Re: [PATCH] add romfs_get_size()

2005-09-08 Thread Greg Ungerer
Hi Yashi, Yasushi SHOJI wrote: At Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:04:39 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:31:36PM +0900, Yasushi SHOJI wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:22:19PM +0900, Yasushi SHOJI wrote: Many embedded linux products have been using romfs and it's still growing

Re: [PATCH 0/5] SUBCPUSETS: a resource control functionality using CPUSETS

2005-09-08 Thread Paul Jackson
[ Adding Dinakar to explicit cc list, since I mention his work. Hopefully he can correct any mispresentations of his work I might have presented.- pj ] I've just started reading this - it seems well presented and I think you have put much effort into it. Thank-you for posting it. I have

[GIT PATCH] ACPI for 2.6.14

2005-09-08 Thread Len Brown
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[PATCH 2.6.13] pcnet32: set_ringparam implementation

2005-09-08 Thread Hubert WS Lin
Hi, This patch implements the set_ringparam(), one of the ethtool operations, which allows changing tx/rx ring sizes via ethtool. Changelog: - Changed memery allocation of tx/rx ring from static to dynamic - Implemented set_ringparam() - Tested on i386 and ppc64 Signed-off-by: Hubert WS Lin <

Re: subcpusets-fix-for-cpusets-minor-problem.patch added to -mm tree

2005-09-08 Thread Paul Jackson
> subcpusets-fix-for-cpusets-minor-problem.patch Acked-by: Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.925.600.0401 - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI for 2.6.14

2005-09-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Linus, please pull from the release branch here: > > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git > release There are a few bugs which I'd identified as arising from the acpi tree while it was in -mm. Is this patch likely

[2.6.13] task_struct->fs_excl, kernel_thread and jffs2

2005-09-08 Thread Giancarlo Formicuccia
Hi, [please CC me in any reply] I'm not sure that dup_task_struct() must copy the fs_excl field. This can leads to problems if do_fork() is somehow called while fs_excl!=0. For example, the jffs2 code creates a kernel thread (jffs2_garbage_collect_thread) in a path where lock_super() is held (i.e

Re: [PATCH] add romfs_get_size()

2005-09-08 Thread Yasushi SHOJI
Hi Greg, At Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:07:42 +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote: > > Yasushi SHOJI wrote: > > At Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:04:39 +0100, > > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > >>On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:31:36PM +0900, Yasushi SHOJI wrote: > >> > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:22:19PM +0900, Yasushi SHOJI

[OOPS] vanilla 2.6.13 + "rmmod processor"

2005-09-08 Thread gl
Hi Just booted a 2.6.13 compiled with UP, ACPI, APIC, LAPIC, sensor modules with "nolapic noapic acpi=off". The processor module was still loaded by the hotplug. On rmmod it Oopsed: Linux version 2.6.13 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #10 Mon Sep 5 13:25:58 CEST 2005 ..

Re: Kernel 2.6.13 repeated ACPI events?

2005-09-08 Thread Manuel Lauss
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:39:18AM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 09:06 -0400, Manuel Lauss wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:54:59AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > I have a box where I keep getting this in dmesg: > > > > > > ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD

[patch 2/4] s390: ctc driver fixes

2005-09-08 Thread Frank Pavlic
Jeff, sorry if I have flooded your inbox, I had some problems with the mail server here yesterday, but it seems to be fixed ... Ok patch 3-4 have no dependencies on patch 2 since only qeth driver is affected.Thus I have made a new patch 2 for ctc driver. Thank you . [patch 2/4] s390: ctc driver fi

Re: performance-improvement-of-serial-console-via-virtual.patch added to -mm tree

2005-09-08 Thread Taku Izumi
Dear Russell: >I don't think we want this. With early serial console, tx_loadsz is >not guaranteed to be initialised, and may in fact be zero. >Plus there's no guarantee that the FIFOs will actually be enabled, so >I think it's better that this patch doesn't go to mainline. Our server has a vir

RE: [GIT PATCH] ACPI for 2.6.14

2005-09-08 Thread Brown, Len
>There are a few bugs which I'd identified as arising from the acpi tree >while it was in -mm. Is this patch likely to drag them into mainline? > >They include: > > >http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4977 >Summary: ACPI 20050708 fails on HP RX2600 platform This was filed agai

