[PATCH 5/8] kernel-doc: fix pci-acpi warning

2008-02-03 Thread Randy.Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix PCI kernel-doc warning: Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c:166): No description found for parameter 'hid' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- linux-2.

[PATCH 4/8] kernel-doc: fix drivers/base/ warnings

2008-02-03 Thread Randy.Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix drivers/base/ missing kernel-doc parameters: Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//drivers/base/driver.c:133): No description found for parameter 'drv' Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//drivers/base/driver.c:133): No description found for parameter 'kobj' Warning(linu

[PATCH 2/8] kernel-doc: fix block params and docbook

2008-02-03 Thread Randy.Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kernel-doc for block/: - add missing parameters - fix one function's parameter list (remove blank line) - add 2 source files to docbook for non-exported kernel-doc functions Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/DocBook/kernel-a

[PATCH 3/8] kernel-doc: fix mtrr warning

2008-02-03 Thread Randy.Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix mtrr kernel-doc warning: Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c:677): No description found for parameter 'end_pfn' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c |1 + 1 file changed, 1 ins

[PATCH 1/8] kernel-doc: fix audit warnings

2008-02-03 Thread Randy.Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix kernel-doc warnings in audit.c. Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//kernel/audit.c:1268): No description found for parameter 'string' Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//kernel/audit.c:1268): No description found for parameter 'len'` Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EM

[PATCH] docbook: rapidio: fix fatal filename error

2008-01-31 Thread Randy.Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix docbook fatal error (files were renamed): docproc: linux-2.6.24-git9/arch/ppc/kernel/rio.c: No such file or directory Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/DocBook/rapidio.tmpl |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+),

taskstats accounting info

2007-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Hi, Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt says that the getdelays program has a "-c cmd" argument, but that option does not seem to exist in Documentation/account/getdelays.c. Do you have an updated version of getdelays.c? If not, please correct that documentation. Is getdelays.c the bes

Re: [Bug 8040] Hang before INIT when CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y

2007-03-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:13:25 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8040 > > > > > > --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-03-14 03:13 --- > > Any news on that bug please ? > > None what

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix some coding-style errors in autofs

2007-03-12 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fix some coding-style errors in autofs > > Fix coding style errors (extra spaces, long lines) in autofs > and autofs4 files being modified for container/pidspace issues. > > --- > f

Re: Style Question

2007-03-11 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Mar 12 2007 13:37, Cong WANG wrote: > > > > The following code is picked from drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c: > > > > static struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu_load(struct kvm *kvm, int vcpu_slot) > > { > > struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = &kvm->vcpus[vcpu_slot]; > > > > mutex_

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-stable] cpuset semaphore double trip fix

2005-09-09 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:44:03 -0700 (PDT) Paul Jackson wrote: > Code reading uncovered a potential deadlock on the global cpuset > semaphore, cpuset_sem. > > ==> This patch is only useful in the 2.6.13-stable series. Paul, stable patch candidates should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris/Greg, m

Re: List of things requested by lkml for reiser4 inclusion (to review)

2005-09-09 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Hans Reiser wrote: > Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > >On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:36:06AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > > > >>If we lose every remaining point of this list, we can generate a patch > >>in a few days, because the VFS work was the only substantive (in coding > >>hours

Re: Debugging

2005-09-09 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Lares Moreau wrote: > OKay this is a noobie question, > > I have all the kernel debugging options turned. Now how do I change the > kernel logging level from prompt? Or do I? > > I have 'loglevel=7' appended to my kernel line in grub. Is that all I > need or is there more to

[PATCH] Doc: update oops-tracing.txt (Tainted flags)

2005-09-08 Thread Randy.Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Update Documentation/oops-tracing.txt: - add descriptions of 3 more "Tainted" flags; - fix some typos; Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 25 + 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+),

Re: kbuild & C++

2005-09-06 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Esben Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > On 9/6/05, Budde, Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > for one of our customers I have to port a Windows driver to > > > Linux. Large parts of the driver's backend code consists of > > > C++.

