[PATCH 1/2] AFS: Make the match_*() functions take const options

2007-05-01 Thread David Howells
Make the match_*() functions take a const pointer to the options table and make strings pointers in the options table const too. Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/parser.h |8 lib/parser.c | 10 +- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

[PATCH 2/2] AFS/AF_RXRPC: Miscellaneous fixes

2007-05-01 Thread David Howells
Make miscellaneous fixes to AFS and AF_RXRPC: (*) Make AF_RXRPC select KEYS rather than RXKAD or AFS_FS in Kconfig. (*) Don't use FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA. (*) Remove a done 'TODO' item in a comemnt on afs_get_sb(). (*) Don't pass a void * as the page pointer argument of kmap_atomic() as this

Re: [AF_RXRPC]: Make the in-kernel AFS filesystem use AF_RXRPC.

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > This causes a compile failure on m68k: > > > > | linux/fs/afs/fsclient.c: In function 'afs_deliver_fs_fetch_data': > > | linux/fs/afs/fsclient.c:269: warning: dereferencing 'void *' pointer > > | linux/fs

Re: [PATCH 2/9] Containers (V9): Example CPU accounting subsystem

2007-05-01 Thread Balbir Singh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + +/* Lazily update the load calculation if necessary. Called with ca locked */ +static void cpuusage_update(struct cpuacct *ca) +{ + u64 now = get_jiffies_64(); + /* If we're not due for an update, return */ + if (ca->next_interval_check > now) +

Re: [AF_RXRPC]: Make the in-kernel AFS filesystem use AF_RXRPC.

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 1 May 2007, David Howells wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On architectures that #define WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL (frv/m68k/mips/extensa), > > page_address(page) expands to (page)->virtual, which fails if page is a > > void *. > > On FRV, kmap_atomic() should always be a

Re: 2.6.20 libata cdrom

2007-05-01 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Tuesday 01 May 2007, William Thompson wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:04:46AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > > William Thompson wrote: > > > > > >+scsi2 : ata_piix > > >+ata_port_schedule_eh: port EH scheduled > > >+ata_scsi_error: ENTER > > >+ata_port_flush_task: ENTER > > >+ata_port_flush

[PATCH] drivers/scsi/pci2000.h: Remove unused file

2007-05-01 Thread Richard Knutsson
Remove the unused header drivers/scsi/pci2000.h Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- 'grep -nr "pci2000"' on the whole tree results only in a reference to pci2000.h Diffed against Linus' git-tree. diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pci2000.h b/drivers/scsi/pci2000.h deleted file mode 1

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans -- lumpy reclaim

2007-05-01 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 14:02 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Perhaps Peter would have some time to take a look over the latest stack > as it appears in -mm when that releases; ping me for a patch kit if you > want it before then :). Lumpy-reclaim -v7, as per the roll-up provided privately; Code is

[GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB updates

2007-05-01 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Linus, Please pull from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git master This series contains a few fixes and cleanups, including a compilation fix for alpha architecture: - Cx88: fix compilation on alpha - MEDIA: Spinlock initializer cleanup - Cx88

Re: [PATCH 2/2] AFS/AF_RXRPC: Miscellaneous fixes

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi David, I've just noticed another issue: if CONFIG_AFS_FS=y, the kernel build fails with | `afs_callback_update_kill' referenced in section `.init.text' of fs/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of fs/built-in.o | `afs_vlocation_purge' referenced in section `.init.tex

Re: Natsemi DP83815 driver spaming

2007-05-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:25:20PM +0200, Rafał Bilski wrote: > eth0: Media selection timer tick. > eth0: possible phy reset: re-initializing This is why the reset is being triggered - it's a workaround for a hardware bug which checks to make sure the hardware is in the state that the kernel thin

Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/4] SoC base drivers

2007-05-01 Thread ian
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 20:29 +0400, Dmitry Krivoschekov wrote: > If you used ASIC acronym it would be more appropriate and not so > ambiguous. Actually, thats not bad. I'd be ok with that is SoC isnt used. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-01 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > i386-use-page-allocator-to-allocate-thread_info-structure.patch > slub-core.patch > > slub. Or part thereof. This is another patch series which got messed up by > poor patch sequencing. > > make-page-private-usable-in-compound-pages-v1.patch >

Re: [PATCH 2/2] AFS/AF_RXRPC: Miscellaneous fixes

2007-05-01 Thread David Howells
Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just noticed another issue: if CONFIG_AFS_FS=y, the kernel build fails > with Can you send me the config you're using please? David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

[PATCH 1/3] Char: mxser, schedule for removal

2007-05-01 Thread Jiri Slaby
mxser, schedule for removal Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 429ee8495d50042ae8894b8302887b191f56fe5f tree 97c280fc9246e5972d14f049837306b2bc0ec6f5 parent 60afd67836e502a099db6a5b78512f37cb44b81a author Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 01 May 2007 20:06:29 +0200 committ

Re: [PATCH 3/9] Containers (V9): Add tasks file interface

2007-05-01 Thread Balbir Singh
+static int attach_task_by_pid(struct container *cont, char *pidbuf) +{ + pid_t pid; + struct task_struct *tsk; + int ret; + + if (sscanf(pidbuf, "%d", &pid) != 1) + return -EIO; + + if (pid) { + read_lock(&tasklist_lock); You could just

[PATCH 2/3] Char: isicom, use pr_debug

2007-05-01 Thread Jiri Slaby
isicom, use pr_debug Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit f4fba1005f8f25f5dc369f6e6e04643f4b6a6822 tree 82ba620999de3010b7aebf2a31998e7625e878aa parent 429ee8495d50042ae8894b8302887b191f56fe5f author Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 01 May 2007 20:09:53 +0200 committer Jiri

[PATCH 3/3] Serial: serial_core, use pr_debug

2007-05-01 Thread Jiri Slaby
serial_core, use pr_debug Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 2261bd870cd3c289ec74db4b2cfddb5c9ed59e95 tree 05f23ba7ce1add483b1e72c5a02bc0309536b7ea parent f4fba1005f8f25f5dc369f6e6e04643f4b6a6822 author Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 01 May 2007 20:10:04 +0200 committer

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/pci2000.h: Remove unused file

2007-05-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Richard Knutsson wrote: > Remove the unused header drivers/scsi/pci2000.h i have the same patch in my pending patch directory, dated march 10, so i know i submitted it, but i have no idea whatever happened to it. rday -- ==

[PATCH] AFS: Fix use of __exit functions from __init path

2007-05-01 Thread David Howells
Fix use of __exit functions from __init path. Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/afs/callback.c |2 +- fs/afs/internal.h |4 ++-- fs/afs/vlocation.c |2 +- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/afs/callback.c b/fs/afs/callback.c inde

2.6.21rc7-mm1 usb/sysfs oops.

2007-05-01 Thread Dave Jones
I thought I'd try something really silly, and set up a raid5 stripe across 3 USB memory sticks just for giggles. it worked just fine. Then I thought I'd be *really* clever and see how well raid5 reconstruction over same would behave, and yanked one out whilst the array was still 'up'. *boom*. No

[PATCH 1/6] Remove tas()

2007-05-01 Thread Jeff Dike
tas() has no users, so get rid of it. The blackfin piece of this clashes with mainline, so this should maybe be merged with the blackfin port. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- include/asm-alpha/system.h |3 --- include/asm-arm/system.h |2 -- include/asm-arm26/sy

[PATCH 4/6] UML - free() wrapper should call libc free

2007-05-01 Thread Jeff Dike
The libc free wrapper wasn't correctly detecting buffers obtained with malloc(). This is now done by seeing if the page was reserved. This is the case for memory which is left aside for libc and isn't given to the page allocator. If we free a pointer in a reserved page, it is given to free() rat

[PATCH 5/6] UML - Network and pcap cleanup

2007-05-01 Thread Jeff Dike
[ Paolo - could you eyeball the globally valid MAC piece of this and see if you think it's OK? ] Some network device cleanup. When setup_etheraddr found a globally valid MAC being assigned to an interface, it went ahead and used it rather than assigning a random MAC like the other cases do. This

[PATCH 0/6] cmpxchg cleanups and UML fixes

2007-05-01 Thread Jeff Dike
This set is a combination of cmpxchg cleanups and UML fixes. Patches 1 - 3 are the cmpxchg stuff - Remove tas() from all arches - I can't find any users. Move the i386 cmpxchg to asm-i386/cmpxchg.h Move the x86_64 cmpxchg to asm-x86_64/cmpxchg.h Patches 4 - 6 fix things di

[PATCH /6] UML - pcap devices should get MACs from command line

2007-05-01 Thread Jeff Dike
Allow a pcap device to be assigned a MAC on the command line. They don't really need one, but it is handy to be able to do when your distro assigns a new ethernet device whenever it sees a new MAC. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- arch/um/drivers/pcap_kern.c |2 +- 1 file chan

[PATCH 3/6] Create asm-x86_64/cmpxchg.h

2007-05-01 Thread Jeff Dike
This is the x86_64 movement of cmpxchg into its own header. atomic.h already included system.h, so this is changed to include cmpxchg.h. This is purely cleanup - it's not fixing any warnings - so if the x86_64 system.h isn't considered as cleanup-worthy as i386, then this can be dropped. It caus

[PATCH 2/6] Create asm-i386/cmpxchg.h

2007-05-01 Thread Jeff Dike
Rearrange the i386 cmpxchg code to allow atomic.h to get it without needing to include system.h. This kills warnings in the UML build from atomic.h about implicit declarations of cmpxchg symbols. The i386 build presumably isn't seeing this because a separate inclusion of system.h is covering it o

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: DST/BT878 module customization (.. was: Critical points about ...)

2007-05-01 Thread Uwe Bugla
Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 01 May 2007 18:40:54 +0200 Von: "Uwe Bugla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [linux-dvb] Re:

Re: [PATCH] AFS: Fix use of __exit functions from __init path

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 1 May 2007, David Howells wrote: > Fix use of __exit functions from __init path. > > Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There

[PATCH 2.6.21] udf: Decrement correct link count in udf_rmdir

2007-05-01 Thread Stephen Mollett
It appears that a minor thinko occurred in udf_rmdir and the (already-cleared) link count on the directory that is being removed was being decremented instead of the link count on its parent directory. This gives rise to lots of kernel messages similar to: UDF-fs warning (device loop1): udf_rmd

Re: BAD_SG_DMA panic in aha1542

2007-05-01 Thread Bob Tracy
Alan Cox wrote: > The one I sent has a memory leak but it won't matter for basic testing. > Or you can change the final bit to > > > scsi_normalize_sense((char *)sense, sizeof(*sense), &sshdr); > > if (zebedee != cgc->buffer) { > if (cgc->data_direction ==

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add cxacru website/mailing list

2007-05-01 Thread Simon Arlott
I've not made any contact with the developers of the sourceforge project, but it would be useful for users to able to find the mailing list and the website for firmware information even if the driver page is very out of date right now. Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Duncan

Re: per-thread rusage

2007-05-01 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On 5/1/07, Bill Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A sort of note for me to refer back to when I get the rest of the way here. AIX does this with getrusage(RUSAGE_THREAD,...), Solaris with getrusage(RUSAGE_LWP,...), RUSAGE_LWP is a remnant of Solaris' M-on-N thread library days. No reason to got

dead headers under drivers/

2007-05-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
since richard's recent post reminded me, here's a list of header files under drivers/ that absolutely no one in the entire tree is including: ./drivers/serial/crisv10.h ./drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/dbgioctl.h ./drivers/char/digi.h ./drivers/message/i2o/i2o_lan.h ./drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/m

Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 1/9] Containers (V9): Basic container framework

