Re: [PATCH] fix undefined reference to device_power_up/resume

2007-08-24 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sat, Aug 25, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Olaf Hering writes: > > > So change even more places from PM to PM_SLEEP to allow linking. > > What config shows these errors? I presume you need to have CONFIG_PM > but not CONFIG_PM_SLEEP in order to see them? The .config below boots on a wallstreet. a

Re: [PATCH] Revised timerfd() interface

2007-08-24 Thread Michael Kerrisk
[resend, since LKML didn't like last send.] Randy, Thanks for the input. I will try to send a revised patch after I get back from holiday. Some comments below. Davide -- ping! Can you please offer your comments about this change, and also thoughts on Jon's and my comments about a more radical

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23 RESEND] cxgb3 - Fix dev->priv usage

2007-08-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik wrote: Divy Le Ray wrote: From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cxgb3 used netdev_priv() and dev->priv for different purposes. In 2.6.23, netdev_priv() == dev->priv, cxgb3 needs a fix. This patch is a partial backport of Dave Miller's changes in the net-2.6.24 git branch. Without

Re: [PATCH 17/30] isdn: Get rid of some pointless allocation casts in common and bsd comp.

2007-08-24 Thread David Miller
From: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:09:34 +0200 > vmalloc() returns a void pointer - no need to cast the return value. > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [PATCH 16/30] net: Avoid pointless allocation casts in BSD compression module

2007-08-24 Thread David Miller
From: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:06:58 +0200 > The general kernel memory allocation functions return void pointers > and there is no need to cast their return values. > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH 10/30] irda: Do not do pointless kmalloc return value cast in KingSun driver

2007-08-24 Thread David Miller
From: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:54:23 +0200 > kmalloc() returns a void pointer, so there is no need to cast it in > drivers/net/irda/kingsun-sir.c::kingsun_probe(). > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: possible BUG while doing gpg --gen-key

2007-08-24 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Adrian Bunk wrote: (...) > Is CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIA enabled in your kernel? > If yes, does disabling it help? I disabled rngd. I disabled audio-entropyd. netdev-random remained in effect. Now it works: (...) Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? O You need a Passphrase to protect yo

Re: [PATCH] IOAT: ioatdma needs to to play nice in a multi-dma-client world

2007-08-24 Thread David Miller
From: Shannon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:12:18 -0700 > Now that the DMA engine has a multi-client interface, fix the ioatdma > driver to play along. At the same time, remove a couple of unnecessary > reads and writes. > > Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [RFC] USB: driver for iphone charging

2007-08-24 Thread Matt Colyer
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 14:55 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Greg KH wrote: > > > Can someone with a iphone test this out? If you look at how the > > berry_charge driver does it, the set_config stuff happens after the > > magic command. As I don't have an iphone, nor have I ever s

Re: possible BUG while doing gpg --gen-key

2007-08-24 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Adrian Bunk wrote: >> FWIW: I run audio-entropyd and use netdev-random. Both pieces of >> sofwtare don't interfere as far as I know. > > > Can you try without both, and if it works, which of them causes the > problem? I can try. >> This is on a VIA Epia EK8000 again. > > > Is CONFIG_HW_RANDO

Re: [PATCH] Fix kobject uevent string handling errors

2007-08-24 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:17:54AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Fix kobject uevent string handling errors > > - increment env->buflen in dmi-id.c > - fix off-by-one in add_uevent_var in error checking of vsnprintf > - add warnings when add_uevent_var. Proper handling of its return values > s

patch usb-avoid-redundant-cast-of-kmalloc-return-value-in-oti-6858-driver.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree

2007-08-24 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Subject: usb: avoid redundant cast of kmalloc() return value in OTi-6858 driver to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is usb-avoid-redundant-cast-of-kmalloc-return-value-in-oti-6858-driver.patch This tree can be fou

Re: [PATCH 1/4] ehea: fix interface to DLPAR tools

2007-08-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: Userspace DLPAR tool expects decimal numbers to be written to and read from sysfs entries. Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> applied 1-3 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

PROBLEM: Caught SIGFPE exceptions aren't reset

2007-08-24 Thread Clark Cooper
[1] Caught SIGFPE exceptions aren't reset [2] On an i386, you can set a handler for a SIGFPE signal, and after enabling FP exceptions with feenableexceptions(), an FP exception will cause your handler to be called. However after the handler returns, it is called again with the sam

