hotplugging with regular PCI cards

2001-02-06 Thread Adam J. Richter
declarations in PCI drivers that are currently marked as __initdata back to __devinitdata. Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 104 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / San Jose, California 95129-1034 +1 408 261-6630 | g g d r a s i l United States of

Re: GIT license (Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1)

2005-04-11 Thread Adam J. Richter
e who do not litigate software patents, or, perhaps more importantly, the ability of the software to be copied into OSLv2.1 projects (if there are any). __ __ Adam J. Richter\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] | g g d r a s i l - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: New SCM and commit list

2005-04-11 Thread Adam J. Richter
hough it gives garbage results if there are any conflicts. [1] The type of conflict that was automatically resolved is as follows: variant1 = result --> ...this is actually exactly the order one would want in the case where also occurs in variant2, but it was close eno

Re: Re: GIT license (Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1)

2005-04-11 Thread Adam J. Richter
ve dropped Linus from this message, as it just points to something he previously said. >Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:46:38PM CEST, I got a letter >where "Adam J. Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... >..snip.. >> Graydon Hoare. (By the way, I would pref

Re: New SCM and commit list

2005-04-11 Thread Adam J. Richter
ing to the common bus code from individual drivers, fewer kmap's in crypto, I could go on). >It >seems better to throw something back to someone to rebase their diffs. ^^ I try to avoid a general subjective adjectives like "better&qu

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread Adam J. Richter
can and does prohibit #include'ing this and that it is not mere aggregation. I also hope that people understand that while I think the stability argument for not including my fix in 2.4 (which everyone seems to like technically) is BS, I would be satisfied if the keyspan_usa drivers were

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread Adam J. Richter
Doug Ledford wrote: >"Adam J. Richter" wrote: >> On the question of whether this is nothing more than >> aggregation, >Yes, on that very question, I would argue it is a mere aggregation. >> the firmware works intimately with the device dri

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread Adam J. Richter
Larry McVoy writes: >On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:02:08AM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote: >> If you want to argue that a court will use a different definition >> of aggregation, then please explain why and quote that definition. Also, >> it's important not to forge

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread Adam J. Richter
Larry McVoy wrote: >On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 07:34:57PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote: >> Contracts for slavery are specifically not enforceable due to >> the 13th Amendment, and there is also a stronger question of formation >Completely misses the point. THe point isn

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-26 Thread Adam J. Richter
James Sutherland wrote: >On Fri, 25 May 2001, Adam J. Richter wrote: >> Larry McVoy wrote: >> >On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 07:34:57PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote: >> >It's also about the concept of boundaries - if you think that that >> >concept is not a leg

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread Adam J. Richter
ch is probably a lot simpler than having them spend lawyer and management time on writing new terms. I have cc'ed this to linux-kernel because there is a current discussion going on there on this subject that I had just responded to. Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880 Ste

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-28 Thread Adam J. Richter
e free software effects on platforms that comingle code and documentation, such as many web pages and some other interactive media. Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 104 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / San Jose, California 95129-1034 A +1 408 261

Re: [isocompr PATCH]: first comparison with HPA's zisofs (warning: rambling)

2001-06-19 Thread Adam J. Richter
form or another. It not only makes it possible to distribute much bigger "live" filesystems on CD or DVD, but also should improve throughput on slower drives (and there are still lots of slower CD's out there). I hope this functionality will be integrated into the stock kernels relative

linux-2.4.6-pre6: numerous dep_{bool,tristate} $CONFIG_ARCH_xxx bugs

2001-06-29 Thread Adam J. Richter
orrectly asked about these facilities. I will put together patch to convert this to ugly but correct "if then; ... ; fi" statements later today if nobody has any better suggestions. Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 104 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux-2.4.6-pre6: numerous dep_{bool,tristate} $CONFIG_ARCH_xxx bugs

2001-06-30 Thread Adam J. Richter
_MTD_SUN_UFLASH $CONFIG_SPARC64 I think this could also come up for drivers that depend on $CONFIG_ISA when configured for non-PC platforms that do not ask about ISA support. Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 104 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ /

linux-2.4.6-pre8/drivers/mtd/nand/spia.c: undefined symbols

2001-07-01 Thread Adam J. Richter
linux-2.4.6-pre8/drivers/mtd/nand/spia.c references four undefined symbols, presumably intended to be #define constants, although I am not sure what their values are supposed to be: IO_BASE FIO_BASE PEDR PEDDR Adam J. Richter

Re: linux-2.4.6-pre8/drivers/mtd/nand/spia.c: undefined symbols

2001-07-03 Thread Adam J. Richter
are #defined and otherwise will abort initialization if they are not #defined and no values were provided at run time. (Or, better, yet, you can do this work!) Please let me know how you want to proceed. Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 104 [EMAIL

PATCH: linux-2.4.7-pre3/drivers/char/sonypi.c would hang some non-Sony notebooks

2001-07-07 Thread Adam J. Richter
least one PCI device that has a subsystem vendor ID of PCI_VENDOR_ID_SONY. -- Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 104 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / San Jose, California 95129-1034 +1 408 261-6630 | g g d r a s i l United States of Am

Re: PATCH: linux-2.4.7-pre3/drivers/char/sonypi.c would hang some non-Sony notebooks

2001-07-08 Thread Adam J. Richter
tock kernels with the expectation that the test will probably be refined in the future. Perhaps we could check the Cardbus bridge. Does "lspci -v" on your Sony Vaio indicate that its cardbus bridge have a subsystem vendor ID of Sony? Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880 Stev

Re: #define HZ 1024 -- negative effects?