Re: [2.6.13] task_struct->fs_excl, kernel_thread and jffs2

2005-09-08 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Sep 08 2005, Giancarlo Formicuccia wrote: > Hi, > [please CC me in any reply] > I'm not sure that dup_task_struct() must copy the fs_excl field. This can > leads to > problems if do_fork() is somehow called while fs_excl!=0. > For example, the jffs2 code creates a kernel thread > (jffs2_g

Re: [PATCH 0/5] SUBCPUSETS: a resource control functionality using CPUSETS

2005-09-08 Thread KUROSAWA Takahiro
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 00:23:23 -0700 Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just started reading this - it seems well presented and I think > you have put much effort into it. Thank-you for posting it. Thank you for reading my patches! > I have not yet taken the time to understand it prope

The BogoMIPS value sometimes too low on Intel Mobile P3

2005-09-08 Thread Martin Vlk
Hi folks, I am running a custom-built kernel 2.6.10 on an Intel Mobile P3 processor. (Acer TravelMate 620) >From time to time it happens to me that on boot-up the USB mouse doesn't work. When I try a USB camera in this situation it doesn't work either. I discovered that when the USB devices don't

Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI for 2.6.14

2005-09-08 Thread Andrew Morton
"Brown, Len" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I saw lots of transient battery issues from 2.6.13-rc3 > until 2.6.13-rc6, but the ones I followed went away > as of 2.6.13 final. Do you have your eye on others > besides 4980? Not specifically, but then ACPI bugs are the one sort which I don't trac

RE: [OOPS] vanilla 2.6.13 + "rmmod processor"

2005-09-08 Thread Brown, Len
>Just booted a 2.6.13 compiled with UP, ACPI, APIC, LAPIC, >sensor modules >with "nolapic noapic acpi=off". Huh, I don't see I don't see the processor module checking for acpi_disabled anyplace... I assume the oops goes away when you do not boot with "acpi=off"? > The processor module was sti

Re: 2.6.13-mm1 X86_64: All 32bit programs segfault

2005-09-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Parag Warudkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andi Kleen wrote: > > >Hmm - not many x86-64 patches in mm1. 2.6.13 definitely works. > > > > > 2.6.13-git7 works. So something in -mm has gone bad (if not x86_64, may > be i386 or arch-independent changes?) > It seems it has got something to

RE: [GIT PATCH] ACPI for 2.6.14

2005-09-08 Thread Brown, Len
>"Brown, Len" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I saw lots of transient battery issues from 2.6.13-rc3 >> until 2.6.13-rc6, but the ones I followed went away >> as of 2.6.13 final. Do you have your eye on others >> besides 4980? > >Not specifically, but then ACPI bugs are the one sort which I >

Re: [patch] KGDB for Real-Time Preemption systems

2005-09-08 Thread Serge Noiraud
mercredi 7 Septembre 2005 23:16, George Anzinger wrote/a écrit : > Serge Noiraud wrote: ... > > > > I'm trying this kgdb patch with 2.6.13 and I get the following errors. > > Is there something I forgot ? > > This related to kgdb? I.e. does it go away if you either turn off kgdb > at configure tim

Re: 2.6.13-mm1 X86_64: All 32bit programs segfault

2005-09-08 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 08 September 2005 10:44, Andrew Morton wrote: > Parag Warudkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andi Kleen wrote: > > >Hmm - not many x86-64 patches in mm1. 2.6.13 definitely works. > > > > 2.6.13-git7 works. So something in -mm has gone bad (if not x86_64, may > > be i386 or arch-inde

SKGE Kconfig help text typo fix

2005-09-08 Thread Tim Schmielau
SKGE surely isn't a meta driver. Not that this is relevant at all... Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13/drivers/net/Kconfig2005-08-29 01:41:01.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-skge/drivers/net/Kconfig 2005-09-08 10:57:38.0 +0200 @@ -1928,7 +1928,7

Re: [PATCH] Wistron laptop button driver

2005-09-08 Thread Miloslav Trmac
Andrew Morton wrote: > Miloslav Trmac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>+static void call_bios(struct regs *regs) >> +{ >> +unsigned long flags; >> + >> +preempt_disable(); >> +local_irq_save(flags); >> +asm volatile ("pushl %%ebp;" >> + "movl %[data], %%ebp;" >> +

