Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-31 Thread Pavel Roskin
NU libc > permits that. A better analogy would be running a non-free program in a free emulator. I don't have any issues with ndiswrapper. If anyone does, they should write to FSF, or maybe to FSF Europe if the concern are about European laws. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe

[PATCH] module: remove module taint on ndiswrapper

2008-02-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
Revert 0aa5bd52d0c49ca56d24584c646e6544ccbb3dc9, which disallowed ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols. Add comments why ndiswrapper and driverloader are tainted to avoid similar mistakes in the future. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/module.c |7 ++- 1

Bisected regression: iterate_fd() selinux change affects flash plugin

2012-10-25 Thread Pavel Roskin
behavior. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] x86: sysfb: mark simplefb resources as BUSY

2013-10-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 16:41:04 +0200 David Herrmann wrote: > Tested-by: Pavel Roskin Tested indeed, on ThinkPad W530 with 32-bit and 64-bit kernels with Intel and NVidia graphics enabled. > Sorry for the delay, but I was in the US for the last 2 weeks and > this is really no major is

Re: Bisected regression: iterate_fd() selinux change affects flash plugin

2012-11-30 Thread Pavel Roskin
if I mishandled anything. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Bisected regression: iterate_fd() selinux change affects flash plugin

2012-11-11 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Pavel Roskin : Hello, Al! I have noticed that Mozilla Firefox gets stuck for seconds or minutes on some sites, in particular on Facebook with Linux 3.7-rc1 and newer mainline kernels. Disabling flash plugin fixes the delays. This is a Fedora 17 system with SELinux enabled, on x86_64

Re: Bisected regression: iterate_fd() selinux change affects flash plugin

2012-11-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
agree. -ENOENT is both magic and negative :) I tend to think now that iterate_fd() should be rewritten before it's too late and all its current users should be cross-checked against the code prior to the introduction of iterate_fd(). -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list

[PATCH] kbuild: CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE should not be default

2008-02-21 Thread Pavel Roskin
It's an experimental option and it's not generally recommended Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- init/Kconfig |1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index dcef8b5..a998a13 100644 --- a/init/Kc

ndiswrapper tainting

2008-02-21 Thread Pavel Roskin
But this is undesirable because it would break existing modprobe configuration files that bind ndiswrapper to specific devices. Please let's not turn it into another empty discussion. I represent only myself and I'm not a lawyer. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: [RFC PATCH v2] x86: explicit call to mmiotrace in do_page_fault()

2008-02-10 Thread Pavel Roskin
ss if will just stay in sync with the upstream. Many thanks for pushing it into the kernel. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- 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

Re: Bisected regression in Linux 3.7.0-rc1, hang on login caused by replace_fd()

2012-10-15 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:51:27 +0100 Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 05:14:37PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I tried the current mainline Linux on Fedora 16 x64_64 and found > > that I cannot login in gdm. I'm using gdm with LXDE.

Re: Bisected regression in Linux 3.7.0-rc1, hang on login caused by replace_fd()

2012-10-15 Thread Pavel Roskin
it's working now! No more hang on login! -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Bisected regression in Linux 3.7.0-rc1, hang on login caused by replace_fd()

2012-10-16 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:48:53 +0100 Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 07:40:08PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:27:05 +0100 > > Al Viro wrote: > > > > > I think I understand what's going on there. Add > > > fput(files

Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: add MISSING file

2013-01-14 Thread Pavel Roskin
present on the system but not in the linux-firmware tree. The kernel doesn't know whether the firmware is missing due to licensing issues or due to misconfiguration. The kernel cannot know that. And I don't think the kernel should include as much information as the MISSING file would i

Re: [RFC] mmiotrace full patch, preview 1

2008-02-25 Thread Pavel Roskin
er (i.e. stick with the "mutex" name or stick with the semaphore functionality if it's really needed). -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Cannot unmount ramfs after chmod

2001-04-10 Thread Pavel Roskin
: /root/t1: device is busy -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - 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] Initial permissions on ramfs

2001-04-11 Thread Pavel Roskin
ttp://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0104.1/0414.html) - it neither fixes nor introduces the "umount" problem. The patch is also available online: http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/linux/ramfs_access.diff -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ --- linux.or