2001-04-26 Thread Adam J. Richter
of the unnecessary tick interrupts is probably pretty small. I mention this just for completeness. Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 104 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / San Jose, California 95129-1034 +1 408 261-6630 | g g d

Suggestion for module .init.{text,data} sections

2001-04-26 Thread Adam J. Richter
ELF innards but a little more conversant in bfd. Maybe I'll take a whack at it yet, but I figure I should at least pass the idea along and see if I'm overlooking anything obvious. Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 104 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ /

PATCH(??): linux-2.4.4/drivers/scsi/pci2220i.c referred to undefined routine scsi_set_pci_info

2001-04-28 Thread Adam J. Richter
ng of scsi_set_pci_device is in the works, or perhaps somebody accidentally deleted a line in an editor and decided to try typing it in from memory. Anyhow, if reversing that change is the correct course of action, here is a patch to that effect. -- Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880 Stevens Creek

PATCH: linux-2.4.4/drivers/video/Config.in offered drivers that would not compile on your architecture

2001-04-28 Thread Adam J. Richter
is much simpler than it looks. It just adds two "if" statements. The rest of the chanages is just the corresponding reindentation. -- Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 104 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / San Jose, California 95129-1

Re: 2.4.4 sluggish under fork load

2001-04-28 Thread Adam J. Richter
patch that fixes the problem (but may be incorrect in other ways), and will cc it to linux-kernel. Look for the subject "Patch(?): bash-2.05/jobs.c loses interrupts." I have not yet investigated the other report of "sluggish" behavior. Adam J. Richter __

Patch(?): bash-2.05/jobs.c loses interrupts

2001-04-28 Thread Adam J. Richter
time window when only the parent will receive a control-C, so it may be necessary for the parent to signal the child if the parent sees a signal as soon as it has unblocked them. -- Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 104 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ /

Re: 2.4.4 sluggish under fork load

2001-04-29 Thread Adam J. Richter
itted may be of some use. Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 104 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / San Jose, California 95129-1034 +1 408 261-6630 | g g d r a s i l United States of America fax +1 408 261-6631 "Free Software For T

Re: 2.4.4 fork.c changes cause linuxconf to fail

2001-04-30 Thread Adam J. Richter
Jeff Garzik wrote: >Michael Pakovic wrote: >> The changes to kernel/fork.c from 2.4.4-pre1 to 2.4.4-pre3 (and in >> 2.4.4) cause the RedHat 6.2 linuxconf utility to fail with the message >> "broken pipe". The linuxconf utility will run the first time, but all >> subsequent runs give the "broken p

Re: Patch(?): bash-2.05/jobs.c loses interrupts

2001-04-30 Thread Adam J. Richter
ve to reconfigure and rebuild bash to enable that code. >Look for PGRP_PIPE in config.h. Rebuilding bash from pristine 2.05 sources under such a kernel does *not* solve the problem. PGRP_PIPE is undef'ed in the resulting config.h. Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880

Re: 2.4.4 sluggish under fork load

2001-04-30 Thread Adam J. Richter
ugh time to encrypt my /boot/vmlinux in twofish if it's in RAM. Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 104 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / San Jose, California 95129-1034 +1 408 261-6630 | g g d r a s i l United States of America fax

Re: Squashfs without ./..

2005-03-27 Thread Adam J. Richter
seek pointer of 0 means before the ".", a seek pointer of 1 means before the "..", and a seek pointer of 1 means immediately after the "..". The actual implementation would be pretty short, but having an interface that the client file systems could easily accomodate migh

selinux networking: sleeping functin called from invalid context in 2.6.20-rc[12]

2006-12-24 Thread Adam J. Richter
Under 2.6.20-rc1 and 2.6.20-rc2, I get the following complaint for several network programs running on my system: [ 156.381868] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/core/sock.c:1523 [ 156.381876] in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0 [ 156.381881] no locks held by kio_h

Re: selinux networking: sleeping functin called from invalid context in 2.6.20-rc[12]

2007-01-02 Thread Adam J. Richter
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 04:25:11PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 05:21:24 +0800 > "Adam J. Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Under 2.6.20-rc1 and 2.6.20-rc2, I get the following complaint >> for several network programs runni

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-07 Thread Adam J. Richter
On 2007-02-04 Stephen Clark wrote: >I have had two different laptops that had to have boot time command line >overrides to get the >driver to allow the hardware work at what it was spec-ed at. Do you know if these drives were advertising less capability than they were spec-ed at? Do you

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-07 Thread Adam J. Richter
>>> = Stephen Clark >> = Adam Richter > = Patrick Ale >> Do you know if these drives were advertising less capability >> than they were spec-ed at? Do you recall if the IDE driver without >> kernel arguments printed its rationale for reverting to the slower >> setting? [...] >Then, afte

Patch: move struct sysfs_dirent to private header

2007-02-16 Thread Adam J. Richter
Hi Greg, This is a resubmission of a patch that fell through the cracks long ago. I've posted it a couple of times, and don't recall anyone objecting to it. struct sysfs_dirent is private to the fs/sysfs/ subtree. It is not even referenced as an opaque structure outside of that

Clock running at half speed in 2.6.20?

2007-02-16 Thread Adam J. Richter
My system clock runs at approximately half speed in linux-2.6.20, 2.6.20-git10 and 2.6.20-git11. That is, it takes about two hours for "date" to report that one hour has elapsed. "hwclock" returns the correct time, of course. I do not have this problem in linuux 2.6.18.1. I will

Re: Clock running at half speed in 2.6.20?

2007-02-16 Thread Adam J. Richter
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:24:54 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: >On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 22:28 +0800, Adam J. Richter wrote: >> My system clock runs at approximately half speed in >> linux-2.6.20, 2.6.20-git10 and 2.6.20-git11. [...] >cat /sys/devices/system/clocks

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