Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > Yeah, that likely needs a little help from the ide driver. If you force > a spindown, you will effectively have parked the head for as long as the > spindown + spinup takes. That could turn out to be enough, it will take > more than 1-2 seconds anyways. I doubt it; laptop disks seem to be op

Re: the magic in do_page_fault() ???

2005-07-04 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > in do_page_fault() (kernel 2.6.11.11) include one piece of code as > follow: > > > if (!down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem)) { > if ((error_code & 4) == 0 && > !search_exception_tables(regs->eip)) > goto bad_a

Re: If ACPI doesn't find an irq listed, don't accept 0 as a valid PCI irq.

2005-07-04 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> tree e6a38b3d6bf434f08054562113bb660c4227769f > parent 4a89a04f1ee21a7c1f4413f1ad7dcfac50ff9b63 > author Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:35:33 -0700 > committer Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:35:33 -0700 > > If ACPI doesn't find an irq listed, don't

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > Yeah, that likely needs a little help from the ide driver. If you force > > a spindown, you will effectively have parked the head for as long as the > > spindown + spinup takes. That could turn out to be enough, it will take > > more than 1-2

Re: [patch] call device_shutdown with interrupts enabled

2005-07-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Do not call device_shutdown with interrupts disabled. It is wrong and > > produces ugly warnings. > > Hm. How about (possible whitespace damage): Hmm, right, that's better patch. Applied (will push upstream with next batch). Pavel -

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use conditional

2005-07-04 Thread Tony Jones
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 08:59:02AM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > The topic of replacing dummy (with capability) was discussed there > > last week, in the context of stacker, but a common solution for both > > cases would be needed. > > Both cases? CONFIG_SECURITY_STACKER and !CONFIG_SECURITY_ST

Re: [PATCH] ISA DMA API documentation

2005-07-04 Thread Pierre Ossman
randy_dunlap wrote: >+The DMA:able address space is the lowest 16 MB of _physical_ memory. > The DMA-able >+Also the transfer block may not cross page boundaries (which are 64k). > I would write:(which are 64 KB). > >if I knew that was correct, but I don't.

Re: FUSE merging?

2005-07-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> Actually, the right question is "how is fuse better than coda". I've > asked that before; unlike nfs, userspace filesystems implemented with > coda actually *work*, but do not provide partial-file writes. You answered your own question. I did talk to Jan Harkes about the file I/O issue before s

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Andrey Panin
On 185, 07 04, 2005 at 08:00:12AM +0200, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Jesper, > > Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > I just had a nice chat with the guys there and we got some > > improvements made by them and us merged up. And I /think/ we agreed > > that I

Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-24

2005-07-04 Thread William Weston
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 18:46 -0700, William Weston wrote: > > FWIW, I'm still seeing the SMT scheduling? meltdown issues with > > -50-42. > > Running two instances of 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=65536' > > instead > > of 'burnP6' results in the same b

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> It is important because on UNIX, "root" rules on local filesystems. > I dont't like the idea of root not being able to run "find -xdev" > anymore for administrative tasks, just because something got hidden > by accident or just for fun by a user. It's not about malicious > users who want to hide

Re: [CFT:PATCH] Serial + Serial&Parallel PCI card cleanup

2005-07-04 Thread Andrey Panin
On 176, 06 25, 2005 at 04:21:00PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > Hi, > > I've decided to get rid of the code duplication between parport_serial > and 8250_pci. > > Essentially, we have two modules which support serial PCI devices. > As far as these serial PCI devices go, both modules contain simila

Re: [CFT:PATCH] Serial + Serial&Parallel PCI card cleanup

2005-07-04 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 12:15:00PM +0400, Andrey Panin wrote: > Me too, but I can confirm that my SIIG single port serial card still works > with the patch, so at least SIIG quirk table cleanup didn't broke anything. Thanks for testing. > IMHO this cleanup could became a separate easy to merge pa

Re: FUSE merging?

2005-07-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
[CC restored] > Okay, I just wanted to mention CODA. Modifying CODA is probably still > better than modifying NFS (as akpm suggested at one point). Definitely. Here are some numbers on the size these filesystems as in current -mm ('wc fs/${fs}/* include/linux/${fs}*') nfs: 25495 9p:6102 co

Re: 2.6.12-ck3

2005-07-04 Thread Rudo Thomas
> Changes since 2.6.12-ck2: > +cfq-ts-2.diff > +cfq-ts-4.diff > Two cfq-timeslice updates from Jens > > +patch-2.6.12.2 > Latest stable version Hi Con and everyone. Time seems to pass very fast with this kernel. The console blanks after some 10 seconds; I wasn't able to log on as agetty timed ou

Re: function ordering (was: Re: [RFC] exit_thread() speedups in x86 process.c)

2005-07-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 01:30:23PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > this way we don't need to put a lot of __slow's in the code *and* it's > > based on measurements not assumptions, and can be tuned for a specific > > situation in addition. > > This is reminiscent of "fur", whose source Old SCO open

Re: Re: Re: PATCH for ide_floppy

2005-07-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yes, #define IDEFLOPPY_TICKS_DELAY HZ/20 seems to be the solution. when I've tested some values for IDEFLOPPY_TICKS_DELAY in December 2004, I cannot found the best value for this. The Kernel version was 2.6.8 from the SuSE9.2 distribution. I take a look in ide-cd.c and found there the function

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 2: The USB menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. This patch is designed for 2.6.12; the patch for .13-rc1 will be posted as a reply. --- a/./driver

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 2: The USB menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. Patch for .13-rc1. Only offset changes compared to .12. --- rc1-a/./drivers/usb/net/Kconfig 200

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:56:30AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > It is important because on UNIX, "root" rules on local filesystems. > > I dont't like the idea of root not being able to run "find -xdev" > > anymore for administrative tasks, just because something got hidden > > by accident or ju

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ORT - Oops Reporting Tool v.b4

2005-07-04 Thread Tomasz Kłoczko
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Hi, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Sorry to say that, but: I definitely won't be interested in bug reports from an automated tool like this. I don't have the time to go through the heaps of information it collects - I need a short and to the point descri

[PATCH] Kconfig changes 3: s/menu/menuconfig/ APM menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 3: The APM menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. This patch is designed for 2.6.12; the patch for .13-rc1 will be posted as a reply. --- a/./arch/i3

[PATCH] Kconfig changes 3: s/menu/menuconfig/ APM menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote: Part 3: The APM menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. This patch is designed for .13-rc1. --- rc1-a/./arch/i386/K

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> "solving it properly" refers to hardening the leaf node constraint > against circumvention I assume. Suppose there's a script for doing simple > on-line backups using "find". Now explain to the user why he lost his > data due to a backup script geting EACCES on a non-leaf FUSE mount. I see your

Re: function ordering (was: Re: [RFC] exit_thread() speedups in x86 process.c)

2005-07-04 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 01:30:23PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > this way we don't need to put a lot of __slow's in the code *and* it's > > > based on measurements not assumptions, and can be tuned for a specific > > > situation in addition. > > >

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jens, thanks for your quick reply! Jens Axboe wrote: > Dunno if there's something that explicitly only parks the head, the > best option is probably to issue a STANDBY_NOW command. You can test > this with hdparm -y. Thanks for the hint! As othe

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Jens Axboe wrote: > It isn't too pretty to rely on such unreliable timing anyways. I'm > not too crazy about spinning the disk down either, it's useless wear > compared to just parking the head. Fully agreed, and that's the approach the IBM Wi

[PATCH] Kconfig changes 4: s/menu/menuconfig/ CPU scaling menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote: Part 4: The CPU scaling menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. This patch is designed for 2.6.12 , the patch for .13

Re: FUSE merging?

2005-07-04 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 7/4/05, Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are some numbers on the size these filesystems as in current -mm > ('wc fs/${fs}/* include/linux/${fs}*') Sloccount [1] gives more meaningful numbers than wc: ('sloccount fs/${fs}/* include/linux/${fs}*') nfs: 21,046 9p:3,856 coda:

[PATCH] Kconfig changes 4: s/menu/menuconfig/ CPU scaling menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 4: The CPU scaling menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. This patch is designed for 2.6.13-rc1 --- rc1-a/./arch/sh/Kconfig 2005-06-30 11:22:17.0

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Jesper, On 7/4/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > static int > ibm_hdaps_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) > { > printk("%s() start\n", __func__); > if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&ibm_hdaps_available)) { > printk("%s() busy\n", __func__); >

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes 4: s/menu/menuconfig/ CPU scaling menu

2005-07-04 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 12:43:56PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > Part 4: The CPU scaling menu. > > In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest > of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more > convenient "menuconfig" keyword. > > This patch is desi

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes 4: s/menu/menuconfig/ profiling menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 4: The profiling menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. This patch is designed for 2.6.12 and .13-rc1 --- a/./arch/sh/oprofile/Kconfig2004-08

