Re: bcm43xx regression in 2.6.24 (with patch)

2008-02-25 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 11:38 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > [1] bcm43xx is unmaintained. Larry used to be the maintainer until > he dropped it a few months ago. Doesn't that mean that Alexey gets to be the maintainer, as he's the one patching it ? Xav -- To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: currently active Linux kernel versions

2008-02-12 Thread Xavier Bestel
On mar, 2008-02-12 at 22:18 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Xavier Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On mar, 2008-02-12 at 21:27 +0100, Wagner Ferenc wrote: > > > >> which are the "currently active Linux kernel versions" at any point in > >

Re: currently active Linux kernel versions

2008-02-12 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, On mar, 2008-02-12 at 21:27 +0100, Wagner Ferenc wrote: > Hi, > > which are the "currently active Linux kernel versions" at any point in > time? The quote is taken from http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/29. > Or more precisely: which are the "stable" versions I can depend on for > a more or les

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-02-06 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 12:50 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The Linux kernel is licenced under the GPLv2. > > Ndiswrapper loads and executes code with not GPLv2 compatible > licences > in a way in the kernel that might be considered similar to a GPLv2'ed > userspace program dlopen() a dynamic librar

Re: [Patch 1/1] Nikon D80 usb-storage quirk needs modified, new FW

2008-02-05 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:43 +0100, Konstantin Kletschke wrote: > Nikon did update their FW for the Nikon D80 and usb-storage got > unusable: [...] > I relized the unusal_devs.h needs to be adapted to > reflect new FW Version, then it works fine again: > > --- linux-2.6.23/drivers/usb/storage/unus

Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

2007-11-30 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 19:09 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > > Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? > > > > Why not C# instead ? > > Why not Haskell nor Erlang instead ? :-D I heard of a bash compiler. That would enable development time rationalization and maximize the c

Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

2007-11-30 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 12:14 +, Ben Crowhurst wrote: > Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? Why not C# instead ? - 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.

Re: Relax permissions for reading hard drive serial number?

2007-11-29 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 07:13 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote: > A few years on, Wine has matured to the point where it's > ready to run quite a few apps, even some protected by Safedisc. > One sticking point is that apps like Photoshop and probably > Punkbuster want to retrieve the hard drive's serial number

How to disable ECC with bootparam ?

2007-11-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, I have replaced my machine with another one which gives many ECC errors. At first sight they may be pessimistic because memtest (with ECC off) doesn't find anything (I'm letting run it overnight, I'll see tomorrow morning if it really didn't find anything). I'd like to let it run without those

Re: Coding Style: indenting with tabs vs. spaces

2007-11-10 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 13:04 +0100, DervishD a écrit : > Hi Benny :) > > * Benny Halevy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > > I would like to hear peoples opinion about the indentation convention > > described below that I personally found the most practical with > > several different editors. >

Re: eradicating out of tree modules

2007-10-30 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 09:11 -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > I'm sure that the majority of Linux users would never acquire > the 4-board assembly that we use to acquire X-Ray data and > generate real-time images for the baggage scanners in use > at the world's major airports. That assembly,

Re: TODO list for kernel beginer?

2007-10-24 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 15:09 +0200, jan sonnek wrote: > Hello, > where can I find actually TODO list for kernel beginer? > Many Thanks, On http://kernelnewbies.org/ Cheers, Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

Re: [PATCH] Intel Manageability Engine Interface driver

2007-10-22 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, Le lundi 22 octobre 2007 à 13:22 -0400, Anas Nashif a écrit : > The Manageability Engine Interface (aka HECI) allows applications to > communicate with the Intel(R) Manageability Engine (ME) firmware. > > It is meant to be used by user-space manageability applications to > access ME features

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 18:36 +0200, Philippe Elie wrote: > > > Increase speed for a build with no updates > > > == > > > On a resonably fast machine with a decent config it takes > > > roughly 10 seconds to do a make where nothing is updated. > > > Generating

Re: Patch for WindowsMobile5 on Linux Kernel

2007-10-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 11:32 +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Die, 2007-10-09 at 12:20 +0300, Grosjo.net - jom wrote: > [...] > > Would it be possible to include the patches (available on www.synce.org) > > for WindowsMobile5, as most mobile phones are under Window$, and it is > > very convenien

Re: Floating Point Issue

2007-09-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 12:41 +0100, mahamuni ashish wrote: > int main() > { > float f= 1256.35; > char ch[4]; > > printf("\n1. f : %f",f); > memset(ch,'\0',strlen(ch) ); Can't work. ch[]'s content is undefined, so strlen(ch) may read anywhere in memory, and/or memset() write anywhere. Xav

Re: Wasting our Bandwidth

2007-09-18 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mardi 18 septembre 2007 à 06:29 -0500, Marco Peereboom a écrit : > Now if they'd fix the copyright message to only mention Reyk all would > be good. All this mess so easily solved ? Too good to be true. Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: r8169: can't send magic packet for Wake-On-Lan

2007-09-13 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 23:20 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > Xavier Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > [...] > > Err sorry, I mixed up everything ... I'm using *etherwake* to make the > > WOL magic packet, and ethtool to check the interface options. > > Weird. >

Re: r8169: can't send magic packet for Wake-On-Lan

2007-09-11 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mardi 11 septembre 2007 à 23:30 +0200, Francois Romieu a écrit : > Xavier Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > [...] > > with the r8169 I can't send a magic packet anymore. I'm using ethtool > > for that, with the previous one (an rtl8139b) it was working very well.

r8169: can't send magic packet for Wake-On-Lan

2007-09-11 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi again, with the r8169 I can't send a magic packet anymore. I'm using ethtool for that, with the previous one (an rtl8139b) it was working very well. ethtool -D apparently says it could send the packet ok. The receiving side hasn't changed (it's an r8169 too), it's setup for wake-on-lan and is s

Re: r8169: instant reboot and interface renaming

2007-09-11 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 15:32 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > this is userspace doing "eth name by MAC address", your new card has a > different MAC address than your old card, the userspace application > tries to bind each name uniquely to an ethX name so it keeps eth0 free > for your old card. >

r8169: instant reboot and interface renaming

2007-09-11 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, I just replaced a fast ethernet card with a Realtek 8169 Gigabit ethernet card on an old DELL Poweredge running debian. I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.22 but it didn't solve my problems. At boot, the kernel says: r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK-NAPI loaded eth0: RTL8169s/8110s at 0xe0848400

[OT] Re: very very strange simultaneous RAID resync on sep 2, 01:06 CEST (+2)

2007-09-03 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 10:06 +0200, Patrick Mau wrote: > My debian installation has a system cronjob that will perform a resync > every first Sunday morning at 1:06 AM: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/cron.d/mdadm > ... > 6 1 * * 0 root [ -x /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray ] && [ $(date +\%d) - > le 7 ]

forget the noise (Re: very very strange simultaneous RAID resync on sep 2, 01:06 CEST (+2))

2007-09-03 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 09:56 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > In itself, this event is already strange. But what's even stranger is > that another guy had the same resync exactely at the same time That mystery is solved, see /etc/cron.d/mdadm: # By default, run at 01:06 on every Sun

very very strange simultaneous RAID resync on sep 2, 01:06 CEST (+2)

2007-09-03 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, I have a server running with RAID5 disks, under debian/stable, kernel 2.6.18-5-686. Yesterday the RAID resync'd for no apparent reason, without even mdamd sending a mail to warn about that: Sep 2 01:06:01 awak kernel: md: syncing RAID array md0 Sep 2 01:06:01 awak kernel: md: minimum _guara

Re: speeding up swapoff

2007-08-30 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 16:06 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Xavier Bestel wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 15:55 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > >> If the swap device is full, then there is no need for random > >> seeks as the swap pages can be read in disk ord

Re: speeding up swapoff

2007-08-30 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 15:55 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > If the swap device is full, then there is no need for random > seeks as the swap pages can be read in disk order. If the swap file is full, you probably have a machine dead into a swap storm. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2

2007-08-29 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 08:35 -0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 8/29/07, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 12:00 -0400, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > > > > The files are available only under GPLv2 since now. > > > > Since the BSD people are already getting upset about (for variou

