Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...

2005-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> > I'm hoping one or two things will happen now: > > * janitors fix up the other PCI drivers along these lines > > * improve the PCI API so that pci_request_regions() is axiomatic > > Do you have any suggestions for how to do this? One would be to keep an "enabler" count. If the device is enabl

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
> But how do you use mbind() to change the memory placement for an anonymous > private mapping used by a vendor provided executable with mbind()? For that you use set_mempolicy. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROT

Re: PCI access mode on x86_64

2005-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
> This one is needed, too. Thanks. Whoever wrote this this didn't care very much about x86-64. -Andi - 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 re

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
> For our use, the batch scheduler will give an intermediary program a > list of processes and a series of from-to node pairs. That process would > then ensure all the processes are stopped, scan their VMAs to determine > what regions are mapped by more than one process, which are mapped > by addi

Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...

2005-02-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:06:19 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > As a result, I have committed the attached patch to libata-2.6. In many > > cases, it is a "semantic fix", addressing the case > > > > * pci_request_regions() indicates hardware is in use > > * we rudely disable the in-use hardwar

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:49:32AM -0800, lm wrote: > If it were spread out over the thousands of sites like your > usage is then it would be more, there's a lot more overhead. There are > currently more than 2,200 top level domains using BK for free (where > top level means my-company.com, not my

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

2005-02-14 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:04:03PM +, James Simmons wrote: > > > In 2.6, drivers/input/power.c would only have been built if > > CONFIG_INPUT_POWER was enabled - but it is nowhere possible to enable > > this option. > > That was written a long time ago before the new power management went i

Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...

2005-02-14 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:24:29PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:06:19 -0800, > Greg KH wrote: > > > > > As a result, I have committed the attached patch to libata-2.6. In many > > > cases, it is a "semantic fix", addressing the case > > > > > > * pci_request_regions() i

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Matthias Andree
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: > So how would you suggest that we resolve it? The protection we need is > that people don't get to > > - use BK > - stop using BK so they can go work on another system > - start using BK again > - stop using BK so they can go work on anoth

Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...

2005-02-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:34:13 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:24:29PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > At Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:06:19 -0800, > > Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > As a result, I have committed the attached patch to libata-2.6. In > > > > many > > > > cases, it is a "

Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...

2005-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:42:55PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Currently, in almost every PCI driver, if pci_request_regions() fails -- indicating another driver is using the hardware -- then pci_disable_device() is called on the error path, disabling a device that another driver is

Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...

2005-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Takashi Iwai wrote: At Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:34:13 -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:24:29PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:06:19 -0800, Greg KH wrote: As a result, I have committed the attached patch to libata-2.6. In many cases, it is a "semantic fix", addressing

Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...

2005-02-14 Thread Roland Dreier
Jeff> * pci_request_regions() should be axiomatic. By that I mean, Jeff> pci_enable_device() should Jeff> (a) handle pci_request_regions() completely Jeff> (b) fail if regions are not available There's one pitfall here: for a device using MSI-X, the MSI-X table is goin

Re: Odd problem with dual processor AMD system

2005-02-14 Thread Michael J. Cohen
Alan wrote: Ideas on how to log something that early in the boot process without being in front of the machine? Serial console is best. remote power cycle, grub, and serial console make my life easier every day of the week. Also it would help for the other issues if you'd post a .config and per

Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...

2005-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:58:38AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > Jeff> * pci_request_regions() should be axiomatic. By that I mean, > Jeff> pci_enable_device() should > Jeff> (a) handle pci_request_regions() completely > Jeff> (b) fail if regions are not available > > Ther

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Matthias Andree
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > He is simply plain dishonest about his intentions. And since he is > driving a company it's not difficult to deduce what his intentions > really are: Making money. That's plain and simple what all companies > are all about. Now you can start to guess

[PATCH 2.6 1/2] Fix documentation build failure

2005-02-14 Thread Sergey Vlasov
Hello! In linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk2 building of the documentation (make htmldocs) fails on "DOCPROC Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.sgml" because of these errors: Error(/home/vsu/src/linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk2/include/linux/skbuff.h:936): cannot understand prototype: '#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_DEV_ALLOC_SK

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
> This is, by your leave, ridiculous. I was, so far, allowed to stop using > BK/Free on day #1 and hack non-BK SCM on day #2. I understand you don't > want users to repeat this sequence, use BK on every odd day of month and > hack non-BK SCM on every even day, and I haven't done that (I haven't > h