Re: [PATCH] Wistron laptop button driver

2005-09-08 Thread Miloslav Trmac
Pekka Enberg wrote: > On 9/7/05, Miloslav Trmac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>+static int __init map_bios(void) >>+{ >>+ static const unsigned char __initdata signature[] >>+ = { 0x42, 0x21, 0x55, 0x30 }; >>+ >>+ void __iomem *base; >>+ size_t offset; >>+ uint32_t entr

Strange LVM2/DM data corruption with 2.6.11.12

2005-09-08 Thread Ludovic Drolez
Hi ! We are developing (GPLed) disk cloning software similar to partimage: it's an intelligent 'dd' which backups only used sectors. Recently I added LVM1/2 support to it, and sometimes we saw LVM restorations failing randomly (Disk images are not corrupted, but the result of the restoration

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-08 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050907 18:07]: > On 07.09.2005 [10:37:43 +0300], Tony Lindgren wrote: > > * Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050905 20:02]: > > > On 05.09.2005 [10:27:05 +0300], Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > > * Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050905 10:03]:

Re: [SCSI] qla1280: endianess annotations

2005-09-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:13:21PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > >diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c b/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c > >--- a/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c > >+++ b/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c > >@@ -1546,7 +1546,7 @@ qla1280_return_status(struct response * > > i

RE: [OOPS] vanilla 2.6.13 + "rmmod processor"

2005-09-08 Thread gl
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Brown, Len wrote: Just booted a 2.6.13 compiled with UP, ACPI, APIC, LAPIC, sensor modules with "nolapic noapic acpi=off". Huh, I don't see I don't see the processor module checking for acpi_disabled anyplace... I assume the oops goes away when you do not boot with "acpi=o

[PROBLEM] Sata disk fail and Hang the machine

2005-09-08 Thread Nicolo Chiellini
Hi i have a problem whit a machine, after some days of run i have a lot of this message on dmesg: [...] ata2: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0xd8 host_stat 0x0 ata2: status=0xd8 { Busy } SCSI error : <1 0 0 0> return code = 0x802 sdb: Current: sense key=0xb ASC=0x47 ASCQ=0x0 end_request: I/O

[DRIVER] Where is the PSX Gamepad Driver in 2.6.13-rc3?

2005-09-08 Thread Christoph Litters
Hello, I have an adapter usb to psx i have tried it with 2.6.9 and it works perfectly with the kernel driver. with 2.6.12 i cant get it to work and with 2.6.13-rc3 i havent seen any option to enable it. could anybody help me? Greets and thanks c. litters - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: [PATCH 1/5][BUG] SUBCPUSETS: fix for cpusets minor problem

2005-09-08 Thread Robin Holt
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:40:53PM +0900, KUROSAWA Takahiro wrote: > This patch fixes minor problem that the CPUSETS have when files > in the cpuset filesystem are read after lseek()-ed beyond the EOF. > > Signed-off-by: KUROSAWA Takahiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- from-0001/kernel/cpuset.c > ++

Re: [PATCH 1/5][BUG] SUBCPUSETS: fix for cpusets minor problem

2005-09-08 Thread Robin Holt
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 06:17:31AM -0500, Robin Holt wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:40:53PM +0900, KUROSAWA Takahiro wrote: > > This patch fixes minor problem that the CPUSETS have when files > > in the cpuset filesystem are read after lseek()-ed beyond the EOF. > > > > Signed-off-by: KUROSAW

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Re: [PATCH] 3c59x: read current link status from phy

2005-09-08 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: The phy status register must be read twice in order to get the actual link state. Can the original poster give an explanation ? I've enjoyed a rather well functioning 3c59x driver for the past ~6 years without such double reading. Plus: - this operatio

Re: [PATCH 1/5][BUG] SUBCPUSETS: fix for cpusets minor problem

2005-09-08 Thread Paul Jackson
Robin wrote: > Oops, didn't see you had already sent it along. Looks like you, me, Takahiro-san and Andrew are all in agreement on sending this Patch 1/5 along. Excellent. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability

Re: [PATCH 0/5] SUBCPUSETS: a resource control functionality using CPUSETS

2005-09-08 Thread Paul Jackson
Takahiro-san wrote, in reply to Paul: > > 2) Would a structure similar to Dinakar's patches to connect > > cpusets and dynamic sched domains (posted to linux-mm) > > work here as well? > > Yes, subcpusets could work with the dynamic sched domains. Ah - I see I was quite unclear about wha

Re: system IPC

2005-09-08 Thread YH
Are there any messaging mechanism (not signal) designed in kernel for drivers to communicate user mode asynchronously? If not, any reason why not using messaging in kernel as it is an effective and simple mechanism for embedded and real time system? Thank you. Cheers. Jim linux-os (Dick Joh

Re: [-mm patch 3/5] SharpSL: Abstract c7x0 specifics from Corgi Touchscreen driver

2005-09-08 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:53:50PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > Separate out the Sharp Zaurus c7x0 series specific code from the Corgi > Touchscreen driver. Use the new functions in corgi_lcd.c via sharpsl.h > for hsync handling and pass the IRQ as a platform device resource. Move > a function pr

Re: [-mm patch 0/5] SharpSL: Prepare drivers and add new ARM PXA machines Spitz and Borzoi

2005-09-08 Thread Russell King
As a general note, these patches could do with being closer to the coding style, such that things like foo=bar; foo+=bar; have spaces around the assignment and operators thusly: foo = bar; foo += bar; -- Russell King Linux kernel2.6 ARM Linux - http://www

2.6.13-git7 strange system freeze

2005-09-08 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, after about 20 hours of uptime, my 2.6.13-git7 system freeze. I find it in my klog. Sep 8 13:45:09 ng02 kernel: KERNEL: assertion ((int)tp->lost_out >= 0) failed at net/ipv4/tcp_input.c (2148) Sep 8 13:45:09 ng02 kernel: Leak l=4294967295 4 Sep 8 13:45:20 ng02 kernel: KERNEL: assertion ((i

Re: [-mm patch 5/5] SharpSL: Add new ARM PXA machines Spitz and Borzoi with partial Akita Support

2005-09-08 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:53:52PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > +/* > + * MMC/SD Device > + * > + * The card detect interrupt isn't debounced so we delay it by HZ/4 > + * to give the card a chance to fully insert/eject. > + */ > +static struct mmc_detect { > + struct timer_list detect_timer;

Re: How to find out kernel stack over flow?

2005-09-08 Thread Neil Horman
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:17:16PM -0700, nazim khan wrote: > Thanks Michal for your response, > > I forgot to mention that I am using linux 2.4.26, > and STACKOVERFLOW option is not available here. > > regards, > Nazim > It shouldn't be a difficult thing to hand-edit in (or at least an approxim

2.6.13-mm2

2005-09-08 Thread Andrew Morton
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm2/ (kernel.org propagation is slow. There's a temp copy at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.13-mm2.bz2) - Added Andi's x86_64 tree, as separate patches - Added a driver for TI acx1xx cardbus wire

Re: [-mm patch 4/5] SharpSL: Abstract model specifics from Corgi Backlight driver

2005-09-08 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:53:51PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > +/* > + * Corgi/Spitz Backlight Power > + */ > +int corgi_bl_max(void) > +{ > + if (machine_is_corgi() || machine_is_shepherd() || machine_is_husky()) > + return 0x2e; > + return 0x3e; Couldn't this be passed in

Re: [-mm patch 2/5] SharpSL: Add cxx00 support to the Corgi LCD driver

2005-09-08 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:53:48PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > +/* > + * Corgi/Spitz Touchscreen to LCD interface > + */ > +unsigned long inline corgi_get_hsync_len(void) > +{ > + if (machine_is_corgi() || machine_is_shepherd() || machine_is_husky()) { > +#ifdef CONFIG_PXA_SHARP_C7xx > +

Re: How is SELinux integrated into kernel 2.6?

2005-09-08 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 02:46 -0400, Xin Zhao wrote: > Sorry if this question is dumb. > > SELinux is included in 2.6. But I think it works by putting LSM hooks a lot > of place in Linux and then it can define its own policy enforcement codes. > > However, I cannot find hooks in kernel 2.6.9 and 2.

