Re: /dev/random problem on 2.6.12-rc1

2005-04-08 Thread Simon Derr
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:36:59PM +0200, Simon Derr wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Yura Pakhuchiy wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 14:40 +0200, Patrice Martinez wrote: > > > > When using a machine with a 2612-rc 1kernel, I encounter pro

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-08 Thread AsterixTheGaul
Ok this time I did with radeontool and it works good :)) (2.6.12-rc2 on T41). 1. I have "radeontool regs" before susp to ram (presusp) 2. turn off LCD with "radeontool light off" 3. Suspend to RAM and wake up. (same backtrace) 4. LCD is back on (no problem) 5. regs in postsusp only diff is < RA

Re: [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: remove code duplication in drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_pci.c

2005-04-08 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 02:20:11PM +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > > Greg KH wrote: > > > ChangeSet 1.2181.16.9, 2005/03/17 13:54:33-08:00, > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: remove code duplication in > > > drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_pci.c > > > > > > This pat

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Rogan Dawes
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:42:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Yes. The silly thing is, at least in my local tests it doesn't actually seem to be _doing_ anythin

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:31:36AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:05:05PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:56:47PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >... > > > If your statement was true that Debian must take more care regarding > > > legal risks than comm

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread ross
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:42:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In the meantime (and because monotone really _is_ that slow), here's a > quick challenge for you, and any crazy hacker out there: if you want to > play with something _really_ nasty (but also very _very_ fast), take a > look at kerne

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Friday 08 April 2005 03:05, Rogan Dawes wrote: > Take a look at > http://www.linuxshowcase.org/2001/full_papers/ezolt/ezolt_html/ > > Abstract > > GNU libc's default setting for malloc can cause a significant > performance penalty for applications that use it extensively, such as > Compaq's high

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:42:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > play with something _really_ nasty (but also very _very_ fast), take a > look at kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/torvalds/. Why not to use sql as backend instead of the tree of directories? That solves userland journaling too (r

Re: [PATCH] Use proper seq_file api for /proc/scsi/scsi

2005-04-08 Thread Jeremy Higdon
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 12:24:12PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:21:23PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > > > /proc/scsi/scsi is deprecated and even only compiled in if > > > "legacy /proc/scsi/ support" is enabled. Please move over to lssci which > > > is using sysfs

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 à 23:07 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : > > You are mixing apples and oranges. The fact that the GFDL sucks has > > nothing to do with the firmware issue. With the current situation of > > firmwares in the kernel, it is illegal to redistribute binary images of > > the kernel. Fu

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Marcel Lanz
git on sarge --- git-0.02/Makefile.orig 2005-04-07 23:06:19.0 +0200 +++ git-0.02/Makefile 2005-04-08 09:24:28.472672224 +0200 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ all: $(PROG) install: $(PROG) install $(PROG) $(HOME)/bin/ -LIBS= -lssl +LIBS= -lssl -lz init-db: init-db.o - To unsubscribe

2.6.11.3 slab error crash

2005-04-08 Thread Jan Kasprzak
Hi all, yesterday our HP DL-585 quad opteron server running 2.6.11.3 crashed with the attached messages. The main load is NFS serving and running postfix as well as some other userland processes. The server uses XFS on top of LVM for NFS-exported volumes. More details available at request.

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:55:44PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > > Also, "mere aggregation" is a term from the GPL. You can read what > > > it says there yourself. But basically it's there so that people make > > > a distinction between the program itself and other stuff that isn't > > > the prog

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Daniel Phillips wrote: On Friday 08 April 2005 03:05, Rogan Dawes wrote: Take a look at http://www.linuxshowcase.org/2001/full_papers/ezolt/ezolt_html/ Abstract GNU libc's default setting for malloc can cause a significant performance penalty for applications that use it extensively, such as Compaq

