Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9482] New: kernel GPF in 2.6.24 (g09f345da)

2007-12-01 Thread Jon Nelson
On 12/1/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (switched to email - please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the > bugzilla web interface) > > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:54:11 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9482 > > > >S

Re: [bug] cops/atalk hung bootup with 2.6.23-rc4

2007-12-01 Thread Alan Cox
> and a hung bootup. Config and bootlog attached. I guess the core problem > is that somehow the the cops driver got registered to IRQ5: > > [ 23.067416] lt0: cops at 0x240, IRQ 5, in Tangent mode > > is this an old ISA driver perhaps that should i exclude from this > randconfig testing? Its

Re: [PATCH 1/3] cxgb - fix T2 GSO

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Divy Le Ray wrote: From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The patch ensures that a GSO skb has enough headroom to push an encapsulating cpl_tx_pkt_lso header. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- applied 1-3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ker

Re: [PATCH 1/3] [NET] phy/fixed.c: rework to not duplicate PHY layer functionality

2007-12-01 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 02:48:54PM +0100, Jochen Friedrich wrote: > Hi Vitaly, > > > With that patch fixed.c now fully emulates MDIO bus, thus no need > > to duplicate PHY layer functionality. That, in turn, drastically > > simplifies the code, and drops down line count. > > > > As an additional b

2.6.24-rc3-git6: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-01 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the mainline that I know of.  If any of them have been fixed already, please let me know. If you know of any other unresolved regressions from 2.6

[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3.7

2007-12-01 Thread Junio C Hamano
The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.3.7 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.5.3.7.tar.{gz,bz2} (tarball) git-htmldocs-1.5.3.7.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.5.3.7.tar.{gz,bz2}

Re: [PATCH 1/3] [NET] phy/fixed.c: rework to not duplicate PHY layer functionality

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Vitaly Bordug wrote: With that patch fixed.c now fully emulates MDIO bus, thus no need to duplicate PHY layer functionality. That, in turn, drastically simplifies the code, and drops down line count. As an additional bonus, now there is no need to register MDIO bus for each PHY, all emulated PHY

Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

2007-12-01 Thread Mark Lord
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:21:12 -0500 Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric W. Biederman wrote: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sure. We keep the updated dev_get_by_ that takes a network namespace parameter. .. And what should code be passing in wh

Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

2007-12-01 Thread Mark Lord
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:21:12 -0500 Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric W. Biederman wrote: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sure. We keep the updated dev_get_by_ that takes a network namespace parameter. .. And what should code be passing in wh

Re: [PATCH 1/3] [NET] phy/fixed.c: rework to not duplicate PHY layer functionality

2007-12-01 Thread Vitaly Bordug
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:59:52 -0500 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Vitaly Bordug wrote: > > With that patch fixed.c now fully emulates MDIO bus, thus no need > > to duplicate PHY layer functionality. That, in turn, drastically > > simplifies the code, and drops down line count. > > > > As an additional bonu

Re: [PATCH 1/3] [NET] phy/fixed.c: rework to not duplicate PHY layer functionality

2007-12-01 Thread Vitaly Bordug
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 00:34:03 +0300 Anton Vorontsov wrote: > > If i understand your code correctly, you seem to rely on the fact > > that fixed_phy_add() is called before the fixed MDIO bus is scanned > > for devices. > > Yes, indeed. The other name of "fixed phys" are "platform phys" > or "plat

Re: [PATCH] [libata] Set proper ATA UDMA mode for bf548 according to system clock.