Re: 2.6.13-mm1 X86_64: All 32bit programs segfault

2005-09-08 Thread Parag Warudkar
Andrew Morton wrote: it works fine. I can't reproduce this with the current -mm lineup. I compiled up a 32-bit app on x86 and transferred that across. Maybe it got fixed. Please test 2.6.13-mm2, which appears to be an hour or two away. If it still fails then I'd need a recipe (includi

[PATCH] util-linux: swsuspend support

2005-09-08 Thread Karel Zak
Hi Adrian, if you have a swap partition that's been used for swsuspend and you boot into a different kernel, we should have the swapon re-initialize the swap to avoid later resuming and causing data corruption. (quote from RH bugzilla) Note: there will be support for swsuspend swap detection i

Re: [PATCH 0/5] SUBCPUSETS: a resource control functionality using CPUSETS

2005-09-08 Thread Dinakar Guniguntala
Interesting implementation of resource controls. Cross posting this to ckrm-tech as well. I am sure CKRM folks have something to say... Any thoughts about how you want to add more resource control features on top of/in addition to this setup. (Such as memory etc) On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 12:23:

Re: [PATCH] 3c59x: read current link status from phy

2005-09-08 Thread Tommy Christensen
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 13:58, Bogdan Costescu wrote: > Can the original poster give an explanation ? I've enjoyed a rather > well functioning 3c59x driver for the past ~6 years without such > double reading. Plus: > - this operation is I/O expensive > - it is performed inside a region protected by

Re: 2.6.13-mm1 X86_64: All 32bit programs segfault

2005-09-08 Thread Parag Warudkar
Andi Kleen wrote: If you catch a crash in gdb and type x/i $pc what do you see? -Andi Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 1431820864 (LWP 2839)] 0x00c40471 in __pthread_initialize_minimal_internal () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 (gdb) x/i $pc 0xc40471 <_

Re: 2.6.13-mm2

2005-09-08 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On 9/8/05, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm2/ > > git-cifs.patch it adds a new compilation warning with gcc-4: fs/cifs/cifsglob.h:335: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type The follow

Re: Reuse of BIOs

2005-09-08 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Sep 08 2005, David Howells wrote: > > Hi Jens, > > Is it possible to reuse a BIO once the callback on it has been invoked to > indicate final completion? Or does it have to be released and another one > allocated? If you reuse it indefinitely, you violate the principles that make the mem

Re: Reuse of BIOs

2005-09-08 Thread Fawad Lateef
On 9/8/05, David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is it possible to reuse a BIO once the callback on it has been invoked to > indicate final completion? Or does it have to be released and another one > allocated? > The thing which I did in my virtual caching device driver is I keeps the

Re: [PATCH] 3c59x: read current link status from phy

2005-09-08 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Tommy Christensen wrote: The idea is to avoid an extra delay of 60 seconds before detecting link-up. But you are adding the read to a function that is called repeatedly to fix an event that happens only once at start-up ! If this read is really needed (I still doubt it..

Re: 2.6.13-rt3

2005-09-08 Thread Stephane Couture
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ingo, I just found a __MAJOR__ bug in my code. Below is the patch that fixes this bug, zaps the WARN_ON in check_pi_list_present, and changes ALL_TASKS_PI to a booleon instead of just a define. The major bug was in __down_try

Re: [patch] Add suspend/resume support to locomo.c

2005-09-08 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:58:53AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Well, it would be nice if it was signed off by him, but John is > nowhere to be reached. Hmm, ok, applied. -- Russell King Linux kernel2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubsc

Re: 2.6.13-mm2

2005-09-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:30:42AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > -ocfs2-prep.patch > > Dropped this - maintaining the > move-truncate_inode_pages-into-delete_inode.patch patch separately was a > pita. Simply pull it in from git-ocfs2.patch Could you please just send the move truncate_inode_p

kbuild: libraries and subdirectories

2005-09-08 Thread Budde, Marco
I have a large number of sources files, which I have to compile into one kernel module. Let's assume I have the following source organisation: main/ main_code.c lib1/ part1/ file_1_1_1.c part2/ file_1_2_1.c lib2/ part1/ file_2_1_1.c part2/ file_2_2

