Re: [PATCH] A new entry for /proc

2005-03-01 Thread Mauricio Lin
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:41:31 + (GMT), Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Mauricio Lin wrote: > > > > Now I am testing with /proc/pid/smaps and the values are showing that > > the old one is faster than the new one. So I will keep using the old > > smaps version. >

Re: [PATCH 1/13] timestamp fixes

2005-03-01 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Theurer wrote: Nick, can you describe the system you run the DB tests on? Do you have any cpu idle time stats and hopefully some context switch rate stats? Yeah, it is dbt3-pgsql on OSDL's 8-way STP machines. I think they're PIII Xeons with 2MB L2 cache. I had been having some difficulty r

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-03-01 Thread Kenan Esau
Am Donnerstag, den 24.02.2005, 10:03 +0100 schrieb Vojtech Pavlik: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:06:55AM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > > > > > I also checked my original standalone-driver: Because of this behaviour > > > > I always retried the last command 3 times if the responce from the > > > > dev

Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI: possible cleanups

2005-03-01 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Adrian Bunk wrote: Before I'm getting flamed to death: Adrian, I have a few comments below. This patch contains possible cleanups. If parts of this patch conflict with pending changes these parts of my patch have to be dropped. This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlessl

Re: split kobject creation and hotplug event generation

2005-03-01 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:24:43PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:46:42AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 06:53:16AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > This splits the implicit generation of a hotplug events from > > > kobject_add() and kobject_del(), to give

Re: [PATCH: 2.6.11-rc5] i2c chips: ds1337 RTC driver

2005-03-01 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 05:14:25PM +, James Chapman wrote: > +/* Define to compile in pr_debug() trace */ > +#undef DEBUG Not needed, we do this in the makefile now. > + if (debug >= 1) > + pr_debug("%s: client=%p, dt=%p\n", __FUNCTION__, client, dt); Please use the dev_dbg()

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-03-01 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 19:17 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On 28 Feb 2005 10:31:33 -0500 > jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would bet the benefit you are seeing has to do with batching rather > > than such an optimization flag. Different ballgame. > > I relooked at their code snippet, they

Re: [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities

2005-03-01 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:05:54PM -0500, Adam Belay wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 15:41 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:37:03PM -0500, Adam Belay wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 18:45 +, Russell King wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:18:37PM -0500, Adam Belay w

Re: swsusp logic error?

2005-03-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Pavel Machek > > > Could you, please, verify that you don't need to load any > > > modules from initrd for your swap partition to work? It won't > > > work if you do. > > > > this makes perfect sense to me when you talk about resuming. > > does it also apply to suspending? > > As ke

[PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-01 Thread Hidetoshi Seto
Hi, long time no see :-) Currently, I/O error is not a leading cause of system failure. However, since Linux nowadays is making great progress on its scalability, and ever larger number of PCI devices are being connected to a single high-performance server, the risk of the I/O error is increasing d

Re: [patch ide-dev 8/9] make ide_task_ioctl() use REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-03-01 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hello, On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:21:16 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Bartlomiej. > Hello, Jeff. > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 05:14:55PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Monday 28 February 2005 16:24, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > >

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-03-01 Thread Gerd Knorr
James Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you could suggest a very well tested kernel for bttv (2.6.9?), What do you expect? With just one single report and not remotely being clear what exactly caused it ... > I've heard that there is some way to dump eeproms; Is there a way to > write them

Re: [PATCH] scsi/sata write barrier support

2005-03-01 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Feb 22 2005, Greg Stark wrote: > > Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > fsync has been working all along, since the initial barrier support for > > ide. only ext3 and reiserfs support it. > > Really? That's huge news. Since what kernel version(s) is that? Since 2.6.9. > What ab

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 - pcmcia weirdness/breakage

2005-03-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:48:20 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Symptoms: Running '/etc/init.d/pcmcia start' bombs - cardmgr goes into > a loop spewing repeated 'Common memory region at 0x0: Generic or SRAM' > messages. In the dmesg, we find: > [4294859.369000] cs: unable to map card memory! > [429

Re: [PATCH 1/13] timestamp fixes

2005-03-01 Thread Nick Piggin
Nick Piggin wrote: Andrew Theurer wrote: Nick, can you describe the system you run the DB tests on? Do you have any cpu idle time stats and hopefully some context switch rate stats? Yeah, it is dbt3-pgsql on OSDL's 8-way STP machines. I think they're PIII Xeons with 2MB L2 cache. I had been hav

Re: swsusp logic error?