PNP BIOS and parport_pc - dma found but not used

2001-04-18 Thread Pavel Roskin
time parport_pc was loaded with the explicit options. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - 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/

Re: PNP BIOS and parport_pc - dma found but not used

2001-04-19 Thread Pavel Roskin
rport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38) -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - 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/

Re: PNP BIOS and parport_pc - dma found but not used

2001-04-19 Thread Pavel Roskin
30 2a 0a 00 22 80 00 47 040 01 bc 03 bc 03 00 03 47 01 bc 07 bc 07 00 03 30 060 2a 0a 00 22 80 00 47 01 78 03 78 03 00 08 47 01 100 78 07 78 07 00 08 30 2a 0a 00 22 20 00 47 01 78 120 02 78 02 00 08 47 01 78 06 78 06 00 08 38 79 00 140 79 00 Settings: Parallel port mode: EC

Re: 2.4.1-ac10 compile error

2001-02-13 Thread Pavel Roskin
, then everything is fine. But I think that something must have been broken in ac10. I'm always running "make clean" after "make depend" and it's the first time that I have a problem with it. Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.1ac12 mkdep -I support - take 2

2001-02-15 Thread Pavel Roskin
ctory, but the full path is used. Regards, Pavel Roskin - 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/

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.1ac12 mkdep -I support - take 2

2001-02-15 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Hello, Keith! > > You patch has been applied to 2.4.1ac13, but it doesn't help: It's fixed in ac14. I ran twice make depend && make clean && make bzImage && make modules and it worked both times. Thanks! R

ymfpci is 2.4.1-ac18

2001-02-19 Thread Pavel Roskin
device or address" is ENXIO. I added debug printk's near all ENXIO in ymfpci.c, but neither of them has triggered. If I load opl3, /dev/sound/sequencer becomes useful - cat doesn't exit and dmesg shows: /dev/music: Obsolete (4 byte) API was used by cat Regards, Pavel Roskin - To

Re: ymfpci is 2.4.1-ac18

2001-02-19 Thread Pavel Roskin
opl3 gunge Then I don't understand this comment in the beginning of ymfpci.c: * - 2001/01/07 Replace the OPL3 part of CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI_LEGACY code with *native synthesizer through a playback slot. It sounds more promising than it is :-( Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe fr

usbdevfs can be mounted multiple times

2001-03-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
2001 i686 unknown [root@fonzie proski]# Regards, Pavel Roskin - 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/

YMF PCI - thanks, glitches, patches (fwd)

2000-12-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
e unless I load and unload the old driver (ymf_sb). Probably the new driver should put the OPL3 interface to the legacy mode if it cannot handle it directly. This confirms my point that you should not disable building both drivers as modules at this stage. Regards, Pavel Roskin -- Forward

Re: YMF PCI - thanks, glitches, patches (fwd)

2000-12-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:12:13 -0500 (EST) > > From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > cc: Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <

Re: YMF PCI - thanks, glitches, patches (fwd)

2000-12-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
- return -ENOTTY; } static int ymf_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) _ > Maybe it explains why I'll have to reboot now to kill that "sox" :-/ Nope :-) Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: YMF PCI - thanks, glitches, patches (fwd)

2000-12-07 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Alan! > > The Linux-sound list appears to be dead (I don't see my message in > > http://www.kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-sound/), so I'm sending to the > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is alive and well however. You cannot imagine how frustrating it was to search for the archive. I couldn't find

[PATCH] for YMF PCI sound cards

2000-12-08 Thread Pavel Roskin
For your convenience, the patch is also available at http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/ymf.patch Regards, Pavel Roskin _ --- ./drivers/sound/Config.in Thu Dec 7 10:59:06 2000 +++ ./drivers/sound/Config.in Fri Dec 8 11:25:08 2000 @@ -142,8 +142,10 @@ dep_tri

Re: [PATCH] for YMF PCI sound cards

2000-12-08 Thread Pavel Roskin
log from the patched module: Dec 8 13:29:35 fonzie kernel: ymfpci0: YMF740C at 0xf000 IRQ 10 Dec 8 13:29:35 fonzie kernel: ymfpci0: set OPL3 I/O at 0x388 Dec 8 13:29:36 fonzie kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4144:0x5303 (Yamaha YMF) Drop it if it's not convincing. Re

[PATCH] for ymf_sb (YMF PCI legacy driver)

2000-12-08 Thread Pavel Roskin
e, the patch is also available at http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/ymf_sb.patch Regards, Pavel Roskin _ --- linux.orig/drivers/sound/ymf_sb.c +++ linux/drivers/sound/ymf_sb.c @@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ printk(PFX "set DMA address at 0x%x\n",sb_data[cards].dma); #end

SNDCTL_DSP_SETFRAGMENT broken in OSS drivers?

2000-12-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
by OSS drivers, such as ymf_sb), i.e. make it return -EINVAL, Abuse works and produces correct sounds. I understand that it uses an alternative way to output the sound. This looks like a bug in the OSS driver (sound.o). Could anybody please test Abuse on SoundBlaster or some other OSS driver?

[PATCH] few fixes for ymf_sb.c in test13pre3-ac3

2000-12-21 Thread Pavel Roskin
tch P.S. The patch has been tested. My system is running test13pre3-ac3 and playing nice music :-) Regards, Pavel Roskin --- linux.orig/drivers/sound/Config.in +++ linux/drivers/sound/Config.in @@ -145,9 +145,8 @@ dep_tristate 'Yamaha FM synthesizer (YM3

[PATCH] CONFIG_MOUSE should not be tristate

2000-12-25 Thread Pavel Roskin
liary device") support' CONFIG_PSMOUSE tristate ' C&T 82C710 mouse port support (as on TI Travelmate)' CONFIG_82C710_MOUSE ___ Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

KERN_ERR for missing codecs?

2001-03-13 Thread Pavel Roskin
ppropriate messages (maestro3.c, via82cxxx_audio.c). Some drivers that don't care (trident.c, ymfpci.c) because they are probing more than one codec. Or at least that KERN_ERR could be downgraded to KERN_WARNING. Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Trident sound driver - global registers not restored

2001-03-19 Thread Pavel Roskin
global registers instead of restoring them: ali_registers.global_regs[i] = inl(TRID_REG(card, i*4)); It must be an error (most likely a result of cut-and-paste). Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

2.4.2-ac23 compile error on i686

2001-03-23 Thread Pavel Roskin
We have the "cpu_has_tsc" variable on all platforms. clear_bit() and set_in_cr4() are already used on all processors. It should be safe. Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

[PATCH] Support for "mode" parameter in ramfs

2001-03-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
system by creating huge files in /tmp! The patch is also available online at http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/linux/root_mode.diff Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordom

Weird hidden /dev/audio on devfs

2001-01-24 Thread Pavel Roskin
46384 0 (autoclean) [proski@fonzie /dev]$ All relevant config files are here: http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/sound_devfs/ Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[PATCH] Cleaner SNDCTL_DSP_SETFRAGMENT for ymfpci

2001-02-05 Thread Pavel Roskin
patch is also available here: http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/ymf/ymf_setfrag.diff Regards, Pavel Roskin --- linux.orig/drivers/sound/ymfpci.c +++ linux/drivers/sound/ymfpci.c @@ -1718,21 +1718,15 @@ case SNDCTL_DSP_SETFRAGMENT: if (get_user

Re: VIA/PDC/Athlon

2001-05-18 Thread Pavel Roskin
lspnp" and "setpnp" from pcmcia-cs. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - 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/

AT keyboard optional on i386?

2001-05-25 Thread Pavel Roskin
er, it's a dependent variable - it's set based on the machine type. Does anybody have a patch for making AT keyboard optional on i386 or should I make it myself? -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mes

Re: AT keyboard optional on i386?

