Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-13 Thread Paul Jackson
Dick Johnson wrote: > Or just disallow tabs altogether. At Analogic we ... This is the Linux kernel, not Analogic. We use tabs for indentation. You can set the number of physical spaces per tab however you want in your editor, but it had better look good (and stay within 80 columns) when the res

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-13 Thread Paul Jackson
Nice work - thanks. A couple of possible additions: * Keep lines within 80 columns. * Be consistent in use of tabs versus spaces. If the rest of a file is indented using tabs, then any change you make should be indented the same way, not with spaces. It is easy to unknowingly introd

Re: OOPS in 2.6.13-rc1-mm1 -- EIP is at sysfs_release+0x49/0xb0

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Airlie
> Thanks Dave, > > I switched to the i915 kernel driver and still got the OOPS. > I also continue to get the overlapping mtrr message. I am currently > testing 2.6.13-rc2-git3. I have tried to run strace with hald, but > cannot reproduce the problem this way. I am not sure I am invoking the > c

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm2

2005-07-13 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 at 17:41:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > The patch was empty. That happens sometimes. I like to be able to apply > empty patches, but yes, perhaps that should require -f. > > Either drop the patch of use -f. OK, those are easy enough to comment out but I thought the brok

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm2

2005-07-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quilt docs only say lines beginning with "#" are ignored, nothing about it > after a patch name. I think that got fixed in quilt CVS a couple of weeks ago >...and BTW why does every line in the series file have a trailing space? Not in my copy o

Re: Lack of Documentation about SA_RESTART...

2005-07-13 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:16:35 -0400 Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, do look at that. From the latest 2.6 sources: > > timeo = sock_sndtimeo(sk, flags & O_NONBLOCK); > > if ((1 << sk->sk_state) & (TCPF_SYN_SENT | TCPF_SYN_RECV)) { > /* Error code is set a

Re: 2.6.12.2 acpi_register_gsi() patch causes problems on Asus A7V333 motherboard

2005-07-13 Thread Tomasz Lemiech
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Chris Wright wrote: * Tomasz Lemiech ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Chris Wright wrote: - 2.6.12.2 with acpi_register_gsi() one-line fix works without problems My apologies - I meant: "_without_ acpi_register_gsi() one-line fix". That is, _reverting_ ht

Re: 2.6.12.2 acpi_register_gsi() patch causes problems on Asus A7V333 motherboard

2005-07-13 Thread Chris Wright
* Tomasz Lemiech ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Yup, it does, thanks much. Now I see that there was an earlier thread > concerning the same problem. Sorry for extra noise. No problem, thanks for verifying. That patch should be in .3, so I'm happy to build up success cases with it. thanks, -chris

RE: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-13 Thread Spirakis, Charles
I believe the Intel tool that Vara is referencing is the Vtune tool (which has an open source, GPL'ed statistical sampling driver). It keeps a trace history (instead of aggregating the data) that is passed into user space so that it can do post processing analysis from user space. The most common m

Re: [PATCH] Runtime fix for intermodule.c

2005-07-13 Thread Adrian Glaubitz
> > This little patch adds the missing function declaration > > of the deprecatated function call inter_module_get > > to the header file include/linux/module.h and the > > necessary EXPORT_SYMBOL to kernel/intermodule.c. Without > > the declaration and the EXPORT_SYMBOL any module that requires >

PROBLEM: Oops when running mkreiserfs on large (9TB) raid0 set on AMD64 SMP

2005-07-13 Thread Paul Slootman
After having installed a base system (Debian) on our shiny new AMD64 SMP system, with 2 x 3ware 9000 SATA controllers for a total of 24 disks (excluding the 2 connected to the motherboard), I wanted as a "quick" test to put them all in a raid0 and put a reiserfs on it (just to see the 'df' output :

Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk

2005-07-13 Thread Gijs Hillenius
> Frank Sorenson writes: > Martin Knoblauch wrote: >> Download is simple, just don't use the "IBM Download >> Manager". Main problem is that one needs a bootable floopy >> drive and "the other OS" to create a bootable floppy. It would >> be great if IBM could provide flopp

