[4.15-rc4][regression][e1000e] - Device initialization appears broken/inconsistent

2017-12-21 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello kernel devs, I'm encountering an issue with the e1000e driver. I can reproduce this by booting to Windows 10, reboot to Fedora and notice the device won't initialize. If I reboot to Windows 10, then reboot to Linux the device initializes properly. With a kernel.org rpm build of 4.15-

[4.12-rc3][smp] smp_call_function_many() - CPU soft lockup

2017-06-06 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello Kernel devs, I was just about to open a VM with virt-manager and then kernel locked up CPUs. Will try -rc4 and see if this got fixed in the churn. Thanks, Shawn Stack below: [33970.295966] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [libvirtd:1043] [33970.295969] Modules link

Re: [4.10][regression][PM] Oops pci_restore_msi_state() e1000e? (Re: [BUG] 4.11.0-rc1 panic on shutdown X61s)

2017-03-14 Thread Shawn Starr
This isn't just Lenovo, My Dell laptop experiences same problem, there is bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194801 Thanks, Shawn On 02/25/2017 04:53 AM, Shawn Starr wrote: Hello kernel devs, Hibernation appears broken for me in 4.10, I notice the e1000e does not r

[4.10][regression][PM] Oops pci_restore_msi_state() e1000e?

2017-02-25 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello kernel devs, Hibernation appears broken for me in 4.10, I notice the e1000e does not resume on boot, and kernel shows why.. This kernel contains agd5f's 4.11/4.12-drm-next branches merged in. I am unsure if this is a result of the AMDGPU performing a bad hibernation (since it hangs when

[4.10-rc6][regression][tty] Crash in n_tty_receive_buf_common()

2017-02-03 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello kernel devs, Triggered an interesting kernel panic while in KVM in a old Windows 2008R2 VM to connect to some legacy server, X froze, manages to capture oops with magic emergency key sync. Feb 3 03:03:27 segfault kernel: [ 2785.908618] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00

[4.7-rc3 June 16th code][EXT4] Rename file corruption?

2016-06-15 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello Kernel devs, I built a snapshot of Linus's kernel (master) Triggered fault in EXT4 compiling LLVM/clang/Mesa: Jun 15 12:36:41 segfault kernel: [34407.966896] Modules linked in: bnep bluetooth cpufreq_stats ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables bridge amdkfd amd_iommu_v2 amdg

[4.6-rc1/rc2][snd_usb_audio] regression: BUG usb_audio_probe+0x2ca/0x9a0

2016-04-03 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello kernel devs, USB audio devices broke: [ 13.873279] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0014 [ 13.874701] IP: [] usb_audio_probe+0x2ca/0x9a0 [snd_usb_audio] [ 13.876050] *PGD 0 * [ 13.876942] Oops*: [#1] SMP * [ 13.877896] Modules linked

[Fedora][libata][4.4-rc0/rc1] Disk cache/write error? - FLUSH CACHE EXT / WRITE FPDMA QUEUED

2015-11-16 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello devs, Something unusual happened today, disk locked up, went into bad state, rebooted with sysctl magic key, BIOS reported disk showed no OS found, hard powered off machine then everything was normal. Any changes recently in libata that might have caused the disk to perform a bad operati

[UVC][4.x][USB] Logitech QuickCam 9000 - Stability problems device disconnects/fails to reset

2015-09-30 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello kernel devs, I've been noticing stability problems with my USB webcam, it used to be just bogus volume warning notice but now I have to unplug/plugin, unplug and sometimes it works, sometimes not. It seems to work less now. It used to be lesser of a problem in eariler 4.x but now in 4.2/4

[4.2-rc7][Haswell] NMI soft lockup - try_to_del_timer_sync

2015-08-20 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello folks, I was just using KVM and doing some VM work on my laptop when it locked up system fully, here is the kernel trace below (it repeats after the second dump) Since we're soon 'close' to 4.2 final, maybe someone can check if something regressed? Never saw this in eariler -rcX builds.