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
sonic zhang wrote: UDMA Mode - Frequency compatibility UDMA5 - 100 MB/s - SCLK = 133 MHz UDMA4 - 66 MB/s- SCLK >= 80 MHz UDMA3 - 44.4 MB/s - SCLK >= 50 MHz UDMA2 - 33 MB/s- SCLK >= 40 MHz Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/ata/pata_bf54x.c |7 +++

Re: PROBLEM: System Freeze on Particular workload with kernel 2.6.22.6

2007-12-01 Thread Daniel Phillips
Hmm, I wonder if this had something to do with it: > [ 25.856573] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Was the system still pingable? Regards, Daniel -- 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:/

Re: Peculiar out-of-sync boot log lines

2007-12-01 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Thursday 29 November 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > Nick Warne wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > 2.6.23.9 > > > > I have noticed after applying Bart's patch to word93 blacklist my new > > DVD drive: > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/23/475 > > > > I see now in logs (look at the hdd line: > > >

Re: [PATCH 26/28] blk_end_request: changing ide-cd (take 3)

2007-12-01 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Saturday 01 December 2007, Kiyoshi Ueda wrote: > This patch converts ide-cd (cdrom_newpc_intr()) to use blk_end_request(). > > ide-cd (cdrom_newpc_intr()) has some tricky behaviors below which > need to use blk_end_request_callback(). > Needs to: > 1. call post_transform_command() to mo

Re: [PATCH 24/28] blk_end_request: changing ide normal caller (take 3)

2007-12-01 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Saturday 01 December 2007, Kiyoshi Ueda wrote: > This patch converts "normal" parts of ide to use blk_end_request(). > > Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > drivers/ide/ide-cd.c |6 +++--- > drivers/ide/ide-io.c | 1

Re: [PATCH] libata: Fix early use of port printk. (Was Re: ata4294967295: failed to start port (errno=-19))

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan Cox wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:34:11 +0200 (EET) Meelis Roos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you stick a stack trace in at that point ? That would help diagnose it a great deal quicker. Finally done - found out hard way that BUG() is too bad and dump_st5ack() suits me better. Thanks.

Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

2007-12-01 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 12/02/2007 12:13 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Fine. But all of them want to call sk_alloc(), > > network drivers should be calling sk_alloc less then they should > call dev_get_by_. Only protocols call sk_alloc. > >> and many want to do register

Re: [PATCH 1/3] [NET] phy/fixed.c: rework to not duplicate PHY layer functionality

2007-12-01 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Just a little reminder ... On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 00:34:03 +0300 Anton Vorontsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > static int __init of_add_fixed_phys(void) > { > struct device_node *np; > const u32 *prop; > struct fixed_phy_status status = {}; > > while ((np = of_find_node_by_na

Re: [patch] ata: ahci: Enclosure Management via LED rev2

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: Enclosure Management via LED This patch implements Enclosure Management via the LED protocol as specified in AHCI specification. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This revision makes the change to the comment requested by Mark Lord, fi

[git patches] libata fixes

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: drivers/ata/ata_piix.c| 28 +++ drivers/ata/libata-core.c |8 +++-- drivers/ata/libata-eh.c | 42 +++

Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

2007-12-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:21:12 -0500 >> Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Eric W. Biederman wrote: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sure. We keep the updated dev_get_by_ that takes a network

Re: Peculiar out-of-sync boot log lines

2007-12-01 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 22:59:35 +0100 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Thanks for reporting/debugging it guys! > > > Something in there needs to insert a '\n' before the "skipping word" > > message. > > Since it doesn't do that right now, the KERN_DEBUG string appears as "<7>" > > This seems like

Re: [PATCH 0/3] cxgb - driver fixes.

2007-12-01 Thread Divy Le Ray
Ben Greear wrote: Divy Le Ray wrote: Jeff, I'm submitting a patch series for inclusion in 2.6.24 for the cxgb driver. The patches are built against Linus'git tree. Here is a brief description: - Ensure that GSO skbs have enough headroom before encapsulating them, - Fix a crash in NAPI mode,

Re: [BUG] Strange 1-second pauses during Resume-from-RAM

2007-12-01 Thread Jörn Engel
On Sat, 1 December 2007 21:54:56 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * J??rn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > stopped custom tracer. > > BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, sh/953 > > lock: c030f280, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: sh/953, .owner_cpu: 0 > > Pid: 953, comm: sh Not tainted 2.6.24-rc3-ge1cc

Re: 20000+ wake-ups/second in 2.6.24. Bug?