Kernel BUG at objrmap:325 in 2.6.5-7.151-smp (SuSE, x86_64)

2005-07-13 Thread Christian Boehme
We often see the following kernel-bug in our logs: kernel: Kernel BUG at objrmap:325 kernel: invalid operand: [1] SMP kernel: CPU 0 kernel: Pid: 4752, comm: mhd3d.opteron Tainted: G U (2.6.5-7.151-smp SLES9_SP1_BRANCH-20050318113121) kernel: RIP: 0010:[] {page_add_rmap+334} kernel: RSP

Re: Kernel BUG at objrmap:325 in 2.6.5-7.151-smp (SuSE, x86_64)

2005-07-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 11:07 +0200, Christian Boehme wrote: > We often see the following kernel-bug in our logs: you really should call SuSE support for this... after all that's what you're paying them for ;) > > kernel: Kernel BUG at objrmap:325 > kernel: invalid operand: [1] SMP > kernel:

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm2

2005-07-13 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
> What's your device-mapper/lvm configuration and what 'lvm' command > did you run to trigger this? Nothing special... it happens while booting Fedora Core 4. > 'dmsetup info -c' > 'dmsetup table' > 'lvs --segments -o+devices -a' # cat /etc/fstab /dev/VolGroup00/Root/

Re: Kernel BUG at objrmap:325 in 2.6.5-7.151-smp (SuSE, x86_64)

2005-07-13 Thread Christian Boehme
Arjan van de Ven schrieb: you really should call SuSE support for this... after all that's what you're paying them for ;) We use SLES because it is a requiremnet for getting support for some vendor-supplied MPI-libraries... but you are of course still right. I file a bug report to them as well.

Re: Kernel BUG at objrmap:325 in 2.6.5-7.151-smp (SuSE, x86_64)

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
> We often see the following kernel-bug in our logs: > kernel: Process mhd3d.opteron (pid: 4752, threadinfo 0103e68d4000, > kernel: task 0101fb6e8c40) > kernel: Stack: 0246 801740db 0103e5028800 > kernel: 010231caf010 > kernel: 0001 0101fb0d9d90

Re: Kernel BUG at objrmap:325 in 2.6.5-7.151-smp (SuSE, x86_64)

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> not cited in the bug) is inaccessible. Thanks for any help >> with this issue! >Welche Fehlernummer? Mal mit root probiert, reinzukommen? - 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: SSH/RSH Support for 2.6.12-2

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>However, I keep getting "Permission Denied", and >from the /var/log/message it seems that the kernel has some security >enabled that prevents outside communications. Any help in regard to >this issue would be appreciated? Check the OUTPUT chain of your firewall, maybe. Cheers, Jan Engelhardt

Re: Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>however, the firmware update did not solve the 'head not park' >issue. :-( > >sudo ./park /dev/hda >head not parked 4c Head parking while the system running is almost useless, since sooner or later, someone's going to write/read something. If you want head parking at shutdown, I suggest using h

Re: system.map

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>After compiling new kernel, it doesn`t load System.map file. In kernel >messages I can find: > >Jul 11 12:18:48 localhost kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map >Jul 11 12:18:48 localhost kernel: Loaded 28063 symbols from /boot/System.map. >Jul 11 12:18:48 localhost kernel: Symbols match kernel ver

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk

2005-07-13 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Head parking while the system running is almost useless, since sooner or > later, someone's going to write/read something. Correct, that's why we're discussing to freeze the request queue as well. > If you want head parking

Re: fdisk: What do plus signs after "Blocks" mean?

