usb camera failing in 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Con Kolivas
A digital camera which was working fine in 2.6.11/12 now fails on 2.6.13-rc6 (not sure when it started failing). All the messages seem to indicate that it's working but the digikam application now says it fails to initialise the camera. The relevant info from dmesg says: usb 3-1: new full speed

Re: Problem with usb-storage and /dev/sd?

2005-08-14 Thread DervishD
Hi Pete :) * Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > > A global unique ID won't work out to make all USB mass storage devices > > appear under a common mountpoint, especially if it is recreated while > > "formating" it. > That is correct, but not what Dervish wanted. He wanted to mount them

Re: usb camera failing in 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:12:06 +1000, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A digital camera which was working fine in 2.6.11/12 now fails on 2.6.13-rc6 > (not sure when it started failing). Does it continue to work on an older kernel? I saw a USB device breaking right in the moment of reboot i

Re: [PATCH] configurable debug info from radeonfb old driver

2005-08-14 Thread Andrew Morton
Michael Iatrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Currently, radeonfb old driver always prints debugging informations. This > patch makes debug info reporting configurable. > > > diff -urN linux-2.6.13-rc6/drivers/video/Kconfig > linux-2.6.13-rc6.new/drivers/video/Kconfig > --- linux-2.6.

oops in 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Leopold Gouverneur
Yesterday, I tried to record a TV program using mencoder as a "at" job. When I came back the machine was dead (screen blank, keyboard not responding). Needed hard reset to reboot. I found this in the log ( the system was not completly dead since cron continued to write ): Aug 13 21:15:10 localhost

Re: usb camera failing in 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:00, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:12:06 +1000, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A digital camera which was working fine in 2.6.11/12 now fails on > > 2.6.13-rc6 (not sure when it started failing). > > Does it continue to work on an older kernel? I saw

Re: [PATCH] Watchdog device node name unification

2005-08-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 02:22:41AM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 01:43 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 14, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Please don't. misdevice.name is a description of the device, and doesn't > > > have any relation with the name of the de

Re: [PATCH] Watchdog device node name unification

2005-08-14 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sat, Aug 13, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 01:43:22AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > It is used for /class/misc/$name/dev > > Ick. I would almost suggest we change that were it not too late. I > think keeping the decription is useful and desirable. Where is the descript

Re: [PATCH] Watchdog device node name unification

2005-08-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 11:03:24AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 01:43:22AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > > > It is used for /class/misc/$name/dev > > > > Ick. I would almost suggest we change that were it not too late. I > >

Re: Problem with usb-storage and /dev/sd?

2005-08-14 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Raul, On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 09:32:57AM +0200, DervishD wrote: > Hi Pete :) > > * Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > > > A global unique ID won't work out to make all USB mass storage devices > > > appear under a common mountpoint, especially if it is recreated while > > > "format

Resolved?: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-14 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:43:31 +1000, Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, Problem was dataloss on extracting kernel source, sometimes only one character changed. Details on http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/test/boxen/sempro/ Not the NIC, not reiserfs, not the kernel config, not even t

[RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

2005-08-14 Thread Hiro Yoshioka
Hi, The following is a patch to reduce a cache pollution of __copy_from_user_ll(). When I run simple iozone benchmark to find a performance bottleneck of the linux kernel, I found that __copy_from_user_ll() spent CPU cycle most and it did many cache misses. The following is profiled by oprofile.

Re: recursive dnotify

2005-08-14 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fabian LoneStar Frédérick wrote: > Hi, > > Do we have recursive dnotification facility in current kernel ? > > (cc me please). > > Best regards, > Fabian > google inotify - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel

[PATCH 1/2] consolidate sys_ptrace

2005-08-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
The sys_ptrace boilerplate code (everything outside the big switch statement for the arch-specific requests) is shared by most architectures. This patch moves it to kernel/ptrace.c and leaves the arch-specific code as arch_ptrace. Some architectures have a too different ptrace or aren't quite rea

