Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 question

2005-07-28 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Radoslaw "AstralStorm" Szkodzinski wrote: > I wonder which git version is linus.patch updating to Note, if you want -mm as a nice shiny parent-linked git tree, just pull from http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/smurf/linux-trees.git (the whichever-mm-release-you-want branch). I ca

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add kernel AIO support for POSIX AIO

2005-07-28 Thread Sébastien Dugué
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 17:46 +0200, Sébastien Dugué wrote: > infrastructure to be used by user level libraries aiming at implementing > a POSIX compliant API on top of this kernel support. > > This patchset is comprised of 5 patches, each implementing a specific > functionality: > > - aiom

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-07-28 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Thorsten Knabe wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that > > support the same hardware) for removal. > > Hello Adrian. > > I'm the maintainer of the OSS AD1816 sound driver. I'm aware of two > p

[git patch] 2.6.x libata fix

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please pull from 'upstream' branch of rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git to obtain the fix described in the attached diffstat/changelog/patch. drivers/scsi/ata_piix.c | 19 +-- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) commit 7b6

RE: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Nick Piggin wrote on Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:01 PM > Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > >Well, that's exactly what I'm trying to do: make them not aggressive > >at all by not performing any load balance :-) The workload gets maximum > >benefit with zero aggressiveness. > > Unfortunately we can't forget a

Re: 2.6.8 -> 2.6.11 (+ata-dev patch) -- HDD is always on

2005-07-28 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Damn me - sorry for the misinformation... I've compiled the kernel without Debian-loved initrd image... so I've booted 2.6.12.3 -- LED light is on - so I bet no blame on libata patch, although I've mentioned few patches from that patch migrated into the mainstream kernel. Any ideas on which n

Re: Broke nice range for RLIMIT NICE

2005-07-28 Thread Matt Mackall
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:04:24PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Hello Ingo, > > I'm guessing that it was you that added the RLIMIT_NICE resource > limit in 2.6.12. The original patch was from Chris Wright, but I did most of the cheerleading for it. > (A passing note to all kernel developers:

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
"Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > NUMA-Q boxes are still crashing on boot with -mm BTW. Is the thing we > identified earlier with the sched patches ... > > http://test.kernel.org/9398/debug/console.log Oh, thanks. That's about 8,349 bugs ago and I'd forgotten. > Works with mainl

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
"Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > - There's a pretty large x86_64 update here which naughty maintainer wants > > in 2.6.13. Extra testing, please. > > Is still regressed as of 2.6.12 for me, at least. Crashes in TSC sync. > Talked to Andi about it at OLS, but then drank too

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-28 Thread Martin J. Bligh
OK, and one last one ... on a more postitive note. rc3-mm3 does indeed fix the problems crashing on boot I was having on PPC64 with -rc3-mm2. I'll close the bugzilla bug. Thanks! M. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-28 Thread Martin J. Bligh
NUMA-Q boxes are still crashing on boot with -mm BTW. Is the thing we identified earlier with the sched patches ... http://test.kernel.org/9398/debug/console.log Works with mainline still (including -rc4) ... hopefully those patches aren't on their way upstream anytime soon ;-) M. - To unsubs

Re: 2.6.8 -> 2.6.11 (+ata-dev patch) -- HDD is always on

2005-07-28 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:25:42AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Does this happen in unpatched 2.6.12.3 or 2.6.13-rc4? just tried unpatched 2.6.12.3. The Box stalls booting with "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. _" interesting though that led hdd light is off at first, blinks few time

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-28 Thread Martin J. Bligh
> - There's a pretty large x86_64 update here which naughty maintainer wants > in 2.6.13. Extra testing, please. Is still regressed as of 2.6.12 for me, at least. Crashes in TSC sync. Talked to Andi about it at OLS, but then drank too much to remember the conclusion ... however, it's still bro

Re: isa0060/serio0 problems -WAS- Re: Asus MB and 2.6.12 Problems

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Michael Krufky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sadly, I must report that yes, the problem still intermittently occurs > in 2.6.13-rc4 :-( I'm the one that tested on the Shuttle FT61 > Motherboard. Never has a problem in windows and never in 2.6.11 and > earlier. > > I first noticed this p

Re: Time Flies (Twice as Fast)

