Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH 35/36] Use menuconfig objects II - DVB

2007-05-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 2 2007 14:38, Trent Piepho wrote: >On Wed, 2 May 2007, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >> Em Seg, 2007-04-30 às 14:30 +0200, Jan Engelhardt escreveu: >> > Change Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so >> > that the user can disable the whole feature without having to >> > ent

[PATCH] [POWERPC] 8xx: mpc885ads pcmcia support

2007-05-02 Thread Vitaly Bordug
Adds support for PowerQuicc on-chip PCMCIA. The driver is implemented as of_device, so only arch/powerpc stuff is capable to use it, which now implies only mpc885ads reference board. To cope with the code that should be hooked inside driver, but is really board specific (like set_voltage), global

Re: kernel BUG at include/net/tcp.h:739

2007-05-02 Thread Ilpo Järvinen
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Please take a look at this bug > > [15236.638092] kernel BUG at /mnt/md0/devel/linux-git/include/net/tcp.h:739! > [15236.644860] invalid opcode: [#1] > [15236.648514] PREEMPT SMP > [15236.651075] Modules linked in: ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf

Re: [PATCH -v2 1/1] Misc: add sensable phantom driver

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 2 May 2007 17:56:01 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > add sensable phantom driver Is that one of these? http://www.est-kl.com/aufbau_general/index_hard_haptic.html?http://www.est-kl.com/hardware/haptic/sensable/phantom_omni.html I don't think we've ever had a drive

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

2007-05-02 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:59:11PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> > >> > So the bzImage structure is currently: >> > >> >1. old-style boot sector >> >2. old-style boot info, followed by 0xaa55 at the end of the sect

Re: [PATCH] i386: fix suspend/resume with dynamically allocated irq stacks

2007-05-02 Thread Bill Irwin
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:48:09PM -0700, Bill Irwin wrote: > Updated patch follows. Please add your Signed-off-by: if it meets your > approval; I am operating on the assumption I should never do so myself. > I'm a bit unsure of how to handle cpu 0 vs. potential freeing of per_cpu > areas and error

Re: coretemp - take3

2007-05-02 Thread Rudolf Marek
Hi all, This did not make it into 2.6.21? Will it get into 2.6.22? Well this does not depend on me. But this is already in mm: + x86-msr-add-support-for-safe-variants.patch added to -mm tree (this night came some mail, that it has been added - same came few days back) Rudolf - To unsubscrib

Re: [ck] [REPORT] 2.6.21.1 vs 2.6.21-sd046 vs 2.6.21-cfs-v6

2007-05-02 Thread Al Boldi
William Lee Irwin III wrote: > William Lee Irwin III wrote: > >> That's odd. The ->load_weight changes should've improved that quite > >> a bit. There may be something slightly off in how lag is computed, > >> or maybe the O(n) lag issue Ying Tang spotted is biting you. > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at

Re: [PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation

2007-05-02 Thread Hans-Jürgen Koch
Am Donnerstag 03 Mai 2007 07:37 schrieb Greg KH: > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:37:34PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Thu, 3 May 2007 00:00:28 +0200 Hans-J?rgen Koch wrote: > > > > > Am Mittwoch 02 Mai 2007 schrieb Randy Dunlap: > > > > On Wed, 2 May 2007 10:41:35 +0200 Hans-J?rgen Koch wrote: >

Re: Natsemi DP83815 driver spaming

2007-05-02 Thread Rafał Bilski
>> What about module option? > > That would work, though you crossed in the post with me writing a patch > adding a sysfs file; I merged the two for overkill (below). I also have > a patch which changes the log message for the workaround so that it is > displayed by default in order to make this

Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.48

2007-05-02 Thread Con Kolivas
I've done some minor cleanups and microoptimisations to the code since version 0.46 in preparation for releasing -ck with SD as its base. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ck/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21/2.6.21-sd-0.48.patch -- -ck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

e1000 issue on DQ965GF board (was 24 lost ticks with 2.6.20.10 kernel)

2007-05-02 Thread Michel Lespinasse
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:14:52AM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: > I just checked and the fix I was referring to earlier didn't make it into > 2.6.21-final. You can get 2.6.21-git1 from kernel.org which has the fix. See > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.21-git1.log Go

Re: I don' t understand this warning.

