Re: [patches] [PATCH 2.6.21 review I] [4/25] x86: kernel-mode faults pollute current->thead

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 14.02.07 18:51 >>> >On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 07:52:54AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: >> Actually, after a second round of thinking I believe there's still more to do >> - your second patch missed fixing i386's do_trap() similarly to x86-64's >> and, vice versa, x86-64'

[PATCH] adjust legacy IDE resource setting (v2)

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Beulich
The change to force legacy mode IDE channels' resources to fixed non-zero values confuses (at least some versions of) X, because the values reported by the kernel and those readable from PCI config space aren't consistent anymore. Therefore, this patch arranges for the respective BARs to also get u

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread v j
On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote: > This is in reference to the following thread: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 > > I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_ > popular in the embedded space. We

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday February 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2/15/07, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [..] then it is less clear what people believe > > Another area where it is less clear what people believe is if you are > distributing the module separately to the kernel, but, as I understa

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Nick Piggin
v j wrote: On 2/14/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At least one of us is confused about that an embedded User is. It seems to me that you are an embedded developer, not User. I doubt that most Embedded Users care what their OS is, or even know what an OS is. I am not sure what th

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 00:04 -0800, v j wrote: > On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote: > > > This is in reference to the following thread: > > > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 > > > > > > I am not sure if this is ever addr

Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 0/4] Freezer based Cpu-hotplug

2007-02-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 15 February 2007 07:34, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:43:35PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:40, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > > > Hello Everybody, > > > > > > This is an experiment towards process_freezer based im

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Richard Knutsson
v j wrote: On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote: > This is in reference to the following thread: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 > > I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_ > popular in the embedd

Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-02-15 Thread Nadia Derbey
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Nadia Derbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: But, what do you do with Oracle that's asking maxfiles to be set to 0x1, while the default value might be enough for a system that's not running Oracle. I'm afraid that giving boot time values to the max_* tunables we will l

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Nick Piggin
v j wrote: On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If your mindset is "how much can I take take take without giving back back back" then personally I think you're sort of acting like a parasite in this context Ok so are thousands of others who are using Linux as their OS

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Trent Waddington
On 2/15/07, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And as I understand it, an important principle in out community is freedom. If vj wants to take a particular moral/ethical stance, then he should be free to do that. Of course he will have to live with any consequences, as do we all. Yes, and

Re: [PATCH] Optimize generic get_unaligned / put_unaligned implementations.

2007-02-15 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Andrew, > > +#define get_unaligned(ptr) \ > > +({ \ > > + const struct { \ > > + union {

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread v j
Oh, I am sorry. Seems like the German courts have spoken. I am not sure about what, but they have spoken. Sorry for the confusion. On 2/15/07, Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: v j wrote: > On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v

[LIBATA] drives not detected

2007-02-15 Thread Patrick Ale
Good morning all, Yesterday I replaced a Sil680 PCI add-on card for a Promise 2027x PCI add-on card. Now, when I boot up, I miss two drives, exactly the two connected to this promise card. I have another onboard Promise controller which works just fine, so the driver gets loaded properly, and s

Re: [LIBATA] drives not detected

2007-02-15 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/15/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good morning all, Now, when I boot up, I miss two drives, exactly the two connected to this promise card. I have another onboard Promise controller which works just fine, so the driver gets loaded properly, and since i see all my other disks b

Re: xfs internal error on a new filesystem

2007-02-15 Thread David Chinner
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:24:27AM +, Ramy M. Hassan wrote: > Hello, > We got the following xfs internal error on one of our production servers: > > Feb 14 08:28:52 info6 kernel: [238186.676483] Filesystem "sdd8": XFS > internal error xfs_trans_cancel at line 1138 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c.

RE: [PATCH] aio: fix kernel bug when page is temporally busy

2007-02-15 Thread Ananiev, Leonid I
Ken Chen wrote > It might shut up kernel > panic by eliminate double calls to aio_complete(), but it will > silently introduce data corruption. I had got kernel panic after an hour of aiostress running. After patching I have not got aiostress massage "verify error, file %s offset %Lu contents (of

Re: [PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64

2007-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=62cc49396e593dd71c6595302bb10b085aefbfa5 Commit: 62cc49396e593dd71c6595302bb10b085aefbfa5 Parent: 40d22c1b5675e428b3f3f9a945d0bd62e94ca2f1 Author: Andi Kleen <

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.19.1 Oops while doing Disk IO + playing sound, 2.6.20 too

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Kara
On Thu 15-02-07 00:33:31, Frank Hartmann wrote: > Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes I see some correlation. Again it seems there is a problem with buffers > > attached to a page which got truncated but Private flag of the page stayed. > > It's probably not important but just out of

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Dave Jones wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:46:13PM -0800, v j wrote: > Using our source code would not benefit anybody but > our competitors. This excuse has been given time and time again, and repeatedly been proven false. And as soon as one of your competitors makes their drivers open,

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 22:27 -0800, v j wrote: > You are right. I have not contributed anything to Linux. Except one > small patch to the MTD code. However, I don't think that is the point > here. I am perfectly willing to live with the way Linux is today. I am > telling you as a user that if Linux

Re: [PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64

2007-02-15 Thread Andi Kleen
> It's always seemed broken (though perhaps this was a distro bug?) in > module form, so I've been compiling it in to get it to work. Must have been a distro bug. It should have worked before as long as the config was enabled. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l

Re: [PATCH] fix mempolicy's check on a system with memory-less-node take4

2007-02-15 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 15 February 2007 08:32, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > please ack if O.K. Ok for me -Andi - 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.org/majordomo-info.html Pleas

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 23:28 -0800, v j wrote: > Open = 3rd party Linux drivers can be loaded. Closed = No third party > Linux drivers can be loaded. Then go ahead and use Windows CE or VxWorks. By your silly definition they are pretty open. Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [patch 19/31] clockevents: i386 drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:02:11 +0100 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add clockevent drivers for i386: lapic (local) and PIT (global). Update > the timer IRQ to call into the PIT driver's event handler and the > lapic-timer IRQ to call into the lapic clockevent driver. The > assignement

Re: [PATCH 9/11] Panic delay fix

2007-02-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >>We'd have to audit and figure out what udelays are for hardware and > >>which are not, but the evidence is that the vast majority of them are > >>for hardware and not needed for virtualization. > >> > > > >Which is irrelevant since the hardware drivers won't be used in a > >virtualised

Re: [patch 3/4] ipmi: add pci remove handling

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:06:24 -0600 Corey Minyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add pci_remove handling to the driver, so it will clean up if > the device is hot-removed. > > Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Index: linux-2.6.19/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c > ===

[patch 2/3] Input: psmouse - wrap protocol extensions (except synaptics) with ifdefs

2007-02-15 Thread Andres Salomon
Allow ALPS, LOGIPS2PP, LIFEBOOK, and TRACKPOINT protocol extensions (in the psmouse driver) to be disabled during compilation. The synaptics stuff is left alone for now, since it needs special handling for synaptic pass-through ports. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a

[patch 1/3] Input: psmouse - create PS/2 protocol options for Kconfig

2007-02-15 Thread Andres Salomon
Initial framework for disabling PS/2 protocol extensions. The current protocols can only be disabled if CONFIG_EMBEDDED is selected. No source files are changed, merely build stuff. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig b/drivers/input/mouse/

[patch 3/3] Input: psmouse - allow disabling of synaptics protocol extension

2007-02-15 Thread Andres Salomon
Allow disabling of synaptics via CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS; we leave synaptic_detect and synaptic_reset (for synaptics hardware that emulates other protocols), but get rid of synaptic_init. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c b/driver

Re: [BUG] at drivers/char/vt.c:3332 do_blank_screen() on resume

2007-02-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > With 2.6.20, resuming from disk sometimes cannot returns on vt7 where X runs > but everything seems working, so just changing to vt1 and returning to vt7 > solves the problem. But dmesg shows some BUG() output like [1] whenever this > problem occurs > > I'm using 20070207 snapshot of susp

