Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip

2005-08-19 Thread Emmanuel Fleury
Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 11:55 +0200, Emmanuel Fleury wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>I did try to look for Alsa drivers for the new X-Fi chip from Creatives >>(http://www.tomshardware.com/consumer/20050818/), but I didn't find any. >> >>I there something running around this chip ? Or no

[PATCH] befs, freevxfs: fix breakage introduced by symlink fixes

2005-08-19 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
Somehow only prototypes and return values were converted for befs_follow_link() and vxfs_immed_follow_link(). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/befs/linuxvfs.c |2 +- fs/freevxfs/vxfs_immed.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux

Re: [OT]Linus trademarks Linux?!!

2005-08-19 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 22:13 -0700, alan wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Kernel Hacker wrote: > > > Friend, > > What fact is behind this article > > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25529. > > The article is also wrong. > > Try this one instead... > > http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/08/19/1842249

Re: [PATCH] Permissions don't stick on ConfigFS attributes

2005-08-19 Thread Joel Becker
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 08:01:17PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > The recent changes to sysfs should be ported to configfs to do this. Yeah, I've been meaning to do something, and resusing code is always a good plan. Hopefully I can get to this soon. Joel -- "I don't know anything about mus

Re: [PATCH] Permissions don't stick on ConfigFS attributes

2005-08-19 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Saturday 20 August 2005 11:22, Jon Smirl wrote: > A patch for making sysfs attributes persistent has recently made it > into Linus' tree. > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/7927/match=sysfs+permissions Interesting, it handles more than just the file mode. But does anybody

Re: [OT]Linus trademarks Linux?!!

2005-08-19 Thread alan
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Kernel Hacker wrote: > Friend, > What fact is behind this article > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25529. The article is also wrong. Try this one instead... http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/08/19/1842249.shtml?tid=2&tid=138 -- Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween and

Re: [2.6 patch] adapt scripts/ver_linux to new util-linux version strings

2005-08-19 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 05:58:53AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > --- linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/scripts/ver_linux.old > +++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/scripts/ver_linux > -fdformat --version | awk -F\- '{print "util-linux", $NF}' > +fdformat --version | awk '{print "util-linux"

Re: [PATCH] Permissions don't stick on ConfigFS attributes

2005-08-19 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Saturday 20 August 2005 13:33, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 01:23:29PM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Saturday 20 August 2005 13:01, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 10:50:51AM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > > So: Integrate with sysfs. > > > > > > No, don't. D

Re: Support for Silicon Image 3132 SATA II Controller

2005-08-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Michael Thonke wrote: Hello, I've got a new Silicon Image 3132 SATA II host-controller, this one is designed along the SATA (II) specification - (Hot-Plug,NCQ,3GB/s transfer). This controller is linked to the pci-express bus. I guess it operate like the 3124 controller with some addition :-) On

Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip

2005-08-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 18:52 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > If this is the long awaited emu10k3, then there's a good chance we can > support it. But we'll need at the very least a hardware sample from > Creative. OK, it's the ca20k1 (!). So it's likely to be as different from the emu10k1 and emu10k1

Re: [patch] net/tulip: LAN driver for ULI M5261/M5263

2005-08-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jeff: > The attached file is the incremental patch to the original uli526x.c I send > you first time, > I modify the source according to your advice, thanks. > > Signed-off-by: Peer Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (See attached file: patch_uli526x_inc) Patch applied, thanks

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-19 Thread Nick Piggin
Robert Hancock wrote: I fail to see how sched_yield is going to be very helpful in this situation. Since that call can sleep from a range of time ranging from zero to a long time, it's going to give unpredictable results. Well, not sleep technically, but yield the CPU for some undefined a

[2.6 patch] simplify SOFTWARE_SUSPEND dependencies

2005-08-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch expresses the same dependencies in a more simple way. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/kernel/power/Kconfig.old 2005-08-20 06:02:49.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/kernel/power/Kconfig 2005-08-20 06:03:13.0 +020

Re: [patch] remove call to check_region in drivers/pnp/resource.c

2005-08-19 Thread Al Viro
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:46:59PM -0400, Ameer Armaly wrote: > This patch removes a call to check_region in drivers/pnp/resource.c, and > replaces it with request_region. ... and that replacement is correct, because...? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

