Linus Torvalds wrote:
[...]
Ie I'd organize it like some of the "checkin committees" work for other
projects that have nowhere _near_ as much work going on as Linux has. That
seems to work well for small projects - and we can try to keep this
"small" exactly by having the strict rules in place t
Hello,
i'm dealing with some tcp modifications in linux kernel and surely i need
debugging
for these purposes i use User Mode Linux and it works ok but the problem
debugging namely tcp (or any other network protocol, i suppose) is different
tcp-timeouts while I tracing the code (tracing looks
El Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:06:33 +,
Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> Overall, my experience with the kernel bugzilla has been rather
> unproductive. Most bugs which came in my direction weren't for things
> I could resolve.
It's possible that there're other bug tracking systems that
Hi,
On Friday, 4 of March 2005 12:04, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > IIRC kernel code/data is marked as PageReserved(), that's why we need
> > > to save that :(. Not sure what to do with data e820 marked as
> > > reserved...
> >
> > Perhaps we need another page flag, like PG_readonly, and mar
On Gwe, 2005-03-04 at 00:50, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.
Sure ? This used to be exported for loadable modules that wanted to get
the system default hostname string and for emulation layers like xabi
(the SYS5 unix emulation lib)
Alan
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> Andrew, what is the policy for adding exports for out of tree GPL code?
>
> IMHO although it is convenient for maintainers of such code it is
> inconvenient for us (ie. when making changes to code) and gives
> people false assumptions about stability of *in-kernel* APIs.
Why isn't it _GPL if it
On Iau, 2005-03-03 at 21:50, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I didn't find any possible modular usage of console_unblank in the
> kernel.
>
ACK. The oops code is never modular and power management no longer pokes
it directly.
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> On Gwe, 2005-03-04 at 11:28, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I think you're assuming that 2.6.x.y will have larger scope than is
> > intended.
>
> The examples I gave for remap_vm_area and exec are both from real world
> "gosh look I am root isn't that fun" type s
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:15:04AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>...
> So it's a sensible part of the completion API from a regularity-of-the-API
> POV. We use it in the coredump code and I don't think we'd be likely to want
> to rip it out.
>...
Modular coredump code?
cu
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 03:15:04 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >
> > Andrew, what is the policy for adding exports for out of tree GPL code?
> >
>
> There isn't one. Such things cause way too much email.
Lack of policy causes
se go wrote:
Hello,
i got some problems concerning tcp realization in kernel (v 2.4).
i need to make some modifications to tcp to be able to transfer data within ACK segments...(initially their data field is empty)
I thought it is already here. That is, if the kernel have something
to send at the
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 12:57 +, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Gwe, 2005-03-04 at 00:50, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.
>
> Sure ? This used to be exported for loadable modules that wanted to get
> the system default hostname string and for emulation layers
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:40:30PM -, Richard Purdie wrote:
> I've found the arm cross compiler generated from openembedded
> (http://openembedded.org) to be very reliable. The big advantage in using oe
> would be that it is in active use so it is always highly likely to generate
> a working
Find attached the updated psmouse-resend patch for 2.6.11.
It fixes most of the lost-sync problems for the ps2 mouse but not all of
them. I might have picked the wrong struct members for v.2.6.11
Tnx & Bi
Bennie Kahler-Venter
psmouse-resend-2_6_11-v1.patch.gz
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Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would it not be simpler to just add "resume=03:02" to the boot command line?
Some devices have random device numbers.
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Andrew Morton wrote:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm1/
trivial patch for fscache menuconfig help documentation path
Signed-off-by: Aurélien Francillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- 2.6.11-mm1/fs/Kconfig~ 2005-03-04 14:32:34.0 +0100
+++ 2.6.11-
I downloaded new kernel 2.6.11, applied your's via82cxxx.c patch and
compiled it (.config was derived "make oldconfig" from 2.6.8 kernel from
Debian Sarge 3.1).
