Re: 2.6.11 cpufreq: Device or resource busy

2005-03-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Hugo Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I've just upgraded my laptop (ASUS M3000 -- see below) from 2.6.10 > to 2.6.11. It now seems to be unable to load the acpi_cpufreq module: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:hrm $ sudo modprobe acpi-cpufreq > FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq > (/lib/modules/2

Re: 2.6.11-mm2 vs audio for kino and tvtime

2005-03-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 01:44, Andrew Morton wrote: >Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Greetings Andrew; > >g'day. > g'day to you, sir. >> 2.6.11-mm2 seems to work, mostly. >> >> First, the ieee1394 stuff seems to have fixed up that driver, and >> kino can access my movie cameras video

Re: PCMCIA product id strings -> hashes generation at compilation time? [Was: Re: [patch 14/38] pcmcia: id_table for wavelan_cs]

2005-03-08 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:19:42AM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:45:09PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 00:16 +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > > > Dominik Brodowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Most pcmcia devices a

Re: PCMCIA product id strings -> hashes generation at compilation time? [Was: Re: [patch 14/38] pcmcia: id_table for wavelan_cs]

2005-03-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > > The difficulty is that extracting and evaluating them breaks the > > > wonderful > > > bus-independent MODNAME implementation for hotplug suggested by Roman > > > Kagan > > > ( http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/7039 ), and that > > > these > > > strings may contain space

[RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

2005-03-08 Thread Greg KH
So here's a first cut at how this 2.6 -stable release process is going to work that Chris and I have come up with. Does anyone have any problems/issues/questions with this? thanks, greg k-h --- Everything you ever wanted to know about Linux 2.6 -stable releases. Rules on what

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-08 Thread CaT
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:34:22PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > For a couple of reasons I've not yet merged Greg's 2.6.11.1 yet but this > diff should actually apply to either right now. > > 2.6.11-ac1 > o Fix jbd race in ext3(Stephen Tweedie) > > Carried over from 2.6

Re: PCMCIA product id strings -> hashes generation at compilation time? [Was: Re: [patch 14/38] pcmcia: id_table for wavelan_cs]

2005-03-08 Thread Dominik Brodowski
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:45:09PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 00:16 +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > > Dominik Brodowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Most pcmcia devices are matched to drivers using "product ID strings" > > > > embedded in the dev

--update-- Re: [CHECKER] crash after fsync causing serious FS corruptions (ext2, 2.6.11)

2005-03-08 Thread Junfeng Yang
> the mouth.) It is *expected* behaviour, yes, and it is mitigated by > two factors. (1) Metadata for ext2 is synced out every 5 seconds, > while data is synced out every 60, so the max window for this race > described above is 5 seconds, and in practice rarely shows up if you > are not using fsy

Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Dmitry Yusupov
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 22:50 -0800, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:25:58PM -0800, Dmitry Yusupov wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 22:05 -0800, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:51:39PM -0800, Alex Aizman wrote: > > > > Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > > > > > >How bi

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/acpi/: make some code static

2005-03-08 Thread Len Brown
Applied. thanks, -Len On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 18:38, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch makes some needlessly global code static. > This patch contains only changes to files that should according to > Len Brown not cause extra work for the ACPI maintainers. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [PATCH] drm missing memset can crash X server...

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Dave Airlie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Egbert Eich reported a bug 2673 on bugs.freedesktop.org and tracked it > down to a missing memset in the setversion ioctl, this causes X server > crashes so I would like to see the fix in a 2.6.11.x tree if possible.. Could you please add Signed-off-by

Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-08 Thread Itsuro Oda
Hi, > Now the issue is, on i386, whether to prepare core headers in ELF32 or > ELF64 format. gdb can not analyze ELF64 core image for i386 system. I > don't know about "crash". Can "crash" support ELF64 core image file for > i386 system? Of course, It must be ELF64. It is important to include al

Re: [ANNOUNCE 6/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:19:03PM -0800, Alex Aizman wrote: > +The latest development release is available at: > +http://www.open-iscsi.org I think a URL in Kconfig and the source is sufficient, as this requires a userspace component which is a better place to bundle the docs. -- Mathematics is

Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:25:58PM -0800, Dmitry Yusupov wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 22:05 -0800, Matt Mackall wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:51:39PM -0800, Alex Aizman wrote: > > > Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > > > >How big is the userspace client? > > > > > > > Hmm.. x86 executable? sour