Re: wakeup on lan enable without compiling as module

2005-09-06 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Tony Breeds wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to build the 3c59x vortex module into the kernel (not as > > module) but don't loose the ability to use wakeup-on-lan. Because it > > seems to be impossible to spe

Re: nfs4 client bug

2005-09-06 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:21:09AM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:40:53PM -0700, Bret Towe wrote: > > > > Pid: 14169, comm: xmms Tainte

Re: nfs4 client bug

2005-09-06 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:40:53PM -0700, Bret Towe wrote: > > Pid: 14169, comm: xmms Tainted: G M 2.6.13 > > Hm, can someone explain what that means? A proprietary module was > loaded then unloaded, maybe? 'M' means Machine Check, which sets the T

Re: www.linux1394.org - ???

2005-09-02 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 23:35:14 -0500 art wrote: > www.linux1394.org - is this server/project dead ? The server is known dead and being worked on or replaced. News on linux1394 mailing list indicates that it should be back soon (or should have been back soon)... Stefan Richter has tarballs of his s

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13] Unhandled error condition in aic7xxx

2005-09-01 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:38:24 -0700 Daniel Walker wrote: > > This patch should handle the case when scsi_add_host() fails. > > Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Index: linux-2.6.13/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c > ===

Re: 2.6.13 git snapshot patches still empty

2005-09-01 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:17:37 -0700 Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:19:51 +0100 Sid Boyce wrote: > > > For both -git1.gz/.bz2 and -git2.gz/.bz2. > > Yep, I think this is the fourth message about this. > It would be nice to get it fixed I suppose as a tempo

Re: 2.6.13 git snapshot patches still empty

2005-09-01 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:19:51 +0100 Sid Boyce wrote: > For both -git1.gz/.bz2 and -git2.gz/.bz2. Yep, I think this is the fourth message about this. It would be nice to get it fixed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PRO

Re: sr device can be written?

2005-08-31 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:07:55 +0800 jeff shia wrote: > but It seems that I can not open sr0 with openflags O_RDWR,why? > open("/dev/sr0",O_RDWR); > > It says:sr0 is a read only file sytem. > why? What media did you have in the drive? For me, with a CD-ROM, I get the same that you reported, but w

Re: GDT initialization and location question.

2005-08-30 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Chris Wright wrote: > * Pritesh Shah ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I was wondering as to where is the GDT initialized during the boot > > sequence? I will need the filename and the name of the routine that > > does this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Search for c

Re: Kernel 2.6.13: TCP (libnet?)

2005-08-30 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2005-08-30 at 15:41 -0400, John McGowan wrote: > > Kernel 2.6.13: TCP (libnet?) > > > > Broken libnet? > > > > KERNEL: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > LIBNET 1.1 (c) 1998 - 2004 Mike D. Schiffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > network bugs are best reported

Re: Linux-2.6.13 : __check_region is deprecated

2005-08-30 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, David Hollis wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 01:55 +0200, Diego Calleja wrote: > > El Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:34:25 +0200, > > Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > I don't see why we should break a bunch of drivers by doing that. > > > Much better, in my oppinion, t

Re: Linux-2.6.13 : __check_region is deprecated

2005-08-29 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Stephane Wirtel wrote: > Hi, > > By compiling my kernel, I can see that the __check_region function (in > kernel/resource.c) is deprecated. > > With a grep on the source code of the last release, I get this result. > > drivers/pnp/resource.c:255: if (__check_region

Re: USB EHCI Problem with Low Speed Devices on kernel 2.6.11+

2005-08-29 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Jan De Luyck wrote: > On Monday 29 August 2005 01:16, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > Dominik Wezel wrote: > > > Problem > > > === > > > When turning on the laptop and during POST and GrUB loading, all ports > > > on the hub are enabled. During the USB initialization pha

Re: help

2005-08-28 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:31:31 +0530 raja wrote: > I have subscribed in kernel newbie group.can anyone you please tell me > how can i post a question please. send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: kernel compile error in bootsplash.c

2005-08-27 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:53:35 +0200 (CEST) J. B. wrote: > I try to compile a 2.6.10 kernel but it stops with an error > in bootsplash.c. I have everything set in my .config file in /usr/src/linux > for bootsplash support. > > Anybody an idea. Where should i start to look? I am a newbie in kernel

Re: compiling only one module in kernel version 2.6?

2005-08-18 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 19:42 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:54:50AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 01:48 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 2

Re: compiling only one module in kernel version 2.6?