2001-05-28 Thread Pavel Roskin
system and functioning at the same time. We > even got a Sun keyboard to work on a intel box :-) That's what we like Linux for. It doesn't get confused when everything else does :-) Thanks for your very interesting reply. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send

[PATCH] for Matrox FB config help

2001-05-31 Thread Pavel Roskin
rent Matrox devices. This method is slightly faster but uses 40 KB of kernel memory per Matrox card. + + There is no need for enabling 'Matrox multihead support' if you have + only one Matrox card in the box. MDA text console (dual-headed) CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE ________

2.4.5-ac5 locks on ReiserFS umount (ac4 doesn't)

2001-06-01 Thread Pavel Roskin
o 2.4.5-ac4 and could not reproduce the problem. I saw a suggestion that it may have to do with module unloading, but in my case reiserfs is not a module. Full config file if here: http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/linux/config -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

Re: 2.4.5-ac5 locks on ReiserFS umount (ac4 doesn't)

2001-06-01 Thread Pavel Roskin
uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/ updates only once a day. I checked it and decided that my information could still be useful. I'd be grateful if somebody pointed me to a better archive. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC undocumented

2001-06-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
IOAPIC seems to talk both about APIC and IO-APIC. Maybe it just needs splitting. But I'm leaving it to somebody more competent in the matter. It would also be nice to have some info about the difference between APIC and IO-APIC and why only the former works on uniprocessor VIA boards. -- R

2.4.5-ac7 usb-uhci appears twice in /proc/interrupts

2001-06-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
ler: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c) -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - 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] USB Scanner devfs support

2001-06-08 Thread Pavel Roskin
st (all?) stuff from scanner.h should be moved into scanner.c, but I don't want to mix two patches. The patch has been tested with ScanPrisa 640U. The patch is below my signature as well as at http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/linux/scanner-devfs.diff -- R

DoS using tmpfs

2001-06-08 Thread Pavel Roskin
's not a new problem. I don't really know much about OS design and VM in particular, but I was bitten by this behavior, so I desided to report it. If you cannot find anything useful in this message, I'm sorry for your time. "IMHO" applies to all statements made in

Major breakage in linux-git on x86_64, oom killer goes on rampage

2005-08-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
e meantime, please don't make any releases unless the "commit f33ea7f404e592e4563b12101b7a4d17da6558d7" is reverted. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

[PATCH 1/2] Re: Major breakage in linux-git on x86_64, oom killer goes on rampage

2005-08-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
of that. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *t spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);

[PATCH 2/2] Re: Major breakage in linux-git on x86_64, oom killer goes on rampage

2005-08-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
Here's the x86_64 specific part. The return value of handle_mm_fault() should be compared with symbolic constants, not numbers. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c --- a/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86_64

Re: Replacement for page fault notifiers?

2008-01-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
derstanding of kprobes will be able to implement fault notification without patching the kernel. But if no such solution is found, I would also support reverting the patch that removed fault notifiers on i386. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: Replacement for page fault notifiers?

2008-01-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 06:58 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 18:21 +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 01:18:44PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > notification without patching the kernel. But if no such solution is > &g

Re: Replacement for page fault notifiers?

2008-01-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 20:26 +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:24:16PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > I just assumed (wrongly, as it seems) that the API change didn't remove > > any useful functionality. > > No, this was exactly the correc

Re: Replacement for page fault notifiers?

2008-01-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
anything about Linux page flags. Last but not least, mmiotrace should be useful for free drivers in the first place to have a legitimate reason to be in the kernel. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

Re: idio{,ma}tic typos (was Re: + fix-vm_can_nonlinear-check-in-sys_remap_file_pages.patch added to -mm tree)

2007-10-10 Thread Pavel Roskin
ing used, maybe -1, but hardly anything else. Maybe you could add the code printing the value and then get some statics on the actual Linux kernel to see which values are common and which are not? -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/: Spelling fixes

2007-12-17 Thread Pavel Roskin
_len; /* Lenght of result */ > + int scan_len; /* Length of result */ > }; > > #ifdef ORINOCO_DEBUG Acked-by: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Actually, I don't think such minor comment fixes need to be reviewed by the maintainers. Th

ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
ping stone towards a completely free OS; take it away and see less users, less testers and less reverse engineering efforts -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo i

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 17:27 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:22:45 EST, Pavel Roskin said: > > Hello! > > > > It have come to my attention that a patch has been committed to the > > kernel with the explicit purpose of tainting ndiswrapper - the

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 00:57 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 04:22:45PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > Hello! > > > > It have come to my attention that a patch has been committed to the > > kernel with the explicit purpose of tainting ndiswrap