Re: 2.6.11-mm2 vs audio for kino and tvtime

2005-03-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings Andrew; g'day. > 2.6.11-mm2 seems to work, mostly. > > First, the ieee1394 stuff seems to have fixed up that driver, and kino > can access my movie cameras video over the firewire very nicely > without applying the bk-ieee1394-patch. The c

Re: Query: Kdump: Core Image ELF Format

2005-03-08 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:00 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > vivek goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Kdump (A kexec based crash dumping mechanism) is going to export the > > kernel core image in ELF format. ELF was chosen as a format, keeping in > > mind that gdb can be used f

[RFC] Kdump: Dump Capture Mechanism

2005-03-08 Thread Vivek Goyal
Hi, Well this discussion has been going on for quite sometime now that what's the best way to capture the dump? There seems to be two lines of arguments. Export ELF view through /proc/vmcore This basically involves retrieving saved core image headers and expor

Re: [ANNOUNCE 2/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:12:06PM -0800, Alex Aizman wrote: > +#define iscsi_ptr(_handle) ((void*)(unsigned long)_handle) > +#define iscsi_handle(_ptr) ((uint64_t)(unsigned long)_ptr) This is a bit wonky. Why is there a distinction? > +#ifndef ISCSI_PROTO_H > +#define ISCSI_PROTO_H > + > +#def

Re: Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel

2005-03-08 Thread Andrew Morton
"Chen, Kenneth W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Direct I/O on block device running 2.6.X kernel is a lot SLOWER > than running on a 2.4 Kernel! > A little bit slower, it appears. It used to be faster. > ... > > synchronous I/O AIO >

Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Alex Aizman
Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:51:39PM -0800, Alex Aizman wrote: Matt Mackall wrote: How big is the userspace client? Hmm.. x86 executable? source? Anyway, there's about 12,000 lines of user space code, and growing. In the kernel we have approx. 3,300 lines. -

Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Dmitry Yusupov
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 22:05 -0800, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:51:39PM -0800, Alex Aizman wrote: > > Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > >How big is the userspace client? > > > > > Hmm.. x86 executable? source? > > > > Anyway, there's about 12,000 lines of user space code, and growin

Re: Pktcdvd and DVD RW drive.

2005-03-08 Thread Paul
Jo?o Luis Meloni Assirati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Tue Mar 08, 2005 [10:56:34 PM] said: > Hello, > > I have an > > hdc: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > from LG. My kernel is a vanilla 2.6.11 with packet writing enabled. I > noticed, > however, that I can mount and write

Re: [ANNOUNCE 1/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:04:51PM -0800, Alex Aizman wrote: > SCSI LLDD consists of 3 files: > - iscsi_if.c (iSCSI open interface over netlink); > - iscsi_tcp.[ch] (iSCSI transport over TCP/IP). > > Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-o

Re: PCMCIA product id strings -> hashes generation at compilation time? [Was: Re: [patch 14/38] pcmcia: id_table for wavelan_cs]

2005-03-08 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:45:09PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 00:16 +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > > Dominik Brodowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Most pcmcia devices are matched to drivers using "product ID strings" > > > > embedded in the dev

Re: [ patch 6/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver

2005-03-08 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:42:31PM -0500, Wen Xiong wrote: > The following email I got from Scott Kilau in digi: > Scott Kilau wrote: > >The DPA program is very old, and is shared among other drivers > and OS's, >so changing the code to read the sysfs instead of doing ioctls > is

Re: [ patch 4/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver

2005-03-08 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 08:36:57PM -0600, Kilau, Scott wrote: > > > > > > If you were to open up the port with an "stty -a" to get the current > > > > settings and signals, you would unintentionally raise RTS and DTR. > > > > Why not fix the driver to not change the current line settings if it >

Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:51:39PM -0800, Alex Aizman wrote: > Matt Mackall wrote: > > >How big is the userspace client? > > > Hmm.. x86 executable? source? > > Anyway, there's about 12,000 lines of user space code, and growing. In > the kernel we have approx. 3,300 lines. > > >>- 450MB/sec Rea

Re: [PATCH] VGA arbitration: draft of kernel side

2005-03-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 00:58 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:37:13 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 23:35 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > This is from /linux-2.5/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt. It > > > describes how ia64 is

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash

2005-03-08 Thread Jon Smirl
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:01:15 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 08 March 2005 09:57, Michal Januszewski wrote: > > Fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash - is a feature that allows displaying > > images in the background of consoles that use fbcon. The project is > > partia