Re: [patch] synclink.c compiler optimiation fix

2005-09-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:02:23PM -0500, Paul Fulghum wrote: > - u16 count; /* buffer size/data count */ > - u16 status; /* Control/status field */ > - u16 rcc;/* character count field */ > + volatile u16 count; /* buffer size/data count */ > + volatile u16

Re: Strange LVM2/DM data corruption with 2.6.11.12

2005-09-08 Thread Alexander Nyberg
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:58:54AM +0200 Ludovic Drolez wrote: > Hi ! > > We are developing (GPLed) disk cloning software similar to partimage: it's > an intelligent 'dd' which backups only used sectors. > > Recently I added LVM1/2 support to it, and sometimes we saw LVM > restorations failing

Re: [PATCH] 3c59x: cleanup of mdio_read routines to use MII_* macros in include/linux/mii.h

2005-09-08 Thread Neil Horman
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:49:13PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > It would be nice if somebody would be motivated to check in > s/1/MII_BMSR/ to utilize the constant in include/linux/mii.h. > > Jeff > As requested, a patch to cleanup mdio_read routines in 3c59x.c to use the MII_* macros de

Re: [PATCH 0/5] SUBCPUSETS: a resource control functionality using CPUSETS

2005-09-08 Thread Dipankar Sarma
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 06:44:27PM +0530, Dinakar Guniguntala wrote: > > > > On the other hand, Dinakar had more work to do than you might, because > > he needed a complete covering (so had to round up cpus in non exclusive > > cpusets to form more covering elements). From what I can tell, you >

[PATCH] ppc32: Fix head_4xx.S compile error

2005-09-08 Thread Kumar Gala
head_4xx.S wasn't compiling due to a missing #endif Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 170118f5773bf979d0be23673b703f9dd26d63e7 tree 16e609ae6dd17af7236bbed11a875a1a653a7237 parent 4706df3d3c42af802597d82c8b1542c3d52eab23 author Kumar K. Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 08 Sep

[PATCH] minor ELF definitions addition

2005-09-08 Thread Jan Beulich
(Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get line wrapped.) A trivial addition to the EFL definitions. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Npru 2.6.13/include/linux/elf.h 2.6.13-elf/include/linux/elf.h --- 2.6.13/include/linux/elf.h 2005-08-29 01:41:0

Re: [PATCH] minor ELF definitions addition

2005-09-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:30:03PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: > (Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get > line wrapped.) > > A trivial addition to the EFL definitions. Why? They're obviously not needed in kernelspace.. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTE

[PATCH] boot-time ioremap alternative

2005-09-08 Thread Jan Beulich
(Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get line wrapped.) An alternative to (on i386) boot-time ioremap approaches, which is more architecture independent (though arch dependent code needs adjustments if this is to be made use of, which with this patch only happens for

Re: 2.6.13-mm2

2005-09-08 Thread Martin J. Bligh
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm2/ > > (kernel.org propagation is slow. There's a temp copy at > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.13-mm2.bz2) > > > > - Added Andi's x86_64 tree, as separate patches > > - Added a driver for TI

[PATCH] minor fbcon_scroll adjustment

2005-09-08 Thread Jan Beulich
(Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get line wrapped.) An adjustment to the SM_DOWN case of fbcon_scroll to match the behavior of SM_UP. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Npru 2.6.13/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c 2.6.13-fbcon-logo-scroll-down/dr

[PATCH] constify font data

2005-09-08 Thread Jan Beulich
(Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get line wrapped.) const-ify the font control structures and data, to make somewhat better guarantees that these are not modified anywhere in the kernel. Specifically for a kernel debugger to share this information from the normal

Re: [DRIVER] Where is the PSX Gamepad Driver in 2.6.13-rc3?