I created initrd.img with this settings:
/etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf
--- cut here ---
MODULES=dep
--- cut here ---
/etc/mkinitrd/module
On Fri, Mar 04 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> I run vanilla kernels on all my boxes, workstations and
> servers, since I don't really trust vendor kernels.
That's a strange statement, I don't think you are aware of
the level of testing that goes into a vendor kernel, at
least for the 'enterprise' prod
Aurélien Francillon wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm1/
(updated patch )
By the way is there something like the Trivial Patch Monkey for mm kernel ?
thanks
Aurel
trivial patch for fscache menuconfig help documentation path
Hi.
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 22:04, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > IIRC kernel code/data is marked as PageReserved(), that's why we need
> > > to save that :(. Not sure what to do with data e820 marked as
> > > reserved...
> >
> > Perhaps we need another page flag, like PG_readonly, and mark the
Oops - made a small mistake - new patch
Find attached the updated psmouse-resend patch for 2.6.11.
It fixes most of the lost-sync problems for the ps2 mouse but not all of
them. I might have picked the wrong struct members for v.2.6.11
Tnx & Bi
Bennie Kahler-Venter
psmouse-resend-2_6_11-v2.patc
Hi,
2.6.11 still contain these warnings :
drivers/video/kyro/fbdev.c:597: warning: ignoring return value of
`copy_from_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
drivers/video/kyro/fbdev.c:607: warning: ignoring return value of
`copy_from_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_resu
Hi!
On Tue 01-03-05 17:14:19, Larry McVoy wrote:
> A while back someone complained about the CVS exporter because it
> sometimes groups a pile of BK changesets into one commit. That's true,
> it does.
>
> I've been running tests over the BK tree and I think we can do better.
> Here's the scoop:
Hi!
> I just compiled 2.6.11 from a 2.6.10 configuration for a desktop
> machine (with kernel preemption activated).
> Doing a make oldconfig bring some new options. I selected the default
> value (for my system) for them, so I keep configuring "make great
> kernel lock preemtive" to true (comp
Hi!
> Here are the patches for Secure Digital support that I've been
> sitting on for a while. I tried to get some feedback on inclusion of
> this previously but since I didn't get any I'll just submit the thing.
> It was originally diffed against 2.6.10 but it applies to 2.6.11 just
> fine (on
Hi.
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 00:15, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Friday, 4 of March 2005 12:04, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > > IIRC kernel code/data is marked as PageReserved(), that's why we need
> > > > to save that :(. Not sure what to do with data e820 marked as
> > > > reserv
> Added since 2.6.10-ck7:
> +cfq-ts-21.diff
> The latest version of Jens' cfq-timeslice i/o scheduler now heavily tested and
> with full read i/o priority support
Speaking of the cfq-timeslice scheduler, is there a version that
applies to recent -mm kernels ?
(I cannot find anything more recent th
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:03:37 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 04 March 2005 12:30, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
>
> > I've ported the works from Chris Collins so the drivers compiles without
> > warnings and works (for me) with Linux 2.6.10 and 2.6.11.
>
> > Any comme
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Steven French wrote:
>
> I had pushed some whitespace changes yesterday (vi must have gone
> haywire somewhere a month or two ago to get the repeated tabs stuck on
> those two line), not sure if I cought all of them in your patch but will
> check.
>
>
I just checked 2.6.11
Hi Pierre,
> Here are the patches for Secure Digital support that I've been sitting
> on for a while. I tried to get some feedback on inclusion of this
> previously but since I didn't get any I'll just submit the thing.
> It was originally diffed against 2.6.10 but it applies to 2.6.11 just
> f
On Friday 04 March 2005 07:24, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 06:55:48PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >Greetings;
>> >
>> >I've a new pcHDTV-3000 card, and I thought maybe it would
>> >be a good idea to build the cx88 stuff in the DVB section
>> >of a ma
Marcel Holtmann wrote:
Hi Pierre,
Here are the patches for Secure Digital support that I've been sitting
on for a while. I tried to get some feedback on inclusion of this
previously but since I didn't get any I'll just submit the thing.
