Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-10 Thread Stefan Richter
Lee Revell wrote: > Servers are still the most important Linux market, To whom? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== --=- -=-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

remote debugging via FireWire (was What will be in the x86-64/x86 2.6.21 merge)

2007-02-10 Thread Stefan Richter
on of the dmesg buffer via configuration ROM would be warranted. Or is it feasible to find the dmesg buffer by plain memory analysis? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== --=- -=-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

compat_ioctl (was [PATCH update] ieee1394: cycle timer read extension for raw1394/libraw1394)

2007-02-10 Thread Stefan Richter
, is this struct padded on 64bit platforms? If so, would struct raw1394_cycle_timer { __u64 local_time; __u32 cycle_timer; }; be padded too? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== --=- -=-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: remote debugging via FireWire

2007-02-10 Thread Stefan Richter
Andi Kleen wrote: > On Saturday 10 February 2007 14:51, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Could be handled via linux1394-2.6.git, although a >> different channel where the actual users of this facility watch would >> IMO be more appropriate. > > It's more related to arch co

Re: remote debugging via FireWire

2007-02-10 Thread Stefan Richter
ould if there was an interrupt handler... - "depends on X86_64" is missing in Kconfig. - Maybe put it into arch/x86_64/drivers/ instead of drivers/ieee1394? - Plus what I mentioned earlier in the thread. I could send code to address some of this at next weekend or later. -- Stefan Richte

Re: [PATCH] Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-11 Thread Stefan Richter
1394's .suspend and .resume didn't test with actual external devices or gave up when they figured that the problem reaches into upper subsystem layers. (We still haven't tested interaction with most of the IEEE 1394 high level.) -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== --=- -=-== http://arcg

Re: SATA-performance: Linux vs. FreeBSD

2007-02-12 Thread Stefan Richter
o that the ratio of protocol overhead to net data payload stays minimal. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== --=- -==-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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.k

Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

2007-02-14 Thread Stefan Richter
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> Why a new flag? > > For example, there are drivers that define .suspend() and .resume() which > do not work correctly and we can use the flag to mark them. Depending on how serious the problems with these .suspend/.resume()s are, you could also put a printk in them or

[GIT PULL] ieee1394 updates post 2.6.20, another round

2007-02-17 Thread Stefan Richter
Palmers (1): ieee1394: cycle timer read extension for raw1394 Stefan Richter (1): ieee1394: fix another deadlock in nodemgr -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== --=- =---= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Stefan Richter
to 2.6.16.y too. I don't have a machine to test personally, but it is quite obvious. The mentioned bigger patch has been merged by Linus between 2.6.20 and 2.6.21-rc1. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== --=- =-=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Stefan Richter
I wrote: > I hope you can extract the patch from this MIME attachment. Probably not unless I attach it for real. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== --=- =-=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ Subject: [PATCH] Missing critical phys_to_virt in lib/swiotlb.c From: David Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date

Re: Found this in my logs

2007-04-26 Thread Stefan Richter
cp took > relatively long and afterwards I noticed the logged things. > Do I need to post this in bugzilla? You could do so, but most importantly you should try to be more specific in the message subject and in the selection of addressees. :-) -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=-- ==-=- htt

Re: [PATCH] ohci1394: Fix mistake in printk message.

2007-04-26 Thread Stefan Richter
Simon Arlott wrote: > Fix the "attempting to setting" message in ohci1394. Committed to linux1394-2.6.git and queued for merge. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=-- ==-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: [-mm patch] unexport highlevel_host_reset

2007-04-26 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: > highlevel_host_reset no longer has any modular users. Thanks, I missed this when I removed the last usage outside the 1394 core. Committed to linux1394-2.6.git. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=-- ==-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER

2007-04-27 Thread Stefan Richter
devel or -user mailinglist (but often in combination with bugzilla), - bugzilla, - ...?, - personal e-mail. (Just don't do it.) But I do understand why the opener of this thread preferred personal e-mail; he has explained it multiple times now. He has valid points, although they don&#

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-27 Thread Stefan Richter
ot;backported" to 2.6.x.y and to various distributor kernels. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=-- ==-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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 13/30] Use menuconfig objects - IEEE1394