Re: 2.6.10 parport_pc: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones

2005-02-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I run modprobe parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 and found parport_pc: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones in dmesg output and of course my paralel port does not use irq. Have no way to tell parport_pc to use IRQ? With 2.6.8 the above command is f

[PATCH 2.6 2/2] Fix documentation build failure

2005-02-14 Thread Sergey Vlasov
Hello! In linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk2 building of the documentation (make htmldocs) fails on "DOCPROC Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.sgml" because of these errors: Error(/home/vsu/src/linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk2/include/linux/skbuff.h:936): cannot understand prototype: '#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_DEV_ALLOC_SK

Re: 2.6.10 parport_pc: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones

2005-02-14 Thread steve
Thanks , I am using 2.6.11-rc4 and having no problem. Cz I have searched the lkml and found nothing so don't know it is a known problem. Sorry for the noise. :-) Steve Kieu PerfectPC Ltd. Technical Division. Web: http://www.perfectpc.co.nz/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Matthew Dharm
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 07:54:14PM +0100, Juergen Stuber wrote: > Hi Larry, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry McVoy) writes: > > The protection we need is that people don't get to > > > > - use BK > > - stop using BK so they can go work on another system > > - start using BK again > > -

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Matthias Andree
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Juergen Stuber wrote: > That would be much more acceptable to me, I know what I did in the past, > but I won't accept any restriction of what I can do in the future. > There would still be a problem of what to do if I get addicted to BK. There'd be BK/Pro - a price list on t

ACPI and hotplug module loading

2005-02-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
ACPI modules provide the name of the device that they want to bind to in the .ids section of the acpi_driver structure. Currently this information isn't made available in module.aliases - nor does the information from the DSDT seem to make its way into /sys anywhere. If these two issues were fixed,

Video cards and PCI power states

2005-02-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
Radeons need certain registers set in order to power down fully when set to D3 state. This support has been added to radeonfb, but it would be nice to be able to support this with text consoles as well. I've written a small userspace application that sets the registers correctly, but the device sti

Re: [PATCH, new ACPI driver] new sony_acpi driver

2005-02-14 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:58:37AM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > > Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Privately I've had many positive feedbacks from users of this driver > > > (and no negative feedback), including Linux distributions who wish > > > to include it into their kernels. T

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
Disclaimer: I did never use BK and I do not plan to use it. On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:56:24AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > All we are trying to do is > > 1. Provide the open source community with a useful tool. > 2. Prevent that from turning into the open source community >

Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels

2005-02-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On my Thinkpad T30 with a Radeon Mobility M7 LW, I get interesting console video corruption if I start GDM, switch back to text mode, then stop it again. X is Xfree86 from Debian/unstable or X.org 6.8.2. The corruption shows up whenever the console scrolls after X has been shut down and manifests

Re: [PATCH] make ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR depend on ACPI

2005-02-14 Thread Len Brown
Re: ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR depending on ACPI or ACPI_INTERPRETER -- either are fine. Note that I'm planning to delete the separate ACPI_INTERPRETER build option and just use CONFIG_ACPI in the future. We tested this in a config clean-up in -mm a while back, and I should probably revive it for early

queue_work from interrupt Real time preemption2.6.11-rc2-RT-V0.7.37-03

2005-02-14 Thread Mark Gross
I'm working on a tweak to the preepmtive soft IRQ implementation using work queues and I'm having problems with a BUG assert when trying to queue_work. Souldn't I be able to call queue_work form ISR context? --mgross --- | preempt count: 0001 ] | 1-level deep critic

Re: [ACPI] Repost: BUG 2.6.11-rc1: ACPI keys events: only "arrive" after 8 of them.

2005-02-14 Thread Karol Kozimor
Thus wrote Romano Giannetti: > I'm stymied. If anyone can help me with this, or simply tell me how to > have more data on this, I will try to obtain all the data I can. > I'm using a vanilla 2.6.11-rc1, which config is available here: See http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4124

RE: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Martin Fouts
In the United States, Ford isn't legally allowed to do that. What you are asking for in your license, it seems to me, is what is already provided for in the DMCA: you wish that users not reverse engineer your product. You do not need a license clause for this, as the DMCA already covers it; and i

Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Stefan provided me initial list of machines where S3 works (including video). If you have machine that is not on the list, please send me a diff. If you have eMachines... I'd like you to try playing with vbetool (it worked for me), and if it works for you supplying right model numbers.