2007-05-02 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:00:37PM -0600, Reg Clemens wrote: > The last several kernels I have built all have the following warning in them: > > WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel > from > .text between 'is386' > (at offset 0xc0401171) and 'check_x87' > WA

Re: console font limits

2007-05-02 Thread Albert Cahalan
On 5/2/07, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 1 2007 11:49, Albert Cahalan wrote: >> >> Well, I think the consensus is that anything beyond that should be done >> in userspace; the main such console daemon was Kon2 last I checked. > > Font size is not a sane place to draw the line.

Re: [PATCH 6/8] Kconfig: no userspace I/O on s390.

2007-05-02 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:34:30PM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > From: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hide the config menu for userspace I/O on s390. Why? Who says s390 can't have userspace I/O drivers someday? thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

Re: [PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation

2007-05-02 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:37:34PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 3 May 2007 00:00:28 +0200 Hans-J?rgen Koch wrote: > > > Am Mittwoch 02 Mai 2007 schrieb Randy Dunlap: > > > On Wed, 2 May 2007 10:41:35 +0200 Hans-J?rgen Koch wrote: > > > > Am Mittwoch 02 Mai 2007 01:42 schrieb Randy Dunlap:

Re: build system: no module target ending with slash?

2007-05-02 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 06:25:11AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:43:43AM +0200, Christian Hesse wrote: > > Hi James, hi everybody, > > > > playing with iwlwifi I try to patch it into the kernel and to build it from > > there. But I have a problem with the build system. >

Re: [PATCH] i386: fix suspend/resume with dynamically allocated irq stacks

2007-05-02 Thread Bill Irwin
Bill Irwin wrote: >> Updated patch follows. Please add your Signed-off-by: if it meets your >> approval; On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:01:05PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > What does it apply to? I'm getting conflicts if I replace my patch with > this. Or does it replace one of your patches?

Re: [PATCH] UML - forgot asm-um/cmpxchg.h

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 1 May 2007 15:36:46 -0400 Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The i386 and x86_64 cmpxchg patches require an asm-um/cmpxchg.h for > the UML build. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- > include/asm-um/cmpxchg.h |6 ++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > Ind

Re: [PATCH] i386: fix suspend/resume with dynamically allocated irq stacks

2007-05-02 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Bill Irwin wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 06:56:09PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >> This fixes two bugs: >> - the stack allocation must be marked __cpuinit, since it gets called >>on resume as well. >> - presumably the interrupt stack should be freed on unplug if its >>going

Re: [Patch][SIS USB2VGA] Warning fix

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 3 May 2007 13:34:29 +0800 WANG Cong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fix this warning: > drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c:1436: warning: initialization from > incompatible pointer type > > > Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > Compiling test past.;) > Thanks.

Re: [PATCH] i386: fix suspend/resume with dynamically allocated irq stacks

2007-05-02 Thread Bill Irwin
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 06:56:09PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > This fixes two bugs: > - the stack allocation must be marked __cpuinit, since it gets called >on resume as well. > - presumably the interrupt stack should be freed on unplug if its >going to get reallocated on every pl

Re: [RELEASE] Lguest for 2.6.21

2007-05-02 Thread WANG Cong
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:20:32PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: >On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 11:57 +0800, WANG Cong wrote: >> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:00:48AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: >> >Thanks for the patch. This omission (in several places) was >> >deliberate. We can't really do anything sen

[Patch][SIS USB2VGA] Warning fix

2007-05-02 Thread WANG Cong
Fix this warning: drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c:1436: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Compiling test past.;) --- linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c.orig 2007-05-03 02:51:06.

