On Tuesday 19 June 2007 02:44:32 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 June 2007 01:51:19 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >> On Jun 19, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > The GPLv2 is the one that allows more developers.
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 22:12 -0700, Vernon Mauery wrote:
> In looking at the performance characteristics of my network I found that
> 2.6.21.5-rt15 suffers from degraded thoughput with multiple threads. The
> test that I did this with is simply invoking 1, 2, 4, and 8 instances of
> netperf at a
On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 June 2007 01:51:19 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Jun 19, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > The GPLv2 is the one that allows more developers.
>> >
>> > The GPLv2 is the one that is acceptable to more peopl
> > But you're not the user of the software on my laptop. I am.
>
> ahh, but by your own argument you aren't
>
> the software on your laptop is owned by people like Linus, Al Viro, David
> M, Alan Cox, etc.
More accurately according to the GPL v2 theory Linus advanced the laptop
you paid is a
ACK, of course.
thanks, Alex
Mingming Cao wrote:
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 19:29 +0400, Dmitriy Monakhov wrote:
I just cant belive my eyes then i saw this at the first time...
simple test: strace dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/file
Thanks for reporting it.
open("/dev/zero", O_RDONLY) = 0
From: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:52:36 +0100
> Return the number of bytes buffered in rxrpc_send_data().
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Patch applied, thanks a lot David.
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On Tuesday 19 June 2007 02:10:02 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I haven't looked at it, in depth, today but one of the problems I
> > saw was the apparent loopholes in the text. No specifics, but I
> > remember thinking "a lawyer would have
On Jun 18, 2007, Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I.e. the phrase about similar spirit should be replaced with
> something far more explicit and very, very hard to miss.
This is a very good idea. Would you please file it at
http://gplv3.fsf.org/comments?
> I don't think you need more proof
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 01:51:19 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The GPLv2 is the one that allows more developers.
> >
> > The GPLv2 is the one that is acceptable to more people.
>
> Based on my understanding that the anti-tivoization provisio
Hallo,
> Is there some way you can feed that into Debian please? Why the go
> around through a separate repository? The maintainer of git-core is
> not actively maintaining the package?
it already is. But Debian Etch is stable which means there will no newer
version of git in Debian Etch. Current
On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I haven't looked at it, in depth, today but one of the problems I
> saw was the apparent loopholes in the text. No specifics, but I
> remember thinking "a lawyer would have a field day with this -
> dozens of ways they could sidestep th
From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:56:29 +0200
> A SCSI pass through is of course perfectly fine. If you have a separate
> block passthrough that has additional magic a separate block driver is
> the way to go because it actually is simpler than a scsi driver de
Hi Michael,
I initiated this discussion in The Linux Foundation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Campus
last week from the viewpoint of requirements by Japanese vendors/users.
As for a file to store message descriptions, I perfectly agree with your
analysis and we also noticed some (+) and (-) you pointed out i
On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I realise that the latest GPLv3 draft would not pose restrictions
> here, as such devices would not be classified as consumer
> products.
And even if they were, there's always ROM.
I don't know whether hardware seals that state "once you
From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:53:58 +0200
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 02:19:17PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > Another quirk I have to deal with is that under LDOMs you
> > can export full disks and also just slices. So I'll have
> > to get down into the par
On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually you are in error here. You are saying "More home users == More
> Developers" when the ratio of home users to developers isn't all that high.
> (small set of facts: "Hacker" == "Developer" (in most cases, where the term,
> as
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:08:58PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> That's not gonna work, it's a totally different model.
>
> I have a predefined protocol over hypervisor provided "channels" and
> page flipping also done by the hypervisor for the bulk data transfer.
> For the client side I cannot cha
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 02:19:17PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> Another quirk I have to deal with is that under LDOMs you
> can export full disks and also just slices. So I'll have
> to get down into the partition machinery to support that
> somehow.
What's the problem with that? Partition machi
Looks pretty nice.
Some more comments:
- no need for the BLK_DEV_SR dependency, it should depend on SCSI
instead (which might be implied by beeing in the scsi menu, don't
remember that detail)
- ps3rom_priv should probably be an inline
- the cmd field in struct ps3rom_private should pro
On Jun 19, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The GPLv2 is the one that allows more developers.
> The GPLv2 is the one that is acceptable to more people.
Based on my understanding that the anti-tivoization provisions are
*the* objectionable issue about GPLv3 for those of you who
On 6/19/2007, "Christoph Lameter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IA64
[snip]
> Saved ~500 bytes in text size.
>
> x86_64:
[snip]
> 200 bytes saved.
Looks good. Thanks Christoph.
