Re: [PATCH] [media] stv090x: do not unlock unheld mutex in stv090x_sleep()

2013-02-19 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi, On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote: > goto err and goto err_gateoff before mutex_lock(&state->internal->demod_lock) > lead to unlock of unheld mutex in stv090x_sleep(). Out of curiosity, what happens when you try to unlock an unlocked mutex ? Regards, Manu -- To unsu

Re: [GIT PULL for v3.11] media patches for v3.11

2013-07-01 Thread Manu Abraham
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Mon, 1 Jul 2013 16:37:58 +0530 > Manu Abraham escreveu: > >> Mauro, >> >> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab >> wrote: >> > Hi Linus, >> > >> > Please

Re: [GIT PULL for v3.11] media patches for v3.11

2013-07-01 Thread Manu Abraham
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Mon, 1 Jul 2013 21:17:58 +0530 > Manu Abraham escreveu: > >> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab >> wrote: >> > Em Mon, 1 Jul 2013 16:37:58 +0530 >> > Manu Abraham esc

Re: [GIT PULL for v3.11] media patches for v3.11

2013-07-01 Thread Manu Abraham
Mauro, On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Hi Linus, > > Please pull from: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media > v4l_for_linus > > For the media patches for Kernel v3.11. > > > Zoran Turalija (2): > [media] stb0899: allow minimu

Re: Re: [GIT PULL] Disintegrate UAPI for media

2012-10-11 Thread Manu Abraham
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Oliver Endriss wrote: > Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >> Em Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:30:24 +0100 >> David Howells escreveu: >> >> > Can you merge the following branch into the media tree please. >> > >> > This is to complete part of the Userspace API (UAPI) disintegrat

Re: nVidia stuff again

2005-04-21 Thread Manu Abraham
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:15:02AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: Ha! That's the whole damn point Dave. Use your head. Just because ATI is getting more complex with their GPU does *not* mean nVidia is. Go back to my original example of the aic7xxx cards. The alternative to

Re: [PATCH] missing include in tda80xx

2005-08-27 Thread Manu Abraham
Al Viro wrote: Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -urN RC13-rc7-base/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda80xx.c current/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda80xx.c --- RC13-rc7-base/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda80xx.c 2005-08-24 01:56:38.0 -0400 +++ current/drivers/media/dvb/f

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH 3/3] V4L: cinergyT2, remove bad usage of ERESTARTSYS

2007-10-10 Thread Manu Abraham
Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Qua, 2007-10-10 Ã s 11:59 -0400, Alan Cox escreveu: >> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:35:41PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >>> Em Qua, 2007-10-10 Ã s 00:18 -0400, Michael Krufky escreveu: Is this illegal as per kernel codingstyle? >>> Yes, it is. CodingStyl

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH 3/3] V4L: cinergyT2, remove bad usage of ERESTARTSYS

2007-10-10 Thread Manu Abraham
Marcel Siegert wrote: > Manu Abraham schrieb: >> Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >>> Em Qua, 2007-10-10 Ã s 11:59 -0400, Alan Cox escreveu: >>>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:35:41PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >>>>> Em Qua, 2007-10-10 Ã s 00:18 -

Re: Mysterious Lag With SATA Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Under Linux using NFSv3 UDP

2005-01-17 Thread Manu Abraham
omes wrote: I have the same problem as you. At least our problems are much alike. I got two Western digital hard disks. One 120GB 7200RPM 2MB Cache IDE, and one 80GB 7200 2MB Cache IDE. I get high loads when reading large files for some time, as well as when copying from one partition to another

Re: Mysterious Lag With SATA Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Under Linux using NFSv3 UDP

2005-01-18 Thread Manu Abraham
omes wrote: I suddenly couldn't send to the mailinglist any longer.. I'm going back to 2.4.28 for now. My 4GB of RAM support was already turned off.. Good luck further. Here is my mail: On Monday 17 January 2005 22:34, you wrote: omes wrote: I have the same problem as you. At least our problems

