Fwd: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
ain memory and swap. Think your malloc patch along with UID weighting (1-99 protected, 100-999 endangered, 1000+ open season - with poaching expected if there is no choise) will make help oom processing. Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

[PATCH] vmtime and vm balancing

2001-03-27 Thread Ed Tomlinson
if (vmtime > INT_MAX - num_physpages) { + vmtime = 0; + bgscan_required = 0; + slab_scan_required = 0; + } } run_task_queue(&tq_disk); --- E

[PATCH][RFC] appling preasure to icache and dcache

2001-04-02 Thread Ed Tomlinson
omments on style, and suggestions on how to improve this code are very welcome. TIA Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff -u -r --exclude-from=ex.txt linux.ac28/mm/page_alloc.c linux/mm/page_alloc.c --- linux.ac28/mm/page_alloc.c Sun Apr 1 18:52:22 2001 +++ linux/mm/page_alloc.c

Re: [PATCH][RFC] appling preasure to icache and dcache

2001-04-02 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, The patch in the last message was scrambled. The last two lines belong to the previous fragment. Here is the correct beast. Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff -u -r --exclude-from=ex.txt linux.ac28/mm/page_alloc.c linux/mm/page_alloc.c --- linux.ac28/mm/page_alloc.c Sun Apr 1

Re: 2.4.1-test10

2001-01-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
t going back to a long, intermitantly running task, often does not result in a large delay due to swapins... In short think you should take a serious look at Marcelo's latest work. I have included the merged patch. Marcelo has briefly vetted it but more eyes would be a very good idea...

VM breakdown, 2.4.0 family

2001-01-27 Thread Ed Tomlinson
as we need now. I have fives days of uptime with it here (on test9 and test10). Feedback Welcome, Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-01 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, Gather this is with no swap space allocated... And the question is why does the oom handler not get triggered? Ed Tomlinson David Ford wrote: > (Chris, changing JOURNAL_MAX_BATCH from 900 to 100 didn't affect > anything). > > Ok, having approached this slightly more i

Re: Lucent Microelectronics Venus Modem, serial 5.05, and Linux 2.4.0

2001-02-06 Thread Ed Schulz
The "sample hardware" is available quite cheaply from many sources, although it can be hard to tell what really has Mars inside. Here are some brand name PCI modems containing Mars: - Zoom 3025 (with early Windows V.92 code) - Zoom 2925L for under $50. - ActionTec DeskLink Pro PCI for $33

[BUG] linux 2.4.1 to 2.4.1-ac3 hangs

2001-02-06 Thread Ed Tomlinson
md Recovery:30ns 30ns 30ns 30ns Data Active: 90ns 90ns 90ns 90ns Data Recovery: 30ns 30ns 30ns 30ns Cycle Time: 60ns 60ns 120ns 120ns Transfer Rate: 33.0MB/s 33.0MB/s 16.5MB/s 16.5MB/s Ed Tomlinson <[E

Re: Lucent Microelectronics Venus Modem, serial 5.05, and Linux 2.4.0

2001-02-06 Thread Ed Schulz
should try it under Linux 2.4. Since Venus modems include the controller function along with RAM and flash, they're generally more expensive than Mars host-contoller modems. Here are some models: - Zoom 2920 - MultiTech MultiModem ZPX MT5634ZPX-PCI - Actiontec Call Waiting PCI56012-01CW --

Re: [BUG] linux 2.4.1 to 2.4.1-ac3 hangs

2001-02-07 Thread Ed Tomlinson
even on the hotest summer day... Next time this happens I will try to telnet or ssh into box to see if anything is active, I will also setup a UPS on the box and see it that can shut it down. Its interesting that the software watchdog does not get triggered. TIA, Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Ed Tomlinson
ium based on a nForce 3 250Gb Chipset (x86_64). I`ve been on vacation - the last kernel tried was 11-mm3 which booted fine but refuses to use all the usb ports supplied by the system (two work, three do not all using low speed). Any ideas what might be happening? Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscri

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
eboots once every couple of days 12-rc2-mm3 locked up within 30 mins using X using kmail/bogofilter My serial console does not seem to want to work. Has anything changed with this support? TIA, Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 07:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Monday 11 April 2005 04:25, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > &g

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 13 April 2005 20:20, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Don't think so - it works OK here. Checked the .config? Does the serial > > > port work if you do `echo foo > /dev/ttyS0'? ACPI? > > &

Re: 2.4.5 + ReiserFS + SMP + umount = oops

2001-05-27 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, This was reported on the reiserfs list yesterday. Seems that the cleanup applied late in 2.4.5-pre affected the locking of the umount process. This was posted to fix the problem. Ed Tomlinson --- "Vladimir V. Saveliev" wrote: > > Hi > &g

LVM status in ac7?

2001-06-02 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, What is the status of LVM in ac7? Is it safe to use the ac7 LVM code on a system currently using beta7? Is the beta7 patched needed with ac7? What is not in the ac7 patches? Is it apt to cause problems? TIA, Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: Comment on patch to remove nr_async_pages limit

2001-06-05 Thread Ed Tomlinson
both worlds. Is it possible to allocate the BH early and then defer the IO? The idea being to make IO possible without having to allocate. This would let us remove the async page limit but would ensure we could still free. Thoughts? Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

missing symbol do_softirq in net moduels for pre-2

2001-06-09 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, Built -pre2 and noticed most of the modules in net/* are getting a missing symbol for do_softirq. Have I messed up, or is there a real error? Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

what is using memory?

2001-06-10 Thread Ed Tomlinson
ch, lvm beta7 and some reieserfs patches applied, after about 12 hours of uptime. TIA, Ed Tomlinson - 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 P

Re: what is using memory?

2001-06-11 Thread Ed Tomlinson
tring to make is not that this memory is lost or not need, but that is it _not_ accounted. ie. There is not way to tell what is using it, hense we cannot see leaks or places that could be optimized. I have attempted to count all memory I could. The 123M is what is left in the kernel overhead bucke

Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

2005-07-11 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Sunday 10 July 2005 20:01, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Jim Crilly wrote: > > > But in most of the changesets on the bkbits site you can go back over 2 > > years and not see anything from namesys people. Nearly all of the fixes > > commited in the past 2-3 years are from SuSe.

[PATCH 2.6.12.3] libata: add support for Promise SATA 300 TX2plus PDC40775

2005-07-16 Thread Ed Kear
I'm using this card in a RAID1 with 2 new SATA drives with no problems. Card - SATA 300 TX2plus PDC40775 (3d73) Signed-off-by: Ed Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -urN a/drivers/scsi/sata_promise.c b/drivers/scsi/sata_promise.c --- a/drivers/scsi/sata_promise.c 2005-07-15 17:18:5

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS cannot open a root device

2005-07-18 Thread Ed Tomlinson
your desired filesystem in kernel configuration as Y > rather than M .. I hope this will work One further tip. Make your root FS's type the only one that is not a module. Once you have it booting then, if you want, flip other FSes to in kernel. Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 - breaks DRI

2005-07-21 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, I just tried 13-rc2-mm1 and dri is working again. Its reported to also work with 13-rc3. What in mm1 is apt to be breaking dri? Thanks Ed Tomlinson -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Xorg and RADEON (dri disabled) Date: Wednesday 20 July 2005 21:25 From: Ed

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 - breaks DRI

2005-07-21 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Thursday 21 July 2005 11:56, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> -- Forwarded Message -- > >> > >> Subject: Re: Xorg and RADEON (dri disabled) > >> Date: Wednesday 20 July 2005 21:25

enabled udev - empty flash drive fills log with garbage

2005-07-05 Thread Ed Tomlinson
? There is an entry in fstab for this: /dev/sda1 /mnt/sd autorw,user,noauto 0 0 should it be disabled or changed? TIA Ed Tomlinson Jul 5 07:46:16 grover kernel: [ 267.496336] usb 1-4.2: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4 Jul 5 07:46:17 grover

Re: GIT tree broken? (rsync depreciated)