Re: [PATCH 4/4] ehea: show physical port state

2007-08-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: Introduces a module parameter to decide whether the physical port link state is propagated to the network stack or not. It makes sense not to take the physical port state into account on machines with more logical partitions that communicate with each other. This is alway

Re: [PATCH] sched: Reduce overhead in balance_tasks()

2007-08-24 Thread Peter Williams
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Peter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At the moment, balance_tasks() provides low level functionality for both move_tasks() and move_one_task() (indirectly) via the load_balance() function (in the sched_class interface) which also provides dual functionality. This d

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-24 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:30:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > <6>Linux agpgart interface v0.102 > > +<6>rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 > > +<4>rtc_cmos: probe of 00:03 failed with error -16 > > +<6>agpgart: suspend/resume problematic: resume with 3D/DRI active may

Re: coldplug zd1211rw wireless driver results in firefox segfault

2007-08-24 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 04:21:42PM -0400, Paul Albrecht wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use a hawking hwu54g with the zd1211rw driver in the > 2.6.20 linux kernel. It works ok when I hotplug the device, but causes > firefox to segfault when I coldplug the device. > > As I get the segfault whether

[PATCH] Fix kobject uevent string handling errors

2007-08-24 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Fix kobject uevent string handling errors - increment env->buflen in dmi-id.c - fix off-by-one in add_uevent_var in error checking of vsnprintf - add warnings when add_uevent_var. Proper handling of its return values should really be done by the callers, but they aren't, so things currently fa

Re: kernel BUG with 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: skb_over_panic

2007-08-24 Thread Daniel Walker
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 05:44 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > --- a/drivers/firmware/dmi-id.c > +++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi-id.c > @@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ static int dmi_dev_uevent(struct device *dev, struct > kobj_uevent_env *env) > sizeof(env->buf) - env->buflen); > if (len

Re: [PATCH] fix realtek phy id in forcedeth

2007-08-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Willy Tarreau wrote: Hi Greg, On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:55:13AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: It might help if someone sends a real patch that can be applied :) This is getting really silly now :-) We're all wasting more time wondering who will send the patch than posting it. I've lost, I got fed up

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23 RESEND] cxgb3 - Fix dev->priv usage

2007-08-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Divy Le Ray wrote: From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cxgb3 used netdev_priv() and dev->priv for different purposes. In 2.6.23, netdev_priv() == dev->priv, cxgb3 needs a fix. This patch is a partial backport of Dave Miller's changes in the net-2.6.24 git branch. Without this fix, cxgb3 cr

Re: kernel BUG with 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: skb_over_panic

2007-08-24 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Kay Sievers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 23:02 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > * Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:44:50PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:16:38 -0400 > > > > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: kernel BUG with 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: skb_over_panic

2007-08-24 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Kay Sievers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 23:02 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > * Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:44:50PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:16:38 -0400 > > > > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [2.6 patch] remove securebits

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Morgan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FWIW, in the mm kernel, I've actually already removed them when one configures without capabilities. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc3/2.6.23-rc3-mm1/broken-out/v3-file-capabilities-alter-behavior-of-cap_setpcap

Re: kernel BUG with 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: skb_over_panic

2007-08-24 Thread Kay Sievers
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 23:02 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > * Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:44:50PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:16:38 -0400 > > > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > * Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PR

Re: [PATCH] include linux/pagemap.h in asm-generic/tlb.h

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:15:33 -0400 Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I think a better fix would be better, but I'm not able to suggest what, > > as there is little detail about the failure here and I can find no mention > > of page_cache_release and release_pages in asm-generic/tlb.h. P

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:47:59 +0200 Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 25.08.2007 02:07 schrieb Andrew Morton: > > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:27:25 +0200 > > Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Am 22.08.2007 11:06 schrieb Andrew Morton: > >>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/k

Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-08-24 Thread Bryan Woods
Hi KML I am installing gentoo 2007.0 (kernel 2.6.19) on a dual AMD Opteron server (total of 4 cores). The hard disk is a Stardom 2611-2S-S1 device: actually two 250GB drives in a RAID0 config managed by the device itself - it should appear to the kernel as one SATA drive. If it matters, the un