2005-07-28 Thread Olivier Fourdan
Kurt Did you try with the "no_timer_check" boot option? HTH Olivier. On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 22:03 -0400, Kurt Wall wrote: > Hola, > > I have an eMachines T6212 Opteron system on which the system clock > seems to run at ~twice the speed of the wall clock. The main board > is an ASUS K8 of some d

Re: isa0060/serio0 problems -WAS- Re: Asus MB and 2.6.12 Problems

2005-07-28 Thread Michael Krufky
Andrew Morton wrote: Michael Krufky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am cc'ing your message to Vojtech Pavlik, the INPUT DRIVERS kernel maintainer. Vojtech, I figured these should be sent to you. If I am wrong, please redirect them to the correct person / list and let us know. Thank you.

NLS for HFS and "mount" tool.

2005-07-28 Thread Pavel Fedin
I've got no reply so i resend this letter. Roman, i'd like to finish the work and would like to ask you what is wrong with your version of the NLS support for MacHFS. I expected it to appear in v 2.6.12 but there's no it. I would like to proceed basing on it if you insist. Also i would like

Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I had though that too, but it does not allow recovery (i.e. lets reset > >the watchdog and try again). > > die_nmi() returns to nmi_watchdog_tick(), nmi_watchdog_tick does the > reset and continues. Patch below. > > >Hmm.. just looked at traps.c.

Re: 2.6.12 hangs on boot

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
"Alexander Y. Fomichev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > G' day > > I've been trying to switch from 2.6.12-rc3 to 2.6.12 on Dual EM64T 2.8 GHz > [ MoBo: Intel E7520, intel 82801 ] > but kernel hangs on boot right after records: > > Booting processor 2/1 rip 6000 rsp 8100023dbf58 > Initializing

Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

2005-07-28 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:16:56 -0700, George Anzinger wrote: >Keith Owens wrote: >> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:31:58 -0700, >> George Anzinger wrote: >> >>>I have been doing some work on kgdb to pull a few of it "fingers" out of >>>various places in the kernel. This is the final location where we

[RFC][PATCH] libata ATAPI alignment

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
So, one thing that's terribly ugly about SATA ATAPI is that we need to pad DMA transfers to the next 32-bit boundary, if the length is not evenly divisible by 4. Messing with the scatterlist to accomplish this is terribly ugly no matter how you slice it. One way would be to create my own scatter

Re: 2.6.12-rc6-mm1

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Dominik Karall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 13:29, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc6/2. > >6.12-rc6-mm1/ > > After looking in my dmesg output today, I saw following error with > 2.6.12-rc6-mm1, maybe it's us

Re: include-linux-blkdevh-extern-inline-static-inline.patch added to -mm tree

2005-07-28 Thread Coywolf Qi Hunt
On 7/29/05, Coywolf Qi Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The patch titled > > > > include/linux/blkdev.h: "extern inline" -> "static inline" > > > > has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is > > > > include-linux-blkd

Re: Linux 2.6.13-rc4 (snd-cs46xx)

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Cal Peake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Getting this nastiness when probing snd-cs46xx: > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000a75a8 > ... > EIP is at sub_alloc+0x42/0x170 > ... > [] idr_get_new_above_int+0x78/0x120 > [] idr_get_new+0x1f/0x50 > [] get_inode_n

Re: 2.6.13-rc3: swsusp works (TP 600X)

2005-07-28 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> Perhaps the patch from Daniel Ritz to free the yenta IRQ on suspend > (attached) will help? Alas, when I went to apply it, patch said it was already there, and sure enough 2.6.13-rc3-mm2 does have it. One approach is to find out why PCMCIA cannot remove the socket power when using cardctl eject

Re: 2.6.8 -> 2.6.11 (+ata-dev patch) -- HDD is always on

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: I've been running debian stable with 2.6.8 kernel but due to recent failure of the SATA harddrive I've decided to upgrade to 2.6.11 + libata patch (2.6.11-libata-dev1.patch.gz) and recent smartmontools After everything worked out and I decided to rest in piece but I've

Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

2005-07-28 Thread George Anzinger
Keith Owens wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:31:58 -0700, George Anzinger wrote: I have been doing some work on kgdb to pull a few of it "fingers" out of various places in the kernel. This is the final location where we have a kgdb intercept not covered by a notify. I like the idea, but the