Re: [PATCH 5/7] I/OAT: Add support for MSI and MSI-X

2007-07-20 Thread Manu Abraham
On 7/21/07, Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This driver supports some chipsets that do MSI, and some that do MSI-X, > but none that can do both. Thanks, that's the simple answer I was hoping for. Obviously if some chipsets only do MSI then you need the MSI code in addition to the M

Re: [PATCH 5/7] I/OAT: Add support for MSI and MSI-X

2007-07-20 Thread Manu Abraham
On 7/21/07, Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a case where you have a device that which supports MSI-X (multiple > interrupts) but the device in default is in MSI mode, ie some > configuration change is needed on the device. In such a case, how > would one handle between MSI-X and

Re: [PATCH 5/7] I/OAT: Add support for MSI and MSI-X

2007-07-20 Thread Manu Abraham
On 7/21/07, Nelson, Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Manu Abraham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sorry for being not clear. What i was asking is thus: > >A device that has legacy interrupts and MSI-X. I was thinking that if >MSI-X failed one should fall back to MSI mode (singl

Re: file system for solid state disks

2007-09-05 Thread Manu Abraham
linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_state_drive > > This is exactly what I proposed on this list a long > time ago. It is now a reality. It's been around for a couple of years ;-) http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=15802 http://www.anandtech.com/tra

Re: Distributed storage.

2007-08-02 Thread Manu Abraham
On 7/31/07, Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TODO list currently includes following main items: > * redundancy algorithm (drop me a request of your own, but it is highly > unlikley that Reed-Solomon based will ever be used - it is too slow > for distributed RAID, I

Re: Distributed storage.

2007-08-03 Thread Manu Abraham
On 8/4/07, Dave Dillow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 09:04 +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > > On 7/31/07, Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > TODO list currently includes following main items: > > > * redundancy

Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers

2007-08-06 Thread Manu Abraham
On 8/6/07, Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > There's no problem to provide a high resolution sleep, but there is also > > > no reason to mess with msleep, don't fix what ain't broken... > > > > John Corbet provided the patch becaus

Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers

2007-08-07 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi Arjan, On 8/6/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 12:03 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > > There's no problem to provide a high resolution sleep, but there is also > > > > no reason to mess with

Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers

2007-08-08 Thread Manu Abraham
On 08 Aug 2007 13:55:28 +0200, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I'd be surprised if there was significant overhead - the maximum frequency > > at which msleep() can be called is 1000Hz. We'd need an awful lot of > > overhead for that to caus

Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers

2007-08-08 Thread Manu Abraham
On 8/8/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 03:09:14PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > > On 08 Aug 2007 13:55:28 +0200, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > &

Re: [2.6 patch] dvb_frontend_ioctl(): fix check-after-use

2007-07-31 Thread Manu Abraham
> return -ENODEV; > > if ((file->f_flags & O_ACCMODE) == O_RDONLY && > (_IOC_DIR(cmd) != _IOC_READ || cmd == FE_GET_EVENT || > cmd == FE_DISEQC_RECV_SLAVE_REPLY)) > > - Acked-by: Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTE

SAA7160/2

2007-07-31 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi All, After a bit of talks with NXP, they stated that if shown enough of a user base (future business forecast) for the SAA7160 / SAA7162 PCIe chipset, they would take into consideration, an investment into support, such that the chips can be better supported. ie, i need to provide them informa

Re: [linux-dvb] SAA7160/2

2007-08-01 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi Steve, On 8/1/07, Steven Toth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi manu, > > Hauppauge deal with NXP on a daily basis. We have a number of 716x > products either in the market or coming to market and we can add some > leverage. > > I can push this through our FAE and account manager. Who's your cont

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] [534/2many] MAINTAINERS - VIDEO FOR LINUX

2007-08-13 Thread Manu Abraham
On 8/13/07, Joe Perches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:15 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > There are more include files to be added, for the older V4L APIs: > > F: include/linux/video_decoder.h > > F: include/linux/videodev.h > > VIDEO FOR LINUX > P: Mauro Carvalh

Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl

2007-08-13 Thread Manu Abraham
On 8/13/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 19:33 +0200, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I don't recall discusion about this so here are my 3 cents: > > > > I like the idea. > > I don't actually. It shows a central MAINTAINERS file is th