Re: [PATCH] VGA arbitration: draft of kernel side

2005-03-08 Thread Jon Smirl
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:37:13 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 23:35 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > This is from /linux-2.5/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt. It > > describes how ia64 is achieving legacy IO. The VGA control code > > probably needs

Re: PCMCIA product id strings -> hashes generation at compilation time? [Was: Re: [patch 14/38] pcmcia: id_table for wavelan_cs]

2005-03-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 00:16 +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > Dominik Brodowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Most pcmcia devices are matched to drivers using "product ID strings" > > > embedded in the devices' Card Information Structures, as "manufactor ID / > > > card ID" matches are

Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Alex Aizman
Matt Mackall wrote: How big is the userspace client? Hmm.. x86 executable? source? Anyway, there's about 12,000 lines of user space code, and growing. In the kernel we have approx. 3,300 lines. - 450MB/sec Read on a single connection (2-way 2.4Ghz Opteron, 64KB block size); With what net

Re: Oops tracing and /proc

2005-03-08 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:36:27AM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > I am trying to decode an Oops per the instructions in > Documentation/oops-tracing.txt. The instructions say to run it through > ksymoops with the "-k /proc/ksyms" argument. > > But, I do not have this file! The closest thing I h

Re: [PATCH] VGA arbitration: draft of kernel side

2005-03-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 23:35 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > This is from /linux-2.5/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt. It > describes how ia64 is achieving legacy IO. The VGA control code > probably needs to be coordinated with this. This is a different thing, and I will implement it on ppc one o

Oops tracing and /proc

2005-03-08 Thread Lee Revell
I am trying to decode an Oops per the instructions in Documentation/oops-tracing.txt. The instructions say to run it through ksymoops with the "-k /proc/ksyms" argument. But, I do not have this file! The closest thing I have is /proc/kallsyms. ksymoops complains that it does not understand the

Boot sequence of /proc filesystem

2005-03-08 Thread sounak chakraborty
Hi, I am writing some piece of code in the linux kernel 2.6.8 , in the files linux-2.6.8/kernel/fork.c ( in function do_fork() ) and linux-2.6.8/kernel/exit.c ( in the function do_exit() ). My objective is to execute the code immediately after the kernel has mounted the /proc fi

Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:03:14PM -0800, Alex Aizman wrote: > As far as user/kernel, the existing iSCSI initiators bloat the kernel with > ever-growing control plane code, including but not limited to: iSCSI > discovery, Login (Authentication and Operational), session and connection > management,

IA32 (2.6.11 - 2005-03-08.16.00) - 1 New warnings

2005-03-08 Thread John Cherry
drivers/w1/w1.c:525: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash

2005-03-08 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 09:57, Michal Januszewski wrote: > Fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash - is a feature that allows displaying > images in the background of consoles that use fbcon. The project is > partially descended from bootsplash. > > Unlike bootsplash, fbsplash has no in-kernel image dec

Re: [PATCH] VGA arbitration: draft of kernel side

2005-03-08 Thread Jon Smirl
This is from /linux-2.5/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt. It describes how ia64 is achieving legacy IO. The VGA control code probably needs to be coordinated with this. -- Accessing legacy resources through sysfs Leg

2.6.11-mm2 vs audio for kino and tvtime

2005-03-08 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings Andrew; 2.6.11-mm2 seems to work, mostly. First, the ieee1394 stuff seems to have fixed up that driver, and kino can access my movie cameras video over the firewire very nicely without applying the bk-ieee1394-patch. The camera has builtin stereo mics in it, but nary a peep can be h

[PATCH][Documentation update]Re: diff command line?

2005-03-08 Thread John Kacur
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 11:45, Jim Nelson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Russell King wrote: > | On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:48:00AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > | > |>What are the options normally used to generate a diff for public > |>consumption on this list? > | > |

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.10 - direct-io async short read bug

2005-03-08 Thread Joel Becker
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:54:04PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > 1. return EINVAL if the DIO goes past EOF. > > > > 2. truncate the request to file size (which is what your patch does) > > and if it works, it works. > > > > 3. truncate the request to a size that actually works - like a m

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-08 Thread Jack O'Quin
Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:39:24PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: >> >> 4. is undocumented and has never been tested in any real music studios >> > >> > Well you'll have a bit to test it before it goes to Linus. >> >> Only toy tests will be possible without t