2005-03-01 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi Martin. On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 19:22, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Pavel Machek > > > > Could you, please, verify that you don't need to load any > > > > modules from initrd for your swap partition to work? It won't > > > > work if you do. > > > > > > this makes perfect sense to me wh

Re: Raid-6 hang on write.

2005-03-01 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday March 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: > > > > Could you please confirm if there is a problem with > > 2.6.11-rc4-bk4->bk10 > > > > as reported, and whether it seems to be the same problem. > > Ok.. are we all ready? I had applied your development patches to all my

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/usb/net/pegasus.c: make some code static

2005-03-01 Thread Petko Manolov
That's reasonable. Thanks for the patch. Petko On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/usb/net/pegasus.c |7 --- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- l

Re: [patch ide-dev 8/9] make ide_task_ioctl() use REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-03-01 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:42:18AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:21:16 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So, how do you like the following set of TFLAG's? > > > > /* struct ata_taskfile flags */ > > > > /* The following si

Re: updating mtime for char/block devices?

2005-03-01 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:45:47AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Can I prevent mtime updates for all device files? Mounting /dev readonly > would certainly help, but for that to work I'd have to move /dev to a > different filesystem, right? tty mtime updates aren't marked dirty, so aren't

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1: something is wrong with swsusp powerdown

2005-03-01 Thread Andrew Morton
Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In `subj` kernel, machine no longer powers down at the end of > swsusp. 2.6.11-rc5-pavel works ok, as does 2.6.11-bk. Binary searching indicates that this is due to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc5/2.6.11-rc5-mm1/

Re: [patch ide-dev 8/9] make ide_task_ioctl() use REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-03-01 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:29:15 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:42:18AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:21:16 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > So, how do you like the following

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1: something is wrong with swsusp powerdown

2005-03-01 Thread Andrew Morton
btw, suspend is a bit messy. The disk spins down. Then up. Then down again. And: Stopping tasks: ==| Freeing memory... done (7069 pages freed) swsusp: Need to copy 7847 pages swsusp: critical section/: done (7879 pages copi

Re: question about sockfd_lookup( )

2005-03-01 Thread MingJie Chang
I can't use sockfd_put(sock) directly. I trace its code, the code is extern __inline__ void sockfd_put(struct socket *sock) { fput(sock->file); } so I use fput(sock->file) but it has problems too 1) execute "ls" in the ftp is also block 2) kernel prints "socki_lookup: socket file ch

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1: something is wrong with swsusp powerdown

2005-03-01 Thread Andrew Morton
Resume on SMP locks up. Relocating pagedir | Reading image data (8157 pages): 100% 8157 done. Stopping tasks: | Freeing memory... done (0 pages freed) Freezing CPUs (at 1)...Sleeping in: [] dump_stack+0x19/0x20 [] smp_pause+0x1f/0x54 [] smp_call_function_i

Re: swsusp logic error?

2005-03-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > Could you, please, verify that you don't need to load any > > > > modules from initrd for your swap partition to work? It won't > > > > work if you do. > > > > > > this makes perfect sense to me when you talk about resuming. > > > does it also apply to suspending? > > > > As kernel

Re: swsusp logic error?

2005-03-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > > Could you, please, verify that you don't need to load any > > > > > modules from initrd for your swap partition to work? It won't > > > > > work if you do. > > > > > > > > this makes perfect sense to me when you talk about resuming. > > > > does it also apply to suspending? > > >

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1: something is wrong with swsusp powerdown

2005-03-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > btw, suspend is a bit messy. The disk spins down. Then up. Then down > again. And: Yes, that's known, pm_message_t needs to become struct to solve disk pingpong properly. > Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:2082 > in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1: something is wrong with swsusp powerdown

2005-03-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > In `subj` kernel, machine no longer powers down at the end of > > swsusp. 2.6.11-rc5-pavel works ok, as does 2.6.11-bk. > > Binary searching indicates that this is due to > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc5/2.6.11-rc5-mm1/broken-out/acpi_power_off-b

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1: something is wrong with swsusp powerdown

2005-03-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Resume on SMP locks up. Does it work on UP kernel on same hardware? NMI watchdog is problem for suspend, it takes long to do various phases. Can you disable it for testing? Pavel > Relocating pagedir | > Reading image data (8