[PATCH 2/2] use ptrace_get_task_struct in all ptrace implementations

2005-08-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
As part of my previous sys_ptrace consolidation I introduce a ptrace_get_task_struct helper, that gets a reference to the taskstruct for a given pid, after doing all the ptrace attach checks. This pathces makes all but a few ptrace and compat_ptrace implementations use it. The implementations not

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

2005-08-14 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 18:16 +0900, Hiro Yoshioka wrote: > Hi, > > The following is a patch to reduce a cache pollution > of __copy_from_user_ll(). > > When I run simple iozone benchmark to find a performance bottleneck of > the linux kernel, I found that __copy_from_user_ll() spent CPU cycle > mo

Re: [PATCH] configurable debug info from radeonfb old driver

2005-08-14 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Sunday 14 August 2005 11:25, Andrew Morton wrote: > Michael Iatrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Currently, radeonfb old driver always prints debugging informations. This > > patch makes debug info reporting configurable. > > > > > > diff -urN linux-2.6.13-r

2.6.13-rcX really this bad ?

2005-08-14 Thread Danny ter Haar
I've posted a couple of times than my newsserver is not stable with any 2.6.13-rcX kernels. Last kernel that survived is 2.6.12-mm1 (18+days) Of course i can just stick with that kernel, but i thought it would be wise to live on the edge and run a reasonable loaded server with the latest/greatest.

Re: Opening of blocking FIFOs not reliable?

2005-08-14 Thread Manfred Spraul
Teemu wrote: Opening a FIFO for WR_ONLY should release a previously blocked RD_ONLY open. I suspect this is not guaranteed on a heavily loaded Linux box. Do you have a test case? IIRC we had that bug, and it was fixed by adding PIPE_WCOUNTER: PIPE_WRITERS counts the number of writers. This o

Question regarding HPET the 2.6 series kernel.

2005-08-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
[*] HPET Timer Support [*] Provide RTC interrupt [*] HPET - High Precision Event Timer [*] Allow mmap of HPET http://tlug.up.ac.za/guides/lkcg/arch_i386.html HPET Timer Support HPET_TIMER This enables the use of the HPET for the kernel's internal timer. HPET is the next generation ti

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

2005-08-14 Thread Hiro Yoshioka
Thanks for your comments. On 8/14/05, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 18:16 +0900, Hiro Yoshioka wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The following is a patch to reduce a cache pollution > > of __copy_from_user_ll(). > > > > When I run simple iozone benchmark to find a perfor

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Daniel Drake
CaT wrote: 1. Alan Cox's IDE driver that was included in his ac patchset, which seems to have died at 2.6.11ac7. 2. A brief visit from a SCSI IDE driver in Andrew Mortons mm patchset. It lived a brief but noted life before being taken out without any reason (that I spotted) in 2.6.12-rc4

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

2005-08-14 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 19:22 +0900, Hiro Yoshioka wrote: > Thanks for your comments. > > On 8/14/05, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 18:16 +0900, Hiro Yoshioka wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > The following is a patch to reduce a cache pollution > > > of __copy_fro

Re: Opening of blocking FIFOs not reliable?

2005-08-14 Thread Teemu Koponen
On Aug 14, 2005, at 3:15, Manfred Spraul wrote: Opening a FIFO for WR_ONLY should release a previously blocked RD_ONLY open. I suspect this is not guaranteed on a heavily loaded Linux box. Do you have a test case? IIRC we had that bug, and it was fixed by adding PIPE_WCOUNTER: PIPE_WRITERS c

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Lee Revell wrote: > My point exactly, it's idiotic for Perl6 to use these as OPERATORS, the > atoms of the language, when there's not even a platform independent way > to type them in. I anyone had bothered to read the URL in one of the earlier emails you would have seen that '<<' is an

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

2005-08-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> the problem is that the pay elsewhere is far more spread out, but not > less. At least generally > > I can see the point of a copy_from_user_nocache() or something, for > those cases where we *know* we are not going to use the copied data in > the cpu (but say, only do DMA). > But that shoul

Wired linker problem...