2007-04-27 Thread Stefan Richter
like it a lot. But perhaps only because I have to untangle some -mm differences for this.) -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=-- ==-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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 13/30] Use menuconfig objects - IEEE1394

2007-04-28 Thread Stefan Richter
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Apr 27 2007 22:56, Stefan Richter wrote: > >>> -config IEEE1394 >>> +menuconfig IEEE1394 >>> tristate "IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support" >>> depends on PCI || BROKEN >>> select NET >> [...] >&

Re: [PATCH 13/30] Use menuconfig objects - IEEE1394

2007-04-28 Thread Stefan Richter
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Apr 28 2007 12:41, Stefan Richter wrote: >> So, shall I put Jan's patch aside until there is only one stack left? > > Sort of. [...] > when a menu has > two or three choices (in this case: larger subsystems), it's rand() > for me wheth

Re: random thoughts on DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE

2007-04-28 Thread Stefan Richter
nsibly be DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE at the same time. (This also means the correct term is not maturity /levels/, but maturity attributes or the like.) -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=-- ===-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: random thoughts on DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE

2007-04-28 Thread Stefan Richter
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Maturity_levels ... >> - Your argument should include what the benefits of exposing >> DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE as machine-pa

Re: random thoughts on DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE

2007-04-28 Thread Stefan Richter
es not mean "is subject to currently ongoing experiments" but rather "is unfinished code which is known to work incorrectly sometimes". -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=-- ===-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

irks with bugzilla (was Re: Linux 2.6.21)

2007-04-28 Thread Stefan Richter
elf, I filed these complaints of mine under http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8396 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8397 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8394 in hope that they are taken into consideration by those who maintain the site. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=

Re: random thoughts on DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE

2007-04-28 Thread Stefan Richter
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: >> And that benefit is...? :-) ... > if you're not convinced, there's nothing else i can think of to say > that will persuade you. It didn't come across this way, sorry, but I didn't ask a

Re: random thoughts on DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE

2007-04-28 Thread Stefan Richter
b: [...] This term is used to refer to /obsolete/ structures that should not be used for new applications". Emphasis is mine. I can agree with this and the other definitions at this search result. > p.s. just FYI, even *i'm* getting bored of this. :-) I thought so. :-) -- Stefan Ri

Re: random thoughts on DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE

2007-04-28 Thread Stefan Richter
o drag this out too much longer. At least my pestering seems to lead to increasing precision in your wordings. And believe me, precision in a feature removal process is valuable for each party involved. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=-- ===-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this

Re: maturity levels: a first pass

2007-04-28 Thread Stefan Richter
age without presentational ballast allows for creation of a multitude of fine-tuned configurator UIs/scripts, which can be extended by all sorts of features, e.g. better support in dealing with obsolete configuration options. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=-- ===-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsu

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-29 Thread Stefan Richter
o properly define the problem. Bugzilla becomes useful after a report reached a minimum level of quality (after minimum initial triage) and if the bug can be clearly associated with a maintained subsystem of the kernel (as e.g. Linus already pointed out in this thread). -- Stefan Richter -

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-29 Thread Stefan Richter
r on mailinglists. PS: Of course what _does_ work better on mailinglists than on bugzilla is to recognize duplicates as such in the first place, when the symptoms seem only loosely related. (I.e. seeing the big picture and recognize patterns.) -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=-- ===-= http://arc

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-29 Thread Stefan Richter
irrelevant for subsystems where there are less than three or two persons who steadily hunt bugs anyway. At the field I work on, I wouldn't have anybody else to bring in in the first place, except that I sometimes suggest to reporters to subscribe to a bug ticket. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-29 Thread Stefan Richter
who don't know much about how the Linux guys handle bugs, and has to keep the reporters involved up until a bug can be closed. IOW it has to be compatible with integrators, developers, and reporters/testers. Luckily though, not all of them need all of that system's features. ('syst

Re: [patch 5/9] IEEE1394: Spinlock initializer cleanup

2007-04-29 Thread Stefan Richter
post 2.6.21 pull request I'll send out RSN, unless your patch bypasses me somehow. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=-- ===-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo in