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
> Guys, thanks a lot for the explanations! > > Actually, it seems like one can backup information on ALL partitions >by using the command "sfdisk -dx /dev/hdX". Supposedly, it reads not >only primary but also extended partitions. "sfdisk -x /dev/hdX" should >be then able to write whatever is known

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-13 Thread karsten wiese
--- Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > hm, -28 is broken, and your patch is the only significant > change: > > - Forwarded message from Chuck Harding > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:01:04 -0700 (PDT) > From: Chuck Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Linux

Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH 21/82] remove linux/version.h from drivers/media/

2005-07-13 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 07:35:29PM +, Olaf Hering wrote: > > changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no appearent reason. > > remove code for obsolete kernels, drivers/media/video/bttvp.h has: > #define BTTV_VERSION_CODE KERNEL_VERSION(0,9,15) > > Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <[EMA

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>OK, what level causes Midi stuttering to stop then, under some fairly >reasonable load? Of course ... if we set HZ to 10, we'll get higher >res still ... the question is how high it *needs* to be ;-) No, some kernel code causes a triple-fault-and-reboot when the HZ is >= 10KHz. Maybe the hig

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Chuck Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > CC [M] sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.o > >sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error: syntax error before '__attribute__' > >sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error: syntax error before ')' token > > > >Here's the offending line: > > > > 48 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(mid

RE: [BUG] Fusion MPT Base Driver initialization failure with kdum p

2005-07-13 Thread Bharata B Rao
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 12:15 -0600, Moore, Eric Dean wrote: > I've seen the report. I need more info from Bharata on how > to reproduce. Perhaps you can send me email offline which > provides specific instructions to how to configure kdump, > how to capture the dump, and what you did to crash your s

Re: system.map

2005-07-13 Thread Jacek Jabłoński
Dnia środa, 13 lipca 2005 12:44, napisałeś: > In standard distribution kernel (2.4), it loaded some symblos: > Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.27-2-k7 > Jul 6 09:32:37 localhost kernel: Loaded 17895 symbols > from /boot/System.map-2.4 > .27-2-k7. > Jul 6 09:32:37 localhost kernel: Symbols match k

Real-Time Preemption Patch -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.51-28 fails to compile on x86 64

2005-07-13 Thread Steve Wooding
Hi, I've been trying to get the latest RT preempt patch to compile on the x86_64 platform. Previous posts have helped me get passed the errors I've encountered, but I've just come up against a new one. I'm using the config that I have previously posted, except now I have CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT set ins

Current kexec status?

2005-07-13 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
I want to experiment with kexec and my 2.6.13-rc3 kernel. I'm able to --load the kernel, but on --exec in /etc/init.d/reboot (I replaced the reboot command in there), the machine freezes. I'm using kexec-tools-1.101, are there any more patches needed? -- Ralf Hildebrandt (i.A. des IT-Zentrums)

Re: [patch 2.6.13-git] 8250 tweaks

2005-07-13 Thread Sam Song
Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, if you merely lifted the later 8250.c and > put it into a previous kernel (which looks like the > case), there's other changes in addition which are > required. Good catch. I tried 2.6.13-rc1 and the newest version 2.6.13-rc3 on the same target[

Re: system.map

2005-07-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:21 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >After compiling new kernel, it doesn`t load System.map file. In kernel > >messages I can find: > > > >Jul 11 12:18:48 localhost kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map > >Jul 11 12:18:48 localhost kernel: Loaded 28063 symbols from /boot/Syste

[PATCH] Amiga joystick typo (was: Re: Input: fix open/close races in joystick drivers - add a semaphore)

2005-07-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > tree 11d80109ddc2f61de6a75a37941346100a67a0d1 > parent af246041277674854383cf91b8f0b01217b521e8 > author Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 29 May 2005 12:29:52 -0500 > committer Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 29 May 2005 12:29

Re: Runtime fix for intermodule.c

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> since the symbol inter_module_get cannot be resolved, >> applying this patch will make those modules work again. > >There's a reason you shouldn't use it, and because of that it's >not exported. Oh BTW, while we're at it: With what should I replace inter_module_get? I'm maintaining an "ancient