[patch 1/8] fix lib/sort regression test

2005-04-08 Thread domen
The regression test in lib/sort.c is currently worthless because the array that is generated for sorting will be all zeros. This patch fixes things so that the array that is generated will contain unsorted integers (that are not all identical) as was probably intended. Signed-off-by Daniel Di

[patch 2/8] correctly name the Shell sort

2005-04-08 Thread domen
As per http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/shellsort.html, this should be referred to as a Shell sort. Shell-Metzner is a misnomer. Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kj-domen/kernel/sys.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+),

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050407 23:28]: > > I think I have an idea on what's going on; Your system does not wake to > APIC interrupt, and the system timer updates time only on other interrupts. > I'm experiencing the same on a loaner ThinkPad T30. > > I'll try to do another patch toda

[patch 4/8] serial/icom: Remove custom msescs_to_jiffies() macro

2005-04-08 Thread domen
Remove the MSECS_TO_JIFFIES() macro because msescs_to_jiffies() from jiffies.h should be used. The macro isn't referenced anywhere anyway. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kj-domen/drivers/serial/icom.h |2 -- 1 files ch

[patch 3/8] string.linux-2.6.10/lib/c: documentation strncpy()

2005-04-08 Thread domen
this clarifys the documentation on the behavier of strncpy(). Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kj-domen/lib/string.c |4 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -L lib/c.bak -puN /dev/null /dev/null diff -puN lib/string.c~comment-lib_string lib/string.c --- kj/lib/

Re: /dev/random problem on 2.6.12-rc1

2005-04-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:56:51AM +0200, Simon Derr wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:36:59PM +0200, Simon Derr wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Yura Pakhuchiy wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 14:40 +0200, Patrice Martinez w

Re: [PATCH] Use proper seq_file api for /proc/scsi/scsi

2005-04-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 08:56 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:23:46AM -0700, Jeremy Higdon wrote: > > > It works for those setups that already worked with 2.4.x, aka only a few > > > luns. > > > > Even if it's deprecated, wouldn't it be good to fix it as long as > > it's

Re: [PATCH] Use proper seq_file api for /proc/scsi/scsi

2005-04-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:23:46AM -0700, Jeremy Higdon wrote: > > It works for those setups that already worked with 2.4.x, aka only a few > > luns. > > Even if it's deprecated, wouldn't it be good to fix it as long as > it's there, unless it hurts something else? Or at least fix the > out of me

Re: [PATCH] Use proper seq_file api for /proc/scsi/scsi

2005-04-08 Thread Jeremy Higdon
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:56:43AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:23:46AM -0700, Jeremy Higdon wrote: > > Even if it's deprecated, wouldn't it be good to fix it as long as > > it's there, unless it hurts something else? Or at least fix the > > out of memory error, eve

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:10:43AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > After a *lot* of discussion, it was deliberated on d-l that > > this is not that tricky at all, and that the "mere > > aggregation" clause applies to the combination, for various >

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:15:07AM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote: > This is where you are wrong IMMHO. All that is needed for you > to distribute the hexdump blob under the GPL is a declaration > from the copyright holder saying "this, to me, is the > preferred form for modification of the firmware a

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 04:56:50AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [quoting me] > > >> No, it is completely wrong to say that the object file is merely an > >> aggregation. The two components are being coupled much more tightly > >> than in the situa

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:50:54AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Humberto Massa wrote: > > >Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > >>You are mixing apples and oranges. The fact that the GFDL sucks has > >>nothing to do with the firmware issue. With the current situation of > >>firm

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:15:45PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 à 09:03 -0400, Richard B. Johnson a écrit : > > Well it doesn't make any difference. If GPL has degenerated to > > where one can't upload microcode to a device as part of its > > initialization, without havin

[patch 6/8] printk : drivers/char/ftape/compressor/zftape-compress.c

2005-04-08 Thread domen
printk() calls should include appropriate KERN_* constant. Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kj-domen/drivers/char/ftape/compressor/zftape-compress.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN

Re: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-08 Thread Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 08:28 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This patch adds the priority list data structure from Inaky > > Perez-Gonzalez to the Preempt Real-Time mutex. > > this one looks really clean. > > it makes me wonder, what is the curren

[patch 7/8] lib/sha1.c: fix sparse warning

2005-04-08 Thread domen
Fix lib/sha1.c:44:10: warning: cast to restricted type Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kj-domen/lib/sha1.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN lib/sha1.c~sparse-lib_sha1 lib/sha1.c --- kj/

[patch 5/8] printk : drivers/char/applicom.c

2005-04-08 Thread domen
printk() calls should include appropriate KERN_* constant. Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kj-domen/drivers/char/applicom.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/char/applicom.c~prin

Signing modules in Kernel 2.4

2005-04-08 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I found a patch for Kernels 2.6 that ensures kernel integrity by digitally signing kernel modules. Is something similar available for 2.4-Kernels? Kind regards Christoph - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[patch 1/1] block/cpqarray: Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant

2005-04-08 Thread domen
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h when calling pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() instead of custom macros. This patch includes dma-mapping.h explicitly because it caused errors on some architectures otherwise. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10800199301&

[patch 1/1] printk : drivers/block/DAC960.c

2005-04-08 Thread domen
printk() calls should include appropriate KERN_* constant. Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kj-domen/drivers/block/DAC960.c |6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/block/DAC960.c~

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Matt Johnston
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:42:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > > I'm playing with monotone right now. Superficially it looks like it > > has tons of gee-whiz neato stuff... however, it's *agonizingly* slow. > > I mean glacial. A heavily seda

Re: [patch 1/1] reiserfs: make resize option auto-get new device size

2005-04-08 Thread Alex Zarochentsev
Hi, On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 06:55:50AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, , <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It's trivial for the resize option to auto-get the underlying device size, > while > it's harder for the user. I've copied the code from jfs. > > Since of the different

Re: [patch 1/1] reiserfs: make resize option auto-get new device size

2005-04-08 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 08 April 2005 10:10, Alex Zarochentsev wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 06:55:50AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, , > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > It's trivial for the resize option to auto-get the underlying device > > size, while it's harder for th

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:50:14PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > >The fact is also that mixing them with a GPLed software gives > >an result you can't redistribute - although it seems many people > >disagree with that assertion now. > > This is only true if the result

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:41:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I know I can import things myself, but the reason I ask is because I've > got several SCM's I should check out _and_ I've been spending the last two > days writing my own fallback system so that I don't get screwed if nothing > out t

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Frank Sorenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Lindgren wrote: | * Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050407 23:28]: | |>I think I have an idea on what's going on; Your system does not wake to |>APIC interrupt, and the system timer updates time only on other interrupts. |>I'm experiencing the s

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 1/4

2005-04-08 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Ladislav, > Use i2c_transfer to send message, so we get proper bus locking. Looks all OK to me, let alone the lack of Signed-off-by line, as Greg underlined elsewhere. Please resent the patches with the Signed-off-by line after I finish reviewing them. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscrib

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 2/4

2005-04-08 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Ladislav, > Use correct macros to convert between bdc and bin. See linux/bcd.h Yes, this one is OK with me too. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare - 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.

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Frank Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050408 01:49]: > Tony Lindgren wrote: > | * Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050407 23:28]: > | > |>I think I have an idea on what's going on; Your system does not wake to > |>APIC interrupt, and the system timer updates time only on other > interrupts. > |>I

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Marcel Lanz wrote: > git on sarge > > --- git-0.02/Makefile.orig 2005-04-07 23:06:19.0 +0200 > +++ git-0.02/Makefile 2005-04-08 09:24:28.472672224 +0200 > @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ all: $(PROG) > install: $(PROG) > install $(PROG) $(HOME)/bin/ > > -LIBS= -lssl >

