Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-02-03 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hda3 ro console=tty0 > console=ttyS0,38400) > Linux version 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.4.4 20041218 > (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-7)) #1 Sun Jan 30 09:18:40 EST 2005 ^^ Me thinks this will fix it for you:

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-31 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Thursday 20 January 2005 00:38, Andrew Morton wrote: > - This kernel isn't particularly well-tested, sorry.  I've been a bit tied >   up with other stuff. I recently switched my main box to a x86_64 box and installed the unofficial debian 'true64' port on it. I have been running 11-rc2 (with t

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-21 Thread Con Kolivas
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 07:06:31PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: Wont boot. Stops after BIOS check successful. Tried reverting a couple of patches mentioning boot or reboot and had no luck. Any ideas? ... Known bug that came from Linus' tree, already fixed in Linus' tree. The threa

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 07:06:31PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Wont boot. > > Stops after BIOS check successful. > Tried reverting a couple of patches mentioning boot or reboot and had no > luck. Any ideas? >... Known bug that came from Linus' tree, already fixed in Linus' tree. The thread d

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-21 Thread Con Kolivas
Andrew Morton wrote: Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stops after BIOS check successful. earlyprintk on What does this mean, btw? Can you be more specific about where it gets stuck? It says decompressing BIOS check successful and then sits there If you mean that it actually prints no messag

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-21 Thread Andrew Morton
Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stops after BIOS check successful. What does this mean, btw? Can you be more specific about where it gets stuck? If you mean that it actually prints no messages at all then yeah, early printk. One suspect would be the kexec patches which play with boot

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-21 Thread Andrew Morton
Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wont boot. > > Stops after BIOS check successful. Your config boots OK on my P4. As per usual :( > Tried reverting a couple of patches mentioning boot or reboot and had no > luck. Any ideas? None whatsoever, sorry. Guess you could try stripping

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-21 Thread Con Kolivas
Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc1/2.6.11-rc1-mm2/ - There are a bunch of ioctl() and compat_ioctl() changes in here which seem to be of dubious maturity. Could people involved in this area please review, test and let me know? - A

Re: security hook missing in compat ioctl in 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-20 Thread Chris Wright
* Michael S. Tsirkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > Security hook seems to be missing before compat_ioctl in mm2. > And, it would be nice to avoid calling it twice on some paths. > > Chris Wright's patch addressed this in the most elegant way I think, > by adding vfs_ioctl. > > Accordingly, t

security hook missing in compat ioctl in 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-20 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Hi! Security hook seems to be missing before compat_ioctl in mm2. And, it would be nice to avoid calling it twice on some paths. Chris Wright's patch addressed this in the most elegant way I think, by adding vfs_ioctl. Accordingly, this change: @@ -468,6 +496,11 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_ioc

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc1-mm2] mips: fixed conflicting types

2005-01-20 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
This patch had fixed following 2 conflicting type errors. Yoichi arch/mips/lib/csum_partial_copy.c:21: error: conflicting types for `csum_partial_copy_nocheck' include/asm/checksum.h:65: error: previous declaration of `csum_partial_copy_nocheck' arch/mips/lib/csum_partial_copy.c:38: error: conf

[patch] inotify for 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-20 Thread Robert Love
Hey, Andrew. Below is an updated inotify patch (e.g. drop-in replacement for the current patch) for 2.6.11-rc1-mm2. Primary changes are bugfixes, cleanups, and the much-demanded dynamic-length filename. Also, this fixes the reported regression in directory operation performance. More cleanups

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2: CONFIG_SMP=n compile error

2005-01-20 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 20 of January 2005 08:12, Andrew Morton wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c:130: error: `cpu_callin_map' undeclared (first use > > in this function) > > --- 25/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c~i386-x86-64-fix-smp-nmi-watchdog-race-fix > 2005-01

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> +uml-provide-a-release-method-for-the-ubd-driver.patch This one is bogus. The driver core doesn't warn about a missing release method just so that we add an empty one and bloat the kernel. The object's lifetime rules needs fixing instead, and until that happens that warning should be kept. -

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-20 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:40:40 +0100, Benoit Boissinot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:38:18 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc1/2.6.11-rc1-mm2/ > > >

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-20 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:38:18 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc1/2.6.11-rc1-mm2/ > > - There are a bunch of ioctl() and compat_ioctl() changes in here which seem > to be of dubious ma

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
t; net/built-in.o: In function `pktgen_thread_worker': > /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-rc1-mm2/net/core/pktgen.c:2809: undefined reference to > `softirq_pending' > make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 > > The patch below is a compile fix. > > Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-20 Thread Steffen Klassert
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:38:18PM -0800 or thereabouts, Andrew Morton wrote: > +kill-softirq_pending.patch > > Remove softirq_pending(). This breaks net/core/pktgen.c. net/built-in.o: In function `pktgen_thread_worker': /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-rc1-mm2/net/core/pktgen.c:2

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2: CONFIG_SMP=n compile error

2005-01-19 Thread Andrew Morton
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c:130: error: `cpu_callin_map' undeclared (first use in > this function) --- 25/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c~i386-x86-64-fix-smp-nmi-watchdog-race-fix 2005-01-19 23:03:08.946815320 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c 2005-01-19

2.6.11-rc1-mm2: CONFIG_SMP=n compile error

2005-01-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:38:18PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.11-rc1-mm1: >... > +i386-x86-64-fix-smp-nmi-watchdog-race.patch >... > x86_64 updates >... This obviously breaks compilation for CONFIG_SMP=n: <-- snip --> ... CC arch/i386/kernel/nmi.o arch/i386/ke