Re: CFS review

2007-08-28 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 07:37 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > start gears like this: > > # gears & gears & gears & > > Then lay them out side by side to see the periodic stallings for > ~10sec. Are you sure they are stalled ? What you may have is simple gears running at a multiple of your screen refres

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

2007-08-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:26:09 +0200 (CEST), Guennadi Liakhovetski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Josh Boyer wrote: > >> On 8/24/07, Casey Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Most USB keys nowadays have a small LED somewhere inside of them that >> > lights up when they are p

Re: [OT] Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems

2007-08-20 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 09:21 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > so enlighten us. What editor do you use/suggest/push? Corbet ! - 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/majordom

Re: Noatime vs relatime

2007-08-10 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 07:26 -0700, Vlad wrote: > Relatime seems to be wasteful of both IO resources _and_ CPU cycles. > Instead of performing a single IO operation (as atime does), relatime > performs at least three IO operations and three CPU-dependent > operations: > > 1) a read IO operation to

Re: linux USB Device.

2007-08-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 06:39 +0300, jonatan perry wrote: > Hello, > I would like to know who the USB system works under linux, I mean, > I would like to write a kernel module who will create a virtual USB > device, so that the kernel will think that a hardware USB device is > exists, were can I star

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-28 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 18:34 +0200, Anton Petrusevich wrote: > > Please always use Reply-to-All on this list -- subscribers here like to > > also get personal copies. > > I am not subscribed to linux-kernel, I am reading it on the web. Then please subscribe just for the time you want to participat

Re: NVidia Driver Support - 1680x1050 mode

2007-06-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 05:58 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > Quite frankly, I don't understand why digital LCD > monitor even have scan rates in the first place. It's > not a CRT that actually has an electron beam. You > would thing that it would have a digital interface > where the computer told the mo

Re: NVidia Driver Support - 1680x1050 mode

2007-06-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 06:42 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > If you're using a DVI cable, ensure it is dual-link. > > Uhh, no; 1680x1050 does not require a dual-link DVI port/cable. FWIW single-link DVI can do 1920x1200 - for that the X server uses a "reduced blanking" mode, i.e. the vertical and

Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0

2007-06-22 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 23:49 +0200, Zoltán HUBERT wrote: > While some of you dislike > closed source drivers, the choices "we users" face are: > - closed source drivers with closed source OS > - closed source drivers with open source OS > Please consider that we are living in a REAL world, and not

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 14:40 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > And drm keys are hardware? Nope, they're a string of bytes. Looks like > software to me. Apparently that's the single point of contention. Not yet resolved by the courts, so everybody can brag his own POV. Xav - To unsubscribe

Re: A kexec approach to hibernation

2007-06-11 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 11:51 -0400, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > Xavier Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 11:01 -0400, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > >> >> You might claim then that the solution is to simply keep the network > &g

Re: A kexec approach to hibernation

2007-06-11 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 11:01 -0400, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > >> You might claim then that the solution is to simply keep the network > >> driver quiesced or stopped. But then it is impossible to write the > >> image over the network. The way to get around this problem is to write > >> the im

Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2

2007-06-11 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 20:30 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > To avoid exactly the kind of problem we have now in future: programs > > relying on specific patterns. > > Which you seem to think is a bad thing, yet is actually a very good thing > because it means that crashes are repeatable and problems ar

Re: A kexec approach to hibernation

2007-06-05 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 11:34 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:15:41AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > FWIW, on my old laptop apm beats any kernel solution hands down in terms > > of speed > > This might be true on 64MB systems. It is surely not t

Re: A kexec approach to hibernation

2007-06-05 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 08:36 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > I spent some time, last I think, seriously considering this approach. > The more I thought about the details, the more I realised that it wasn't > a viable approach. As I said before, it does indeed sound like a dream > at first, but once

Re: Sched - graphic smoothness under load - cfs-v13 sd-0.48

2007-05-23 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mercredi 23 mai 2007 à 11:22 -0700, Ian Romanick a écrit : > > I think some people forget that X11 has its own scheduler for graphics > > operations. > > And in the direct-rendering case, this scheduler is not used for OpenGL. > The client-side driver submits rendering commands directly to its