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Erik Andersen
On Mon Feb 14, 2005 at 11:29:20AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:49:32AM -0800, lm wrote: > > If it were spread out over the thousands of sites like your > > usage is then it would be more, there's a lot more overhead. There are > > currently more than 2,200 top level domai

RE: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Martin Fouts
I don't believe a non-compete clause accomplishes your goal, as I've recently written. On the other hand, a "don't reverse engineer and don't allow your copy to be used to reverse engineer" clause does. The "no reverse" clause is pretty common and difficult to argue against. The non-compete cla

Re: queue_work from interrupt Real time preemption2.6.11-rc2-RT-V0.7.37-03

2005-02-14 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 12:40 -0800, Mark Gross wrote: > I'm working on a tweak to the preepmtive soft IRQ implementation using work > queues and I'm having problems with a BUG assert when trying to queue_work. > > Souldn't I be able to call queue_work form ISR context? Yes, but not with interrupt

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Paolo Ciarrocchi
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:36:51 +0100, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Disclaimer: > I did never use BK and I do not plan to use it. Same here, but just because I'm not a developer ;-) [...] > I don't know about copyright law in other countries (and the USA have > both a pretty different l

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Tom Felker
On Monday 14 February 2005 12:56 pm, Larry McVoy wrote: > All we are trying to do is > > 1. Provide the open source community with a useful tool. > 2. Prevent that from turning into the open source community > creating a clone of our tool. > > The reason this is complicated is th

Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > This patch is a conglomeration of about 5 patches that complete (I > think!) the work of switching over to pm_message_t. Most of this work > was done by Bernard Blackham, some by me, some by Pavel I think (I was > out of action for part of the development). I believe it needs to go in > befo

Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-14 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Pavel Machek schrieb: > Hi! > > Stefan provided me initial list of machines where S3 works (including > video). If you have machine that is not on the list, please send me a > diff. If you have eMachines... I'd like you to try playing with > vbetool (it worked for me), and if it works for you supp

Re: [RFC] Changing COW detection to be memory hotplug friendly

2005-02-14 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:36:43PM +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > By the way, while we're talking of remove_exclusive_swap_page: > > > a more functional issue I sometimes wonder about, why don't we > > > remove_exclusive_swap_page on write fault? Ke

Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...

2005-02-14 Thread Roland Dreier
Jeff> That's an MSI bug. Jeff> A current PCI driver -should- be using pci_request_regions(). Hmm... I'm not sure everyone would agree with that. It does make sense that the MSI-X core wants to make sure that it owns the MSI-X table without having someone else stomp on it. - R. - To uns

Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > This patch is a conglomeration of about 5 patches that complete (I > think!) the work of switching over to pm_message_t. Most of this work > was done by Bernard Blackham, some by me, some by Pavel I think (I was > out of action for part of the development). I believe it needs to go in > befo

Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes

2005-02-14 Thread Andrew Morton
Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew, if you get one big patch doing only type-safety (u32 -> > pm_message_t, no code changes), would you still take it this late? I > promise it is not going to break anything... It would help merge after > 2.6.11 quite a lot... Problem is, such a

Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes

2005-02-14 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi Andrew et al. On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 08:46, Andrew Morton wrote: > Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Andrew, if you get one big patch doing only type-safety (u32 -> > > pm_message_t, no code changes), would you still take it this late? I > > promise it is not going to break anyth

Re: make menuconfig

2005-02-14 Thread Nick Warne
On Monday 14 February 2005 12:45, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Nick Warne wrote: > > So I can ignore the debug prints? > > Yes. OK, thanks for your replies. I am since trying 2.6.10 again (with new GCC version and system memory this time), and the messages do not appear in later

Re: 2.6-bk: cpu hotplug + preempt = smp_processor_id warnings galore

2005-02-14 Thread Nathan Lynch
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 11:59:04AM -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > How about; > > Index: linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2/kernel/softirq.c > === > RCS file: /home/cvsroot/linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2/kernel/softirq.c,v > retrieving revision 1.1.1.1 > dif

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 7/7] mm: manual page migration -- sys_page_migrate

2005-02-14 Thread Robin Holt
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:50:42AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 07:52 -0600, Robin Holt wrote: > > The node mask is a list of allowed. This is intended to be as near > > to a one-to-one migration path as possible. > > If that's the case, it would make the kernel internals a b

Re: [PATCH] make ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR depend on ACPI

2005-02-14 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Len Brown wrote: > Re: ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR depending on ACPI or ACPI_INTERPRETER -- either > are fine. Note that a patch that fixes this and a little more is waiting in -mm and Sam's tree. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ker

Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > Andrew, if you get one big patch doing only type-safety (u32 -> > > > pm_message_t, no code changes), would you still take it this late? I > > > promise it is not going to break anything... It would help merge after > > > 2.6.11 quite a lot... > > > > Problem is, such a megapatch cau

Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes

2005-02-14 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:04, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > Andrew, if you get one big patch doing only type-safety (u32 -> > > > > pm_message_t, no code changes), would you still take it this late? I > > > > promise it is not going to break anything... It would help merge after > > >

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 7/7] mm: manual page migration -- sys_page_migrate

2005-02-14 Thread Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:01 -0600, Robin Holt wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:50:42AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 07:52 -0600, Robin Holt wrote: > > > The node mask is a list of allowed. This is intended to be as near > > > to a one-to-one migration path as possible. >

Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...

2005-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Roland Dreier wrote: Jeff> That's an MSI bug. Jeff> A current PCI driver -should- be using pci_request_regions(). Hmm... I'm not sure everyone would agree with that. It does make sense that the MSI-X core wants to make sure that it owns the MSI-X table without having someone else stomp on

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Gerold Jury
Hi Larry Hi Everyone To me it looks like lot's of users (and myself) simply want to track the kernel development very closely. Some are looking out for a specific bug to be fixed. Some want to see the direction of some developments going on. The first place a change arrives at is the bitkeeper re

Re: queue_work from interrupt Real time preemption2.6.11-rc2-RT-V0.7.37-03

2005-02-14 Thread Mark Gross
On Monday 14 February 2005 13:24, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 12:40 -0800, Mark Gross wrote: > > I'm working on a tweak to the preepmtive soft IRQ implementation using > > work queues and I'm having problems with a BUG assert when trying to > > queue_work. > > > > Souldn't I be ab

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-14 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:30:54AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > > >Because we don't have an easy way yet to build against a copy of klibc > >on a system? For right now, it's the simplest way to ensure that it > >works for everyone, once klibc moves into the kernel tree I can re

Re: Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels

2005-02-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 12:39 -0800, Matt Mackall wrote: > On my Thinkpad T30 with a Radeon Mobility M7 LW, I get interesting > console video corruption if I start GDM, switch back to text mode, > then stop it again. X is Xfree86 from Debian/unstable or X.org 6.8.2. > > The corruption shows up whene

Re: [PATCH 2.6 1/2] Fix documentation build failure

2005-02-14 Thread David S. Miller
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:00:17 +0300 Sergey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk2 building of the documentation (make htmldocs) > fails on "DOCPROC Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.sgml" because of > these errors: > > Error(/home/vsu/src/linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk2/include/linux/skbu

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-14 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 01:48:49AM +0100, Ingo Oeser wrote: > Hi, > > Greg KH write: > > Very nice stuff. Ok, that's a good reason not to get rid of these > > files, although they can be generated on the fly from the modules > > themselves (like depmod does it.) > > Time to resurrect modinfo? ;-

Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...

2005-02-14 Thread Roland Dreier
OK, I'm happy to go along with that (it definitely simplifies my driver code). Here's the patch. Remove the call to request_mem_region() in msix_capability_init() to grab the MSI-X vector table. Drivers should be using pci_request_regions() so that they own all of the PCI BARs, and the MSI-X co

Re: [PATCH][RFC]: Clean up resource allocation in i8042 driver

2005-02-14 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Monday 14 February 2005 11:32, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > I didn't see a final ACK on this patch -- just checking for one :) > > P. I see that resource allocation part is in Vojtech's tree now but the part changing timeout message was dropped. -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:24:43PM +0100, Gerold Jury wrote: > Hi Larry > Hi Everyone > > Do you think it is possible to make a split licence that will distinguish > between active changes and passive watching/tracking ? A lot of people have told us to create two products, the free product and t

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Henrik Persson
Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:36:51 +0100, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Disclaimer: I did never use BK and I do not plan to use it. Same here, but just because I'm not a developer ;-) [...] I don't know about copyright law in other countries (and the USA have both a p

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 09:51 +0100, Prakash Punnoor wrote: > Paolo Ciarrocchi schrieb: > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:06:51 -0500, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 17:16 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > >> > >>>All distros are trying to reduce boot time. > >> > >>They certainly