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 01:39:23PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Add a Disk Storage Driver for the PS3:
> - Implemented as a block device driver with a dynamic major
> - Disk names (and partitions) are of the format ps3d%c(%u)
> - Uses so
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:10:00AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:08:49 +0200
> Jarek Poplawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On 16-06-2007 23:35, Marcin .lusarz wrote:
> > > hi
> > > after upgrading kernel from 2.6.20 to 2.6.21.3 i'm experiencing really
> > > strange
On Jun 18, 2007, Jan Harkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not really, Tivo could simply sell you a box without any installed
> software.
Yes.
> The actual software is mailed to you on a credit card sized
> ROM when you activate service.
If that's a separate transaction, then yes, I believe it wo
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:46:03PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> @@ -2493,17 +2493,18 @@ static void idle_balance(int this_cpu, s
> unsigned long next_balance = jiffies + 60 * HZ;
>
> for_each_domain(this_cpu, sd) {
> - if (sd->flags & SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE) {
> +
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 12:43 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Hi David and Tom,
>
> David Wilder wrote:
> > This patch fixes a bug in the relay read interface causing the number
> > of consumed bytes to be set incorrectly.
>
> Thank you. Your patch fixes one of my concerns.
> However there is ano
On Jun 18, 2007, "Kevin Bowling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Legitimate laws and practices require that certain devices not be
> modified by end users. Therefore TiVo fails and contributions
> cease.
I've never denied this possibility.
But how about all the other devices that are being tivoize
On Jun 18, 2007, "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why is the fact that only the root user can load a kernel module not a
> further restriction?
Because the user (under whose control the computer is, be it person or
company) set up the root password herself?
>> > The GPL was never, u
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:10:00AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:08:49 +0200
> Jarek Poplawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> > It looks like skge driver enables different device than probbed.
> > Maybe you've something old/wrong about eth0/eth1 in /etc configs?
>
> Mo
In looking at the performance characteristics of my network I found that
2.6.21.5-rt15 suffers from degraded thoughput with multiple threads. The
test that I did this with is simply invoking 1, 2, 4, and 8 instances of
netperf at a time and measuring the total throughput. I have two 4-way
mac
> >
> > > > Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port
> > > > 0x0001c807
> > > > Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port
> > > > 0x0001c807
> >
> > Unrelated to the other error, but I've been meaning to ask for a while..
> > If th
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 23:21 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Let's take a certain class of medical devices into account: ones that
> are absolutely definitely for medical treatment, but are not life
> threatening if they fail.
>
> Say, a dental treatment device -- if the device produces a crown or
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:20:55AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:12:04 +0200 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >
> > Subject: [patch] x86: fix spin-loop starvation bug
> > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:00:09PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Do you imply that if we see asm or __asm__ in user space headers we ougth
> to warn about it?
> Seems at least sensible to me but if we introduce such a check we should
> kill all offenders first - which Mike's patches seems to trigger
Katsuya-San,
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 01:14 +0900, Katsuya MATSUBARA wrote:
> > It lacks support for the generic timeofday and clock event layers, which
> > causes the compile breakage.
>
> I am working on Renesas SuperH platforms.
> I faced the similar compile errors
> because 2.6.21.X in SH doe
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:46:44PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So I have actual *numbers* on my side. What do you have, except for a
> history of not actually understanding my arguments?
Why do I suddenly have an image of Palin as Ximenez doing the answer?
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* Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:09:37 -0700 (PDT)
>
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Martin Bligh wrote:
>>
>> Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I've seen those sort of things
>> before, and they ju
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:13:19 PDT, Tim Bird wrote:
> Gerrit Huizenga wrote:
> > Further, yet another kernel config option could allow distros to output
> > the calculated MD5 sum to be printed, much like we do with timestamps
> > today.
>
> > Comments?
>
> Would the compiled-in text then also bec
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>
> > "More Developers" (either "Free Software" or "Open Source") == "More
> > Contributions"
>
> No, seriously. Linus is disputing the equation above, dismissing my
> various attempts to show it to him, whenever it appears in teh context
> of tivoiz
Hi David and Tom,
David Wilder wrote:
> This patch fixes a bug in the relay read interface causing the number
> of consumed bytes to be set incorrectly.
Thank you. Your patch fixes one of my concerns.
However there is another bug I found.