2005-08-14 Thread Jan Schiefer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is not linux kernel related, but at least it's kernel releated. So I think u're the experts, that can help me. :) I'm coding a little kernel in C and ASM and I use only GCC + NASM for coding. GRUB loads my little kernel. Everything goes well, b

[2.6 patch] schedule OSS USB drivers for removal

2005-08-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 03:58:48PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 19:49 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:13:51PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALS

Re: [PATCH] Fix PPC signal handling of NODEFER, should not affect sa_mask

2005-08-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/12/05, Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 21:31 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > > > I've got a 4-way pSeries p550 running AIX 5.3 here : > > > > $ uname -s -M -p -v -r > > AIX 3 5 powerpc IBM,9113-550 > > > > Output from your program : > > > > $ ./a.out > > Un

Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi Dave, On 8/14/05, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed this week whilst trying to encode a bunch > of audio CDs to oggs that my boxes running the latest > kernels are having serious issues, whereas 2.6.12 seems > to cope just fine. > > The symptoms vary. On some of my machines

Re: 2.6.13-rcX really this bad ?

2005-08-14 Thread Alexander Nyberg
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 10:10:18AM + Danny ter Haar wrote: > I've posted a couple of times than my newsserver is not stable > with any 2.6.13-rcX kernels. > Last kernel that survived is 2.6.12-mm1 (18+days) > Of course i can just stick with that kernel, but i thought it would > be wise to live

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread CaT
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:08:42PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > CaT wrote: > >1. Alan Cox's IDE driver that was included in his ac patchset, which > > seems to have died at 2.6.11ac7. > >2. A brief visit from a SCSI IDE driver in Andrew Mortons mm patchset. > > It lived a brief but noted life b

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Daniel Drake
CaT wrote: 1. Alan Cox's IDE driver that was included in his ac patchset, which seems to have died at 2.6.11ac7. Alan's driver has been merged into 2.6.13. You can get the up-to-date Wooo! patches here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches/trunk/2.6.12/2315_ide

Re: BSD jail

2005-08-14 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Joshua Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Why would you want a virtual network device implementation? The whole So that a jailed process can use the net but can't use your network address (intercept ssh, imap/stunnel, etc). > I do like the idea of patching in through LSM, however not everythin

Re: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-14 Thread Roger Luethi
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ > #define APC_BPORT_REG 0x30 > > #define APC_REGMASK0x01 > -define APC_BPMASK 0x03 > +#define APC_BPMASK 0x03 Color me skeptical. I've seen some weird bit flips and data corruption; "paramters" to "paramEters" I could buy. But data corru

Re: [PATCH] Convert sigaction to act like other unices

2005-08-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/13/05, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:00:14AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 14:39 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:40:02PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wroqte: > > > > Here's a patch that converts all architectures

Re: 2.6.13-rcX really this bad ?

2005-08-14 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 01:43:18PM +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 10:10:18AM + Danny ter Haar wrote: > > I've posted a couple of times than my newsserver is not stable > > with any 2.6.13-rcX kernels. > > Last kernel that survived is 2.6.12-mm1 (18+days) > Is the mach

Changing thread_info->task, does it harm?

2005-08-14 Thread Samer Sarhan
Hi, I had a design problem of a Linux module (Linux 2.6.11) that lead me to do this: int work_fn(void* data); task_t my_task; task_t* kthread = kthread_create(work_fn, NULL, "Task 1"); // assume kthread create was successfully... my_task = *kthread; // change what current maceo points to... kthrea

2.6.13-rc5-mm1: BUG: rwlock recursion on CPU#0

2005-08-14 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, I've got the following BUG on Asus L5D (x86-64) with the 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 kernel: BUG: rwlock recursion on CPU#0, nscd/3668, 8817d4a0 Call Trace:{add_preempt_count+105} {rwlock_bug+114} {_raw_write_lock+62} {_write_lock_bh+40} {:ip_conntrack:destroy_conntrack+196}

[PATCH] mmc: Multi-sector writes

2005-08-14 Thread Pierre Ossman
Adds support for writing multiple sectors at once. This allows back-to-back transfers of sectors giving roughly double write throughput. To be able to detect which sector is causing problems the system falls back to single sector writes if a failure is detected. Tested by several people with no s

Re: Changing thread_info->task, does it harm?