Re: Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels

2005-02-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Appeared ? hah... that's strange. X is known to fuck up the chip when > quit, but I wouldn't have expected any change due to the new version of > radeonfb. From what you describe, it looks like an offset register is > changed by X, or the surface control. > > My patch did not change any of rade

Re: fix iounmap and a pageattr memleak (x86 and x86-64)

2005-02-14 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
Hello, the fix for this bug in 2.6.11-rc3 for this bug is wrong, I thought I posted the right one (that I already applied to all SUSE branches except the HEAD branch that probably is in sync with the inferior fix in mainline). Right fix is the below one. And then of course drop those useless -PAGE

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-14 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:04:00PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 09:51 +0100, Prakash Punnoor wrote: > > Paolo Ciarrocchi schrieb: > > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:06:51 -0500, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 17:16 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > >>

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-14 Thread Roland Dreier
Lee> I don't see why so much effort goes into improving boot time Lee> on the kernel side when the most obvious user space problem Lee> is ignored. How much of a win is it to run init scripts in parallel? I seem to recall seeing tests that show that it doesn't make much difference and

Re: [PATCH] 5/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi James, On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:50:01AM -0500, James Morris wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > > /* Condition for invocation of non-default security_op */ > > #define COND_SECURITY(seop, def) \ > > - (likely(security_ops == &capability_security_ops))? def: > > secur

Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 22:11 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > Stefan provided me initial list of machines where S3 works (including > video). If you have machine that is not on the list, please send me a > diff. If you have eMachines... I'd like you to try playing with > vbetool (it worked for

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread David Lang
Larry, I don't think he's talking about making the free bk be a striped down version, I think he's talking about having two different free versions. version 1 what you have today with the license you need to protect yourself version 2 a version with no check-in capability at all, all it can do i

Re: [PATCH] 4/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Rik, On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:54:07AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > >The case that security_ops points to the default capability_ > >security_ops is the fast path and arguably the more likely one > >on most systems. > > Quite a few distributions s

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-02-14, at 19:56, Larry McVoy wrote: All we are trying to do is 1. Provide the open source community with a useful tool. 2. Prevent that from turning into the open source community creating a clone of our tool. Now that's pathetic! You recognize that point 2. is precisely t

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Gerold Jury
>if they really need the more powerful features. Or we could donate >some on a case by case basis. > >If the hackers who are using BK can reach agreement that it would be >better if the BK they had didn't move forward unless they got commercial >seats then we could start moving towards a license o

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 15:16 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > I don't see why so much effort goes into improving boot time on the > > kernel side when the most obvious user space problem is ignored. > > What user space problem is that? That init scripts with no interdependencies are run sequentially rath

Re: [PATCH] 4/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-14 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Kurt Garloff wrote: I sent out the full patch set, which moves the code from vanilla to the code we've been shipping since 7 months. Heh, it sounds like such a step back when it's said like that ;) If we can't find consensus for patches 4 and 5, I'd still think applying 1 -- 3

[PATCH] add timing information to printk messages

2005-02-14 Thread Tim Bird
Here's a little patch which is useful for showing timing information for kernel bootup activities. This patch adds a new Kconfig option under "Kernel Hacking" and a new option for the kernel command line. It also provides a script for showing delta information. Note that the timing data may not

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-14 Thread Diego Calleja
El Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:04:00 -0500, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Last I heard Gentoo does not even do it by default. > > I don't see why so much effort goes into improving boot time on the > kernel side when the most obvious user space problem is ignored. There's stuff that it cou

[OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 15:21 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > Lee> I don't see why so much effort goes into improving boot time > Lee> on the kernel side when the most obvious user space problem > Lee> is ignored. > > How much of a win is it to run init scripts in parallel? I seem to > re

Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > > Andrew, if you get one big patch doing only type-safety (u32 -> > > > > > pm_message_t, no code changes), would you still take it this late? I > > > > > promise it is not going to break anything... It would help merge > > > > > after > > > > > 2.6.11 quite a lot... > > > > > > >

Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 23:23 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 22:11 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Stefan provided me initial list of machines where S3 works (including > > video). If you have machine that is not on the list, please send me a > > diff. If you have e

Re: IEEE-1394 and disks

2005-02-14 Thread Jody McIntyre
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:23:47PM -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote: > By bridge chips I mean IEEE-1394 to IDE. Also, is it possible to set > spin down time for these IDE disks through 1394? i.e. if they are > inactive for 1 hour, I would like them to spin down. Is this possible? Not currently. I'm n