[PATCH] PPC64 NUMA memory fixup

2005-03-08 Thread Paul Mackerras
This patch is from Mike Kravetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. When I booted my new 720 on a kernel configured for NUMA, I received the following during bootup: WARNING: Unexpected node layout: region start 4400 length 200 NUMA is disabled This is due to memory 'holes' within nodes. If such holes

Re: [PATCH] VGA arbitration: draft of kernel side

2005-03-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 22:17 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > How do I do the 'disable all, post, renable last active' sequence in > this scheme? You don't do it that way. You vga_get(IO|MEM) the card you want to POST, do the POST, then vga_put(). Subsequent user will get back ownership when it does vga_

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:39:24PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > >> 4. is undocumented and has never been tested in any real music studios > > > > Well you'll have a bit to test it before it goes to Linus. > > Only toy tests will be possible without the required userspace tools. Chris posted the re

Please help me update my address book on Ringo

2005-03-08 Thread Gaurav Yadav
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Please help me update my address book on Ringo

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Re: Fix suspend/resume problems with b44

2005-03-08 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 22:55:37 +0100 Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any idea what to do there? I'd say that request_irq is very unlikely > to fail given that it worked okay before suspend... What you have is fine for now. It is just a general issue that ->resume() has no way to cleanly f

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-03-08 Thread Jack O'Quin
>> Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Does anyone have serious objections to this approach? > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 11:30:57PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: >> 1. is likely to introduce multiuser system security holes like the one >> created recently when the mlock() rlimits bug was fix

[2.6 patch] sound/isa/: possible cleanups

2005-03-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlesly global code static - remove the following unused global functions: - gus/gus_volume.c: snd_gf1_gvol_to_lvol_raw - gus/gus_volume.c: snd_gf1_calc_ramp_rate - gus/gus_volume.c: snd_gf1_compute_vibrato - gus/gus_volume.c: sn

[2.6 patch] sound/pci/: make code static

2005-03-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c|9 ++--- sound/pci/ac97/ac97_local.h|3 --- sound/pci/ca0106/ca0106_proc.c |2 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c |6 -- sound/pci/hda/pa

Re: [PATCH] VGA arbitration: draft of kernel side

2005-03-08 Thread Jon Smirl
How do I do the 'disable all, post, renable last active' sequence in this scheme? -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.ht

Bug fix in slab.c:alloc_arraycache

2005-03-08 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Kmem_cache_alloc_node is not capable of handling a null cachep pointer as its input argument. If I try to increase a slab limit by echoing a very large number into /proc/slabinfo, kernel will panic from alloc_arraycache() because Kmem_find_general_cachep() can actually return a NULL pointer if the

Re: [PATCH 2/2] No-exec support for ppc64

2005-03-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 17:13 -0600, Jake Moilanen wrote: > diff -puN arch/ppc64/kernel/iSeries_setup.c~nx-kernel-ppc64 > arch/ppc64/kernel/iSeries_setup.c > --- linux-2.6-bk/arch/ppc64/kernel/iSeries_setup.c~nx-kernel-ppc64 > 2005-03-08 16:08:57 -06:00 > +++ linux-2.6-bk-moilanen/arch/ppc64/ke

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11

2005-03-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 20:53 -0500, Mark Canter wrote: > I think I've gone through every possible value here from asound.state to > each setting in KDE itself. Still, the only sound that works is the one > coming from line-out, without the port replicator, no sound exists > whatsoever. Both of

RE: Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel - fix sync I/O path

2005-03-08 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Christoph Hellwig wrote on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 6:20 PM > this is not the blockdevice, but the obsolete raw device driver. Please > benchmark and if nessecary fix the blockdevice O_DIRECT codepath insted > as the raw driver is slowly going away. >From performance perspective, can raw device be

RE: [ patch 4/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver

2005-03-08 Thread Kilau, Scott
> > > > If you were to open up the port with an "stty -a" to get the current > > settings and signals, you would unintentionally raise RTS and DTR. > > Why not fix the driver to not change the current line settings if it is > not being opened for the first time? That seems like a much simpler wa

Re: Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel - fix sync I/O path

2005-03-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> --- linux-2.6.9/drivers/char/raw.c2004-10-18 14:54:37.0 -0700 > +++ linux-2.6.9.ken/drivers/char/raw.c2005-03-08 17:22:07.0 > -0800 this is not the blockdevice, but the obsolete raw device driver. Please benchmark and if nessecary fix the blockdevice O_DIRECT codepa