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Jackson
[[ I have bcc'd one or more batch scheduler experts on this post. They will know who they are, and should be aware that they are not listed in the public cc list of this message. - pj ]] Balbir Singh, responding to Paul Menage's Container patch set on lkml, wrote: > > > +*** notif

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/pci2000.h: Remove unused file

2007-05-01 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 14:16 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Richard Knutsson wrote: > > > Remove the unused header drivers/scsi/pci2000.h > > i have the same patch in my pending patch directory, dated march 10, > so i know i submitted it, but i have no idea whatever happened

[PATCH] add-suspend-related-notifications-for-cpu-hotplug-cleanup

2007-05-01 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 04/27, Andrew Morton wrote: > > We have a huge amount of change pending in the kthread/workqueue/freezer > area, partly because I decided not to merge most of the workqueue changes > into 2.6.21. > > It'd be good if people could take some time to sit down and re-review the > code which we prese

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: DST/BT878 module customization (.. was: Critical points about ...)

2007-05-01 Thread Simon Arlott
On 01/05/07 19:30, Uwe Bugla wrote: If you would avoid making inflammatory comments, the people who are trying to help you will be more inclined to fix the problems that these patches DO cause so they can be added. A while ago, you went on and on about your broken floppy drive and how peop

[PATCH] NET: Delete unused header file net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.h.

2007-05-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete the apparently unused header file net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kind of odd that this header file is unreferenced since there's a matching source file net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.c. oh, well ... diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.h b/net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.h

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add cxacru website/mailing list

2007-05-01 Thread Duncan Sands
On Tuesday 1 May 2007 20:39:33 Simon Arlott wrote: > I've not made any contact with the developers of the sourceforge project, > but it would be useful for users to able to find the mailing list and the > website for firmware information even if the driver page is very out of > date right now. >

Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/4] SoC base drivers

2007-05-01 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 20:18 +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Tuesday, May 1, 2007, 6:01:15 PM, you wrote: > > A while back I proposed drivers/mfd/ (multi function devices) and there > > are a couple of drivers in there in mainline which probably fit your > > description of SoC. The code I had once i

Re: fragmentation avoidance Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 1 May 2007 11:16:51 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mel Gorman) wrote: > OK, I did all the reorganisation which you recommended. > Ok. It is getting reviewed by Christoph and I'm going through the TODO items > it yielded. Andy has also been regularly reviewing them which is probably > why they

Re: fragmentation avoidance Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-01 Thread Mel Gorman
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > >>anti-fragmentation-switch-over-to-pfn_valid_within.patch >> >> These patches are the grouping pages by mobility patches. They get tested >> every time someone boots the machine from the perspective that th

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans -- lumpy reclaim

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 01 May 2007 14:02:41 +0100 Andy Whitcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some primitive stats patches which we have used performance > testing. Perhaps those could be brought up to date to provide better > visibility into lumpy's operation. Again this would be a separate patch. Fee

Re: [RFC, PATCH 1/4] SoC base drivers: SoC helper API

2007-05-01 Thread Russell King
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:08:27AM +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > +void soc_free_devices(struct platform_device *devices, int nr_devs) > +{ > + struct platform_device *dev = devices; > + int i; > + > + for (i = 0; i < nr_devs; i++) { > + struct resource *res = dev->resource

Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/4] SoC base drivers

2007-05-01 Thread Dmitry Krivoschekov
ian wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 20:29 +0400, Dmitry Krivoschekov wrote: >> If you used ASIC acronym it would be more appropriate and not so >> ambiguous. > > Actually, thats not bad. I'd be ok with that is SoC isnt used. > I'm ok with that too, i.e. very rough definition is: SoC (system-on-chip

[PATCH] block: Convert to generic boolean

2007-05-01 Thread Richard Knutsson
Convert to generic boolean Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Compile-tested but most arch/conf tested failed for other reasons then this Diffed against Linus' git-tree. ps2esdi.c |8 z2ram.c |3 --- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff

Re: Natsemi DP83815 driver spaming

2007-05-01 Thread Rafał Bilski
>> eth0: Media selection timer tick. >> eth0: possible phy reset: re-initializing > > This is why the reset is being triggered - it's a workaround for a hardware > bug which checks to make sure the hardware is in the state that the > kernel thinks it is is going off. The code has this explanatory

Re: pcmcia ioctl removal

2007-05-01 Thread Russell King
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:12:36PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > init/obsolete.c: > static __init int obsolete_init(void) > { > printk("\e[1;31m"" > > The following stuff is gonna get removed \e[5;37m SOON: \e[0m > - cardmgr > - foobar > - bweebol > > "); > schedule

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: DST/BT878 module customization (.. was: Critical points about ...)

2007-05-01 Thread e9hack
Uwe Bugla wrote: > > The biggest problem that I had with you in the past weeks is and was that you > never even once offer full transparency when you are building up theses NOT > TO accept patches. > > And if it is only the other side (me, Trent, others) to be forced to offer > transparent inf

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 "irqpoll" seems to be broken

2007-05-01 Thread Bernhard Walle
Hello Vivek, * Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-30 10:48]: > > > handle_edge_irq() already makes sure that desc->action is not null, still > note_interrupt() is receiving desc->action as null, that's strange. On my > system this is happening for irq 4 and /proc/interrupt shows that it is

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-01 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > Most of the rest of slub. Will merge it all. > > Merging slub already? I'm surprised. That's a very key piece of > infrastructure, and I doubt it's had the exposure it needs yet. Its not the default. Its just an alternative like SLOB. It will take s

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: DST/BT878 module customization (.. was: Critical points about ...)

2007-05-01 Thread Uwe Bugla
Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 01 May 2007 21:20:01 +0200 Von: e9hack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: Uwe Bugla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Betreff: Re: [linux-dvb] Re

Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/4] SoC base drivers

2007-05-01 Thread Russell King
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:18:21PM +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Well, while description catches the essence of course, TLA is > far from being perfect: 1) Completely unknown; 2) can be easily > confused with mtd. > > But it's even more funny: there *is* drivers/mfd/ already in >

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans -- vm bugfixes

2007-05-01 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > mm-simplify-filemap_nopage.patch > > mm-fix-fault-vs-invalidate-race-for-linear-mappings.patch > > mm-merge-populate-and-nopage-into-fault-fixes-nonlinear.patch > > mm-merge-nopfn-into-fault.patch > > convert-hugetlbfs-to-use

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: DST/BT878 module customization (.. was: Critical points about ...)

2007-05-01 Thread Uwe Bugla
Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 01 May 2007 19:50:38 +0100 Von: Simon Arlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: Uwe Bugla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Betreff: Re: [linux-d

Re: [PATCH 16/21] sysfs: implement bin_buffer

2007-05-01 Thread Satyam Sharma
(We went off-list just now. Adding lkml again.) On 5/1/07, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Satyam Sharma wrote: > On 4/28/07, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Implement bin_buffer which contains a mutex and pointer to PAGE_SIZE >> buffer to properly synchronize accesses to per-openfi

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/pci2000.h: Remove unused file

2007-05-01 Thread Richard Knutsson
James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 14:16 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2007, Richard Knutsson wrote: Remove the unused header drivers/scsi/pci2000.h i have the same patch in my pending patch directory, dated march 10, so i know i submitted it, but i hav

Re: [linux-cifs-client] Re: SMB2 file system - should it be a distinctmodule

2007-05-01 Thread Wagner, Chris (GEAE, CBTS)
Then we can just rename the project CI. :) Jan Engelhardt wrote: > And, what also puzzles me... almost every filesystem that's not at revision 1 > anymore (ext2/3/4, reiser4, smb2) does not have the usually omnipresent "fs" > suffix anymore (cf. reiserfs, smbfs). Maybe it's time to drop all the "f