Re: Fw: Re: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-01 Thread Alexander Gran
Am Dienstag, 1. März 2005 11:48 schrieb Andrew Morton: > Alex, please use mailing lists... sorry, I was used to have reply-to set to the mailing list ;) double-checking next time.. > Dominik, do we really always want to drag in the firmware loader if > CONFIG_PCMCIA? Hmm. I've enabled the firmw

Re: pty_chars_in_buffer NULL pointer (kernel oops)

2005-03-01 Thread Alan Cox
I couldnt duplicate the performance hit so I believe the proper fix not the hack is the right one - 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 t

Breakage from patch: Only root should be able to set the N_MOUSE line discipline.

2005-03-01 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-01-28 at 16:12, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > ChangeSet 1.1977.1.2, 2005/01/28 17:12:20+01:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > input: Only root should be able to set the N_MOUSE line discipline. > I finally had a chance to trace down why my mouse code for a little gui library

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1: something is wrong with swsusp powerdown

2005-03-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In `subj` kernel, machine no longer powers down at the end of > > swsusp. 2.6.11-rc5-pavel works ok, as does 2.6.11-bk. > > Binary searching indicates that this is due to > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/

Re: updating mtime for char/block devices?

2005-03-01 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Russell King schrieb: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:45:47AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >>Can I prevent mtime updates for all device files? Mounting /dev readonly >>would certainly help, but for that to work I'd have to move /dev to a >>different filesystem, right? > > > tty mtime upda

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1: something is wrong with swsusp powerdown

2005-03-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, the patch is very ugly. If something like this needs to be done, > then perhaps acpi should properly register into driver model and do > the work there. This will also mean code will be called consistently. I totally agree. Do you have an example o

Re: updating mtime for char/block devices?

2005-03-01 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:15:41PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Russell King schrieb: > > tty mtime updates aren't marked dirty, so aren't written back to disk. > > Intentionally. > > It seems the tty mtime exception doesn't include /dev/ptmx. That's > probably unintentional. Is there a

Re: sched_yield behavior

2005-03-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
First of all, thanks to all for the helpful replies. I have simplified my example, because I was only interested in understanding if there was particular behavior performed by the new scheduler after a sched_yield() call. Anyway, I try to explain better my requirements. I have to implement a tas

Kernel Oopses, can anyone fix it?

2005-03-01 Thread Nickolay
Hello Guys! I has some shit happens after 2-3 days system working. After 2-3 days in kernel.debug i has many oopses. Stock 2.4.27 kernel. At time oopses started, system can't fork no one process. Below first two: OOPS No 1 --- Jan 2 16:43:00 localhost kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging

Re: 2.6.11-rc5

2005-03-01 Thread Mws
hi benjamin now i had some spare time to do some investigation booting the 2.6.11-rc5 with radeonfb.default_dynclk=0 or with -1 brings up a framebuffer console. everything is fine. starting xorg-x11 with Ati binary only drivers just brings up a black screen without a mouse cursor and freezes the

Re: ALPS tapping disabled. WHY?

2005-03-01 Thread David Ford
I would also appreciate the return of good resolution. Blocky mouse startup moves make graphic editing rather difficult. No mouse movement until I have moved my finger a significant distance then the mouse all of a sudden jumps a dozen pixels before it "smoothly" glides along. I would also lo

Re: Breakage from patch: Only root should be able to set the N_MOUSE line discipline.

2005-03-01 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 11:20:44AM +, Alan Cox wrote: > On Gwe, 2005-01-28 at 16:12, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > ChangeSet 1.1977.1.2, 2005/01/28 17:12:20+01:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > input: Only root should be able to set the N_MOUSE line discipline. > > > > I finally

Re: ALPS tapping disabled. WHY?