Re: irqdesc porting help

2007-02-15 Thread Paul Mundt
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:01:37PM +0530, Maximus wrote: > Im trying to port some drivers between 2.6.14 and 2.6.19 > > I find that irqdesc has changed completely. how do i port > the drivers between 2.6.14 and 2.6.19? > > is there a porting guide available to port the drivers > which use irqdesc

Re: irqdesc porting help

2007-02-15 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:33:47PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:01:37PM +0530, Maximus wrote: > > Im trying to port some drivers between 2.6.14 and 2.6.19 > > > > I find that irqdesc has changed completely. how do i port > > the drivers between 2.6.14 and 2.6.19? > > > >

Re: Serial console issues.

2007-02-15 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 05:39:22PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, this is the most bastardized sucker I've ever seen. . . I have had > no end of trouble with it (couldn't even get a boot loader to work with > it - had to write my own). And, as luck would have it, the serial port > is no d

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 04:44:51AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:46:13PM -0800, v j wrote: > > > Using our source code would not benefit anybody but > > > our competitors. > > > > This excuse has been given time and time again, and repeatedly

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Mohammed Gamal
I am still a kernel newbie, and I am still not very much aware about the GPL vs. Non-GPL drivers debate. I personally think it'd be better that all drivers should be GPL'd but if that's the case, what would be the legal position of such vendors as ATI or NVIDIA who supply closed source drivers? Wo

Re: [BUG] at drivers/char/vt.c:3332 do_blank_screen() on resume

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:40:32 +0100 Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Contact fbcon people... There aren't any, basically. Since Tony disappeared James has been helping out but doesn't have a lot of time. So we're pretty much on our own with problems in this area. - To unsubscribe from

Re: 2.6.20 new perfmon code base + libpfm + pfmon

2007-02-15 Thread Stephane Eranian
Andi, On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:20:56AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:48:39 -0800 Stephane Eranian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > I have released another version of the perfmon new code base package. > > > > Can we h

Re: [PATCH 000/196] V4L/DVB updates

2007-02-15 Thread Heikki Orsila
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:59:55AM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Basically, this series adds support for a bunch of newer cards and newer > drivers, do some relevant cleanups on cx88 (improving source code > readability and reducing binary code size), adds FM radio support on > pvrusb2 and

Re: [PATCH 3/6] scsi: megaraid_sas - throttle io if FW is busy

2007-02-15 Thread Richard Knutsson
Sumant Patro wrote: Checks added in megasas_queue_command to know if FW is able to process commands within the timeout period. If number of retries is 2 or more, the driver stops sending cmd to FW. IO is resumed when pending cmd count reduces to 16 or 10 seconds has elapsed from the time cmds we

Re: [linux-pm] Suspend to RAM, Sony Vaio PCG-SRX51P, lcd stays off

2007-02-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I own an older Sony Vaio SRX51P, European Model, P3 based. s2ram > identifies it with > > sys_vendor = "Sony Corporation" > sys_product = "PCG-SRX51P(DE) " > sys_version = "01 " > bios_version = "R0232U2" > > Suspend to RAM by using "s2ram -v -

Re: [uml-devel] UML hang with 100% CPU

2007-02-15 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > Strangely enough after continuing in gdb, UML is back to normal, and I > > can't make it hang any more. It must be something timing related. > > Can you see if the patch below fixes it? Yay! Got my nice fast UML back instead of ugly slow QEmu ;) Seems to work perfectly now. Thanks, Miklos

Re: [linux-pm] Suspend to RAM, Sony Vaio PCG-SRX51P, lcd stays off

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Dittmer
Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > >> I own an older Sony Vaio SRX51P, European Model, P3 based. s2ram >> identifies it with >> >> sys_vendor = "Sony Corporation" >> sys_product = "PCG-SRX51P(DE) " >> sys_version = "01 " >> bios_version = "R0232U2" >> >> Susp

Re: [linux-pm] Suspend to RAM, Sony Vaio PCG-SRX51P, lcd stays off

2007-02-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >> I own an older Sony Vaio SRX51P, European Model, P3 based. s2ram > >> identifies it with > >> > >> sys_vendor = "Sony Corporation" > >> sys_product = "PCG-SRX51P(DE) " > >> sys_version = "01 " > >> bios_version = "R0232U2" > >> > >> Suspend to

[PATCH]mm incorrect direct io error handling (v4)

2007-02-15 Thread Dmitriy Monakhov
Incorrect direct io error handling (v4) Changes from v3: - Patch preparead gainst 2.6.20-rc6-mm3. It seems now it's not conflict with Nick's stuff. - fix generic segment check function. LOG: If generic_file_direct_write() has fail (ENOSPC condition) inside __generic_file_aio_write_nolock()

Re: [linux-pm] Suspend to RAM, Sony Vaio PCG-SRX51P, lcd stays off

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Dittmer
Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > I own an older Sony Vaio SRX51P, European Model, P3 based. s2ram identifies it with sys_vendor = "Sony Corporation" sys_product = "PCG-SRX51P(DE) " sys_version = "01 " bios_version = "R0232

Re: [BUG] at drivers/char/vt.c:3332 do_blank_screen() on resume

2007-02-15 Thread S.Çağlar Onur
15 Şub 2007 Per tarihinde, Andrew Morton şunları yazmıştı: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:40:32 +0100 Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Contact fbcon people... > > There aren't any, basically. Since Tony disappeared James has been helping > out but doesn't have a lot of time. So we're pretty

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 12:51 +0200, Mohammed Gamal wrote: > I am still a kernel newbie, and I am still not very much aware about > the GPL vs. Non-GPL drivers debate. I personally think it'd be better > that all drivers should be GPL'd but if that's the case, what would be > the legal position of su

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Trent Waddington
On 2/15/07, Xavier Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But that's not the case with VJ's drivers, which are apparently solely for linux, so should be distributed under the GPL. In any case, you're free to use any driver, regardless of license.. copyright does not cover use, only "copying" and mos

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Ihar `Philips` Filipau
Our source code is meaningless to the Open Source community at large. It is only useful to our tiny set of competitors that have nothing to do with Linux. The Embedded space is very specific. We are only _using_ Linux. Just as we could have used VxWorks or OSE. Using our source code would not bene

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:00:56PM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 12:51 +0200, Mohammed Gamal wrote: > > I am still a kernel newbie, and I am still not very much aware about > > the GPL vs. Non-GPL drivers debate. I personally think it'd be better > > that all drivers shoul

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:05:11PM +1000, Trent Waddington wrote: > On 2/15/07, Xavier Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But that's not the case with VJ's drivers, which are apparently solely > > for linux, so should be distributed under the GPL. > > In any case, you're free to use any dr

Re: [PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:49:57AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > It's always seemed broken (though perhaps this was a distro bug?) in > > module form, so I've been compiling it in to get it to work. > > Must have been a distro bug. It should have worked before as long > as the config was

Re: 2.6.20-git10: BUG at drivers/pci/pci.c:817 during suspend to disk

2007-02-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Update: On Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:16, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > I've got this in the resume-during-suspend phase of suspend to disk with > 2.6.20-git10 on HPC nx6325: > > PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:06.0 to 64 > sata_sil :00:12.0: resuming > BUG: at drivers/p

Re: [PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64

2007-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:49:57AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > It's always seemed broken (though perhaps this was a distro bug?) in > > module form, so I've been compiling it in to get it to work. > > Must have been a distro bug. It should have worked before as long

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Trent Waddington
On 2/15/07, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I assume ATI's lawyers think its legal, as it's been a year and a half since I first brought this questionable act to their attention. Lawyers don't think X is legal.. that's not how lawyers think. If ATI's lawyers have advised ATI on this at a

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2007-02-15 Thread ddup1
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Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Bodo Eggert
v j <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote: >> > This is in reference to the following thread: >> > >> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 >> > >> > I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but l

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Martin Mares
Hello! > >I think you have a bit of a misunderstanding... Linux is not royalty > >free. Just the royalty is not in the form of cash, but in the form of > >having to give your improvements back to the open source world. > > Sure. But this is not legally binding. Maybe it's not, but it certainly d

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:30:33PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > On Wednesday February 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am well aware of what Greg KHs position is, in fact he is the reason > > I started the whole rant. This is only a plea to the "higher > > authorities". Linus, please save Linux! >

Re: [PATCH] Add PM_TRACE x86_64 support.