Re: Syncing single filesystem (slow USB writing)

2005-07-28 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
On Friday 29 July 2005 07:50, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mandrake always mounted USB sticks with sync option; it was effectively > > noop except for a patch that implemented limited dsync semantic. > > > > Now, when full sync support for FATis in kernel,

2.6.8 -> 2.6.11 (+ata-dev patch) -- HDD is always on

2005-07-28 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
I've been running debian stable with 2.6.8 kernel but due to recent failure of the SATA harddrive I've decided to upgrade to 2.6.11 + libata patch (2.6.11-libata-dev1.patch.gz) and recent smartmontools After everything worked out and I decided to rest in piece but I've found that HDD LED light nom

Re: Linux 2.6.13-rc4 (snd-cs46xx)

2005-07-28 Thread Cal Peake
Hi, Getting this nastiness when probing snd-cs46xx: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000a75a8 printing eip: c01afe52 *pde = Oops: [#1] Modules linked in: snd_cs46xx gameport snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page

Re: Syncing single filesystem (slow USB writing)

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mandrake always mounted USB sticks with sync option; it was effectively noop > except for a patch that implemented limited dsync semantic. > > Now, when full sync support for FATis in kernel, moutning with sync became > real pain. Writing speed dro

Re: 2.6.13-rc3: swsusp works (TP 600X)

2005-07-28 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> So, in short, problem is that if you leave prism54 card in, even > with module removed, swsusp hangs, right? Right, in some circumstances. To narrow them down I spent many hours rebooting into combinations of runlevels and loaded modules. It is reproducible even in single-user mode. The vario

Syncing single filesystem (slow USB writing)

2005-07-28 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
Mandrake always mounted USB sticks with sync option; it was effectively noop except for a patch that implemented limited dsync semantic. Now, when full sync support for FATis in kernel, moutning with sync became real pain. Writing speed dropped from 3MB/s to 30KB/s in my case (and I am not alon

Re: [2.6 patch] net: Spelling mistakes threshoulds -> thresholds

2005-07-28 Thread David S. Miller
From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:04:10 +0200 > Just simple spelling mistake fixes. > > From: aruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Signed-Off-By: Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The include/net/tcp.h part of this patch

Re: [PATCH] kdump: Save parameter segment in protected mode (x86)

2005-07-28 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ack. This is a simple fix to a very practical problem, for using the kernel from a reserved area of memory. Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > o With introduction of kexec as boot-loader, the assumption that parameter > segment will always be loaded at lower address than kernel and wil

Re: [PATCH 0/23] reboot-fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I always thought that device_shutdown is different phase -- the one > with interrupts disabled... At the end of device_shutdown interrupts are disabled because we shutdown the interrupt controllers. I don't think we have a phase where the interrupts

Re: [PATCH 0/23] reboot-fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > >> So unless you are really ambitious I'd like to take >> device_suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) out of the reboot path for >> 2.6.13, put in -mm where people can bang on it for a bit >> and see that it is coming and delay the merge with the stable >> branch u

[ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.24

2005-07-28 Thread Con Kolivas
Interbench is a Linux Kernel Interactivity Benchmark. Direct download: http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/interbench/interbench-0.24.tar.bz2 Web: http://interbench.kolivas.org Changes: 3 new loads were added: Gaming benchmark: This simulates an unlocked frame rate cpu intensive 3d gaming environment. It

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: sync_tsc fix the race (so we can boot)

2005-07-28 Thread Eric W. Biederman
yhlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have some problem with this patch. > > YH > > On 7/28/05, yhlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Do you mean solve the timing problem for 2 way dual core or 4 way >> single core above? As best as I can determine the problem is possible any time you have more than

Re: include-linux-blkdevh-extern-inline-static-inline.patch added to -mm tree

2005-07-28 Thread Coywolf Qi Hunt
On 7/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The patch titled > > include/linux/blkdev.h: "extern inline" -> "static inline" > > has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is > > include-linux-blkdevh-extern-inline-static-inline.patch > ... > > > From: Adrian B