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
the latest kernels. If the author fails to make the necessary updates for the next kernel for whatever reason, somebody will fork it and make such updates. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
nd one-liners without checking the entire > history of LWN stories beforehand. I'm going to the gym to escape :) I'm actually so relieved that it has been mistake, just like it was the last time. Good luck! -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
the internals of the "struct module". And I think we really don't want modules tainting and untainting themselves by changing THIS_MODULE->taints. It's a Pandora's box that's better kept closed. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
"derived work" stays in memory, just like it does when a proprietary program runs on top of the Linux kernel. Memory dumps might be illegal to distribute though. I'm not a lawyer and the above is not a legal advice. I don't represent Free Software Foundation. -- Regards, Pavel

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
to GPL-only symbols. Add comments to show the difference between driverloader and ndiswrapper. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/kernel.h |1 + kernel/module.c|5 - kernel/panic.c |2 ++ 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+),

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: */ @@ -162,6 +163,7 @@ const char *print_tainted(void) if (tainted) { snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "Tainted: %c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c", tainted &

[PATCH] Move HPET options from top level, enable HPET_TIMER prompt

2005-01-28 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! "make menuconfig" for x86_64 looks somewhat funky: [ ] Provide RTC interrupt (NEW) Code maturity level options ---> General setup ---> ... I believe all x86_64 specific options for HPET timer should be moved to the "Processor type and features" menu. That's where they are located

Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

2005-02-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
to the userspace doesn't need to be based on the kernel code in any way. Please replace every EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL with EXPORT_SYMBOL in fs/sysfs/*.c -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [

Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

2005-02-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
com address for further questions about that project. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - 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/

Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

2005-02-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hi, Joseph! On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Joseph Pingenot wrote: From Pavel Roskin on Wednesday, 02 February, 2005: All I want to do is to have a module that would create subdirectories for some network interfaces under /sys/class/net/*/, which would contain additional parameters for those interfaces. I&#

Re: [PATCH] orinoco rfmon

2005-02-28 Thread Pavel Roskin
Snort with scanning enabled - it will bring the firmware down in a few minutes. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - 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/

ACPI + Promise IDE = disk corruption :-(((

2001-06-22 Thread Pavel Roskin
tel Pentium III 550MHz Root filesystem is reiserfs Root filesystem is on Promise PDC20267 ide controller Local APIC (but not IO-APIC) is used. I can make more experiments (with other hard drives) if needed. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

Re: cd writer problems with 2.4.5ac17

2001-06-24 Thread Pavel Roskin
turns out to be a software problem, I'll appreciate if you locate the change that caused the problem. Also more details about your hardware would be useful. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

[PATCH] 2.4.4-ac3 +IPX -SYSCTL compile fix

2001-05-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
about conformance with the coding standards, but I think that "static inline" is preferred over defines. Feel free to correct me. The patch is also here: http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/linux/ipxsysctl.diff The patch has been tested. IPX works fine without SYSCTL. Regard

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac3 +IPX -SYSCTL compile fix

2001-05-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
has been updated. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - 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/

2.4.4-ac4 - oops on unload "cdrom" module

2001-05-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
mov (%ebx),%eax Code; c0118064 13: 50push %eax -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - 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/

Re: 2.4.4-ac4 - oops on unload "cdrom" module

2001-05-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
ule behaves differently. Right now I have empty /dev/scsi and /proc/scsi/scsi contains "Attached devices: none" Anyway, the patch is small, straightforward and consistent with the current behavior of the driver. And it works. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r

2001-05-07 Thread Pavel Roskin
" hardcodes the version but doesn't protest. inserting floppy driver for 2.4.4-ac5 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 # uname -a Linux fonzie 2.4.4-ac5-new #3 Mon May 7 12:06:39 EDT 2001 i686 unknown -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin

Re: Patch to make ymfpci legacy address 16 bits

2001-05-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
cc: to you. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - 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/

Re: Patch to make ymfpci legacy address 16 bits

2001-05-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
set if I load CVS ALSA drivers, even if I set it before loading the driver. It's a problem with the kernel driver only and should be fixed IMHO. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EM