2005-08-16 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:54:50 -0400 Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 01:48 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 22:41 -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > > > > > Sam only added make .ko build support very recently, > > > so it could

Re: compiling only one module in kernel version 2.6?

2005-08-16 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:18:49 -0400 Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 19:09 -0700, Fong Vang wrote: > > What's the easiest way to compile just one module in the Linux 2.6 kernel > > tree? > > > > This no longer seem to work: > > > > $ cd /usr/src/linux > > $ make SUBDIRS=fs/reise

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] the big Documentation/Changes change

2005-08-09 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 03:17:40 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote: > I edited Documentation/Changes: > - remove obsolete information > - point to feature-list-2.6.txt instead of providing similar information > - removed the URLs of the software packages (people compiling their own > kernel usually know where

Re: Freeing a dynamic struct cdev

2005-08-06 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 15:26:18 -0400 James C. Georgas wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 12:21 -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 09:26:15 -0400 James C. Georgas wrote: > > > > > If I allocate a struct cdev using cdev_alloc(), what function do I call > > &

Re: 2.6.13-rc5-git4 __handle_mm_fault

2005-08-06 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 12:28:53 +0200 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hi, > > tried to build mol-modules on my powerbook: > MODPOST > *** Warning: "__handle_mm_fault" > [/usr/src/modules/mol/src/kmod/Linux/../build/mol.ko] undefined! > > please cc me as I am not subscribed. http://marc.theaimsgroup.

Re: Freeing a dynamic struct cdev

2005-08-06 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 09:26:15 -0400 James C. Georgas wrote: > If I allocate a struct cdev using cdev_alloc(), what function do I call > to free it when I'm done with it? Should be cdev_put(), which calls kobject_put(), which implements ref counting (using krefs), so that when the last reference is

Re: make modules Segfault

2005-08-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 21:20:22 -0600 George Van Tuyl wrote: > > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > >make modules failed Segfault (program cpp0) > > [2.] Full description of the problem/report: > > gcc: Internal error: Segmentation fault (prog

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-03 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > Jesper Juhl wrote: > > >+Where can I download the patches? > > Maybe it would be useful to once again mention that local mirrors should be > used at least for stable releases and */testing/*. > > >+The 2.6.x kernels > [...] > >+# moving from 2.6.11 to 2.

Re: Testing RC kernels [KORG]

2005-08-02 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:04:16 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 02 August 2005 15:21, Steven Rostedt wrote: > >On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:54 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > >> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:36 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > >> > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:36 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > >> > > On

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-02 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Hi, > > Looking forward to your feedback (and possible inclusion). > > I guess this document could also be placed somewhere on kernel.org and linked > to from the front page so that people downloading the various patches will > have this information availab

Re: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1

2005-07-31 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 02:05:52 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc4/2.6.13-rc4-mm1/ > > - Dropped the connector patches: turns out that we no longer have a netlink > slot available for them anyway. I don't feel strongly pro or

Re: file kernel/signal.c, 2 * array subscript out of range

2005-07-30 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 08:17:48 + d binderman wrote: > Hello there, > > I just tried to compile Redhat Fedora package > kernel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC5 with the Intel C compiler version 8.1 > > The compiler said > > kernel/signal.c(196): warning #175: subscript out of range > > The source code is >

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH] arch/xx/pci: remap_pfn_range -> io_remap_pfn_range

2005-07-28 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:57:51 +0100 Ian Pratt wrote: > > > Greg> Hm, you do realize that io_remap_pfn_range() is the same > > > Greg> thing as remap_pfn_range() on i386, right? > > > > > > Greg> So, why would this patch change anything? > > > > > > It's not the same thing under Xen.

Re: netdev watchdog

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:21:30 -0700 Shaun Jackman wrote: | Upon booting my system, the boot fails and the following message is | displayed repeatedly: | | NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out | eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status eb01. | diagnostics: net 0cfa media 88c0 dma 003a

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] Documentation: correct minor mistake and remove redundant info from SubmittingPatches

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:51:09 -0400 Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: | The first fix is to reverse the order of the files being diffed. Since | we make the change in $MYFILE (and not $MYFILE.orig}, the diff should | have the .orig file first followed by $MYFILE (which has been | modified). But the patch b

Re: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:33:29 -0700 David Mosberger wrote: | > On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:19:28 -0700, "Luck, Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: | | >> I just checked 2.6.12-rc3 and the fls() fix is indeed missing. | >> Do you know what happened? | | Tony> If BitKeeper were still in use, I'd

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2] aoe [1/6]: improve allowed interfaces configuration

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:30:06 -0400 Ed L Cashin wrote: | Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:36:17AM -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote: | >> "Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | >> | >> > Ed L Cashin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >> > | >> >> +++

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:19:10 +0200 Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: | > It's available both as a patch (against 2.6.11) and as a tar-ball, and | Where IS the tarball? Not on www.kernel.org, that's for sure. in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/skfp/: fix LITTLE_ENDIAN

2005-04-20 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 04:17:08 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote: | This patch fixes the LITTLE_ENDIAN #define. and a function prototype. | Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | --- | | drivers/net/skfp/h/osdef1st.h |2 ++ | drivers/net/skfp/smt.c|2 +- | 2 files changed, 3

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2] aoe [5/6]: add firmware version to info in sysfs

2005-04-20 Thread Randy.Dunlap
| add firmware version to info in sysfs | | +static struct disk_attribute disk_attr_fwver = { | + .attr = {.name = "fwver", .mode = S_IRUGO }, | + .show = aoedisk_show_fwver | +}; | @@ -64,6 +76,7 @@ aoedisk_rm_sysfs(struct aoedev *d) | sysfs_remove_link(&d->gd->kobj, "state"); |

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2] aoe [1/6]: improve allowed interfaces configuration

2005-04-20 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:02:12 -0400 Ed L Cashin wrote: Just a nit/typo: | +modprobe aoe_iflist="eth1 eth3" | static char aoe_iflist[IFLISTSZ]; | +module_param_string(aoe_iflist, aoe_iflist, IFLISTSZ, 0600); | +MODULE_PARM_DESC(aoe_iflist, " aoe_iflist=\"dev1 [dev2 ...]\n"); No leading space

Re: intercepting syscalls

2005-04-18 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:48:03 -0400 Igor Shmukler wrote: | Rik, (and everyone), | | Everything is IMHO only. | | It all boils down to whether: | 1. it is hard to correctly implement such LKM so that it can be safely | loaded and unloaded and when these modules are combined they may not | work tog

Re: intercepting syscalls

2005-04-15 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:41:34 -0400 Igor Shmukler wrote: | Hello, | | Thanks to everyone for replying. | It is surprising to me that linux-kernel people decided to disallow | interception of system calls. | I don't really see any upside to this. Upside ? | I guess if there is no clean way to do

Re: 2.6.12-rc2: >100% memory usage

2005-04-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:59:05 +1000 Nick Piggin wrote: | On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 12:48 +0800, Michael Deegan wrote: | > Hi folks, | > | > I noticed something unusual on my home desktop machine (K6II, 448M RAM, runs | > KDE, samba, nfsd. 2.6.12-rc2 on Debian sarge). The machine seems to feel | > slig

Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix a few 'empty body in an if-statement' warnings.

2005-04-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 02:58:54 +0200 (CEST) Jesper Juhl wrote: | When building with gcc -W fs/reiserfs/namei.c:602 has a few warnings | about 'empty body in an if-statement'. This patch silences those warnings. So fix include/linux/reiserfs_xattr.h: change #define reiserfs_mark_inode_private(ino

Re: read failed EINVAL with O_DIRECT flag

2005-04-13 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:15:47 +0200 Yves Crespin wrote: | | >| How can I obtains an buffer alignement from a "user program" ? | > | >I actually left that as an exercise (after I did it at home | >last night). Did you read the hint (below)? | | Well ... either with malloc() and alignement or

Re: read failed EINVAL with O_DIRECT flag

2005-04-12 Thread Randy.Dunlap
s to posix_memalign(). That's not what I used to test it, but if it works, it should be a good choice. | Randy.Dunlap wrote: | | >On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:14:17 +0200 Yves Crespin wrote: | > | >| Hello, | >| | >| Using O_DIRECT flag, read() failed and errno is EINVAL.

Re: read failed EINVAL with O_DIRECT flag

2005-04-11 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:14:17 +0200 Yves Crespin wrote: | Hello, | | Using O_DIRECT flag, read() failed and errno is EINVAL. | kernel 2.4.22 | Filesystem Ext3 mount on /home | What's wrong ? | Thanks In fs/buffer.c, it wants the buffer & the length (size) to be aligned: function: brw_kiovec()

[PATCH] scripts/patch-kernel: EXTRAVERSION patches are not incremental

2005-04-11 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:15:54 + David Greaves wrote: | Old thread (!) but this is the last time I could find patch-kernel updated. I found a little time to update patch-kernel if anyone wants to use it. OTOH, using Matt Mackall's "ketchup" is OK too. I also use 'kcurrent' to keep up with the

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-11 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: | | | On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Paul Jackson wrote: | > | > Useful explanation - thanks, Linus. | | Hey. You're welcome. Especially when you create good documentation for | this thing. | | Because: | | > Is this picture and descriptio

Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU

2005-04-10 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:47:42 -0400 Derek Cheung wrote: | Enclosed please find the updated patch that incorporates changes for all | the comments I received. (yes, almost all) | The volatile declaration in the m528xsim.h is needed because the | declaration refers to the ColdFire 5282 register map

Re: increasing scsi_max_sg / max_segments for scsi writes/reads

2005-04-10 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:35:52 -0700 (PDT) sai narasimhamurthy wrote: | Hi, | I had posted a question on increasing the scsi | read/write sectors per command. I figured out some of | the things, but many questions still exist. | | I was wondering why the maximum writes I could get | from a single

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:23:11 -0700 Paul Jackson wrote: | Petr wrote: | > That reminds me, is there any | > tool which will take .rej files and throw them into the file to create | > rcsmerge-like conflicts? | | Check out 'wiggle' | http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/wiggle/ or Chris

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-09 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 04:53:57 +0200 Petr Baudis wrote: | Hello, | | Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:50:21PM CEST, I got a letter | where Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... | > | > | > On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > > | > > Here's a partial solution. It

Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

2005-04-08 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:43:55 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote: | On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:24:42PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: | > Adrian Bunk wrote: | > >[...] | > >>>On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:26:31PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: | > >> | > >>Hi Adrian, | > > | >... | > >Joerg's list of recursions should

[PATCH] Add dontdiff file

2005-04-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:37:51 -0700 Matt Mackall wrote: | On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:10:27PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | > There is a fairly up-to-date dontdiff file available at | > http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/doc/dontdiff-osdl | | Can we stash a copy in Documentation? certainly.

Re: Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:46:20 -0400 (EDT) Richard B. Johnson wrote: | On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | | > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:16:14 -0400 (EDT) Richard B. Johnson wrote: | > | > | | > | In the not-too distant past, one could disable Ctl-Alt-DEL. | > | Can't do it a

Re: Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:16:14 -0400 (EDT) Richard B. Johnson wrote: | | In the not-too distant past, one could disable Ctl-Alt-DEL. | Can't do it anymore. What should disabling C_A_D do? | Script started on Thu 07 Apr 2005 10:58:11 AM EDT | [SNIPPED leading stuff...] | | mprotect(0xb7fe4000, 286

Re: [PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2

2005-04-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:22:57 -0400 (EDT) Richard B. Johnson wrote: | On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | | > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:23:32 +0200 Magnus Damm wrote: | > | > | On Apr 7, 2005 4:23 AM, Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > > > -#define

Re: [PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2

2005-04-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:23:32 +0200 Magnus Damm wrote: | On Apr 7, 2005 4:23 AM, Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > > -#define module_init(x) __initcall(x); | > > > +#define module_init(x) __initcall(x); __module_init_disable(x); | > > | > > It would be better if there is brackets ar

Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU

2005-04-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Derek Cheung wrote: Below please find the patch file I "diff" against Linux 2.6.11.6. It contains the I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU. Since most ColdFire CPU shares the same I2C register set, the code can be easily adopted for other ColdFire CPUs for I2C operations. I have tested the code on a

Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU

2005-04-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Derek Cheung wrote: Below please find the patch file I "diff" against Linux 2.6.11.6. It contains the I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU. Since most ColdFire CPU shares the same I2C register set, the code can be easily adopted for other ColdFire CPUs for I2C operations. I have tested the code on a

Re: [03/08] fix ia64 syscall auditing

2005-04-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Greg KH wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 13:27 -0700, David Mosberger wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:46:48 -0700, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Greg> -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please Greg> let us know. Nitpick: the patch introduces trailing whitespace. Sorry about that,

Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode

2005-04-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Ross Biro wrote: Currently Linux 2.6 assumes the BIOS (or firmware) sets the master abort mode flag on PCI bridge chips in a coherent fashion. This is not always the case and the consequences of getting this flag incorrect can cause hardware to fail or silent data corruption. This patch lets t

Re: [PATCH] network configs: disconnect network options from drivers

2005-04-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:11:33PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: - in Networking support, move Network testing and Netpoll support to the end of the menu (basically put the devel. tools toward the bottom of the menu) Done - I would rather not "hide" Amateur Radio,

Re: [PATCH] network configs: disconnect network options from drivers

2005-04-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Sam Ravnborg wrote: - Move submenu to the top - Rename top menu to "Networking" and located it just before "File systems" I still prefer Networking to come before Device Drivers FWIW. Just makes some kind of hierarchical sense to me. Moved up as suggested. I propose that the new file net/atm/Kcon

Re: [patch 2/3] hd eliminate bad section references

2005-04-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
maximilian attems wrote: Fix hd section references: make parse_hd_setup() __init Error: ./drivers/ide/legacy/hd.o .text refers to 0943 R_386_PC32 .init.text Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-bk5/drivers/ide/legacy/hd.c.orig 2005-04-04 18:39:04.0 +

Re: [patch 3/3] efi eliminate bad section references

2005-04-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
(adding Matt Domsch to cc:) maximilian attems wrote: Randy please double check especially this one. there may be a better solution. Fix efi section references: remove __initdata for struct efi efi_phys and struct efi_memory_map memmap 'memmap' can be used after init, so remove __initdata from it

Re: [PATCH] network configs: disconnect network options from drivers

2005-04-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Hi Sam- Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:30:13PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: Any comments on this new version? The new Networking menu looks unstructured. And the net/Kconfig file contains a lot of config snippets that does not belong there. So I took a stamp on it with focus on

Re: [patch 1/3] pnpbios eliminate bad section references

2005-04-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
maximilian attems wrote: one of the last buildcheck errors on i386, thanks Randy again for double checking. Fix pnpbios section references: make dmi_system_id pnpbios_dmi_table __initdata Error: ./drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.o .data refers to 0100 R_386_32 .init.text Error: ./drivers/pnp/pnpbios/c

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
James Bottomley wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 17:50 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: I disagree. The driver will never "know" ... ? the driver has to know. Look at the 53c700 to see exactly how awful it is. This beast has byte and word registers. When used BE, all the byte registers alter th

[PATCH] network configs: disconnect network options from drivers

2005-04-03 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:02:13PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: Other than "sounds good," are there some comments on: a. leaving IrDA and Bluetooth subsystem (with drivers) where they are, which is under "Network options and protocols" (I really

Re: build logs for -mm

2005-04-01 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Miklos Szeredi wrote: do I believe correctly that you do automatic builds of -mm for lots of architectures? If yes, is there some place where the output is available? This would be useful for fixing warnings. The OSDL PLM tool also does automated builds of all -linus and -mm releases. 2.6.12-rc1

Re: build logs for -mm

2005-03-31 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Miklos Szeredi wrote: Andrew, do I believe correctly that you do automatic builds of -mm for lots of architectures? If yes, is there some place where the output is available? This would be useful for fixing warnings. The OSDL PLM tool also does automated builds of all -linus and -mm releases. 2.

Re: [PATCH] Reduce stack usage in acct.c

2005-03-31 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Jörn Engel wrote: On Wed, 30 March 2005 23:39:40 -0800, Yum Rayan wrote: Before patch check_free_space - 128 do_acct_process - 105 After patch --- check_free_space - 36 do_acct_process - 44 It is always nice to see enthusiams, but in your case it might be a bit misguided. Non

Re: [RFC/PATCH] network configs: disconnect network options from drivers

2005-03-31 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:47:09PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: - some Networking options need to be qualified with CONFIG_NET You can something along the lines os: menu "Networking options and protocols" config NET bool "Networking support" defaul

[RFC/PATCH] network configs: disconnect network options from drivers

2005-03-31 Thread Randy.Dunlap
RFC: This is a work-in-progress (WIP), not yet completed. A few people dislike that the Networking Options menu is inside the Device Drivers/Networking menu. This patch moves the Networking Options menu to immediately before the Device Drivers menu, renames it to "Networking options and protoco

Re: BK snapshots removed from kernel.org?

