Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Sean
On Thu, February 17, 2005 8:42 pm, Horst von Brand said: > Linus clearly considered not just his /own/ workflow, but the workflow > for the /whole/ kernel development community. In fact, BK was designed Well, the /whole/ community isn't yet included, that's what we're talking about. > around the

Kernel hangs on PCI config register access ???

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, we have a bunch of systems which semi-reproducibly (chance of 1:1000) hang when a PCMCIA card is removed from its PCI->PCMCIA interface via "cardctl eject". Right *here*, in fact: static int pci_conf1_read (int seg, int bus, int devfn, int reg, int len, + u32 *value) { [...] case 2:

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Sean
On Thu, February 17, 2005 11:00 pm, Theodore Ts'o said: > If you think that, you truly do not understand the value of BK, and > why Linus chose it. Hey Ted, No, I just disagree that it was an absolute requirement or worth its cost that so many want to completely discount. Andrew has pretty muc

Re: [Fastboot] Re: [PATCH] /proc/cpumem

2005-02-17 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Itsuro Oda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see. I would like to contribute as possible I can. Pick some piece you that have an affinity for and work on it. Problems are best solved by those who see them and by those who care :) I believe Vivek Goyal is currently working on the remaining user spa

Current bk on ppc32: kernel text corruption

2005-02-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Ok, we may not be over with memory corruption bugs yet. ppc64 now seem stable running LTP overnight, but my laptop has a page of kernel .text replaced with zero's as soon as I launch X (and just X, no need to launc the whole desktop environment). I suspect remap_pfn_range() but I haven't checked y

Re: cdrecord stuck in D state with USB DVD burner

2005-02-17 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Friday 18 February 2005 02:21, Chuck Berg wrote: > I have a system with two USB DVD burners. If I burn a disc on both at the > same time, one of the dvdrecord processes hangs (unkillably stuck in the > D state). The usb-storage kernel thread was also stuck in the D state. > > I power-cycled bot

Re: [Fastboot] Re: [PATCH] /proc/cpumem

2005-02-17 Thread Itsuro Oda
Hi, On 17 Feb 2005 02:55:31 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > My role in this is that of maintainer and architect. On a practical > level I gain nothing from a working crash-dump/kexec-on-panic > implementation except it stops being a gating factor for the rest > of the kexec

Re: [PATCH] Consolidate compat_sys_waitid

2005-02-17 Thread Stephen Rothwell
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:43:07 + Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 02:01:49PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > +asmlinkage long compat_sys_waitid(u32 which, u32 pid, > > + struct compat_siginfo __user *uinfo, u32 options, > > + struct c

Possible bug in the Linux 2.4.29 e1000 driver

2005-02-17 Thread Richard Hoyle
Hi, There seems to be a bug in the Linux 2.4.29 e1000 driver. With an SMP kernel on a single Intel 3.0GHZ HT cpu, and an 82547 NIC in half-duplex 100Mb/s mode, the kernel with lock up hard (no nmi_watchdog=1 messages) under reasonably heavy transmit network loads. The bug does not manifest itself

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Sparse Memory Handling (hot-add foundation)

2005-02-17 Thread Mike Kravetz
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:03:53PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > The attached patch Just tried to compile this and noticed that there is no definition of valid_section_nr(), referenced in sparse_init. -- Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

le conversion of posix acl fields

2005-02-17 Thread Steve French
I saw your patch referenced in http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110859724430665&w=2 At first glance there is one odd place in the proposed patch: - cifs_ace->cifs_e_perm = (__u8)cpu_to_le16(local_ace->e_perm); - cifs_ace->cifs_e_tag = (__u8)cpu_to_le16(local_ace->e_tag

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Horst von Brand
"Sean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, February 17, 2005 3:52 pm, Horst von Brand said: [...] > > "Best tool for the job" certainly includes minutiae like "benefits" and > > "price". > Thank you, that's my point. It's not just about the geeky microscopic > technical details. Linus clearly

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Horst von Brand
Clemens Schwaighofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 02/17/2005 01:57 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > Compare the number of developers, the number of overlapping > > simultaneous development trees, and the number of patches that touch > > overlapping files, and you'll begin to start to appreciate the >