[GIT PULL] ieee1394 fix

2007-03-23 Thread Stefan Richter
class_Device.) drivers/ieee1394/eth1394.c |3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) Stefan Richter (1): ieee1394: fix oops on "modprobe -r ohci1394" after network class_device conversion >From 7a9eeb2fa1b3a3a83670b9ba08dd396beedb88f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: S

[PATCH 2.6.20.4] ieee1394: dv1394: fix CardBus card ejection

2007-03-25 Thread Stefan Richter
Fix NULL pointer dereference on hot ejection of a FireWire card while dv1394 was loaded. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7121 I did not test card ejection with open /dev/dv1394 files yet. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Picked from 2.6.21-rc1. drivers/ie

[PATCH 2.6.16.44] ieee1394: dv1394: fix CardBus card ejection

2007-03-25 Thread Stefan Richter
Fix NULL pointer dereference on hot ejection of a FireWire card while dv1394 was loaded. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7121 I did not test card ejection with open /dev/dv1394 files yet. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Backport from 2.6.21-rc1. d

Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules

2007-03-26 Thread Stefan Richter
; clause for this > option includes "m", forcing this (and all other four entries in that > Kconfig file, by the way) to be built as modules, while the help text > for all five entries suggests you can select "y". > > as jack nicholson would say, something'

Re: [PATCH] PCMCIA: Allow PCMCIA SCSI drivers to be built into the kernel.

2007-03-26 Thread Stefan Richter
+61,6 @@ config PCMCIA_NINJA_SCSI > > config PCMCIA_QLOGIC > tristate "Qlogic PCMCIA support" > - depends on m > help > Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA SCSI host > adapter to your computer. > @@ -72,7 +7

[PATCH] ieee1394: eth1394: don't autoload by hotplug when ohci1394 starts

2007-03-26 Thread Stefan Richter
fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7793 . Autoloading of eth1394 when an _external_ IP-over-1394 capable device is discovered is _not_ affected by this patch. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Instead of keeping this until the proposed date of removal (June 2007

[PATCH update/RFC] ieee1394: eth1394: don't autoload by hotplug when ohci1394 starts

2007-03-26 Thread Stefan Richter
he resulting code is a lot nicer. I prefer this updated patch and I consider it a candidate for before 2.6.22-rc1. From: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ieee1394: eth1394: don't autoload by hotplug when ohci1394 starts Until now, ieee1394 put an IP-over-1394 capability entry i

Re: Student Project Ideas

2007-03-29 Thread Stefan Richter
Russ Meyerriecks wrote: > If anybody has any bug fixes or features maybe they never got > around to, http://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED has 1504 hits right now. > and would be suitable for this situation, This may be a problem. -- S

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add disk hotswap support to libata RESEND #2

2005-08-23 Thread Stefan Richter
own thread for any further bus management purposes, a workqueue looks suitable for hot plugging and unplugging. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=-= =--- ==--- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAI

Re: [PATCH] Add PCI class ID for firewire OHCI controllers.

2006-12-18 Thread Stefan Richter
Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > Pull this define out of drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c and rename to match > other PCI class defines. Committed to linux1394-2.6.git. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-==- ==-- =--=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make entries in the "Device drivers" menu individually selectable

2006-12-18 Thread Stefan Richter
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Works for me, but I don't see a lot of benefit from it. Actually I see >> two disadvantages of the patch: > > ... snip ... > >> - There are two out-of-tree Fi

Re: ieee1394 in 2.6.20-rc1 (was Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-18 Thread Stefan Richter
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 17 December 2006 20:05, Stefan Richter wrote: >>What's missing in our implementation is that the use count of ohci1394 >>goes up too once a "high-level driver" uses resources of a host driven >>by ohci1394. > > This ne

Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add driver for OHCI firewire host controllers.