[2.6 patch] adapt scripts/ver_linux to new util-linux version strings

2005-08-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/scripts/ver_linux.old 2005-08-20 05:54:50.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/scripts/ver_linux 2005-08-20 05:55:36.0 +0200 @@ -25,9 +25,11 @@ '/BFD/{print "binutils ",$NF} \ /^GNU/{

[patch] remove call to check_region in drivers/pnp/resource.c

2005-08-19 Thread Ameer Armaly
This patch removes a call to check_region in drivers/pnp/resource.c, and replaces it with request_region. signed-off-by: Ameer Armaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/pnp/resource.c 2005-08-05 03:04:37.0 -0400 +++ drivers/pnp/resource.new2005-08-18 20:46:34.0 -0400 @@ -252

[RFC: 2.6 patch] the big Documentation/Changes change

2005-08-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 08:38:17PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 03:17:40 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > I edited Documentation/Changes: > > - remove obsolete information > > - point to feature-list-2.6.txt instead of providing similar information > > - removed the URLs of the s

2.6.12-ck6

2005-08-19 Thread Con Kolivas
These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity. It is configurable to any workload but the default ck* patch is aimed at the desktop and ck*-server is available with more emphasis on serverspace. Apply to 2.6.12 (This includes all patches in 2.6.12.5): http://ck.ko

Re: [PATCH] Permissions don't stick on ConfigFS attributes

2005-08-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 01:23:29PM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Saturday 20 August 2005 13:01, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 10:50:51AM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > So: Integrate with sysfs. > > > > No, don't. Do you think that Joel would not have already worked with > >

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-19 Thread Robert Hancock
Howard Chu wrote: You assume that spinlocks are the only reason a developer may want to yield the processor. This assumption is unfounded. Case in point - the primary backend in OpenLDAP uses a transactional database with page-level locking of its data structures to provide high levels of conc

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] docs: fix misinformation about overcommit_memory

2005-08-19 Thread Andrew Morton
Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +Controls overcommit of system memory: It should explain what "overcommit" is. > + > +0 - Heuristic overcommit handling. Obvious overcommits of > +address space are refused. Used for a typical system. It > +ensures a

[PATCH] race condition with drivers/char/vt.c (bug in vt_ioctl.c)

2005-08-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
While debugging Ingo's RT patch, I came accross this race condition. The mainline seems to be susceptible to this bug, although it may be 1 in a 1,000,000 to happen. But those are the nastiest races. With debugging information in the RT patch, I was able to reproduce this race several times. Enoug

Re: [PATCH] Permissions don't stick on ConfigFS attributes

2005-08-19 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Saturday 20 August 2005 13:01, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 10:50:51AM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > So: Integrate with sysfs. > > No, don't. Do you think that Joel would not have already worked with > the sysfs people prior to submitting this? No, he did, and we all > agreed t

[patch 2.6.13-rc6] docs: fix misinformation about overcommit_memory

2005-08-19 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Someone complained about the docs for vm_overcommit_memory being wrong. This patch copies the text from the vm documentation into procfs. Please apply. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 29 +++-- 1 files changed, 19 inse

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] i386: semaphore ownership tracking

2005-08-19 Thread Andrew Morton
Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This patch enables tracking semaphore ownership. Why? I can't think of any bug in recent years which needed this.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo in

Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 10:31 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 06:13, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > I agree that tweaking the scheduler is probably pointless, as long as X > > is burning gazillions of CPU cycles redrawing things that don't need to > > be redrawn. > > > > Then again even th

Re: [PATCH] Permissions don't stick on ConfigFS attributes

2005-08-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 10:50:51AM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Hi Joel, > > Permissions set on ConfigFS attributes (aka files) do not stick. The recent changes to sysfs should be ported to configfs to do this. > So: Integrate with sysfs. No, don't. Do you think that Joel would not have alr

[patch 2.6.13-rc6] i386: semaphore ownership tracking

2005-08-19 Thread Chuck Ebbert
This patch enables tracking semaphore ownership. It saves a pointer to the thread_info struct of the last process that got a semaphore. I couldn't think of a better way to print out the info, so I hacked up the code that dumps a process's kernel stack so it prints out the PID of the owning proc

Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5)

2005-08-19 Thread john stultz
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 02:27 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, john stultz wrote: > > Maybe to focus this productively, I'll try to step back and outline the > > goals at a high level and you can address those. > > > > My Assumptions: > > 1. adjtimex() sets/gets NTP state values >