[PATCH] UML - forgot asm-um/cmpxchg.h

2007-05-01 Thread Jeff Dike
The i386 and x86_64 cmpxchg patches require an asm-um/cmpxchg.h for the UML build. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- include/asm-um/cmpxchg.h |6 ++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.21-mm/include/asm-um/cmpxchg.h =

[patch] trivial: laptop-mode URL update

2007-05-01 Thread Zach Carter
trivial laptop-mode URL update. Signed-off-by: Zach Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt b/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt index 6f639e3..8b15502 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ or anything. Simp

Re: Natsemi DP83815 driver spaming

2007-05-01 Thread Rafał Bilski
>> eth0: Media selection timer tick. >> eth0: possible phy reset: re-initializing > > This is why the reset is being triggered - it's a workaround for a hardware > bug which checks to make sure the hardware is in the state that the > kernel thinks it is is going off. The code has this explanatory

[PATCH] uml: fixup allocation in the ubd driver

2007-05-01 Thread Peter Zijlstra
I needed this for 2.6.21-rc7-mm2, ubd was complaining about sleeping in an atomic context. --- Sanitise gfp flags; it actually is an atomic context, so drop the GFP_KERNEL part. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 1 May 2007 19:10:29 +0100 (BST) Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Most of the rest of slub. Will merge it all. > > Merging slub already? I'm surprised. My thinking here is "does slub have a future". I think the answer is "yes", so we're reasonably safe getting it into mainli

Re: [PATCH 2/5] jffs2: Add LZO compression support to jffs2

2007-05-01 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 01 May 2007 15:47:03 +0100 Richard Purdie wrote: > Add LZO1X compression/decompression support to jffs2. > > LZO's interface doesn't entirely match that required by jffs2 so a > buffer and memcpy is unavoidable. > > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > diff --git

Memory consumption on linux

2007-05-01 Thread Christian Schmidt
Hi all, I could not find good documentation anywhere on the memory usage of linux, or rather, how to interpret the output of the various tools dealing with memory consumption. First of, generally - there's resident, virtual and shared memory for each process, and global buffers/cache. Global cac

Re: [PATCH 3/5] jffs2: Add a "favourlzo" compression mode to jffs2

2007-05-01 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 01 May 2007 15:47:12 +0100 Richard Purdie wrote: > Add a "favourlzo" compression mode to jffs2 which tries to > optimise by size but gives lzo an advantage when comparing sizes. > This means the faster lzo algorithm can be preferred when there > isn't much difference in compressed size (th

Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-05-01 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 05:58:42PM +0200, Oliver Endriss wrote: > Has anyone a problem with this patch? > If not I'll apply it tomorrow... The patch seems fine, but incomplete : it allows budget-ci to work, but don't allow cx88 cards to works. -- Grégoire FAVRE http://gregoire.favre.googlepages

Re: [PATCH 16/21] sysfs: implement bin_buffer

2007-05-01 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 5/2/07, Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (We went off-list just now. Adding lkml again.) On 5/1/07, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Satyam Sharma wrote: > > On 4/28/07, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Implement bin_buffer which contains a mutex and pointer to PAGE_SIZ

Re: [PATCH 23/36] Use menuconfig objects II - netdev/wan

2007-05-01 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Change Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so > that the user can disable the whole feature without having to > enter the menu first. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > drivers/net/wan/Kconfig | 34 +

Re: [PATCH 4/5] jffs2: Allow selection of compression mode via a sysfs attribute

2007-05-01 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 01 May 2007 15:47:19 +0100 Richard Purdie wrote: > Allow selection of the compression mode for jffs2 via a sysfs > attribute. This establishes a sysfs presence for jffs2 through > which other compression options could easily be exported too. > > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/4] SoC base drivers

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello Dmitry, Tuesday, May 1, 2007, 10:08:23 PM, you wrote: > ian wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 20:29 +0400, Dmitry Krivoschekov wrote: >>> If you used ASIC acronym it would be more appropriate and not so >>> ambiguous. >> >> Actually, thats not bad. I'd be ok with that is SoC isnt used. >> >

