[PATCH] compat/compat-drivers/linux-next: fb skip_vt_switch

2013-03-28 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" I maintain the the compat-drivers project [0] which aims at backporting the Linux kernel drivers down to older kernels, automatically [1]. Thanks to Ozan Caglayan as a GSoC project we now backport DRM drivers. The initial framework we had set up to hel

[PATCH 1/4] compat-drivers: backport fb_info->skip_vt_switch using ifdefs

2013-03-28 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Commit 3cf2667 as of next-20130301 extended the struct fb_info with a skip_vt_switch to allow drivers to skip the VT switch at suspend/resume time. For older kernels we can skip this as all this switch does is call pm_vt_switch_required() with true or false de

[PATCH 3/4] compat-drivers: simplify backport fb_info->skip_vt_switch CE

2013-03-28 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" The collateral evolution (CE) on the fb_info data structure that added the skip_vt_switch element can be simplified further by replacing the #ifdef hell with a static inline. Furthermore, if the static inline is added upstream it'd mean we can get r

[PATCH 4/4] fb: add helpers to enable and test for the skip_vt_switch

2013-03-28 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" This adds helpers to enable and test for the skip_vt_switch. This gets us two things: 1) It allows us to require less collateral evolutions should we need changes on the fb_info data structure later (perhaps a bitmap flag). 2) Allows this fea

[PATCH 2/4] compat: backport fb_info->skip_vt_switch using a static inline

2013-03-28 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Commit 3cf2667 as of next-20130301 extended the struct fb_info with a skip_vt_switch to allow drivers to skip the VT switch at suspend/resume time. For older kernels we can skip this as all this switch does is call pm_vt_switch_required() with true or false de

Re: [PATCH] compat/compat-drivers/linux-next: fb skip_vt_switch

2013-03-28 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Julia Lawall wrote: > On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, Jesse Barnes wrote: >> > - info->skip_vt_switch = true; >> > + fb_enable_skip_vt_switch(info); >> > >> > So we'd then have to just add this static inline change for each new >> > driver... >> > There may

Re: [PATCH] compat/compat-drivers/linux-next: fb skip_vt_switch

2013-03-28 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Julia Lawall wrote: > On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> >> Thanks Julia! I'll be sure to try to add this to compat-drivers if the >> upstream fb patch is not accepted. If it is accepted we would not need >> this at

Possibility for an external staging tree - bring up quality code

2013-03-28 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Greg, folks, So the staging area of the Linux kernel has proven quite successful for a few drivers for 802.11 already. Otus [0] for example was rewritten completely first as ar9170 [1] and then carl9170 [2] even with open firmware, carl9170.fw [3] and then Otus got nuked. ath6kl [4] is another exa

Re: [PATCH] compat/compat-drivers/linux-next: fb skip_vt_switch

2013-03-28 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Julia Lawall wrote: > On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Julia Lawall wrote: >> > On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> >> >> >> Thanks Julia! I'll b

Re: Possibility for an external staging tree - bring up quality code

2013-03-28 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 01:13:23PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > >> This has me thinking if it makes sense to have an external driver tree >> for staging drivers but lead by engineers who already know

Re: [PATCH] compat/compat-drivers/linux-next: fb skip_vt_switch

2013-03-29 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Julia Lawall wrote: >> > I looked in today's linux-next, and there seems to be only one >> > initialization of this field, to true, and one test of this field. So >> > perhaps the case for setting the field to false just isn't needed. >> >> Oh sorry now I get wha

[ANN] compat-drivers-3.9-rc1 releases

2013-03-07 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Linus kicked out v3.9-rc1, the first respective backport of this release's 802.11, Bluetooth, Ethernet and DRM subsystems down to the last 30 kernel releases is now available at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/v3.9-rc1/ ckmake test compile results of these relea