Re: Sched - graphic smoothness under load - cfs-v13 sd-0.48

2007-05-23 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 07:23 +0200, Michael Gerdau wrote: > For me the huge difference you have for sd to the others increases the > likelyhood the glxgears benchmark does not measure scheduling of graphic > but something else. I think some people forget that X11 has its own scheduler for graphics

Re: [RFC] enhancing the kernel's graphics subsystem

2007-05-21 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 17:27 +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: > > What about modifying the existing fbdev API? You could start with > one > > fbdev device per CRTC and then add a new IOCTL to control the output > > device. I haven't seen anything yet that justifies abandoning the > > existing fbdev API. >

Re: tracking down disk spinups.

2007-05-14 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 14 mai 2007 à 12:24 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge a écrit : > I don't think you can change filesystem types with remount. Doesn't > that just change flags on an existing mount? +1 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: tracking down disk spinups.

2007-05-14 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 14 mai 2007 à 14:57 -0400, Dave Jones a écrit : > (14:49:52:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~)# mount > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) > (14:49:56:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~)# mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 / -t > ext2 -o remount,rw > (14:50:37:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~)# mount > /dev/m

Re: Please revert 5b479c91da90eef605f851508744bfe8269591a0 (md partition rescan)

2007-05-10 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 16:51 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >(But Andrew never saw your email, I suspect: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is > probably > >some strange mixup of Andrew Morton and Andi Kleen in your mind ;) > > What do the letters kp stand for? "Keep Patching" ? - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: staircase deadline 0.37 backport 2.6.18.8 and 2.6.19.7 & debian sarge/etch kernel availability

2007-05-06 Thread Xavier Bestel
On ven, 2007-03-30 at 07:39 -0400, Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] wrote: > Hi all, > > Backports of the staircase deadline cpu scheduler version 0.37 for > 2.6.18.8 and 2.6.19.7 kernels are available at > http://linux-dev.qc.ec.gc.ca/. BTW thanks a lot Vincent, I regularly use your .deb kernels (ins

Re: Back to the future.

2007-04-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 09:56 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Once you have that snapshot image in user space you can do anything you > want. And again: you'd hav a fully working system: not any degradation > *at*all*. If you're in X, then X will continue running etc even after the > snapshotting

Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

2007-04-25 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 18:50 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > (And guess what, it uses APM and suspend is really faster and way more > > reliable than each kernel implementation I could try). > > If you tried Suspend2 and had problems with reliability, please send me > logs. I'll do all I can to

Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

2007-04-25 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 07:23 +, Pavel Machek wrote: > > I absolutely detest all suspend-to-disk crap. Quite frankly, I hate the > > whole thing. I think they've _all_ caused problems for the "true" suspend > > (suspend-to-ram), and the last thing I want to see is three or four > > Well, it i

Re: VMWare Workstation 6 for debugging Linux Kernel (!)

2007-04-20 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 00:46 +0200, roland wrote: > We just quietly added an exciting feature to Workstation 6.0. I believe it > will make WS6 a great tool for Linux kernel development. You can now debug > kernel of Linux VM with gdb running on the Host without changing anything in > the Guest V

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-17 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 16:06 +0100, Ricardo Correia wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > The real test of whether Sun were serious about ZFS being anywhere but > > Solaris is what they do to license it - they've patented everything they > > can, and made the code available only under licenses incompatible w

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-17 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 10:59 -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > So, what needs to be done is simply find out the specifications of > the file-system. I didn't know that was that simple, great ! So, what do we wait ? (I love that abusive "we") Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: pktsetup and dvd movie

2007-04-03 Thread Xavier Bestel
On mar, 2007-04-03 at 20:14 +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote: > On my pc i encounter a strange error: > the pktsetup is started during system start and set my dvd driver to > packet writing mode. then i insert a dvd movie and start xine. and > sometimes xine says that it can't play the dvd. BUT after > st

Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-20 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 07:11 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > I don't agree with starting to renice X to get something usable X looks very special to me: it's a big userspace driver, the primary task handling user interaction on the desktop, and on some OS the part responsible for moving the mouse poi

Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-19 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:36 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Xavier Bestel wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:07 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > >> Dell notebook, single P-M-2GHz, ATI X300, open source X.org: > >> (1) build a kernel in one window with "make -j$((NUMBER_OF_CPU

Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-19 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:07 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Dell notebook, single P-M-2GHz, ATI X300, open source X.org: > (1) build a kernel in one window with "make -j$((NUMBER_OF_CPUS + 1))". > (2) try to read email and/or surf in Firefox/Thunderbird. > > Stock scheduler wins easily, no contest. Wha

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-14 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 04:25 +0100, Gabriel C wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:38:38 BST, Kasper Sandberg said: > > > >> with latest xorg, xlib will be using xcb internally, > >> > > > > Out of curiosity, when is this "latest" Xorg going to escape to distros, > >

Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-13 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:31 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > nice on my debian etch seems to choose nice +10 without arguments contrary to > a previous discussion that said 4 was the default. However 4 is a good value > to use as a base of sorts. I don't see why. nice uses +10 by default on all linux

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mardi 13 mars 2007 à 05:49 +1100, Con Kolivas a écrit : > Again I think your test is not a valid testcase. Why use two threads for your > encoding with one cpu? Is that what other dedicated desktop OSs would do? One thought occured to me (shit happens, sometimes): as your scheduler is "strictl

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 20:22 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Monday 12 March 2007 19:55, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > Hmm. So... anything that's client/server is going to suffer horribly > > unless niced tasks are niced all the way down to 19? > > Fortunately most client server models dont usually hav

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

2007-03-06 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 09:10 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > Hah I just wish gears would go away. If I get hardware where it runs at just > the right speed it looks like it doesn't move at all. On other hardware the > wheels go backwards and forwards where the screen refresh rate is just > perfectly

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:36 -0600, Scott Preece wrote: > if the drivers are for devices > proprietary to their hardware, then they have no real value to anyone > else. And the drivers MIGHT contain information useful to their actual > competitors. Don't you feel like a contradiction in those two s

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 21:48 -0800, v j wrote: > We only get crap because no one here yet knows how to interpret > proprietary modules loaded into the kernel. The proprietary modules where only a tiny wrapper is linux-specific and the rest is cross-platform are in a grey area, yes. But your modules

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le jeudi 15 février 2007 à 10:20 -0800, v j a écrit : > So far I have heard nothing but, "if you don't contribute, screw you." > All this is fine. Just say so. Make it black and white. Make it > perfectly clear what is and isn't legal. If we can't load proprietary > modules, then so be it. It will

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 12:51 +0200, Mohammed Gamal wrote: > I am still a kernel newbie, and I am still not very much aware about > the GPL vs. Non-GPL drivers debate. I personally think it'd be better > that all drivers should be GPL'd but if that's the case, what would be > the legal position of su

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 23:28 -0800, v j wrote: > Open = 3rd party Linux drivers can be loaded. Closed = No third party > Linux drivers can be loaded. Then go ahead and use Windows CE or VxWorks. By your silly definition they are pretty open. Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 22:27 -0800, v j wrote: > You are right. I have not contributed anything to Linux. Except one > small patch to the MTD code. However, I don't think that is the point > here. I am perfectly willing to live with the way Linux is today. I am > telling you as a user that if Linux

Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Generic AIO by scheduling stacks

2007-01-31 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 19:02 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Btw, this is also something where we should just disallow certain system > calls from being done through the asynchronous method. Does that mean that doing an AIO-disabled syscall will wait for all in- flight AIO syscalls to finish ?