2005-07-08 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, I resync(ed) cg and rebuild this morning and it worked fine. On another tack. Updating the kernel gave a message that rsync is depreciated and will soon be turned off. How should we be updating git/cg trees now? Thanks Ed Tomlinson On Friday 08 July 2005 06:00, Stelian Pop wrote: >

Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

2005-07-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In reality is it doesn't count. Users don't care what level of pain is > involved in producing the products they use. > > Development efforts and results for OS's are always just taken for > granted. > > BTDT - if you're very lucky, a (very) few non-programming users

Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

2005-07-08 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Friday 08 July 2005 18:59, Ed Cogburn wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > In reality is it doesn't count. Users don't care what level of pain is > > involved in producing the products they use. > > > > Development efforts and results for

Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

2005-07-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
David Lang wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > >> >> No Flame from me. One thing to remember is that Hans and friends _have_ >> supported >> R3 for years. This is an undisputed fact. Second third parties have be >> able to add much >&g

Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

2005-07-10 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Sunday 10 July 2005 01:10, Horst von Brand wrote: > Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Lang wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > > >> No Flame from me. One thing to remember is that Hans and friends > > >> _

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2/mm1 breaks DRI

2005-07-27 Thread Ed Tomlinson
t; with 13-rc3. >> > >Hmm no idea what could have broken it, I'm at OLS and don't have any >DRI capable machine here yet.. so it'll be a while before I get to >take a look at it .. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if some of the >new mapping code might have

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2/mm1 breaks DRI

2005-07-28 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 17:58, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > >> >> > >> >> I also use 2.6.13-rc3-mm1.  Will try with a previous version an report > >> >> to lkml if > >> >> it works. > >> >> > >> > > >> >

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2/mm1 breaks DRI

2005-07-29 Thread Ed Tomlinson
t .. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if some of the > > > >new mapping code might have some issues.. > > > > > > Still happens with mm2. > > > > And mm3 too. Please let me know if there is anything you would like me to > > try. > > Hi E

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1

2005-08-19 Thread Ed Tomlinson
o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [drivers/acpi/sleep] Error 2 make[1]: *** [drivers/acpi] Error 2 make: *** [drivers] Error 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/13-6-1$ Probably a missing include? Note that this is a non smp x86_64 build. Thanks Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1

2005-08-19 Thread Ed Tomlinson
non-static declaration include/net/ip.h:376: error: previous declaration of 'ipv4_table' was here make[3]: *** [net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [net/ipv4/ipvs] Error 2 make[1]: *** [net/ipv4] Error 2 make: *** [net] Error 2 Ideas? TIA Ed Tomlinson On Friday 19 August 2005 12:

Re: Fw: Oops with 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 and USB mouse

2005-08-28 Thread Ed Tomlinson
for me. I my case removing a usb device or hub triggers an immediate reboot with mm2. This is fixed removing the above patch. All is ok with mm1 too. I tried the above process but the second patch does not apply. Thanks Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-04 Thread Ed Tomlinson
4K stacks? How does it hurt to make 4K the default and allow 8K? What _might_ make sense is to make 8K a reason to taint the kernel. Ed Tomlinson - 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: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Ed Tomlinson
id vid ttp I asked about this lkml before and was told it was probably a cpu/hardware issue... Its interesting that Matthew is also running gentoo. Thanks, Ed Tomlinson -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On January 10, 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Matthew is not alone with this problem. I have it too. Its not new > > here. Its been happening as long as I have had gentoo amd64 > > installed. It can be hard to

cpuidle, dynticks compatible or no?

2007-12-06 Thread Ed Sweetman
I would think that they are compatible. I'm using 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and I dont get any output in dmesg regarding dynamic ticks being in use via the pmtmr like in old posts i've seen online. I was wondering if this output has been removed or if there is another way to determine if dynticks are act

Re: x86_64 dynticks not working prev: cpuidle, dynticks compatible or no?