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.10 - direct-io async short read bug

2005-03-08 Thread Daniel McNeil
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:18, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > Andrew, please don't apply the original patch. We shouldn't even attempt > > to submit IO beyond the filesize. We should truncate the IO request to > > filesize. I will send a patch today to fix this. > > > > Well, spoke too soon. This is a

Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel - fix AIO path

2005-03-08 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
This patch adds block device direct I/O for AIO path. 30% performance gain!! AIO (io_submit) 2.6.9 206,917 2.6.9+patches 268,484 - Ken Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.9/drivers/char/raw.c 2005-03-08 17:22:07.0

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11

2005-03-08 Thread Mark Canter
I think I've gone through every possible value here from asound.state to each setting in KDE itself. Still, the only sound that works is the one coming from line-out, without the port replicator, no sound exists whatsoever. Both of the below controls are set to false in asound.state and coore

Re: select(2), usbserial, tty's and disconnect

2005-03-08 Thread Robert Hancock
Joerg Pommnitz wrote: Hello all, currently it seems that select keeps blocking when the USB device behind ttyUSBx gets unplugged. My understanding is, that select should return when the next call to one of the operations (read/write) will not block. This is certainly true for failing with ENODEV. S

Large Page Support for ARM (Intel Xscale)

2005-03-08 Thread Venkat Ramakrishnan
Hello, I am looking for Large Page Implmentation (similar to the hugetlb effort) for ARM processors, specifically Xscale. Is there an ongoing project any one can point me to? I tried searching for before posting this message but couldn't find anything relevant. If this questions had already been

Pktcdvd and DVD RW drive.

2005-03-08 Thread João Luis Meloni Assirati
Hello, I have an hdc: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive from LG. My kernel is a vanilla 2.6.11 with packet writing enabled. I noticed, however, that I can mount and write a CD-RW udf formatted with # cdrwtool -d /dev/hdc -q without the need of the pktcdvd driver (with the mo

Re: [announce 7/7] fbsplash - documentation

2005-03-08 Thread Michal Januszewski
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:17:11AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > You also shouldn't create a class device every time you want to call > kobject_hotplug. Note that every character device already has a class > device associated with it, so you might be able to just use that to > call kobject_hotplug

Re: 2.6.11-mm2

2005-03-08 Thread Karsten Keil
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:20:46AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:38:46AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > >... > > Changes since 2.6.11-mm1: > >... > > +drivers-isdn-tpam-convert-to-pci_register_driver.patch > >... > > Little code tweaks. > >... > > Please drop this patch. >

Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel - pseudo disk driver

2005-03-08 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
The pseudo disk driver that I used to stress the kernel I/O stack (anything above block layer, AIO/DIO/BIO). - Ken diff -Nur zero/blknull.c blknull/blknull.c --- zero/blknull.c 1969-12-31 16:00:00.0 -0800 +++ blknull/blknull.c 2005-03-03 19:04:07.0 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@

Re: kernel mmap() and friends.

2005-03-08 Thread Robert Hancock
linux-os wrote: > If one uses x = __get_dma_pages(GFP_KERNEL, nr), finds the physical > address with b = virt_to_bus(x), then attempts to mmap(,,b,,,) the result > _does_not_fail_, yet the user ends up with memory ...somewhere > that is R/W able and WRONG. I don't think virt_to_bus is the corre

RE: Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel

2005-03-08 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
OK, last one in the series: user level test programs that stress the kernel I/O stack. Pretty dull stuff. - Ken diff -Nur zero/aio_null.c blknull_test/aio_null.c --- zero/aio_null.c 1969-12-31 16:00:00.0 -0800 +++ blknull_test/aio_null.c 2005-03-08 00:46:17.0 -0800 @@ -

[2.6 patch] drivers/char/isicom.c: section fixes

2005-03-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch fixes the following bugs: - __exit unregister_ioregion and unregister_drivers were called by __init isicom_init - __init isicom_init was called by __devinit isicom_setup Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/char/isicom.c | 12 ++-- 1 files changed, 6

Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel - fix sync I/O path

2005-03-08 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
This patch adds block device direct I/O for synchronous path. I added in the raw device code to demo the performance effect. 48% performance gain!! synchronous I/O (pread/pwrite/read/write) 2.6.9 218,565 2.6.9+patches 323,016 -