Re: Signing modules in Kernel 2.4

2005-04-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 10:32 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > > I found a patch for Kernels 2.6 that ensures kernel integrity by > digitally signing kernel modules. Is something similar available for > 2.4-Kernels? 2.4 kernels have a userspace insmod. so you would need to have a trusted i

question about init procedure in linux kernel

2005-04-08 Thread Ko Yu Ting
Hi, I would like to ask why nfs and devfs are initiated in the function filesystem_setup() rather than do in the function do_init_calls()? as i see other filesystem like ext2 are initiated there by init_ext2_fs(). Can anyone tell me why ? Regards, TOM - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

[PATCH 2.6.12-rc2 1/2] ppc32: fix for misreported SDRAM size on Radstone PPC7D platform

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Elston
This patch fixes the SDRAM output from /proc/cpuinfo. The previous code assumed that there was only one bank of SDRAM, and that the size in the memory configuration register was the total size. Signed-off-by: Chris Elston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___

[PATCH 2.6.12-rc2 2/2] ppc32: add rtc hooks in PPC7D platform file

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Elston
This patch adds the hooks into the PPC7D platforms file to support the DS1337 RTC device as the clock device for the PPC7D board. Signed-off-by: Chris Elston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses

Re: CCISS problems continue with 2.4.28

2005-04-08 Thread Atro Tossavainen
Mike, On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:07:50 -0600, you wrote: > Sorry, I let this one drop though the cracks. Try booting with acpi=off. > It appears the interrupt is not being detected properly. If acpi=off works > try updating the system ROM. We have been known to have buggy acpi tables. acpi=off works

Re: [patch] use cheaper elv_queue_empty when unplug a device

2005-04-08 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Mar 30 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > >Jens Axboe wrote: > > > >>Looks good, I've been toying with something very similar for a long time > >>myself. > >> > > > >Here is another thing I just noticed that should further reduce the > >locking by at least 1, sometimes 2 lock/u

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Humberto Massa wrote: > First, there is *NOT* any requirement in the GPL at all that requires > making compilers available. Otherwise it would not be possible, for > instance, have a Visual Basic GPL'd application. And yes, it is > possible. >From section 3 of the GNU GPL, version 2: Th

Re: [patch] use cheaper elv_queue_empty when unplug a device

2005-04-08 Thread Nick Piggin
Jens Axboe wrote: On Wed, Mar 30 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: So Kenneth if you could look into this one as well, to see if it is worthwhile, that would be great. For that to work, you have to change the get_io_context() allocation to be GFP_ATOMIC. Yes of course, thanks for picking that up. I guess

Re: [PATCH 0/6] add generic round_up_pow2() macro

2005-04-08 Thread P
Andrew Morton wrote: Nick Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The first patch adds a generic round_up_pow2() macro to kernel.h. The remaining patches modify a few files to make use of the new macro. We already have ALIGN() and roundup_pow_of_two(). cool. It doesn't handle x={0,1} though. Maybe we sh

Re: [patch] use cheaper elv_queue_empty when unplug a device

2005-04-08 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Apr 08 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 30 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > > >>So Kenneth if you could look into this one as well, to see if > >>it is worthwhile, that would be great. > > > > > >For that to work, you have to change the get_io_context() allocation to >

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 3/4

2005-04-08 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Ladislav, > dev_{dbg,err} functions should print client's device name. data->id can > be dropped from message, because device is determined by bus it hangs on > (it has fixed address). Looks OK to me. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

ACPI/HT or Packet Scheduler BUG?

