sparc64: ERROR: "sys_ioctl" [arch/sparc64/solaris/solaris.ko] undefined!

2007-07-20 Thread Horst H. von Brand
TSEARCH=y CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_KMP=m CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_BM=m CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_FSM=m CONFIG_PLIST=y CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM=y CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT=y CONFIG_HAS_DMA=y -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Unive

Re: heavy nfs[4]] causes fs badness Was: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2)

2007-01-15 Thread Horst H. von Brand
my feelin is that this is older. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ial" ones was that people might have scripts > to automate downloading & updating of packages, and they may not > like to get "beta" installed for them. Then put them into a "testing" or "pre-release" directory... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Horst H. von Brand
>branch or a tag). This safety can be overriden with "git >checkout -f $branch". What happens if there are changes in the tracked files? [...] > * Shallow clones > > - There is a partial support for 'shallow' repositories that >keeps only recent history. A

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-21 Thread Horst H. von Brand
h > > some totally bizarre IRQ allocation, so you end up with something that's > > visible on lspci but not actually *usable* in any real sense of the term... > Hmmm... does this happen often? False results are definedly a show > stopper. Not just for systems, even for individual

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-23 Thread Horst H. von Brand
you feel if you bought a car and then discovered that the > manufacturer had welded the hood shut? How many people still do their own > oil changes anyway? If people don't do this, what sense does it make to tell them how to do it anyway? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand Use

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-23 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ven though > you can't explain how anyone could drive it, that's fraud. Nonsense. [...] > > If you're building products with no expectation of supporting outside > > driver developers, both of those are quite possible. > And they're both quite

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-23 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ntel 3945)... If in-tree driver is already a challange, out-of-tree is hopeless. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V,

Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git

2006-12-24 Thread Horst H. von Brand
official" branches (via URL + branches) too. Miscellaneous debris: 'git pull' has gotten tags each time for me? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Sant

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-24 Thread Horst H. von Brand
h notches). Did you get the specs for that? Can you get them? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso,

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-24 Thread Horst H. von Brand
the junk they shove out the door (We all know it happens with software, right? Hardware is much the same...). And they can't just work a year or so longer to get them ironed out, by then they could be right out of business. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-26 Thread Horst H. von Brand
the (small) minority of devices that don't work (yet). Sure, it is mostly in the latest glitter where support is currently lacking, and this distorts the perspective quite a bit. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-26 Thread Horst H. von Brand
and I think it's time it be > pressed with graphics cards. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239

Re: [PATCH] Remove logically superfluous comparisons from Kconfig files.

2006-12-27 Thread Horst H. von Brand
; index ef833a1..d681e68 100644 > --- a/drivers/char/drm/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/char/drm/Kconfig > @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ > # > config DRM > tristate "Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI > support)" > - depends on (AGP || AGP=n) &&

Re: util-linux: orphan

2006-12-27 Thread Horst H. von Brand
util-linux-2.12a-16.EL4.20 $ ldd /bin/mount libc.so.6 => /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 (0x0031d6c0) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00552aaaa000) All look fine to me. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica

Re: 2.6.19 (current from git) on SPARC64: Can't mount /

2006-12-27 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 03:56:46PM -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > > I've been running kernel du jour straight from git on my SPARC Ultra 1 for > > some time now on Aurora Corona (Fedora relative, development branch). For a >

Re: Want comments regarding patch

2006-12-28 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ff a few bytes/cycles and paying for that with massive developer confusion? What if the constant changes and is -2, or 1, tomorrow? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica

Re: 2.6.20-rc2: known unfixed regressions

2006-12-28 Thread Horst H. von Brand
the only difference "diff -Nur" finds between the unpacked initrds are the modules themselves (obviously). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria

Re: 2.6.20-rc2: known unfixed regressions

2006-12-29 Thread Horst H. von Brand
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Commit : 8701ea957dd2a7c309e17c8dcde3a64b92d8aec0 > Status : fixed in -rc2 This I see in Fedora rawhide i686 2.6.19-1.2891.fc7 (BZ'd at <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220855> -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Horst H. von Brand
r has to > list the patents and the amount of my time to invest (and then he will > get a price for it and no guarantees of success). And them you'd have to testify (as an expert witness, AFAIU). Having legally demostrable expertise in the area isn't easy, I suppose. -- Dr. Horst H. von

Re: kernel + gcc 4.1 = several problems

2007-01-02 Thread Horst H. von Brand
D. Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > None. I didn't file a report on this because I didn't find the big, just > noted a problem that appears to occur. In this case the call's generated > seem to wrap loops - something I've never heard of anyone doing. Example code showing this weirdnes

2.6.19 git 2b5f6dcce...: current_is_keventd() AWOL?

2006-12-03 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Trying to compile that kernel on i686 the build fails in drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko (drivers/net/phy/phy.c, line 590) due to current_is_keventd() missing. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431

Re: la la la la ... swappiness

2006-12-03 Thread Horst H. von Brand
d having it swap less means assigning it more RAM, i.e., giving it higher (not lower) priority than other stuff happening at the same time. I guess I don't understand what your needs are (not what you want to do to get there). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li

Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 9/12] IPMI: add pigeonpoint poweroff

2006-12-04 Thread Horst H. von Brand
t it's more than coincidence. I'd have had to look over the code to find out what it was initialized to. In cases where it is not an explicit 0/NULL, I'd leave it as is. It could also break if somebody later on changes the value of BT_DEBUG_OFF (yes, very unlikely, but...). Bug yo

Re: la la la la ... swappiness

2006-12-04 Thread Horst H. von Brand
hly constant? Please explain again: - What you are doing, step by step - What are your exact requirements - In what exact way is it missbehaving. Please tell /in detail/ how you determine the real behaviour, not your deductions. [Yes, I'm in my "dense" day today.] -- Dr.