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:06:01PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > Part 1: The easy stuff. > > In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest > of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more > convenient "menuconfig" keyword. Please do not touch net/Kcon

Re: [PATCH] ALPS: fix enabling hardware tapping

2005-07-04 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:28:06AM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote: > Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 01:49:13PM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > > Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > It looks like logic for enabling hardware tapping i

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Jens Axboe wrote: > > > It isn't too pretty to rely on such unreliable timing anyways. I'm > > not too crazy about spinning the disk down either, it's useless wear > > compared to just parkin

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 7/4/05, Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jesper, > > On 7/4/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > static int > > ibm_hdaps_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) > > { > > printk("%s() start\n", __func__); > > if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&ibm_hdaps_available)

wireless lan, defragmentation in driver module.

2005-07-04 Thread P Lavin
Hi, I need help in the following issue, i'll explain the mechanisum & the problem i'm facing, 1) In the existing wireless lan driver we've MPDU's & MSDU's, all the MPDU's are handled by the firmware where as all the MSDU's by the driver. Now i need to implement 802.11E protocol based block a

Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-24

2005-07-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* William Weston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Which video driver is X using? What nice value is the X server running > > at? > > Hardware is Intel 82865G (integrated) with DRM i915 1.1.0 20040405 and > xorg-3.8.2 i810 driver, running at nice 0, priority 15. Should I bump > the priority up?

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 08:42:24PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > >>Right. But, /proc started somewhere, didn't it? > >> > >> > > > >Sun. > > > > > No, plan 9. Almost on the right track, it was v8, two steps before plan9. But that's just the process-part of procfs, not the big mess we have no

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 12:27:13PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > E.g. with "mount_nonempty" it would not refuse to > mount on a non-leaf dir, and README would document, that using this > option might cause trouble. Otherwise the mount would be refused with > a reference to the above option. that

Re: [patch 5/12] lsm stacking v0.2: actual stacker module

2005-07-04 Thread serge
Quoting Tony Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hey Serge, > > I don't think your symbol_get() is doing what you think it is ;-) Hmm, I wonder whether something changed. It shouldn't be possible to rmmod module b if module a has done a symbol_get on it... This may mean more stringent locking will be

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use conditional

2005-07-04 Thread serge
Quoting Tony Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 08:59:02AM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > > > The topic of replacing dummy (with capability) was discussed there > > > last week, in the context of stacker, but a common solution for both > > > cases would be needed. > > > > Both c

RE: [PATCH] quieten OOM killer noise

2005-07-04 Thread Al Boldi
Anton Blanchard wrote: { Id suggest adding a printk level to the printks in mm/oom-kill.c and using /proc/sys/kernel/printk to silence them. } Good option! Also, why is OOM-killer needed when overcommit is disabled? Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes 4: s/menu/menuconfig/ CPU scaling menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Russell King wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 12:43:56PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > Part 4: The CPU scaling menu. > > > > In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest > > of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more > > conv

Re: [PATCH] ISA DMA API documentation

2005-07-04 Thread Pierre Ossman
Documentation for how the ISA DMA controller is handled in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> New version after feedback from Randy Dunlap. Index: linux-wbsd/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt === --- linux-wbsd

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use conditional

2005-07-04 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Serge, On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:01:05AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Tony Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 08:59:02AM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > > > > > The topic of replacing dummy (with capability) was discussed there > > > > last week, in the context

Kernel panic when booting without acpi=off as of 2.6.12-rc1 and above

2005-07-04 Thread Daniel Andersen
Summary of error: insmod error inserting '/lib/ata_piix.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! Mounting root filesystem mount: error 19 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none Switching to new root switchroot: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 Kernel

RE: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-04 Thread Al Boldi
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { Please pull from: rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6.git } Does it fix the idedriver int/dma problem? Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More maj

[PATCH][Update] Kconfig changes 2b: s/menu/menuconfig/ USB menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 2b: The USB menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. This patch includes the missing changes from the previous patch --- x/drivers/usb/atm/Kconfig 20

[PATCH][Update] Kconfig changes 2b: s/menu/menuconfig/ USB menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 2b: The USB menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. Patch for .13-rc1. This patch includes the missing changes from the previous patch --- rc1-a/driv

[PATCH][Update] Kconfig changes 1b: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 1b: The easy stuff. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. These are some missing changes from the first patch(es). I don't know where they went missing. Th