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] [534/2many] MAINTAINERS - VIDEO FOR LINUX

2007-08-13 Thread Manu Abraham
On 8/14/07, Joe Perches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 23:22 +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > > > F: drivers/media/ > > This means everything under media is maintained under V4L. Incorrect > > What would you like? > media/video and media/rad

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] [534/2many] MAINTAINERS - VIDEO FOR LINUX

2007-08-14 Thread Manu Abraham
On 8/14/07, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Em Seg, 2007-08-13 às 19:44 -0700, Joe Perches escreveu: > > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 22:08 -0400, Michael Krufky wrote: > > > drivers/media/video -- v4l > > > drivers/media/radio -- v4l > > > > > > drivers/media/dvb -- dvb > > > > V

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] [534/2many] MAINTAINERS - VIDEO FOR LINUX

2007-08-14 Thread Manu Abraham
On 8/14/07, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > F: drivers/media/* > > > > > > This is NOT OK ! > > This IS ok. You just need to read the definition of the 'F' tag: > > F: Files and directories with wildcard patterns. >A trailing slash includes all files and subdirector

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [2.6 patch] dvb/bt8xx: "extern inline" -> "static inline"

2007-08-16 Thread Manu Abraham
d(__powerpc__) /* big-endian */ > -extern __inline__ void io_st_le32(volatile unsigned __iomem *addr, unsigned > val) > +static inline void io_st_le32(volatile unsigned __iomem *addr, unsigned val) > { > __asm__ __volatile__("stwbrx %1,0,%2":"=m"(*addr):"r

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [2.6 patch] dvb_net_ule(): fix check-after-use

2007-08-16 Thread Manu Abraham
ts) { > /* We are about to process a new TS cell. */ > > #ifdef ULE_DEBUG > if (ule_where >= &ule_hist[100*TS_SZ]) ule_where = > ule_hist; > memcpy( ule_where, ts, TS_SZ ); > if (ule_dump

Re: [PATCH] Blackfin I2C/TWI driver: update for 2.6.24 merge windows

2007-10-19 Thread Manu Abraham
Jean Delvare wrote: > BTW, as a rule of thumb, I am ignoring patches that are sent to the > LKML in addition to the i2c list. Why ? The statement would have made sense if the i2c list was not CC 'd, but stating that if LK is CC 'd additionally sounds ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: A CodingStyle suggestion

2007-02-04 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/4/07, Ahmed S. Darwish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, In CodingStyle Chapter 16 "Function return value and names", why not adding a comment about the favorable community way of checking the return value. ie: ret = do_method(); if (ret) { /* deal with error */ } and not other ways l

Re: A CodingStyle suggestion

2007-02-04 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/4/07, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 01:59:51PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 23:58:48 +0200 Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > > > In CodingStyle Chapter 16 "Function return value and names", why not > > adding a comment about the favorable commun

PCI BIST is running

2007-02-04 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi, I have 3 similar PCI cards all 32 bit in 32 bit PCI slots on a x86 (32 bit) CPU On booting up 2.6.17.7, i get this message, PCI: Unable to handle 64-bit address space for device 02:0a.0 i get one more message stating that an address could not be mapped for the same slot. running lspci, i

2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

2007-02-04 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi, I get this error on booting up 2.6.20 (Similar error on 2.6.17.7 also, the message is slightly different in 2.6.17.7) PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2 of device :02:0a.0 PCI Error while updating region 000:02:0a.0/5 (f3e4 != 0200) PCI Error while updating region 000:02:0a.0/5 (h

Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

2007-02-05 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/5/07, Luming Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/5/07, Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I get this error on booting up 2.6.20 (Similar error on 2.6.17.7 also, > the message is slightly different in 2.6.17.7) > > PCI Cannot allocate resource r

Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

2007-02-05 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/6/07, Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:09:01AM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > Hi, > > I get this error on booting up 2.6.20 (Similar error on 2.6.17.7 also, > the message is slightly different in 2.6.17.7) > > PCI Cannot allocate res

Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

2007-02-05 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/6/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:03:31 -0700 Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:55:28PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > ... > > > Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- Fas

Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

2007-02-05 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/6/07, Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:28:56AM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > On 2/6/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:03:31 -0700 Grant Grundler > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-06 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/6/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:59:47PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Although I am a bit of a cynic, I really hope that this endeavor works > the way you hope. > > I'd also like to offer my services to this quest of yours. If you get > any SD

Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

2007-02-06 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/6/07, Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:20:15AM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: ... > >BIST is required to complete in 2 seconds. Either with success or failure. > >I expect BIOS to have complained before launching grub/lilo. ... > BIST is

Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

2007-02-06 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/6/07, Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:33:39PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:03:31 -0700 Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:55:28PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > > ... > > > > Control:

Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

2007-02-06 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/6/07, Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/6/07, Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:33:39PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:03:31 -0700 Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > &g

Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

2007-02-06 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/6/07, Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:33:39PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:03:31 -0700 Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:55:28PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > > ... > > > > Control:

Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

2007-02-06 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/6/07, Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/6/07, Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:33:39PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:03:31 -0700 Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > &g

Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

2007-02-06 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/6/07, Luming Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dang ! > > rebooted it into 2.6.17.7 > > no errors, during a bootup, BIST isn't running anymore > running M$ did change the status from dead to alive ??? shocked !! Interesting! does windows driver fixes the broken firmware/flash on this card?

Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

2007-02-06 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/6/07, Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/6/07, Luming Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dang ! > > > > rebooted it into 2.6.17.7 > > > > no errors, during a bootup, BIST isn't running anymore > > running M$ did change the sta

Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

2007-02-06 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/6/07, Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/6/07, Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/6/07, Luming Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > dang ! > > > > > > rebooted it into 2.6.17.7 > > > > > > no errors

Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

2007-02-06 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/7/07, Luming Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > none on the card, a flash or a firmware .. it has a 24c02 EEPROM for > vendor information, that's all Ok, sounds like windows driver can fix the broken EEPROM on you card. Otherwise, I can not explain how windows driver can fix the problem for l

Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

2007-02-07 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/7/07, Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:52:47PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > >attaching a dump of the regs (on 2.6.17.7) as well as the diff > > The device now works, used the demodulator driver alongwith the bridge > driver. Ok -

Re: 2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2

2007-02-07 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/7/07, Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:52:47PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > >attaching a dump of the regs (on 2.6.17.7) as well as the diff > > The device now works, used the demodulator driver alongwith the bridge > driver. Ok -

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-11 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/12/07, Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Neither am I. I'm just asking that new drivers have power management as standard. What if the hardware doesn't support power management ? regards, manu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bod

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-11 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/12/07, Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 02:57 +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > On 2/12/07, Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Neither am I. I'm just asking that new drivers have power management as > >

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] dvb shared datastructure bug?

2007-02-13 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/13/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, while working on the last pieces of the file_ops constantification, DVB is the small village in France that is holding the Romans at bay... but I think I found the final flaw in it now: *pdvbdev = dvbdev = kmalloc(sizeof(struct

Re: dvb shared datastructure bug?

2007-02-13 Thread Manu Abraham
reetings, > Arjan van de Ven hi arjan, thanks for pointing out this issue. attached find a patch that fixes the problem. @mauro - please pull changeset a7ac92d208fe dvbdev: fix illegal re-usage of fileoperations struct from http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~mws/v4l-dvb-fixtree Ack&#

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] Re: dvb shared datastructure bug?

2007-02-13 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/13/07, Trent Piepho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > Wouldn't it be better to kmalloc both struct dvb_device and > struct file_operations together instead of doing 2 separate allocations? > struct dvd_device_plus_fops > { > struct dvb_device dev; > s

Re: smp and irq conflict

2007-02-14 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/2/07, Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:04:53AM +0100, Lapo TIN wrote: > I need to capture at 25 frame per second from each channel... > So 25 x 8 total frames per second on the pci. Each PAL frame takes about 800k, so that makes 20MB/s per channel. With 8 chan

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/15/07, Mws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi vj, On Thursday 15 February 2007, v j wrote: > This is in reference to the following thread: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 > > I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_ > popular in the embedded space. We (an embed