2007-12-07 Thread Ed Sweetman
Ed Sweetman wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: System is idle now, previously it was doing something i couldn't halt at the time. I'm looking at "Local timer interrupts" in the "Loc:" section of /proc/interrupts. Across 1 second while the system is

Re: x86_64 dynticks not working prev: cpuidle, dynticks compatible or no?

2007-12-07 Thread Ed Sweetman
Robert Hancock wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: System is idle now, previously it was doing something i couldn't halt at the time. I'm looking at "Local timer interrupts" in the "Loc:" section of /proc/interrupts. Across 1 second while the system is pretty much idle, i

Re: x86_64 dynticks not working prev: cpuidle, dynticks compatible or no?

2007-12-07 Thread Ed Sweetman
System is idle now, previously it was doing something i couldn't halt at the time. I'm looking at "Local timer interrupts" in the "Loc:" section of /proc/interrupts. Across 1 second while the system is pretty much idle, i still get 300 interrupts. My HZ variable is set to 300 in the kernel con

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-09 Thread Ed Sweetman
Mike Houston wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:42:15 +0100 Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:12:25 -0500, Elvis Pranskevichus wrote: This indeed looks like a broken ACPI BIOS since the aforementioned commit touches only the PNP ACPI driver. I'm not sure how

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Ed Tomlinson
sa) that triggers the isuue. TIA & test/debug patches welcome, Ed Tomlinson -- 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: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-14 Thread Ed Tomlinson
ngo, This is _not_ a regression. This has been occuring for ages here. A backport of this fix to 2.6.23 would be a very good thing - IMHO its something that should go into stable asap. Thanks, Ed Tomlinson -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&qu

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-15 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On January 15, 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is _not_ a regression. This has been occuring for ages here. A > > backport of this fix to 2.6.23 would be a very good thing - IMHO its > > something that sho

[PATCH] usb-serial: ftdi driver- add support for optical probe device

2008-01-17 Thread Ed Beroset
This patch is for the 2.6.24-rc8 kernel. Added support for the Elster Unicom III Optical Probe. The device ID has already been added to the usb.ids file. Signed-off-by: Ed Beroset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff -aur --exclude-from=a/.gitignore a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c b/drive

2.6.24 Panic

2008-01-27 Thread Ed Tomlinson
5e 40 f6 47 30 [ 76.859658] ---[ end trace bbed4a3078ba58f5 ]--- [ 76.878661] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! If this is timer related, the kernel uses 'tsc' as a the clocksource 'acpi_pm' is also available. What else will help track this down

initrd/initramfs problem

2005-03-16 Thread Ed Martini
elpful to me if Documentation/initrd.txt had a reference to Documentation/early-userspace/README. I'm not sure who maintains that directory, or I'd send a suggestion. tldp.org? THX Ed Martini Original context: http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2005-03/index.html Ralf Baec

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Ed Tomlinson
I like BK, I > > would give it up. > > The way some people are reading the license the price is even higher, > they think it is a forever tainted license as it stands today. I've had > specific requests to clarify this part of the license. > > So how would you suggest th

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-15 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Monday 14 February 2005 21:40, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:13:14PM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > > The way some people are reading the license the price is even higher, > > > they think it is a forever tainted license as it stands today. I've had

Re: Message incompatible avec le système de messagerie

2005-02-15 Thread Ed Tomlinson
SVP stop. Cette message et SPAM! Pour local cet pas mal, pur l'internet cet SPAM. m'excuse mon francais terrible Ed Tomlinson On Monday 29 November 2004 11:23, Service de messagerie wrote: > Le message émis par linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org est incompatible avec le > système d

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Ed Tomlinson
d left right and center. This changed after BK. We _are_ getting large benefits from BK. They may be hard to see at our side of the keyboard - but I believe Linus when he says BK is the best tool for him. That this probably will not be the case for ever. Think it still is for now though

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-18 Thread Ed Tomlinson
e a really valid point. The people at the top _are_ _very_ _very_ important. There are several ways to get kernel source if _you_ do not want to use BK. I use BK. There are enough projects around that I can avoid working on a SVM for a year... Thats my option though - you do not have to agree.