Re: [PATCH] fix cramfs making duplicate entries in inode cache

2005-08-19 Thread Dave Johnson
Dave Johnson writes: > Phillip Lougher writes: > > Doesn't iget_locked() assume inode numbers are unique? > > > > In Cramfs inode numbers are set to 1 for non-data inodes (fifos, > > sockets, devices, empty directories), i.e > > > > %stat device namedpipe > >File: `device' > >Size: 0

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1

2005-08-19 Thread Andrew Morton
Reuben Farrelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > >> 4. PAM is complaining about "PAM audit_open() failed: Protocol not suppor > >> ted" and I can't log in as any user including root. I would have picked > >> this > >> was a userspace problem, but it doesn't break with -rc5-mm1, yet > >> rep

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1

2005-08-19 Thread Andrew Morton
Reuben Farrelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Aug 20 12:26:10 tornado kernel: Device not ready. > >> > >> 2. That message on the third line of the trace above: "kernel: Device > >> not > >> ready." is being logged every few mins or so, I believe it is my SCSI > >> CDROM > >> that is caus

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1

2005-08-19 Thread Reuben Farrelly
Hi again, On 20/08/2005 5:34 a.m., Andrew Morton wrote: Reuben Farrelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A few new problems cropped up with this kernel.. 1. NFS seems to be unstable, oopsing when shutting down: --- devel/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c~ingo-nfs-stuff-fix 2005-08-19 10:29:15.0 -0700

Re: [PATCH] Permissions don't stick on ConfigFS attributes

2005-08-19 Thread Jon Smirl
On 8/19/05, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Joel, > > Permissions set on ConfigFS attributes (aka files) do not stick. The reason > is that configfs attribute inodes are not pinned and simply disappear after > each file operation. This is good because it saves memory, but it is n

Re: [PATCH for 2.6.13] iSeries build with newer assemblers and compilers

2005-08-19 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Pavel, On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:00:56 +0200 Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > .xSize = sizeof(struct HvReleaseData), > > .xVpdAreasPtrOffset = offsetof(struct naca_struct, xItVpdAreas), > > .xSlicNacaAddr = &naca, /* 64-bit Naca address */ > > - .xMsNucDataOffset

Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

2005-08-19 Thread Al Viro
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 06:08:12PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Al Viro wrote: > > > > That looks OK except for > > * ncpfs fix is actually missing here > > Well, the thing is, with the change to page_follow_link() and > page_put_link(), ncpfs should now work fin

Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

2005-08-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Al Viro wrote: > > That looks OK except for > * ncpfs fix is actually missing here Well, the thing is, with the change to page_follow_link() and page_put_link(), ncpfs should now work fine - it doesn't need any fixing any more. It was makign an assumption that used

[PATCH] fix warning of TANBAC_TB0219 in drivers/char/Kconfig

2005-08-19 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:03:26 +0200 Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/19/05, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc6/2.6.13-rc6-mm1/ > > > > menuconfig complains a little : > > $ make menuconfig > scri

[PATCH] Permissions don't stick on ConfigFS attributes

2005-08-19 Thread Daniel Phillips
Hi Joel, Permissions set on ConfigFS attributes (aka files) do not stick. The reason is that configfs attribute inodes are not pinned and simply disappear after each file operation. This is good because it saves memory, but it is not good to throw the permissions away - you then don't have any

Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: [PATCH 1/3] dlm: use configfs

2005-08-19 Thread Joel Becker
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:07:47PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:22:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Fair enough. This really means that the configfs patch should be split out > > of the ocfs2 megapatch... > > Easy to do, it's a separate commit in the ocfs2.git

Re: lost ticks and Hangcheck

2005-08-19 Thread john stultz
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 17:22 -0700, Nathan Becker wrote: > > I use the no_timer_check kernel parm and that keeps the clock from > > running at double speed. I still see some other annoying boot-time > > As I mentioned, no_timer_check doesn't fix it for me. In fact it makes > the problem significa

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6-rt9] PI aware dynamic priority adjustment

2005-08-19 Thread Thomas Gleixner
George, On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 17:19 -0700, George Anzinger wrote: > > 2. Drift of cyclic timers (armed by set_timer()): > > > > Due to rounding errors and the drift adjustment code, the fixed > > increment which is precalculated when the timer is set up and added on > > rearm, I see creeping devi

Re: Atheros and rt2x00 driver

2005-08-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 19:11 +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > Ralink Tech (www.ralink.com.tw) took a design decision to incorporate > the firmware into an EEPROM on-board, allowing their driver to be > GPL'd Binary only firmware and firmware loading is perfectly compatible with the GPL, as long as

Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-19 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 06:13, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 14:36 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:41 pm, Peter Williams wrote: > > > Maybe we could use interbench to find a nice value for X that doesn't > > > destroy Audio and Video? The results that I just posted for

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1: why is PHYLIB a user-visible option?

