Re: ioctls.h (Re: [PATCH][RFC] Make asm-generic/ioctl.h extensible by adding conditionals.)

2007-02-24 Thread Oleg Verych
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:59:42AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > > From: "Robert P. J. Day" > > > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > > > Subject: [PATCH][RFC] Make asm-generic/ioctl.h extensible by adding

Re: [patch] kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files

2007-02-04 Thread Oleg Verych
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 06:43:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 03:37:17 +0100 Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:56:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:11:04 + > > > O

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-04 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: devzero web.de > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! > Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:37:33 +0100 > Organization: http://freemail.web.de/ > Archived-At: > First off, compliments to this announcement,

Nvidia cable detection problems & ACPI (beware, slight off-top)

2007-02-05 Thread Oleg Verych
> Unfortunately there's no standard way to do host side cable detect on > nForce systems without going through ACPI. It's done through a GPIO > pin. Board vendors are free to reallocate which GPIO pin is used for > this feature. Want to know how to make incompatibility? "Ask me How!(tm)". Reg

Re: Nvidia cable detection problems & ACPI (beware, slight off-top)

2007-02-05 Thread Oleg Verych
(i don't know a single bit of details of what i'm writing, so... ;) Jeff Garzik wrote: > Alan wrote: > >>I'm very upset, that hardware nvidia-lego forces system software (and > >>programmers) to know "unfortunately no standard" ways of desinging > >>things... One read-only-for-os, hardware set bit

[patch 0/3, resend] scripts, kbuild updates/fixes (against 2.6.20)

2007-02-05 Thread Oleg Verych
Due to almost zer0 activity, this may be last attempt. -- - 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.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[patch 3/3, resend] kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files

2007-02-05 Thread Oleg Verych
ition was taken right from the GNU make manual, while Kbuild's version is original. Cc: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- My using of the `

[patch 1/3, resend] scripts: replace gawk, head, bc with shell, update

2007-02-05 Thread Oleg Verych
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Whitespace cleanup included. scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh | 43 +- scripts/makelst | 34 - 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 3

[patch 2/3, resend] kbuild: improve option checking, Kbuild.include cleanup

2007-02-05 Thread Oleg Verych
t; Cc: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- -- all checks by shell united in one macro -- checker-shell; -- one di

Re: [patch 1/3, resend] scripts: replace gawk, head, bc with shell, update

2007-02-06 Thread Oleg Verych
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:49:47AM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > Oleg Verych wrote: > >scripts: replace gawk, head, bc with shell, update > > > > Replacing overhead of using some (external) programs > > instead of good old `sh'. > ...

Re: [patch 0/3, resend] scripts, kbuild updates/fixes (against 2.6.20)

2007-02-06 Thread Oleg Verych
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:56:30AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:18:19 +0100 Oleg Verych wrote: > > > Due to almost zer0 activity, this may be last attempt. > > Are all of these patches in -mm for testing? Nope. Roman Zippel joined, when i've

floppy (Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, OT)

2007-02-06 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Akemi Yagi > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! > Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:14:44 -0800 [] >> I don't think time has come for that yet, still millions of people do use >> Floppy on Linux ;-) > > So, I am not the only person on earth who still makes

Re: [PATCH]: warrning fix: unsigned->signed

2007-02-06 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Andrew Morton > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: Re: [PATCH]: warrning fix: unsigned->signed > Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:09:36 -0800 Mail-Followup-To: LKML , Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tomasz Kvars

Re: [patch 0/3, resend] scripts, kbuild updates/fixes (against 2.6.20)

2007-02-06 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Oleg Verych > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: [patch 0/3, resend] scripts, kbuild updates/fixes (against 2.6.20) > Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:18:19 +0100 [] > Due to almost zer0 activity, this may be last attempt. > Landed in -mm tree. Thank you, Andrew. Happy