[3.18][ACPI] and [drm] Dell Precision M6800 - bad ACPI sleep states / bogus BAR alignment

2014-12-15 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello Kernel devs, In my continuing use of this new laptop (Day 2), I'm encountering some other issues. I am using Dell's latest A11 BIOS that came out last month. I have switchable graphics currently turned on in the BIOS. Might be some bugs with this being active and other variables. Will te

[alsa][intel-hda] Dell M6800 - Realtek ALC3226 - Headphone Microphone not detected/working

2014-12-15 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello ALSA/Kernel devs, I have a Dell Precision M6800 with latest BIOS here is output from the HDA driver [ 20.783635] snd_hda_intel :00:03.0: enabling device ( -> 0002) [ 20.783804] snd_hda_intel :00:1b.0: irq 34 for MSI/MSI-X [ 20.783911] snd_hda_intel :01:00.1: Handle VG

[3.18-rc1] Regression in userspace - Google Chrome

2014-10-27 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello kernel folks, In -rc1, I had problems running Google Chrome with sandbox enabled by default. Chrome would start once, sometimes not run at all, setuid binary would be stuck in 'D' state. Using my current kernel (kernel-3.17.1-303.fc21.x86_64) no such problems exist. I know 3.18 is early

Re: [Bulk] Re: [3.16-rcX][pciehp][radeon] PCIe HotPlug conflicts with radeon GPU

2014-10-11 Thread Shawn Starr
On September 11, 2014 04:26:21 PM Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > [+cc linux-pci] > > On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Shawn Starr wrote: > > Hello devs, > > > > There are two issues I am encountering with the PCIe Hotplug driver on my > > Lenovo Laptop (W500). I note

Re: [3.16-rcX][pciehp][radeon] PCIe HotPlug conflicts with radeon GPU

2014-09-23 Thread Shawn Starr
On September 11, 2014 04:26:21 PM Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > [+cc linux-pci] > > On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Shawn Starr wrote: > > Hello devs, > > > > There are two issues I am encountering with the PCIe Hotplug driver on my > > Lenovo Laptop (W500). I note

[3.16-rcX][pciehp][radeon] PCIe HotPlug conflicts with radeon GPU

2014-08-02 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello devs, There are two issues I am encountering with the PCIe Hotplug driver on my Lenovo Laptop (W500). I note this goes back further than 3.15. It is noted here: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f244d8b623dae7a7bc695b0336f67729b95a9736 https://bugzi

[3.13-rc/78] random SIGBUS errors + 3.14-rc0 - KVM/QEMU - CPU hang issues

2014-01-24 Thread Shawn Starr
;qemu' process, it's early in the 3.14 cycle so I expect things to be wild a bit but wanted to report that if anyone else hasn't noticed yet. Thanks, Shawn Starr Sr. Linux Administrator StatPro | Toronto Tel. +1 (416) 619-3972 | Fax. +1 (416) 598-9530 Twitter. @statprogroup www.

Re: No longer able to build kernel into RPM on Fedora

2013-10-12 Thread Shawn Starr
st rpm will fail since it does not have --target or -ta options. Thanks, Shawn > > Regards > > On 10/13/2013 05:03 AM, Shawn Starr wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > My usual approach to testing git snapshots of Linus's tree (with custom > > patches applied

resend [PATCH][BUILD] Force check for rpm-build where package is not installed

2013-10-12 Thread Shawn Starr
On Saturday, October 12, 2013 03:39:05 PM Shawn Starr wrote: > On Saturday, October 12, 2013 03:03:32 PM Shawn Starr wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > My usual approach to testing git snapshots of Linus's tree (with custom > > patches applied on top) is to make rpm

[PATCH][BUILD] Force check for rpm-build where package is not installed

2013-10-12 Thread Shawn Starr
On Saturday, October 12, 2013 03:03:32 PM Shawn Starr wrote: > Hello folks, > > My usual approach to testing git snapshots of Linus's tree (with custom > patches applied on top) is to make rpm and install this into my system for a > clean add/remove of test kernels. > >

No longer able to build kernel into RPM on Fedora

2013-10-12 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello folks, My usual approach to testing git snapshots of Linus's tree (with custom patches applied on top) is to make rpm and install this into my system for a clean add/remove of test kernels. However, the developers of rpm removed the --target and -ta options, so I can't take tarball and

Re: gm45 intel gfx can generate non-MSI irq# in MSI mode (was Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: stop using GMBUS IRQs on Gen4 chips (was Re: [3.9-rc1] irq 16: nobody cared (was [3.9-rc1] very poor interrupt respo

2013-03-24 Thread Shawn Starr
On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 04:12:18 PM Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Chris Wilson wrote: > >> > How about just using: > >> > if (!HAS_GMBUS_IRQ(dev_priv->dev)) gmbus4_irq_en = 0; > >> > > >> > and the existing wait loop? > >> > >> I explicitly wanted to avoid touchi

[Intel][RNG] PCI IDs commented out for 82801I (ICH9 Mobile and non-mobile)?