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/18/2005 01:00 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 06:32:04PM -0500, Sean wrote: > >>No. It's about recognizing the needs of more people than just the few at >>the top. Besides, with a free tool at the Head, bk could continue to

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 06:32:04PM -0500, Sean wrote: > No. It's about recognizing the needs of more people than just the few at > the top. Besides, with a free tool at the Head, bk could continue to be > used underneath by Linus and anyone else. If you think that, you truly do not understand

Re: [PATCH] add umask parameter to procfs

2005-02-17 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 04:22:49AM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > Herbert Poetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:41:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> Rene Scharfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > Add proc.umask kernel parameter. It can be used to restrict permissions

Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

2005-02-17 Thread Chris Friesen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:41:00 +0100, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suggest you talk to a lawyer and review the general comments about binary modules with him (http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/COPYING.modules for example). You are writing an addition to linux

Re: [PATCH] add umask parameter to procfs

2005-02-17 Thread Bodo Eggert
Herbert Poetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:41:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >> Rene Scharfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Add proc.umask kernel parameter. It can be used to restrict permissions >> > on the numerical directories in the root of a proc filesystem, i.

Re: [darcs-users] Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Sean
On Thu, February 17, 2005 9:24 pm, Tupshin Harper said: Hi Tupshin, > Speaking as somebody that uses Darcs evey day, my opinion is that the > future of OSS SCM will be something like arch or darcs but that neither > are ready for projects the size of the linux kernel yet. Darcs is > definitely wa

Re: seccomp for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-17 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 06:25:03AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > hmm, just an idea, but have you thought about using > an indirect syscall table for your purposes? > > current->syscall_table > > and have a table for every 'mode' you want to use ... That would add an additional level of indire

Re: [darcs-users] Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Tupshin Harper
Patrick McFarland wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 09:08 pm, Larry McVoy wrote: Something that unintentionally started a flamewar. Well, we just went through another round of 'BK sucks' and 'BK sucks, we need to switch to something else'. Sans the flamewar, are there any options? CVS and

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Sunday 13 February 2005 09:08 pm, Larry McVoy wrote: > Something that unintentionally started a flamewar. Well, we just went through another round of 'BK sucks' and 'BK sucks, we need to switch to something else'. Sans the flamewar, are there any options? CVS and SVN are out because they do

Re: Swsusp, resume and kernel versions

2005-02-17 Thread Bernard Blackham
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 08:56:52PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Just remember you're doing the mkswap if you decide to rearrange your > > > partitions at all, or code a script smart enough to grep your swap > > > partitions out of your fstab. > > > > It could be a workaround. Still it will cau

Re: [PATCH] add umask parameter to procfs

2005-02-17 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:41:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Rene Scharfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Add proc.umask kernel parameter. It can be used to restrict permissions > > on the numerical directories in the root of a proc filesystem, i.e. the > > directories containing process sp

Re: -rc3 leaking NOT BIO [Was: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?]

2005-02-17 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 05:00, Parag Warudkar wrote: > On Wednesday 16 February 2005 06:52 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > > So it's probably an ndiswrapper bug? > Andrew, > It looks like it is a kernel bug triggered by NdisWrapper. Without > NdisWrapper, and with just 8139too plus some light network ac

run_init_process problem

2005-02-17 Thread govind raj
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Re: 2.6.10: irq 12 nobody cared!

2005-02-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Joshua Kwan wrote: > > What was the previous kernel you ran on that machine, just out of > > interest? If it hasn't happened before, it would be interesting to know > > when it started happening... > > It used to be running 2.4.27, where there was no evidence of such a bug

Re: 2.6.10: irq 12 nobody cared!

2005-02-17 Thread Joshua Kwan
Linus Torvalds wrote: Does the box still work? It may well be that once all drivers have had a chance to initialize their hardware properly, the problem is just gone, and that the interim reports about not being able to handle the irq are just temporary noise. The box seems to work fine; on the oth

Re: 2.6.10: irq 12 nobody cared!