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-31 Thread Ed Tomlinson
patches on top of mm2. I compiled using gcc 3.4, with a .config based on 11-rc2 using oldconfig. Ed Tomlinson Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hda3 ro console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400) Linux version 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.4.4 20041218 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-7))

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
seem to have slowed > > down a bit. > > > > - Last, final, ultimate call: if anyone has patches in here which are 2.6.11 > > material, please tell me. > > > > Two points: > > - I lost my keyboard :(. USB, but plugged into PS/2 with an adapter. Mine

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
6:54 grover kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled Feb 23 17:46:54 grover kernel: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A It does not seem to be finding the keyboard at all... Ideas? Ed Tomlinson diff -u ../11-3-2/.config .config --- ../11-3-2/.config

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 18:40, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Wednesday 23 February 2005 18:12, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 February 2005 17:38, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > > > > > On 02.23, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > >

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Ed Tomlinson
l for instance) and asks for comments after a day or two. With this sort of method we would _know_ just how much testing is done. We eventually could start to relate the amount of testing to just how stable the kernel will be. Comments Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

intermittent hangs with threads (clone() bug?/linuxthreads bug?)

2001-06-19 Thread Ed Connell
love to hear it. If you need more information please let me know, as well. Thanks Ed Connell Healthy traceback from original "ex1" process where it is waiting for the manager thread to take over. (gdb) where #0 0x40067ff5 in __sigsuspend (set=0xb2e8) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv

cs46xx and 2.4.6-pre6

2001-06-29 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, Suspect the #define CS46XX_APCI_SUPPORT 1 found in cs46xxpm-24.h is bogus. With it defined I can conflicts between it an cs46xx.c with cs46xx_suspend_tlb and cs46xx_resume_tbl Removed the #define and the module built. Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree

2005-03-05 Thread Ed Tomlinson
in the Linus tree - Linus does not have to have the same patch... Ed - 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: 2.6.11-mm3

2005-03-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
`flush_dcache_mft_record_page' fs/ntfs/attrib.c:1436: warning: implicit declaration of function `mark_mft_record_dirty' fs/ntfs/attrib.c:1443: warning: implicit declaration of function `mark_page_accessed' fs/ntfs/attrib.c:1521: warning: implicit declaration of function `ntfs_cluster

2.4.4-pre8 undefined symbols

2001-04-27 Thread Ed Tomlinson
(rwsem_down_write_failed); +EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOVERS(rwsem_wake); #if RWSEM_DEBUG EXPORT_SYMBOL(rwsemtrace); #endif - Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

Atrocious icache/dcache in 2.4.2

2001-04-27 Thread Ed Tomlinson
y deadlock avoidance.. +*/ + if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)) + return; + + if (spin_trylock(&inode_lock)) { + prune_unused_icache(0); + kmem_cache_shrink(inode_cachep); + } } /* - Comments? Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubsc

[BUG] pdc20267 and dma timeouts

2001-05-01 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, I am running 2.4.4 with the lvm -0.91 beta7 patches applied on a debian sid base. When I checked my box this morning the follow greeted me on the serial console. The reiserfs errors are caused by the DMA timeout. Note this is a ultra100 controller not supporting raid. hde: timeout waitin

Linux 2.4.4-ac5; hpt370 & new dma setup

2001-05-05 Thread Ed Tomlinson
but the > kernel hung anyway after 5 minutes of waiting. > > I must have an unlucky set of hardware (via chipset VP6 board, Live!, > ibm drives). Funny I have had the same problem with 2.4.4 only with a pdc20267 (reported to lkml with topic '[BUG] pdc20267 and dma timeouts'

oops with 2.4.5-pre1

2001-05-07 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi After 4 days of uptime I got the following oops. Nothing special was happening at the time. Ideas? Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ksymoops 2.4.1 on i586 2.4.5-pre1. Options used -V (default) -k 20010507195318.ksyms (specified) -l 20010507195318.modules (spe