2005-03-01 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 06:40:21AM -0500, David Ford wrote: > I would also appreciate the return of good resolution. Blocky mouse > startup moves make graphic editing rather difficult. No mouse movement > until I have moved my finger a significant distance then the mouse all > of a sudden jump

2.6.10-ck7

2005-03-01 Thread Con Kolivas
These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness. It is configurable to any workload but the default ck* patch is aimed at the desktop and ck*-server is available with more emphasis on serverspace. This is a maintenance release and is identical to 2.6.10-ck6 apart from using 2.6.10-a

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: 2.6.11-rc5, rivafb i2c oops, bogus error handling

2005-03-01 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Feb 28, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > On Monday 28 February 2005 04:32, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 23, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > This time it's really supposed to be a quickie, so people who can, please > > > check it out, and we'll make the real 2.6.11 asap. > > > > Here is anot

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1: something is wrong with swsusp powerdown

2005-03-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Yes, the patch is very ugly. If something like this needs to be done, > > then perhaps acpi should properly register into driver model and do > > the work there. This will also mean code will be called consistently. > > I totally agree. Do you have an example of how a non-device > can do

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-03-01 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:11:49AM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > > This looks like it either expects some other data (like a second > > parameter to the command?) or just wants the 0x07 again (and not the > > whole command) to make sure you really mean it. > > > > Could you try sending 0xe8 0x07 0

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1: something is wrong with swsusp powerdown

2005-03-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > In `subj` kernel, machine no longer powers down at the end of > > > swsusp. 2.6.11-rc5-pavel works ok, as does 2.6.11-bk. > > > > Binary searching indicates that this is due to > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc5/2.6.11-rc5-mm1/broken-out/acpi_p

Re: SPARC64: Modular floppy?

2005-03-01 Thread Horst von Brand
"David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:07:43 -0300 > Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > So, either the dependencies have to get fixed so floppy can't be modular > > for this architecture, or the relevant functions have to move from entry.S > > to th

RE: [2.6 patch] SCSI: possible cleanups

2005-03-01 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
Christoph Hellwig writes: >> - scsi_scan.c: scsi_rescan_device >aacraid was going to use that one, Mark, any chance to get a patch anytime soon? >> - scsi_scan.c: scsi_scan_single_target >as mentioned above we'll need this one soon. Yup, we use both of them in our branch of the driver. I submi

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] RFC: disallow modular framebuffers

2005-03-01 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 10:41, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Hi, > > while looking how to fix modular FB_SAVAGE_* (both FB_SAVAGE_I2C=m and > FB_SAVAGE_ACCEL=m are currently broken) I asked myself: > > Do modular framebuffers really make sense? > > OK, distributions like to make everything modular, but all

memory mapping of vmalloc

2005-03-01 Thread Prakash Bhurke
Hi , I am facing a problem -- memory mapping of proc entry into user space using mmap syscall. I have written a module which creates a proc entry & provides read, write, mmap, etc. Normal read, write etc file operation works, but mmap is not working. I am trying to map a vmalloc kernel buf

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1: something is wrong with swsusp powerdown

2005-03-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > btw, suspend is a bit messy. The disk spins down. Then up. Then down > again. And: Yes, this is going to be properly solved by switching pm_message_t to struct (preview patch attached, EVENT will become .event, this is just for me). I could do some hack to make disk not go up-down-up (a

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-03-01 Thread James Bruce
Forgive me for being annoying; I'm trying to be careful because I get one more failure in a test and then that's it. The manufacturer no longer lists that model as being produced. Thus if there's a way to ruin a bttv card through the V4L2 interface I will no longer be of any assistance in fin

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1: something is wrong with swsusp powerdown

2005-03-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > btw, suspend is a bit messy. The disk spins down. Then up. Then down > again. And: Here's preview patch to make disk not do stupid yo-yo. Please do not apply (it will probably not apply cleanly anyway). I can fix disk going yo-yo without switching pm_message_t to struct, but will have

Re: RFC: disallow modular framebuffers

2005-03-01 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 10:41, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Hi, > > while looking how to fix modular FB_SAVAGE_* (both FB_SAVAGE_I2C=m and > FB_SAVAGE_ACCEL=m are currently broken) I asked myself: BTW, what's the problem with the above? Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-03-01 Thread Michal Januszewski
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:03:33PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Care to create a patch for the silent mode now? That should be simple > enough to get into the kernel, and will be a good place to build off of > for the rest of the things people want (verbose mode, etc.) Sure, I'll post a patch as soon

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-03-01 Thread Michal Januszewski
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 06:40:15PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi, > > It doesn't really need vesafb for anything. Back in the days of 2.6.7 > > I used to release a version of bootsplash that had the dep. on vesafb > > removed. It worked fine with at least some other fb drivers. > > > > You mi

Re: [PATCH 1/8] lib/sort: Heapsort implementation of sort()