[2.6 patch] unexport console_unblank

2005-03-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
I didn't find any possible modular usage of console_unblank in the kernel. This patch was already ACK'ed by Alan Cox. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 3 Mar 2005 --- linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/printk.c.old 2005-03-03 17:04:18.00

[2.6 patch] kernel/power/smp.c: make a variable static

2005-03-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global variable static. This patch was already ACK'ed by Pavel Machek. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 3 Mar 2005 --- linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/power/smp.c.old2005-03-03 17:00:30.0 +0100 +++

Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel

2005-03-08 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
I don't know where to start, but let me start with the bombshell: Direct I/O on block device running 2.6.X kernel is a lot SLOWER than running on a 2.4 Kernel! Processing a direct I/O request on 2.6 is taking a lot more cpu time compare to the same I/O request running on a 2.4 kernel. The proof

Re: Adaptec 29160 + Promise Ultratrak100 TX8 problems

2005-03-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Maarten de Boer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am having nasty problems with an Adaptec 29160 and Promise > Ultratrak100 TX8 external RAID. (kernel 2.6.11) Does it work correctly under any other kernel versions? If so, which? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ke

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Tobias Hennerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > we kindly ask for some suggestions about how to trace a memory leak > which we suspect in the linux kernel version 2.6: Please grab 2.6.11, apply the below patch, set CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER and follow the below instructions. From: Alexander Nyberg <[

Re: 2.6.11-mm2

2005-03-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:38:46AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.11-mm1: ... -fix-buggy-ieee80211_crypt_-selects.patch Was wrong. ... I'd say my patch was correct. Uh, OK. Make that "was subject of interminable bunfig

Re: [linux-dvb] [patch] dvb: add pll lib

2005-03-08 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
(linux-dvb list removed from Cc: because it is subscribers only) On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:57:26AM +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote: > This adds some helper code to handle tuning for dvb cards, > with a struct describing the pll and a function calculating > the command sequence needed to program it. > >

Re: [ANNOUNCE][PATCH 2.6.11 1/3] megaraid_sas: Announcing new mod ule for LSI Logic's SAS based MegaRAID controllers

2005-03-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:05:11PM -0500, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote: > > > >> source "drivers/scsi/megaraid/Kconfig.megaraid" > >> +source "drivers/scsi/megaraid/Kconfig.megaraid_sas" > >> > > > >why a fully separate file and not add your ONE config option to > >Kconfig.megaraid instead ?? > >

[BK PATCH] USB update for 2.6.11

2005-03-08 Thread Greg KH
Hi, Here are a lot of USB patches for 2.6.11. All of these patches have been in the past few -mm releases. Most notable is the change of two USB api functions to accept milliseconds instead of jiffies. All USB drivers in the kernel tree that use these functions have been fixed up properly. The

Re: 2.6.11-mm2

2005-03-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:38:46AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > >... > > Changes since 2.6.11-mm1: > >... > > -fix-buggy-ieee80211_crypt_-selects.patch > > > > Was wrong. > >... > > I'd say my patch was correct. Uh, OK. Make that "was subject of inte

RE: [ANNOUNCE][PATCH 2.6.11 1/3] megaraid_sas: Announcing new mod ule for LSI Logic's SAS based MegaRAID controllers

2005-03-08 Thread Bagalkote, Sreenivas
> >> source "drivers/scsi/megaraid/Kconfig.megaraid" >> +source "drivers/scsi/megaraid/Kconfig.megaraid_sas" >> > >why a fully separate file and not add your ONE config option to >Kconfig.megaraid instead ?? > Arjan, I didn't want to needlessly couple megaraid and megaraid_sas. Since they are i

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.10 - direct-io async short read bug

2005-03-08 Thread Daniel McNeil
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:18, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > Andrew, please don't apply the original patch. We shouldn't even attempt > > to submit IO beyond the filesize. We should truncate the IO request to > > filesize. I will send a patch today to fix this. > > > > Well, spoke too soon. This is a

Re: PCMCIA product id strings -> hashes generation at compilation time? [Was: Re: [patch 14/38] pcmcia: id_table for wavelan_cs]

2005-03-08 Thread Dominik Brodowski
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:37:07PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > module aliases, and fixing up modprobe to handle spaces in module > aliases wouldn't work out easier. spaces _and_ characters. And characters are already used to separate different fields. pcmcia:pa"some string"pb"some other string" do