2013-03-20 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello folks, I was looking at why I can't load the Intel RNG driver (or why it doesn't load automatically) and it just so happens I have both the mobile and non-mobile ICH9 chipset. Looking at the driver I noticed: /* BAM, CAM, DBM, FBM, GxM { PCI_DEVICE(0x8086, 0x2448) }, */ /* BA,

Re: [Linux 3.8/3.9-rc1][alsa][hda] Problem with automute on HDA CX20561 (Hermosa) - Persistent even after power off

2013-03-08 Thread Shawn Starr
On Friday, March 08, 2013 03:06:12 PM Shawn Starr wrote: > Hello folks, > > All of a sudden, it worked fine in Linux kernel 3.8, I believe after booting > Linux kernel 3.9 (which has ALSA HDA changes). I can no longer hear audio > from speakers on laptop. If I plug in headpho

[Linux 3.8/3.9-rc1][alsa][hda] Problem with automute on HDA CX20561 (Hermosa) - Persistent even after power off

2013-03-08 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello folks, All of a sudden, it worked fine in Linux kernel 3.8, I believe after booting Linux kernel 3.9 (which has ALSA HDA changes). I can no longer hear audio from speakers on laptop. If I plug in headphones audio works. [ 18.434846] hda_codec: CX20561 (Hermosa): BIOS auto-probing. [ 18.43

[3.8.0-0.rc3.git1.2] Processes hanging after unmounting mm0 device (not confirmed related)

2013-01-15 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello kernel folks, I am seeing problems with snapshot 3.8.0-0.rc3.git1.2 [fc19]. Processes hanging after it appears unmounting my mmc0 (SD) card, I will attempt to reproduce but, I am unclear if the two are related at this moment [ 9127.631555] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 1234

Re: [3.5/6.x][e1000e] - Regression - Unable to receive packets if MTU == 1500

2012-12-02 Thread Shawn Starr
On Thursday, November 01, 2012 02:01:05 PM Shawn Starr wrote: > Hello network driver folks, To follow up, this is fixed now in 3.6.7-5.fc18.x86_64 [38936.525226] e1000e :00:19.0: eth0: changing MTU from 9000 to 1500 [38936.539510] e1000e :00:19.0: Interrupt Throttle Rate turned

[usb_storage][mmc] - Genesys Logic / SilverStone 6-in-1 Card Reader/Writer - Can't mount storage

2012-11-16 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello kernel folks, I have an old 2.0 USB card reader, Linux detects the device but is not able to mount the storage device. I tried it in both a KVM Windows VM and in Linux to mount the storage but device hangs, if I take out card, it detects all 6 device storage capabilities, then it detects

[3.6.x][e1000e] - Regression - Unable to receive packets if MTU == 1500

2012-10-19 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello kernel folks, I recently decided to reinstall my Lenovo W500 laptop and found I wasn't able to get DHCP leases, I wasn't able to install over PXE (when getting the IP a second time within the OS) Fedora is currently using kernel-3.6.2-2.fc18.x86_64 (Pre-beta) The only difference I notice

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-05 Thread Shawn Starr
On Monday 05 March 2007 10:13, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Con, > > I've now given it a try with HZ=250 on my dual-athlon. It works > beautifully. I also quickly checked that playing mp3 doesn't skip during > make -j4, and that gears runs fairly smoothly, since those are the > references people often us

[2.6.19] Scheduler starvation of audio?

2006-12-29 Thread Shawn Starr
times when I hit starvation and I wonder if there's any interesting scheduler patches in -mm that might address this? Thanks, -- Shawn Starr Software Developer, Open Source Grid Development Center (OSGDC) Platform Computing 3760 14th Avenue Markham, ON L3R3T7 direct: 905.948.4229

Re: ieee80211 & ipw2200 (ipw2100) issues

2006-11-18 Thread Shawn Starr
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 7:32 am, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > On 11/13/06, Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shawn Starr wrote: > > > With WPA2? I have to confirm if things are still broken with ipw2200 > > > 1.1.4. I wish this was sorted out. Re

[2.6.13-rc6][SATA] - SIL 3114 controller w/ firmware 5.0.39 - Hanging only in 64bit mode