Re: Patch to make ymfpci legacy address 16 bits

2001-05-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
ch for it yet :) It uses struct pci_driver > and should be updated to use ::suspend/resume. First part (writing the patch) is done: http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/linux/trident_pm.diff I only know that it compiles. I have no hardware I can test it on. Please don't apply until tested! --

Re: VIA/PDC/Athlon

2001-05-17 Thread Pavel Roskin
uration and checking whether it has changed after booting to Windows would be more reasonable than checking your PCI configuration (IMHO). -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Need help with register_page_fault_notifier() replacement in 2.6.24

2007-11-18 Thread Pavel Roskin
help will be appreciated. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - 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/

Re: Need help with register_page_fault_notifier() replacement in 2.6.24

2007-11-18 Thread Pavel Roskin
ool, so the improved code could be contributed back there. I guess if there is no simple answer, I'll have to try a few crazy ideas. If nothing works, the fault handler chain could be reinstated, perhaps as a separate configuration option. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from thi

Re: [PATCH] [360/2many] MAINTAINERS - ORINOCO DRIVER

2007-08-28 Thread Pavel Roskin
NERS > @@ -3463,6 +3463,7 @@ L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > W: http://www.nongnu.org/orinoco/ > S: Maintained > +F: drivers/net/wireless/orinoco* NAK. Please also add airport*, spectrum* and hermes* in the same directory. Sorry for delay (due to vacation).

Re: [PATCH] [360/2many] MAINTAINERS - ORINOCO DRIVER

2007-08-28 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Joe Perches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:15 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: NAK. Please also add airport*, spectrum* and hermes* in the same directory. Here's what I have now: ORINOCO/AIRPORT/SPECTRUM/HERMES WIRELESS DRIVERS P: Pavel Roskin M: [EMAI

Distinguishing releases from pre-rc snapshots

2007-10-16 Thread Pavel Roskin
ablish a rule to increment the version number immediately after the kernel release and have a suffix to indicate that it's a pre-rc version. "rc0" is my personal favorite. It would also be helpful for other repositories, as it would indicate whether any post-release changes have been merge

Re: Distinguishing releases from pre-rc snapshots

2007-10-16 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 22:34 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:22:43PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > It would be nice to establish a rule to increment the version number > > immediately after the kernel release and have a suffix to indicate that > &g

Re: Distinguishing releases from pre-rc snapshots

2007-10-16 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 22:41 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:22:43 -0400 > Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to keep some external drivers up to date with the kernel, > > and the first two weeks after the release is the

Re: Distinguishing releases from pre-rc snapshots

2007-10-17 Thread Pavel Roskin
ter $ git describe v2.6.23-4223-g65a6ec0 Format is: last tag - # commits since last tag - id of HEAD commit I don't see how I can use it in preprocessor conditions. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo

Re: [PATCH] fix unaligned exception in /drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c

2007-02-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
short. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This patch seems fine, such as it is. But, it seems like it might > also be appropriate to change hermes_read_ltv and/or hermes_read_words > to not take void * parameters? This patch would still be needed, > but it might be

Re: [ipw3945-devel] [ANNOUNCE] d80211 based driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

2007-02-10 Thread Pavel Roskin
couple of wrinkles in the standalone build system are irrelevant to the kernel interation. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - 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/

Two unclear places in lockdep-design.txt

2007-02-14 Thread Pavel Roskin
ct the later is the case. I wish I could submit a patch for the documentation, but I still don't understand much of the theory. Still, I was able to interpret the error messages in a way that allows me to fix the locking issues in some drivers. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscr

Re: PCMCIA WLAN card initialization error

2007-02-18 Thread Pavel Roskin
ware just in case. If you have further questions, please post them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - 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/majo

[PATCH] Fix sparse annotation of spin unlock macros in one case

2007-01-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SMP systems without preemption and spinlock debugging enabled use unlock macros that don't tell sparse that the lock is being released. Add sparse annotations in this case. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include

MontaVista spam

2007-04-24 Thread Pavel Roskin
lot of spam rules. This time the message it not forwarded. Instead, it can be found on my website with full headers: http://80211libre.org/mvistaspam.txt -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

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