2005-09-08 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 9/8/05, Christoph Litters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have an adapter usb to psx i have tried it with 2.6.9 and it works > perfectly with the kernel driver. > with 2.6.12 i cant get it to work and with 2.6.13-rc3 i havent seen any > option to enable it. > could anybody help me? >

[PATCH] free initrd mem adjustment

2005-09-08 Thread Jan Beulich
(Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get line wrapped.) Besides freeing initrd memory, also clear out the now dangling pointers to it, to make sure accidental late use attempts can be detected. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Npru 2.6.13/init/i

Re: [PATCH] minor ELF definitions addition

2005-09-08 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08.09.05 16:32:16 >>> >On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:30:03PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: >> (Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get >> line wrapped.) >> >> A trivial addition to the EFL definitions. > >Why? They're obviously not

Re: [DRIVER] Where is the PSX Gamepad Driver in 2.6.13-rc3?

2005-09-08 Thread Eric Piel
09/08/2005 04:38 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote/a écrit: On 9/8/05, Christoph Litters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have an adapter usb to psx i have tried it with 2.6.9 and it works perfectly with the kernel driver. with 2.6.12 i cant get it to work and with 2.6.13-rc3 i havent seen any opti

Re: [PATCH] 3c59x: read current link status from phy

2005-09-08 Thread Tommy Christensen
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 15:35, Bogdan Costescu wrote: > On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Tommy Christensen wrote: > > > The idea is to avoid an extra delay of 60 seconds before detecting > > link-up. > > But you are adding the read to a function that is called repeatedly to > fix an event that happens only on

[PATCH] pass irq handling status down to low-level code

2005-09-08 Thread Jan Beulich
(Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get line wrapped.) In order for low-level code to know whether/how a hardware interrupt was serviced, make sure this information gets passed down correctly. At once, use the proper type (irqreturn_t) for returning this informatio

Re: [-mm patch 5/5] SharpSL: Add new ARM PXA machines Spitz and Borzoi with partial Akita Support

2005-09-08 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 13:23 +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:53:52PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > > +/* > > + * MMC/SD Device > > + * > > + * The card detect interrupt isn't debounced so we delay it by HZ/4 > > + * to give the card a chance to fully insert/eject. > > + */ >

Re: [DRIVER] Where is the PSX Gamepad Driver in 2.6.13-rc3?

2005-09-08 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 9/8/05, Eric Piel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 09/08/2005 04:38 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote/a écrit: > > On 9/8/05, Christoph Litters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hello, > >> > >>I have an adapter usb to psx i have tried it with 2.6.9 and it works > >>perfectly with the kernel driver. > >>wi

Re: [PATCH 0/5] SUBCPUSETS: a resource control functionality using CPUSETS

2005-09-08 Thread Paul Jackson
Dipankar wrote: > If what subcpusets is doing is slicing cpusets resources, then wouldn't > it be more intusive to call them slice0, slice1 etc. under the > respective cpuset ? If we continue with Takahiro-san's design, then I agree that the name 'subcpusets' doesn't have quite the right connotat

Re: [-mm patch 3/5] SharpSL: Abstract c7x0 specifics from Corgi Touchscreen driver

2005-09-08 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 13:10 +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:53:50PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > > Separate out the Sharp Zaurus c7x0 series specific code from the Corgi > > Touchscreen driver. Use the new functions in corgi_lcd.c via sharpsl.h > > for hsync handling and

[PATCH] matroxfb adjustments

2005-09-08 Thread Jan Beulich
(Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get line wrapped.) Some adjustments to the matroxfb code, for one part preventing the display to be disabled for longer than necessary, and for the other part to make information about the frame buffer position available so that a

Re: [-mm patch 5/5] SharpSL: Add new ARM PXA machines Spitz and Borzoi with partial Akita Support

2005-09-08 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 03:52:37PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > Alternatively, would you accept a patch to add an optional delay option > to mmc_detect_change()? Yes, since a number of hosts seem to require this (and sometimes it even depends whether we're inserting or removing a card.) Can I h

[PATCH] rmmod notifier chain

2005-09-08 Thread Jan Beulich
(Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get line wrapped.) Debugging and maintenance support code occasionally needs to know not only of module insertions, but also modulke removals. This adds a notifier chain for this purpose. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTEC

A query regarding an entry in Andrew Morton's "must fix" list

2005-09-08 Thread Adhiraj Joshi
Hi, There was a bug some time back in a Must-Fix list regarding UDP applications going in dead lock. (http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/must-fix/must-fix-2.txt ) Here is an extract: --