Re: [Announce] open ath9k_htc firmware

2013-03-08 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Many thanks to Adrian for his hard work on all this and to everyone else who volunteered to help make this happen, including the understanding by our management at QCA and even Tensilica requires some handsome applause for their commitment, understanding on letting us get this out. We now have a pu

compat-drivers v3.8.2 release

2013-03-11 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
: check if efi_enabled() was already backported compat: deactivate netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops() for some 3.7 kernels Johannes Berg (1): compat: backport unsigned netlink attribute accessors Luis R. Rodriguez (41): compat: fix libc dependency on bin/get-compat-kernels

compat-drivers based on v3.9-rc2

2013-03-11 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
I've kicked out compat-drivers releases based on v3.9-rc2 [0], be sure to use the temporary release page [1] while we get one in place on kernel.org. We are on rc2 now... please test and report any issues! Please submit your patches for anything you think is critical but not 'stable' material for i

Re: [PATCH v2] net: add new QCA alx ethernet driver

2012-08-23 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:13 AM, David Miller wrote: > From: "Huang, Xiong" > Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:56:51 + > >> I'm afraid someone also rejects my request to add such operation to >> ethtool > > If you don't design it properly, we certainly will ask you to make > changes. > > But it sta

[ANN] compat-drivers

2012-08-23 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
In synch with linux-next.git next-20120822, compat-2012-08-22, compat-drivers-2012-08-22 now has been test compiled successfully over 21 kernels. This has the drm drivers Ozan Çağlayan added as part of his GSoC project. For those unfamiliar with the tagging process I add a tag to either compat or c

Re: [PATCH v2] net: add new QCA alx ethernet driver

2012-08-23 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Huang, Xiong wrote: It would be useful for you to keep the tag of who wrote what if you are trimming the e-mails, like in the above you removed the option for me to easily discover who wrote what. >> If you want to implement a more sophisticated packet matching m

Re: [PATCH v2] net: add new QCA alx ethernet driver

2012-08-23 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > It would be useful for you to describe the exact functionality, > perhaps in a separate thread or maybe even just RFC patches which you > have to be simply ready for may just be just that -- RFC patches which > we flush

Helping with backports: linux-next, linux, linux-stable - a few enhancements

2012-09-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Greg, Stephen, Konstantin, so for the Linux backports project [0] we rely on a few git trees: * linux-next.git * linux-stable.git * linux.git The linux.git tree is required for RC releases. The linux-stable.git tree for extraversion stable releases, and the linux-next.git tree for daily sn

Using vanilla kernels headers to do backport testing -- issues with memcpy()

2012-08-07 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
A while ago we reviewed the idea of whether or not to use a set of distribution vanilla kernels to allow us to do compilation testing of modules on the compat backport project [0] with the benefit being that at least one Linux distribution was doing this work already and given that this work was us

Re: Using vanilla kernels headers to do backport testing -- issues with memcpy()

2012-08-08 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez > wrote: >> mcgrof@garbanzo ~/compat (git::master)$ objdump -T >> /home/mcgrof/compat-ksrc/lib/modules/3.4.4-030404-generic/build/scripts/genksyms/genksyms <

Re: Using vanilla kernels headers to do backport testing -- issues with memcpy()

2012-08-09 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote: > I am not an English native but this sentence sounds a bit strange to > me ("used" followed by "require" and double "Linux"?). > I can imagine what you want to express but have no better wording right now. > > 180 + echo -e " This was added s

Re: [PATCH] net: add new QCA alx ethernet driver

2012-08-09 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 08:22 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > >> Yes, I sent signed-off patches to their original RFC submission >> (back last year?). And that is why your SOB was kept. >> To me, this single large patch is like a >> snapshot of a

Re: [PATCH] net: add new QCA alx ethernet driver

2012-08-09 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > So -- are we OK to *not* include SOBs of evolutions sent to developers > of joojoo-1 when company x submits joojoo-2 so long as those patches > were sent publicly or a record is kept somewhere ? And lets be fair, some folks *

[PATCH] SubmittingPatches: clarify SOB tag usage when evolving submissions

2012-08-09 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Initial large code submissions typically are not accepted on their first patch submission. The developers are typically given feedback and at times some developers may even submit changes to the original authors for integration into their second submissi

[PATCH v2] SubmittingPatches: clarify SOB tag usage when evolving submissions

2012-08-09 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Initial large code submissions typically are not accepted on their first patch submission. The developers are typically given feedback and at times some developers may even submit changes to the original authors for integration into their second submissi

Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: clarify SOB tag usage when evolving submissions

2012-08-09 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez > wrote: >> of a second patch submission must supply their own Siged-off-by > > Signed-off-by will send a v2. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Backports mailing list

2012-08-13 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
David, The compat [0] / compat-wireless [1] [2] projects have received quite a bit of love of the years to the point we now have 3 subsystems backported: Ethernet, Bluetooth and 802.11. Ozan Çağlayan, a Linux Foundation Google Summer of Code student is folding in right now drm driver support. At t

Re: Backports mailing list

2012-08-14 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez > wrote: >> David, >> >> The compat [0] / compat-wireless [1] [2] projects have received quite >> a bit of love of the years to the point we now have 3 subs

Re: Backports mailing list

2012-08-14 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > For more details please see: > > http://www.do-not-panic.com/2012/08/automatically-backporting-linux-kernel.html > http://www.do-not-panic.com/2012/08/optimizing-backporting-collateral.html > > Luis All that said, pl

Re: Backports mailing list

2012-08-14 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez > wrote: >> For more details please see: >> >> http://www.do-not-panic.com/2012/08/automatically-backporting-linux-kernel.html >> http://www.do-no

Re: [PATCH v2] SubmittingPatches: clarify SOB tag usage when evolving submissions

2012-08-15 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > The analogy I made was with a magazine editor, fighting off sturgeon's > law in the slush pile, cherry-picking a few submissions to polish up and > include in the next issue of the magazine. In this context, a > personalized rejection letter to

[PATCH 0/4] copyleft-next: first set of patches

2012-07-11 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Fontana, Here is my first series of patches against the new copyleft-next.git project [0]. These patches consists of a few cosmetic changes along with the idea of embracing the usage of the Signed-off-by tag. I've decided to use lkml given since ther

[PATCH 1/4] copyleft-next: remove issue tracker references

2012-07-11 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" This uses github, lets not confuse the focus for development for now. --- CONTRIBUTING | 13 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING index 1db3cd2..d06f5da 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING +++ b/CO

[PATCH 4/4] copyleft-next: embrace the Signed-off-by practice

2012-07-11 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" The idea is taken from Linus Torvald's subsurface project [0] README file. The Signed-off-by is widely used in public projects and we stand to gain to make its usage more prevalent. The meaning of the Signed-off-by is borrowed from the Linux ker

[PATCH 3/4] copyleft-next: rename the file COPYLEFT.next to copyleft-next

2012-07-11 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Also update the CONTRIBUTING to reflect the new file name change. --- CONTRIBUTING |2 +- COPYLEFT.next => copyleft-next |0 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) rename COPYLEFT.next => copyleft-next (100

[PATCH 2/4] copyleft-next: more project name updates Copyleft.next->copyleft-next

2012-07-11 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" This reflects the present gitorious.org name and reflects better with other foo-next git trees out there. --- ABOUT | 10 +- COPYLEFT.next |6 +++--- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/ABOUT b/ABOUT ind

Re: [PATCH 4/4] copyleft-next: embrace the Signed-off-by practice

2012-07-12 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 05:44:49PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" >> >> The idea is taken from Linus Torvald's subsurface >> project [0] README file. The Signed-off

[PATCH v2 0/6] copyleft-next: project name / remove anti-tivoization clause

2012-07-12 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" My last series of patches require a rebase based on the latest changes, so patches 1-4 are a simple rebase. Patch 5 and 6 address removing the anti-tivoization clause, section 7. This will at the very least clarify whether or not copyleft-next can or

[PATCH v2 1/6] copyleft-next: remove issue tracker references

2012-07-12 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" This uses github, lets not confuse the focus for development for now. --- CONTRIBUTING | 13 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING index 1db3cd2..d06f5da 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING +++ b/CO

[PATCH v2 4/6] copyleft-next: embrace the Signed-off-by practice

2012-07-12 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" The idea is taken from Linus Torvald's subsurface project [0] README file. The Signed-off-by is widely used in public projects and we stand to gain to make its usage more prevalent. The meaning of the Signed-off-by is borrowed from the Linux ker

[PATCH v2 6/6] copyleft-next: re-enumerate sections

2012-07-12 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" After the removal of the Tivoization clauses the sections numbers required an update, this updates those section numbers and its references. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez --- copyleft-next | 28 ++-- 1 file changed, 14 inserti

[PATCH v2 5/6] copyleft-next: remove section 7 - anti-tivoization

2012-07-12 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" The anti-tivoization clauses must go if we want this license to be ever considered for usage with the Linux kernel. This patch removes that entire section. The re-enumerating of the sections is done separately to make it easier for review. Signed-off-

[PATCH v2 3/6] copyleft-next: rename the file COPYLEFT.next to copyleft-next

2012-07-12 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Also update the CONTRIBUTING to reflect the new file name change. --- CONTRIBUTING |2 +- COPYLEFT.next => copyleft-next |0 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) rename COPYLEFT.next => copyleft-next (100

[PATCH v2 2/6] copyleft-next: more project name updates Copyleft.next->copyleft-next

2012-07-12 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" This reflects the present gitorious.org name and reflects better with other foo-next git trees out there. --- ABOUT | 10 +- COPYLEFT.next |6 +++--- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/ABOUT b/ABOUT ind

Re: [PATCH 4/4] copyleft-next: embrace the Signed-off-by practice

2012-07-12 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:30:59AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> Its unclear to me if this is the case for copyleft-next, so lets test >> it out and get this clarified once and for all. Even though one may be

[ANN] rel-html HTML5 release page generator for Linux and friends

2013-01-19 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
I had to write an HTML5 release page generator [0] for compat-drivers [1] for its new shiny new home page on kernel.org. While working on it I got a feature request to try to support any project, so I generalized the tool for any FOSS project. It currently supports parsing releases for the Linux ke

[PATCH 0/2] uapi: two minor changes

2012-10-12 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Here are a few minor updates to the UAPI changes [0]. The first one is to help with the backport effort [1], the second one is simply space cosmetic change to address my eyes bleeding while reviewing the changes on next-20121012 with git. If the changes on

[PATCH 1/2] uapi: update includes for drm content when no kernel API exists

2012-10-12 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" The UAPI changes split kernel API and userspace API content onto two separate header files. The userspace API drm content was moved to include/uapi/drm/ with the same file name while kernel specific API content was kept under include/drm/ with the same file

[PATCH 2/2] uapi: remove trailing spaces

2012-10-12 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" No functional changes. Cc: dri-de...@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: de...@driverdev.osuosl.org Cc: backpo...@vger.kernel.org Cc: Rob Clark Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Dave Jones Cc: David Airlie Cc: Ben Skeggs Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Dav

Re: [PATCH 1/2] uapi: update includes for drm content when no kernel API exists

2012-10-13 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Luis, > > On Friday 12 October 2012 16:49:31 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" >> >> The UAPI changes split kernel API and userspace API >> content onto two separate hea

Re: [PATCH 1/2] uapi: update includes for drm content when no kernel API exists

2012-10-16 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Luis, > > On Saturday 13 October 2012 10:00:42 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: >> > On Friday 12 October 2012 16:49:31 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >&g

Re: [PATCH] compat-drivers: update ethernet driver alx in crap dir

2012-10-16 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Huang, Xiong wrote: > Hi Luis > > I'm refining the code, I try my best to make it upstream ASAP. Thanks ! Ok great thanks, in that case I'm going to make it policy moving forward to simply not take in full drivers at all into compat-drivers regardless of the si