2005-03-01 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 22:25, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 02:17:51PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > Matt, > > > > On Monday 31 January 2005 08:34, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > This patch adds a generic array sorting library routine. This is meant > > > to replace qsort, which

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-03-01 Thread Michal Januszewski
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 08:41:23PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi, > [aj added to the list]. > > Andreas, who is the person to talk about this? I like redhat's > solution the best. Pass "quiet", perhaps replace penguin with some big > picture including penguin and chameleon or something, and do t

Re: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 01:27:41 PST, Andrew Morton said: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc5/2.6.11-rc5-mm1/ > - A pcmcia update which obsoletes cardmgr (although cardmgr still works) and > makes pcmcia work more like regular hotpluggable devices. See the

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-03-01 Thread Kaigai Kohei
Hello, (B (B> I tested without user space listeners and the cost is negligible. I will (B> test with a user space listeners and see the results. I'm going to run (B> the test this week after improving the mechanism that switch on/off the (B> sending of the message. (B (BI'm also trying to me

Re: Sysfs, PCI-devices and power management

2005-03-01 Thread Pavel Machek
> I don't know if this is the "right place(TM)" to ask about this, and if > it isn't, I apologize. But the fact is that I haven't found any help > from anywhere else and I can't learn enough without asking. So, the > situation is like this: I am using a laptop and want to minimize the > power con

[PATCH] ide_init_disk

2005-03-01 Thread Szabolcs Berecz
My /dev/hdb showed up as /dev/hdq The bug was introduced with bk-ide-dev.patch Bye, Szabi --- linux-2.6.11-rc4-mm1/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c.orig 2005-02-24 20:04:03.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc4-mm1/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c2005-02-27 23:52:54.0 +0100 @@ -1269,7 +1269,7

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-03-01 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 22:38 +0900, Kaigai Kohei wrote: > > I tested without user space listeners and the cost is negligible. I will > > test with a user space listeners and see the results. I'm going to run > > the test this week after improving the mechanism that switch on/off the > > sending of t

Re: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-01 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:36:36AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 01:27:41 PST, Andrew Morton said: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc5/2.6.11-rc5-mm1/ > > > - A pcmcia update which obsoletes cardmgr (although cardmgr still works

Re:Kernel Panic due to NF_IP_LOCAL_OUT handler calling itself again

2005-03-01 Thread Vinay Reddy
Hi, There is an update. The protocol I am writing is a source routing based protocol called Meghadoot similar to the wireless networks DSR, as written by Alex Song (http://piconet.sf.net). I am using netfilter, I am using linux 2.6.5 (supplied along with FC2), without the SMP and PREEMPTIBLE optio

Re: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-01 Thread Mathieu Segaud
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait derniÃrement que : > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc5/2.6.11-rc5-mm1/ > > > - Lots of tuning/balancing changes in the CPU scheduler. Mainly targetted > at larger SMT/SMP/NUMA machines. It's going to be hard to wor

Re: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-01 Thread Mathieu Segaud
Mathieu Segaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait derniÃrement que : Hum, one hunk didn't make it. The complete patch is attached > > fs/reiser4/plugin/item/ctail.c: In function `check_ctail': > fs/reiser4/plugin/item/ctail.c:250: attention : l'adresse de ÃÂ ctail_ok > ÃÂ sera toujours ÃÂvaluÃÂe comme Ã

Re: [PATCH] ide_init_disk

2005-03-01 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Already fixed by Andrew in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1. Please always cc: me and linux-ide@vger.kernel.org on IDE patches. Thanks. On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:50:18 +0100 (CET), Szabolcs Berecz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My /dev/hdb showed up as /dev/hdq > > The bug was introduced with bk-ide-dev.patch > >

Re: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-01 Thread Mathieu Segaud
Mathieu Segaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait derniÃrement que : > Mathieu Segaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait derniÃrement que : > > Hum, one hunk didn't make it. > The complete patch is attached as any time I post with no sleep for 3 days, more noodles than brain are in my skull. Did tha wrong strip

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-03-01 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 14:53 +0100, Guillaume Thouvenin wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 22:38 +0900, Kaigai Kohei wrote: > > > I tested without user space listeners and the cost is negligible. I will > > > test with a user space listeners and see the results. I'm going to run > > > the test this week