2006-12-20 Thread Stefan Richter
is merely that the few people who know the driver stack well enough didn't use suspend/ resume support on their own machines yet. As for Kristian's stack, suspend/resume support can probably be added quite easily, especially after I got the missing bits working in the mainline s

Re: [PATCH 0/4] New firewire stack - updated patches

2006-12-20 Thread Stefan Richter
ochronous API. > > which will allow us to move most user space applications to the new > stack. ... -- Stefan Richter -=-=-==- ==-- =-=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

Re: [PATCH 0/4] New firewire stack - updated patches

2006-12-20 Thread Stefan Richter
Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> Actually there are also eth1394 and pcilynx to be pulled over. Eth1394 >> should be quite easy to do for anybody after iso reception is settled in >> your stack. Pcilynx could follow depending on developer interest. It&#

Re: [PATCH 0/4] New firewire stack - updated patches

2006-12-20 Thread Stefan Richter
t. There should be an option (and it should be the default) to let eth1394 load its ROM entries == don't automatically modprobe eth1394 as soon as the low level set up a host adapter. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-==- ==-- =-=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &q

Re: [PATCH 0/4] New firewire stack - updated patches

2006-12-20 Thread Stefan Richter
for 1394b or mixed environments. (Even though the latter would also clearly benefit from it.) -- Stefan Richter -=-=-==- ==-- =-=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More major

Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add core firewire stack.

2006-12-20 Thread Stefan Richter
k vs. new stack vs. both stacks condenses to a radio button in a single IEEE 1394 config menu, and for a potential brief period during which both stacks live in mainline together that way. But if nobody else complains, I'll include it as drivers/firewire.) -- Stefan Richter -=-=-==- ==-- =-=

Re: [PATCH 0/4] New firewire stack - updated patches

2006-12-20 Thread Stefan Richter
ptimization for 1394a environments and no optimization for 1394b > or mixed environments. (Even though the latter would also clearly > benefit from it.) ^^ "it" == "a reduced gap count" -- Stefan Richter -=-=-==- ==-- =-=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To

Re: [PATCH 0/4] New firewire stack - updated patches

2006-12-21 Thread Stefan Richter
f most of the commits to this tree. From now on I will always do this on commits affecting mainline's FireWire stack, and prepend "firewire:" to the titles of commits affecting the JUJU stack. It's redundant but IMO helpful when reading changelogs. -- Stefan Richter -=-

Re: [PATCH 1/5] Update Documentation/pci.txt

2006-12-22 Thread Stefan Richter
rantees write transactions reach the PCI > >already do this. > >> +device before the CPU can continue. Writes to MMIO space allow to CPU ^^ >> +continue before the transaction reaches the PCI device. HW weeni

Re: 2.6.20-rc2: kernel BUG at include/asm/dma-mapping.h:110!

2006-12-29 Thread Stefan Richter
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> Bisecting has identified this commit: >> >> commit 9b7d9c096dd4e4baacc21b2588662bbb56f36c4e >> Author: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Wed Nov 22 21:44:34 2006 +0100 >> >> ieee1394: sbp2: conver

[GIT PULL] ieee1394 fixes

2006-12-30 Thread Stefan Richter
40 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) commit 97d552e35d9404df3254e1157df3340e4e2eaedc Author: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Dec 29 23:47:04 2006 +0100 ieee1394: sbp2: fix bogus dma mapping Need to use a PCI device, not a FireWire host device. Problem found by

Re: 2.6.20-rc2: kernel BUG at include/asm/dma-mapping.h:110!

2007-01-02 Thread Stefan Richter
mapping > infrastructure cannot figure out from the generic device (contained in a > pci_device) compared to the pci_device? Or are there some restrictions implicit in mappings via pci_dma_ API which are lifted when using mappings via dma_ API? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= ---=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space error treating and VIDEO1394 IOC LISTEN CHANNEL ioctl failed problem

2007-01-14 Thread Stefan Richter
28MiB :) and that is it. Now, I could just put 128, but what if > somebody changes that, or in some new distro suddenly decides to make it > different? Even worse, what if it is an old kernel with 64 setting? [...] Maybe somebody at LKML has answers? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= -

Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space error treating and VIDEO1394 IOC LISTEN CHANNEL ioctl failed problem