Re: 2.6.13-rc1-mm1

2005-07-04 Thread Joseph Fannin
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 04:40:18AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc1/2.6.13-rc1-mm1/ I get this when building on ppc32: CC [M] drivers/net/skge.o drivers/net/skge.c: In function `skge_probe': drivers/net/skge.c:3151: e

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use conditional

2005-07-04 Thread serge
Hey, Quoting Kurt Garloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Getting rid of dummy entirely would be better, I agree, but someone > needs to review that this won't break anything. Unfortunately I think it's way too soon for that. Even if stacker is accepted, it is still a module (for now at least) which can

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:06:01PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > Part 1: The easy stuff. > > In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest > > of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more > > convenient "me

[ANNOUNCE] OOPS Reporting Tool v.b5

2005-07-04 Thread Michał Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is our (see copyright section ;)) simple script that help to create a bug report: http://stud.wsi.edu.pl/~piotrowskim/files/ort/beta/ort-b5.tar.bz2 Why do we do this? Because many people don't have time to prepare a good (with all importrant pieces of information) bug report. H

Re: [PATCH] securityfs

2005-07-04 Thread serge
Quoting Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 02:53:17PM -0400, James Morris wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Tony Jones wrote: > > > > > There just isn't enough content to justify a stacker specific filesystem > > > IMHO. > > > > It might be worth thinking about a more general se

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes 4: s/menu/menuconfig/ CPU scaling menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 4b: The CPU scaling menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. This patch applies to 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc1 --- x/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig 2005-07-04 13:5

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc1-mm1] connector: Remove the union declaration

2005-07-04 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
Hello, This patch removes the ugly union declaration in cn_fork.h and cn_exit.h files. The code is cleaner without the union and the price is only four bytes added in the structure. Thanks to Alexander Nyberg for reporting this. Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- driv

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see your point. But then this is really not a security issue, but > an "are you sure you want to format C:" style protection for the > user's own sake. Adding a mount option (checked by the library) for > this would be fine. E.g. with "mount_nonempt

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-04 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 7/4/05, Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { > Please pull from: > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6.git > } > > Does it fix the idedriver int/dma problem? What is the "int/dma problem"? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

[PATCH][Update 2] Kconfig changes: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote: > Part 1b: The easy stuff for 2.6.13-rc1. This is the same patch without the changes in /net, as requested by Sam Ravnborg. It does include the first update. --- rc1-a/drivers/md/Kconfig2005-06-30 11:21:40.0 +0200 +++ rc1-b/drivers/md/Kconfig

[PATCH][Update 2] Kconfig changes: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
> Part 1: The easy stuff. > > In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest > of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more > convenient "menuconfig" keyword. > > I hope I got it right, especially the conversions to "if SYMBOL" and > merging the "

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-04 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jens! Thanks for the sample code. I've trimmed the recipient list a bit... Jens Axboe wrote: > Perhaps the IDLE or IDLEIMMEDIATE commands imply a head parking, that > would make sense. As you say, you can hear a drive parking its head. > Here's a

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > I see your point. But then this is really not a security issue, but > > an "are you sure you want to format C:" style protection for the > > user's own sake. Adding a mount option (checked by the library) for > > this would be fine. E.g. with "mount_nonempty" it would not refuse to > > mount

re: function ordering (was: Re: [RFC] exit_thread() speedups in x86

2005-07-04 Thread Dan Kegel
Arjan van de Ven wrote: hmm. I wonder if a slightly different approach (based on the __slow) idea would make sense 1) Use -ffunction-sections option from gcc to put each function in it's own section 2) Use readprofile/oprofile data to collect an (external to the code) list of hot/cold functions (

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Jens! > > Thanks for the sample code. I've trimmed the recipient list a bit... > > Jens Axboe wrote: > > > Perhaps the IDLE or IDLEIMMEDIATE commands imply a head parking, that > > would make sense

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use conditional

2005-07-04 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Serge, On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:37:21AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Kurt Garloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Getting rid of dummy entirely would be better, I agree, but someone > > needs to review that this won't break anything. > > Unfortunately I think it's way too soon for that

[PATCH] Kconfig changes 6: Move the Fusion MPT menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote: > Part 4: The profiling menu. ^ Obviously I can't count to 5. And now to something completely different: The Fusion MPT controler seems to belong into the SCSI low level driver submenu. I may well be wrong here. patch is for 2.6.12, 2.6.13 will be

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes 6: Move the Fusion MPT menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote: > And now to something completely different: > > The Fusion MPT controler seems to belong into the SCSI low level driver > submenu. I may well be wrong here. patch is for 2.6.13 --- rc1-a/arch/arm/Kconfig 2005-07-04 15:28:02.0 +0200 +++ rc1-b

wake_up() from interrupt - on the next jiffie?