When I use relayfs with "overwrite" mode, read() still se
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> > + if (time_after(next_balance,
> > + sd->last_balance + sd->balance_interval))
> > + next_balance = sd->last_balance
> > + + sd->balance_interval;
>
> don't we have t
On Monday 18 June 2007 22:57:20 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 18, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Monday 18 June 2007 17:31:47 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >> And if you look at GPLv3dd1 or dd2 IIRC, that's how it started. For
> >> some reason, the FSF turned it into the more
Let's take a certain class of medical devices into account: ones that
are absolutely definitely for medical treatment, but are not life
threatening if they fail.
Say, a dental treatment device -- if the device produces a crown or
bridge that doesn't fit properly, the dentist says "nope" and th
On Jun 18, 2007, at 17:24:23, Brad Boyer wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:26:57AM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
Pointless here means that _I_ don't see the point. Maybe there
are valid uses for extended attributes. If there are, noone has
explained them to me yet.
The users of extended attrib
On Monday 18 June 2007 22:06:57 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 18, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Monday 18 June 2007 19:31:30 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >> On Jun 18, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Actually, just think of how many times you've hea
On Jun 18, 2007, at 13:56:05, Bryan Henderson wrote:
The question remains is where to implement versioning: directly in
individual filesystems or in the vfs code so all filesystems can
use it?
Or not in the kernel at all. I've been doing versioning of the
types I described for years with
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 23:43 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>
> Can we get another user to justify this generalizing?
Systemtap will be using this. Most users of the relay interface will
need to duplicate much of the functionality of GTSC so I expect others
will use it when it is available.
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To
On Jun 18, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 18 June 2007 17:31:47 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> And if you look at GPLv3dd1 or dd2 IIRC, that's how it started. For
>> some reason, the FSF turned it into the more lax (in some senses)
>> installation information for user pro
David Schwartz writes:
>> David Schwartz writes:
>
>> >> First, end users buy and use the hardware in question. It does not
>> >> belong to Tivo, so the analogy to his laptop fails there.
>
>> > No, this is incorrect. They buy *some* of the rights to the
>> > hardware but not
>> > all of them. Sp
On Jun 18, 2007, Hans-Jürgen Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Montag 18 Juni 2007 23:18 schrieb Alexandre Oliva:
>> On Jun 18, 2007, Hans-Jürgen Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >> Vendor would be entitled to the benefit of the doubt as to the
>> >> motivations in this case, so it would
This bit me in the butt.
I couldn't understand why my init app was segfaulting, with a kernel
address, but a user RIP and RSP. Well, the RIP I think was bogus, but
the kernel address was always the start of "mcount". Looking deeper, I
printed out what was in the RSP (even though it was a user st
Hey Guys,
Recently, I need work on my TTY (console) driver so that it could
support kdb. I didn't have much experiences on linux kdb. So my
questions are:
1) 2.6 Linux for PowerPC could support kdb? where can I find the source
code?
2) If 2.6 Linux for PowerPC doesn't support kdb, where co
On Jun 18, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Joshua David Williams wrote:
>> On 6/18/07, Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Now, writing yet another license for the linux kernel is
>>> therefore NOT the solution - if you get my drift.
>>
>> The new license could be
On Jun 18, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
>>> But since the software is good, and moving to another software
>>> would be costly in various dimentions, the vendor has an incentive
>>> to stick with the software they have.
> but if regulations or o
On Jun 18, 2007, Johannes Stezenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> People talk a lot about TiVo here, but do they the faintest idea of
>> how the conversations with TiVo are proceeding? I thought so...
> Oh, if you know something we don't, could yo
On 6/18/07, Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -Message d'origine-
> De : Natalie Protasevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Envoyé : 18 juin 2007 18:56
>
> On 6/18/07, Martin Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> > So if you make changes to random-driver.c you can do
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:59:21AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> for_each_domain(this_cpu, sd) {
> - if (sd->flags & SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE) {
> + if (sd->flags & SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE)
> /* If we've pulled tasks over stop searching: */
>
Mikael Pettersson wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:33:22 +0800, gshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can't understand the following instructions from
arch/ppc/mm/hashtable.S::hash_page. If I got the right design, the
following instruction is to get the PMD (Page Middle Descritor) because
Linux f
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 07:22:32AM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:59:21AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > I think the check in idle_balance needs to be modified.
> >
> > If the domain *does not* have SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE set then
> > next_balance must still be set
> This is a very limited reading of the GPL that leaves out one of its
> most important provisions: the bit about "no further restrictions".
Why is the fact that only the root user can load a kernel module not a
further restriction? Simple -- anyone who is bothered by that restriction
can remove
> David Schwartz writes:
> >> First, end users buy and use the hardware in question. It does not
> >> belong to Tivo, so the analogy to his laptop fails there.