2007-12-01 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:43:39 -0500 Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dagnabbit.. it's done it again.. went from 100-200 wakeups/sec > back up to 2+ wakeups/sec. This time *with* the powertop patches > in place. > > Somethings broken in there, but I don't know what. > Or how to make i

Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

2007-12-01 Thread Mark Lord
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:21:12 -0500 Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric W. Biederman wrote: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sure. We keep the updated dev_get_by_ that takes a netwo

Re: 20000+ wake-ups/second in 2.6.24. Bug?

2007-12-01 Thread Mark Lord
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:43:39 -0500 Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dagnabbit.. it's done it again.. went from 100-200 wakeups/sec back up to 2+ wakeups/sec. This time *with* the powertop patches in place. Somethings broken in there, but I don't know what. Or h

[PATCH] cxgb - revert file mode changes.

2007-12-01 Thread Divy Le Ray
From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> revert inavertant file mode changes Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c |0 drivers/net/chelsio/pm3393.c |0 drivers/net/chelsio/sge.c|0 drivers/net/chelsio/sge.h|0 4 files changed, 0

Re: [LIKELY_SPAM][git patches] net driver fixes

2007-12-01 Thread Divy Le Ray
Jeff Garzik wrote: Notes: 1) Several of these are resends from the last submission. 2) That chelsio file mode change (644->755) is a bit annoying. Can git do chmod as a changeset by itself? Sorry for this. I had not noticed it. If any help, I just submitted a patch reverting the file mode

Re: 20000+ wake-ups/second in 2.6.24. Bug?

2007-12-01 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 2 of December 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:43:39 -0500 > > Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Dagnabbit.. it's done it again.. went from 100-200 wakeups/sec > >> back up to 2+ wakeups/sec. This time *with* the powertop patch

20000+ wake-ups/second in 2.6.24. Bug?

2007-12-01 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:31:17 -0500 Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Speaking of which.. what's with powertop on 2.6.24 ??? It's gone from 100-200 wakeups/sec to 2 wakeups/sec !!! ho hum.. Lenovo T61? I have some reports that that happe

Re: [PATCH x86/mm 6/6] x86-64 ia32 ptrace get/putreg32 current task

2007-12-01 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
On Nov 29, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For i386 iirc Jeremy/Zach did the benchmarking and they settled on %fs because it was faster for something (originally it was %gs too) yep. IIRC, some CPUs only optimize %fs because that's what Window

sym53c8xx2: incredible sloth after parity error / SCSI bus reset

2007-12-01 Thread Nix
About once a year I get a SCSI parity error on one of my systems (the only one with SCSI). I presume the cabling is substandard, but given my coordination deficits and the rarity of the errors I'd do far more damage replacing it than leaving it be. I had one of these today. The system (2.6.23.9)

Re: 20000+ wake-ups/second in 2.6.24. Bug?

2007-12-01 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:55:48 -0500 Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:43:39 -0500 > > Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Dagnabbit.. it's done it again.. went from 100-200 wakeups/sec > >> back up to 2+ wakeups/sec. This time

Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

2007-12-01 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:17:36 -0800 Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then init_net needs to be not GPL limited. Sorry, we need to allow > non GPL network drivers. There is a fine line between keeping the > binary seething masses from accessing random kernel functions, and allowing > r

blackfin compile error

2007-12-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
It seems commit 5d448dd50712ae42f8176b5bb8db4703bef6f0f5 was incomplete: <-- snip --> ... CC arch/blackfin/mach-bf537/boards/stamp.o /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/arch/blackfin/mach-bf537/boards/stamp.c:539: error: unknown field 'pin_req' specified in initializer /home/bunk/

[2.6 patch] x86 intel_cacheinfo.c section fix

2007-12-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
free_cache_attributes() must be __cpuinit since it calls the __cpuinit cache_remove_shared_cpu_map(). This patch fixes the following section mismatch reported by Chris Clayton: <-- snip --> ... WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x90b6): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:cache_remove_shared_cpu

[2.6 patch] drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c section fix

2007-12-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
cpufreq_stats_free_table() mustn't be __cpuexit since it's called by the __cpuinit cpufreq_stat_cpu_callback(). This patch fixes the following section mismatch reported by Chris Clayton: <-- snip --> ... WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x143dd): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:cpufre

Re: [feature] automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks

2007-12-01 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Saturday 01 December 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > maybe, but we'd have to see how often this gets triggered. An OOM is > something that could happen in any overloaded system - while a hung task > is likely due to a kernel bug. What about a client using hard mounted NFS shares here? That shouldn

Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

2007-12-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:21:12 -0500 Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 20000+ wake-ups/second in 2.6.24. Bug?