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-03-01 Thread Paulo Marques
James Bruce wrote: [...] The card= option didn't help in my case since my card is not in the list; For thess cards we went off the reccomendation of other people doing machine vision in Linux; Next time I guess we'll go name brand again... I think you should try it anyway, using all the options,

Re: [PATCH] A new entry for /proc

2005-03-01 Thread Mauricio Lin
Well, It is working better now. You are right Hugh. Now the new version is faster than the old one. I removed the struct page and its related function. Thanks, BR, Mauricio Lin. On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 04:08:15 -0400, Mauricio Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:41:31 + (GMT

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-03-01 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:03:25PM +0100, Michal Januszewski wrote: > Possibly, but I can't recall what exactly was it about. All bugs in > fbsplash, that I have known of, have been fixed. If there are still some > problems with any fb drivers, please let me know. Well, you'll run into trouble wit

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 01/11] ide: task_end_request() fix

2005-03-01 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:49:22 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:58:03PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:38:14 +0900 (KST), Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > 01_ide_task_end_request_fix.patch > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH] A new entry for /proc

2005-03-01 Thread Mauricio Lin
Hi, > The most important thing about a /proc file format is that it has > a documented means of being extended in the future. Without such > documentation, it is impossible to write a reliable parser. > > The "Name: value" stuff is rather slow. Right now procps (ps, top, etc.) > is using a perfe

Re: 2.6.11-rc5

2005-03-01 Thread Helge Hafting
Mws wrote: hi benjamin now i had some spare time to do some investigation booting the 2.6.11-rc5 with radeonfb.default_dynclk=0 or with -1 brings up a framebuffer console. everything is fine. starting xorg-x11 with Ati binary only drivers just brings up a black screen without a mouse cursor and fre

Re: 2.6.11-rc5

2005-03-01 Thread Mws
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 15:36, Helge Hafting wrote: > Mws wrote: > > >hi benjamin > > > >now i had some spare time to do some investigation > > > >booting the 2.6.11-rc5 with radeonfb.default_dynclk=0 or with -1 > >brings up a framebuffer console. everything is fine. > >starting xorg-x11 with Ati

Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-01 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:33:48PM +0900, Hidetoshi Seto wrote: > Today's patch is 3rd one - iochk_clear/read() interface. > - This also adds pair-interface, but not to sandwich only readX(). > Depends on platform, starting with ioreadX(), inX(), writeX() > if possible... and so on could be tar

Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI: possible cleanups

2005-03-01 Thread Luben Tuikov
On 03/01/05 03:14, Douglas Gilbert wrote: - scsi_error.c: scsi_normalize_sense I introduced scsi_normalize_sense() recently, Christoph H. proposed it should be static but Luben Tuikov (aic7xxx maintainer) said he wished to use it in the future. Hence it was left global. Hi guys, I think the idea

Re: user space program from keyboard driver

2005-03-01 Thread Payasam Manohar
hai all, I am a newbie to kernel, I want to work on linux kernel modules. My task is to call a user program from keyboard driver under certain conditions. I know that we can call user program using call_usermodehelper(), but we can not call it direcly from driver as it is a interrupt context.

Re: [PATCH] SELinux: Leak in error path

2005-03-01 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 01:32 +0100, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > There's a leak here in the first error path. > > Found by the Coverity tool. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> National Secur

Re: [PATCH] SELinux: null dereference in error path

2005-03-01 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 01:32 +0100, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > The 'bad' label will call function that unconditionally dereferences > the NULL pointer. > > Found by the Coverity tool > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Stephen

Writng daemon and wake up on demand.

2005-03-01 Thread Payasam Manohar
I have two doubts, 1) Can we design a linux daemon which will call some shell scripts. 2) How to call this daemon from the keyboard driver and how to kill it on demand. Please cc ur replies to my mail id. Thanks&Regards, P.Manohar, - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:55:29 GMT, Russell King said: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:36:36AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This is still showing the same 'cs: unable to map card memory!' issue on my > > Dell laptop. Backing out bk-pci.patch makes it work again. > > > > For what it's worth, the

Re: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-01 Thread Edward Shishkin
Mathieu Segaud wrote: Mathieu Segaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait derniÃrement que : Hum, one hunk didn't make it. The complete patch is attached fs/reiser4/plugin/item/ctail.c: In function `check_ctail': fs/reiser4/plugin/item/ctail.c:250: attention : l'adresse de ÃÂ ctail_ok ÃÂ sera toujours ÃÂv

Re: Writng daemon and wake up on demand.

2005-03-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:43:16 +0530, Payasam Manohar said: > I have two doubts, > 1) Can we design a linux daemon which will call some shell scripts. > 2) How to call this daemon from the keyboard driver and how >to kill it on demand. It would be much easier for us to point you in

Re: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-01 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:18:56AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:55:29 GMT, Russell King said: > > The PCI updates change the prototype of a helper function for > > pci_bus_alloc_resource(), but don't touch the actual helper function > > in PCMCIA. > > That explains the

Re: Writng daemon and wake up on demand.

2005-03-01 Thread Paulo Marques
Payasam Manohar wrote: I have two doubts, 1) Can we design a linux daemon which will call some shell scripts. 2) How to call this daemon from the keyboard driver and how to kill it on demand. I don't want to be impolite, but you're not following the mailing list etiquette *at all*. I

[PATCH 1/4] vfs: adds the S_PRIVATE flag and adds use to security

2005-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
This patch adds an S_PRIVATE flag to inode->i_flags to mark an inode as filesystem-internal. As such, it should be excepted from the security infrastructure to allow the filesystem to perform its own access control. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruNpX dontdiff linux-2.6.11

[PATCH 2/4] selinux: internal inode loop needs IS_PRIVATE test

2005-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
This patch applies the IS_PRIVATE test to the selinux internal inode loop. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruNpX dontdiff linux-2.6.9.base/security/selinux/hooks.c linux-2.6.9.private/security/selinux/hooks.c --- linux-2.6.9.base/security/selinux/hooks.c 2004-11-19 14:40:

[PATCH 4/4] reiserfs: change reiserfs to use S_PRIVATE

2005-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
This patch changes reiserfs to use the VFS level private inode flags, and eliminates the old reiserfs private inode flag. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruNpX dontdiff linux-2.6.9.base/include/linux/reiserfs_xattr.h linux-2.6.9.private/include/linux/reiserfs_xattr.h --- li

[PATCH 3/4] reiserfs: private inode abstracted to static inline

2005-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
This patch moves the assignment of i_priv_object to a static inline. This is in preparation for selinux support in reiserfs. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruNpX dontdiff linux-2.6.9/fs/reiserfs/inode.c linux-2.6.9.base/fs/reiserfs/inode.c --- linux-2.6.9/fs/reiserfs/inode

[PATCH 0/4] Allow reiserfs to work with selinux

2005-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
Hello all - I sent out these patches in December, but they were dropped somewhere along the way. There was only a simple reject from the switch from dentry to inode in get/set/listsecurity which has been fixed. I'm posting the following patches against 2.6.11-rc5: * 01-vfs-private-flag.diff -

Re: [PATCH] A new entry for /proc

2005-03-01 Thread Mauricio Lin
Hi, Here are some values about the experiments. The values are the elapsed real time used by the process, in seconds. Each row corresponds to 1 cat /proc/pid/smaps command. Old smaps 19.41 19.31 21.38 20.16 New smaps 16.82 16.75 16.75 16.79 BR, Mauricio Lin. On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:17:56 -

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-03-01 Thread James Bruce
Sorry, I wasn't clear in the previous email; I did try the card= option anyway. I wrote a looping script and tested first 70 card= options, and none worked properly for streaming capture. Some did show different behavior though. I might try the remaining 50 later today. I did notice one stra

Re: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1 (compile stats)

2005-03-01 Thread John Cherry
Linux 2.6 (mm tree) Compile Statistics (gcc 3.4.1) Web page with links to complete details: http://developer.osdl.org/cherry/compile/ KernelbzImage bzImage bzImage modules bzImage modules (defconfig) (allno) (allyes) (allyes) (allmod) (allmod) ---

Re: Breakage from patch: Only root should be able to set the N_MOUSE line discipline.

2005-03-01 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-03-01 at 11:47, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > A nonprivileged user could inject mouse movement and/or keystrokes > (using the sunkbd driver) into the input subsystem, taking over the > console/X, where another user is logged in. Ouch. Ok that explains much. - To unsubscribe from this list:

bkbits.net down?

2005-03-01 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / $B5HF#1QL@(B
Hello. *.bkbits.net (port 8080) seems to reply with no data. And "bk pull" on linux-2.5 also fails. Is this scheduled? Thank you. --yoshfuji - 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

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