Re: ATAPI Tape Driver Failure in Kernel 2.4.4, More

2001-05-10 Thread Ed Tomlinson
; to do is be able to write to the tape, but not read from it. Even in 2.2.x, putting >the > IDE patches in, breaks it. Apparently the HP's aren't completely ATAPI compatible I can write my HP 20GB drive with ide-tape. For restores I use ide-scsi. Its a bit of a hack but d

IDE DMA timeouts and reiserfs stability

2001-05-10 Thread Ed Tomlinson
would call reiserfsck -a again to do the work (if required) and ask if its ok to do the fix-fixable or rebuild-tree Think reiserfsck is getting good enough for this, and it would probably avoid many of the problem currently popping up on the list. Thoughts? Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECT

Longer command line for kexec on i386

2007-07-23 Thread Ed Swierk
changes to the boot protocol. Any clues would be appreciated. Thanks, --Ed - 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: Longer command line for kexec on i386

2007-07-25 Thread Ed Swierk
Ed Swierk arastra.com> writes: > I made the following change to kexec: > > [deleted] > > but I'm now seeing intermittent corruption of the initrd in the new kernel--a > few bytes at different locations each time. > > I suspect I've neglected some other i

[patch] scsi: use lock per host instead of per device for shared queue tag host

2007-01-23 Thread Ed Lin
blk_queue_end_tag of ll_rw_blk.c) when accessing different devices simultaneously (e.g. copying big file from one device to another in smp kernels). This is against kernel 2.6.20-rc5. Signed-off-by: Ed Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c |2 +- drivers/scsi/

RE: [patch] scsi: use lock per host instead of per device for shared queue tag host

2007-01-24 Thread Ed Lin
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:59 AM > To: Ed Lin > Cc: linux-scsi; linux-kernel; james.Bottomley; jeff; Promise_Linux > Subject: Re: [patch] scsi: use lock per host instead of per > device

RE: [patch] scsi: use lock per host instead of per device for shared queue tag host

2007-01-24 Thread Ed Lin
> -Original Message- > From: David Somayajulu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 5:03 PM > To: Ed Lin; Michael Reed > Cc: linux-scsi; linux-kernel; james.Bottomley; jeff; > Promise_Linux; Jens Axboe > Subject: RE: [patch] scsi: use loc

RE: [patch] scsi: use lock per host instead of per device forshared queue tag host

2007-01-24 Thread Ed Lin
> -Original Message- > From: James Bottomley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:00 AM > To: Ed Lin > Cc: linux-scsi; linux-kernel; jeff; Promise_Linux > Subject: Re: [patch] scsi: use lock per host instead of per > device for

S.M.A.R.T no longer available in 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 with libata

2007-01-03 Thread Ed Sweetman
Not sure what went on between 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 in libata land but SMART is no longer available on my hdds. I'm assuming this is not the intended behavior. In case this is chipset specific, IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3) I'm using Lib

RE: [patch] scsi: use lock per host instead of per device for shared queue tag host

2007-01-25 Thread Ed Lin
> -Original Message- > From: Jens Axboe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 7:48 AM > To: Ed Lin > Cc: David Somayajulu; Michael Reed; linux-scsi; linux-kernel; > james.Bottomley; jeff; Promise_Linux > Subject: Re: [patch] scsi: use lock pe

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-12-01 Thread Ed Tomlinson
amd64 here. Thanks Ed Tomlinson On Thursday 30 November 2006 08:03, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 23:10, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:42:20 -0500 Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday 28 November 2006 05:02, Andrew Morton wr

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-12-01 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Friday 01 December 2006 19:32, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:33:21 -0500 > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I booted without the video and vga settings with earlyprintk=vga and got > > output. The > > kenerl was complaining about

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-12-02 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Friday 01 December 2006 23:09, Akinobu Mita wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:19:00PM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > On Friday 01 December 2006 19:32, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:33:21 -0500 > > > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

2006-12-04 Thread Ed Sweetman
Jeff Garzik wrote: Bernard Pidoux wrote: I am asking why need to compile the following modules while I do not have any SCSI device ? libata uses SCSI to provide a lot of infrastructure that it would otherwise have to recreate. Also, using SCSI meant that it automatically worked in existing

Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

2006-12-05 Thread Ed Sweetman
Robert Hancock wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Bernard Pidoux wrote: I am asking why need to compile the following modules while I do not have any SCSI device ? libata uses SCSI to provide a lot of infrastructure that it would otherwise have to recreate. Also, using SCSI

Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

2006-12-05 Thread Ed Sweetman
Robert Hancock wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: What's not a legitimate configuration is libata drivers, no low level scsi drivers, no ide drivers and no sd,sr,sg drivers. Yet, that is the configuration the kernel currently gives you. How is that more correct than any of the 3 solutions I

Re: [PATCH] ata/kconfig: Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

2006-12-06 Thread Ed Sweetman
Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:46:54 -0500 Ed Sweetman wrote: -ETOOMANYWORDS && -ENOPATCH, so here is one to consider. Help text can also be added. This is similar to what USB storage already does. I provided a patch a couple weeks ago when I brought this topic up mys

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-15 Thread Ed Tomlinson
ce and target luns (drives). When one updates the cloneset the target is made identical to the source. Its a great way to do backups. Its an important feature to be able to write to the target drives. I would love to see this working at a filesystem level. Thanks Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe fro

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-15 Thread Ed Tomlinson
it needs to update its usable and if you access an element that should be updated you will see the correctly updated version - even though backgound resyncing is still in progress. This type of logic is great for backups. Thanks Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: S.M.A.R.T no longer available in 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 with libata

2007-01-04 Thread Ed Sweetman
Mark Lord wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: Not sure what went on between 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 in libata land but SMART is no longer available on my hdds. It's working for me with 2.6.20-rc3, ata_piix libata driver. -ml Well, not in the sata_nv libata driver. The only change I

Re: S.M.A.R.T no longer available in 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 with libata

2007-01-04 Thread Ed Sweetman
Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Thursday 04 January 2007 01:50, Ed Sweetman wrote: Not sure what went on between 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 in libata land but SMART is no longer available on my hdds. I'm assuming this is not the intended behavior. In case this is chipset spe

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-11-29 Thread Ed Tomlinson
ld try or suggestions on patches to remove/try. Thanks Ed - 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: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-11-30 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 23:10, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:42:20 -0500 Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > > On Tuesday 28 November 2006 05:02, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > Will appear eventually at > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pu

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5 v2] Convert all tasklets to workqueues V2

2007-06-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
] [] child_rip+0xa/0x12 [ 54.223484] [] kthread+0x0/0x110 [ 54.226075] [] child_rip+0x0/0x12 Has this patch uncovered a problem in bluetooth or is it a problem with the patch? TIA, Ed Tomlinson On Friday 22 June 2007 14:20, Steven Rostedt wrote: > -- > > This is version 2 of the t

Ethernet not functioning on Nvidia MCP51 in 2.6.21

2007-07-14 Thread Ed W
debugging this? How do I find out why the driver is finding my hardware, but no eth0 device is being created? Ed W ... loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k2-NAPI Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.17-k2

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-14 Thread Ed Tomlinson
new in v19 - something in v19 is not meshing well with my mix of applications... Kernel is gentoo 2.6.22-r1 + cfs v19 How can I help to debug this? Ed Tomlinson On Friday 06 July 2007 13:33, Ingo Molnar wrote: > i'm pleased to announce release -v19 of the CFS scheduler patchset. > &

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-16 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Monday 16 July 2007 05:17, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I run a java application at nice 15. Its been a background > > application here for as long as SD and CFS have been around. If I > > have a compile running

RE: panics with 16port Promise Supertrack EX Controller

2007-07-16 Thread Ed Lin
. > > > > Ok, I now switched to cfg, and the machine panicd again. > Panic attached. > > Any help is appreciated. > > It really looks like a stex bug - perhaps it's doing double > completions > of a request? > I will come up with something related to t

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Sweetman
Joshua Hoblitt wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:04:40PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: Duane Griffin wrote: On 16/05/07, Prakash Punnoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe you want to give a hint in the p states driver help text? I think a hint is the right thing to do, but

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