2007-12-01 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On Sunday 02 December 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote in "Re: 2+ wake-ups/second in 2.6.24. Bug?": > > > Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> 2.6.23 did not have this problem. > > > actually we have reports of 2.6.23 having the exact same problem. > > > The thing is, "something" is

Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

2007-12-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12/02/2007 12:13 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Fine. But all of them want to call sk_alloc(), >> >> network drivers should be calling sk_alloc less then they should >> call dev_get_by_. Only protocols ca

Re: [PATCH] capabilities: introduce per-process capability bounding set (v10)

2007-12-01 Thread KaiGai Kohei
Serge, Is there any reason not to have a separate /etc/login.capbounds config file, though, so the account can still have a full name? Did you only use that for convenience of proof of concept, or is there another reason? passwd(5) says the fifth field is optional and only used for information

[PATCH] fix x86-32 early fixmap initialization.

2007-12-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > hello, > > i've just noticed that the chunk in i386/kernel/head.S ended up in a > weird place, namely, it's not going to be executed as it's just after > a 'jmp 3f' and before startup_32_smp, probably not what you intended. > on a sidenote, the whole thing can be done

2.6.23.9, make install doesn't work with grub anymore??

2007-12-01 Thread Scott Noone
Hello, I downloaded the vanilla kernels 2.6.23.8 and 2.6.23.9 from kernel.org. I unpacked them like I have every other kernel release. I compiled the kernel successfully, did the make modules and make modules_install with no problems. When I did the make install I am told it Cannot find LIL

Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c

2007-12-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Alan Cox wrote: Its visibile for people doing PAL media processing and TV sync work. Longer term we have high precision timers and tickless so for now we can jut do the HZ == 300 math in steps to avoid the overflow. Slower but in time it won't matter. Just use the patch... I don't think a de

Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

2007-12-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:17:36 -0800 > Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Then init_net needs to be not GPL limited. Sorry, we need to allow >> non GPL network drivers. There is a fine line between keeping the >> binary seething masses f

Re: [PATCH] fix x86-32 early fixmap initialization.

2007-12-01 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Dec 1, 2007 5:34 PM, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > hello, > > > > i've just noticed that the chunk in i386/kernel/head.S ended up in a > > weird place, namely, it's not going to be executed as it's just after > > a 'jmp 3f' and before startup_32

Re: [PATCH] fix x86-32 early fixmap initialization.

2007-12-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Yinghai Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Dec 1, 2007 5:34 PM, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> > hello, >> > >> > i've just noticed that the chunk in i386/kernel/head.S ended up in a >> > weird place, namely, it's not going to be executed as i

Re: 2.6.24-rc3-git6: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-01 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Saturday 01 December 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Subject : 2.6.24-rc1: pata_amd fails to detect 80-pin wire > Submitter : "Thomas Lindroth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/7/152 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?i

2.6.24-rc3-mm2 - add-64-bit-capability-support-to-the-kernel

2007-12-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
Question: The patch does the semantic equivalent of: -#define cap_clear(c) do { cap_t(c) = 0; } while(0) -#define cap_set_full(c) do { cap_t(c) = ~0; } while(0) +# define cap_clear(c) do { (c) = __cap_empty_set; } while (0) +# define cap_set_full(c) do { (c) = __cap_fu

Re: [PATCH] capabilities: introduce per-process capability bounding set (v10)

2007-12-01 Thread KaiGai Kohei
There is already a pam_cap module in the libcap2 package. Can we merge this functionality? I think it is a good idea. However, this module already have a feature to modify inheritable capability set. How does it to be described in the "/etc/security/capability.conf"? One idea is like a followi

Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

2007-12-01 Thread Mark Lord
Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:17:36 -0800 Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Then init_net needs to be not GPL limited. Sorry, we need to allow non GPL network drivers. There is a fine line between keeping the binary seething masses from accessing random kernel funct

Re: + proc-fix-the-threaded-proc-self.patch added to -mm tree

2007-12-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Albert Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> This one is probably best: >> >> >> /proc/task -> 123/task/456 >> >> >> (with both numbers showing) >> >> > >> >> > this sounds good to me. If it's a symlink then there's not much other >> >> > choice because the thread PIDs do not even show up

[PATCH] Remove superfluous checks for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD from initramfs.c.

2007-12-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Given that init/Makefile includes initramfs.c in the build only if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is defined, there seems to be no point checking for it yet again. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- compile-tested on x86. diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c index 1d

Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

2007-12-01 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:34:09 -0500 Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:17:36 -0800 > > Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Then init_net needs to be not GPL limited. Sorry, we need to allow > >> non GPL network drivers. Ther

Re: Since sysfs_mount is static and used only in sysfs_init function, it could be just an automatic variable.

2007-12-01 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 04:31:09AM +0800, rae l wrote: > --- > and I still have questions about this code: > 1. Why here kern_mount is needed? > Or the first time user space `mount -t sysfs` won't do that? > 2. If root executes many mounts to mount sysfs on /sys and many other places, >

Re: 2.6.23.9, make install doesn't work with grub anymore??

2007-12-01 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 20:51:14 -0500 Scott Noone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I downloaded the vanilla kernels 2.6.23.8 and 2.6.23.9 from > kernel.org. I unpacked them like I have every other kernel release. > I compiled the kernel successfully, did the make modules and make > modules

Re: ACPI related Warning in 2.6.24-rc3-git2

2007-12-01 Thread Len Brown
Applied to ACPI tree. Linus, I reproduced this issue on my T61, and saw it go away w/ this patch. I'll be sending you a pull request probably Sunday night w/ this pach in it. But if you are in a hurry to cut rc4 before then, consider this an Acked-by: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thanks, -Len

Re: blackfin compile error

2007-12-01 Thread Bryan Wu
On Dec 2, 2007 8:42 AM, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems commit 5d448dd50712ae42f8176b5bb8db4703bef6f0f5 was incomplete: > > <-- snip --> > > ... > CC arch/blackfin/mach-bf537/boards/stamp.o > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/arch/blackfin/mach-bf537/boards/stamp.

Re: Since sysfs_mount is static and used only in sysfs_init function, it could be just an automatic variable.

2007-12-01 Thread rae l
On Dec 2, 2007 12:48 PM, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > and where is a detailed explaination on kern_mount? could someone give > > some comments or documentation pointers on this? > > See the patches that Eric Biederman just posted to lkml for why this > structure is a static pointer th

Re: blackfin compile error

2007-12-01 Thread David Brownell
On Saturday 01 December 2007, Bryan Wu wrote: > On Dec 2, 2007 8:42 AM, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems commit 5d448dd50712ae42f8176b5bb8db4703bef6f0f5 was incomplete: > > > > <-- snip --> > > > > ... > > CC arch/blackfin/mach-bf537/boards/stamp.o > > /home/bunk/linux/k

Re: blackfin compile error

2007-12-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 22:59:05 -0800 David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 01 December 2007, Bryan Wu wrote: > > On Dec 2, 2007 8:42 AM, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It seems commit 5d448dd50712ae42f8176b5bb8db4703bef6f0f5 was incomplete: > > > > > > <-- snip --> >

Re: Since sysfs_mount is static and used only in sysfs_init function, it could be just an automatic variable.

2007-12-01 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 02:52:17PM +0800, rae l wrote: > On Dec 2, 2007 12:48 PM, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > > and where is a detailed explaination on kern_mount? could someone give > > > some comments or documentation pointers on this? > > > > See the patches that Eric Biederman

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