Re: Bugfixes: PCI devices get assigned redundant IRQs

2007-01-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:50 +0100, Andreas Block wrote: > u8 pin, slot; > - int irq; > + int irq = 0; Aren't there platforms for which irq = 0 is a valid irq ? Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-11 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le jeudi 11 janvier 2007 à 07:50 -0800, Linus Torvalds a écrit : > > O_DIRECT is still crazily racy versus pagecache operations. > > Yes. O_DIRECT is really fundamentally broken. There's just no way to fix > it sanely. How about aliasing O_DIRECT to POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE (sortof) ? Xav -

Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)

2007-01-07 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le dimanche 07 janvier 2007 à 21:40 +0100, Jan Engelhardt a écrit : > >On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 15:05:53 -0500 > >Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> If there's something I should be doing when I commit that I'm not, > >> I'll be happy to change my scripts. My $LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8 > >>

Re: 2.6.19-rc5: grub is much slower resuming from suspend-to-disk than in 2.6.18

2007-01-02 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 11:05 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 08:05:24PM +0100, Lee Garrett wrote: > > Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > > [...] > > >This is rather funny; in 2.6.19-rc5 grub is *really* slow loading kernel > > >when I switch on the > > >system after suspend to dis

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 20:15 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That said, I'm going to suggest that you people talk to your COMPANY > LAWYERS on this, and I'm personally not going to merge that particular > code unless you can convince the people you work for to merge it first. That's quoting materi

Re: Nokia E61 and the kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:594

2006-12-12 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 12:16 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Dienstag, 12. Dezember 2006 11:28 schrieben Sie: > > On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 11:44 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > > > I assume the previous crash was 2.6.19 with SMP? did it work with > > > earlier kernels? > > > > It happens to me a

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mercredi 13 avril 2005 à 09:48 -0700, H. Peter Anvin a écrit : > Xavier Bestel wrote: > > On a related note, maybe kernel.org should host .torrent files (and > > serve them) for the kernel git repository. That would ease the pain. > > > > /me inflicts major bodily h

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mercredi 13 avril 2005 Ã 10:25 +0100, David Woodhouse a Ãcrit : > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:59 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > > Theoretically, you are never supposed to share your index if you work > > in fully git environment. > > Maybe -- if we are prepared to propagate the BK myth that network

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 Ã 10:32 +0200, Olivier Galibert a Ãcrit : > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:17:15AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 Ã 10:04 +0200, David Schmitt a Ãcrit : > > > > > Then I would like to exercise my right under the GPL to aquir

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 Ã 10:04 +0200, David Schmitt a Ãcrit : > Then I would like to exercise my right under the GPL to aquire the source > code > for the firmware (and the required compilers, starting with genfw.c which is > mentioned in acenic_firmware.h) since - as far as I know - firmware i

Re: Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt (Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI))

2005-03-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mercredi 16 mars 2005 Ã 11:00 +0100, Xavier Bestel a Ãcrit : > Le mardi 15 mars 2005 Ã 21:54 -0800, Andrew Morton a Ãcrit : > > You may be able to set the thing up by hand with the help of > > Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt. > > There's something I don't g

Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt (Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI))

2005-03-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mardi 15 mars 2005 Ã 21:54 -0800, Andrew Morton a Ãcrit : > You may be able to set the thing up by hand with the help of > Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt. There's something I don't get in this document's ascii-art: 8<--

[TROLL] binary drivers and development

2005-03-11 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le jeudi 10 mars 2005 à 11:28 -0500, John Richard Moser a écrit : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've been looking at the UDI project[1] and thinking about binary > drivers and the like, and wondering what most peoples' take on these are > and what impact that UDI support wo

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-18 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le samedi 19 février 2005 à 00:51 +0100, Oliver Neukum a écrit : > > Well, we can say that userspace definitely is interested in "power" > > key ;-). > > I wouldn't call that selfevident. The system might be eg. a ticket > vending system and we care only about wake ups from touchscreen, > trackba

Re: Re: Reading Bad DVD Under 2.6.10 freezes the box.

2005-02-07 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 07 fÃvrier 2005 Ã 09:17 -0500, Justin Piszcz a Ãcrit : > Yeah, I can try 2.4.29 later tonight; also, the DVD is not scratched, just > formatted with Joilet/ISO instead of UDF (which is what should be used on > DVDs). > > However, dd if=/dev/hdh of=file.img > Even with bs=1 for

Re: Reading Bad DVD Under 2.6.10 freezes the box.