2005-08-26 Thread Shawn Starr
No, it just took longer to crash. Jeff, do you have any ideas as to why this occuring? If its the ASUS board then are there any workarounds I can do to stop this hanging? Logging a bug, It surely couldn't be the board :( Shawn. -Original Message- From: Shawn Starr Sent: M

RE: [2.6.13-rc3][SATA] - SIL 3114 controller w/ firmware 5.0.39 - Hanging only in 64bit mode - Resolved in 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-22 Thread Shawn Starr
It appears 2.6.13-rc6 has enough SATA/libata fixes that stop the DMA read/write locks (the .ordered_flush ops seems to do it). I did also flash the BIOS to the latest release as well (but older 2.6.13-rcX releases had problems still). Thanks, Shawn. -Original Message- From: Shawn

Re: [BUG][2.6.7+(or eariler)] Switching from LCD to external video w/ no external video connected causes deadlock - Regression

2005-08-13 Thread Shawn Starr
We're back to square one, in VT mode the system deadlocks once again when switching between LCD, External video modes. Kernel: 2.6.13-rc5 (merucurial build August 2nd snapshot). Looks like this bug needs to be reopened again :/ Shawn. On November 10, 2004 19:14, Shawn Starr wrote: &g

[2.6.13-rc3][SATA] - SIL 3114 controller w/ firmware 5.0.39 - Hanging only in 64bit mode

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Starr
I just tried -rc3 today on the amd64 box which is a Asus K8N-E Deluxe motherboard. Is it possible the firmware for the controller is buggy? Anyone else reporting hangs? I can reproduce the sata controller with various writes: 1) If I connect the box and allow a remote machine to PXE and TFTP b

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk

2005-07-13 Thread Shawn Starr
Perhaps you also need to flash the BIOS and or Embedded Controller firmware? Shawn. On July 13, 2005 04:58, Gijs Hillenius wrote: > > Frank Sorenson writes: > > Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > >> Download is simple, just don't use the "IBM Download > >> Manager". Main problem

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-08 Thread Shawn Starr
It should be noted im using linux-2.6.git. --- Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08 2005, Jon Escombe wrote: > > Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > >On Thu, Jul 07 2005, Shawn Starr wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Model: HTS548

Re: [Hdaps-devel] RE: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Starr
You can take the .exe file and turn this into a bootable CD (using a RW CD) I forgot how I did it, but if I remember correctly, I took a floppy dos image and made that into the boot 'stub' and threw the exe into the CD (a la El-Torito). I flashed the disk firmware once since I got the laptop.

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Starr
Model: HTS548080M9AT00 (Hitachi) Laptop: T42. segfault:/home/spstarr# ./a /dev/hda head parked Seems to park, heard it click :) Shawn. On July 7, 2005 04:48, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07 2005, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi, > > > > Je

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Starr
Model: HTS548080M9AT00 (Hitachi) Laptop: T42. segfault:/home/spstarr# ./a /dev/hda head parked Seems to park, heard it click :) Shawn. On July 7, 2005 04:03, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESS

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Starr
Model: HTS548080M9AT00 (Hitachi) Laptop: T42. segfault:/home/spstarr# ./a /dev/hda head parked Seems to park, heard it click :) Shawn. On July 7, 2005 04:03, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESS

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-04 Thread Shawn Starr
>From what I'm told its not specific to hard disk, you can put any laptop HD and it will work the same (?). Shawn. --- Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi Jens! > > > > Thanks for the

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Shawn Starr
We could put it in userspace, but if the system is swapping like mad, can we still get a critical response if this remains in userspace fully? Someone mentioned we should use a kernel thread(s) to handle stopping all I/O so we can safely park heads. Shawn. --- Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Linux support for IBM ThinkPad Disk shock prevention update...

2005-04-14 Thread Shawn Starr
Has anyone started on such a project or would like to? We just need to figure out to get the specs from IBM I think such support would be good. Shawn. - 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

[2.6.12-rc2][panic][NET] qdisc_restart - When loading ipw2200 driver - not mangled

2005-04-14 Thread Shawn Starr
Here's the dmesg/panic dump: Any problems with the Network scheduling in 2.6.12-rc2? [4294667.296000] Linux version 2.6.12-rc2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.0.0 20050319 (prerelease)) #1 Wed Apr 13 11:38:19 EDT 2005 [4294667.296000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e82

