Device Driver Etiquette

2007-06-01 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
(although not nice) to simply fix it this way, by disabling irqs while it loads the firmware? Thanks, Matthew Fredrickson Kernel Developer Digium, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordo

Re: High CPU usage with sata_nv

2007-02-21 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
On Feb 20, 2007, at 9:43 PM, Robert Hancock wrote: Matthew Fredrickson wrote: I have noticed something that might be related as well. I am working on a device driver that would have periodic data errors due to exceptionally long interrupt handling latency. I have come to the point that I

Re: High CPU usage with sata_nv

2007-02-12 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
periodic data errors due to exceptionally long interrupt handling latency. I have come to the point that I suspect that it's the sata_nv driver, and now that we can't do the hdparm -u1 option for sata, it seems to be a bigger problem. Matthew Fredrickson - To unsubscribe from this list

Goodbye

2001-04-03 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
I have decided to leave lkml because everybody else is doing it too. Matthew Fredrickson - 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: [OT] Sane Architectures

2001-03-26 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
h is actually quite nice. It has generally good FP performance, a large pool of general use registers, and many other really convenient attributes. You can join the list by sending a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe linux-mips [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the body. Matthew Fredrickson - To unsubscr

[jford@tusc.net: LUNA: Megaraid problems]

2001-03-05 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
I have a machine with a built-in Adaptec aic7xxx card and a Megaraid PCI card. My system (raid 5) boots off the Megaraid. For this to work I compiled the Megaraid module into the kernel while the aic7xxx loads as a module. dmesg shows the following: megaraid: v107 (December 22, 1999) megara

Re: [Slightly OT] x86 PROM project

2001-03-04 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
ities. Maybe I'm wrong (and I hope I am), but it just seems to be a bit vaporous. > [who likes SUN firmware even more than SGI firmware] [I was just using SGI as an example] Matthew Fredrickson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

[Slightly OT] x86 PROM project

2001-03-04 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
anybody is already doing something like this (not linuxBIOS, though the code for that could be a useful base). Thanks. Matthew Fredrickson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at ht

Re: Errors compiling 2.4.2

2001-02-28 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
bout it, but the quick response is appreciated _very_ much so. Matthew Fredrickson - 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 read the

Errors compiling 2.4.2

2001-02-28 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
x27;t seem to identify what binary it can't seem to find. I'm running debian (unstable) system, 2.4.1, Athlon-1Ghz, Asus A7Pro board, ld version : GNU ld version 2.10.91 (with BFD 2.10.91.0.2) Any help would be appreciated. btw, if I just do a regular make, it works out fine, just that o

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
the people didn't need Microsoft anymore. :-) Matthew Fredrickson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Kernel PPP/Modem connection problems starting somewhere between 2.2.14(maybe 15) and 2.2.18

2001-01-31 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:48:29PM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 17:30:38 -0600 (+), Matthew Fredrickson wrote: > > I'm not positive if this is a bug, I'm only able to confirm this from one > > other source. Somewhere between (I can't

Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-01-29 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
al though until I finally just switched it over to usb. Matthew Fredrickson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: PPP/Modem connection problems starting somewhere between 2.2.14(maybe 15) and 2.2.18

2001-01-29 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:48:29PM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 17:30:38 -0600 (+), Matthew Fredrickson wrote: > > I'm not positive if this is a bug, I'm only able to confirm this from one > > other source. Somewhere between (I can't

PPP/Modem connection problems starting somewhere between 2.2.14(maybe 15) and 2.2.18

2001-01-24 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
the linux box says ppp0 is up. I would appreciate any help I can get. I'm about to go look at historical kernel changelogs. Thanks. -- Matthew Fredrickson AIM MatthewFredricks ICQ 13923212 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.fredricknet.net/~matt/ "Everything is relative" - To unsubscri

Re: VIA chipset discussion

2001-01-19 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 11:42:01AM -0500, John O'Donnell wrote: > Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:42:25PM +, Howard Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 06:32:39PM -0500, John O'Donnell wrote: > > > > Matthew Fred

Re: VIA chipset discussion

2001-01-18 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
pgraded from 2.2.18pre21 to 2.4.0. I think I'm going to try using the mouse as a usb device and see if I still have trouble. Anyway, just wondering if you're seeing the same problem. Matthew Fredrickson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

PROBLEM: PS/2 Mouse && Asus A7V Mobo && X 4.0.x (and 3.3.x)

2001-01-14 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
code? (ugh). I wasn't quite sure to what extent I should go into detail about what is happening, so if more info is needed, I can give more. btw, gpm works just fine with no problems, just X has problems. Thanks. -- Matthew Fredrickson AIM MatthewFredricks ICQ 13923212 [EMAIL P

Re: [Demo program]: Poor elevator performance in 2.4.0-test9pre6

2000-09-27 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 04:10:38PM +1000, Robert Cohen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > I doubt this has any relevance whatsoever, but when I try this on a > 2.2.16 > kernel running on top of a Pentium Pro 200 w/96megs of mem w/ a SCSI 2 > disk, I get some funny numbers: > > matt@zeus:~/c