2005-02-07 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 07 fÃvrier 2005 Ã 08:05 -0500, linux-os a Ãcrit : > > Main Question >> Why does Linux 'freeze up' when W2K gives a BadCRC error > > msg > > (never freezes)? > > Of course it should not. However, there were many incomplete changes > made in 2.6.nn and some may involve problems with lock

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

2005-02-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le vendredi 04 fÃvrier 2005 Ã 00:03 -0500, Jon Smirl a Ãcrit : > Doing this in user space lets you have two reset > programs, vm86 and emu86 for non-x86 machines. Perhaps only emu86 should be used, to have a well-debugged codepath on all archs (amd64, ppc, ...) As it's usermode, the code size is l

Re: Accelerated frame buffer functions

2005-02-02 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mercredi 02 fÃvrier 2005 Ã 15:21 +0100, Haakon Riiser a Ãcrit : > How can I use a frame buffer driver's optimized copyarea, fillrect, > blit, etc. from userspace? The only way I've ever seen anyone use > the frame buffer device is by mmap()ing it and doing everything > manually in the mapped m

[Oops] 2.6.10: PREEMPT SMP

2005-01-31 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, I just got this Oops with 2.6.10 (debian/sid stock kernel). Kernel is tainted by VMWare, but it wasn't used (machine powered on remotely and used just to run gaim though ssh). I can perhaps try to reproduce it without it though if you need. Xav Jan 31 14:08:01 bip kernel: c01c1447 J

Re: [OT] Maintainers master list: new idea

2001-07-06 Thread Xavier Bestel
I have another suggestion for the MAINTAINER list: Put the filenames/directories the maintainer is responsible of, perhaps in a hierarchical tree (X maintains usb drivers, Y maintains usb keyboards, Z maintains usb keyboard from such vendor). This should be coherent and easily parsable. This way

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-07-05 Thread Xavier Bestel
On 05 Jul 2001 17:04:00 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Well, on a laptop memory and disk bandwith are rarely wasted - they cost > > battery life. > > Let me comment on this again, having spent a couple of minutes more > thinking about it. Would you be happy paying 1% of your battery life to

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-07-05 Thread Xavier Bestel
On 05 Jul 2001 15:02:51 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Here's an idea I just came up with while I was composing this... along the > lines of using unused bandwidth for something that at least has a chance of > being useful. Suppose we come to the end of a period of activity, the > general 'te

Re: 2.4.5-ac19: hang on IDE DVD read error

2001-06-28 Thread Xavier Bestel
On 28 Jun 2001 18:13:38 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Hi, > > I retested my scratched DVD on 2.4.5-ac19, and the machine still hangs > (when using drip) after spitting a few errors in the log: > Jun 28 00:32:55 bip kernel: Info fld=0x1f49e0, Current sd0b:00: sense key Medium >

2.4.5-ac19: hang on IDE DVD read error

2001-06-28 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, I retested my scratched DVD on 2.4.5-ac19, and the machine still hangs (when using drip) after spitting a few errors in the log: Jun 28 00:32:55 bip kernel: Info fld=0x1f49e0, Current sd0b:00: sense key Medium Error Jun 28 00:32:55 bip kernel: Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-06-28 Thread Xavier Bestel
On 28 Jun 2001 14:02:09 +0200, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > This would be very useful, I think. Would it be very hard to classify > pages like this (text/data/cache/...)? How would you classify a page of perl code ? Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-06-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
On 26 Jun 2001 20:43:33 -0400, Dan Maas wrote: > > Windows NT/2000 has flags that can be for each CreateFile operation > > ("open" in Unix terms), for instance > > > > FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY > > FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH > > FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING > > FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS > > FILE_FLA

Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap.

2001-06-25 Thread Xavier Bestel
On 24 Jun 2001 22:36:25 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > recompiled it yet). I have a 140 mb swap partition set up but at the time > > this happened it was OFF. I was (still am) running X + twm + two xterms > > > > top gives me: > > mem: 62144k av, 61180k used, 956k free, 0k shrd, 76 buff, 2636 cache

IDE read error hangs kernel

2001-06-14 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, I have a DVD (IDE, using ide-scsi) with read errors, and when reading it (UDF-mounted or directly with xine) on the read error the drive clicks, I have an error in the log and, after a while, the kernel hangs. Here is the (hand-copied) log: scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 1, lun 0, CDB: Req

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