2005-08-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: Is there any reason why PHYLIB is a user-visible option? As far as I understand it, PHYLIB and the MII PHY device drivers are an internal library drivers should start to use roughly similar to MII. But in this case, the options shouldn't be user-visible. This code is stil

Re: lost ticks and Hangcheck

2005-08-19 Thread Nathan Becker
I use the no_timer_check kernel parm and that keeps the clock from running at double speed. I still see some other annoying boot-time As I mentioned, no_timer_check doesn't fix it for me. In fact it makes the problem significantly worse. I tried it again just to be sure. Also I tried noapic

2.6.13-rc6-mm1: why is PHYLIB a user-visible option?

2005-08-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
Is there any reason why PHYLIB is a user-visible option? As far as I understand it, PHYLIB and the MII PHY device drivers are an internal library drivers should start to use roughly similar to MII. But in this case, the options shouldn't be user-visible. cu Adrian -- "Is there not pro

Re: Linux under 8MB

2005-08-19 Thread Eric Piel
19.08.2005 00:11, Imanpreet Arora wrote/a écrit: Hi all, For the last couple of days, I have been trying to set up linux kernel under 8MB. So far I have set up a linux 2.4.31, which just works under 8MB. However, I would be grateful if someone could help with the following queries

Re: [PATCH 0/5] improve i2c probing

2005-08-19 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:51:06PM -0400, Nathan Lutchansky wrote: > > This patch series makes a couple of improvements to the i2c device > > probing process. > > > > These all generally look quite good, thanks. But it looks like you and > Jean went back an

Re: [PATCH] Add pci_walk_bus function to PCI core (nonrecursive)

2005-08-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Wow. A list of iterators to be fixed up ... I get the idea, but it does > add a fair amount of complexity. Not that much, been there done that, it's actually quite simple :) > Would it be easier (and simpler to maintain/debug) to "get" all items > on the list first, before iterating on them,

Re: VIA USB Controller - (Wrong ID) ??

2005-08-19 Thread Eric Piel
Hello, 19.08.2005 20:53, Jesper Juhl wrote/a écrit: I've just noticed that my USB controller(s) show up as having "Wrong ID" and now I'm wondering what exactely that means and what I can do about it (kernel 2.6.13-rc6-mm1 in case it matters). Is it a wrong PCI ID? If so, how's the controller r

Re: pmac_nvram problems

2005-08-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 12:55 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 07:40 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Just a question: Why do you want to have the nvram low level code as a > > module ? It's sort-of an intergral part of the arch code ... > > Because I Can (TM). Actually

Re: SATA status report updated

2005-08-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Simon Oosthoek wrote: I know Mandriva is on the ball and a bug with some information and an updated patch is on the kernel bugme... http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17654 http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4192 I'd say it's important to get some proper fix in a distribution soon (so

Re: sleep under spinlock, sequencer.c, 2.6.12.5

2005-08-19 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/19/05, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Gwe, 2005-08-19 at 10:13 +0200, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > > The following "sleep under spinlock" is still present as of linux > > 2.6.12.5 in sound/oss/sequencer.c in midi_outc: > > > > > > n = 3 * HZ; /* Timeout */ > > > >

Re: [git patches] ide update

2005-08-19 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 8/20/05, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/19/05, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Gwe, 2005-08-19 at 11:02 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/27/20 > > > > > > AFAIK CS5535 driver was never ported to 2.6.x. Somebody needs to >

Re: [git patches] ide update

2005-08-19 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 8/19/05, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Gwe, 2005-08-19 at 11:02 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/27/20 > > > > AFAIK CS5535 driver was never ported to 2.6.x. Somebody needs to > > port it to 2.6.x kernel, cleanup to match kernel coding standards and te

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc6-rt9] PI aware dynamic priority adjustment