Not boot with kernel 2.6.13-rc4 in emachines

2005-07-28 Thread Jesus Delgado
Hi all: Im try the tests with kernel 2.6.13-rc4, compile ok, boot when reboot the system not boot, try disable vga, acpi=off, etc, both not boot any more. Use FC4, with kernel all series 2.6.12.xxx working and boot OK. Any idea? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 acpi compile problems

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Florian Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i get this warnings when compiling: > >CC drivers/acpi/utilities/utalloc.o > drivers/acpi/utilities/utalloc.c: In function `acpi_ut_create_caches': > drivers/acpi/utilities/utalloc.c:107: warning: passing arg 3 of > `acpi_ut_create_list

Re: [ALSA PATCH] 1.0.9b+

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 28 Jul 2005 18:25, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Linus, please do an update from: > > > > > >rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa.git > > > > > > ... > > > 65

[PATCH] remove i386 dynamic ticks ifdefs

2005-07-28 Thread Con Kolivas
Hi Tony I assume you're maintaining the dyn tick patches for i386 posted on the muru website as your email is listed there. I thought you might be interested in this patch for dyn-ticks which removes most of the #ifdefs out of common code paths as per linux kernel style and moves more code into

Time Flies (Twice as Fast)

2005-07-28 Thread Kurt Wall
Hola, I have an eMachines T6212 Opteron system on which the system clock seems to run at ~twice the speed of the wall clock. The main board is an ASUS K8 of some description with at ATI SB400 southbridge and an ATI RS480 northbridge. Kernel version is 2.6.12.3. If I disable ACPI, the clock slows

Re: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Chen, Kenneth W wrote: Nick Piggin wrote on Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:46 PM I'd like to try making them less aggressive first if possible. Well, that's exactly what I'm trying to do: make them not aggressive at all by not performing any load balance :-) The workload gets maximum benefit wi

RE: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Nick Piggin wrote on Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:46 PM > I'd like to try making them less aggressive first if possible. Well, that's exactly what I'm trying to do: make them not aggressive at all by not performing any load balance :-) The workload gets maximum benefit with zero aggressiveness. - T

FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

2005-07-28 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
Hi John Couple of months ago Joe Korty sent the attached proposal for a new interface and I was wondering if you could comment on it. The main user of this new inteface is to allow system calls to get time specified in an absolute form (as most of POSIX states) and thus avoid extra time conversi

Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

2005-07-28 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:31:58 -0700, George Anzinger wrote: >I have been doing some work on kgdb to pull a few of it "fingers" out of >various places in the kernel. This is the final location where we have >a kgdb intercept not covered by a notify. I like the idea, but the hook should be in di

Re: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Chen, Kenneth W wrote: Nick Piggin wrote on Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:25 PM Well pipes are just an example. It could be any type of communication. What's more, even the synchronous wakeup uses the wake balancing path (although that could be modified to only do wake balancing for synch wakeups,

RE: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Nick Piggin wrote on Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:25 PM > Well pipes are just an example. It could be any type of communication. > What's more, even the synchronous wakeup uses the wake balancing path > (although that could be modified to only do wake balancing for synch > wakeups, I'd have to be conv

Re: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Chen, Kenneth W wrote: Nick Piggin wrote on Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:35 PM Wake balancing provides an opportunity to provide some input bias into the load balancer. For example, if you started 100 pairs of tasks which communicate through a pipe. On a 2 CPU system without wake balancing, prob

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Re: Re: Problem while inserting pciehp (PCI Express Hot-plug) driver

2005-07-28 Thread Rajesh Shah
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:45:49PM +0900, Rajat Jain wrote: > > Okay. I'm sorry but I'm not very clear with this. I'm just putting > down here my understanding. So basically we have two mutually > EXCLUSIVE hotplug drivers I can use for PCI Express: > A hotplug slot can be controlled only by a si

Re: io scheduler silly question perhaps..