Re: [patch 1/3, resend] scripts: replace gawk, head, bc with shell, update

2007-02-07 Thread Oleg Verych
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:58:12AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 06/02/07, Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >scripts: replace gawk, head, bc with shell, update > > > > Replacing overhead of using some (external) programs > > instead of good old `sh&

Re: [patch 3/3, resend] kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files

2007-02-07 Thread Oleg Verych
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:39:38PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > -nullstring := > > -space := $(nullstring) # end of line > > +pattern = ".*/localversion[^~]*" > > +string = $(shell cat /de

Re: [patch 2/3, resend] kbuild: improve option checking, Kbuild.include cleanup

2007-02-07 Thread Oleg Verych
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:36:47PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > -- all checks by shell united in one macro -- checker-shell; > > -- one disposable output sym. link to /dev/null per shell, > >thus no racing, `

Re: [patch 2/3, resend] kbuild: improve option checking, Kbuild.include cleanup

2007-02-07 Thread Oleg Verych
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:36:47PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: [] > Also please don't add random whitespace, Makefiles are no C files, so > different rules apply. Concerning whitespaces. Unfortunately only after installing i386 distro and checking that `-mcpu' error, i've realized what exactly whi

[patch, fix build regression] kbuild: Kbuild.include avoid using spaces in call arguments

2007-02-07 Thread Oleg Verych
-cat-file commit 5de043f4bd11a9e0a3e8daec7d1905da575a76b7 > > tree 1cdafacd6a0f6e12bd5b88d9031a6130169ca868 > > parent f6112ec27a8f0eee6c5a996f65c7bfd9457d9f85 > > author Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1170724701 +0100 > > committer Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 1170801049 -0800 >

Re: [PATCH] refix localversion handling

2007-02-07 Thread Oleg Verych
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:13:39AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > This reverts part of the localversion patch, which now already got into > git. It removes the unnecessary find call, with the simpler $(notdir ...) > fix. I'm certainly have more stuff to deal with, but that was my attept t

discussion of Kbuild fixes (kbuild: Kbuild.include avoid using spaces in call arguments)

2007-02-07 Thread Oleg Verych
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:00:44AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > > > Linus, please revert. Thanks. > > > > > > > > Roman, while it went so fast to Linus, i didn't expect that, let me > > > > try to fix all this with this little patch. > > >

Re: `-mcpu=' is deprecated. Use `-mtune=' or '-march=' instead.

2007-02-07 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Trond Myklebust > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: `-mcpu=' is deprecated. Use `-mtune=' or '-march=' instead. > Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:13:32 -0800 > Archived-At: Hallo, Trond. > The latest pull from the git tree spews out

Re: discussion of Kbuild fixes (kbuild: Kbuild.include avoid using spaces in call arguments)

2007-02-07 Thread Oleg Verych
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:05:41AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > -- `find | sort' in localversion (i insist on split between paths and > > files) > > make has dedicated functions for this. I think, &q

dd

2007-02-07 Thread Oleg Verych
Hallo. search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch -- Subject: search a little harder for mkimage From: "Mike Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Check to see if `${CROSS_COMPILE}mkimage` exists and if not, fall back to > the standard `mkimage` Why

+ make-mkcompile_h-use-lang=c-and-lc_all=c-for-cc-v.patch

2007-02-07 Thread Oleg Verych
> make-mkcompile_h-use-lang=c-and-lc_all=c-for-cc-v.patch [] > Fix a minor bug in mkcompile_h. As one can see, the current locale is used > while getting the version of gcc. This produces problems when a locale > other than C or en_US is used. As an example, my /proc/version contains > Turkish c

Re: + search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch

2007-02-07 Thread Oleg Verych
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:19:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 06:24:40 +0100 Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If that matter, `type -path' is bashizm (BloAted SHell), and "blackbox" > > with "dash" (very good

Re: + search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch

2007-02-07 Thread Oleg Verych
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:58:26AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 2/8/07, Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:19:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 06:24:40 +0100 Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrot

Re: search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch

2007-02-07 Thread Oleg Verych
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:56:17AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 2/8/07, Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Check to see if `${CROSS_COMPILE}mkimage` exists and if not, fall back to > >> the standard `mkimage` > > > >Why this can't b

Re: search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch

2007-02-07 Thread Oleg Verych
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:40:28AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: [] > by this argument, why does mkuboot.sh exist at all then ? let's > simply delete mkuboot.sh and change all arch Makefile's like so: > -$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(MKIMAGE) ... > +-mkimage ... Yes (with TOOLCHAIN prefix). > i of c

Re: Kbuild change breaks the ppc64 build

2007-02-08 Thread Oleg Verych
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:00:03AM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 22:10:54 +1100 [] > Linus and Oleg tried to fix it with various subsequent changes > to scripts/Kbuild.include, but it's still broken. And Roland McGrath, but it turned

Re: Kbuild change breaks the ppc64 build

2007-02-08 Thread Oleg Verych
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:10:54PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Commit 5de043f4bd11a9e0a3e8daec7d1905da575a76b7 breaks the build on > 64-bit powerpc because we no longer get the -m64 flag passed to gcc. > There is code in arch/powerpc/Makefile which adds (or used to add) > -m64 to AS, LD and CC i

final (Re: Kbuild change breaks the ppc64 build)

2007-02-08 Thread Oleg Verych
Date: Feb 08, 2007 at 05:17:06AM -0800 From: David Miller > From: Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:47:56 +0100 > [] > > As i have refactored some CC checking code in Kbuild.include, it > > turned, that some versions of `make' after calli

Re: + search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch added to -mm tree

2007-02-08 Thread Oleg Verych
"mkimage" and optional, for particular Makefile, "$(CROSS_COMPILE)" prefix. Remove mkuboot.sh. > The Blackfin toolchain includes mkimage, but we dont want to namespace > collide with any of the user's system setup, so we prefix it with our > toolchain name. >

Re: + search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch

2007-02-08 Thread Oleg Verych
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 05:38:28PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > BTW, Debian shell policy is to be bashizms-clear. Purpose -- to have > > compatibility with any `sh'. Shall we? > > Wrong. > > h

Re: + search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch added to -mm tree

2007-02-08 Thread Oleg Verych
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:28:03AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 2/8/07, Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >proposition is to substitute: > > "$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(MKIMAGE)" > >with > > "mkimage" > > this isnt a one-to

Re: [PATCH] fix cc-option-yn whitespace

2007-02-08 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix cc-option-yn whitespace > Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:06:35 -0800 (PST) [] > I have long ago sworn off thinking too hard about other people's makefiles > that get arcane with GNU make features. (Y

Re: - search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch added to -mm tree

2007-02-08 Thread Oleg Verych
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:35:34PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: [] > there's a difference between NACKing my changes because the patch > breaks things versus because you think the whole system should be > taking some other form. After all, i was giving negative acknowledgement to only-good-branch

Kbuild refactoring (Re: The who needs reviews anyways [PATCH])

2007-02-08 Thread Oleg Verych
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:48:51PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: [] > - printf has other side effects, instead stop pretending we support > something else than bash Yes. With `%' in option strings there will be side effects. I would suggest to use printf %s "$(1)" with "paranoia mode on", an

Re: The who needs reviews anyways [PATCH]

2007-02-08 Thread Oleg Verych
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:48:51PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: [] > - printf has other side effects, instead stop pretending we support > something else than bash More on printf, `sh', tmpfiles. As we know original problem is: something from binutils is removing output files on failure. > -

Re: The who needs reviews anyways [PATCH]

2007-02-09 Thread Oleg Verych
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:35:04PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: [] > > > +$(error bash is required to build the kernel) > > > +endif > > > +SHELL := $(CONFIG_SHELL) > > > > here is policy to have `bash' introduced, so due to original > > issue, where `root' users ended with removed /dev/null, may po

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

2007-02-09 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Russell King > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 > Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 22:03:27 + [] > However: > > sys_foo(int a, int c, unsigned long long b, unsigned long long d) > > is entirely reasonable and leaves us with spare room for one additional > 32

[q] kbuild for private asm-offsets (Re: [PATCH 6/10] lguest code: the little linux hypervisor.)

2007-02-12 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Rusty Russell > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.virtualization > Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/10] lguest code: the little linux hypervisor. > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:23:19 +1100 Hallo, Rusty, guys. > On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 15:17 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> I do not quite see

Re: [patch 3/3, resend] kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files

2007-02-12 Thread Oleg Verych
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:53:29PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Hallo. > On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Tony Luck wrote: > > > > Git bisect fingers this patch (which is in Linus' tree as commit > > 76c329563c5b8663ef27eb1bd195885ab826cbd0) as the culprit > > for double adding the contents of the localvers

Re: [patch 3/3, resend] kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files

2007-02-12 Thread Oleg Verych
[] > > The old code did the same thing, but with the "make" $(sort ..) function, > > which apparently removes duplicates. We should use "sort -u" here. > > Heh. Why one ever going to bloat $(srctree) to add more "dontdiff" and > such, where build is supporting dirty output? I mean, all by-hand m

Re: [q] kbuild for private asm-offsets (Re: [PATCH 6/10] lguest code: the little linux hypervisor.)

2007-02-12 Thread Oleg Verych
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:41:36AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > Always happy to explain. Thanks! [] > So, asm-offsets.c is the solution: it uses asm() statements to emit > patterns in the assembler, with the compiler computing the actual > numbers, eg: > > #define DEFINE(sym,

kbuild, localversion (Re: [patch 3/3, resend] kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files)

2007-02-13 Thread Oleg Verych
Hallo! On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 05:09:47PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > I know it maybe another my "change it all" proposition, but i can't find > > > nothing against `GNU $(wildcard ..)' and `unnecessarily complex "find"'. > > > > It's

[pp] kbuild: ARCH-setup (Re: kbuild feature/question: default ARCH)

2007-02-14 Thread Oleg Verych
Hallo. On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:11:44AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:06:19PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like for kbuild to default ARCH to the already-symlinked > > arch in include/asm-$(ARCH) if ARCH is not specified on the > > command line or in

Re: [PATCH] asus_acpi: Add support for Asus Z81SP

2007-02-14 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: mitxael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: Re: [PATCH] asus_acpi: Add support for Asus Z81SP > Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:30:29 + (UTC) Hi, > And how do I can apply this patch?? I tried but i couldn't, patch is word-wrapped, try to mime-decode it first. >

me, not somebody dropped a (warning) bomb

2007-02-15 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Linus Torvalds > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb > Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:02:32 -0800 (PST) [] > Think of it this way: in science, a theory is proven to be bad by a single > undeniable fact just showing that it's wrong. If theory is very

[pp] kbuild: lguest with private asm-offsets (and some bloat)

2007-02-16 Thread Oleg Verych
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:10:44AM +0100, Oleg Verych wrote: [] > > Proposition will follow. > [] [patch proposition] kbuild: lguest with private asm-offsets * added some bloat to lguest's Makefile: - lguest doesn't rebuild, if not changed (due to FORCED implicit %o:%

[pp] kbuild: asm-offsets generalized

2007-02-16 Thread Oleg Verych
ants: - asm-offsets magic demystified, generalized, * (hopefully) more readable sed scripts, * top Kbuild may be updated... * file needs `chmod u+x`, i don't know, how it's done in patch(1). pp-by: Oleg Verych --- scripts/mkCconstants | 50 +++

Re: [pp] kbuild: asm-offsets generalized

2007-02-16 Thread Oleg Verych
Hallo. On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 07:56:35PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 04:59:29PM +0100, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > > > > > > Proposition will follow. > > > > > > > [] > > > > > > [patch proposition] k

exporting LANG=C (Re: [PATCH] override build timestamp)