Streamlining Developer's Certificate of Origin, Signed-off-by tag

2012-11-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
So it turns out everyone and their mother's attorneys love the Signed-off-by tag and its definition as explained on the Linux kernel under the Developer's Certificate of Origin. Its to the extent other projects have picked it up and started documenting their own documentation for submitting patches

Re: Streamlining Developer's Certificate of Origin, Signed-off-by tag

2012-11-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote: > On 11/20/2012 10:16 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> >> On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:59:40 -0800 >> "Luis R. Rodriguez" wrote: >>> >>> >>> Thoughts? >> >> >> Nobody is stop

Re: Streamlining Developer's Certificate of Origin, Signed-off-by tag

2012-11-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> Not just a separate document but project / github / whatever given >> that other projects are referring to it now, and we stand to gain more >> in the community by streamlining it more and making it ubiquitous. > > > Cutting and pasting it somewh

rel-html: HTML5 release page for compat-drivers, maybe kernel.org and others

2013-01-10 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
The last step from the compat-wireless --> compat-drivers name change was to produce a release page for it. I was asked to see if I could come up with something generic that perhaps could be used by other projects. I've created a Python release script called rel-html [0] to generate a simple HTML5

Re: rel-html: HTML5 release page for compat-drivers, maybe kernel.org and others

2013-01-11 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > I've created a Python release script called rel-html [0] to > generate a simple HTML5 page based on the initializr project for a > base HTML5 template [0]. > > [0] https://github.com/mcgrof/rel-html Example rele

Re: [RFC] dynamic_debug: introduce debug_hex_dump()

2012-12-12 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote: > +#define dynamic_hex_dump(prefix_str, prefix_type, rowsize, \ wil_dynamic_hex_dump() Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majo

Re: rtl8187 rate control doesn't work

2008-01-05 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Jan 5, 2008 9:47 AM, Hauke Mehrtens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Now the compat-wireless-2.6 package is working and I get an Internet > connection with my rtl8187 based card. (It's on an ASUS P5B Deluxe) > > I used the compat-wireless-2.6 package for this log, but I have the same > proble

Re: rtl8187 rate control doesn't work

2008-01-07 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Jan 7, 2008 11:02 AM, Hauke Mehrtens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is an other Problem. > > iwconfig shows me "Bit Rate=1 Mb/s" the hole time, but I'm able to > download with an average of 440K/s as wget says. > > It's with PID rate control algorithm. Thanks for reporting this, how'd it go

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

2007-12-07 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
7;ath5k_extend_tsf': function body not available > > fix it with adjust the order of inline function body. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks Dave. What version of gcc were you using? I haven&

Re: rtl8187 rate control doesn't work

2008-01-14 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Jan 11, 2008 5:39 PM, Hauke Mehrtens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2008 11:02 AM, Hauke Mehrtens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for reporting this, how'd it go with simple rate control > > algorithm ins

Where is Margit Schubert-While?

2005-03-15 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Anyone heard of Margit Schubert recently? I have stopped hearing from her. She was actively working on prism54 and all of a sudden disappeared. IIRC her husband last told me she was sick... Luis -- GnuPG Key fingerprint = 113F B290 C6D2 0251 4D84 A34A 6ADD 4937 E20A 525E pgpSjX9YQpcC

libertas ub8xxx - bcdDevice 30.06 - firmware issues?

2007-11-16 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
I have a USB libertas 1286:2001 with bcdDevice 30.06 (from lsusb -v). I tried downloading the firmware from marvell: https://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=160&pId=38 renaming and to usb8388.bin and putting it in firmware dir. Is this the right firmware?? Upon load this is what I g

Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2

2007-08-28 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On 8/28/07, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:00:50PM -0400, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > ath5k, license is GPLv2 > > > > The files are available only under GPLv2 since now. > > Is this really a good idea? Most of the reverse-engineering was > done by the OpenBSD f

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
I urge developers to not bait into this and just leave this alone. Those involved know what they are doing and have a strong team of attorneys watching their backs. Any *necessary* discussions are be done privately. Luis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On 9/1/07, Constantine A. Murenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jason Dixon wrote: > > > Once the grantor (Reyk) releases his code under that license, it must > > > remain. You are free to derive work and redistribute under your > > > license,