2005-07-04 Thread gl
Hi This might well be my basic misunderstanding, or the test was wrong, but the probability is pretty low, so, asking here. I thought, if a task sleeps on, say, read() and then data come and there's no other runnable task with a higher priority, the sleeping task should be woken up immediately. M

[PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message

2005-07-04 Thread Kurt Wall
If you try to run `make menuconfig' on a system that lacks ncurses development libs, you get an error message telling you to install ncurses-devel. Some popular distributions don't have an ncurses-devel package. This patch generalizes the error message. Patch is against 2.6.12. MAINTAINERS doesn't

Re: psmouse, proto

2005-07-04 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:20:14PM +0200, Côté Alexandre wrote: > kernel : 2.6.11 from kernel-tree 2.6.11-7 on debian sid > > psmouse module install automatically when booting the system (nothing write > in /etc/modules, don't know why it's now automatically install) and dmesg says > input: ImE

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Shawn Starr
We could put it in userspace, but if the system is swapping like mad, can we still get a critical response if this remains in userspace fully? Someone mentioned we should use a kernel thread(s) to handle stopping all I/O so we can safely park heads. Shawn. --- Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Problem with inotify

2005-07-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 11:34 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > I reverted the patch you sent earlier > (inotify_unmount_inodes-list-iteration-fix.diff) and applied the one you > attached here (inotify_unmount_inodes-list-iteration-fix2.diff). > > The good news is that the hang is gone. The bad news is t

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-04 Thread Shawn Starr
>From what I'm told its not specific to hard disk, you can put any laptop HD and it will work the same (?). Shawn. --- Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi Jens! > > > > Thanks for the

Re: [TRIVIAL] drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64.h

2005-07-04 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 06:11:49PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > Hi Andrew. > > Non-trivial in that I'm unsure of original intent but trivial in that > it's just a printk()... > > On bootup, I see: > > pnp: the driver 'i8042 kbd' has been registered > pnp: match found with the PnP device '00:05'

Re: Problem with inotify

2005-07-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 15:27 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 11:34 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > > I reverted the patch you sent earlier > > (inotify_unmount_inodes-list-iteration-fix.diff) and applied the one you > > attached here (inotify_unmount_inodes-list-iteration-fix2.

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Jens Axboe
(don't top post!) On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Shawn Starr wrote: > > We could put it in userspace, but if the system is > swapping like mad, can we still get a critical > response if this remains in userspace fully? Just make sure the program isn't swapped out. > Someone mentioned we should use a ker

Documentation mismatch in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
--- Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt --- - input prompt: "prompt" ["if" ] Every menu entry can have at most one prompt, which is used to display to the user. Optionally dependencies only for this prompt can be added with "if". --- This is misleading, since the "if" will not affect

Re: Problem with inotify

2005-07-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 15:39 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 15:27 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 11:34 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > > > I reverted the patch you sent earlier > > > (inotify_unmount_inodes-list-iteration-fix.diff) and applied the o

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/usb/net/: remove two unused multicast_filter_limit variables

2005-07-04 Thread Petko Manolov
ok, looks all right to me. Petko On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: The only uses of both variables were recently removed. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/usb/net/pegasus.c |1 - drivers/usb/net/rtl8150.c |2 -- 2 files changed, 3 dele

Re: [PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message

2005-07-04 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:57:00AM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote: > If you try to run `make menuconfig' on a system that lacks ncurses > development libs, you get an error message telling you to install > ncurses-devel. Some popular distributions don't have an ncurses-devel > package. This patch generaliz

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Ragnar Kjørstad
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:17:35PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > I see your point. But then this is really not a security issue, but > > > an "are you sure you want to format C:" style protection for the > > > user's own sake. Adding a mount option (checked by the library) for > > > this wou

Problem: scsi/libata/sata

2005-07-04 Thread Rinaldi J. Montessi
About the time the SCSI subsystem is loaded the hard drive activity light comes on and never goes out. The disk is mounted and appears to function correctly: mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda2 on /home type ext3 (rw) /

Re: [PATCH] securityfs

2005-07-04 Thread serge
Quoting Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 02:53:17PM -0400, James Morris wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Tony Jones wrote: > > > > > There just isn't enough content to justify a stacker specific filesystem > > > IMHO. > > > > It might be worth thinking about a more general se