[PATCH] i386 CFI annotations

2005-09-08 Thread Jan Beulich
(Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get line wrapped.) As a foundation for reliable stack unwinding, this adds CFI unwind annotations to many low-level i386 routines, plus a config option (available to all architectures) to enable them as well as the compiler produc

[PATCH] adjust .version updating

2005-09-08 Thread Jan Beulich
(Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get line wrapped.) In order to maintain a more correct build number, updates to the version number should only be commited after a successful link of vmlinux, not before (so that errors in the link process don't lead to pointless

[PATCH] add stricmp

2005-09-08 Thread Jan Beulich
(Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get line wrapped.) While strnicmp existed in the set of string support routines, stricmp didn't, which this patch adjusts. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Npru 2.6.13/include/linux/string.h 2.6.13-stricmp/in

Re: [-mm patch 2/5] SharpSL: Add cxx00 support to the Corgi LCD driver

2005-09-08 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 13:34 +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:53:48PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > > +/* > > + * Corgi/Spitz Touchscreen to LCD interface > > + */ > > +unsigned long inline corgi_get_hsync_len(void) > > +{ > > + if (machine_is_corgi() || machine_is_shephe

[patch] synclink_cs add statistics clear

2005-09-08 Thread Paul Fulghum
[patch] synclink_cs add statistics clear From: Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add ability to clear statistics. Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13/drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c 2005-08-28 18:41:01.0 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.13-mg/drivers/char/pcmcia/s

Re: [PATCH] rmmod notifier chain

2005-09-08 Thread Patrick McHardy
Jan Beulich wrote: > Debugging and maintenance support code occasionally needs to know not > only of module insertions, but also modulke removals. This adds a > notifier > chain for this purpose. > > > diff -Npru 2.6.13/kernel/module.c > 2.6.13-rmmod-notifier/kernel/module.c > --- 2.6.13/kernel/mo

Re: 2.6.13-mm2 high memory support borken?

2005-09-08 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, On 08/09/05, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm2/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 893824 kB [---cut---] VmallocChunk: 110380 kB something is wrong, I have got 1 gb ram on my box

[PATCH] fix i386 cmpxchg

2005-09-08 Thread Jan Beulich
(Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get line wrapped.) This adjusts i386's cmpxchg patterns so that - for word and long cmpxchg-es the compiler can utilize all possible registers - cmpxchg8b gets disabled when the minimum specified hardware architectur doesn't s

Re: [PATCH 0/5] SUBCPUSETS: a resource control functionality using CPUSETS

2005-09-08 Thread Paul Jackson
Dinakar wrote: > Cross posting this to ckrm-tech as well. Good idea - thanks. Hopefully Takahiro-san and the CKRM folks can reach an understanding on how their two proposals relate. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability

Re: [PATCH] rmmod notifier chain

2005-09-08 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08.09.05 17:16:24 >>> >On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:03:58PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: >> (Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get >> line wrapped.) >> >> Debugging and maintenance support code occasionally needs to know not >>

Re: [PATCH] add stricmp

2005-09-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:05:06PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: > (Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get > line wrapped.) > > While strnicmp existed in the set of string support routines, stricmp > didn't, which this patch adjusts. I don't thing we should do case-ins

[PATCH] move i386's enabling of fxsr and xmmxcpt

2005-09-08 Thread Jan Beulich
(Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get line wrapped.) Move some code unrelated to any dealing with hardware bugs from i386's bugs.h to a more logical place. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Npru 2.6.13/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c 2.6.13-i386-fxsr

Re: [PATCH] rmmod notifier chain

2005-09-08 Thread viro
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:16:24PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:03:58PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: > > (Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get > > line wrapped.) > > > > Debugging and maintenance support code occasionally needs to know

Re: [PATCH] rmmod notifier chain

2005-09-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:03:58PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: > (Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get > line wrapped.) > > Debugging and maintenance support code occasionally needs to know not > only of module insertions, but also modulke removals. This adds a > no

[PATCH] fix i386 interrupt re-enabling in die()

2005-09-08 Thread Jan Beulich
(Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get line wrapped.) Rather than blindly re-enabling interrupts in die(), save their state upon entry and then restore that state. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Npru 2.6.13/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c 2.6.13-i3

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