

2005-02-06 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:35:32AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hello, > I was wondering where I might find some good dev > documentation (if possible free since I am on a tight > budget currently), because I wish to port a 2.4 kernel > modem driver to 2.6 so I can use the driver properly.

Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11

2005-02-06 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 10:04 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok so what to do for 2.6.11... the setarch workaround is there; that > > works. My patch patches the worst issues and is quite minimal. What you > > propose will be more invasive and more suitable for 2.6.11-bk1... > > I can do such a pa

Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11

2005-02-06 Thread PaweÅ Sikora
On Sunday 06 of February 2005 13:47, you wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:03:11PM +0100, Pawel Sikora wrote: > > On Sunday 06 of February 2005 12:36, you wrote: > > > Worse is that even when the program has trampolines and has > > > PT_GNU_STACK header with an E bit on the stack it still won't g

Re: [PATCH] Add as-option to top-level Makefile

2005-02-06 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:03:47PM +0200, Paul Mundt wrote: > cc-option can presently not be used for checking as flags. It seems like > MIPS ran into this already and added their own as-option (which at this > point seems to be completely unused on MIPS, so perhaps it's worth > removing entirely

Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11

2005-02-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > And if you want to split things up, there's at least three flags there: > > "stack" vs "file mapping" vs "anonymous mapping". For example, it might > > lets add "brk" as 4th I guess. I thought about that, but no normal user program uses brk

Re: [uml-devel] [patch] Make User Mode Linux compile in 2.6.11-rc3

2005-02-06 Thread Rob Landley
On Saturday 05 February 2005 01:00 pm, Frank Sorenson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rob Landley wrote: > | As of yesterday afternoon, the UML build still breaks in > | sys_call_table.c, ... > This patch for sys_call_table.c was merged into the main tree in this > chan

Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11

2005-02-06 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 09:05:05AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > There are probably more. > > So? Do you expect to never fix them, or what? Someone will fix them, but it's not the job of the 32bit emulation of x86-64 to break compatibility. It

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