[2.6.12-rc2][panic][NET] qdisc_restart - When loading ipw2200 driver

2005-04-14 Thread Shawn Starr
Here's the dmesg/panic dump: Any problems with the Network scheduling in 2.6.12-rc2? [4294667.296000] Linux version 2.6.12-rc2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.0.0 20050319 (prerelease)) #1 Wed Apr 13 11:38:19 EDT 2005 [4294667.296000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e82

Re: Policy question (was Re: [2.6.12-rc1][ACPI][suspend] /proc/acpi/sleep vs /sys/power/state issue - 'standby' on a laptop)

2005-04-11 Thread Shawn Starr
obody looses the functionality until then. I'm thinking 2 years but some say thats too long :) Now that I look at it, I don't need to put it into a CONFIG option as its already a module :-) even better. Shawn. On April 11, 2005 20:09, Rob Landley wrote: > On Wednesday 06 April 2005 05:

Re: [ACPI] [2.6.12-rc2][suspend] Suspending Thinkpad: drive bay light in S3 mode stays on

2005-04-11 Thread Shawn Starr
designed to do all of this so why shouldn't the driver do S3 suspend if it hooks into it already? Shawn. --- Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 16:03 -0400, Shawn Starr > wrote: > > I notice in Linux and in XP the drive bay light > > rema

[2.6.12-rc2][suspend] Suspending Thinkpad: drive bay light in S3 mode stays on

2005-04-11 Thread Shawn Starr
I notice in Linux and in XP the drive bay light remains on while the laptop is in suspend-to-RAM. I know the ACPI thinkpad extras added to the kernel recently can turn this off. I wonder if we can/or need to write hooks to turn the light off so to conserve power when we're in S3 Thoughts? Shawn.

[2.6.12-rc2][suspend] resume occuring twice before suspend to suspend-to-disk

2005-04-11 Thread Shawn Starr
I've noticed that when I do a suspend to disk. The machine suspends PCI devices once (I notice this because the ipw2200 wireless card shows its suspending, then it locks/parks the HD heads, but then all PCI devices are woken up and resume. The HD spins up and then dumps memory contents to swap part

RE: [PATCH 2.6.11.6] Add power cycle to ipmi_poweroff module

2005-04-08 Thread Shawn Starr
Shouldn't IPMI be using /sys instead /proc? I thought we're trying to cleanup /proc? --- List: linux-kernel Subject:RE: [PATCH 2.6.11.6] Add power cycle to ipmi_poweroff module From: Date: 2005-04-08 15:53:54 Message-ID: [Download message RAW] The message ha

Re: [2.6.12-rc1][ACPI][suspend] /proc/acpi/sleep vs /sys/power/state issue - 'standby' on a laptop

2005-04-06 Thread Shawn Starr
Yeah, I can do that, I don't need angry programmers chasing after me :-) Shawn. --- Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > So nobody minds if I make this into a CONFIG > option marked as Deprecated? :) > > Actually it should probably go through > > Documentation/feature-removal-s

Re: [2.6.12-rc1][ACPI][suspend] /proc/acpi/sleep vs /sys/power/state issue - 'standby' on a laptop

2005-04-05 Thread Shawn Starr
So nobody minds if I make this into a CONFIG option marked as Deprecated? :) Shawn. > > > Do you know if /proc/acpi/sleep will be deprecated in > > favour of /sys/power/state? If so, this thread will be > > moot ;) > > No idea, deprecating it would be ok with me. > >Pavel pgpGfWAs0n7J0.

Re: [2.6.12-rc1][ACPI][suspend] /proc/acpi/sleep vs /sys/power/state issue - 'standby' on a laptop

2005-04-05 Thread Shawn Starr
I'm working o --- Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > I've noticed something strange with issuing > 'standby' to the system: > > > > when echoing "standby" to /sys/power/state, > nothing happens, not even a log or > > system activity to attempt standby mode. > > > > However, tr

[2.6.12-rc1] suspend to Disk success - T42 laptop

2005-03-27 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello Pavel, I can now suspend to disk on the laptop with 2.6.12-rc1. There is no failures anymore. It resumes perfectly. Thank you. Shawn. - 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

[2.6.12-rc1][ACPI][suspend] /proc/acpi/sleep vs /sys/power/state issue - 'standby' on a laptop

2005-03-27 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello, I've noticed something strange with issuing 'standby' to the system: when echoing "standby" to /sys/power/state, nothing happens, not even a log or system activity to attempt standby mode. However, trying echo "1" to /proc/acpi/sleep the system attempts to (standby) and aborts: [4295