[PATCH] docbook: librs typo fixes

2007-05-02 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> librs docbook typo fixes. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/DocBook/librs.tmpl | 16 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- linux-2621-g4.orig/Documentation/DocBook/librs.tmpl +++ linux-2621-g

Re: [git pull] Input patches for 2.6.20

2007-05-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Sunday 18 February 2007 02:04, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hi Linus, > > Please consider pulling from: > >         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git for-linus > > or >         master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git for-linus > > to receive updates

Re: [patch] pull in the linux/input.h header in linux/uinput.h

2007-05-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 18:49, Mike Frysinger wrote: > uinput.h relies on structures only found in input.h, so pull in the header > > Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > diff --git a/include/linux/uinput.h b/include/linux/uinput.h > index 1fd61ee..a6c1e8e 100644 > --- a/incl

[LGUEST] Look in object dir for .config

2007-05-02 Thread Tony Breeds
From: Tony Breeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [LGUEST] Look in object dir for .config If you build with make O= then .config isn't in ../../, this patch goes partway to making sure that you don't dirty the source tree. Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/lguest/Makefil

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

2007-05-02 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:59:11PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > > So the bzImage structure is currently: > > > >1. old-style boot sector > >2. old-style boot info, followed by 0xaa55 at the end of the sector > >3. the HdrS boot param block > >4.

Re: [ck] [REPORT] 2.6.21.1 vs 2.6.21-sd046 vs 2.6.21-cfs-v6

2007-05-02 Thread William Lee Irwin III
William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> That's odd. The ->load_weight changes should've improved that quite >> a bit. There may be something slightly off in how lag is computed, >> or maybe the O(n) lag issue Ying Tang spotted is biting you. On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 06:51:43AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > Is i

Re: [PATCH 2/2] rename thread_info to stack

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 1 May 2007 02:10:34 +0200 (CEST) Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This finally renames the thread_info field in task structure to stack, > so that the assumptions about this field are gone and archs have more > freedom about placing the thread_info structure. It's been a year or

Re: Mysterious RTC hangs on x86_64 - fixed, sort of

2007-05-02 Thread Zachary Amsden
Chuck Ebbert wrote: CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC=y Did you try without that? Just did. Still hangs same way; strace shows /sbin/hwclock dying after hundreds of RTC_RD_TIME. And now /proc/interrupts shows no rtc interrupts being generated (expected, I gues). Seems to take longer t

Re: build system: no module target ending with slash?

2007-05-02 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:43:43AM +0200, Christian Hesse wrote: > Hi James, hi everybody, > > playing with iwlwifi I try to patch it into the kernel and to build it from > there. But I have a problem with the build system. > > The file drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/Makefile contains one single

100k American Chiropractors

2007-05-02 Thread Ina Bullard
This week's special: -- - New Database : American Chiropractor's Offices - -- Fields: Chiropractor/Clinic Name, Postal Address, Phone, Fax, Email and Website Date Created: Apr 5, 2007 Format: MS Exc

Re: old buffer overflow in moxa driver

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:48:29 -0600 dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey, > I noticed that the moxa input checking security bug described by > CVE-2005-0504 appears to remain unfixed upstream. > > The issue is described here: > http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0

Re: [RELEASE] Lguest for 2.6.21

2007-05-02 Thread Rusty Russell
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 11:57 +0800, WANG Cong wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:00:48AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > Thanks for the patch. This omission (in several places) was > >deliberate. We can't really do anything sensible if the user unmapped > >the page. I assume you saw a gcc wa

don' t understand this warning.

2007-05-02 Thread clemens
The last several kernels I have built all have the following warning in them: WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel from .text between 'is386' (at offset 0xc0401171) and 'check_x87' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text betw

I don' t understand this warning.