2005-02-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Joshua Kwan wrote: > > Just migrated to 2.6.10 on an old VIA MVP3 box and I'm getting this: > > irq 12: nobody cared! IRQ 12 should be your PS/2 mouse irq too. It seems your wireless card shares that interrupt, which is unusual, but not necessarily wrong. My guess is tha

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/2005 07:27 PM, Sean wrote: > On Thu, February 17, 2005 4:27 am, Roland Kuhn said: > > >>The difference comes after the merge. Suppose Andrew didn't push >>everything to Linus. Then new patches come in, both trees change. In >>this situation

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/2005 01:57 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Compare the number of developers, the number of overlapping > simultaneous development trees, and the number of patches that touch > overlapping files, and you'll begin to start to appreciate the > differ

Re: UDP and e1000 : Simple test, little bugs.

2005-02-17 Thread Ben Greear
Vincent Roqueta wrote: Hello all, I am working on NFS interoperabiity and I experiment some problems with UDP. The problem appear between the linux 2.6.10rc1 and 2.6.10rc2, and is still present in the last kernel (2.6.11rc3) With NFSv3: Client send a 32k file splited into 22 IP fragments. The pr

cdrecord stuck in D state with USB DVD burner

2005-02-17 Thread Chuck Berg
I have a system with two USB DVD burners. If I burn a disc on both at the same time, one of the dvdrecord processes hangs (unkillably stuck in the D state). The usb-storage kernel thread was also stuck in the D state. I power-cycled both burners. The disconnect appeared in the logs but they were n

[RFC][PATCH] Memory Hotplug

2005-02-17 Thread Dave Hansen
The attached patch is a prototype implementation of memory hot-add. It allows you to boot your system, and add memory to it later. Why would you want to do this? Well, it's a step before memory removal which can help cope with things like bad RAM. This is primarily useful for a machine that you

Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3 (fwd)

2005-02-17 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Pavel Machek schrieb: > >>>I'm not sure if you can push the whole industry at once. >> >>The goal is to know what to tell the system vendors >>interested in supporting Linux what they should do >>with their BIOS on future platforms. >> >>I believe our message should be: >>1. BIOS should save/resto

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Sean
On Thu, February 17, 2005 6:54 pm, Lee Revell said: > Ed did not say it was a choice between BK and nothing. He said "Linus > has tried other SCMs. They did not suffice." Did you even read his > comment? The point you missed is that it's not an honest comparison to look at the post BK/ pre BK

Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators

2005-02-17 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:30:31PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 00:03:42 +0100 > Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And to be honest we only have about 6 or 7 of these walkers > > in the whole kernel. And 90% of them are in memory.c > > While doing 4level I think I

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview II

2005-02-17 Thread Andi Kleen
[Sorry for the late answer.] On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:44:41PM -0600, Ray Bryant wrote: > > > > > >Sorry, but the only real difference between your API and mbind is that > >yours has a pid argument. > > > > That may be true, but the internals of the implementations have got > to be pretty diffe

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 18:32 -0500, Sean wrote: > On Thu, February 17, 2005 6:25 pm, Ed Tomlinson said: > > Linus has tried other SCMs. They did not suffice. I remember the preBK > > days, when you had to post a patch half a dozen time to get it merged. > > Patches were being missed left right an

Re: [PATCH] pci/quirks.c: unhide SMBus device on Samsung P35 laptop

2005-02-17 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:49:17AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Hi, > > this patch is needed to make the SMBus device on my Samsung P35 > laptop visible. By default, it doesn't appear as a pci device. > > Patch tested, works perfectly for me. Please apply. Applied, thanks. greg k-h -

Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...

