Re: FW: 2.6.24 breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines

2008-01-29 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:59:44PM +0100, Markus Rechberger wrote: (quote reformatted) > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:44:15PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:32:44AM -0600, Michael E Brown wrote: > > > BIOS updates are broken on all Dell systems due to Commit > > > 109f0e93b6b728

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-26 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:12:00PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "Barry K. Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 05:12:43AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > Could you try this patch on your system with acpi that > > > is having problems. > > > > > > The patch

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] I2C: lm80 driver improvement (From Aurelien)

2005-01-26 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 02:49:23AM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > static inline unsigned char FAN_TO_REG(unsigned rpm, unsigned div) > { > - if (rpm == 0) > + if (rpm <= 0) The rpm parameter is unsigned so this change is useless. The rest makes sense to me. BTW, can anyone tell me why the uints in

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] I2C: lm80 driver improvement (From Aurelien)

2005-01-26 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:05:09PM +0100, I wrote: > BTW, can anyone tell me why the uints in this parameter list are declared as > 'unsigned' and not as 'unsigned int'? $ find /usr/src/linux/ -name \*.c |xargs grep unsigned\ [^icsl] |wc -l 3151 - Gives himself a good smack on the head - Sorry ab

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-26 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 07:06:50AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Sytse Wielinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On my box this patch breaks shutdown instead, while it was working without > > it > > on -rc2-mm1. > > > > I have an Asus A7V8X m

Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

2005-01-26 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:03:04PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > That being said, you should also consider (unless somebody forgot to > tell me something) that it takes two source trees to make a split-out > patch. The author also has to chew down everything but the feature he > wants to spli

Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

2005-01-26 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:39:08PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > > I'm sorry about the rant. Besides, your comment ('Wasn't talking about > > bugfixes') makes some sense, too. You were actually talking about two > > patches > > though, which close two closely related holes. Linus was talking

Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

2005-01-26 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 02:31:00PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > Sytse Wielinga wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:03:04PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > >[...] > >>true. Very very true. > >> > >>With things like Gr, there's like a millio

Re: don't let mmap allocate down to zero

2005-01-26 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:38:15AM -0500, linux-os wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Rik van Riel wrote: > > >With some programs the 2.6 kernel can end up allocating memory > >at address zero, for a non-MAP_FIXED mmap call! This causes > >problems with some programs and is generally rude to do. This

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: fuse patch needs new libs

2005-01-27 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:45:09AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Sytse Wielinga wrote: > >It is great that this is fixed, don't remove it, but it does require the fuse > >libs to be updated at the same time, or opening dirs for listings will break > >like this: > >

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-01-17 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 05:57:23PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > * Jack O'Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> According to the manpage, nice(2) is per-process not per-thread. That > >> does not give the granularity we need. > > Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > the manpage is incorrec

Re: [PATCH 10/13] FAT: Lindent fs/vfat/namei.c

2005-01-17 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:49:21AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > diff -puN fs/vfat/namei.c~fat_lindent-vfat fs/vfat/namei.c > --- linux-2.6.10/fs/vfat/namei.c~fat_lindent-vfat 2005-01-10 > 01:57:31.0 +0900 > +++ linux-2.6.10-hirofumi/fs/vfat/namei.c 2005-01-10 01:57:44.0

Re: 2.4: "access beyond end of device" after ext2 mount

2005-01-18 Thread Sytse Wielinga
Why not just use dd if=/dev/xxx `blockdev --getbsz /dev/xxx` ...? Sytse - 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://

Re: 2.4: "access beyond end of device" after ext2 mount

2005-01-18 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 04:20:06PM +0100, Mario Holbe wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 03:17:07PM +0100, Sytse Wielinga wrote: > > Why not just use dd if=/dev/xxx `blockdev --getbsz /dev/xxx` ...? > > because it doesn't work, as I've demonstrated in > Message-ID: <[

Re: 2.4: "access beyond end of device" after ext2 mount

2005-01-18 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 04:55:34PM +0100, I wrote: > multiples of the block size. The 2.6 kernel does not have this problem; it > appears to accept partial blocks, and doesn't even appear to calculate the > device size (blockdev --getsz and --getsize return 0 on my machine.)

Re: kbuild: Implicit dependence on the C compiler

2005-01-19 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:35:55AM -0500, linux-os wrote: > >Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>1) Unconditionally execute make install assuming vmlinux is up-to-date. > >> make modules_install run unconditionally, so this is already know > >> practice > > You must never execute `make

Re: Announce loop-AES-v3.0b file/swap crypto package

2005-01-21 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:14:58PM +0100, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: > http://clemens.endorphin.org/LinuxHDEncSettings I found two typos on your page: - In LinuxHDEncSettings: at the beginning, 'pose a thread', should be 'threat' - In 'cryptography': AFsplitter written as AFspliter. Syts

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: fuse patch needs new libs

2005-01-24 Thread Sytse Wielinga
Hi Andrew, On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:15:16AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > fuse-transfer-readdir-data-through-device.patch > fuse: transfer readdir data through device It is great that this is fixed, don't remove it, but it does require the fuse libs to be updated at the same time, or opening d

Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc2: vmnet breaks; put skb_copy_datagram back in place

2005-01-24 Thread Sytse Wielinga
Linus, could you please put skb_copy_datagram back in place? It's not used anymore in the kernel, but the vmnet module (in vmware) still uses this interface to skb_copy_datagram_iovec. Patch for 2.6.11-rc2 follows. It compiles cleanly; I have not tested it yet, but I assume it's okay. I'll test it

Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc2: vmnet breaks; put skb_copy_datagram b

2005-01-25 Thread Sytse Wielinga
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 02:46:56AM +0100, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > On 25 Jan 05 at 1:41, Sytse Wielinga wrote: > > Linus, could you please put skb_copy_datagram back in place? It's not used > > anymore in the kernel, but the vmnet module (in vmware) still uses t