2005-08-14 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 15:41 +0300, Samer Sarhan wrote: > Hi, > I had a design problem of a Linux module (Linux 2.6.11) that lead me to do > this: > > int work_fn(void* data); > task_t my_task; > task_t* kthread = kthread_create(work_fn, NULL, "Task 1"); > // assume kthread create was successfully

Re: Changing thread_info->task, does it harm?

2005-08-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 03:41:49PM +0300, Samer Sarhan wrote: > Hi, > I had a design problem of a Linux module (Linux 2.6.11) that lead me to do > this: > > int work_fn(void* data); > task_t my_task; > task_t* kthread = kthread_create(work_fn, NULL, "Task 1"); > // assume kthread create was succe

[PATCH 2.4] (0/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Marcelo, I have a total of 5 patches with minor fixes to the Linux 2.4 i2c subsystem and documentation. These fixes I gathered for the past few months as they were applied to the Linux 2.6 tree and to the i2c CVS repository. Individual patches will be posted in reply to this post, with explana

Re: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1: BUG: rwlock recursion on CPU#0

2005-08-14 Thread Patrick McHardy
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > I've got the following BUG on Asus L5D (x86-64) with the 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 > kernel: > > BUG: rwlock recursion on CPU#0, nscd/3668, 8817d4a0 > > Call Trace:{add_preempt_count+105} > {rwlock_bug+114} >{_raw_write_lock+62} > {_write_lock_bh+40} >{:

RE: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

2005-08-14 Thread Willem Riede
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:54:35 +, Allen Martin wrote: > Likely the only way nForce4 NCQ support could be added under Linux would > be with a closed source binary driver, and no one really wants that, > especially for storage / boot volume. We decided it wasn't worth the > headache of a binary d

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 13:44 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > > [227523.229557] hda: 390721968 sectors (200049 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, > > CHS=24321/255/63, BUG Thats probably the fact other patches from -ac are missing in base. It should be harmless. > > [227523.229631] hda: cache flushes not supporte

Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 10:30 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > presumably related, on 2.6.13-rc6. Putting in a cd and trying to read it > > will cause huge delays and then error out with: > > > > ide-cd: cmd 0x28 timed out (Thats READ_10) > > hdc: DMA timeout retry > > hdc: timeout waiting for DMA > >

Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 13:35 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > The symptoms vary. On some of my machines just inserting > > an audio CD makes the box instantly lock up. You've got all the gnome cruft running. Start by turning that off. Then try inserting/removing audio discs, playing them

Re: [PATCH] add transport class symlink to device object

2005-08-14 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 02:39:56PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Heh, I already have a patch like this pending for 2.6.14 at: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-01-driver/driver-link-device-and-class.patch Last time I tried to do something like this, it fel

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 8/14/05, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 13:44 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > > > [227523.229557] hda: 390721968 sectors (200049 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, > > > CHS=24321/255/63, BUG > > Thats probably the fact other patches from -ac are missing in base. It > should be har

[PATCH 2.4] (1/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Backport of a spelling fix Tobias Klauser sent to me for Linux 2.6.12-rc4. Already fixed in i2c CVS. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.4.30

Re: [PATCH 2.4] (0/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-14 Thread Michael Krufky
Jean Delvare wrote: I have a total of 5 patches with minor fixes to the Linux 2.4 i2c subsystem and documentation. These fixes I gathered for the past few months as they were applied to the Linux 2.6 tree and to the i2c CVS repository. Individual patches will be posted in reply to this post, wi

[PATCH 2.4] (2/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-14 Thread Jean Delvare
The lm_sensors project changed mailing lists. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MAINTAINERS |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.4.30.orig/MAINTAINERS 2005-06-03 19:21:41.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.4.30/MAINTAINERS2005-06-03 19:23:35.000

[PATCH 2.4] (3/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Fix documentation to match code in include/linux/i2c-dev.h Signed-off-by: Jan Veldeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Documentation/i2c/dev-interface |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deleti

[PATCH 2.4] (4/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Fix two typos in the i2c documentation. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Documentation/i2c/functionality |2 +- Documentation/i2c/writing-clients |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.4.31.orig/Documentation/i2c/functionality 2000-12-29