2005-02-17 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 02:46:38PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > OK, I'm happy to go along with that (it definitely simplifies my > driver code). Here's the patch. > > > Remove the call to request_mem_region() in msix_capability_init() to > grab the MSI-X vector table. Drivers should be using >

Re: [PATCH] quiet non-x86 option ROM warnings

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew Vasquez
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:47:15 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We could provide additional helpers, like pci_find_rom_partition(), > > which takes the architecture code as an argument. It would check the > > signature, and iterate

Re: Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t in USB [was Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes]

2005-02-17 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:39:35AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > This fixes (part of) u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in USB. It should > cause no code changes. Please apply, Large portions of this patch are already in my tree (and hence the -mm tree.) Care to rediff against the latest -mm

Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators

2005-02-17 Thread Andi Kleen
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:21:03AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 00:03 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > And to be honest we only have about 6 or 7 of these walkers > > in the whole kernel. And 90% of them are in memory.c > > While doing 4level I think I changed all of

Re: [PATCH] add umask parameter to procfs

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew Morton
Rene Scharfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Add proc.umask kernel parameter. It can be used to restrict permissions > on the numerical directories in the root of a proc filesystem, i.e. the > directories containing process specific information. > > E.g. add proc.umask=077 to your kernel command l

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Sean
On Thu, February 17, 2005 6:25 pm, Ed Tomlinson said: >> Yes, I do remember that post. But i'm not arguing from an ideological >> basis; i'm arguing on practical grounds that the price of using BK is >> too >> high for its supposed benefits. I've not seen anyone else make that > > Huh? This ide

Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators

2005-02-17 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 00:03:42 +0100 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And to be honest we only have about 6 or 7 of these walkers > in the whole kernel. And 90% of them are in memory.c > While doing 4level I think I changed all of them around several > times and it wasn't that big an issue.

Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3 (fwd)

2005-02-17 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Sorry, I was too fast with my mail client. Please cc: Len in your replies. To: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3 X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. Hi! > > I'm not sure if you can push the whole i

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Thursday 17 February 2005 11:58, Sean wrote: > On Thu, February 17, 2005 11:55 am, Chris Friesen said: > > > If you look at the archives, there have been a *lot* of people saying > > very much the same thing as you. I suspect people are getting tired of > > giving the same responses all the ti

Re: PCI access mode on x86_64

2005-02-17 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:02:05PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:47:01AM +0100, Piotr Kaczuba wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:18:43AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Piotr Kaczuba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Is there a reason why "PCI access mode" config option

Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators

2005-02-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 00:03 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > And to be honest we only have about 6 or 7 of these walkers > in the whole kernel. And 90% of them are in memory.c > While doing 4level I think I changed all of them around several > times and it wasn't that big an issue. So it's not that we

Re: [PATCH 2.6] Add PCI quirk for SMBus on the Toshiba Satellite A40

2005-02-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:46:39PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi all, > > The Toshiba Satellite A40 laptop hides its SMBus device, much like a > number of Asus boards reputedly do. This prevents access to the LM90 > hardware monitoring chip. This simple patch extends the PCI quirk used > for the

Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-17 Thread Luca Capello
Hello Pavel! On Mon 14 Feb 2005 22:11, Pavel Machek wrote: > Stefan provided me initial list of machines where S3 works (including > video). If you have machine that is not on the list, please send me a > diff. If you have eMachines... I'd like you to try playing with Sorry, but a diff of what? O

Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-17 Thread Len Brown
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 05:15, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > I'm not sure if you can push the whole industry at once. The goal is to know what to tell the system vendors interested in supporting Linux what they should do with their BIOS on future platforms. I believe our message should be: 1. BIOS shoul

Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

2005-02-17 Thread parker
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:41:00 +0100, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:56 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I'm writing a module under a proprietary license. I decided to use sysfs > > to do the configuration. Unfortunately, all sysfs exports are av

Re: [Problem] slow write to dvd-ram since 2.6.7-bk8

2005-02-17 Thread Tino Keitel
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 23:29:24 +0100, Droebbel wrote: > On Mi, 2005-02-16 at 22:55 +0100, Droebbel wrote: > >Some new information: > > > >2.6.7 is ok, 2.6.7-mm2 is not ok, 2.6.7 with just the linus-patch from > >mm2 is ok, 2.6.7 with linus.patch from mm3 isn't. > >So I took some of the patches fr

Re: possible leak in kernel 2.6.10-ac12

2005-02-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Parag Warudkar wrote: On Wednesday 16 February 2005 06:28 pm, Pedro Venda wrote: Having upgraded most of them to 2.6.10-ac12, one of them showed a linear growth of used memory over the last 7 days, after the first 2.6.10-ac12 boot. It came to a point that it started swapping and the swap usage too

Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators

2005-02-17 Thread Andi Kleen
> I though about both ways yesterday, and in the end, I prefer Nick stuff, > at least for now. It gives us also more flexibility to change gory > implementation details in the future. I still have to run it through a > bit of torture testing though. They're really solving different problems. My co

Re: [PATCH] quiet non-x86 option ROM warnings

2005-02-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 17:59 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:47:15 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We could provide additional helpers, like pci_find_rom_partition(), > > which takes the architecture code as an argument. It would check the > > signatur

Re: [PATCH] quiet non-x86 option ROM warnings

2005-02-17 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Thursday, February 17, 2005 2:59 pm, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:47:15 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We could provide additional helpers, like pci_find_rom_partition(), > > which takes the architecture code as an argument. It would check the > > s

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: with hdc=scsi haldeamon doesn't recognize cdwriter. but with hdc=ide-scsi (was the original from kernel 2.4) haldaamon reconize my cdwriter ! So this message of this subject just make me wast my time and lose my patience. ( because I forgot to enable haldaemon before to

Re: [PATCH] quiet non-x86 option ROM warnings

2005-02-17 Thread Jon Smirl
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:47:15 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We could provide additional helpers, like pci_find_rom_partition(), > which takes the architecture code as an argument. It would check the > signature, and iterate all "partitions" til it finds the proper > arch

Re: [PATCH] quiet non-x86 option ROM warnings

2005-02-17 Thread Jon Smirl
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:45:50 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can't the size be obtained like any other BAR ? yes, but cards that don't fully decode their ROM address space can waste memory in copy_rom. For example I have a card around here that reports a BAR address spa

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
kernel wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:48, Kiniger, Karl (GE Healthcare) wrote: I can confirm that. Creating a correct iso image from a CD is a major pain w/o ide-scsi. Depending on what one has done before the iso image is missing some data at the end most of the time. (paired with lots of kernel

Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators

2005-02-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 20:43 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 01:03:35AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > I am pretty surprised myself that I was able to consolidate > > all "page table range" functions into a single type of iterator > > (well, there are a couple of variations, but it

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:42:21 +0100, "Kiniger, Karl (GE Healthcare)" said: Have you tested the ISO on some *OTHER* hardware? The impression I got was that the cd was *burned* right by ide-cd, but when *read back*, it bollixed things up at the end of the CD. Using

Re: E-cards for You

2005-02-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-02-17 14:03:08, schrieb Chuck Harding: > Why can't the list owners apply spamassassin to the list's *incoming* > mail stream so we don't ever see this stuff? Nearly every one of the > lists hosted on vger.kernel.org get spammed on a regular basis because > there is no spam filtering before

Re: [PATCH] quiet non-x86 option ROM warnings

2005-02-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 12:56 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:45:30 -0800, Jesse Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, how does this one look to you guys? The r128 driver would need similar > > fixes. > > Do any of the radeon ROMs store multiple images in different formats? > S

Re: [PATCH] quiet non-x86 option ROM warnings

2005-02-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 09:45 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:32 am, Jon Smirl wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:29:53 -0800, Jesse Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday, February 17, 2005 8:33 am, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > > No, pci_map_rom shouldn't test t

Re: [PATCH] quiet non-x86 option ROM warnings

2005-02-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:33 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:48:14 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 15:54 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > > On Tuesday, February 15, 2005 5:03 pm, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > What about prin

Re: [PATCH][I2C] Marvell mv64xxx i2c driver

2005-02-17 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:33:59PM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote: > > I can't find any definitive policy on this. I kind of like the explicit > return, I don't know why. I've had others make the same comment, > though, so I'll remove them since it obviously bothers people. > > Attached is a repl

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

2005-02-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 09:26:41PM +0100, Aur?lien Jarno wrote: > 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