Re: Linux v2.6.13-rc3

2005-07-13 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Wednesday, 13 of July 2005 07:05, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Yes, > it's _really_ -rc3 this time, never mind the confusion with the commit > message last time (when the Makefile clearly said -rc2, but my over-eager > fingers had typed in a commit message saying -rc3). > > There's a bit

Re: Swap partition vs swap file

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> Linux doesn't grow swapfiles at all. It uses what's there at mkswap time. >> You can make new ones of course - manually. > >And this part. I've never known linux to grow the swap file. I did try the >sparse one a long time ago. Of course it didn't work. I can't remember where exactly I read

Re: system.map

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> >Jul 11 12:18:48 localhost kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map >> >Jul 11 12:18:48 localhost kernel: Loaded 28063 symbols from >> >/boot/System.map. >> >Jul 11 12:18:48 localhost kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.12. >> >Jul 11 12:18:48 localhost kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> Head parking while the system running is almost useless, since sooner or >> later, someone's going to write/read something. > >Correct, that's why we're discussing to freeze the request queue as well. Sounds good (esp. for laptops/notebooks, which should preferably run "on RAM" as long as po

Re: [BUG] Fusion MPT Base Driver initialization failure with kdum p

2005-07-13 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:05:03PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 12:15 -0600, Moore, Eric Dean wrote: > > I've seen the report. I need more info from Bharata on how > > to reproduce. Perhaps you can send me email offline which > > provides specific instructions to how to confi

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-13 Thread szonyi calin
--- Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Interbench - The Linux Interactivity Benchmark v0.20 > > http://interbench.kolivas.org > > direct download link: > http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/interbench/interbench-0.20.tar.bz2 > > [snip] > Audio: > Audio is simulated as a thread that tri

Re: system.map

2005-07-13 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:04:38PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> >Jul 11 12:18:48 localhost kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map > >> >Jul 11 12:18:48 localhost kernel: Loaded 28063 symbols from > >> >/boot/System.map. > >> >Jul 11 12:18:48 localhost kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.12.

Re: system.map

2005-07-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:04 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> >Jul 11 12:18:48 localhost kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map > >> >Jul 11 12:18:48 localhost kernel: Loaded 28063 symbols from > >> >/boot/System.map. > >> >Jul 11 12:18:48 localhost kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.12. > >> >

Re: Runtime fix for intermodule.c

2005-07-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:56 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> since the symbol inter_module_get cannot be resolved, > >> applying this patch will make those modules work again. > > > >There's a reason you shouldn't use it, and because of that it's > >not exported. > > Oh BTW, while we're at it: Wi

Re: SysKonnect ethernet support for Asus A8VE Deluxe Motherboard?

2005-07-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Hamish Marson wrote: > I just installed Gentoo distribution on a new PC for a friend who's > new to Linux, and discovered that although SysKonnect kindly provide > full source code drivers for their various products on their website, > that even the latest released kernel sources (i.e. 2.6.12) stil

Re: dependency bug in gconfig?

2005-07-13 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, randy_dunlap wrote: > This appears to be a dependency bug in gconfig to me. > > If I enable NETCONSOLE to y, NETPOLL becomes y. (OK) > If I then disable NETCONSOLE to n, NETPOLL remains y. > > If I enable NETCONSOLE to m, NETPOLL remains n. Why is that? > > config NE

Re: SysKonnect ethernet support for Asus A8VE Deluxe Motherboard?

2005-07-13 Thread Mws
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 13:51, you wrote: > Hamish Marson wrote: > > I just installed Gentoo distribution on a new PC for a friend who's > > new to Linux, and discovered that although SysKonnect kindly provide > > full source code drivers for their various products on their website, > > that even

Re: fdisk: What do plus signs after "Blocks" mean?

2005-07-13 Thread DervishD
Hi Horst :) * Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's a good idea to have a copy of the partition table around, if > > it is not simple (the one you had is NOT simple). > Be careful. What you'll get out of backing up the partition table is

Re: fdisk: What do plus signs after "Blocks" mean?

2005-07-13 Thread DervishD
Hi Konstantin :) * Konstantin Kudin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > Actually, it seems like one can backup information on ALL partitions > by using the command "sfdisk -dx /dev/hdX". Supposedly, it reads not > only primary but also extended partitions. "sfdisk -x /dev/hdX" should > be then able

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 06:39, Ingo Molnar wrote: >* Chuck Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > CC [M] sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.o >> >sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error: syntax error before >> > '__attribute__' sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error: syntax error >> > before ')' token >> > >> >Here

Re: Current kexec status?

2005-07-13 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:48:49PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > I want to experiment with kexec and my 2.6.13-rc3 kernel. I'm able to > --load the kernel, but on --exec in /etc/init.d/reboot (I replaced the > reboot command in there), the machine freezes. Can you give more details like - Which

Re: Linux v2.6.13-rc3

2005-07-13 Thread Andi Kleen
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, > it's _really_ -rc3 this time, never mind the confusion with the commit > message last time (when the Makefile clearly said -rc2, but my over-eager > fingers had typed in a commit message saying -rc3). > > There's a bit more changes here than

Re: Current kexec status?

2005-07-13 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can you give more details like > - Which distro release you are running. Debian unstable; since it has no kexec-tools, I built those from source. > - Exactly what changes did you do to /etc/init.d/reboot and what steps > did you follow to load the kernel (com

Re: synaptics touchpad not recognized by Xorg X server with recent -mm kernels

2005-07-13 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mit, 13 Jul 2005, Peter Osterlund wrote: > Looks correct. My guess is that something is wrong with your device > nodes. What's the output from "ls -l /dev/input/event*"? Bingo. THere was no event0 and event1, although the evdev module was loaded! I had to unload evdev and reload it again to ge

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-13 Thread Tomasz Kłoczko
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Vara Prasad wrote: Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Tom Zanussi wrote: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tomasz_K=B3oczko?= writes: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Tom Zanussi wrote: [...] > > OK .. "so you can say better is stop flushing buffers on measure which > wil take day or more"

[PATCH] tpm: Support for Infineon TPM

2005-07-13 Thread Marcel Selhorst
Hello LKML, after further iterations with reviews and corrections, here is a fresh patch for the Infineon Trusted Platform Module SLD 9630 (TPM 1.1b). Best Regards, Marcel Selhorst Signed-off-by: Marcel Selhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff -pruN linux-2.6.13-rc2-mm2/drivers/char/tpm/Kconfig l

Re: Current kexec status?

2005-07-13 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Nope, no booting. I get one line of output which I don't remember; > I'll have to retry. Retried: "Starting new kernel" -- and that's it! -- Ralf Hildebrandt (i.A. des IT-Zentrums) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Re: [patch 2.6.13-git] 8250 tweaks

2005-07-13 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 03:51:26AM -0700, Sam Song wrote: > Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, if you merely lifted the later 8250.c and > > put it into a previous kernel (which looks like the > > case), there's other changes in addition which are > > required. > > Good catch.

Oprofile: patch for Call-graph on AMD64

2005-07-13 Thread li nux
Is oprofile patch available for call-graph support on AMD64 ? http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/patches/ has only for IA64 and x86. What is the status of progress on AMD64 with respect to this. Thanks. __ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk

2005-07-13 Thread Paul Slootman
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What's the gain in parking the head manually if it's done anyway when the disk >spins down (for whatever reason)? It seems you're completely missing the whole point of this discussion, which was how to implement the hard disk active protection system

Re: [stable] [patch 1/1] uml: fix TT mode by reverting "use fork instead of clone"

2005-07-13 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 20:50, Chris Wright wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Revert the following patch, because of miscompilation problems in > > different environments leading to UML not working *at all* in TT mode; it > > was merged lately in 2.6 development cycle, a l