[2.6.11.5][BUILD] i2c.h breakage in 2.6.12-rc1 + -mm only

2005-03-23 Thread Shawn Starr
include/linux/i2c.h:58: error: array type has incomplete element type include/linux/i2c.h:197: error: array type has incomplete element type /usr/local/src/sources/r300_driver/drm/linux-core/radeon_drv.h:274: confused by earlier errors, bailing out I see further back you fed the gcc 4.0 compile f

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-06 Thread Shawn Starr
he trivial patch bot. That's why I was wondering about why this tree doesn't except trivial changes. Thanks, Shawn. On March 6, 2005 00:06, you wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 01:16:10AM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > > Sounds great, I can be a QA resource for what machines I have

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Shawn Starr
Sounds great, I can be a QA resource for what machines I have. How do people get involved in QAing these releases? What other help? Shawn. > List: linux-kernel > Subject:Linux 2.6.11.1 > From: Greg KH > Date: 2005-03-04 17:53:02 > Message-ID: <20050304175302.GA29289 ()

Re: [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree

2005-03-04 Thread Shawn Starr
How does this fit into Rusty's trivial patch bot? This process will fold that into a formal method now? Shawn. > List: linux-kernel > Subject:[RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree > From: Greg KH > Date: 2005-03-04 22:21:46 > Message-ID: <20050304

SELinux and sysfs

2005-02-26 Thread Shawn Starr
Perhaps in future, maybe SELinux could take advantage of sysfs to modify some policies? Is this doable? Sure, we still need some flat files for static configurations, but what about dynamic ones? Shawn. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

[2.6.11-rc3] - Slow boot up

2005-02-05 Thread Shawn Starr
>From -rc2 to -rc3 I noticed a serious slowdown during initial bootup, it takes the system a lot longer to probe devices. Anyone else noticed this? I have a T42 laptop, I will be testing this on another system to see if this is noticed as well. Shawn. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] I2C: lm80 driver improvement - again...

2005-01-29 Thread Shawn Starr
Description: Cleanup some cluttered macros, add error checking for fan divisor value set. Signed-off-by: Sytse Wielinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Shawn Starr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: Cleanup some cluttered

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] I2C: lm80 driver improvement -

2005-01-27 Thread Shawn Starr
Description: Cleanup some cluttered macros, add error checking for fan divisor value set. Approved-by: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Sytse Wielinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Shawn Starr <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] I2C: lm80 driver improvement (From Aurelien) - Resubmit #2

2005-01-26 Thread Shawn Starr
Here is the corrected fix, yeah that didn't make sense. 3AM isn't a good time to send patches I guess :-) --- Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 02:57:35AM -0500, Shawn > Starr wrote: > > static inline unsigned char FAN_TO_REG(

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] I2C: lm80 driver improvement (From Aurelien) - Resubmit

2005-01-25 Thread Shawn Starr
: +32.38°C (hot: limit = +60°C, hyst = +65°C) : (os: limit = +54°C, hyst = +56°C) Driver works with changes applied. Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Shawn Starr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Note to self, dont use Kmail for raw diff files ---

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] I2C: lm80 driver improvement (From Aurelien)

2005-01-25 Thread Shawn Starr
: +32.38°C (hot: limit = +60°C, hyst = +65°C) : (os: limit = +54°C, hyst = +56°C) Driver works with changes applied. Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Shawn Starr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-rc2/drivers/i2c/chips/lm80.c 2005

Kernel HOWTO update?

2001-07-04 Thread Shawn Starr
Section: 7.6 You forgot to run LILO, or system doesn't boot at all You might want to update the following line: "Using LILO with big drives (more than 1024 cylinders) can cause problems. See the LILO mini-HOWTO or documentation for help on that." This isn't true anymore unless your using an ol

Re: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-25 Thread Shawn Starr
Fork nothing, stop taking stupidity. The kernel SOURCES may be 26MB but that does NOT mean you have to use every driver! Shawn. On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Rick Hohensee wrote: > > > > Rick Hohensee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > 2.4.5 is 26 meg now. It's time to consider forking the kernel. Alan ha

Re: EXT2 Filesystem permissions (bug)?

2001-06-25 Thread Shawn Starr
oh ;) I never noticed that info before, then again 2 hours of sleep might be the cause :) On 25 Jun 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author: Shawn Starr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > >

EXT2 Filesystem permissions (bug)?