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/15/07, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't think of GPL as a religion, only as an experiment that has run amok. The point of GPL, is that even if the vendor stopped supporting, you could fix the device driver by yourself. This is really happening, vendors do sell h

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-30 Thread Manu Abraham
On 1/30/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Free Linux Driver Development! Yes, that's right, the Linux kernel community is offering all companies free Linux driver development. No longer do you have to suffer through all of the different examples in the Linux Device Driver Kit, or pick thro

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-30 Thread Manu Abraham
On 1/30/07, Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All that is needed is some kind of specification that describes how your > device works, or the email address of an engineer that is willing to > answer questions every once in a while. A few sample devices might be > good to have so tha

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-30 Thread Manu Abraham
On 1/30/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:30:23PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > > Sounds very nice indeed. Just happened to do a driver in a similar > status, where the vendor did not want to make the specs and other > stuff open, but was in a p

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-30 Thread Manu Abraham
On 1/31/07, Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To me, it's clear that historically the community hasn't delivered on this. So I don't like promising something that we haven't been able to follow through on in the past. If a vendor takes Greg's offer, and then the community, for whatever

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-19 Thread Manu Abraham
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > I argue that if you keep the free loaders out, you miss > the chance to communicate with and educate them. > Communication across borders doesn't work well, and you create > a border between the morally "good" and the "bad". > > Of course you can't expect that every f

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-19 Thread Manu Abraham
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: >> Johannes Stezenbach wrote: >> >>> I argue that if you keep the free loaders out, you miss >>> the chance to communicate with and educate them. >>> Communication across borders does

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-19 Thread Manu Abraham
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Well much as I don't like what Tivo did with only allowing signed > kernels to run, I don't see anything in the above that says they can't Well, it is not Tivo alone -- look at http://aminocom.com/ for an example. If you want the kernel sources pay USD 50k and we will pr

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-20 Thread Manu Abraham
Alan Cox wrote: >> Well, it is not Tivo alone -- look at http://aminocom.com/ for an >> example. If you want the kernel sources pay USD 50k and we will provide >> the kernel sources, was their attitude. > > GPLv2 deals with that case, and they can (and should) be sued for it > [except that US copy

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-20 Thread Manu Abraham
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 07:28:22PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: >> Well, it is not Tivo alone -- look at http://aminocom.com/ for an >> example. If you want the kernel sources pay USD 50k and we will provide >> the kernel sources, was their attitude. &g

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-21 Thread Manu Abraham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what sort of signal can the network controller send that couldn't be > forged by the OS? > > how would you do this where the device is a receiver on the netwoek > (such as a satellite receiver) just for the question on the HOWTO (not on anything else) You can easily h

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-21 Thread Manu Abraham
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 18:14 -0300, Tomas Neme wrote: > [] >> Why, if you let user-compiled kernels to run in a TiVo, it might be >> modified so the TiVo can be used to pirate-copy protected content, > > Or it might be modified to fix a bug - either a technical one or

Re: pci probe

2007-06-13 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi, Sorry for my late reply. Greg KH wrote: >>> - your driver will not work on any pci-hotplug type system (that >>> includes expresscard and pccard and lots of high-end servers. >> This doesn't matter > > Are you sure? PCI Hotplug is showing up in more places that people > realize...

Re: Reading a physical memory location

2007-07-10 Thread Manu Abraham
On 7/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the quick reply. But I was wondering as to why I would have to map the physical address to the virtual address when I know that the string is permanently in the physical memory because its loaded into flash. Is there a way to di

Re: Reading a physical memory location

2007-07-11 Thread Manu Abraham
ysical memory to virtual http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2005/cdrom-beta-1/linux-mandocs-2.6.12.6/phys_to_virt.html Nobin On 7/11/07, Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the quick

Re: Reading a physical memory location

2007-07-11 Thread Manu Abraham
On 7/11/07, Nobin Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: See this in the documentation The returned virtual address is a current CPU mapping for the memory address given. It is only valid to use this function on addresses that have a kernel mapping This function does not handle bus mappings for DMA