[PATCH] fix subarchitecture EXPORT_SYMBOL breakage caused by i386_ksym reduction

2005-07-13 Thread James Bottomley
This patch: [PATCH] Remove i386_ksyms.c, almost made files like smp.c do their own EXPORT_SYMBOLS. This means that all subarchitectures that override these symbols now have to do the exports themselves. This patch adds the exports for voyager (which is the most affected since it has a separate

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-13 Thread Tomasz Kłoczko
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Vara Prasad wrote: [..] O.K, Tomasz your point is we can do aggregation in the kernel and cut down the amount of data that needs to be sent out from the kernel hence we don't need an efficient, low overhead mechanism like relayfs to get the data out of the kernel. Having re

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-13 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Chuck Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CC [M] sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.o sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error: syntax error before '__attribute__' sound/oss/emu10k1/midi.c:48: error: syntax error before ')' token Here's the offending line: 48 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(midi_

Re: [PATCH] Amiga joystick typo (was: Re: Input: fix open/close races in joystick drivers - add a semaphore)

2005-07-13 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 7/13/05, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > tree 11d80109ddc2f61de6a75a37941346100a67a0d1 > > parent af246041277674854383cf91b8f0b01217b521e8 > > author Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 29 May 2005 12:29:52 -0500 > >

Re: Linux v2.6.13-rc3

2005-07-13 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 7/13/05, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dmitry Torokhov: > [ACPI] Enable EC Burst Mode > Ugh, this one is not really mine. Luming did all the work. -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Attempted summary of "RT patch acceptance" thread, take 2

2005-07-13 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:25:28AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 10:19 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > OK, interesting point, though this would apply only to interrupt latency, > > not to scheduling latency or to latency for any other system services, > > right? > > Onl

2.6.12: yukon2 nics still not supported...

2005-07-13 Thread Ludovic Drolez
Hi ! I recently had to boot a brand new system using a Marvel Yukon2 NIC (sk98lin) driver which is not supported by the latest kernel (pci ids = 11ab:4361). So I compiled the GPLed driver available from Syskonnect, http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/d0102_driver.html, which

[git pull] jfs update

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Linus, please pull from rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6.git/HEAD-for-linus This will update the following files: fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c| 298 +--- fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c | 199 - fs/jfs/jfs_dtree

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ours links to a company server with a consumer grade 1Mbit ADSL > connection, and transferring just about anything at 110K/s causes the > kernel to crash within about 10 seconds. > > I wish you the best of luck with getting this going, and

Re: OOPS in 2.6.13-rc1-mm1 -- EIP is at sysfs_release+0x49/0xb0

2005-07-13 Thread Miles Lane
On 7/13/05, Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Dave, > > > > I switched to the i915 kernel driver and still got the OOPS. > > I also continue to get the overlapping mtrr message. I am currently > > testing 2.6.13-rc2-git3. I have tried to run strace with hald, but > > cannot reprod

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-13 Thread Vara Prasad
Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Vara Prasad wrote: Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Tom Zanussi wrote: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tomasz_K=B3oczko?= writes: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Tom Zanussi wrote: [...] > > OK .. "so you can say better is stop flushing buffers on measure which

Re: [PATCH] Kbuild-Packaging: Create tarballs

2005-07-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:27:37AM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > Hi Sam! > > I propose this patch for ./scripts/packag/ . It adds tarball packaging, > which I prefer for distribution. Also one of the two blanks after @echo > is removed. One seems to be enough :) Applied after fixing MIME dam

2.6.13-rc2-mm2 -- include/linux/mtd/xip.h:68:25: error: asm/mtd-xip.h: No such file or directory

2005-07-13 Thread Miles Lane
In file included from drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c:18: include/linux/mtd/xip.h:68:25: error: asm/mtd-xip.h: No such file or directory - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.o

Re: 2.6.5 io scheduler problem? (cfq/deadline/noop)