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-14 Thread Ray Bryant
Andi Kleen wrote: But how do you use mbind() to change the memory placement for an anonymous private mapping used by a vendor provided executable with mbind()? For that you use set_mempolicy. -Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

udev and cdsymlinks

2005-02-14 Thread J.A. Magallon
Hi all... There are some problems with current udev. I wil try to propose an acceptable solution (ie, patch ;) ). My problems are with cdsymlinks (the C version, mandrake cooker uses that; all I say is applicable also to the bash version). Problems with udev-053:cdymlinks.c: - Does not obey the

Re: Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels

2005-02-14 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 07:08, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Appeared ? hah... that's strange. X is known to fuck up the chip when > > quit, but I wouldn't have expected any change due to the new version of > > radeonfb. From what you describe, it looks like an offset register is > > change

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:23:47PM -0800, David Lang wrote: > Larry, I don't think he's talking about making the free bk be a striped > down version, I think he's talking about having two different free > versions. Leaving aside the $600K/year or so it would cost us to do that... > this does me

Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes

2005-02-14 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 10:41, Pavel Machek wrote: > > I guess I'm wrong then - I thought the other changes avoided compilation > > errors. > > Well, yes, if you switch pm_message_t into struct. But we are not yet > ready to do that... it is going to be typedefed to u32 for 2.6.11... Ah. So I

Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > I guess I'm wrong then - I thought the other changes avoided compilation > > > errors. > > > > Well, yes, if you switch pm_message_t into struct. But we are not yet > > ready to do that... it is going to be typedefed to u32 for 2.6.11... > > Ah. So I haven't realised that Bernard took

Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-14 Thread Tim Bird
Lee Revell wrote: > But, I was referring more to things like GDM not being started until all > the other init scripts are done. Why not start it first, and let the > network initialize while the user is logging in? There are a number of techniques used by CE vendors to get fast bootup time. Some

Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes

2005-02-14 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 11:15, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > I guess I'm wrong then - I thought the other changes avoided compilation > > > > errors. > > > > > > Well, yes, if you switch pm_message_t into struct. But we are not yet > > > ready to do that... it is going to be typedefed to

Re: Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels

2005-02-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:08:11AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Appeared ? hah... that's strange. X is known to fuck up the chip when > > quit, but I wouldn't have expected any change due to the new version of > > radeonfb. From what you describe, it looks like an offset register is

ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-14 Thread Sergio Monteiro Basto
What this message means ? instead hdc=ide-scsi what should I put in options of boot kernel ? please cc me with a quick reply. for google the archives thanks, -- Sérgio M.B. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-14 Thread Ray Bryant
Andi Kleen wrote: Ray Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: set of pages associated with a particular process need to be moved. The kernel interface that we are proposing is the following: page_migrate(pid, va_start, va_end, count, old_nodes, new_nodes); [Only commenting on the interface, haven't rea

Fix pm_message_t in generic code [was Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes]

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes u32 vs. pm_message_t in generic code. No code changes. Please apply, Pavel --- clean-mm/Documentation/power/devices.txt2005-02-15 00:34:36.0 +0100 +++ linux-mm/Documentation/power/devices.txt2005-02-1

Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t in USB [was Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes]

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes (part of) u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in USB. It should cause no code changes. Please apply, Pavel Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- clean-mm/drivers/usb/core/hcd-pci.c 2005-02-15 00:34:40.00

Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in OSS

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes (part of) u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in OSS. I found no maintainer for OSS in MAINTAINERS, that's why it goes to you... It should cause no code changes. Please apply, Pavel --- clean-mm/sound/oss/ali5455.c

Re: Fix pm_message_t in generic code [was Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes]

2005-02-14 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi Pavel. Thanks! Nigel -- Nigel Cunningham Software Engineer, Canberra, Australia http://www.cyclades.com Ph: +61 (2) 6292 8028 Mob: +61 (417) 100 574 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in PCMCIA

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This should fix part of u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in pcmcia. PCMCIA is listed as unmaintained, that's why it goes directly... Pavel --- clean-mm/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c2005-02-15 00:34:39.0 +0100 +++ linux-mm/dr

FIx u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in firewire

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This should fix u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in firewire. No code changes. Please apply, Pavel Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- clean-mm/drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c 2005-02-15 00:46:40.0 +0100 +++ linux-mm/dri

Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t in network device drivers

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This should fix confusion in network device drivers. No code changes. Please apply, Pavel Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- clean-mm/drivers/net/3c59x.c2005-02-15 00:34:38.0 +0100 +++ linux-mm/dr

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