> > No, this is incorrect. They buy *some* of the rights to the
> > hardware but not
> > all of them. Specifically, they do not buy the
On Jun 18, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 18 June 2007 19:31:30 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Jun 18, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Actually, just think of how many times you've heard the argument "I
>> can't give you the source code for this driv
> The box could even be sold by third party vendors, I think they may even
> have started off that way, my old Series 1 had a big Philips logo on it.
> So now we make sure that this hardware refuses to boot any unsigned
> code, but it wasn't shipped containing GPLv3 software, so it's license
> ter
On Jun 18, 2007, Joshua David Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Open Source Definition
... derived from the Debian Free Software Guidelines, engineered to
reflect the Free Software definition ...
> wrote:
>> 9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software
>> Yes, the GPL is conformant with
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 15:53 +0200, holzheu wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 06:12 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:55 +0200, holzheu wrote:
> > > Hi Gerrit,
> > >
> > > The common thing of your and our approach is, that we need an ID to
> > > identify a message either by:
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 16:06 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:36:00 -, Thomas Gleixner said:
> > The following patch series contains:
> >
> > - dyntick bugfixes for -mm (caused by the cpuidle changes in ACPI)
> >
> > - updates and improvements to high resolution timer /
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> De : Natalie Protasevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Envoyé : 18 juin 2007 18:56
>
> On 6/18/07, Martin Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> > So if you make changes to random-driver.c you can do `git-log
> > >> > random-driver.c|grep Tested-by" to find people
On Jun 18, 2007, "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Any number of ways. For example, you probably don't connect the
>> > serial ports
>> > to a device I have access to.
>> But you're not the user of the software on my laptop. I am.
> Even when I get web pages from your web server?
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:59:21AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> I think the check in idle_balance needs to be modified.
>
> If the domain *does not* have SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE set then
> next_balance must still be set right. Does this patch fix it?
Is the ->next_balance calculation in idle_bala
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:31:30PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 18, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In the GPLv3 world, we have already discussed in this thread how you can
> > follow the GPLv3 by making the TECHNICALLY INFERIOR choice of using a ROM
> > instead of u
On Jun 18, 2007, "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> First, end users buy and use the hardware in question. It does not
>> belong to Tivo, so the analogy to his laptop fails there.
> No, this is incorrect. They buy *some* of the rights to the hardware but not
> all of them.
Wow, real
David Schwartz writes:
>> First, end users buy and use the hardware in question. It does not
>> belong to Tivo, so the analogy to his laptop fails there.
>
> No, this is incorrect. They buy *some* of the rights to the hardware but not
> all of them. Specifically, they do not buy the right to choo
On Jun 18, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok, next question, could you do the same thing if you used a CD
> instead of a ROM?
Yes, I believe the very same reasoning applies.
> what makes a blob delivered via a network inherently different from
> the same blob delivered via a plugin ROM or CD?
On 6/18/07, Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 18, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just want software back. I think it is *wrong* for me to ask for
> anything else. It's literally my personal "moral choice": I think the
> hardware manufacturers need to make
> But adding read/write is fine with me. In fact, having read/write hooks
> for the memory backed resource files is also nice, since it makes
> dealing with them on the command line a bit easier.
Plan is to use iomap so I get both IO and MMIO for (almost) free :-)
> > Also, while at it, I wou
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 08:15 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On 6/16/07, Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > What are the issues with arch like ARM ?
> >
> > The interesting class ARM belongs to is machines that don't (or don't
> > always) have hardware support for single-step. Maintaining t
> Maybe searching free text fields can then be implemented. Then every
> message exchange in bugzilla can be used for extracting such info -
> questions about HW specifics are asked a lot, almost in every one.
> It's a shame we cant' use this information. I was once searching for
> "VIA" and got
On 6/18/07, Martin Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sure, simplicity is a key - but most of reporters on bugs are pretty
> professional folks (or very well rounded amateurs :) We can try still
> why not? the worst that can happen will be empty fields.
mmm. added complexity and interface clutte
Hi,
I need some help here to understand copy_to_user(). I encountered a
strange copy_to_user() behavior when working on CentOS from Redhat
(kernel version 2.6.9-22.ELsmp, x86_64 CPU).
For a kernel module, I wrote a ioctl call to allow user mode program
to get some kernel data information. When a
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:54:34PM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> >
> > [ 256.298787] irq=4341 affinity=d
> >
>
> And just to make sure, at this point, your MSI irq 4341 affinity
> (/proc/irq/4341/smp_affinity) still points to '2'?