Re: PCIE

2007-05-26 Thread Manu Abraham
Roland Dreier wrote: > > I am now wondering whether the usage of MSI would help in this case and > > that i should be using enable_msi before request_irq ? > > MSI interrupts are never shared. So if pci_enable_msi() succeeds, you > can be sure that the interrupts you get with that IRQ number ar

Re: PCIE

2007-05-26 Thread Manu Abraham
Grant Grundler wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:03:12PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: >> Roland Dreier wrote: >>> > I am now wondering whether the usage of MSI would help in this case and >>> > that i should be using enable_msi before request_irq ? >>> &

Re: PCIE

2007-05-26 Thread Manu Abraham
David Miller wrote: > From: Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 19:03:12 +0400 > >> i presume then i shouldn't be using IRQF_SHARED, if using MSI. > > That's actually a really good question. > > It is likely architecture dependan

Re: PCIE

2007-05-26 Thread Manu Abraham
David Miller wrote: > From: Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 18:16:31 -0600 > >> Are they really? The device is generating the transaction on the bus. >> The PCI host controller (in general) will be routing that transaction >> to wherever the "dest addr" of the MSI lives

Re: PCIE

2007-05-27 Thread Manu Abraham
Grant Grundler wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 05:01:02AM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: >> David Miller wrote: >>> True, on sparc64 PCI-E controllers, for example, the MSI vector is >>> received by the PCI-E host controller, and the host controller turns >>> thi

Re: PCIE

2007-05-27 Thread Manu Abraham
David Miller wrote: > From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 19:34:26 -0700 > >> There are systems which only get a single bit indication that an MSI has >> happened. >> >> Presumably we need something like IRQF_MSI which can be set as >> appropriate depending on the a

Re: PCIE

2007-05-27 Thread Manu Abraham
Roland Dreier wrote: > > >> Another question would be if the device supports multiple messages, MSIX > > >> should be used ? > > > > > > Yes. Assuming the device supports multiple MSI-X messages. > > At least on my device (PCI ID 1131:7162) there is no MSI-X capability, > so that's not an opt

Re: PCIE

2007-05-27 Thread Manu Abraham
Roland Dreier wrote: > > >> Another question would be if the device supports multiple messages, MSIX > > >> should be used ? > > > > > > Yes. Assuming the device supports multiple MSI-X messages. > > At least on my device (PCI ID 1131:7162) there is no MSI-X capability, > so that's not an opt

Re: PCIE

2007-05-27 Thread Manu Abraham
Roland Dreier wrote: > > > At least on my device (PCI ID 1131:7162) there is no MSI-X capability, > > > so that's not an option for you. The current Linux implementation > > > does not support more than one MSI interrupt, so you just get one > > > interrupt with pci_enable_msi(). > > > > Th

D state

2007-07-19 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi, When a device is in D3 state, is it possible to read from the PCI config space header ? Or does a D3 state imply that the whole PC itself is in standby ? I am trying to relate whether a device that i have, a new device that i am working upon, starts up in D3 state. whether that could be the

pci probe

2007-05-14 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi, I do have a device that's a multifunction device. Eventhough a MFD, it just has one Interrupt which is shared by by a Configuration space for each function. ie, INTA is shared between them functions. In such a case, i am wondering, (since pci_probe returns a pointer to one PCI function alone

Re: pci probe

2007-05-15 Thread Manu Abraham
Manu Abraham wrote: > Hi, > > I do have a device that's a multifunction device. Eventhough a MFD, it > just has one Interrupt which is shared by by a Configuration space for > each function. ie, INTA is shared between them functions. > > In such a case, i am wondering,

Re: [PATCH] em28xx and ivtv should depend on PCI

2007-05-15 Thread Manu Abraham
Al Viro wrote: > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > drivers/media/video/em28xx/Kconfig |2 +- > drivers/media/video/ivtv/Kconfig |2 +- > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/media/video/em28xx/Kconfig > b/drivers/media/video/em28xx/

Re: pci probe

2007-05-16 Thread Manu Abraham
Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:15:28PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: >> Manu Abraham wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I do have a device that's a multifunction device. Eventhough a MFD, it >>> just has one Interrupt which is shared by by a Conf