Re: GL520SM Sensor Chip driver

2005-02-17 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 04:15:25PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Port of the Genesys Logic 520SM sensor chip driver from linux 2.4 > > Signed-off-by: Maarten Deprez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, thanks. greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [PATCH][I2C] ST M41T00 I2C RTC chip driver

2005-02-17 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 05:04:09PM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > >Can you resend it with a proper Changelog description in the top of the > >email and the signed-off-by line? thanks, > > > >greg k-h > > > > > > > Certainly. > -- > > This patch adds support for the ST M41T00 I

Re: E-cards for You

2005-02-17 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 02:03:08PM -0800, Chuck Harding wrote: > Why can't the list owners apply spamassassin to the list's *incoming* > mail stream so we don't ever see this stuff? Nearly every one of the > lists hosted on vger.kernel.org get spammed on a regular basis because > there is no spam f

Re: E-cards for You

2005-02-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 14:03 -0800, Chuck Harding wrote: > Why can't the list owners apply spamassassin to the list's *incoming* > mail stream so we don't ever see this stuff? Nearly every one of the > lists hosted on vger.kernel.org get spammed on a regular basis because > there is no spam filterin

Re: E-cards for You

2005-02-17 Thread Marco Iannantuoni
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:20:48 -0800 James Colannino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Greetings! > > > > has sent you an E-Card -- a virtual postcard from > >TheArtHaven.com. You can pickup your card at the TheArtHaven.com website. > > > > > > This is the first time I'v

Re: E-cards for You

2005-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 14:03 -0800, Chuck Harding wrote: > Why can't the list owners apply spamassassin to the list's *incoming* > mail stream so we don't ever see this stuff? Nearly every one of the > lists hosted on vger.kernel.org get spammed on a regular basis because > there is no spam filterin

Re: [PATCH] add "bus" symlink to class/block devices

2005-02-17 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:04:06PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:53:44PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > > Add a "bus" symlink to the class and block devices, just like the "driver" > > and "device" links. This may be a huge speed gain for e.g. udev to determine > > the bus val

Re: "Needlessly global functions static...."

2005-02-17 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Dunnersdag 17 Februar 2005 22:25, Chris Wright wrote: > static != inline.  Locally scoped symbols, 't',  and global, 'T', > are in kallsyms or System.map. Well, actually they might get inlined automatically when building with gcc -funit-at-a-time. That is of course a desired side effect of ma

Re: E-cards for You

2005-02-17 Thread Chuck Harding
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 17 February 2005 16:20, James Colannino wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings! has sent you an E-Card -- a virtual postcard from TheArtHaven.com. You can pickup your card at the TheArtHaven.com website. This is the first time I've ever seen s

Re: [PATCH] Altix : ioc4 serial driver support

2005-02-17 Thread Patrick Gefre
Andrew, Since there don't seem to be any more suggestions, can you take this - or at least queue it up ??? This is a resend: I updated again with more __iomem tags. ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sn2/sn2-update/033-ioc4-support Signed-off-by: Patrick Gefre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Christoph Hellwig wrote

Re: E-cards for You

2005-02-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 February 2005 16:20, James Colannino wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Greetings! >> >> has sent you an E-Card -- a virtual postcard from >>TheArtHaven.com. You can pickup your card at the TheArtHaven.com >> website. > >This is the first time I've ever seen someone send an e-card to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] yaird, a mkinitrd based on hotplug concepts

2005-02-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Erik van Konijnenburg wrote: Features: - handles both initrd and initramfs. Comments: * Having a mkinitrd that's not a shell script is a godsend. I would endorse yaird on that fact alone :) * I've long wanted a "mkinitfoo" that would create .cpio.gz for initramfs by default. So, good job the

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.10, ReiserFS errors, preempt

2005-02-17 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
Hello On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I believe there's unresolved memory corruption bug in bttv... > yes I think so, other have also similar problem : > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110820804010204&w=2 > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=11053154392&r=1&w=2 >

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Chris Wright
* David Weinehall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > BTW: Wishlist request. Would you consider adding -p (--show-c-function) > to the set of flags used for the diffs created by BitKeeper? It's already there. thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net