2005-04-08 Thread Tarhon-Onu Victor
I am not subscribed to this list so please CC me if you post a reply, if you need additional info or if you suggest a patch (in which I would be very interested). Occurrence: - the kernels must be compiled with Hyper Threading support (and the CPU/MB must support it); - a (tc) process is rea

Re: [patch] use cheaper elv_queue_empty when unplug a device

2005-04-08 Thread Nick Piggin
Jens Axboe wrote: On Fri, Apr 08 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: I guess this isn't a problem, as io contexts should be allocated comparatively rarely. It would be possible to move it out of the lock though if we really want to. Lets just keep it inside the lock, for the fast case it should just be an i

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc1-mm4] fork_connector: add a fork connector

2005-04-08 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 15:47 -0700, Jay Lan wrote: > BTW, when it happened last time, my program listening to the socket > complained about duplicate messages received. > > Unmatched seq. Rcvd=1824062, expected=1824061 <=== > Unmatched seq. Rcvd=1824062, expected=1824063 <=== > Unma

Re: [linux-pm] Re: [RFC] Driver States

2005-04-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > You have a few things here that can easily conflict, and that will be > > > > developed at different paces. I like the direction that it's going, but > > > > how do you intend to do it gradually. I.e. what to do first? > > > > > > I think the first step would be for us to all agree on

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > I think I have an idea on what's going on; Your system does not wake to > > APIC interrupt, and the system timer updates time only on other interrupts. > > I'm experiencing the same on a loaner ThinkPad T30. > > > > I'll try to do another patch today. Meanwhile it now should work > > with

Re: [PATCH 0/6] add generic round_up_pow2() macro

2005-04-08 Thread P
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Nick Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The first patch adds a generic round_up_pow2() macro to kernel.h. The remaining patches modify a few files to make use of the new macro. We already have ALIGN() and roundup_pow_of_two(). cool. It doesn't handle x

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > Ok, I've narrowed the problem down to one patch. In 2.6.11-mm3, the > > > problem goes away if I remove this patch: > > > swsusp-enable-resume-from-initrd.patch > > > > That really helps, thanks. > > You're welcome. > > > The patch looks fairly innocent. I'll give up on this and cc t

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc1-mm4] fork_connector: add a fork connector

2005-04-08 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Could you give attached patch a try instead of previous one. It adds gfp mask into cn_netlink_send() call also. If you need updated CBUS sources, feel free to ask, I will send updated sources with Andrew's comments resolved too. I do not know exactly your connector version, so patch will probabl

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050408 03:30]: > Hi! > > > > I think I have an idea on what's going on; Your system does not wake to > > > APIC interrupt, and the system timer updates time only on other > > > interrupts. > > > I'm experiencing the same on a loaner ThinkPad T30. > > > > > > I

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 4/4

2005-04-08 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Ladislav, > Add support for DS1339. The only difference against DS1337 is Trickle > Charge register at address 10h, which is used to enable battery or gold > cap charging. Please note that value may vary for different batteries, > so it should be made module parameter. 0xaa is sane default and

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Jörn Engel
On Fri, 8 April 2005 09:22:00 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 à 23:07 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : > > > As a contrast, read the discussion between Christoph and Arjan in a part > > of this thread how to move firmware out of kernel drivers without > > problems for the use

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Thomas Renninger
Frank Sorenson wrote: > Tony Lindgren wrote: > | * Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050407 23:28]: > | > |>I think I have an idea on what's going on; Your system does not wake to > |>APIC interrupt, and the system timer updates time only on other > interrupts. > |>I'm experiencing the same on a l

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Catalin Marinas
Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm playing with monotone right now. Superficially it looks like it > has tons of gee-whiz neato stuff... however, it's *agonizingly* slow. > I mean glacial. A heavily sedated sloth with no legs is probably > faster. I tried some time ago to import th

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-08 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 8 of April 2005 12:08, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm2/ > > > - Although small, bk-audit.patch was causing conflits with a couple of > other projects. Dropped for now. > > - Greg is not using bk now,

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-08 Thread Michael Thonke
Hello Andrew, along the 2.6.12-rcX-mmX PCI-Express is not usable at all with mm-patchsets. I posted some days ago the problem taht the IRQs get not regonized by the kernel also with pci=routeirq nothing helped. The problem still the same and some new problems now with 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 in addition.