2001-06-25 Thread Shawn Starr
Is this a bug or something thats undocumented somewhere? dT and drwSrwSrwT are these special bits? I'm not aware of +S and +T Shawn. - 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://

Re: Linux 2.4.6-pre3 breaks ReiserFS mount on boot

2001-06-25 Thread Shawn Starr
wn wrote: > On Tuesday June 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:57:16PM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote: > > > > > > read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on dev 03:42 > > > read_old_super_block: try to find super block in old

Re: Linux 2.4.6-pre3 breaks ReiserFS mount on boot

2001-06-18 Thread Shawn Starr
n. On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Shawn Starr wrote: > > Two things: > > 1) It broke apparently with gcc 2.95.3 when patching from 2.4.6-pre2 -> > 2.4.6pre3 > > 2) I tried building it with gcc 3.00 and had same result. > > 3) I now have gcc 3.00 and going to rebuild 2.4.6-pre2 an

Re: Linux 2.4.6-pre3 breaks ReiserFS mount on boot

2001-06-18 Thread Shawn Starr
the new pre3 modifications. I hope ReiserFS *MAINTAINS* compatability from slightly older revisions, or even migrates systems over to handle new issues. Shawn. On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:58:57PM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote: > > When diffing 2.4.6-pre2

Linux 2.4.6-pre3 breaks ReiserFS mount on boot

2001-06-18 Thread Shawn Starr
When diffing 2.4.6-pre2 & pre3 I noticed some reiserfs code was changed. This seems to cause VFS to panic via reiserfs. Anyone else notice this? Shawn. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T

2001-06-11 Thread Shawn Starr
ultiple machines) but I've been compiling and loading the > module for a while now with 2.4.x. > > FWIW, > -- > Ken. > > On Monday, June 11, 2001, at 03:42 PM, Shawn Starr wrote: > > > > > How good is the linux kernel driver for the Intel gigabit Ethernet > >

Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T

2001-06-11 Thread Shawn Starr
How good is the linux kernel driver for the Intel gigabit Ethernet NIC (copper) with the TL82543GC chipset? The card says it's a "PRO/1000T" server adapter, and it looks like the part number A19845-003. The sales guy who is promoting it says this is apparently a new card and he claims he can get

Kernel 2.4.6-pre2 patch buglet

2001-06-09 Thread Shawn Starr
Is it me or does this patch forget to change the kernel version? ;-) make menuconfig reports pre1 still.. oh well no biggie.. Shawn. - 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.kern

Re: 2.4.6-pre1 unresolved symbols

2001-06-05 Thread Shawn Starr
Thanks, Patch applied. On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Shawn Starr wrote: > > > > I have noticed unresolves symbols for the netfilter modules. this occurs > > durning depmod -a. > > Note they are the same unresolved symbol. > > Ingo Molnar has

Re: 2.4.6-pre1 unresolved symbols

2001-06-05 Thread Shawn Starr
I have noticed unresolves symbols for the netfilter modules. this occurs durning depmod -a. Shawn. On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, George Bonser wrote: > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.4.6-pre1/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o > depmod: do_softirq > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols i

Re: compile failure in 2.4.5-pre4

2001-05-21 Thread Shawn Starr
Ok, so the code was easy to fix ;p On Mon, 21 May 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 101 16:38:45 +1000 (EST), > Allan Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >drivers/ide/ide-pci.c:711 > > if (!IDE_PCI_DEVID_EQ(d->devid, DEVID_CS5530) > > for (i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) > printf("I

Re: compile failure in 2.4.5-pre4

2001-05-21 Thread Shawn Starr
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586-c -o ide-pci.o ide-pci.c ide-pci.c: In function `ide_setup_pci_device': ide-pci.c:712: parse error before `hwif' make[3]: *** [ide-p

Mail admin notice

2001-05-20 Thread Shawn Starr
My emails may bounce between 3AM -> 8AM Est time, @Home is doing some fiber upgrades and i dont have a second MX server (as I am the domain/dns/mail etc). Please bear with bounces until then. Shawn. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mess

Re: kernel.org: 2.4.5-pre4 missing ChangeLog info - scratch that

2001-05-19 Thread Shawn Starr
It's in ChangeLog but not patch-2.4.5.log. Shawn. On Sat, 19 May 2001, Shawn Starr wrote: > Someone add the changelog info to kernel.org? > > merci. > > Shawn. > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

kernel.org: 2.4.5-pre4 missing ChangeLog info

2001-05-19 Thread Shawn Starr
Someone add the changelog info to kernel.org? merci. Shawn. - 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 FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Mail boucing...