2005-08-19 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Hi all, On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 08:01 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > i have released the 2.6.13-rc6-rt9 tree, which can be downloaded from > the usual place: I reworked the code for dynamically setting the priority of the hrtimer softirq to be aware of PI. The current function "mutex_chprio()" in -

[2.6 patch] fs/adfs/adfs.h: "extern inline" doesn't make sense

2005-08-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
[ this time with a better subject ] "extern inline" doesn't make sense. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/fs/adfs/adfs.h.old2005-08-19 23:21:33.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/fs/adfs/adfs.h2005-08-19 23:22:07.0 +020

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c: fix the compilation

2005-08-19 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/19/05, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:33:31AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >... > > Changes since 2.6.13-rc5-mm1: > >... > > +drivers-cdrom-fix-up-schedule_timeout-usage.patch > >... > > I sell copies of gcc at reasonable prices... > > <-- snip --> >

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt6

2005-08-19 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 07:20:20PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 16:12 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > Hmmm Guess it is time for me to stop procrastinating on better > > understanding git... > > Why? I still don't. Just go to http://www.kernel.org/ and download

[-mm patch] fs/reiser4/plugin/file/funcs.h: "extern inline" doesn't make sense

2005-08-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
"extern inline" doesn't make sense. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/fs/reiser4/plugin/file/funcs.h.old 2005-08-19 23:23:00.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/fs/reiser4/plugin/file/funcs.h2005-08-19 23:23:08.0 +0200 @@

[2.6 patch] fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h: "extern inline" doesn't make sense

2005-08-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
"extern inline" doesn't make sense. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h.old2005-08-19 23:23:40.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h2005-08-19 23:23:47.0 +0200 @@ -452,7 +

Re: [git patches] ide update

2005-08-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-08-19 at 11:02 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/27/20 > > AFAIK CS5535 driver was never ported to 2.6.x. Somebody needs to > port it to 2.6.x kernel, cleanup to match kernel coding standards and test. That was done some time ago and posted to various p

[2.6 patch] "extern inline" doesn't make sense

2005-08-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
"extern inline" doesn't make sense. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/fs/adfs/adfs.h.old2005-08-19 23:21:33.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/fs/adfs/adfs.h2005-08-19 23:22:07.0 +0200 @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ extern struct in

Re: dying disk results in unusable system

2005-08-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-08-18 at 17:31 -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > thoughts? i'm going to hang onto this bad disk so i can try out patches... > if folks point me in the right direction(s) i could even work on fixes. One problem at least is that unlike SCSI the IDE layer never gives up on a device. That comb

Re: sleep under spinlock, sequencer.c, 2.6.12.5

2005-08-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-08-19 at 10:13 +0200, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > The following "sleep under spinlock" is still present as of linux > 2.6.12.5 in sound/oss/sequencer.c in midi_outc: > > > n = 3 * HZ; /* Timeout */ > > spin_lock_irqsave(&lock,flags); > while (n && !m

[RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the second arg of do_timer_interrupt()

2005-08-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
The second arg of do_timer_interrupt() is not used in the functions, and all callers pass NULL. Is there any reason not to remove it? Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/kernel/time.c |5 ++--- arch/sh/kernel/time.c |4 ++-- arch/sh64/kernel/time.c |4 +

[-mm patch] drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c: fix the compilation

2005-08-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:33:31AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.13-rc5-mm1: >... > +drivers-cdrom-fix-up-schedule_timeout-usage.patch >... I sell copies of gcc at reasonable prices... <-- snip --> ... CC drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.o ... drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c:830: warnin

Re: [Documentation] Use doxygen or another tool to generate a documentation ?

2005-08-19 Thread Stephane Wirtel
Le Saturday 20 August 2005 a 00:08, Pekka Enberg ecrivait: > On 8/20/05, Stephane Wirtel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know if there is a project based on Doxygen to make > > (or generate) a documentation of the kernel. > > > > Do you think that will be interesting to make a such documen

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt6

2005-08-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 16:12 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > Hmmm Guess it is time for me to stop procrastinating on better > understanding git... Why? I still don't. Just go to http://www.kernel.org/ and download the latest git release (as of now it's -git11). Of course you need to know

Re: [PATCH] fix cramfs making duplicate entries in inode cache

2005-08-19 Thread Dave Johnson
Phillip Lougher writes: > Doesn't iget_locked() assume inode numbers are unique? > > In Cramfs inode numbers are set to 1 for non-data inodes (fifos, > sockets, devices, empty directories), i.e > > %stat device namedpipe >File: `device' >Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block:

Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

2005-08-19 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 12:15:42AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > That looks OK except for > * jffs2 is b0rken (see patch in another mail) > * afs, autofs4, befs, devfs, freevxfs, jffs2, jfs, ncpfs, procfs, > smbfs, sysvfs, ufs, xfs - prototype change for ->follow_link() > * befs, smb

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt6

2005-08-19 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 07:02:42PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 15:47 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > Good catch -- but a few changes needed to be perfectly safe: > > > > static inline void *netpoll_poll_lock(struct net_device *dev) > > { > > > >

Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

2005-08-19 Thread Al Viro
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 03:04:52PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > > > Yes, sure. I have applied your patch to our 2.6.11.4 tree (with the one > > liner change I emailed you just now) and have kicked off a compile. > > Actually, hold on. T

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt9

2005-08-19 Thread Chuck Harding
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Chuck Harding wrote: Sure did. At least on a normal reboot. I will try SysRq+B and see what happens. Thanks. And no oops with SysRq+B either. Thanks. -- Charles D. (Chuck) Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Voice: 925-423-8879 Senior Computer Associate ICCD

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-19 Thread Howard Chu
Nikita Danilov wrote: Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > concurrency. It is the nature of such a system to encounter > deadlocks over the normal course of operations. When a deadlock is > detected, some thread must be chosen (by one of a variety of > algorithms) to abort its transaction, i

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt6

2005-08-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 15:47 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Good catch -- but a few changes needed to be perfectly safe: > > static inline void *netpoll_poll_lock(struct net_device *dev) > { > > struct netpoll_info *npi; > > rcu_read_lock(); >

Re: SATA status report updated

2005-08-19 Thread Simon Oosthoek
Jeff Garzik wrote: Yes, that's why I have resisted the "just add the PCI ID" patches that have cropped up. SiS submitted patches that duplicated portions of libata inside their driver, rather than simply fixing libata as would be proper. So we are stuck in the middle :( Someone needs to wo

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt9

2005-08-19 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 15:13 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: > I was trying to use another HRT clock source and couldn't get menuconfig > to let me select acpi-pm-timer, turns out it has been disabled in > arch/i386/Kconfig, but the description is still in the help... > > > # config HIGH_RES_TIMER_ACP

Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip

2005-08-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 11:55 +0200, Emmanuel Fleury wrote: > Hi all, > > I did try to look for Alsa drivers for the new X-Fi chip from Creatives > (http://www.tomshardware.com/consumer/20050818/), but I didn't find any. > > I there something running around this chip ? Or no plan yet ? Are these e

2.6.13-rc6-mm1 broke parallel port printer

2005-08-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:33:31AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.13-rc5-mm1: >... > +fix-handling-in-parport_pc-init-code.patch > > parport fix >... This patch broke my parallel port printer. diff between 2.6.13-rc6-mm1 and 2.6.13-rc6-mm1 with this patch reverted (the rea

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt6

2005-08-19 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:22:28PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 18:23 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > And it goes on and on. This happens everytime. Without netconsole, I > > > only get the nonzero lock count error. Also, one of my lockups on SMP > > > had to do with

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-19 Thread Howard Chu
Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:03:45PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: > If the 2.6 kernel makes this programming model unreasonably slow, > then quite simply this kernel is not viable as a database platform. Pretty much everyone else manages to make it work. And this contribute

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt9

2005-08-19 Thread Chuck Harding
Sure did. At least on a normal reboot. I will try SysRq+B and see what happens. Thanks. On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Karsten Wiese wrote: Chuck wrote: I'm still getting the same oops when rebooting. the same process (reboot) similar call trace (some addresses are slightly different but the functions a

Re: libata error handling

2005-08-19 Thread Luben Tuikov
On 08/19/05 17:10, Patrick Mansfield wrote: > Luben - > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:43:41PM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote: > >>On 08/19/05 16:11, Patrick Mansfield wrote: > > >>>I was changing it to wakeup the eh even while other IO is outstanding, so >>>the eh can wakeup and cancel individual com

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt9

2005-08-19 Thread Darren Hart
Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the 2.6.13-rc6-rt9 tree, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ I was trying to use another HRT clock source and couldn't get menuconfig to let me select acpi-pm-timer, turns out it has been disabled in

Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

2005-08-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > Yes, sure. I have applied your patch to our 2.6.11.4 tree (with the one > liner change I emailed you just now) and have kicked off a compile. Actually, hold on. The original patch had another problem: it returned an uninitialized "page" point

[PATCH] Suppress deprecated f_maxcount in 'struct file'

2005-08-19 Thread Eric Dumazet
Andrew Morton a écrit : Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Considering : [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.13-rc6]# find .|xargs grep f_maxcount ./fs/file_table.c: f->f_maxcount = INT_MAX; ./fs/read_write.c: if (unlikely(count > file->f_maxcount)) ./include/linux/fs.h: size_t

[PATCH 2/2] external interrupts: IOC4 driver

2005-08-19 Thread Brent Casavant
This patch implements a device driver for the external interrupt capabilities of the SGI IOC4 I/O controller chip. This driver depends upon the ioc4 driver and the extint abstraction layer (provided in the first patch of this series). In addition to the base capabilities present in the abstracted

[PATCH 1/2] external interrupts: abstraction layer

2005-08-19 Thread Brent Casavant
This patch implements an abstraction layer for external interrupt devices. It creates a new sysfs class "extint" which provides a number of read-write and a few read-only attributes which can be used to control a lower-level hardware-specific external interrupt device driver. The abstraction layer

[PATCH 0/2] external interrupts

2005-08-19 Thread Brent Casavant
Here is a set of patches that implements an external interrupt capability in Linux, along with a device driver for a specific hardware device. I submitted the patches several weeks ago, and they drew no comments, which I take to be a good sign. Anyway, I'm hoping these can be picked up for -mm in

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt9

2005-08-19 Thread Darren Hart
Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the 2.6.13-rc6-rt9 tree, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ I'm looking into getting HRT and RT booting on a SUMMIT NUMA machine (cyclone timer), but after s/error/warning/ in arch/i386/timers/timer.c

Re: [Documentation] Use doxygen or another tool to generate a documentation ?

2005-08-19 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 8/20/05, Stephane Wirtel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if there is a project based on Doxygen to make > (or generate) a documentation of the kernel. > > Do you think that will be interesting to make a such document ? The kernel already has it's own API documentation generator calle

Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

2005-08-19 Thread Al Viro
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:35:49PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I'm not sure if this merits a new file or new organization (hey, > fs/lib/xxx might be good in theory). In particular, I had actually been > hoping to release 2.6.13 today, but this seems like a valid thing to hold > things up for -

Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

2005-08-19 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > It does disable link caching. But I didn't make this up. This is exactly > > what smbfs uses. I just copied smbfs given ncpfs copies almost everything > > smbfs does anyway... > > Can you test whet

Re: [RFC] f_maxcount seems to be deprecated ?

2005-08-19 Thread Andrew Morton
Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Considering : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.13-rc6]# find .|xargs grep f_maxcount > ./fs/file_table.c: f->f_maxcount = INT_MAX; > ./fs/read_write.c: if (unlikely(count > file->f_maxcount)) > ./include/linux/fs.h: size_t f_m

Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

2005-08-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > You are throwing away the error return from vfs_readlink(). I suspect you > wanted: > > + cookie = ERR_PTR(res); Yes, thanks. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] aoe [2/2]: update driver version number to twelve

2005-08-19 Thread Ed L Cashin
Update driver version number to twelve. Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: 2.6.13-rc6-aoe/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h === --- 2.6.13-rc6-aoe.orig/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h 2005-08-19 11:57:04.0 -0400 +++ 2.6.13

[RFC] f_maxcount seems to be deprecated ?

2005-08-19 Thread Eric Dumazet
Hi Andrew Considering : [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.13-rc6]# find .|xargs grep f_maxcount ./fs/file_table.c: f->f_maxcount = INT_MAX; ./fs/read_write.c: if (unlikely(count > file->f_maxcount)) ./include/linux/fs.h: size_t f_maxcount; I was wondering if f_maxcount h

Re: [PATCH] fix cramfs making duplicate entries in inode cache

2005-08-19 Thread Phillip Lougher
Dave Johnson wrote: Patch below fixes this by making get_cramfs_inode() use the inode cache before blindly creating a new entry every time. This eliminates the duplicate inodes and duplicate buffer cache. > + struct inode * inode = iget_locked(sb, CRAMINO(cramfs_inode)); Doesn't iget_locke

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