It was originally diffed against 2.6.10 but it applies to
Hi!
> > If there's no ->error method, at leat call ->remove so one device only
> > takes itself down.
> >
> > Does this make sense?
>
> This was my thought too last time we had this discussion. A completely
> asynchronous call is probably needed in addition to Hidetoshi's proposed API,
> since
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> i need the idea how i can "freeze" all the time variables in linux tcp
> protocol to be independent from time while debugging code...
Disable CONFIG_UML_REAL_TIME_CLOCK, and UML time will become virtual.
Jeff
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Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:44:30PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:01:19 +0100, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This patch contains cleanups including the following:
Are you cleaning up all of that annoying trailing whitespace too? It
is always giving me prob
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:22:35 +0200, Bennie Kahler-Venter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oops - made a small mistake - new patch
>
> Find attached the updated psmouse-resend patch for 2.6.11.
>
> It fixes most of the lost-sync problems for the ps2 mouse but not all of
> them. I might have picked th
I decided to write the following proposal after getting a headache
trying to explain the Linux versioning scheme to a friend of mine.
Only then did I find that the powers that be are talking about the same
thing. It's far from a complete âengineering standardâ but it
makes sense to me.
Disclaimer
Eugeny S. Mints wrote:
Esben Nielsen wrote:
As I read the code the driver task (A) should _not_ be removed from the
runqueue. It has to be waken up to call schedule_timeout() such it gets
back on the runqueue after 10 ms. If it is taken out of the runqueue at
line 76 it will stay off the runqueue f
On Friday 04 March 2005 19:37, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:44:30PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:01:19 +0100, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > This patch contains cleanups including the following:
> >
> > Are you cleaning up all of that annoying t
Hi,
There is a memory in the autofs4_wait function, if multiple processes are
waiting on the same queue:
name = kmalloc(NAME_MAX + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!name)
return -ENOMEM;
...
if ( !wq ) {
/* Create a new wait queue */
This is to announce that Herbert Xu is now taking over my role as
co-maintainer of the kernel crypto API.
I've not been able to devote enough time to the integration of
async/hardware support, and Herbert, who has been doing excellent work in
the networking code for some time, has now thankfully s
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 09:52 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:03:37 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Friday 04 March 2005 12:30, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> As far as the driver goes:
>
> - yes, it does need input_sync;
One problem with input_syn
Hi Pierre,
> >lately I got a request for the support of a Bluetooth SD card. These are
> >using SDIO and I think at the moment only memory cards are handled. Do
> >you have any plans for SDIO support?
>
> I would if I had some hardware to play with *hint* *hint* ;)
I don't have one of these card
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:23:35PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> From: Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Some ACPI-related changes were recently made to i8042 discovery for ia64.
> Unfortunately this broke a significant number of Dell laptops due to their
> having incorrect BIOS tables.
>
> I'd love for the -mm tree to get more testing, but it doesn't.
So the question is how to hook up more "customers" for testing thing?
mm...maybe OSDL should provide special live mini-distro weekly, which
will run entirely from 256 MB USB flashdrive :)
Lot of automated testing, lot of nice and col
Query: register vpllB
I have a question about your patch: you added chip->vpllB and
chip->vpllB2 (presumably taken from the X driver). Do you know their
purpose, and did you find them to be necessary or useful?
Possible patch to add supported cards
I discovered that since your patch, some ch
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Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>
>
>>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>>
>>Olaf Hering wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 03, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
Is whitespace (in any form) allowed in the compatible v
Compile Statistics
--
Build Tree: -mm
Compiler: gcc 3.4.1
Detailed results: http://developer.osdl.org/cherry/compile/
Summary (delta from 2.6.11-rc5-mm1)
---
Defconfig (bzImage): -9 warnings
Allnoconfig (bzImage): no change
Allyesconfig (bzImage): -7
Hi Steve,
Back around the time of 2.6.10 I submitted a patch to fix the compile
warning about copy_to_user in fs/cifs/file.c. The patch generated some
comments and suggestions from several people and I subsequently cut a new
patch that took care of the issues raised. Allan Cox then Ack'ed that
Make sure that scrubd_stop on startup is set to 2 and no zero in
mm/scrubd.c. The current patch on oss.sgi.com may have that set to zero.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Darren Williams wrote:
> Hi Darren
>
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2005, Darren Williams wrote:
>
> > Hi Christoph
> >
> > On Tue, 01 Mar 2005, Christop
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> A fix would be to restore the get_page() if CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. Not
> particularly glorious..
Here is the unglorious solution. It also requies that
CONFIG_ATOMIC_TABLE_OPS not be used together with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
(handled in the following pa
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:36:26AM +, Russell King wrote:
>...
> Anyway, going back to why -mm doesn't work:
>
> arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0xb64): In function `$a':
> : undefined reference to `rd_size'
> make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
>
> So "rd_size" got deleted in -mm k
Fix register access typo in synclinkmp.c
that caused value to be written to wrong register.
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On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 12:23 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> static int __init init_hermes(void)
> {
> return 0;
> }
>
> static void __exit exit_hermes(void)
> {
> }
>
> module_init(init_hermes);
> module_exit(exit_hermes);
>
> That's it. As far as I can tell, gcc 4.0 semi-correctly de
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:20:24 +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 09:52 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:03:37 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > On Friday 04 March 2005 12:30, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:00 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Why doesn't an EXPORT_SYMBOL create a reference?
It does: EXPORT_SYMBOL(x) drops the address of "x", including
__attribute_used__, in the __ksymtab section.
However, if CONFIG_MODULES=n, it does nothing: perhaps that is what you
are seeing.
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:09:39AM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote:
>> > I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >
>> > --- linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/sched.c.old 2005-03-04
>> 01:04:28.0 +0100
>> > +++ linux-
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:02:36PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Greg> Sure, I have no problem accepting that into the pci core.
>
> What would pci_irq_sync() do exactly?
Consolidate common code like this? :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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Roland> What would pci_irq_sync() do exactly?
Greg> Consolidate common code like this? :)
I don't see how one can do that. As I pointed out in my reply to
Jeff, it actually requires understanding how the driver uses the
different MSI-X vectors to know which vector we need to synchronize
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:40:08AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>> On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 03:09:39 -0500, Mike Waychison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> > > I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > >
>> > >
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jean Delvare wrote:
Frédéric, can you check in /etc/modprobe.conf if you have a
line like: options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1 If you do, please
comment it out and see if it changes anything.
Yes, I had, but commenting it out didn't change anything.
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the attached patch fixes wrong "default DM" check in debian and suse
plz apply
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--- /usr/sbin/ltspcfg.orig 2005-03-04 17:00:45.521484448 +0100
+++ /usr/sbin/ltspcfg 2005-03-04 18:22:33.776316296 +0100
@@
Pavel Machek wrote:
> Duplicate remove killed, thanks. I do not think debugging print
> requires that much care...
I think it does. I tried s4bios ("firmware" mode) on hp 4150 today and
wondered why it said "mode set to firmware" but in fact did not do it.
You'll get a complete report for this la
Andrew Morton wrote:
> I don't understand how this can be affected by the modularness of the
> kernel. Can you explain a little more?
normally, resume takes place _before_ the initramfs is entered. If your
swap device depends on a module that is loaded from initramfs, you are lost.
This patch (
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Well, I would need the full log, and with radeonfb verbose debug enabled
in the config.
I'll later try as module with debug.