Re: condingstyle, was Re: utrace comments

2007-05-01 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 5/1/07, John Anthony Kazos Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's horrid. I'd much rather see > > if (veryverylengthycondition1 && > smallcond2 && > (conditionnumber3a || condition3b)) { > ... > } if (veryverylengthycondition1

Re: [ck] 2.6.21-ck1-rc1

2007-05-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag 01 Mai 2007 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Am Dienstag 01 Mai 2007 schrieb Con Kolivas: > > Let's call this a release candidate for 2.6.21-ck1. I've managed to > > be well enough for enough time to bang this out. > > > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/pre-releases/2.6.21/2.6.21-ck1-rc1/

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-01 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2007 19:10:29 +0100 (BST) > Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Most of the rest of slub. Will merge it all. > > > > Merging slub already? I'm surprised. > > My thinking here is "does slub have a future". > I think the answer

Re: [PATCH] block: Convert to generic boolean

2007-05-01 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 1 May 2007 21:08:36 +0200 (MEST) Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Convert to generic boolean > > Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > Compile-tested but most arch/conf tested failed for other reasons then this > Diffed against Linus' git-tree. If you c

Re: per-thread rusage

2007-05-01 Thread Bill Irwin
On 5/1/07, Bill Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A sort of note for me to refer back to when I get the rest of the way >> here. AIX does this with getrusage(RUSAGE_THREAD,...), Solaris with >> getrusage(RUSAGE_LWP,...), On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:39:46AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > RUSAGE_LW

[git pull] New firewire stack

2007-05-01 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Hi Linus, As you may know, we've been working on a new FireWire stack over on linux1394-devel. The main driver behind this work is to get a small, maintainable and supportable FireWire stack, with an acceptable backwards compatibility story. I've been talking to Stefan Richter about it and we f

[patch 00/33] m68k patches for 2.6.22

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
[ resending, due to quilt rookie getting trapped in Dave's spamfilters ] Here are the m68k patches for 2.6.22. Please apply. Thanks! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In perso

[patch 01/33] m68k: Atari SCSI revival

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
From: Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SCSI should be working on a TT (but someone should really try!) but causes trouble on a Falcon (as in: it ate a filesystem of mine) at least when used concurrently with IDE. I have the notion it's because locking of the ST-DMA interrupt by IDE is broken in

[patch 24/33] m68k: Mac IRQ cleanup

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
From: Finn Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There are no slow IRQs on Macs since Roman Zippel's IRQ reorganisation that went into 2.6.16 and removed mac_irq_list[] and the do_mac_irq_list() dispatcher. (They were implemented in do_mac_irq_list() by lowering the IPL.) Hence there's no more use for mutual

[patch 33/33] Convert non-highmem kmap_atomic() to static inline function

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Convert kmap_atomic() in the non-highmem case from a macro to a static inline function, for better type-checking and the ability to pass void pointers instead of struct page pointers. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/highmem.h | 10 -- 1 file chang

[patch 26/33] CUDA ADB fixes

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
From: Finn Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix the flakiness in the CUDA ADB driver on m68k macs (keypresses getting wedged down or ADB just going AWOL altogether). The only IRQ used by this driver is the VIA shift register IRQ. The PowerMac conditional code disables the other VIA IRQ sources, so don't

[patch 22/33] m68k: Mac IRQ prep

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
From: Finn Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Make sure that there are no slot IRQs asserted before leaving the nubus handler. If there are and we don't then the nubus gets wedged because this prevents a CA1 transition, which means no more nubus IRQs. Make the interrupt dispatch loops terminate sooner. E

[patch 29/33] SONIC interrupt handling

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
From: Finn Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Install the built-in macsonic interrupt handler on both IRQs when using via_alt_mapping. Otherwise the rare interrupt that still comes from the nubus slot will wedge the nubus. $ cat /proc/interrupts auto 2: 89176 via2 auto 3: 744367 sonic

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: DST/BT878 module customization (.. was: Critical points about ...)