Re: kernel BUG with 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: skb_over_panic

2007-08-24 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:44:50PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:16:38 -0400 > > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > * Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:47:07 -0400 > > > > Math

Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface

2007-08-24 Thread Mitchell Erblich
Jan-Bernd Themann, IMO, a box must be aware of the speed of all its interfaces, whether the interface impliments tail-drop or RED or XYZ, the latency to access the packet, etc. Then when a packet arrives, a timer is started f

Re: [PATCH] include linux/pagemap.h in asm-generic/tlb.h

2007-08-24 Thread Jeff Dike
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:20:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > This is worrisome. If you look at pagemap.h, it includes a pile of things > which could easily themsleves try to include tlb.h via some path or > another. I fear that this patch will cause explosions with some config > and/or archit

Re: kernel BUG with 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: skb_over_panic

2007-08-24 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:44:50 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:16:38 -0400 > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:47:07 -0400 > > > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > H

Re: [PATCH] Add source address to sunrpc svc errors

2007-08-24 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:26:30 +0100 Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > Hi, > This patch adds the address of the client that caused an > error in sunrpc/svc.c so that you get errors that look like: > > svc: 192.168.66.28, port=709 :unknown version (3 for prog 13, nfsd) > > I've seen machines wh

[PATCH] Add source address to sunrpc svc errors

2007-08-24 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
Hi, This patch adds the address of the client that caused an error in sunrpc/svc.c so that you get errors that look like: svc: 192.168.66.28, port=709 :unknown version (3 for prog 13, nfsd) I've seen machines which get bunches of unknown version or similar errors from time to time, and whil

Re: kernel BUG with 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: skb_over_panic

2007-08-24 Thread Kay Sievers
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 17:46 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:44:50PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:16:38 -0400 > > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:47:07 -0400 > >

Re: [PATCH] fix undefined reference to device_power_up/resume

2007-08-24 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 11:10:13AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Olaf Hering writes: > > > So change even more places from PM to PM_SLEEP to allow linking. > > What config shows these errors? I presume you need to have CONFIG_PM > but not CONFIG_PM_SLEEP in order to see them? E.g. PM, PPC32, S

Re: possible BUG while doing gpg --gen-key

2007-08-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 06:30:20PM +0200, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > While doing gpg --gen-key I can reproduce quite well some sort of > crash/bug/etc: > # gpg --gen-key >... > We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform > some other action (type on the keyboard, move t

Re: [PATCH] fix undefined reference to device_power_up/resume

2007-08-24 Thread Paul Mackerras
Olaf Hering writes: > So change even more places from PM to PM_SLEEP to allow linking. What config shows these errors? I presume you need to have CONFIG_PM but not CONFIG_PM_SLEEP in order to see them? Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body o

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

2007-08-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:22:51PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > Andrew Morton, le Tue 21 Aug 2007 13:02:33 -0700, a écrit : > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:57:18 +0200 > > Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Some external modules like Speakup need to use the PC keyboard to

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: LinuxFoundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-24 Thread Dave Jones
Folks, Unless you're on the ksummit-2007-discuss list, please trim it from the Cc list in followups. As it's a subscriber-only posting list, it's turning into something of a chore to have to keep going to play whack-a-mole with mailman. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubsc

Re: Possible problems reading a DVD-RAM disc

2007-08-24 Thread TheOneKEA
Mr. Hancock, On 8/24/07, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TheOneKEA wrote: > > While doing a long mega-copy from one side of a DVD-RAM disc formatted > > with the vfat filesystem to an smbfs network share, I got lots and > > lots of these in the dmesg: > > > > Buffer I/O error on device

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: LinuxFoundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:01:13PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > Have there been any more nominations? At the moment we are sitting > with three people standing for five positions, so the whole concept > of who should be allowed to vote in the election seems to be moot. Unless I'm misunderstanding

Re: [PATCH 0/6] x86: Reduce Memory Usage and Inter-Node message traffic (v2)

2007-08-24 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:26:54PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Previous Intro: Thanks for doing this. > In x86_64 and i386 architectures most arrays that are sized > using NR_CPUS lay in local memory on node 0. Not only will most > (99%?) of the systems not use all the slots in these array

Re: kernel BUG with 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: skb_over_panic

2007-08-24 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:44:50PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:16:38 -0400 > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:47:07 -0400 > > > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-24 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 25.08.2007 02:07 schrieb Andrew Morton: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:27:25 +0200 > Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Am 22.08.2007 11:06 schrieb Andrew Morton: >>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc3/2.6.23-rc3-mm1/ >> After applying Matthew Wilcox

Re: [RFC] : mm : / Patch / code : Suggestion :snip kswapd & get_page_from_freelist() : No more no page failures.

2007-08-24 Thread Mitchell Erblich
From: Mitchell Erblich To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andrew Morton ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 3:11 PM Subject: Re: [RFC] : mm : / Patch / code : Suggestion :snip kswapd & get_page_from_freelist() : No more no page failures. Mailer

Re: kernel BUG with 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: skb_over_panic

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:16:38 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:47:07 -0400 > > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > > > I get the following BUG when booting 2.6.23-rc3-mm

RE: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-24 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Pallipadi, Venkatesh >Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 5:14 PM >To: Andrew Morton; Tilman Schmidt >Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Thomas Gleixner; john >stultz; Andi Kleen; Len Brown; [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [patch 11/14] Convert from class_device to device for USB host

2007-08-24 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 03:48:17PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -- > Content-Disposition: inline; filename=usb-host.patch > > Convert from class_device to device for drivers/ide/usb/host. Greg, not > sure if you're looking for a patch for this. Kay mentioned maybe it was to > be superceded

Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86: fix cpu_to_node references (v2)

2007-08-24 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:26:55PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fix four instances where cpu_to_node is referenced > by array instead of via the cpu_to_node macro. This > is preparation to moving it to the per_cpu data area. > ... > unsigned long __init numa_free_all_bootmem(void) > --- a

Re: [PATCH] include linux/pagemap.h in asm-generic/tlb.h

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:46:16 -0400 Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ This looks non-urgent to me ] > > Without linux/pagemap.h, asm-generic/tlb.h is missing declarations of > page_cache_release and release_pages. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- > include/asm-generic

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-24 Thread john stultz
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 17:07 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:27:25 +0200 > Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am 22.08.2007 11:06 schrieb Andrew Morton: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc3/2.6.23-rc3-mm1/ > > > > After ap

Linux-Kernel MAINTAINERS jffs-dev list entry alive?

2007-08-24 Thread Joe Perches
JOURNALLING FLASH FILE SYSTEM V2 (JFFS2) P: David Woodhouse M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/ The L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] entry doesn't seem active. - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to lsil.com.mail9.psmtp.com

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-24 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:07:02PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > FATAL: Error inserting processor > > (/lib/modules/2.6.23-rc3-mm1-testing/kernel/drivers/acpi/processor.ko): > > Input/output error > > WARNING: Error inserting processor > > (/lib/modules/2.6.23-rc3-mm1-testing/kernel/driv

Re: kernel BUG with 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: skb_over_panic

2007-08-24 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:47:07 -0400 > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > I get the following BUG when booting 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 on i386. I wonder if > > you would have some ideas about what is causing this problem. I'll s

RE: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-24 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
>> - in /var/log/warn: >> >> Aug 25 00:44:00 xenon powersaved[5356]: WARNING >(CpufreqManagement:51) No capability cpufreq_control >> Aug 25 00:44:00 xenon powersaved[5356]: WARNING >(CpufreqManagement:51) No capability cpufreq_control > >Dunno, there're some significant-looking cpufreq change

Re: [PATCH 1/1] cciss: fix error reporting for SG_IO

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:53:54 -0500 "Mike Miller (OS Dev)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This fixes a problem with the way cciss was filling out the "errors" > field of the request structure upon completion of requests. > Previously, it just put a 1 or a 0 in there and used the negation > of this a

RE: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: LinuxFoundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-24 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 17:01 -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > Have there been any more nominations? At the moment we are sitting > with three people standing for five positions, so the whole concept > of who should be allowed to vote in the election seems to be moot. Yes, the current nominations slate i