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Thomas Renninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050408 04:34]: > > Here are some figures about idle/C-states: > > Passing bm_history=0xF to processor module makes it going into C3 and deeper. > Passing lower values, deeper states are reached more often, but system could > freeze: Hmm, I wonder why it f

[BUG] 2.6.12-rc1/rc2 mouse0 became mouse1

2005-04-08 Thread Ali Akcaagac
Hello, This doesn't sound right to me. After upgrading from 2.6.11.5/6 to 2.6.12-rc1/rc2 I detected that my mouse didn't operate anymore when loading up XOrg, I realized that /dev/input/mouse0 (which worked for years) had to be changed to /dev/input/mouse1. Anyone care to explain why this had to b

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Matthias Andree
Andrea Arcangeli schrieb am 2005-04-08: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:42:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > play with something _really_ nasty (but also very _very_ fast), take a > > look at kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/torvalds/. > > Why not to use sql as backend instead of the tree of

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:07:23PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:05:07PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le lundi 04 avril 2005 à 21:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : > > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:05:18PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > > On Apr 04, Greg KH <[EMAIL PRO

[PATCH] pm_message_t corrections still missing from 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-08 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. Here, for your consideration, are fixups I still have in my tree after updating to rc2. (USB & Framebuffer lists copied because a reasonable number apply there). Regards, Nigel diff -ruNp 840-combined-pm_message_t-patch.patch-old/drivers/base/power/resume.c 840-combined-pm_message_t-patc

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Humberto Massa
Adrian Bunk wrote: Debian doesn't seem to care much about the possible legal problems of patents. The possible legal problem of software patents is, up to the present time, AFAICT, not producing effects yet in Europe, and is a non-problem in jurisdictions like mine (down here neither business

buggy ia64_fls() ? (was Re: /dev/random problem on 2.6.12-rc1)

2005-04-08 Thread Simon Derr
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:56:51AM +0200, Simon Derr wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:36:59PM +0200, Simon Derr wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I run: > > # dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=1 | od > > strac

[patch] sched: unlocked context-switches

2005-04-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
the scheduler still has a complex maze of locking in the *arch_switch() / *lock_switch() code. Different arches do it differently, creating diverging context-switch behavior. There are now 3 variants: fully locked, unlocked but irqs-off, unlocked and irqs-on. Nick has cleaned them up in sched-

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:08 -0300, Humberto Massa wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > >Debian doesn't seem to care much about the possible legal problems of > >patents. You have lots of "possible legal problems" of any kind. Basically everyone can sue you for (almost) whatever he wants almost all ofth

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Matthias Andree: >> commiter_name VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL CHECK(commiter_name != >> ''), >> commiter_email VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL CHECK(commiter_email >> != ''), > > The length is too optimistic and insufficient to import the current BK > stuff. I'd vote for 64

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > I think I have an idea on what's going on; Your system does not wake to > > > > APIC interrupt, and the system timer updates time only on other > > > > interrupts. > > > > I'm experiencing the same on a loaner ThinkPad T30. > > > > > > > > I'll try to do another patch today. Meanwhil

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-08 Thread Indrek Kruusa
Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm2/ Wow... it responds despite the load average of 83.63 :) http://www.tuleriit.ee/progs/img/pic1.png http://www.tuleriit.ee/progs/img/pic2.png http://www.tuleriit.ee/progs/img/pic3.png dmes

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:41:35AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > BTW, have any of you read the analysis i made, where i claim, rooted > in the GPL FAQ and with examples, why i believe that the firmware can > be considerated a non derivative of the linux kernel. I hadn't. I did just now. Here's my

Re: [PATCH] pm_message_t corrections still missing from 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Here, for your consideration, are fixups I still have in my tree after > updating to rc2. > > (USB & Framebuffer lists copied because a reasonable number apply > there). > > Regards, > > Nigel > > diff -ruNp > 840-combined-pm_message_t-patch.patch-old/drivers/base/power/resume.c > 840-