2005-07-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:55:16PM +0200, Antonio Larrosa Jim?nez wrote: > I'm using a SLES 9 system (kernel 2.6.5) which enables the cfq scheduler by > default (I checked that it's really using cfq). If you're having SLES9 problems please call Novell tech support. - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it worked upon the first try, and indeed my testbox crashed within 10 > seconds: > > BUG: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference > BUG: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address > 0006 a couple of crashes lat

Re: Linux On-Demand Network Access (LODNA)

2005-07-13 Thread Peter Staubach
Vlad C. wrote: --- Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please treat at greater length how your proposal differs from NFS. I think NFS is not flexible enough because: 1) NFS requires synchronization of passwd files or NIS/LDAP to authenticate users (which themselves require root ac

Re: [PATCH 22/82] remove linux/version.h from drivers/message/fus ion

2005-07-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> In general, this construct: > > > > -#if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,6)) > > > -static int inline scsi_device_online(struct scsi_device *sdev) > > > -{ > > > - return sdev->online; > > > -} > > > -#endif > > is better tested as: > > #ifndef scsi_device_inline > static int inline s

RE: [PATCH 22/82] remove linux/version.h from drivers/message/fus ion

2005-07-13 Thread Moore, Eric Dean
On Wednesday, July 13, 2005 8:38 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > In general, this construct: > > > > > > -#if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,6)) > > > > -static int inline scsi_device_online(struct scsi_device *sdev) > > > > -{ > > > > - return sdev->online; > > > > -} > > > >

Re: [PATCH] modpost needs to cope with new glibc elf header on sparc (resend - my MTA did eat the previous one apparently)

2005-07-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> Hi everybody, > recently a change in the glibc elf.h header has been introduced causing > modpost to spawn tons of warnings (like the one below) building the kernel on > sparc: > Applied. You need to reread SubmittingPatches: > diff -urNad --exclude=CVS --exclude=.svn ./scripts/mod/modpost.c

Re: XFS corruption on move from xscale to i686

2005-07-13 Thread Yura Pakhuchiy
2005/7/8, Nathan Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:15:52PM +0300, Yura Pakhuchiy wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm creadted XFS volume on 2.6.10 linux xscale/iq31244 box, then I > > copyied files on it and moved this hard drive to i686 machine. When I > > mounted it on i686, I found

Re: CONFIG_ALPHA_GENERIC problem with gcc-4.1

2005-07-13 Thread Dan Kegel
Dan Kegel wrote: I've been doing builds of linux-2.6.11 as a sanity check for new versions of gcc, and a problem just popped up in arch/alpha/Makefile (see http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-07/msg00397.html) Never mind. rth kindly explained to me that it's a gcc or binutils problem. The alpha ke

Re: [PATCH] Kbuild-Packaging: Create tarballs

2005-07-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:09:31PM +, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:27:37AM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > Hi Sam! > > > > I propose this patch for ./scripts/packag/ . It adds tarball packaging, > > which I prefer for distribution. Also one of the two blanks after @ech

Re: PREEMPT/PREEMPT_RT question

2005-07-13 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:54:50PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 18:46 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > If you are talking about scheduler_tick, then yes, it is called by the > > > timer interrupt which is a SA_NODELAY interrupt. If you don't want to > > > get interru

[PATCH] MMC host class

2005-07-13 Thread Pierre Ossman
Create a mmc_host class to allow enumeration of MMC host controllers even though they have no card(s) inserted. Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (This will also allow cards to be enumerated by being able to find the hosts.) Index: linux-wbsd/drivers/mmc/mmc.h =

[PATCH] Lindent: ignore .indent.pro

2005-07-13 Thread Jeff Mahoney
When I recently submitted a Lindent patch, it turned out that my .indent.pro options were also applied to the tree. This patch directs indent(1) to ignore the .indent.pro directives and only use options specified on the command line. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruNp

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 02:23:08PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Because some machines exhibit appreciable latency in entering low power state via ACPI, and 1000Hz reduces their battery life. By about half, iirc. Then the owners of such machines can use HZ=250 and leave the de

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-13 Thread Vara Prasad
Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Vara Prasad wrote: [..] [..] If I can suggest something about order prepare some feactures: 1) prepare base infrastructure for counters, this "tool" will take very small amount of data and can be performad by very small pieces of binary codes. Eve

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-13 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > *NOT using realyfs* if it is not neccessary for possibly big amout > of feactures future KProbes IMO in this case is *fundamental*. > > To time where this base not requiring relayfs feactures will not be > integrated in kernel code better IMO will be stop merging relayfs.