Re: la la la la ... swappiness

2006-12-04 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Aucoin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Horst H. von Brand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > That means that there isn't a need for that memory at all (and so they > In the current isolated non-production, not actually bearing a load test > case yes. But if I can'

Re: 2.6.19 git compile error - "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined

2006-12-04 Thread Horst H. von Brand
make: *** [modules] Error 2 Also i686, sparc64. At drivers/net/phy/phy.c:590 is the lone reference to current_is_keventd in that directory. Still present as of ff51a9... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono:

Re: ownership/permissions of cpio initrd

2006-12-05 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ed commands to unpack/pack an initrd. It is a bit more work, but gives you extra flexibility (i.e., not just futzing around with permissions, can also add/replace/edit/rename/delete files, ... using bog standard tools). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departa

Re: ownership/permissions of cpio initrd

2006-12-05 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Jeffrey Hundstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can also use fakeroot(1). I think that is a debianism... not here on Fedora. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica

Re: [PATCH] let WARN_ON() output the condition

2006-12-06 Thread Horst H. von Brand
if (debug_locks_off()) \ > > - WARN_ON(1); \ > > + WARN_ON(c); \ > > __ret = 1;

Re: Postgrey experiment at VGER

2006-12-13 Thread Horst H. von Brand
t > spam? Nothing whatsoever, directly? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile F

2.6.19 (current from git) on SPARC64: Can't mount /

2006-12-13 Thread Horst H. von Brand
, so I had to rebuild a kernel to check if the problem lay elsewhere). Unpacking the initrds for 2.6.19 and 2.6.19.1 shows the same (nash script) /init and the same modules in both (ext3 + jbd, scsi_mod, sd_mod, esp, others). I'm stumped. Any clue? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand

Re: GPL only modules

2006-12-19 Thread Horst H. von Brand
re those extra restrictions on the > code *OUTSIDE* the copyright rules. A license like GPL works /inside/ copyright law, by allowing you to do things the law prohibits unless the owner of the right agrees. What the law allows explicitly, regardless of the owner's wishes, can't be

Re: GPL only modules

2006-12-19 Thread Horst H. von Brand
given > to you. Pure noise, a license can't take them away in any case. [That is my pet pevee with GPL: It has a bit of legally binding text, and lots of "explanation" and "philosophy" that don't add anything but confusion. A clear-cut license plus an ex

Re: 2.6.20-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v2)

2007-01-04 Thread Horst H. von Brand
bject: SPARC64: Can't mount / > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/13/181 > Submitter : Horst H. von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Status : unknown Works for me now with 2.6.20-rc3. Might have been some form of pilot error (perhaps setting SCSI_TGT=m and/or

Re: 2.6.20-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

2007-01-04 Thread Horst H. von Brand
mount / (CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y ?) > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/13/181 > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/01/04/75 > Submitter : Horst H. von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Status : unknown Fixed in 2.6.20-rc3 (perhaps was due to SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC) --

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Guilt 0.16

2007-01-06 Thread Horst H. von Brand
the information is stored as plain text - a series file and > the patches (one per file). This easily lends itself to versioning the > patches using any number of of SCMs. A installation script/Makefile (or at least instructions) is missing... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand Us

Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)

2007-01-07 Thread Horst H. von Brand
charset problems today are much more visible today than, say, 15 years back, that is all. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Cas

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.4.4.4

2007-01-08 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ion for v1.5.0 > will start soonish. I get git version 1.4.4.4.g9a5e4 (used to be 1.5.0.rc0.g) on the msater branch now? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa

Re: Jumping into Kernel development: About -rc kernels...

2007-01-09 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ion, or you can get it (as source, or prebuilt) from <http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git>, a bunch of documentation is in the package itself or at <http://www.git.or.cz>. <http://www.kernel.org> gives pointers to several git kernel repositories. Good luck! -- Dr. Horst H.

[PATCH] fs/9p/v9fs.c: Delete unused p9_debug_level setting

2007-07-17 Thread Horst H. von Brand
From: Horst H. von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/9p/v9fs.c |1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/9p/v9fs.c b/fs/9p/v9fs.c index 45c3598..72ad365 100644 --- a/fs/9p/v9fs.c +++ b/fs/9p/v9fs

Compile failure with v9fs

2007-07-17 Thread Horst H. von Brand
The following patch deletes an assignment to the variable p9_debug_level, which is never defined and isn't used anywhere else I can see. - 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.kerne

SPARC{,64}: kernel_termios_to_user_termios_1 missing

2007-09-15 Thread Horst H. von Brand
e/asm-/termios.h for i686, on SPARC and SPARC64 it is missing. Sorry, I've got no clue on how to define this correctly here. It is also missing on alpha, blackfin, parisc, sh64, sh, xtensa -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica