Re: Linux 3.2.41

2013-03-21 Thread tmhikaru
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 07:58:14PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I'm announcing the release of the 3.2.41 kernel. > > All users of the 3.2 kernel series should upgrade. > > The updated 3.2.y git tree can be found at: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git

Re: [PATCH 2/2] dmi_scan: Refactor dmi_scan_machine(), {smbios,dmi}_present()

2013-03-04 Thread tmhikaru
Forgive me for bothering you about this again, I know that -stable has a policy of only accepting patches once Linus has accepted them upstream, but I'm curious what's going on here. Is there something I could help with to move this along? I haven't seen any discussion about it since Feb 16

Re: [PATCH 2/2] dmi_scan: Refactor dmi_scan_machine(), {smbios,dmi}_present()

2013-02-16 Thread tmhikaru
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 06:02:22PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Move the calls to memcpy_fromio() up into the loop in > dmi_scan_machine(), and move the signature checks back down into > dmi_decode(). We need to check at 16-byte intervals but keep a > 32-byte buffer for an SMBIOS entry, so shift

Re: [PATCH 2/2] dmi_scan: Refactor dmi_scan_machine(), {smbios,dmi}_present()

2013-02-16 Thread tmhikaru
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 06:02:22PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Tim, you might like to test that this doesn't cause a regression > of the previous fix. > > Ben. Ugh, I see what happened now. I only got one copy of this email which was 'helpfully' sorted into the linux kernel mailbox. gmail real

Re: [PATCH 1/2] dmi_scan: Fix missing check for _DMI_ signature in smbios_present()

2013-02-16 Thread tmhikaru
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 06:35:04PM -0800, Zhenzhong Duan wrote: > > - b...@decadent.org.uk wrote??? > > > Commit 9f9c9cbb6057 ('drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c: fetch dmi version > > from SMBIOS if it exists') hoisted the check for "_DMI_" into > > dmi_scan_machine(), which means that we don't bo

Re: 3.2.38 most of the time has 100% cpu use reported

2013-02-15 Thread tmhikaru
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 05:18:10AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Don't worry about it - I think the log messages are a pretty good clue. > > Does this patch fix the log messages and/or the other issues? > Yes! In fact after a quick reboot, the log lines look to me like they exist properly, acpi

Re: Linux 3.2.38

2013-02-10 Thread tmhikaru
This is becoming irritating. Clearly bisect isn't capable of figuring out the bad commit for me, so I'm going to have to walk the commits myself. *sigh* (The commit it thinks is the one that's causing the problem for me yet again is very obviously barking up the wrong tree) git bisect star

Re: Linux 3.2.38

2013-02-08 Thread tmhikaru
I just wanted to give a heads up so you knew where I'm at and that I haven't forgotten to do the bisection. Well, I'm doing the bisection - and it's having me chase wild geese. This bug is apparently not always occuring when it's possible for it to, confusing the issue. Currently I

Re: Linux 3.2.38

2013-02-07 Thread tmhikaru
Hmm. I'm not sure what's going on here but ever since I upgraded to this kernel my CPU use has always been at 100% - various apps (top, pidstat, conky) give different reasons for this, conky&pidstat claims things like X/the most active X application are cpu hogging, while top seems to think