Re: No sysfs directory for openvswitch module when built-in

2013-02-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Stephen Hemminger writes: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:15:18 +0800 > Cong Wang wrote: > >> Hello, Rusty, Jesse, >> >> I met an interesting problem when I compile openvswitch module as a >> built-in (actually I compile ALL kernel modules as built-in), there is >> no /sys/module/openvswitch/ director

Re: No sysfs directory for openvswitch module when built-in

2013-02-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 06:49:45PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote: > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > Stephen Hemminger writes: > > > >> On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:15:18 +0800 > >> Cong Wang wrote: > >> > >>> Hello, Rusty, Jesse, &

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] net: socket bind to file descriptor introduced

2012-08-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
Stanislav Kinsbursky writes: > This system call is especially required for UNIX sockets, which has name > lenght limitation. The worst of the name length limitations can be worked around by opening the directory where the socket is to go as a file descriptor, then using /proc/self/fd// as the na

Re: [CHECKER] 3 kmalloc underallocation bugs

2001-04-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
r. * If you cast to the wrong type by accident, odd failures can result. -- -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MSU Student - Debian GNU/Linux Maintainer - GNU

Re: Rage Mobility P/M

2001-04-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jani Monoses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > does the atyfb or aty128fb support this chip? > Device id of 4c4d. > Using 2.4.3-ac7. I have a Rage Mobility with the same device ID on my laptop (Compaq Armada M700) but haven't been able to get it working with framebuffer. At any rate, atyfb i

Re: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jonathan George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This patch has many bogus corrections where new variables were created, but > the order of evaluation is already unambiguous. > > For example each comma separated clause in an expression is guaranteed to be > completely evaluated before the next comm

Re: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jonathan George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > $ The order of evaluation of the function designator, the > > $ arguments, and subexpressions within the arguments is > > $ unspecified, ... > >-- > > I sit surprised and corrected. With every version of every C compiler on > every OS

Re: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
Matti Aarnio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:55:08PM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > Yes. In practice the usual question is whether the compiler will > > evaluate the operands from left to right or from right to left, > > but the compiler is wi

[patch] Bug-fix for Maestro dock/hardware volume control patch

2001-05-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
h will result on installation if a button has been pressed, + because in that case we'll get an immediate interrupt. */ + n = inw(iobase+0x18); + n|=(1<<6); + outw(n, iobase+0x18); + /* now go to sleep 'till something interesting happens */ maestro_

Re: [patch] ess maestro, support for hardware volume control

2001-06-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > this patch applies to (at least) 2.4.3 up to and including 2.4.6-pre2. > > It enables the hardware volume control feature of the maestro. > > it doesnt apply to the current version of the maestro driver (2.4.5-ac) > however. I think it is clashing with t

Re: New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN)

2007-12-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
"Chris Friesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Miller wrote: >> From: "Chris Friesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> One problem we ran into was that there are only 32 multicast groups >>> per netlink protocol family. >> I'm pretty sure we've removed this limitation. > As of 2.6.23 nl_groups is a 32

[CHECKER] ext3 bug in ftruncate() with O_SYNC?

2005-03-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
l(sbd_fd, SBD_COPY_DISK, 1); CHECK(ret); close(sbd_fd); } #else systemf("reboot -f -n"); #endif return 0; } -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

[CHECKER] writes not always synchronous on JFS with O_SYNC?

2005-03-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
test_fsync("/mnt/sbd0/0006/0010/0029"); CHECK(ret); ret = test_fsync("/mnt/sbd0/0006/0010"); CHECK(ret); ret = test_fsync("/mnt/sbd0/0006"); CHECK(ret); ret = test_fsync("/mnt/sbd0"); CHECK(ret); #if 0 {

Re: [CHECKER] writes not always synchronous on JFS with O_SYNC?

2005-03-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
_write checks for the O_SYNC flag. The missing piece in jfs > is that metadata changes to the inode may not always be making it to the > disk when they should. Wow, that's an amazingly fast fix. Thanks! If I have time today, I'll re-run the checker after applying your patch. -- B

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On an unrelated note: > > > > I noticed the quote below in your message. Is this a true quote or just a > > joke going around? I have tried believing it is just a joke but I am > > scared it is not. > > > > >-- > > > "A C

[patch] ES978 docking support for Maestro 2E - advice requested

2001-05-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
und/maestro.c Fri Mar 2 14:12:11 2001 +++ linux-2.4.5pre1/drivers/sound/maestro.c Sun May 13 17:14:07 2001 @@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ * themselves, but we'll see. * * History + * (still kind of v0.14) May 13 2001 - Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Add support for 9

slow module build--what am I doing wrong?

2007-01-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
void this? It slows down my build-and-test cycle quite a bit. Thanks! -- Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://benpfaff.org - 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.

Re: slow module build--what am I doing wrong?

2007-01-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I modify a source file or two that belong to a particular > module, and then rebuild just that module with "make > dir1/dir/module.ko" (e.g.), the build system spends a couple of > minutes grinding away on "MODPOST&quo

Re: Entropy Pool Contents

2006-11-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Wagner) writes: > Well, if you want to talk about really high-value keys like the scenarios > you mention, you probably shouldn't be using /dev/random, either; you > should be using a hardware security module with a built-in FIPS certified > hardware random number source.

Re: Request for Linux Kernel Mailing List archives

2007-06-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
//mid.gmane.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Extra points if all the vger lists are available, not just LKML.) gmane has thousands of free software mailing lists. I don't know whether it has all of the vger lists. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &qu

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

2007-05-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
Paul Sokolovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > soc-core: Helper API for SoC base drivers to register/unregister > subdevices. It would be nice if the code said at some point what SoC stands for. It makes me think of Silicon on Conductor, but I don't think that's righ

Re: [PATCH V2] sparse: Allow override of sizeof(bool) warning

2014-02-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:38:46PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > (adding Ben Pfaff and Christopher Li) > > On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 19:29 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > On 02/26/2014 06:58 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 06:53:14PM -0800, Joe Perche

Re: [PATCH V2] sparse: Allow override of sizeof(bool) warning

2014-02-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:19:57PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 02/26/2014 08:00 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > > The commit *relaxed* sparse behavior: because previously sizeof(bool) > > was an error. I'm not in favor of any diagnostic at all for > > sizeof(bool