[PATCH 2.4] (5/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Five log messages lack their trailing new line in i2c-core. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 10 +- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- linux-2.4.31.orig/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c2005-04-09 12:35:59.0 +0200 +++ linux-2

RE: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

2005-08-14 Thread Lion Vollnhals
Am Sonntag, den 14.08.2005, 09:29 -0400 schrieb Willem Riede: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:54:35 +, Allen Martin wrote: > > > Likely the only way nForce4 NCQ support could be added under Linux would > > be with a closed source binary driver, and no one really wants that, > > especially for storage

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 17:01 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Thats probably the fact other patches from -ac are missing in base. It > > should be harmless. > > Therefore please submit them. Cut the crap, you know I've submitted the stuff again and again and again along with other fixes

Re: [PATCH 1/2] consolidate sys_ptrace

2005-08-14 Thread Richard Henderson
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 11:35:43AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This version has the arch_ptrace return value changes to long as > recommended by Richard Henderson. ... > +extern int arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request, long addr, > long data); No it doesn't. r~

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 8/14/05, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 17:01 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > Thats probably the fact other patches from -ac are missing in base. It > > > should be harmless. > > > > Therefore please submit them. > > Cut the crap, you know I've submitt

[patch 2.6.13-rc6] Fix kmem read on 32-bit archs

2005-08-14 Thread Chuck Ebbert
The first thing drivers/char/mem.c:read_kmem does is convert the loff_t it gets as the offset for reading into an unsigned int. This patch makes the kmem driver's llseek operator do that up-front, so that fs/read_write.c:rw_verify_area doesn't return -EINVAL when we try to read from higher addre

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] Fix kmem read on 32-bit archs

2005-08-14 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:12:52PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > The first thing drivers/char/mem.c:read_kmem does is convert the > loff_t it gets as the offset for reading into an unsigned int. This > patch makes the kmem driver's llseek operator do that up-front, so > that fs/read_write.c:rw_ve

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] Fix kmem read on 32-bit archs

2005-08-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > The first thing drivers/char/mem.c:read_kmem does is convert the > loff_t it gets as the offset for reading into an unsigned int. This > patch makes the kmem driver's llseek operator do that up-front, so > that fs/read_write.c:rw_verify_area doesn't

Re: [PATCH 1/2] consolidate sys_ptrace

2005-08-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 08:48:48AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 11:35:43AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > This version has the arch_ptrace return value changes to long as > > recommended by Richard Henderson. > ... > > +extern int arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *ch

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] Fix kmem read on 32-bit archs

2005-08-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > It's ugly but so is the existing code. And it won't fix 64-bit > archs AFAICT. Tested on 2.6.11, patch offsets fixed up for 2.6.13-rc6. Btw, if you really want to allow negative ("huge positive") loff_t, then you should do it the way we did "file

Re: 2.6.13-rcX really this bad ?

2005-08-14 Thread Danny ter Haar
Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is the machine running X? We need some output from it so we can debug >> what's going on, the info should be printed to the console. It would >> be great if you could run the latest kernel and see if you get any >> output. Also add nmi_watchdog=2 to th

Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Voluspa
Doing a "hdparm -I /dev/hdc" (without a disk/with a ISO disk/[u]mounted/music CD): Aug 14 19:14:33 sleipner kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Aug 14 19:14:33 sleipner kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } Aug 14 19:14:33 sleipner kernel: ide:

Re: usb camera failing in 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:42:12 +1000, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:00, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:12:06 +1000, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes all those dmesgs etc were redone after it failed in rc6 as I needed it > working. Oh and

Re: [PATCH 2.4] (0/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Michael, > > Individual patches will be posted in reply to this post, with > > explanations and diffstat. Please consider applying them. > > How come these patches never showed up on LKML? They did, just with some delay. I'm only a human. -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Voluspa
The "hdparm -I /dev/hdc" hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } de: failed opcode was: 0xec Is present on all kernels that I have locally (oldest 2.6.11.11) so it is not related to the threadstarters problems, it seems. root:s

Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi bug fixes for 2.6.13

2005-08-14 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
Hi On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, James Bottomley wrote: > This is my (hopefully final) collection of safe driver updates and bug > fixes for 2.6.13. Just to make sure everyone agrees on this - there's currently a know bug in dc395x with highmem reported by Pierre Ossman in thread "Kernel panic with dc39

Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi bug fixes for 2.6.13

2005-08-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 21:33 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Just to make sure everyone agrees on this - there's currently a know bug > in dc395x with highmem reported by Pierre Ossman in thread "Kernel panic > with dc395x in 2.6.12.2" on linux-scsi. It is also trivial to reproduce on > non

Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Nick Warne
Voluspa wrote: > > The "hdparm -I /dev/hdc" > > hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } > de: failed opcode was: 0xec > > Is present on all kernels that I have locally (oldest 2.6.11.11) > so it is not related to the threadst

Implementing a network based filesystem

2005-08-14 Thread Guillermo López Alejos
Hi, I continue studying the VFS interface. As I said in previous e-mails, my goal is to integrate an existing parallel filesystem into the Linux kernel. Now, I am looking for a reduced subset of operations to focus on. I have selected the following: struct file_system_type get_sb() struct

Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Nick Warne
I just remember a path I took when resolving the issue further to my post below. Here is what man hdparm says on -i and -I: -i Display the identification info that was obtained from the drive at boot time, if available. This is a feature of modern IDE drives, and may

Re: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-14 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:12:55 +1000, Roger Luethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ #define APC_BPORT_REG 0x30 #define APC_REGMASK0x01 -define APC_BPMASK 0x03 +#define APC_BPMASK 0x03 Color me skeptical. I've seen some weird bit flips and data

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Stephen Pollei
On 8/14/05, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know the alternatives are available. That doesn't make it any less > idiotic to use non ASCII characters as operators. I think it's a very > slippery slope. We write code in ASCII, dammit. Yes you and I might write 99.9% of our code in good'

Re: [PATCH]hande sysdev suspend failure

2005-08-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > This patch adds the return value check for sysdev suspend and does > restore in failure case. Send the patch to pm-list, but seems lost, so I > resend it. It seems to duplicate code a bit. Can that be fixed? Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=2

Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 3

2005-08-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > What happens when you disable it at runtime before suspending? > > > > > > echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/dyn_tick/dyn_tick0/enable > > > > This has no effect. The system stalls at exactly the same point. The > > last lines on my screen are: > > Ok perhaps on the resume side instead. When

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 13:13 -0700, Stephen Pollei wrote: > Seems like lots of Europeans might want a bigger > charset, not to mention Asians, Hindus, and whomever else. For strings, of course. But there's no need for UTF-8 operators. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Increasing PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x4000 broke on-board nvidia audio

2005-08-14 Thread Lukas Sandström
Hi. The commits 71db63acff69618b3d9d3114bd061938150e146b ([PATCH] increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO on x86) and 0b2bfb4e7ff61f286676867c3508569bea6fbf7a (ACPI: increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO on x86) shortly after -rc5 caused my on-board audio to stop working. See attached output from dmesg and lspci. On a git-re

SOLVED: i386: 2.6.13-rc4 and -rc6 spontaneously reboot

2005-08-14 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 11-Aug-05, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Both -rc4 and -rc6 just silently reboot after two or three days. It was a failed UPS battery. __ Chuck - 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://vge

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] Fix kmem read on 32-bit archs

2005-08-14 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 09:24:02 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yes, the thing needs to be opened with O_LARGEFILE and you need to use > "llseek()" to seek into it, but once you do that, everything should be > fine. GCC warns about using llseek and suggests lseek64 instead. That works for m

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 17:56 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > * your stuff was accepted after all (and some stuff like ide-cd > fixes was never splitted from the -ac patchset and submitted) They were. > * you've never provided any technical details on "the stuff I broke" I did, several

Re: [PATCH 0/8] netpoll: various bugfixes

2005-08-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:31:09PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > Does the task dump work without patch 5/8 (add retry timeout)? I'll > > try testing it here. > > I spoke to soon, worked once, after reboot not anymore. Will try to play > with individual pat