2007-02-16 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Olaf Hering > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: [PATCH] override build timestamp > Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:52:13 +0100 Hallo, Olaf. > Pass a timestamp to kbuild via an enviroment variable. > > TZ=UTC BUILD_TIMESTAMP=2007-01-01 make -kj O=../O vmlinux > > This can be used whe

Re: [pp] kbuild: asm-offsets generalized

2007-02-16 Thread Oleg Verych
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 03:43:49PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 22:56 +0100, Oleg Verych wrote: > > Hallo. > > lguest parts look good though! Thanks. Well, then what about my way of doing generalization? I.e. one-file shell script-let, rather many indist

Re: exporting LANG=C (Re: [PATCH] override build timestamp)

2007-02-17 Thread Oleg Verych
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 02:57:26AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, Hallo, Roman. > On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > could you make separate patch with exporting 'LANG=C' on the very > > beginning and delete all other occurrences of it? It's a C

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-18 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: "Michael K. Edwards" > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers > Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:56:00 -0800 [] > How are you going to like being forced to fork the entire GNU corpus in > whatever state it's in the day before the v3 conversion hits SVN? Xorg >

Re: sed _s_gnu_alternatives_ (Re: [rft] (g)awk substitution)

2007-01-26 Thread Oleg Verych
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 12:47:20PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On Thursday 25 January 2007 4:18 pm, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > > As I said, I'm not particularly interested in a more intrusive solution > > > solving a problem I haven't actually seen. I d

[x86-64, CMOS/RTC] Re: 2.6.19.2: bad reads/writes from/to CMOS clock

2007-01-26 Thread Oleg Verych
26-01-2007: > I am running 2.6.19.2 kernel from kernel.org. 2.6.18 debian, didn't see before, but maybe it was just big uptime ;) > This is my first SMP kernel. > > The problem I describe below has not happend with non-SMP kernels ever... > > I have installed my new AMD64 x2 4800 CPU just a few

scripts/makelst: bc -> shell Re: sed _s_gnu_alternatives_ (Re: [rft] (g)awk substitution)

2007-01-26 Thread Oleg Verych
Hallo. On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:18:30AM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > In Debian's version it has no `bc', while native `bc' is producing > > crap like that: > > ,-*- bash -*- > > |[EMA

Re: git.kernel.org move (finally)... estimated week of Feb 5

2007-01-26 Thread Oleg Verych
27-01-2007, H. Peter Anvin: > Just for everyone's information... > > The git performance issues (especially) on kernel.org has been very > frustrating, obviously. We're putting a dedicated git server in place > hopefully the week of February 5. Thanks. Hope it will have fast git-web face also.

Re: git.kernel.org move (finally)... estimated week of Feb 5

2007-01-28 Thread Oleg Verych
27-01-2007, H. Peter Anvin: [] > Sure... it's the DL380 G2 that used to be zeus.kernel.org. It's not > ideal (in particular, I would have preferred a 64-bit machine), but it > has the advantage that it's proven itself rock-solid over the years, it > has all the hands-off management features, we

Re: The mbox format archives of linux-kernel are gone.

2007-01-28 Thread Oleg Verych
> Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail > From: Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:24:43 +0300 Hallo. > Benny Amorsen wrote: > >>> "DK" == Dave Kleikamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> DK> On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 10:17 +0100, Benny A

Re: git.kernel.org move (finally)... estimated week of Feb 5

2007-01-28 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: "Parag Warudkar" > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: Re: git.kernel.org move (finally)... estimated week of Feb 5 > Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:51:34 -0500 [] > Actually that's a good idea - why don't we put up a > donation-for-hardware appeal on kernel.org and may be someplace more >