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:08:06 +1100 Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch add x86_64 support for PM_TRACE, and shifts per-arch code to > the appropriate subdirectories. ia64 allmodconfig: include/linux/resume-trace.h:4:30: asm/resume-trace.h: No such file or directory drivers/b

Re: 2.6.20 mmc: problem with highspeed SD card

2007-02-15 Thread Eugene Ilkov
On 2/15/07, Pierre Ossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eugene Ilkov wrote: > I have I/O errors with Transcend SD highspeed card 2GB/150x when it's > mounted in r/w mode (cardreader on sharp sl-c1000) > It works well if I reverse mmcv4 patch commited to 2.6.19-git2 > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/4

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] more support for memory-less-node.

2007-02-15 Thread Bodo Eggert
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now if it's better to set up a empty node or use a nearby node > for a memory less cpu can be further discussed. I still think > I lean towards the later. Worst case: Only slot 0 is used. Plug your memoryless CPU card into the last slot before your plug the

Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 0/4] Freezer based Cpu-hotplug

2007-02-15 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:09:51AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Why should we make sure that PF_NOFREEZE tasks are also frozen for > > cpu hotplug? Instead, we can create an infrastructure which allows threads > > to > > specify for the scenarios they would want to be excempted from fr

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Mws
hi vj, On Thursday 15 February 2007, v j wrote: > This is in reference to the following thread: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 > > I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_ > popular in the embedded space. We (an embedded vendor) chose Linux 3 > years back beca

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Neil Horman
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:16:44PM -0800, v j wrote: > On 2/14/07, v j <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This has nothing to do with politics. I am not a Linux contributor. I > >realize that people who have contributed to the Linux Kernel have very > >valid points. It is their sweat and blood. They h

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/15/07, Mws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi vj, On Thursday 15 February 2007, v j wrote: > This is in reference to the following thread: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 > > I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_ > popular in the embedded space. We (an embed

Re: irqdesc porting help

2007-02-15 Thread Maximus
Hi, My drivers in 2.6.14 use statements like desc->triggered = 1; And desc also points to some members of irqdesc which arent in 2.6.19 but in 2.6.14. Im a newbie, What changes am i supposed to make to make it work in 2.6.19. Im not sure what changes are exactly needed. Ple

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 15 2007 18:43, Neil Brown wrote: >> > We seem to have different definitions of open and closed. >> >> Open = 3rd party Linux drivers can be loaded. Closed = No third party >> Linux drivers can be loaded. > >Loading a driver is not at issue. Anyone may load a driver. And, after all, beca

Re: irqdesc porting help

2007-02-15 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:41:25PM +0530, Maximus wrote: > Hi, > My drivers in 2.6.14 use statements like > desc->triggered = 1; > And desc also points to some members of irqdesc which arent in > 2.6.19 but in 2.6.14. But why do you have code which accesses these members? Can you

Re: irqdesc porting help

2007-02-15 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:41 +0530, Maximus wrote: > Hi, >My drivers in 2.6.14 use statements like > desc->triggered = 1; >And desc also points to some members of irqdesc which arent in > 2.6.19 but in 2.6.14. > >Im a newbie, What changes am i supposed to make to make it wo

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, On Feb 15 2007 21:35, Trent Waddington wrote: > > I, personally, don't know why anyone who owned copyright on any GPL > software and had no desire to enforce that copyright, would not offer > to assign their copyright to the FSF so they can defend it.. but I > imagine people have their reason

Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb

2007-02-15 Thread Sergei Organov
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Sergei Organov wrote: >> >> Sorry, what do you do with "variable 'xxx' might be used uninitialized" >> warning when it's false? Turn it off? Annotate the source? Assign fake >> initialization value? Change the compiler so that it do