[PATCH] add umask parameter to procfs

2005-02-17 Thread Rene Scharfe
Add proc.umask kernel parameter. It can be used to restrict permissions on the numerical directories in the root of a proc filesystem, i.e. the directories containing process specific information. E.g. add proc.umask=077 to your kernel command line and all users except root can only see their own

[PATCH] remove mount option parsing from procfs

2005-02-17 Thread Rene Scharfe
OK, my previous patches on the subject were _so_ bad that noone even bothered to flame me. Here's an attempt to fix this. :] This patch removes the mount options of the proc filesystem. They don't have any effect since 2.4.something. Explanation: Only proc_fill_super() calls parse_options, nota

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Sean
On Thu, February 17, 2005 3:52 pm, Horst von Brand said: > "Best tool for the job" certainly includes minutiae like "benefits" and > "price". Thank you, that's my point. It's not just about the geeky microscopic technical details. Sean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: "Needlessly global functions static...."

2005-02-17 Thread Chris Wright
* linux-os ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello, > Tell me. When all those kernel functions are made static > how does one use a kernel debugger? How does the OOPS > get decoded if nothing is in /proc/kallsyms or System.map??? static != inline. Locally scoped symbols, 't', and global, 'T', are

Re: "Needlessly global functions static...."

2005-02-17 Thread Roland Dreier
linux-os> Hello, Tell me. When all those kernel functions are made linux-os> static how does one use a kernel debugger? How does the linux-os> OOPS get decoded if nothing is in /proc/kallsyms or linux-os> System.map??? Dude, static symbols are still in System.map and /proc/kallsyms

Re: E-cards for You

2005-02-17 Thread James Colannino
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings! has sent you an E-Card -- a virtual postcard from TheArtHaven.com. You can pickup your card at the TheArtHaven.com website. This is the first time I've ever seen someone send an e-card to a mailing list... James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Horst von Brand
"Sean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, February 17, 2005 11:55 am, Chris Friesen said: > > If you look at the archives, there have been a *lot* of people saying > > very much the same thing as you. I suspect people are getting tired of > > giving the same responses all the time. > > > > Here i

"Needlessly global functions static...."

2005-02-17 Thread linux-os
Hello, Tell me. When all those kernel functions are made static how does one use a kernel debugger? How does the OOPS get decoded if nothing is in /proc/kallsyms or System.map??? Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.10 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). Notice : All mail here is no

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/starfire.c

2005-02-17 Thread Michael Kreitzer
See http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4208 for all relevant information. -- --- drivers/net/starfire.c.old 2005-02-17 04:12:20.987861182 -0600 +++ drivers/net/starfire.c 2005-02-17 04:11:55.038499137 -0600 @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ * This SUCKS. * We need a much better method to determine

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/loopback.c: make a function static

2005-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global function static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/loopback.c.old2005-02-16 16:08:04.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/loopback.c2005-02-16 16:08:14.0 +010

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/ixgb/: possible cleanups

2005-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - remove the following unused global functions: - ixgb_ee.c: ixgb_get_ee_compatibility - ixgb_ee.c: ixgb_get_ee_init_ctrl_reg_1 - ixgb_ee.c: ixgb_get_ee_init_ctrl_reg_2 - ixgb_ee.c: ixgb_get_ee_subsyst

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/lp486e.c: make some code static

2005-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/lp486e.c |8 +--- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/lp486e.c.old 2005-02-16 16:08:34.0 +0100 +++ linux-

Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-17 Thread Stefan Dösinger
Am Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2005 20:08 schrieb Norbert Preining: > On Die, 15 Feb 2005, Stefan Dösinger wrote: > > > - DRI must be disabled I guess?! Even with newer X server (x.org)? > > > > Do you use the fglrx driver? This doesn't work with any type of suspend > > so far. If you use the radeon dr

Re: 2.6.10-ac12 + kernbench == oom-killer: (OSDL)

2005-02-17 Thread cliff white
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:12:06 -0200 Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:57:07PM -0800, cliff white wrote: > > > > Running 2.6.10-ac10 on the STP 1-CPU machines, we don't seem to be able to > > complete > > a kernbench run without hitting the OOM-killer. ( kernbe

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