Here's:
/var/log/messages:
Mar 4 14:00:29 pervalidus kernel: radeonfb:
On 18:11, venerdì 04 marzo 2005, Emiliano 'AlberT' Gabrielli wrote:
> the attached patch fixes wrong "default DM" check in debian and suse
> plz apply
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On Friday 04 March 2005 22:26, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2.6.11 still contain these warnings :
>
> drivers/video/kyro/fbdev.c:597: warning: ignoring return value of
> `copy_from_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> drivers/video/kyro/fbdev.c:607: warning: ignoring return value of
Russell King:
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:40:30PM -, Richard Purdie wrote:
I've found the arm cross compiler generated from openembedded
(http://openembedded.org) to be very reliable. The big advantage in using
oe
would be that it is in active use so it is always highly likely to
generate
a wo
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:03:29AM +0900, Hidetoshi Seto was heard to remark:
> >p.s. I would like to have iochk_read() take struct pci_dev * as an
> >argument. (I could store a pointer to pci_dev in the "cookie" but
> >that seems odd).
>
> I'd like to store the pointer and handle all only with t
Changelog:
- Do not allow setting of CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC together with
CONFIG_ATOMIC_TABLE_OPS
- Keep mark_page_accessed in do_swap_page
The page fault handler attempts to use the page_table_lock only for short
time periods. It repeatedly drops and reacquires the lock. When the lock
is reacqu
Another! Sorry, you're way ahead of me...
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > A fix would be to restore the get_page() if CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. Not
> > particularly glorious..
>
> Here is the unglorious solution. It also requies that
Le Jeudi 3 Mars 2005 16:29, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 06:46:03PM +0100, Luca Risolia wrote:
> > Scrive Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > I noticed the following regarding the drivers/usb/media/ov511.c driver:
> >
> >
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:04:10AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I don't understand how this can be affected by the modularness of the
> kernel. Can you explain a little more?
>
> Would it not be simpler to just add "resume=03:02" to the boot command line?
In addition to what others have mention
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:10:14AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Joerg Sommrey wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:09:26PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> >>Joerg Sommrey wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:43:59PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> Joerg Sommrey wrote:
>
> >>>
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:53:02AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch itself,
> as it is small enough to do so.
Here it is
diff -Nru a/Makefile b/Makefile
--- a/Makefile 2005-03-04 09:27:15 -08:00
+++ b/Makefile 2005-03-04 09:27:15 -08:00
For those of you who haven't waded through the huge "RFD: Kernel release
numbering" thread on lkml to realize that we are now going to start
putting out 2.6.x.y releases, here's the summary:
A few of us $suckers will be trying to maintain a 2.6.x.y set of
releases that happen after
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 04 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > The average user has learnt "rc1 == pre1". I don't expect that it
> > > matters much at all.
> >
> > The average user and lkml reader, perhaps. But I don
On Friday, March 4, 2005 5:54 am, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > If there's no ->error method, at leat call ->remove so one device only
> > > takes itself down.
> > >
> > > Does this make sense?
> >
> > This was my thought too last time we had this discussion. A completely
> > asynchronous call
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 00:13 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > If you want to complain, complain to the hardware manufacturers, who
> > make devices where bit $foo means $bar in one hardware revision, and
> > $baz in the next, and don't give us sufficient documentation to sort out
>
Joerg Sommrey wrote:
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:10:14AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Joerg Sommrey wrote:
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:09:26PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Joerg Sommrey wrote:
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:43:59PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Joerg Sommrey wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Patch:
h
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:33:33PM -, Richard Purdie wrote:
> I'm in two minds though as generating
> your own from openembedded isn't difficult. Writing instructions for setting
> up oe to build it may be the best option.
Two things - are you sure that openembedded contains the patches to
f
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:55:31AM +0100, Richard Fuchs wrote:
> hello all!
>
> the memory allocation debugger gives me the following messages under a
> vanilla 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 kernel when doing
>
> 1) hdparm -d0 on my hard disk
> 2) tar c / > /dev/null
> 3) sending lots of network traf
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> On Gwe, 2005-03-04 at 11:28, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I think you're assuming that 2.6.x.y will have larger scope than is
> > intended.