Re: [PATCH] pxafb: Add option to enable/disable the cursor

2007-02-15 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:22:01PM +, James Simmons wrote: > > The reason you have a cursor is because you are using the framebuffer > console. Do you need fbcon ? Yes. During the system update process on in the production stage a console is very useful. Ciao, Rodolfo -- GNU/Linux Solu

Re: [PATCH 9/11] Panic delay fix

2007-02-15 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 2/14/07, Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 19:53 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote: > Failure to use real-time delay here causes the keyboard to become demonically > possessed in the event of a kernel crash, with wildly blinking lights and > unpredictable behavior. This

Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 0/4] Freezer based Cpu-hotplug

2007-02-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:20, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:09:51AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > Why should we make sure that PF_NOFREEZE tasks are also frozen for > > > cpu hotplug? Instead, we can create an infrastructure which allows > > > threads t

Re: [patch 05/11] syslets: core code

2007-02-15 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:38:16PM -0800, Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Or how would you do the trivial example loop that I explained was a good > idea: > > struct one_entry *prev = NULL; > struct dirent *de; > > while ((de = readdir(dir)) != NULL) { >

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Neil Horman
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:27:10PM -0800, v j wrote: > On 2/14/07, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:16:28PM -0800, v j wrote: > > > >Welcome to three months ago. > >Here in the future, this was deemed a non-issue. > >However this does highlight another problem. >

Re: Linus' laptop and Num lock status

2007-02-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Dax Kelson wrote: Are there any technical or political reasons why kernel can't change from "force off" to "Follow BIOS"? How would you query it? I'm not even 100% sure that you can on all keyboards. We never query the leds, we always set them. I th

Suspend to RAM, Sony Vaio PCG-SRX51P, lcd stays off

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Dittmer
Hi there, I own an older Sony Vaio SRX51P, European Model, P3 based. s2ram identifies it with sys_vendor = "Sony Corporation" sys_product = "PCG-SRX51P(DE) " sys_version = "01 " bios_version = "R0232U2" Suspend to RAM by using "s2ram -v -m -f" actual

Re: [PATCH 000/196] V4L/DVB updates

2007-02-15 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Heikki Orsila wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:59:55AM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Basically, this series adds support for a bunch of newer cards and newer drivers, do some relevant cleanups on cx88 (improving source code readability and reducing binary code size),

Re: [linux-pm] Suspend to RAM, Sony Vaio PCG-SRX51P, lcd stays off

2007-02-15 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Thu, February 15, 2007 11:36 am, Pavel Machek said: > Hi! > >> I own an older Sony Vaio SRX51P, European Model, P3 based. s2ram >> identifies it with >> >> sys_vendor = "Sony Corporation" >> sys_product = "PCG-SRX51P(DE) " >> sys_version = "01 " >> b

Re: [BUG] 2.6.20 Oopses in xfrm_audit_log

2007-02-15 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
Joy Latten wrote: i upgraded to vanilla kernel 2.6.20 and while i was using strongswan 2.8.2 to setup an IPSEC VPN i got the following kernel Ooops. I had successfully established the same tunnel a few times, but key renegotiation caused a problem ( both ends did not renegotiate at the same tim

[PATCH]mm __page_symlink retry loop error code fix

2007-02-15 Thread Dmitriy Monakhov
If prepare_write or commit_write return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE we jump to "retry" label and than if find_or_create_page() failed function return incorrect error code. Initilally i've add this fix as a part of prepare_write_retval patch, but IMHO it is better to split this to separate fix. Patch agains

Re: utrace regressions (was: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21)

2007-02-15 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:05:30PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:36:34PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: > > > 2. The following proggie renders box unusable in ~10 seconds (but not > > >mainline kernel where Ctrl+C will kill process). > > > > I haven't been able to rep

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Jan De Luyck
On Thursday 15 February 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:46:13PM -0800, v j wrote: > > > Using our source code would not benefit anybody but > > our competitors. > > This excuse has been given time and time again, and repeatedly been > proven false. And as soon as one of your

Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 0/4] Freezer based Cpu-hotplug

2007-02-15 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:31:08PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > So I think tonight I'll start adding try_to_freeze() to the kernel threads > that > set PF_NOFREEZE. cool! While you are at it, let me try to enhance the freezer api's to incorporate the PFE_* flags. > > > > That would stil

Re: 2.6.20-mm1 [kernel BUG at mm/swap.c:442]

2007-02-15 Thread James Morris
Hit a BUG() via lvm: Scanning logical volumes Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 Activating logical volumes [ 75.215078] [ cut here ] [ 75.230165] kernel BUG at mm/swap.c:442! [ 75.2445

Re: Linus' laptop and Num lock status

2007-02-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jean Delvare wrote: On x86, the BIOS led state can be read from byte 0x97 the BIOS RAM. The BIOS RAM is mapped at 0x400 so all we need to do is to one byte from RAM (offset 0x497). This is how Suse's hwinfo does. Perhaps that's what Suse does, but the proper address is 0x417. 0x497 is the ra

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: > On 2/15/07, Mws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hi vj, >> >> On Thursday 15 February 2007, v j wrote: >>> This is in reference to the following thread: >>> >>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 >>> >>> I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but

Re: [PATCH] Optimize generic get_unaligned / put_unaligned implementations.

2007-02-15 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:39:03PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Can someone please tell us how this magic works? (And it does appear to > work). > > It seems to assuming that the compiler will assume that members of packed > structures can have arbitrary alignment, even if that alignment is obv

Re: 2.6.20-mm1 [kernel BUG at mm/swap.c:442]

2007-02-15 Thread James Morris
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, James Morris wrote: > Hit a BUG() via lvm: Also, I just disabled paravirt ops and saw the same bug, so it's not that stuff. -- James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PRO

Re: 2.6.20-mm1

2007-02-15 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Andrew Morton napisał(a): > Temporarily at > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-mm1/ > > Will appear later at > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm1/ > > BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /mnt/md0/devel/linux-mm/mm/

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "JDL" == Jan De Luyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JDL> I think a nice example of that might be the Linksys WRT54G JDL> routers. They don't ship with Linux anymore, except the WRT54GL. Apparently switching was worth it to save 2MB flash. /Benny - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC, PATCH] CELL Oprofile SPU profiling updated patch

2007-02-15 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 15 February 2007 00:52, Carl Love wrote: > --- linux-2.6.20-rc1.orig/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Kconfig 2007-01-18 > 16:43:14.0 -0600 > +++ linux-2.6.20-rc1/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Kconfig2007-02-13 > 19:04:46.271028904 -0600 > @@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ > > config OPROFILE >

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 22:27 -0800, v j wrote: [...] > here. I am perfectly willing to live with the way Linux is today. I am > telling you as a user that if Linux continues on the current path it > will become less and less attractive to Embedded Users. Which is only (or more accurate: at most) tr

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 23:28 -0800, v j wrote: > On 2/14/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At least one of us is confused about that an embedded User is. > > It seems to me that you are an embedded developer, not User. > > I doubt that most Embedded Users care what their OS is, > > or

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 22:46 -0800, v j wrote: > You don't get it do you. Our source code is meaningless to the Open > Source community at large. It is only useful to our tiny set of Perhaps you should leave that decision to the open source community at large. [ Useless fullquote deleted ]

[PATCH] 9p: add write-cache support to loose cache mode (take 2)

2007-02-15 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
Loose cache mode was added primarily to asssist exclusive, read-only mounts (like venti) -- however, there is also a case for using loose write cacheing in support of read/write exclusive mounts. This feature is linked to the loose cache option and is disabled by default. This code adds the neces

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 15:37 +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote: > > "JDL" == Jan De Luyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JDL> I think a nice example of that might be the Linksys WRT54G > JDL> routers. > > They don't ship with Linux anymore, except the WRT54GL. Apparently > switching was worth it to

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