Re: [SCRIPT] Remove "space damage" from patches

2007-01-28 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Richard Knutsson > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: [SCRIPT] Remove "space damage" from patches > Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:37:01 +0100 > Hello Andrew and all Hallo. > I recently tried "git-apply" on the 2.6.20-rc6-mm1 patch and found it to > complain about white-spaces. > So a

Re: [SCRIPT] Remove "space damage" from patches

2007-01-28 Thread Oleg Verych
29-01-2007, Richard Knutsson: > Oleg Verych wrote: >> Nack, big and fat. It's userspace problem. >> >> If our "developers" can't use or update their every-day-tools, it's a >> shame. And this is not trolling: i'm using Jed and GNU Emacs, bo

Re: unfixed regression in 2.6.20-rc6 (since 2.6.19)

2007-01-28 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Rainer Weikusat > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: Re: unfixed regression in 2.6.20-rc6 (since 2.6.19) > Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:34:56 +0100 Hallo. > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [] >> Please work to see what is wrong with the existing patch. Is there >> anything that I

Re: [SCRIPT] Remove "space damage" from patches

2007-01-28 Thread Oleg Verych
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:26:04AM +0100, Richard Knutsson wrote: [] > I also guess you saw that the script is _not_ for cleaning up > source-files (can be intrusive and is better to be fixed when fixing > something else), but patches. IMHO it's dealing with consequences, not cause, and it's eve

Re: The mbox format archives of linux-kernel are gone.

2007-01-28 Thread Oleg Verych
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:17:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:46:32 + > Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If somebody will get lkml mbox archive, can you import it into gmane, > > please. > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~

Re: [SCRIPT] Remove "space damage" from patches

2007-01-28 Thread Oleg Verych
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 03:00:35AM +0100, Richard Knutsson wrote: > Oleg Verych wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:26:04AM +0100, Richard Knutsson wrote: > >[] > > > >>I also guess you saw that the script is _not_ for cleaning up > >>source-files (can

Re: [PATCH] `make help' in build tree doesn't show headers_* targets

2007-01-29 Thread Oleg Verych
re it belongs. > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > Makefile |6 +++--- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Acked-by: Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- ps3-linux-src-2.6.20-rc6.orig/Makefile > +++ ps3-linux-src-2.6.20

Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-30 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Theodore Tso > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:28:49 -0500 [] > I did give you a response. Find a way to pay for 80+ kernel summit > invitees to travel to India (preferably in business class :-), and

hunting on open source developers (Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit)

2007-01-30 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Theodore Tso > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:28:49 -0500 [] > (Unless perhaps in some conspiracy theory scenario where Microsoft pays > $$$ to some VC company to sponsor an event in Moskow, and then

Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-30 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: "Dave Airlie" > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit > Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:44:49 +1100 [] >> Rather, than "business class ;-)", i whould like to see comments about >> good quality video coverage of the KS, which (KS) is that, as

[patch] some scripts: replace gawk, head, bc with shell, update

2007-01-30 Thread Oleg Verych
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- -o--=O`C #oo'L O <___=E M scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh | 44 +- scripts/makelst | 34 2 files changed, 40 insertion

[patch] kbuild: improving gcc option checking

2007-01-30 Thread Oleg Verych
t; Cc: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- -- all checks by shell united in one macro -- checker-shell; -- one di

[patch] kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files

2007-01-30 Thread Oleg Verych
Cc: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Another try. Original report and fix by Bastian Blank: The following patch fixes the problem that localversio

[patch] update for (kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files)

2007-01-31 Thread Oleg Verych
kbuild: finally correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files Signed-off-by: Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Final addition. Why i want to maximize usage of shell, rather, than `make'? Just because i think, it's more portable, clear way. Thanks. --- linux-2.6

Re: [patch] kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files

2007-01-31 Thread Oleg Verych
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:56:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:11:04 + > Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files > > Does this patch replace Bastian's patch, below?