PCIE

2007-05-23 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi, Do the PCI Express chipsets also use the same PCI API ? The device specifications are thus for the device that i am looking at: PCI Express interface * Compliant to PCI Express Base Specification 1.0a * The PCI Express circuit supports isochronous data traffic intended for uninterru

Re: PCIE

2007-05-23 Thread Manu Abraham
Roland Dreier wrote: >>> Uncompressing Linux .. Ok, booting the kernel. >>> BIOS bug, no explicit IRQ entries, using default mptable. (tell your hw >>> vendor) >>> PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for :01:00.0 > > This message is about device 01:00.0 as it says (your

Re: PCIE

2007-05-23 Thread Manu Abraham
Roland Dreier wrote: > > If i uncomment the saa716x_read or write, what i get is a solid freeze > > on module load. If i leave it commented out, the module loads fine. > > That sounds like a typical bug during driver development... you're > probably wedging the hardware by doing the wrong access

Re: PCIE

2007-05-23 Thread Manu Abraham
Roland Dreier wrote: > > It looks so, from the logs. The only problem is i can't disable the > > interrupts, if i write "0" to 0x500, the interrupt/enable register, it > > gives me a solid freeze. If i read from the handler, commenting out the > > disable interrupts in init, that read also give

Re: PCIE

2007-05-24 Thread Manu Abraham
Roland Dreier wrote: > Why does the device come up in a state where it generates a stream of > interrupts as soon as you enable the PCI device? That's somewhat > unusual behavior, although certainly not unheard of. > In fact the device wasn't generating a stream of interrupts when loaded (i gue

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB updates

2007-04-15 Thread Manu Abraham
Michael Krufky wrote: > Mauro, > > I've been out of town for the past few days... I just got home and saw this: > > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >>- Fix 1/3 for bug 7819: fixed frontend hotplug issue >>- Fix 2/3 for bug 7819: demux and dvr >>- Fix 3/3 for bug 7819: fixed hotpluggin

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: [video4linux-cvs] [hg:v4l-dvb] Add support for Opera S1- DVB-USB

2007-04-19 Thread Manu Abraham
hermann pitton wrote: > Am Freitag, den 20.04.2007, 00:55 +0400 schrieb Manu Abraham: >> Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >>> Em Qui, 2007-04-19 às 16:41 -0400, Michael Krufky escreveu: >>>> Marco Gittler wrote: >>>>> this patch has applied the hints fr

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: [video4linux-cvs] [hg:v4l-dvb] Add support for Opera S1- DVB-USB

2007-04-19 Thread Manu Abraham
Markus Rechberger wrote: > On 4/20/07, Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hermann pitton wrote: >> > Am Freitag, den 20.04.2007, 00:55 +0400 schrieb Manu Abraham: >> >> Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >> >>> Em Qui, 2007-04-19 às 16:41 -0

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: [video4linux-cvs] [hg:v4l-dvb] Add support for Opera S1- DVB-USB

2007-04-19 Thread Manu Abraham
hermann pitton wrote: > Am Freitag, den 20.04.2007, 02:51 +0400 schrieb Manu Abraham: >> Markus Rechberger wrote: >>> On 4/20/07, Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> hermann pitton wrote: >>>>> Am Freitag, den 20.04.2007, 00:55 +0400

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: [video4linux-cvs] [hg:v4l-dvb] Add support for Opera S1- DVB-USB

2007-04-19 Thread Manu Abraham
hermann pitton wrote: > Am Freitag, den 20.04.2007, 03:19 +0400 schrieb Manu Abraham: >> hermann pitton wrote: >>> Am Freitag, den 20.04.2007, 02:51 +0400 schrieb Manu Abraham: >>>> Markus Rechberger wrote: >>>>> On 4/20/07, Manu Abraham <[EMAI

Re: [linux-dvb] DST/BT878 module customization (.. was: Critical points about ...)

2007-05-03 Thread Manu Abraham
Markus Rechberger wrote: > On 5/3/07, Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >> > Enough. Let's stop arguing non technical issues. >> > >> > If either one of you have any technical argue against the Trent'

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