2001-04-24 Thread Shawn Starr
Sorry if my mail has been bouncing. I've been experimenting with some configurations and I am moving tomorrow so my domain/IP will be changing. Whoever, deleted me from list, thanks. Please don't block sh0n.net though from posting. I'll read myself when my new IP is added to my domain. Thank yo

Serious Latency problems : 2.4.4-pre5

2001-04-20 Thread Shawn Starr
Note: I'm not on this mailing list (for now, domain IP is changing). Please email directly 1) I've noticed very high CPU load 3.00 running ./configure alone 2) some gnome applications (Gnome Mailcheck broke with 2.4.4-pre5) 3) Resolving local domains takes an awful long time (though netscape)

Re: gcc-2.95.3

2001-04-05 Thread Shawn Starr
You should be ok :) On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Jeff Chua wrote: > > Does anybody have bad experience with gcc-2.95.3? > > I'm using gcc-2.95.2 with linux 2.4.3 and have no problem with it. > > > Thanks, > Jeff > [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

Re: ReiserFS? How reliable is it? Is this the future?

2001-04-03 Thread Shawn Starr
I've had 0, Ziltch problems with ReiserFS at the moment. It's solid for me. On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > If I get the DVD stuff working, then I won't need NT anymore, i.e. > I will have an empty disk. > > What is your impression about ReiserFS? Does it work? Is it st

Re: Strange lines in dmesg

2001-03-30 Thread Shawn Starr
Na, thats ok, that's just a dumping of debug info :) Not to worry. On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Denis Perchine wrote: > Hello, > > I got the following lines in dmesg: > > freesibling > task PCstack pid father child younger older > in

Re: [WISHLIST] Addition of suspend patch into 2.5?

2001-03-29 Thread Shawn Starr
hen need to grab the laptop and travel. > Id' like to see this working nice in 2.6. > > Best regards, > r > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:43:08 +0100 > > From: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Sh

Re: Disturbing news..

2001-03-27 Thread Shawn Starr
eally dont know what). Even if it's user level, this cant affect files with root permissions (unless root is running them or suid). Any idea? On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:16:02AM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > > Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001

Re: Disturbing news.. Idea

2001-03-27 Thread Shawn Starr
Why not make a new file permission? to deny a ELF binary the ability to modify the ELF entry point? like +p if the file had +p (by default) the kernel would deny the ELF binary the ability to modify files. Shawn. On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Shawn Starr wrote: > > http://news.cnet.com/news/

Disturbing news..

2001-03-27 Thread Shawn Starr
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5329436.html?tag=lh Isn't it time to change the ELF format to stop this crap? Shawn. - 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/majo

Re: Kernel QA

2001-03-27 Thread Shawn Starr
I disagree, 2.4.x is "stable" and as such we need as many people to use the kernels to see whats wrong with them. 2.4 *DOES* Work, I've had very small problems (ok, the thread hanging issue was a big one) but other then that It's been solid. It depends on the hardware. Shawn. On Tue, 27 Mar 2

Re: CDROM and harddisk fighting over DMA

2001-03-20 Thread Shawn Starr
Some CDROMS can do this, My old Acer 12x cdrom was fighting with DMA with my new Fujitsu drive, I disabled the cd-rom and no more DMA errors ;-) You might also be able to fix this by rearranging the CD-ROM and drives: move the CD-ROM off the HD's IDE chain and put it separate (if its not already

2.4.3-pre4: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000fb

2001-03-19 Thread Shawn Starr
I have included the ksymoops debug and dmesg (both small).. Any ideas? Shawn. ksymoops 2.3.7 on i586 2.4.3-pre4. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.3-pre4/ (default) -m /boot/System.map (specified) Intel Pe

2.4.3-pre4: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000fb

2001-03-18 Thread Shawn Starr
I have included the ksymoops debug and dmesg (both small).. Any ideas? Shawn. ksymoops 2.3.7 on i586 2.4.3-pre4. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.3-pre4/ (default) -m /boot/System.map (specified) Intel

Re: Odd error message..

2001-02-28 Thread Shawn Starr
hehe, your not the only one getting that :) I get it from the sg.o module. (it appears). Aaron Sethman wrote: > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > > I get many of these across the console when testing a network application > that. Basically the client opens up a bunch of connections to

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