2.6.20-rc7 (Re: [patch] kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files)

2007-02-01 Thread Oleg Verych
ition was taken right from GNU make manual, while Kbuild's version is original. Cc: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- My using of the `

Re: PROBLEM: Crash on device_shutdown

2007-02-01 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Julien RF > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: PROBLEM: Crash on device_shutdown > Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:03:49 +0100 > Archived-At: Hallo, Julien. Do you have such problem with more recent kernels, or mm one? Also, if woul

Re: [patch, rfc] kbuild: implement checksrc without building Cources...

2007-02-01 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Oleg Verych > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kbuild.devel > Subject: Re:[patch, rfc] kbuild: implement checksrc without building > Cources... > Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:07:20 +0200 > Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/460736>

Re: lirc: igorplususb error handling cleanup

2007-02-02 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Pekka J Enberg > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: lirc: igorplususb error handling cleanup > Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:15:15 +0200 (EET) > Archived-At: Hallo. > Use goto instead of a big ugly switch for error handling. Convert

Re: [PATCH] sed s/gawk/awk/ scripts/gen_init_ramfs.sh

2007-02-02 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Adrian Bunk > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: Re: [PATCH] sed s/gawk/awk/ scripts/gen_init_ramfs.sh > Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:36:20 +0100 [] > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:49:44PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:11:46 +0100 >> Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: scripts/makelst: bc -> shell Re: sed _s_gnu_alternatives_ (Re: [rft] (g)awk substitution)

2007-02-03 Thread Oleg Verych
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 12:24:59PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 06:38:36AM +0000, Oleg Verych wrote: > [snip] > > ,-*- diff snip -*- > > |-t4=`echo $t3 | gawk '{ print $1 }'` > > |-t5=`echo $t1 | gawk '{ print $1 }'`

git web (Re: nightly 2.6 LXR run?)

2006-11-16 Thread Oleg Verych
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:19:20PM -0800, Auke Kok wrote: [] > try to use `git2.kernel.org` instead of `git.kernel.org`. The second server > somehow only has an average load of ~4 instead of ~250. Looking closer, i see all gitweb links (C) on both servers links are poining to "www.kernel.org/git/

smbfs (Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! (2.6.18.2))

2006-11-16 Thread Oleg Verych
[ Adding e-mail of Andrew Morton, he may have clue about who to ping ;] [ MAINTAINERS.smbfs seems to be emply ] On 2006-11-14, Rasmus BЬg Hansen wrote: [] > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > Kernel BUG's and freezes after a soft lockup. > > [2.] Full descrip

Re: strange behaviour with x86_64

2006-11-16 Thread Oleg Verych
On 2006-11-15, Fabio Coatti wrote: > Hi all, I'm just trying to move things forward, i'm not a developer. > I'm seeing a strange behaviour on a dual opteron machine (or, at least it > seem > so to me) and I need some advice. > The hardware is: dual opteron 2.4, dual core, 2GB ram > This machine

Re: Initial ramdisk support does not work (for me) on 2.6.17.13

2006-11-16 Thread Oleg Verych
In gmane.linux.kernel, you wrote: > Hi! Hallo. > We are building embedded devices based on Linux and we use a ramdisk as > our root device in order to avoid problems with people switching off the > unit without a proper shutdown and to save write-cycles on our flash disc. > > Using a 2.6.12 kerne

[ot] (was When is the kernel moving to GPLv3?)

2006-11-16 Thread Oleg Verych
On 2006-11-16, Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote: [] > So when is the kernel moving to GPLv3? I have seen some discussions > about moving off v2, is there concensus about moving to v3 to remove > threats of patent claims against v2 code by M$ and others who may use > Linux in hardware based projects. Ar

Re: Looking for recent lkml email

2006-11-16 Thread Oleg Verych
On 2006-11-16, Zack Brown wrote: > OK, I got it. :-) > > Thanks folks, > Zack To do not produce megabytes of additional traffic in case of any kind of backlog and have anything you lkml like, i would suggest to have good news reader and point it to news.gmane.org service (well, i'm sure, there are

kbuild: O= with M= (Re: [PATCH -mm] replacement for broken kbuild-dont-put-temp-files-in-the-source-tree.patch)