2005-07-28 Thread Nate Diller
Try benchmarking Anticipatory or Deadline against Noop, preferably with your actual workload. Noop is probably what you want, since there is not much use in avoiding large "seeks". It could be though that request merging, which the non-noop schedulers all perform, willl cause Noop to lose. I hav

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 question

2005-07-28 Thread AstralStorm
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:42:38 +0200 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm surprised that you are that much concerned about compile errors when > using a kernel that might regularly exchange the contents of /dev/hda > and /dev/null . > These bugs don't happen too often in reality. Just pl

Re: [PATCH] disk quotas fail when /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Bellon
Mark Bellon wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Mark Bellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If /etc/mtab is a regular file all of the mount options (of a file system) are written to /etc/mtab by the mount command. The quota tools look there for the quota strings for their operation. If, however, /etc

Re: Linux 2.4.32-pre2

2005-07-28 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005, Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/uhci.c b/drivers/usb/host/uhci.c > --- a/drivers/usb/host/uhci.c > +++ b/drivers/usb/host/uhci.c > @@ -2924,7 +2924,7 @@ static int alloc_uhci(struct pci_dev *de > } > > /*

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2/mm1 breaks DRI

2005-07-28 Thread Dave Airlie
> > > > > >Hmm no idea what could have broken it, I'm at OLS and don't have any > > >DRI capable machine here yet.. so it'll be a while before I get to > > >take a look at it .. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if some of the > > >new mapping code might have some issues.. > > > > Still happens with

Re: Linux 2.4.32-pre2

2005-07-28 Thread Grant Coady
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:22:25 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Breaks Toshiba laptop: hard lockup --> what is on screen is same as >> working dmesg up to point: "host/uhci.c: detected 2 port" >> >> Same .config as for 2.4.31-hf3 or 2.4.32-pre1 >> http://scatter.mine.nu/test

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2/mm1 breaks DRI

2005-07-28 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 17:58, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > >> >> > >> >> I also use 2.6.13-rc3-mm1.  Will try with a previous version an report > >> >> to lkml if > >> >> it works. > >> >> > >> > > >> > I just tried 13-rc2-mm1 and dri is working again. Its reported to also > >> > work > >> > with 13-

io scheduler silly question perhaps..

2005-07-28 Thread Dave Airlie
I have an embedded system which has two read-only flash devices (one a PIO ATA flash disk, and one MDMA capable flash) As I'm doing no writing in this system and most of my reads are sequential (streaming movies or images) would my choice of io scheduler be very important? Regards, Dave. -- Da

Re: [PATCH] disk quotas fail when /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Bellon
Andrew Morton wrote: Mark Bellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If /etc/mtab is a regular file all of the mount options (of a file system) are written to /etc/mtab by the mount command. The quota tools look there for the quota strings for their operation. If, however, /etc/mtab is a symlink to

Re: [PATCH] disk quotas fail when /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Mark Bellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If /etc/mtab is a regular file all of the mount options (of a file > system) are written to /etc/mtab by the mount command. The quota tools > look there for the quota strings for their operation. If, however, > /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-07-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > Well if you want to go this way I can just drop the TIF_FREEZE stuff and > use the patches-relative-to-mainline. I would appreciate that.\ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROT

Re: [PATCH] disk quotas fail when /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Bellon
If /etc/mtab is a regular file all of the mount options (of a file system) are written to /etc/mtab by the mount command. The quota tools look there for the quota strings for their operation. If, however, /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts (a "good thing" in some environments) the tools do

Re: [PATCH] disk quotas fail when /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Bellon
Nathan Scott wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:03:02PM -0700, Mark Bellon wrote: The attached patchs modify the EXT[2|3] and [X|J]FS codes to add the The XFS component is incorrect, we're already doing this elsewhere (over in fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_bhv.c), so please drop this last part f

Re: [PATCH] disk quotas fail when /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts

2005-07-28 Thread Nathan Scott
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:03:02PM -0700, Mark Bellon wrote: > The attached patchs modify the EXT[2|3] and [X|J]FS codes to add the The XFS component is incorrect, we're already doing this elsewhere (over in fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_bhv.c), so please drop this last part from your patch... > diff -Nau

Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
George Anzinger wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > George Anzinger wrote: > > > >>This patch adds a notify to the nmi watchdog to notify that > >>the system is about to be taken down by the watchdog. If the > >>notify is handled with a NOTIFY_STOP return, the system is > >>give

[PATCH] disk quotas fail when /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Bellon
If /etc/mtab is a regular file all of the mount options (of a file system) are written to /etc/mtab by the mount command. The quota tools look there for the quota strings for their operation. If, however, /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts (a "good thing" in some environments) the tools do

Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

2005-07-28 Thread George Anzinger
Andrew Morton wrote: George Anzinger wrote: This patch adds a notify to the nmi watchdog to notify that the system is about to be taken down by the watchdog. If the notify is handled with a NOTIFY_STOP return, the system is given a new lease on life. It look

Re: v850, which gcc and binutils version?