RE: Problem with inotify

2005-07-04 Thread Gautam Singaraju
Anton, I had used the 2.6.12 kernel with the latest Inotify. There was no "I_WILL_FREE" in the any place. And, there was no problem in compilation. I believe Inotify is very useful and should be included in the next versions of the kernel. Are there any ongoing plans for this? Thanks, Gautam Si

Re: A "new driver model" and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL question

2005-07-04 Thread Michal Jaegermann
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:44:41PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 05:12:02PM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > > > Was a decision to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL deliberate and if yes then > > what considerations dictated it, other then the patch author wrote > > it that way, and what dr

RE: Problem with inotify

2005-07-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Gautam, On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 11:55 -0400, Gautam Singaraju wrote: > I had used the 2.6.12 kernel with the latest Inotify. There was no > "I_WILL_FREE" in the any place. And, there was no problem in compilation. Er, yes, obviously. You are not using my patch on top of inotify and original inotif

Re: patch to create sysfs char device nodes

2005-07-04 Thread Coywolf Qi Hunt
On 6/9/05, Paolo Galtieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > with DEVFS going away I discovered that no character device nodes are > created if a flash device is present which contains filesystems. The > mtd-utils package requires the existence of character device nodes for > performing erase, lo

RE: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-04 Thread Al Boldi
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { What is the "int/dma problem"? } Hdparm -tT gives 38mb/s in 2.4.31 Cat /dev/hda > /dev/null gives 2% user 33% sys 65% idle Hdparm -tT gives 28mb/s in 2.6.12 Cat /dev/hda > /dev/null gives 2% user 25% sys 0% idle 73% IOWAIT It feels like DMA is not being applied

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-04 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 7/4/05, Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { > What is the "int/dma problem"? > } > > Hdparm -tT gives 38mb/s in 2.4.31 > Cat /dev/hda > /dev/null gives 2% user 33% sys 65% idle > > Hdparm -tT gives 28mb/s in 2.6.12 > Cat /dev/hda > /dev/null gives 2% user 2

Re: [PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message

2005-07-04 Thread Kurt Wall
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 05:16:32PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:57:00AM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote: > > If you try to run `make menuconfig' on a system that lacks ncurses > > development libs, you get an error message telling you to install > > ncurses-devel. Some popular

[PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message

2005-07-04 Thread Kurt Wall
If you try to run `make menuconfig' on a system that lacks ncurses development libs, you get an error message telling you to install ncurses-devel. Some popular distributions don't have an ncurses-devel package. This patch generalizes the error message. Patch is against 2.6.12. This patch fixes a

Two 2.6.13-rc1 kernel crashes

2005-07-04 Thread Martin Mokrejs
Hi, I use on i686 architecture Gentoo linux with XFS filesystem. Recently it happened to me 3 time that the machine locked, although at least once sys-rq+b worked. Here is the log from remote console. I don't remeber having such problems with 2.6.12-rc6-git2, which was my previous testing kernel.

Re: patch to create sysfs char device nodes

2005-07-04 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 00:14 +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > On 6/9/05, Paolo Galtieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > with DEVFS going away I discovered that no character device nodes are > > created if a flash device is present which contains filesystems. The > > mtd-utils package require

Re: notebook buttons trouble, acpi related

2005-07-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
Hetfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if it turns off tft and change brightness i guess kernel should receive > some events but > /proc/acpi/event doesn't get them. In general, these keys generate events that are handled by the hardware. The kernel never gets told about them. If you disassemble y

Re: setitimer expire too early (Kernel 2.4)

2005-07-04 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 08:56:59AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 02:14:42PM -0700, George Anzinger wrote: > > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > >Hi Olivier, > > > > > >On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 07:52:12PM +0200, Olivier Croquette wrote: > > > > > >>Andrew Morton wrote: > > >> > > >

Re: Two 2.6.13-rc1 kernel crashes

2005-07-04 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Martin Mokrejs wrote: > Hi, > I use on i686 architecture Gentoo linux with XFS filesystem. > Recently it happened to me 3 time that the machine locked, > although at least once sys-rq+b worked. Here is the log > from remote console. I don't remeber having such problems > with

Re: notebook buttons trouble, acpi related

2005-07-04 Thread Hetfield
Il giorno lun, 04/07/2005 alle 17.30 +0100, Matthew Garrett ha scritto: > Hetfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > if it turns off tft and change brightness i guess kernel should receive > > some events but > > /proc/acpi/event doesn't get them. > > In general, these keys generate events that ar

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