2005-03-30 Thread Randy.Dunlap
sean wrote: Randy.Dunlap wrote: Did you look in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/old/ ? Yes I did. Latest is 2.6.12-rc1-bk2, March 26. None since then? I can't explain it other than "the snapshots are broken." All I do is look around for them, and behold, ju

Re: [PATCH] Reduce stack usage in module.c

2005-03-30 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Yum Rayan wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:43:12 -0800, Randy.Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yum Rayan wrote: Attempt to reduce stack usage in module.c (linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm3). Specifically from checkstack.pl Also while at it, fix following in who_is_doing_it(...) - use only as much mem

Re: RFC: 2.6.release.patchlevel: Patch against 2.6.release[.0] ?

2005-03-29 Thread Randy.Dunlap
L. A. Walsh wrote: Given the frequency with which stabilization patches may be released, it may not be practical to expect users to catch each release announcement and download each patch. Especially if small patches are released for stability, as one might (hopefully) expect. Assuming that stabil

Re: [PATCH] Reduce stack usage in module.c

2005-03-29 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Yum Rayan wrote: Attempt to reduce stack usage in module.c (linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm3). Specifically from checkstack.pl Before patch -- who_is_doing_it: 512 obsolete_params: 160 After patch who_is_doing_it: none So all function local variables are in registers? obsol

Re: BK snapshots removed from kernel.org?

2005-03-28 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Norberto Bensa wrote: Barry K. Nathan wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 02:14:33PM -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: [quote rewrapped to keep it within 80 columns] Why were snapshots (-bk) removed from www.kernel.org? I can't see any relevant post in LKML. You can still get to the snapshots using this URL

[PATCH] isdn: hfc4s8s_ll sparse cleanups

2005-03-27 Thread Randy.Dunlap
drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc4s8s_l1.c:1661:7: warning: obsolete struct initializer, us e C99 syntax drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc4s8s_l1.c:1662:7: warning: obsolete struct initializer, us e C99 syntax drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc4s8s_l1.c:1663:7: warning: obsolete struct initializer, us e C99 syntax drivers/isdn/his

[PATCH] isdn: hfc_usb: use NULL instead of 0

2005-03-27 Thread Randy.Dunlap
17 of these (all different line numbers): drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc_usb.c:139:9: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diffstat:= drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc_usb.c |2 +- drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc_usb.h |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

[PATCH] x86_64/lib: find_first_zero_bit not extern

2005-03-27 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Exported function was marked inline: arch/x86_64/lib/bitops.c:18: warning: `find_first_zero_bit' declared inline afte r being called Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diffstat:= arch/x86_64/lib/bitops.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -Naurp ./arch/

]PATCH] cpuset: make function decl. ANSI

2005-03-27 Thread Randy.Dunlap
kernel/cpuset.c:1428:41: warning: non-ANSI function declaration Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diffstat:= kernel/cpuset.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -Naurp ./kernel/cpuset.c~cpuset_void ./kernel/cpuset.c --- ./kernel/cpuset.c~cpuset_void

Re: [PATCH] typo fix in Documentation/eisa.txt

2005-03-27 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Rolf Eike Beer wrote: Jean Delvare wrote: Hi Eike, Trivial typo fix. (...) Force the probing code to probe EISA slots even when it cannot find an -EISA compliant mainboard (nothing appears on slot 0). Defaultd to 0 +EISA compliant mainboard (nothing appears on slot 0). Default to 0 (don't force),

Re: [ARM] Group device drivers together under their own menu

2005-03-26 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:50:26PM +, Russell King wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 09:41:41PM +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: Any reason you can't merge ARM's options into the drivers/*/Kconfig (with appropriate conditionals) and use drivers/Kconfig? Dunno. Haven't gotten aro

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] create mm/Kconfig for arch-independent memory options

2005-03-26 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Dave Hansen wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 12:56 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: I wasn't trying to catch you, but I've already looked at all 4 patches in the series and I still can't find an option that is labeled/described as "Sparse Memory" The word "sparse" isn

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