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread James Tabor
Daniel Drake wrote: CaT wrote: 1. Alan Cox's IDE driver that was included in his ac patchset, which seems to have died at 2.6.11ac7. 2. A brief visit from a SCSI IDE driver in Andrew Mortons mm patchset. It lived a brief but noted life before being taken out without any reason (that I

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 8/14/05, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 17:56 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > * your stuff was accepted after all (and some stuff like ide-cd > > fixes was never splitted from the -ac patchset and submitted) > > They were. I remember discussion about

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

2005-08-14 Thread Ian Kumlien
Hi, all I might be missunderstanding things but... First of all, machines with long pipelines will suffer from cache misses (p4 in this case). Depending on the size copied, (i don't know how large they are so..) can't one run out of cachelines and/or evict more useful cache data? Ie, if it's ca

Re: BSD jail

2005-08-14 Thread Joshua Hudson
All right, I'll see what I can come up with. This is quite a tall order. 1. A mechanism for creating virtual network interfaces 2. A mechanism for restricting binding to certain network interfaces 3. A mechanism for binding certain network interfaces. 4. The jail code itself Much of the work is al

Re: Problem with usb-storage and /dev/sd?

2005-08-14 Thread DervishD
Hi Willy :) * Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > > That's not possible. sd_mod will assign different devices for > > different USB gadgets, and that's my problem in the first case!. If I > > plug my USB-whatever, it gets assigned /dev/sda1 (for the first > > partition, I mean). If

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Aug 14, 2005, at 02:18:13, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: "LR" == Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LR> Is Larry smoking crack? From the Perl6-Bible: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl6-Bible/lib/ Perl6/Bible/S03.pod: I think this confirms that the answer is yes. See the following at t

[PATCH] [CIFS] Two small cifs patches

2005-08-14 Thread Steve French
Based on testing at the cifs plugfest last week these were the two most important patches from among those pending in my tree. The rest can wait until after 2.6.12 [PATCH] [CIFS] Fix missing entries in search results when very long file names and more than 50 (or so) of such long search entries

Re: [PATCH] Fix PPC signal handling of NODEFER, should not affect sa_mask

2005-08-14 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Aug 12, 2005, at 17:53:53, Steven Rostedt wrote: Two more systems that are different from Linux. So far, Linux is the odd ball out. Make that three more systems (Mac OS X has the same behavior as the BSDs): zeus:~ kyle$ uname -a Darwin zeus.moffetthome.net 8.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Lee Revell wrote: > For strings, of course. But there's no need for UTF-8 operators. Indeed - this is the main rationale for the patch, of course. People want to write non-ASCII in script primarily in string literals, and (perhaps even more often) in comments. Now, for comments, it wouldn't reall

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:52:36 EDT, Kyle Moffett said: > > Note that ?^ is functionally identical to !.?| differs from || in > Since when is the string "!.?|" an operator??? I think that was supposed to read: Note that ?^ is functionally identical to !. ?| differs from ?? in that ?| returns (a

Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi bug fixes for 2.6.13

2005-08-14 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, James Bottomley wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 21:33 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > Just to make sure everyone agrees on this - there's currently a know bug > > in dc395x with highmem reported by Pierre Ossman in thread "Kernel panic > > with dc395x in 2.6.12.2" on

Re: [PATCH] add transport class symlink to device object

2005-08-14 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 04:02:31PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 02:39:56PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Heh, I already have a patch like this pending for 2.6.14 at: > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-01-driver/driver-link-devic

Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Voluspa
On 2005-08-14 20:10:49 Nick Warne wrote: >Note the last sentence: > >' This variation is designed for use with "libraries" of drive >identification information, and can also be used on ATAPI drives which may >give media errors with the standard mechanism. My jaw just clonked on the table.

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Re: BSD jail

2005-08-14 Thread Joshua Hudson
Quoting Serge E. Hallyn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >Quoting Joshua Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Why would you want a virtual network device implementation? The whole > >So that a jailed process can use the net but can't use your network >address (intercept ssh, imap/stunnel, etc). [snip] >But in the en

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