2006-11-16 Thread Oleg Verych
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:51:36PM +0100, olecom wrote: [] > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:14:16AM +0100, Horst Schirmeier wrote: [] > > I'm not sure what you mean by $(objdir); I just got something to work > > which creates the /dev/null symlink in a (newly created if necessary) > > directory named >

newsreaders (Re: Looking for recent lkml email)

2006-11-16 Thread Oleg Verych
Hallo, Pete. On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:44:20PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote: [] > The good news reader might be a problem. In fact, I'm currently looking > for one. Criteria: > - GUI with support for X clipboard (not just selections) > - Ability to bounce to myself > > I use Pan, but it cannot bo

Re: [patch 2.6.19-rc6] Documentation/rtc.txt updates (for rtc class)

2006-11-17 Thread Oleg Verych
Hallo, David. On 2006-11-17, David Brownell wrote: > This updates the RTC documentation to summarize the two APIs now available: > the old PC/AT one, and the new RTC class drivers. It also updates the > included "rtctest.c" file to better meet Linux style guidelines, and to > work with the new RT

emacs visiting of [patch 2.6.19-rc6] Documentation/rtc.txt updates (for rtc class)

2006-11-17 Thread Oleg Verych
On 2006-11-17, David Brownell wrote: > Index: g26/Documentation/rtc.txt Just another emacs visiting... Will try to build and reboot to test stuff tomorrow. Index: 2.6_current/Documentation/rtc.txt === --- 2.6_current.orig/Documentati

Re: [PATCH] emit logging when a process receives a fatal signal

2006-11-17 Thread Oleg Verych
On 2006-11-18, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > Hi, > > I found that sometimes processes disappear on some heavily used system > of mine without any logging. So I've written a patch against 2.6.18.2 > which emits logging when a process emits a fatal signal. Why not to patch default signal handlers in

Re: [PATCH] emit logging when a process receives a fatal signal

2006-11-17 Thread Oleg Verych
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 03:04:13AM +0100, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > > > > I found that sometimes processes disappear on some heavily used system > > > > of mine without any logging. So I've written a patch against 2.6.18.2 > > > > which emits logging when a process emits a fatal signal. > > > Wh

[patch] smbfs: is obsolete, please use CIFS

2006-11-17 Thread Oleg Verych
Signed-off-by: Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Note, some white spaces were killed. --- linux-2.6-mm/fs/Kconfig~smbfs-is-obsolete+emacs-visiting2006-11-15 08:58:53.097867250 + +++ linux-2.6-mm/fs/Kconfig 2006-11-18 03:22:24.055118500 + @@ -1200,5 +1200,5 @@

Re: FW: RTC , ds1307 I2C driver and NTP does not work.

2006-11-17 Thread Oleg Verych
> -Original Message- > From: > Sent: 17 November 2006 17:57 > To: Joakim Tjernlund > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RTC , ds1307 I2C driver and NTP does not work. > > > On Nov 17, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > >> I get this when I activathte NTP and ntp "sync" the time

Re: "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference" in 2.6.18.2 (2.6.18-1.2239.fc5)

2006-11-17 Thread Oleg Verych
On 2006-11-17, somebody from ckeith.clara.net wrote: [] > dmesg is attached below, if anything else is needed please let me know. > And if any one knows of any older kernels that are more stable for this > hardware configuration (2x dual core opteron 2220SE's with aacraid) please > let me know. No

Re: We're still coping with GCC < 3.0

2006-11-17 Thread Oleg Verych
Hallo. On 2006-11-17, someone with nick Blaisorblade wrote: > In arch/i386/kernel/irq.c (current git head) I found this comment: > > /* > * These should really be __section__(".bss.page_aligned") as well, but > * gcc's 3.0 and earlier don't handle that correctly. > */ > static char softirq_stac

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