2007-05-02 Thread Reg Clemens
The last several kernels I have built all have the following warning in them: WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel from .text between 'is386' (at offset 0xc0401171) and 'check_x87' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text betw

Re: [PATCH 6/6] firewire: add it all to kbuild

2007-05-02 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:01:08AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> +fw-core-objs := fw-card.o fw-topology.o fw-transaction.o fw-iso.o \ > >> + fw-device.o fw-cdev.o > > > > fw-core-y += .. > > > > Like such? Yes - the latter is much more readable. Sam > >

[PATCH] x86_64: support poll() on /dev/mcelog (try #3)

2007-05-02 Thread Tim Hockin
From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Background: /dev/mcelog is typically polled manually. This is less than optimal for situations where accurate accounting of MCEs is important. Calling poll() on /dev/mcelog does not work. Description: This patch adds support for poll() to /dev/mcelog. T

Re: [RELEASE] Lguest for 2.6.21

2007-05-02 Thread WANG Cong
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:00:48AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: >On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 03:33 +0800, WANG Cong wrote: >> Hi Rusty! >> >> I found you forgot to check the return value of copy_from_user, and >> here is the fix for drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c. >> >> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <

Re: [ck] [REPORT] 2.6.21.1 vs 2.6.21-sd046 vs 2.6.21-cfs-v6

2007-05-02 Thread Al Boldi
William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Con Kolivas wrote: > >> Looks good, thanks. Ingo's been hard at work since then and has v8 out > >> by now. SD has not changed so you wouldn't need to do the whole lot of > >> tests on SD again unless you don't trust some of the results. > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02

Re: cache-pipe-buf-page-address-for-non-highmem-arch.patch

2007-05-02 Thread Ken Chen
On 5/1/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fair enough, it is a bit of an ugly thing. And I see no measurements there on what the overall speedup was for any workload. Ken, which memory model was in use? sparsemem? discontigmem with config_numa on. - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

2007-05-02 Thread Al Boldi
David Chinner wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:43:18PM -0700, Cabot, Mason B wrote: > > I've been testing the NAS performance of ext3/Openfiler 2.2 against > > NTFS/WinXP and have found that NTFS significantly outperforms ext3 for > > video workloads. The Windows CIFS client will attempt a poor-

Re: dead CONFIG_ variables: net/ipv4/

2007-05-02 Thread Patrick McHardy
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > again, this list contains some CONFIG_ variables that aren't > technically dead, but *really* should be renamed to not be confused > with Kconfig variables. there are, however, legitimately dead ones in > the following in places: Please post to netdev for networking re

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

2007-05-02 Thread Ting Yang
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:06:34PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: There is also p->wait_runtime which is taken into account when calculating p->fair_key. So if p3 had waiting in runqueue for long before, it can get to run quicker than 10ms later. Virtual time is time from the task's

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

2007-05-02 Thread Ting Yang
Li, Tong N wrote: Thanks for the excellent explanation. I think EEVDF and many algs alike assume global ordering of all tasks in the system (based on virtual time), whereas CFS does so locally on each processor and relies on load balancing to achieve fairness across processors. It'd achieve str

drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc)

2007-05-02 Thread Mark Lord
Okay, what's this message all about, and how do I get rid of it? During early boot: drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc) My kernel .config file is attached. Thanks # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.21.1-cfs-v8 # Wed May 2 22:4

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Added USB_DEVICE_INTERFACE_PROTOCOL

2007-05-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 18:04, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 05:03:05PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > > The USB_DEVICE_INTERFACE_PROTOCOL will allow to match one interface > > protocol of vendor specific device. > > This macro is used in patch adding support for xbox360 to xpad.c > >

Re: [PATCH 3/3] xpad.c: Added Xbox360 gamepad rumble support.

2007-05-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 11:05, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > > +config XPAD_FF > + default n Please don't default to anything. > > +#ifdef CONFIG_XPAD_FF > +/** > + * xpad_irq_out > + */ Comments are welcome when they say something... > +static void xpad_irq_out(struct urb *urb) > +{

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-02 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 01 May 2007 11:59:46 -0700 Chandramouli Narayanan wrote: > EFI x86_64 build option is added to the kernel configuration. Hi Mouli, Can you share EFI code as much as possible among ia64, i386, and x86_64 instead of duplicating it? A diffstat patch summary would be Good. (see Documentat

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

2007-05-02 Thread Ting Yang
Hi, As encouraged by some of you, I have started implementing EEVDF. However, I am quite new in this area, and may not be experienced enough to get it through quickly. The main problems, I am facing now ,is how to treat the semantics of yeild() and yield_to(). I probably will throw a lot o

Re: [PATCH 1/3] xpad.c: Added flags into xpad_device structure and removed dpad_mapping.

2007-05-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi Jan, On Wednesday 02 May 2007 11:01, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > This changes are expected to simplify further improves of this driver, > We will need to add information if the driver is xbox360 device or not. > > Second option was to simply add u8 is_360, but what if we'll need to know > if devic

Re: [BUG] 2.6.21: Kernel won't boot with either/both of CONFIG_NO_HZ, CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS

2007-05-02 Thread Mark Lord
Thomas Gleixner wrote: .. I try to come up with something, but I'm travelling tomorrow, so it might be not before end of week. Thanks, Thomas. I believe we definitely want to nail this down before 2.6.22-final, but there's a good workaround in the interim (CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y) and we've

Re: [PATCH] i386: fix suspend/resume with dynamically allocated irq stacks

2007-05-02 Thread Bill Irwin
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 06:56:09PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> +static void __cpuinit __free_irqstack(int cpu, void *stk) >> +{ >> +int i; >> + >> +if (!cpu) >> +return; >> + >> +unmap_vm_area(per_cpu(irqstack_area, cpu)); >> + >> +for (i = 0; i < THREAD_SIZE/PA

Re: Why ssse3?

2007-05-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: >> Nope. SSE3 != SSSE3. The additional S means Supplemential. >> >> It's probably because the few changes didn't justify a SSE4 > > OK, the problem is that the actual sse3 bit is misnamed. According to > Intel's docs bit 0 of ECX is "sse", the kernel uses

Re: [PATCH] i386: fix suspend/resume with dynamically allocated irq stacks

2007-05-02 Thread Bill Irwin
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 06:56:09PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > +static void __cpuinit __free_irqstack(int cpu, void *stk) > +{ > + int i; > + > + if (!cpu) > + return; > + > + unmap_vm_area(per_cpu(irqstack_area, cpu)); > + > + for (i = 0; i < THREAD_SIZE/PAGE_SI

Re: [patch 19/33] NuBus header update

2007-05-02 Thread Brad Boyer
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:47:13PM +0100, James Simmons wrote: > Will we see nubus ported over to the driver model soon :-) I think it will happen eventually. However, my first priority personally is to get the macio code working on non-PCI macs to get the onboard stuff onto the driver model. I di

[PATCH 4/5] sysfs: printk format warning

2007-05-02 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix sysfs printk format warning: fs/sysfs/bin.c:62: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 4 has type 'size_t' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/sysfs/bin.c |2 +-

Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

2007-05-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Andi Kleen wrote: > > I agree; that code can all go. > > What also seems to miss are the early CPUID checks I recently added > and which x86-64 has for some time. > I probably need to rebase against your tree. It makes more sense, anyway. Either way, I just added a pretty decent framework for

[PATCH 3/5] DOC: Fix wrong identifier name in Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt

2007-05-02 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
From: Rolf Eike Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Above and below we talk about my_midlayer_create_something, I assume that is also meant here. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Document

[PATCH 1/5] Driver core: fix show_uevent from taking up way too much stack

2007-05-02 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
Declaring an array of PAGE_SIZE does bad things for people running with 4k stacks... Thanks to Tilman Schmidt for tracking this down. Cc: Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/base/core.c |7 ++

[PATCH 2/5] platform: reorder platform_device_del

2007-05-02 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
From: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In platform_device_del(), we currently delete the device resources first, then we delete the device itself. This causes a (minor) bug to occur when one unregisters a platform device before unregistering its platform driver, and the driver is requesting (in .p

[GIT PATCH] PCI patches for 2.6.21

2007-05-02 Thread Greg KH
Here are a bunch of PCI patches against your 2.6.21 git tree. They contain: - pci hotplug driver updates - MSI reworks and cleanups to try to get the PPC MSI code merged eventually - removal of unneeded pci.h inclusion (the majority of all of the differe

[GIT PATCH] More core patches for 2.6.21

2007-05-02 Thread Greg KH
Here are some more driver core patche for 2.6.21. They contain: - fix a problem with blowing up the stack in ugly ways. - compile warning fix - documentation update - remove 'struct subsystem' from the tree as it's pointless. It only contained one field,

Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

2007-05-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Rene Herman wrote: > > It also provides them as VESA modes yes. OK, so no work needed. -hpa - 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 re

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

2007-05-02 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 14:09 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > > Hm, that's unfortunate. How about an ELF file wrapped in some other > > container, so that we can easily extract a properly formed ELF file? > > > > Effectively the same thing as changing the magic num

[PATCH] i386: fix suspend/resume with dynamically allocated irq stacks

2007-05-02 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
This fixes two bugs: - the stack allocation must be marked __cpuinit, since it gets called on resume as well. - presumably the interrupt stack should be freed on unplug if its going to get reallocated on every plug. [ Only non-vmalloced stacks tested. ] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge

It's a bug of printk?

2007-05-02 Thread gshan
Hi, I need 2 consoles for 2 individual serial ports that is registered by register_console(). The console for the 1st serial port is registered at first. I can see the output from the serial port #1 before the console for the 2nd serial port is registered. However, I saw duplicated output fro

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans -- vm bugfixes

2007-05-02 Thread Nick Piggin
Hugh Dickins wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: [snip] More on-topic, since you suggest doing more within vmtruncate_range than the filesystem: no, I'm afraid that's misdesigned, and I want to move almost all of it into the filesystem ->truncate_range. Because, if what vmtruncate_r

scheduling oddity on 2.6.20.3 stock

2007-05-02 Thread david
I needed to recompress some files from .bz2 to .gz so I setup a script to do bunzip2 -c $file.bz2 |gzip -9 >$file.gz I expected that the two CPU heavy processes would end up on different cpu's and spend a little time shuffling data between the two cpu's on a system (dual core opteron) howev

Re: [patch 00/33] m68k patches for 2.6.22

2007-05-02 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tuesday 01 May 2007 22:49, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Btw, is there any chance you could update m68k to use the generic > irq code? The only architectures that don't have a conversion > in progress are m68k, m68knommu and arm26 I haven't looked seriously into it since it was pretty much

Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: change topology_init() to a subsys_initcall

2007-05-02 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 12:11 -0500, Kevin Corry wrote: > Change the powerpc version of topology_init() from an __initcall to > a subsys_initcall to match all other architectures. > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Corry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Index: linux-2.6.21/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c > ==

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: merge MD software raid and LVM in one unique layer.

2007-05-02 Thread david
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Miguel Sousa Filipe wrote: On 5/2/07, Diego Calleja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: El Wed, 2 May 2007 20:18:55 +0100, "Miguel Sousa Filipe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I find it high irritanting having two kernel interfaces and two > userland tools that provide the same

Re: [ck] [REPORT] 2.6.21.1 vs 2.6.21-sd046 vs 2.6.21-cfs-v6

2007-05-02 Thread William Lee Irwin III
Con Kolivas wrote: >> Looks good, thanks. Ingo's been hard at work since then and has v8 out by >> now. SD has not changed so you wouldn't need to do the whole lot of tests >> on SD again unless you don't trust some of the results. On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:11:39AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > Well,

[ANNOUNCE] Updated PS3 Linux Distributor's Starter Kit released

2007-05-02 Thread Geoff Levand
Hi. Just to let anyone interested know, an updated PS3 Linux Distributor's Starter Kit (v1.3) was released. The release note is here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/CELL-Linux-CL_20070425-ADDON/README-e.txt And the CD-ROM iso image is here (238 MiB): ftp://ftp.in