Actually, it's 0xD. From the kernel's perspective the mask
Sure, simplicity is a key - but most of reporters on bugs are pretty
professional folks (or very well rounded amateurs :) We can try still
why not? the worst that can happen will be empty fields.
mmm. added complexity and interface clutter for little or no benefit
is what I'm trying to avoid - t
Hi Ingo, I'm seeing this on 2.6.21.5-rt14 and 2.6.21.5-rt15, this
problem did not happen in 2.6.21.3-rt9 (last I checked on this
hardware). The computer is an athlon x2 and eth0 is "alias eth0 skge",
the BUGs trigger on network activity (but not a constant stream of
them)...
BUG: scheduling with i
Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Oleg Verych wrote:
I'm seeing this long (198) thread and just have no idea how it has
ended (wiki? hand-mailing?).
I'm hoping it's not "ended".
IOW, I really don't think we _resolved_ anything, although the work that
Adrian started is continuing th
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:03:40PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
> So you're arguing two sides of no argument at all.
Yeah, pretty much. I take back my arguments in the previous
couple of my posts up this thread. They don't actually hold
together! Sorry for wasting your time correct me.
Bron.
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On 6/18/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Martin Bligh wrote:
>
> Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I've seen those sort of things
> before, and they just don't seem to work, especially in the
> environment we're in with such a massive diversity of hardware.
I do
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Martin Bligh wrote:
>
> Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I've seen those sort of things
> before, and they just don't seem to work, especially in the
> environment we're in with such a massive diversity of hardware.
I do agree. It _sounds_ like a great idea to try to control
> Is it good to keep tons of dirty stuff around? Sure. It allows overwriting
> (and thus avoiding doing the write in the first place), but it also allows
> for a more aggressive IO scheduling, in that you have more writes that you
> can schedule.
it also allows for an elevator that can merge
Gerrit Huizenga wrote:
> Further, yet another kernel config option could allow distros to output
> the calculated MD5 sum to be printed, much like we do with timestamps
> today.
> Comments?
Would the compiled-in text then also become replaceable?
Or is the MD5 sum output expected to be in additio
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:26:57AM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> Pointless here means that _I_ don't see the point. Maybe there are
> valid uses for extended attributes. If there are, noone has explained
> them to me yet.
The users of extended attributes that I've dealt with are ACL support
and SEL
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:14:30 -0700
> Tim Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Andrew,
> >
> > The default vm_dirty_ratio changed from 40 to 10
> > for the 2.6.22-rc kernels in this patch:
Yup.
> > IOZone write drops by about 60% when test file siz
Natalie Protasevich wrote:
On 6/18/07, Martin Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > So if you make changes to random-driver.c you can do `git-log
>> > random-driver.c|grep Tested-by" to find people who can test
>> > your changes for you.
>>
>> You would'nt even need to search in GIT. Maybie eve
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 03:38:20PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:57:26PM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
>
> > As you have the failing system, you need to do more detective work and
> > help me out. Can you try this debug patch and send across the dmesg after
> > the
>
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>
> technically, it asks you to pass on (!= give back) access to the
> software (not to the hardware that contains it).
That "technically" is just another way of saying "if you look cross-eyed
at it, and don't look too closely".
> No. The reason, a
John Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Add support for IOAPIC NMI interrupts on x86_64.
>
> Changes include the following:
>
> - Obtain the NMI IOAPIC info via an ACPI NMI SRC structure that is
> part of the MADT, and program the IOAPIC redirection register.
> The NMI SRC struct wil
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:14:30 -0700
Tim Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> The default vm_dirty_ratio changed from 40 to 10
> for the 2.6.22-rc kernels in this patch:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?
> p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=07db59bd6b0f279c31044cba6787344
On Monday 18 June 2007 19:31:30 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 18, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > With the GPLv2, you need to give your software modifications back, but
> > the
> BZZT!
> > GPLv2 never *ever* makes any technical limit
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
People talk a lot about TiVo here, but do they the faintest idea of
how the conversations with TiVo are proceeding? I thought so...
Oh, if you know something we don't, could you please fill us in?
A
> Is there some way you can feed that into Debian please? Why the go around
> through a separate repository? The maintainer of git-core is not actively
> maintaining the package?
No. The current version of git in Debian is 1.5.2.1, a little out of
date from the current 1.5.2.2 but not too ba
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:53:39PM +0200, Maria Domenica Bertolucci wrote:
> Would it be possible to have a git repo as well so as to keep in sync
> with all git kernel projects? It also helps standardize things.
Sorry, the repos will stay Mercurial based for now. These are small
repos and not at
On Jun 18, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>>
>> 1. I asked you why GPLv2 is better, and you said it was because it
>> promoted giving back in kind.
> Where I explained that "in kind" was about *software*.
Yes, we'd already establish
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