Re: [announce 7/7] fbsplash - documentation

2005-03-08 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Dinsdag 08 MÃrz 2005 23:37, Michal Januszewski wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:18:07AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > It should probably just use its own hotplug agent instead of calling > > the helper directly. > > I've just had a look at it, and it seems possible. From what I have see

Re: 2.6.11-mm2

2005-03-08 Thread J.A. Magallon
HI all... On 03.08, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm2/ > (replied to this because this is the kernel I am testing on :) ) Can cpu affinity really be changed for a running process ? Does it need something like io or yielding

Re: [PATCH 1/2] BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]

2005-03-08 Thread Andrew Morton
David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The attached patch replaces backing_dev_info::memory_backed with capabilitied > bitmap. Looks sane to me, thanks. I hope you got all the conversions correct - breakage in the writeback dirty accounting manifests in subtle ways. I'll double-check it. -

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 00:25 +0100, szonyi calin wrote: > --- Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Taking into account that nobody responded on lkml nor > on alsa (the message was awaiting modderator aprouval > on alsa-devel) i don't think i will send more bug reports > to alsa. How long

Re: PCMCIA product id strings -> hashes generation at compilation time? [Was: Re: [patch 14/38] pcmcia: id_table for wavelan_cs]

2005-03-08 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:16:36AM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > Dominik Brodowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Most pcmcia devices are matched to drivers using "product ID strings" > > > embedded in the devices' Card Information Structures, as "manufactor ID / > > > card ID" matc

i386 / sysenter safety test case

2005-03-08 Thread Zachary Amsden
Code inspection of entry.S on i386 showed a potential problem - load through segment without verifying "flatness" on the sysenter path. Turns out this code is safe, but only by a thread .. ENTRY(sysenter_entry) movl TSS_sysenter_esp0(%esp),%esp sysenter_past_esp: sti pushl

Re: [ patch 4/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver

2005-03-08 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:47:45PM -0600, Kilau, Scott wrote: > > Who needs to know if a port is open or not? > > > > > > > +static ssize_t jsm_tty_baud_show(struct class_device *class_dev, char *buf) > > > No, please delete these, and the other sysfs files that duplicate the > > same info that

Re: [PATCH] PCI: One more Asus SMBus quirk

2005-03-08 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:18:16PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > >ChangeSet 1.1998.11.27, 2005/02/25 15:48:28-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >[PATCH] PCI: One more Asus SMBus quirk > > > >One more Asus laptop requiring the SMBus quirk (W1N model). > > > >Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare

Re: [ patch 4/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver

2005-03-08 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:55:33PM -0500, Wen Xiong wrote: > +static ssize_t jsm_driver_boards_show(struct device_driver *ddp, char *buf) > +{ > + int adapter_count = 0; > + adapter_count = jsm_total_boardnum(); > + return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%d\n", adapter_count); > +} > +static

Re: 2.6.11-mm2

2005-03-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:38:46AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.11-mm1: >... > -fix-buggy-ieee80211_crypt_-selects.patch > > Was wrong. >... I'd say my patch was correct. If it was buggy, I have yet to see a better patch. With the current dependencies, IEEE80211_CRYPT_C

Re: 2.6.11-mm2

2005-03-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:38:46AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.11-mm1: >... > +drivers-isdn-tpam-convert-to-pci_register_driver.patch >... > Little code tweaks. >... Please drop this patch. Karsten has a patch ready to remove this driver (because the hardware it was sup

Re: [PATCH] VGA arbitration: draft of kernel side

2005-03-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 18:47 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > This very similar to the reset support patch I have been working on. > > In the reset patch there is a 'vga' attribute on each VGA device. Set > it to 0/1 to make the device active. This lets you move the console > around betweem VGA devices. >

Re: 2.6.11-mm2

2005-03-08 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 03.09, Robert Love wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 23:36 +, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > > Can cpu affinity really be changed for a running process ? > > Yes. > > > Does it need something like io or yielding to take effect ? > > No. > ... > > Although, you have the syntax wrong. It should

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 00:25 +0100, szonyi calin wrote: > I reported once a bug on alsa-devel and cc-ed on lkml > The sequencer isn't working with my card cs4239 with alsa. > What exactly do you mean by "it isn't working"? 90% of "MIDI does not work" bug reports are from users who expect playing

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