>
> The examples I gave for remap_vm_area and exec are both from real world
> "gosh look I am root isn't that fun" type
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Wednesday March 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > A Linus based odd number
> > might be closer to that if we hope on people unwittingly running them.
>^^^
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> In other words: I'm talking about scalability of development, not about
> fixing every single serious bug. I think this one will catch the
> embarrassing brown-paper-bag kinds of things, and maybe 90% of the "duh,
> we had this race forever, but w
Dave Jones wrote:
Which network drivers are in use on the box that gets the corruption ?
all three that i tested it on are using the e100 driver. the boxes with
pci id 8086:1039 and 8086:1229 are seeing corruptions, the one with pci
id 8086:2449 is not.
i will try again the eepro100 driver and s
Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:33:33PM -, Richard Purdie wrote:
>
>>I'm in two minds though as generating
>>your own from openembedded isn't difficult. Writing instructions for setting
>>up oe to build it may be the best option.
>
>
> Two things - are you sure that openem
Linus Torvalds wrote:
I've long since decided that there's no point to making "-pre". What's the
difference between a "-pre" and a daily -bk snapshot? Really?
Several non-BK developers use the first -rc1 as a merge point.
Others simply trust that _Linus_ has a lot more smarts than an automated
sc
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > Here is the unglorious solution. It also requies that
> > CONFIG_ATOMIC_TABLE_OPS not be used together with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> > (handled in the following patch):
>
> Nacked for the same reason as just given to earlier version. Ugly too.
Ok. Then
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote:
>
> Ok, based on consensus, I've applied this one too.
Btw, I don't think your process works. You never really gave people the
time to object. So for that reason you applied the first trivial raid6
thing, and it turned out to be wrong.
I think the patches nee
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:27:37AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Btw, I also think that this means that the sucker-tree should never aim to
> be a "2.6.x.y" kind of release tree. If we do a "2.6.x.y" release, the
> sucker tree would be _included_ in that release (and it may indeed be all
> of i
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:57:38AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I've long since decided that there's no point to making "-pre". What's
> the difference between a "-pre" and a daily -bk snapshot? Really?
>
> So when I do a release, it _is_ an -rc. The fact that people have
> trouble understanding
On Gwe, 2005-03-04 at 18:18, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Alan, I think your problem is that you really think that the tree _I_ want
> is what _you_ want.
No I think you just misunderstood the point I was trying to make. They
are different trees and the difference is what stops you just doing the
laye
Below is inotify, diffed against 2.6.11.
I greatly reworked much of the data structures and their interactions,
to lay the groundwork for sanitizing the locking. I then, I hope,
sanitized the locking. It looks right, I am happy. Comments welcome.
I surely could of missed something. Maybe even
Or to put it more simply:
The people we want testing these kernels have been trained to expect
certain things from a Release Candidate.
These people don't have time to read LKML and understand Linus's
deviation from the norm.
Therefore, if you want them to test, follow their expectations.
As I
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:37:06 -0500, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:57:28PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
> > I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from
> > /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a
> > user uid. The fix was to run the logging pr
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What I'd like to set up is the reverse. The same way the "wild" kernels
> tend to layer on top of my standard kernel, I'd like to have a lower
> level, the "anti-wild" kernel. Something that is comprised of patches
> that _everybody_ can agree on, and
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:38:10AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > Ok, based on consensus, I've applied this one too.
>
> Btw, I don't think your process works. You never really gave people the
> time to object. So for that reason you applied the fi
Around Fri 04 Mar 2005 11:54:18 + or thereabout, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:20:24 +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 09:52 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>> > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:03:37 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECT
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:23:17PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:00 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Why doesn't an EXPORT_SYMBOL create a reference?
>
> It does: EXPORT_SYMBOL(x) drops the address of "x", including
> __attribute_used__, in the __ksymtab section.
>
> However
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