Re: request for information about the "ath5k" licensing

2007-09-05 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On 9/5/07, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Reyk Floeter wrote: > > I'm the author of the free hardware driver layer for wireless Atheros > > devices in OpenBSD, also known as "OpenHAL". > > > > I'm still trying to get an idea about the facts and the lates

Re: [PATCH 60] drivers/net/wireless/prism54/oid_mgt.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

2007-07-31 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On 7/31/07, Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > drivers/net/wireless/prism54/oid_mgt.c | 25377 -> 25297 (-80 bytes) > drivers/net/wireless/prism5

Re: RFC: Reproducible oops with lockdep on count_matching_names()

2007-11-03 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On 11/2/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 19:26 -0400, Michael Wu wrote: > > On Thursday 01 November 2007 15:17:16 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/devel/wireless-2.6$ git-describe > > > v2.6.24-rc1-146-g2280

Re: [PATCH 2/2] use list_for_each_entry() for iteration in Prism 54 driver

2007-05-29 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
ehlcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Singed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Looks good, Luis -- diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c b/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c index 283be4a..585f599 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c +++ b/dr

Re: [PATCH v2] x86: remove LTO_REFERENCE_INITCALL()

2016-07-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 09:32:00AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 09:01:49AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > The setup for LTO never made it upstream, and although this has > > some users, this is now really old stuff for a gcc 4.7 LTO problem. > >

[PATCH] crypto: x86/glue_helper make bool

2016-07-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
r 0) glue_helper: Unknown symbol kernel_fpu_begin (err 0) glue_helper: Unknown symbol blkcipher_walk_virt_block (err 0) Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez --- crypto/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig index a9377bef25e3..ed6abf4

Re: [PATCH] crypto: x86/glue_helper make bool

2016-07-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 07:01:11PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > [[PATCH] crypto: x86/glue_helper make bool] On 21/07/2016 (Thu 15:13) Luis R. > Rodriguez wrote: > > > Paul's changes to remove MODULE_LICENSE() out of the x86 glue_helper > > causes a kernel with CONFI

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v2 7/7] kprobes: port to linker table

2016-07-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 01:52:44AM +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 01:34:05AM +, 平松雅巳 / HIRAMATU,MASAMI wrote: > > >From: Luis R. Rodriguez [mailto:mcg...@kernel.org] > > > > > >kprobe makes use of two custom sections: > > > >

Re: [PATCH v2] module.h: add copyleft-next >= 0.3.1 as GPL compatible

2016-07-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 03:38:51PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 12:56:33PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > > Greg KH writes: > > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 03:53:27PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > >> copyleft-next [0] [1] is an openly ev

Re: [PATCH] i2c: remove __init from i2c_register_board_info()

2016-06-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 02:15:38PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 04:52:27PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > As of next-20160607 with allyesconfig we get this linker failure: > > > > MODPOST vmlinux.o > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x2

Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] scripts: add glimpse.sh for indexing the kernel

2016-06-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 07:51:55AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > On Sat, 18 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 05:35:26PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > &g

[PATCH v3 1/8] coccicheck: move spatch binary check up

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
This has no functional changes. This is being done to enable us to later use spatch binary for some flag checking for certain features early on. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez --- scripts/coccicheck | 10 +- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts

[PATCH v3 2/8] coccicheck: make SPFLAGS more useful

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
R. Rodriguez --- scripts/coccicheck | 5 - 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/coccicheck b/scripts/coccicheck index f137b04dfdd3..5319fae910b4 100755 --- a/scripts/coccicheck +++ b/scripts/coccicheck @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ else NPROC="$J" f

[PATCH v3 0/8] coccicheck: modernize

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux-next.git/log/?h=20160621-cocciconfig-v3 Luis R. Rodriguez (8): coccicheck: move spatch binary check up coccicheck: make SPFLAGS more useful coccicheck: enable parmap support coccicheck: replace --very-quiet with --quit when debugging

