Re: [PATCH 1/13] speedtch: Clean up printk()'s in drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.c

2005-03-06 Thread Jim Nelson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg KH wrote: | On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 05:37:13PM -0600, James Nelson wrote: | |>Add a KERN_WARNING constant to a printk() that is missing it, and add a driver |>prefix to another two in drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.c | | | Please CC: usb patches to the u

Re: diff command line?

2005-03-05 Thread Jim Nelson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russell King wrote: | On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:48:00AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: | |>What are the options normally used to generate a diff for public |>consumption on this list? | | | diff -urpN orig new | | where "orig" and "new" both contain the to

Re: Huge unreliability - does Linux have something to do with it?

2005-02-04 Thread Jim Nelson
jerome lacoste wrote: [Sorry for the sensational title] I have had this laptop for three years. It ran Linux (Debian unstable) from the start and its hardware has been very unreliable: I changed hard disks twice and the motherboard thrice. My DVD drive started failing some days ago (this one is 'or

2.6.11-rc2-mm2 - kernel panic with SysRq-f

2005-02-01 Thread Jim Nelson
This is copied from a serial console. This is repeatable - every time I do sysrq-f, it panics - keyboard, VGA and network go down, but USB and the serial console stay up (can tell from the hid-input messages the mouse is spewing in -mm2). I end up having to pull the power cord to shut it down.

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 (& bk9) - rowdy little warn in drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c

2005-01-31 Thread Jim Nelson
Cal wrote: With 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 & 2.6.11-rc2-bk9 and usb mouse, the warn("event field not found") in drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c is hyperactive whenever the mouse moves. hihone kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found hihone last message repeated 619 times hihone last messag

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm2

2005-01-31 Thread Jim Nelson
Laurent Riffard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 31.01.2005 22:15, Andre Eisenbach a écrit : | Andrew, | | My PCMCIA slot (yenta_socket) doesn't work anymore with | 2.6.11-rc2-m2. See the dmesg output below. It works fine with | 2.6.11-rc1-mm1. | | Let me know if you need any

Re: [PATCH 0/13] remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/*

2005-01-16 Thread Jim Nelson
Alan Cox wrote: On Sul, 2005-01-16 at 21:04, Andrew Morton wrote: James Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This series of patches removes the last cli()/sti()/save_flags()/restore_flags() function calls in drivers/char. I don't see much point in this, really. Those cli() calls are a big fat sign sa

Re: [PATCH 0/13] remove cli()/sti() in drivers/char/*

2005-01-16 Thread Jim Nelson
Randy.Dunlap wrote: James Nelson wrote: This series of patches removes the last cli()/sti()/save_flags()/restore_flags() function calls in drivers/char. to what end? I guess I don't get it. What makes these drivers SMP-safe now? Or is this series of patches only done to kill off the use of depre