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-13 Thread Tomasz Kłoczko
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Vara Prasad wrote: [..] O.K, looks like you are agreeing that we need a buffering mechanism in the kernel to implement speculative tracing, right. Each agregator have own data. This data are buffered .. In this sense: yes, it infrastructure for allocate, deallocate, copy ..

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 08:57:06AM -0700, George Anzinger wrote: The PIT crystal runs at 14.3181818 MHz (CGA dotclock, found on ISA, ...) and is divided by 12 to get PIT tick rate 14.3181818 MHz / 12 = 1193182 Hz Yes, but the current code uses 1193180. Wonder

Re: realtime-preempt + reiser4?

2005-07-13 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 19:37 -0400, Keenan Pepper wrote: I naively changed these two calls from init_MUTEX_LOCKED(&name); to init_MUTEX(&name); down(&name); but I'm not sure if that's right. I guess I'll see when I try to boot it! No, since it probably wont b

RE: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Userspace accelerometer viewer)

2005-07-13 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > > PLEASE read the following article, it has the data of a guy > that made a > > driver in IBM for Linux and he described the driver he made. > > http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/marksmith/tpaps.html > > Yesterday evening, I used my time here

Re: [PATCH] Amiga joystick typo (was: Re: Input: fix open/close races in joystick drivers - add a semaphore)

2005-07-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 7/13/05, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > > tree 11d80109ddc2f61de6a75a37941346100a67a0d1 > > > parent af246041277674854383cf91b8f0b01217b521e8 > > > author Dmitry Torokhov <[

Open source firewalls

2005-07-13 Thread Vinay Venkataraghavan
Hello, I have implemented an bare bones Intrusion detection system that currently detects scans like open, bouce, half open etc and a host of other tcp scans. I would like to develop this into a full blown IDS which is capable of detecting buffer overflow attacks, sql injection etc. I know how

[patch 1/3] inotify: move sysctl

2005-07-13 Thread Robert Love
Linus, Attached patch moves the inotify sysctl knobs to "/proc/sys/fs/inotify" from "/proc/sys/fs". Also some related cleanup. Patch is against current git tree. Please, apply. Robert Love Signed-off-by: Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fs/inotify.c | 49

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

2005-07-13 Thread serue
Quoting Stephen Smalley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > These hooks pose a similar problem for stacking as with the > [gs]etprocattr hooks, although [gs]etsecurity have the benefit of > already taking a distinguishing name suffix (the part after the > security. prefix). Note also that inode_getsecurity ret

[patch 2/3] inotify: event ordering

2005-07-13 Thread Robert Love
Linus, Attached patch rearranges the event ordering for "open" to be consistent with the ordering of the other events. Patch is against current git tree. Please, apply. Robert Love Signed-off-by: Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> include/linux/fsnotify.h |2 +- 1 files changed, 1

ACPI processor C-state regression in 2.6.13-rc3?

2005-07-13 Thread Kevin Radloff
With the ACPI merge in 2.6.13-rc3, C2 and C3 processor states are no longer detected/enabled on my Fujitsu Lifebook P7010D. Enabling ACPI debugging doesn't result in any extra info about this being reported. I assume it's related to the changes to enable C2/3 on SMP.. Please CC me with any followu

Re: RT and XFS

2005-07-13 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 08:47 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > downgrade_write() wasnt the main problem - the main problem was that for > PREEMPT_RT i implemented 'strict' semaphores, which are not identical to > vanilla kernel semaphores. The thing that seemed to impact XFS the most > is the 'acqui

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