Re: [PATCH] Sort module list - use ppos instead of m->private

2007-08-24 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:39:33 -0400 > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sort modules list - use ppos instead of m->private > > > > When reading the data by small chunks (i.e. byte by byte), the index (ppos) > > is > > incremented by se

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:27:25 +0200 Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 22.08.2007 11:06 schrieb Andrew Morton: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc3/2.6.23-rc3-mm1/ > > After applying Matthew Wilcox' patch to include/linux/isa.h which patch is th

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: LinuxFoundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-24 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:01:13 -0700 Luck, Tony wrote: > Have there been any more nominations? At the moment we are sitting > with three people standing for five positions, so the whole concept > of who should be allowed to vote in the election seems to be moot. Yes, James Morris and Jon Corbet.

Linux-Kernel MAINTAINERS - LSILOGIC MPT FUSION DRIVERS

2007-08-24 Thread Joe Perches
The MPT driver subsystem block has an invalid list address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a replacement address? LSILOGIC MPT FUSION DRIVERS (FC/SAS/SPI) P: Eric Moore M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin

RE: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: LinuxFoundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-24 Thread Luck, Tony
Have there been any more nominations? At the moment we are sitting with three people standing for five positions, so the whole concept of who should be allowed to vote in the election seems to be moot. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a messa

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-24 Thread Alan Cox
> although I would worry about their members only being the ones voting on > the TAB for no other reason than the bias toward one distro only at this > point in time. Given the complaint was about the question of correct selection of voters replacing the somewhat flawed kernel summit attendee test

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-24 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:57:35AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:22:28PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 08:55:04PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:52:54PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > The other part of the puzzle is in

Re: [PATCH][resend] fix IDE legacy mode resources

2007-08-24 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:37:13PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > >> PCI: Unable to reserve I/O region #1:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for device > >> :00:09.1 > > > > > > In some architectures, PCI bus regions have the offset from PCI resources. > > > For this reason, pci_setup_device() should set PCI bu

Re: kernel BUG with 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: skb_over_panic

2007-08-24 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 04:10:29PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:47:07 -0400 > Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > I get the following BUG when booting 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 on i386. I wonder if > > you would have some ideas about what is causing

Re: [PATCH 1/2] NBD: set uninitialized devices to size 0

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:06:39 -0400 Paul Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This fixes errors with utilities (such as LVM's vgscan) that try to scan > all devices. Previously this would generate read errors when > uninitialized nbd devices were scanned: I somewhat randomly marked both these a

Re: [PATCH 1/2] do CPU_DEAD migrating under read_lock(tasklist) instead of write_lock_irq(tasklist)

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:53:03 +0400 Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (the explicit ack/nack from maintainers is wanted) It's not completely clear who "maintainers" refers to when it comes to this code. > Currently move_task_off_dead_cpu() is called under write_lock_irq(tasklist). > This

[PATCH] Prefix each line of multiline printk(KERN_ "foo\nbar") with KERN_

2007-08-24 Thread Joe Perches
Corrected printk calls with multiple output lines which did not correctly preface each line with KERN_ Fixed uses of some single lines with too many KERN_ Please pull from: git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/trivial-mods.git pr_newlines Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> arch/arm/kernel/ec

Re: Possible problems reading a DVD-RAM disc

2007-08-24 Thread Robert Hancock
TheOneKEA wrote: While doing a long mega-copy from one side of a DVD-RAM disc formatted with the vfat filesystem to an smbfs network share, I got lots and lots of these in the dmesg: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 4396 lost page write due to I/O error on sr0 sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Resu

Re: [PATCH] Sort module list - use ppos instead of m->private

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:39:33 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sort modules list - use ppos instead of m->private > > When reading the data by small chunks (i.e. byte by byte), the index (ppos) is > incremented by seq_read() directly and no "next" callback is called when going

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-24 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 22.08.2007 11:06 schrieb Andrew Morton: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc3/2.6.23-rc3-mm1/ After applying Matthew Wilcox' patch to include/linux/isa.h this compiles and boots on my Intel/openSUSE 10.2 test machine but throws out the following messages I d

Re: [sata_nv] timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, stat=0x440

2007-08-24 Thread Robert Hancock
Maarten Maathuis wrote: I have this problem several times, always with the same harddrive, a samsung sp2004c. My samsung hd161hj and hd321kj don't seem to suffer from this problem. I do not know when exactly it happened for the first, but it has happened twice on a 2.6.22 kernel. Is there anythi

Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] Hibernation: Arbitrary boot kernel support on x86_64

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:11:54 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Index: linux-2.6.23-rc3/include/asm-x86_64/suspend.h > === > --- linux-2.6.23-rc3.orig/include/asm-x86_64/suspend.h2007-08-21 > 20:36:49.

Re: USB Key light on/off state depending on mount

2007-08-24 Thread Robert Hancock
Casey Dahlin wrote: Most USB keys nowadays have a small LED somewhere inside of them that lights up when they are plugged in. On a windows box, the key is lit up whenever it is mounted, and as soon as it is unmounted it turns off, giving a handy physical indicator that the key is safe to remove

Re: kernel BUG with 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: skb_over_panic

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:47:07 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > I get the following BUG when booting 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 on i386. I wonder if > you would have some ideas about what is causing this problem. I'll start > bissecting it soon. I seems to be caused by an bug

Re: "exception Emask: 0x42" errors with 2.6.22.x and SATA drives

2007-08-24 Thread Alan Cox
> (1) there is 1 newer official BIOS release and 2 beta BIOSes out for > this motherboard. The recent official BIOS (0901) does mention Linux: > >"Fixed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 installation failed" > > So maybe a BIOS update will fix things. Yep > So I guess these drives should be added

Re: [PATCH 1/1] hotplug cpu: migrate a task within its cpuset

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:18:06 -0500 Cliff Wickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When a cpu is disabled, move_task_off_dead_cpu() is called for tasks > that have been running on that cpu. > > Currently, such a task is migrated: > 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both onl

coldplug zd1211rw wireless driver results in firefox segfault

2007-08-24 Thread Paul Albrecht
Hi, I'm trying to use a hawking hwu54g with the zd1211rw driver in the 2.6.20 linux kernel. It works ok when I hotplug the device, but causes firefox to segfault when I coldplug the device. As I get the segfault whether or not I bring the device up, I'm wondering if there's a problem with the usb

kernel BUG with 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: skb_over_panic

2007-08-24 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Hi Andrew, I get the following BUG when booting 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 on i386. I wonder if you would have some ideas about what is causing this problem. I'll start bissecting it soon. I seems to be caused by an buggy skb_put call in kobject_uevent_env. Thanks, Mathieu Synthesizing the initial hotplug

Re: [PATCH] include linux/pagemap.h in asm-generic/tlb.h

2007-08-24 Thread Jeff Dike
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:51:41PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > It may be non-urgent to you, but it still broke my build. :) > > Acked-by: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Heh, it doesn't seem like -stable material to me, but if there aren't any screams while it sits in -mm, maybe it's 2.6.23 mater

[2.6 patch] fix export_report.pl on top of adrian's fix

2007-08-24 Thread Ram Pai
Fixes some subtle perl coding bug observed by Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch applies on top of Adrian's fix. Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- scripts/export_report.pl |8 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.21.5/scripts/exp

[PATCH 5/6] x86: Convert cpu_llc_id to be a per cpu variable (v2)

2007-08-24 Thread travis
Convert cpu_llc_id from a static array sized by NR_CPUS to a per_cpu variable. This saves sizeof(cpu_llc_id) * NR unused cpus. Access is mostly from startup and CPU HOTPLUG functions. Note there's an addtional change of the type of cpu_llc_id from int to u8 for ARCH i386 to correspond with the s

[PATCH 2/6] x86: Convert cpu_core_map to be a per cpu variable (v2)

2007-08-24 Thread travis
This is from an earlier message from 'Christoph Lameter': cpu_core_map is currently an array defined using NR_CPUS. This means that we overallocate since we will rarely really use maximum configured cpu. If we put the cpu_core_map into the per cpu area then it will be allocated fo

[PATCH 6/6] x86: acpi-use-cpu_physical_id (v2)

2007-08-24 Thread travis
This is from an earlier message from Christoph Lameter: processor_core.c currently tries to determine the apicid by special casing for IA64 and x86. The desired information is readily available via cpu_physical_id() on IA64, i386 and x86_64. Signed-off-by: Christoph

[PATCH 3/6] x86: Convert cpu_sibling_map to be a per cpu variable (v2)

2007-08-24 Thread travis
Convert cpu_sibling_map from a static array sized by NR_CPUS to a per_cpu variable. This saves sizeof(cpumask_t) * NR unused cpus. Access is mostly from startup and CPU HOTPLUG functions. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c |2 - ar

[PATCH 4/6] x86: Convert x86_cpu_to_apicid to be a per cpu variable (v2)

2007-08-24 Thread travis
This patch converts the x86_cpu_to_apicid array to be a per cpu variable. This saves sizeof(apicid) * NR unused cpus. Access is mostly from startup and CPU HOTPLUG functions. MP_processor_info() is one of the functions that require access to the x86_cpu_to_apicid array before the per_cpu data are

[PATCH 1/6] x86: fix cpu_to_node references (v2)

2007-08-24 Thread travis
Fix four instances where cpu_to_node is referenced by array instead of via the cpu_to_node macro. This is preparation to moving it to the per_cpu data area. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c |2 +- arch/x86_64/mm/numa.c |4 ++-- arch

[PATCH 0/6] x86: Reduce Memory Usage and Inter-Node message traffic (v2)

2007-08-24 Thread travis
Changes for version v2: > > Note the addtional change of the cpu_llc_id type from u8 > > to int for ARCH x86_64 to correspond with ARCH i386. > At least currently it cannot be more than 8 bit. So why > waste memory? It would be better to change i386 Done. (x86_64 type => u8). > > Fix four inst

Re: [PATCH][resend] fix IDE legacy mode resources

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:55:59 +0900 Yoichi Yuasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I got the following error on MIPS Cobalt. > > PCI: Unable to reserve I/O region #1:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for device :00:09.1 > pata_via :00:09.1: failed to request/iomap BARs for port 0 (errno=-16) > PCI: Un

[PATCH 1/1] hotplug cpu: migrate a task within its cpuset

2007-08-24 Thread Cliff Wickman
When a cpu is disabled, move_task_off_dead_cpu() is called for tasks that have been running on that cpu. Currently, such a task is migrated: 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed 2) to any cpu which is both online and amo

Re: DM_MULTIPATH_RDAC: "scsi_normalize_sense" undefined

2007-08-24 Thread Chandra Seetharaman
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 15:00 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:33:02 -0700 Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > > > It does, but "rdac" _is_ for a SCSI device. > > It does __what__ ? depend on SCSI? Yes, as you understood it correctly :) > I don't see that in drivers/md/Kconfig. > Sou

[GIT PULL] x86 setup: prevent gcc from doing the wrong things

2007-08-24 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Hi Linus, Please pull: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup.git for-linus H. Peter Anvin (2): [x86 setup] Volatilize asm() statements [x86 setup] Make sure AH=00h when setting a video mode arch/i386/boot/boot.h | 24

Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface

2007-08-24 Thread akepner
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 02:47:11PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > Someone should reference that thread _now_ before this discussion goes > too far and we repeat a lot of information .. Here's part of the thread: http://marc.info/?t=11159530601&r=1&w=2 Also, Jamal's paper may be of i

Re: DM_MULTIPATH_RDAC: "scsi_normalize_sense" undefined

2007-08-24 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:33:02 -0700 Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > It does, but "rdac" _is_ for a SCSI device. It does __what__ ? depend on SCSI? I don't see that in drivers/md/Kconfig. Sounds like Martin is correct, SCSI needs to be added, like below. > What device are you using it with ? > > O

TUN/TAP driver - MAINTAINERS - bad mailing list entry?

2007-08-24 Thread Joe Perches
MAINTAINERS curently has: TUN/TAP driver P: Maxim Krasnyansky M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't seem to be a valid email address. Should it be removed or modified? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface

2007-08-24 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 02:44:36PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: David Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:50:58 -0700 > > > Problem is if it increases rapidly, you may drop packets > > before you notice that the ring is full in the current estimated > > interval.

Re: [2.6 patch] fix export_report.pl

2007-08-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:36:40PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Aug 24 2007 23:04, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >This patch fixes an annoying bug of export_report.pl missing the usages > >of some exports. > > > >Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >--- > > > >This patch has been s

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