[PATCH v3 3/8] coccicheck: enable parmap support

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
overriden v2: o redirect coccinelle stderr to /dev/null by default and only if DEBUG_FILE is used do we pass it to a file o fix typo of paramap/parmap Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez --- scripts/coccicheck | 41 ++--- 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 3

[PATCH v3 4/8] coccicheck: replace --very-quiet with --quit when debugging

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
ODE=report SPFLAGS="--profile --show-trying" M=./drivers/mfd/arizona-irq.c v3: rebased, resolve conflicts v2: use egrep instead of the *"=--option"* check, this doesn't work for disjunctions. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez --- scripts/coccicheck | 23

[PATCH v3 7/8] coccicheck: refer to coccicheck bottest wiki for documentation

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Sprinkling *tons* of documentation on the script is not a good idea, instead refer to a wiki for further coccicheck documentation: https://bottest.wiki.kernel.org/coccicheck This page shall always refer to the linux-next iteration of scripts/coccicheck. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez

[PATCH v3 6/8] coccicheck: add support for requring a coccinelle version

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
the rest. This uses the simple kernel scripts/ld-version.sh to create a weight on the version provided by spatch. The -dirty attribute is ignored if supplied, the benefit of scripts/ld-version.sh is it has a long history and well tested. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez --- scripts/coccicheck

[PATCH v3 5/8] scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
cessed last, if used Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez --- .cocciconfig | 3 +++ .gitignore | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .cocciconfig diff --git a/.cocciconfig b/.cocciconfig new file mode 100644 index ..43967c6b2015 --- /dev/null +++ b/.c

[PATCH v3 8/8] scripts/coccinelle: require coccinelle >= 1.0.4 on device_node_continue.cocci

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Make use of the new Requires: tag to be able to specify coccinelle binary version requirements. The cocci file device_node_continue.cocci requires at least coccinelle 1.0.4. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez --- scripts/coccinelle/iterators/device_node_continue.cocci | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3

Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] coccicheck: enable parmap support

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:17:38PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > Coccinelle has had parmap support since 1.0.2, this means > > it supports --jobs, enabling built-in multithreaded functionality, > > instead o

Re: [Cocci] [PATCH v3 0/8] coccicheck: modernize

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:13:31PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > This v3 series addresses the feedback from the last v2 series > > on the coccicheck enhancements [0], namely: > > > > o it drops th

Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] coccicheck: enable parmap support

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:43:04PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:17:38PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wr

Re: [Cocci] [PATCH v3 0/8] coccicheck: modernize

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:02:49PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > That is sanitized as follows: > > > > # spatch only allows include directories with the syntax "-I include" > > > > # whil

Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] coccicheck: enable parmap support

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:10:00PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:43:04PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] coccicheck: enable parmap support

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:00:53PM +0200, Nicolas Palix (LIG) wrote: > Hi, > > Le 21/06/16 à 22:43, Julia Lawall a écrit : > > > > > >On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > >>On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:17:38PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: &g

Re: [Cocci] [PATCH v3 0/8] coccicheck: modernize

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:30:03PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:02:49PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >

Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] coccicheck: enable parmap support

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:32:11PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:00:53PM +0200, Nicolas Palix (LIG) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Le 21/06/16 à 22:43, Julia Lawall a

Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] coccicheck: enable parmap support

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:44:09PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:32:11PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

Re: [PATCH v3 5/8] scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:29:53PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: [...] > mkid -i C --output .id-utils.index > > [...] Coccinelle searches for the index in the directory > on which it is working Can you clarify if this is $PWD from which we spawn spatch or the --dir, or the current directory that s

Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] coccicheck: refer to coccicheck bottest wiki for documentation

2016-06-21 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:18:41PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Nicolas Palix (LIG) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Le 21/06/16 à 21:21, Luis R. Rodriguez a écrit : > > > Sprinkling *tons* of documentation on the script is not a good

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