2007-05-01 Thread Simon Arlott
On 01/05/07 20:34, Uwe Bugla wrote: Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 01 May 2007 19:50:38 +0100 Von: Simon Arlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 01/05/07 19:30, Uwe Bugla wrote: If you would avoid making inflammatory comments, the people who are trying to help you will be more inclin

[patch 27/33] m68k: macmace fixes

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
From: Finn Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix a race condition in the transmit code, where the dma interrupt could update the free tx buffer count concurrently and wedge the tx queue. Fix the misuse of the rx frame status and rx frame length registers: no more "fifo overrun" errors caused by the OFLOW

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 1 May 2007 21:19:09 +0100 (BST) Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 1 May 2007 19:10:29 +0100 (BST) > > Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Most of the rest of slub. Will merge it all. > > > > > > Merging slub al

Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 3/9] Containers (V9): Add tasks file interface

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Menage
On 5/1/07, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > + if (container_is_removed(cont)) { > + retval = -ENODEV; > + goto out2; > + } Can't we make this check prior to kmalloc() and copy_from_user()? We could but I'm not sure what it would buy us - we'd be optimiz

[patch 19/33] NuBus header update

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
From: Finn Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sync the nubus defines with the latest code in the mac68k repo. Some of these are needed for DP8390 driver update in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/macsonic.c

[patch 31/33] m68k: kill skb_copy_from_linear_data compiler warnings

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
The recent conversion from `memcpy' to `skb_copy_from_linear_data' removed a few casts, which were needed to silence compiler warnings. Re-add them. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/7990.c |6 +++--- drivers/net/a2065.c |4 ++-- drivers/net/

Re: [PATCH 18/36] Use menuconfig objects II - MMC

2007-05-01 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 1 2007 17:57, Pierre Ossman wrote: >Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> Change Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so >> that the user can disable the whole feature without having to >> enter the menu first. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >As promised, an

[patch 25/33] m68k: Mac II ADB fixes

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
From: Finn Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix a crash caused by requests placed in the queue with the completed flag already set. This lead to some ADB_SYNC requests returning early and their request structs being popped off the stack while still queued. Stack corruption ensued or an invalid request ca

Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

2007-05-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 05/01/2007 04:43 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: Doubtful. The Tseng ET4000 cards may have been the gold standard in 1991, but I don't think most people even _remember_ them. And if they have them in their machines, they probably tend to run a Linux-1.2 kernel, or at least not care a lot about gr

[patch 20/33] m68k: Mac DP8390 update

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
From: Finn Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix the support for C/NET nubus ethernet cards etc. Sync up the DP8390 driver with the latest code in the mac68k repo. Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/mac8390.c | 245 +++

[patch 13/33] m68k: Correct number of interrupts for Sun3

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
From: Sam Creasey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Only attempt to initialize the amount of interrupts a sun3 actually has... Signed-off-by: Sam Creasey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/m68k/sun3/sun3ints.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletio

[patch 07/33] m68k: Mac89x0 Ethernet netif updates

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
From: Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Macintosh CS89x0 Ethernet: Netif updates Addition of netif_stop_queue() before transmission by Michael Schmitz skb_copy_{from,to}_linear_data() conversion by Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/Kconfi

Re: [PATCH CFS V7] Fix warnings in sched and sched_debug

2007-05-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first patch I sent out did not have a sign-off; I had trouble with > my patch tools. > > This patch fixes all warnings seen on powerpc during compilation of > the CFS patch. It also fixes errors (side-effect of the warnings), > where some of the

Ext3 vs NTFS performance

2007-05-01 Thread Cabot, Mason B
Hello all, I've been testing the NAS performance of ext3/Openfiler 2.2 against NTFS/WinXP and have found that NTFS significantly outperforms ext3 for video workloads. The Windows CIFS client will attempt a poor-man's pre-allocation of the file on the server by sending 1-byte writes at 128K-byte st

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