Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-13 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Nov 13, 2007 3:08 PM, Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ingo Molnar wrote: > .. > > This is all QA-101 that _cannot be argued against on a rational basis_, > > it's just that these sorts of things have been largely ignored for > > years, in favor of the all-too-easy "open source means man

Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm[1,2,3] -- Network card not getting assigned an "eth" device name

2006-08-28 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On 8/27/06, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: > Jeremy reported that a while back too. I do not know what is causing it > and as far as I know no net developers have yet looked into it. > It went away with -rc4-mm[23] for me... I just reproduced it with rc4-m

Re: [RFC/PATCH] remove unneeded check in bcm43xx

2006-04-11 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:21:17AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > I still think we shouldn't reward shit hardware by complicating > > up our DMA mappings internals. :-) > > BTW. In the meantime, can't that driver work in PIO only mode ? yes, I think you just have to have the pci_set_

Re: [RFC/PATCH] remove unneeded check in bcm43xx

2006-04-10 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 03:53:51AM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 03:46, you wrote: > > > > > > Now, for ppc32, it should still sort-of work because all of lowmem is > > below 1Gb and people generally don't hack their lowmem size (well, I do > > but heh, that doesn't coun

Re: [RFC/PATCH] remove unneeded check in bcm43xx

2006-04-10 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:46:30AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:28:00AM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > To summerize: I actually added these messages, because people were > > hitting "this does not work with >1G" issues and did not get an error > > message. > > S

Re: [RFC/PATCH] remove unneeded check in bcm43xx

2006-04-09 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:28:00AM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Monday 10 April 2006 06:22, you wrote: > > Either the ppc code is wrong (it doesn't enforce dma_mask) either the > > driver still works without the check. > > > > Maybe ppc should do the same thing as i386: > > > > 47 if

Re: [RFC/PATCH] remove unneeded check in bcm43xx

2006-04-09 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:07:32AM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Monday 10 April 2006 06:01, you wrote: > > Since the driver already sets the correct dma_mask, there is no reason > > to bail there. In fact if you have an iommu, I think you can have a > > address above 1G which will be ok for th

[RFC/PATCH] remove unneeded check in bcm43xx

2006-04-09 Thread Benoit Boissinot
;t respect the the dma_mask). Please comment or apply. Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_dma.c === --- linux.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_dma.c +

Re: 2.6.16-rc6-mm1

2006-03-12 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 03:10:36AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc6/2.6.16-rc6-mm1/ > > drivers/net/tg3.c:8065: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <[

Re: 2.6.15-rc5-mm2

2005-12-12 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 02:04:18PM +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:35:08PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:39:32 -0800 > > > > > Odd net behaviour with Dave&#

Re: 2.6.15-rc5-mm2

2005-12-12 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:35:08PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:39:32 -0800 > > > Odd net behaviour with Dave's net-2.6.16 tree. > ... > > - i cannot login with xdm, as soon as i login, the X server restarts. > > Login with

Re: 2.6.15-rc5-mm2

2005-12-12 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:59:31AM +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:35:08PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:39:32 -0800 > > > > > Odd net behaviour with Dave&#

Re: 2.6.15-rc5-mm2

2005-12-12 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:35:08PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:39:32 -0800 > > > Odd net behaviour with Dave's net-2.6.16 tree. > ... > > - i cannot login with xdm, as soon as i login, the X server restarts. > > Login with