2005-07-28 Thread Greg Ungerer
Hi Jan, Jan Dittmer wrote: Greg Ungerer wrote: If you care to try applying the uClinux patches, they should be available from (fill in "$ver" with "2.6.12-uc0" and "$maj_ver" with "2.6"): http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/uClinux-$maj_ver.x/linux-$ver.patch.gz Greg, do you have any s

RE: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Nick Piggin wrote on Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:35 PM > Wake balancing provides an opportunity to provide some input bias > into the load balancer. > > For example, if you started 100 pairs of tasks which communicate > through a pipe. On a 2 CPU system without wake balancing, probably > half of the

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Michael Thonke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > here again I have two problems. With 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 I have problems > using my SATA drives on Intel ICH6. > The kernel can't route there IRQs or can't discover them. the option > irqpoll got them to work now. > The problem is new because 2.6.13-rc

Re: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Chen, Kenneth W wrote: What sort of workload needs SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE? SD_WAKE_AFFINE are not useful in conjunction with interrupt binding. In fact, it creates more harm than usefulness, causing detrimental process migration and destroy process cache affinity etc. Also SD_WAKE_BA

Linux 2.6.13-rc4

2005-07-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
Hey everybody, as many of you are aware, we were talking (not enough) about the release process at LKS this year. This ain't it. This is just the regular old release "process", with some LKS backlog put in for good measure. But the good news is, that I'll try the new release process after

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could you please tell me how I can figure out the order in which the > individual > patches in -mm have been applied? It's all in the series file: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm3/patch-se

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Dont fix it up. Remove the ealier patch. > > > > Oops. Do you happen to have patch relative to -mm or something? I'd > > prefer not to mess it up second time... > > Ok. I will make a patch against m

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: colormap fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: Jon Smirl wrote: On 7/28/05, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: There are a couple of ways to fix this. 1) Add a check to limit use of the sysfs attributes

Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
George Anzinger wrote: > > This patch adds a notify to the nmi watchdog to notify that > the system is about to be taken down by the watchdog. If the > notify is handled with a NOTIFY_STOP return, the system is > given a new lease on life. It looks sensible, but as there

Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

2005-07-28 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
What sort of workload needs SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE? SD_WAKE_AFFINE are not useful in conjunction with interrupt binding. In fact, it creates more harm than usefulness, causing detrimental process migration and destroy process cache affinity etc. Also SD_WAKE_BALANCE is giving us perfor

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-07-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Dont fix it up. Remove the ealier patch. > > Oops. Do you happen to have patch relative to -mm or something? I'd > prefer not to mess it up second time... Ok. I will make a patch against mm tomorrow. Patches are typically against Linus latest and if

Re: Where's the list of needed hardware for donating?

2005-07-28 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Does a list exist describing the hardware needed or wished for to > extend coverage for kernel development? I saw such a list at openbsd > and thought it was a good idea. Heh, second zaurus for testing would certainly help ;-).

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 (ckrm)

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Jackson
Thanks for your well worded response, Shailabh. Others will have to make further comments and decisions here. You have understood what I had to say, and responded well. I have nothing to add at this point that would help further. -- I won't rest till it's the best ...

unmounting a filesystem mounted by /init (initramfs)

2005-07-28 Thread Rafael Espíndola
I am trying to build a system that uses a unionfs as root. The init script is based on the one used by gentoo and uses initramfs. The problem is how to remount the unionfs constituents read only during halt. cat /proc/mounts displays /dev/hda1 (ext2) mounted rw in /memory. The problem is that /mem

Re: VIA PCI routing problem

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Brown, Len wrote: Fix two systems, break another... Nick, can you open a bugzilla on this and put your lspci -vv and dmesg into it. Apparently the quirk is good for some machines and not as good for others and we need to get smarter about when to apply it. OK, done. I put it under ACPI tho

Re: [ALSA PATCH] 1.0.9b+

2005-07-28 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 28 Jul 2005 18:25, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Linus, please do an update from: > > > >rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa.git > > > > ... > > 65 files changed, 5059 insertions(+), 1122 deletions(-) > > The git-als

Re: [PATCH] random : prefetch the whole pool, not 1/4 of it

2005-07-28 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:26:11AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Hi Matt > > Could you check this patch and apply it ? > > Thank you > > Eric > > [RANDOM] : prefetch the whole pool, not 1/4 of it, >(pool contains u32 words, not bytes) You probably want r->poolinfo->poolwords as word

Re: VIA PCI routing problem

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Bjorn Helgaas wrote: Can you try this: [...] If that doesn't help, remove it and see if this does: [...] Can you also include "lspci" output? Neither worked. I'll open a bugzilla and include lspci and dmesg there. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online frie

[PATCH] random : prefetch the whole pool, not 1/4 of it

2005-07-28 Thread Eric Dumazet
Hi Matt Could you check this patch and apply it ? Thank you Eric [RANDOM] : prefetch the whole pool, not 1/4 of it, (pool contains u32 words, not bytes) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-rc3/drivers/char/random.c 2005-07-13 06:46:46.0 +

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: colormap fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Jon Smirl wrote: On 7/28/05, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: I've verified now that all ATI R300+ chips have 10bit cmaps. These are pretty common so I'd be in favor of making this into a binary attribute where I can get/set the whole table at

Re: Linux 2.4.32-pre2

2005-07-28 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:02:30PM +1000, Grant Coady wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:05:12 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Here goes another -pre, after a long period. > > Breaks Toshiba laptop: hard lockup --> what is on screen is same as > working dmesg up to point: "h

Re: 2.6.12: no sound on SPDIF with emu10k1

2005-07-28 Thread Thomas Zehetbauer
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 03:13 -0700, Avuton Olrich wrote: > After upgrading to 1.0.9, I thought my emu10k1 board was broken until > I toggled 'IEC958 Optical Raw' to Off. Many thanks, that did the trick! I have now tried to only load the emu10k1 driver modules and found that 2.6.12's ALSA is VERY di

quick question; did usb hid change from .12 to .13-rc3 on x86_64?

2005-07-28 Thread David Ford
I've a quick question before I start digging through patches between .12 and .13-rc3, /dev/input/mice (usb mice) stopped yielding data. dmesg indicates removal/re-insertion of the device but no driver registers and nothing comes from /dev/input/mice. I have rc-3 on other machines and the mous

[PATCH] fix gconfig crash

2005-07-28 Thread Sam Ravnborg
From: Joachim Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I ran glade-2 on the glade file, fixed two missing stock icons and cleaned up the C code that inserts the single/split/full modes. The rest of the patch is minor cleanups only. I refrained from using all the included xpm icons in images.c (like qconf.cc do

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: colormap fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Jon Smirl wrote: Can you review this fix for the issues below? I fixed things to automatically adjust the number of entries to whatever fits in PAGE_SIZE. diff --git a/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c b/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c --- a/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c @@ -244,15 +244,15

[patch 2.6.13-rc3] sis190 driver

2005-07-28 Thread Francois Romieu
Single file patch: http://www.zoreil.com/~romieu/sis190/20050728-2.6.13-rc3-sis190-test.patch Patch-kit: http://www.zoreil.com/~romieu/sis190/20050728-2.6.13-rc3/patches Tarball: http://www.zoreil.com/~romieu/sis190/20050728-2.6.13-rc3.tar.bz2 Changes from previous version (20050722) o Add

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-07-28 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > Introduce a todo notifier in the task_struct so that a task can be told > > > > to do > > > > certain things. Abuse the suspend hooks try_to_freeze, freezing and > > > > refrigerator > > > > to establish checkpoints where the todo list is processed. This will > > > > break software

[-mm patch] drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap.c: EXPORT_SYMTAB does nothing

2005-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
There's no need to define something if it doesn't has any effect. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 10 Jul 2005 --- linux-2.6.13-rc2-mm1-full/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap.c.old 2005-07-10 17:31:01.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc2-mm

[2.6 patch] net: Spelling mistakes threshoulds -> thresholds

2005-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
Just simple spelling mistake fixes. From: aruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-Off-By: Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 12 Jul 2005 This patch was sent by Baruch Even on: - 05 Apr 2005 --- 2.6.11.orig/include

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