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 4/4

2005-04-08 Thread Ladislav Michl
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:08:46PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Add support for DS1339. The only difference against DS1337 is Trickle > > Charge register at address 10h, which is used to enable battery or gold > > cap charging. Please note that value may vary for different batteries, > > so it sh

Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

2005-04-08 Thread Paulo Marques
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:26:31PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: [...] Hi Paulo, Hi Adrian, [...] pros: - smaller kernel image size - smaller (and more readable) source code Which is better readable depends on what you are used to. That's true to some degree, but look at code lik

what is lmsensor package

2005-04-08 Thread karthik
Hi, Can anybody tell me what is lmsensor package used for and from where can we obtain its programs (that access i2c-interface or general source). Karthik - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordo

Re: Crash during boot for 2.6.12-rc2.

2005-04-08 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. I got exactly the same thing on both my P4 HT and my Celeron 933 :<. Trying fresh builds. Regards, Nigel On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 03:26, James Morris wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, James Morris wrote: > > > > Surprise, surprise, it works OK here. > > > > > > What compiler version? > > > > gcc

linker error lib/lib.a (lib/string.c)

2005-04-08 Thread Wotan23
when i compile the 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 on a ppc with "make all" i got for line: ld -m elf32ppc -o arch/ppc/boot/openfirmware/coffboot -T /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm1/arch/ppc/boot/ld.script -e _start -Ttext 0x0050 -Bstatic arch/ppc/boot/openfirmware/coffcrt0.o arch/ppc/boot/openfirmware/start.o ar

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Thomas Renninger
Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Thomas Renninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050408 04:34]: >>Here are some figures about idle/C-states: >> >>Passing bm_history=0xF to processor module makes it going into C3 and deeper. >>Passing lower values, deeper states are reached more often, but system could >>freeze: >

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 1/4

2005-04-08 Thread Ladislav Michl
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:36:29PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Oops, you forgot to add a Signed-off-by: line for every patch, as per > Documentation/SubmittingPatches. Care to redo them? Here it is (I'm sorry about that). Use i2c_transfer to send message, so we get proper bus locking. Signed-off-by

stack checking (was: Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc)

2005-04-08 Thread Jörn Engel
On Fri, 8 April 2005 13:38:22 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >E.g. read my "Stack usage tasks" email. The benefits would only be > >present for people using GNU gcc 3.4 or SuSE gcc 3.3 on i386, but this > >is a reasonable subset of the kernel users - and it brings them a >

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.11 - NMI lockup with CFQ scheduler

2005-04-08 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:45 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > So clear ->request_queue instead. Will do. Did you want me to look after your patch and add this, or do you want to send it to Linus (after the purdah is over)? James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

Re: Crash during boot for 2.6.12-rc2.

2005-04-08 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 22:58, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > I got exactly the same thing on both my P4 HT and my Celeron 933 :<. > Trying fresh builds. Actually I tell a lie. I looked at James' trace too quickly. I'll see what I can collect :> Nigel > Regards, > > Nigel > > On Wed, 20

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 2/4

2005-04-08 Thread Ladislav Michl
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:51:00AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Yes, this one is OK with me too. Ok, here it is with signed off line. Use correct macros to convert between bdc and bin. See linux/bcd.h Signed-off-by: Ladislav Michl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-omap/drivers/i2c/chips/ds1337.c.or

Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:38:22PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:26:31PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > > Hi Adrian, Hi Paolo, > >>[...] > >>pros: > >> - smaller kernel image size > >> - smaller (and more readable) source code > > > >Which is bette

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Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:02:22PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:19:39 +0400 > Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I know, the same thing holds for most architectures, including i386. > > > However, this is not an issue for uni-processor kernels anywhere el

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.11 - NMI lockup with CFQ scheduler

2005-04-08 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Apr 08 2005, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:45 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > So clear ->request_queue instead. > > > Will do. Did you want me to look after your patch and add this, or do > you want to send it to Linus (after the purdah is over)? Just queue it with the

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