Re: [git pull] New firewire stack

2007-05-02 Thread Jonathan Woithe
Kritian wrote: > Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Tue, May 01, Kristian H?gsberg wrote: > > > >> drivers/firewire/Kconfig | 60 ++ > > > > NACK. > > Upgrade the current drivers/ieee1394/ with the new code, and keep all > > existing module names. > > What's your reasoning here? Having diffe

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: mm-more-rmap-checking

2007-05-02 Thread Nick Piggin
Hugh Dickins wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: Yes, but IIRC I put that in because there was another check in SLES9 that I actually couldn't put in, but used this one instead because it also caught the bug we saw. ... This was actually a rare corruption that is also in 2.6.21, and

Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

2007-05-02 Thread David Chinner
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:46:21PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:44:14AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:43:18PM -0700, Cabot, Mason B wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I've been testing the NAS performance of ext3/Openfiler 2.2 against > > > N

Re: [PATCH 2/6] firewire: isochronous and asynchronous I/O

2007-05-02 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Christoph Hellwig wrote: + for (i = 0; i < buffer->page_count; i++) { + buffer->pages[i] = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA32 | __GFP_ZERO); + if (buffer->pages[i] == NULL) + goto out_pages; + + address = dma_map_page(card->dev

Re: Mysterious RTC hangs on x86_64 - fixed, sort of

2007-05-02 Thread Zachary Amsden
Chuck Ebbert wrote: Well, turns out this is a heisenbug. Which is good, since it means the nop patch didn't change anything. Try leaving the spinlocks and just disabling the callbacks. And maybe enable spinlock debugging... I tried removing all the spinlocks inside the interrupt handler

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: support poll() on /dev/mcelog (try #2)

2007-05-02 Thread Tim Hockin
Newer version coming in a while. Testing. On 4/30/07, Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Background: /dev/mcelog is typically polled manually. This is less than optimal for situations where accurate accounting of MCEs is important. Calling poll() on

Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-05-02 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Wednesday, May 2, 2007 4:45 pm Robert Hancock wrote: > Jesse Barnes wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 2, 2007 7:34 am Robert Hancock wrote: > >> Jesse Barnes wrote: > >>> On Tuesday, May 01, 2007, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > I'm testing it now on my 965... > > Bah... nevermind Robert, I see

Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-05-02 Thread Robert Hancock
Jesse Barnes wrote: On Wednesday, May 2, 2007 7:34 am Robert Hancock wrote: Jesse Barnes wrote: On Tuesday, May 01, 2007, Jesse Barnes wrote: I'm testing it now on my 965... Bah... nevermind Robert, I see you're doing this already in pci_mmcfg_reject_broken. I'm about to reboot & test now.

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

2007-05-02 Thread Ting Yang
Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: I briefly went thr' the paper and my impression is it expect each task to specify the length of each new request it initiates. Is that correct? No, the timeslice l_i here serves as a granularity control w.r.t responsiveness (or latency depends on how you interpret it

Re: [PATCH 2/3] UIO: Documentation

2007-05-02 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Thu, 3 May 2007 00:00:28 +0200 Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > Am Mittwoch 02 Mai 2007 schrieb Randy Dunlap: > > On Wed, 2 May 2007 10:41:35 +0200 Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > > > Am Mittwoch 02 Mai 2007 01:42 schrieb Randy Dunlap: > > > > > +The Userspace I/O HOWTO > > > > > > > > Most of this reads we

Re: [GIT PULL] I/OAT updates for 2.6.22

2007-05-02 Thread Chris Leech
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 15:44 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > Chrstopher, I really really would like you to post these patches early > and often to [EMAIL PROTECTED] especially because you are > touching the TCP code. You're right, I should have sent this to netdev as well. I'm Sorry. As for early

Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

2007-05-02 Thread Rene Herman
On 05/03/2007 12:59 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Rene Herman wrote: Checking here, and mine also has 132x25 as BIOS mode 0x14 in addition to 0x55. Probably also not universal, and 0x54 (132x43) doesn't seem to be repeated. Unfortunate that Qemu/Bocks don't have the VESA text modes. Does it exp

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 2 May 2007 19:11:04 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I didn't know that this was the plan. > > > > The problem I have with this is that once we've merged one part, we're > > committed to merging the other parts even though we haven't seen them yet. > > > > What happ

[TESTING NEEDED] drivers/serial/sunzilog: Interrupt enable before ISR handler installed

2007-05-02 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi All, This patch changes the interrupt enable sequence for the sunzilog driver so that interrupts are not enabled untill after the interrupt handler has been installed. If this is not done, some SS1 and SS2 sun4c systems panic on un-handled interrupt before the handler gets installed prevent

Re: [PATCH] lib/hexdump

2007-05-02 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 2 May 2007 16:06:35 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 02 May 2007 15:56:48 -0700 > Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 May 2007 15:35:56 -0700 > > > Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-02 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2007 16:36:27 -0400 > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Christoph Hellwig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:47:07AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > That doesn't constitute using it. > > >

[patch] sanitize linux/isdn_divertif.h for userspace

2007-05-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
the isdn_divertif contains kernel-only references so ive wrapped them in __KERNEL__ and add proper #include statements Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/include/linux/Kbuild b/include/linux/Kbuild index 4ff0f57..ab2aaa2 100644 --- a/include/linux/Kbuild +++ b/incl

Re: Execute in place

2007-05-02 Thread Al Boldi
Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2007, Phillip Susi wrote: > > Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > tmpfs doesn't store its stuff in the page cache twice: that's true, > > > and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But tmpfs doesn't contain any > > > support for rom memory: you'd have to copy from rom to tmp

Re: [ck] [REPORT] 2.6.21.1 vs 2.6.21-sd046 vs 2.6.21-cfs-v6

2007-05-02 Thread Al Boldi
Con Kolivas wrote: > On Monday 30 April 2007 18:05, Michael Gerdau wrote: > > meanwhile I've redone my numbercrunching tests with the following > > kernels: 2.6.21.1 (mainline) > > 2.6.21-sd046 > > 2.6.21-cfs-v6 > > running on a dualcore x86_64. > > [I will run the same test with 2.6.21.1-c

Re: [PATCH] synclink_gt add compat_ioctl

2007-05-02 Thread Paul Fulghum
Arnd Bergmann wrote: The same function contains a copy_from_user(), which cannot be called with interrupts disabled, so yes, I am very certain it will not change. Good point. -- Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

Re: [PATCH] lib/hexdump

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 02 May 2007 15:56:48 -0700 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 2 May 2007 15:35:56 -0700 > > Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >> Based on ace_dump_mem() from Grant Likely for the Xilinx >

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] DRM TTM Memory Manager patch

2007-05-02 Thread Thomas Hellström
Eric Anholt wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 16:55 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: Hi, The patch is too big to fit on the list and I've no idea how we could break it down further, it just happens to be a lot of new code.. http://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/ttm/0001-drm-Implement-TTM-Memory-manag

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

2007-05-02 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I don't know if that would break any programs that are currently > bypassing the setup. The existing setup protocol definitely allows > invoking an entry point which isn't 0x10 (rather, the 32-bit > entrypoint is defined by code32_start); I'm not sure how Eric's > reloc

Re: [PATCH 6/6] firewire: add it all to kbuild

2007-05-02 Thread Stefan Richter
Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> +fw-core-objs := fw-card.o fw-topology.o fw-transaction.o fw-iso.o \ >> +fw-device.o fw-cdev.o > > fw-core-y += .. > Like such? --- linux.orig/drivers/usb/core/Makefile +++ linux/drivers/usb/core/Makefile @@ -2,17 +2,12 @@ # Makefile for USB Core files and files

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