2007-01-14 Thread Stefan Richter
loc=536870912 to the | > line that defines the kernel parameters. (If you use grub there should | > be a line like this on /boot/grub/menu.lst) | > | > kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-686 root=/dev/sda2 | > vmalloc=536870912 ro quiet splash | > | > | > That killed my

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Stefan Richter
On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> gcc -o test3.o test.c test.c >> > That produces just an executable file with a misleading name :) #-) [...] >> 3. When people notice that patches are misdirected too often, they will >>update MAIN

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Stefan Richter
On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: > (Really liked the idea to have a "Maintainer"-button > next to "Help" in *config) Rhetorical question: What will this button be used for? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= -===- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe fro

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Stefan Richter
On 15 Jan, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: >>>(Really liked the idea to have a "Maintainer"-button >>>next to "Help" in *config) >> >> Rhetorical question: What will th

Re: ieee1394 feature needed: overwrite SPLIT_TIMEOUT from userspace

2007-01-15 Thread Stefan Richter
f a split transaction, the ack indeed confirms proper reception of the request. In case of a unified transaction, it is even possible to encapsulate a write response in the ack, i.e. to complete the transaction with the ack to the request. Needless to say, unified transactions require special support

Re: ieee1394 feature needed: overwrite SPLIT_TIMEOUT from userspace

2007-01-15 Thread Stefan Richter
our kind of application. Anyway. Do you still want a patch like the following one? Should apply to 2.6.20-rcX but you should have no difficulties to adapt it to 2.6.19 or older. (The first hunk won't apply before 2.6.20-rc1.) From: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ieee1394: allo

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-15 Thread Stefan Richter
On 15 Jan, Richard Knutsson was... > thinking of trying to implement it I'd say go ahead and test your idea. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= - http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message t

Re: What does this scsi error mean ?

2007-01-15 Thread Stefan Richter
On 15 Jan, Olivier Galibert wrote: > sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x0802 > sda: Current: sense key: Hardware Error > ASC=0x42 ASCQ=0x0 The Additional Sense Code means "power-on or self-test failure" FWIW. (SPC-4 annex D) -- Stefan Richter -=-=-

Re: 2.6.20-rc2: kernel BUG at include/asm/dma-mapping.h:110!

2007-01-18 Thread Stefan Richter
Note, sbp2's optional parameter serialize_io=0 does not work correctly yet with some devices (it never did), therefore use sbp2 with anything than default parameters if there are problems. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= =--=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-21 Thread Stefan Richter
the rest of this bullshit? > > You talk for everybody, or is it just your (and only your) mind refusing > to accept new terms? I'd say it is the refusal to accept new *dumb* terms. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= =-=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

2007-01-22 Thread Stefan Richter
>>> Adrian Bunk wrote: >>>> This patch contains the following cleanups: >>>> - "extern inline" -> "static inline" >>>> - fw-topology.c: make struct fw_node_create static Committed to linux1394-2.6.git. -- Stefan Richter -

Re: [Proposal] 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-23 Thread Stefan Richter
ate of fixes or feature additions. It's also not only a question of who writes such release notes, but also of who the intended audience is. How fine-grained should the release notes be? Anyway --- if in doubt, your distributor's current kernel is the best one. -- Stefan Richter -=-

Re: [Proposal] 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-23 Thread Stefan Richter
atch. What do you say? This cannot be measured objectively. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= =-=== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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: In-tree version of new FireWire drivers available

2007-01-24 Thread Stefan Richter
lso be Cc'd to linux-kernel or specialized lists like linux-scsi or linuxppc-dev etc. depending on the issue. I think linux1394-devel can bear the additional traffic from this new development. The question is whether you will post what you wrote, or if I will post what I pulled from

Re: Juju

2007-01-25 Thread Stefan Richter
ime. Kristian just announced http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/krh/linux-2.6.git git://people.freedesktop.org/~krh/linux-2.6 shortly before you posted. (And time-lagged/ filtered versions: kernel.org's linux1394-2.6.git, and non-canonical patchkits for 2.6.{18,19,20} on my homep

Re: www.linux1394.org - ???

2005-09-03 Thread Stefan Richter
one who knows details. News on linux1394 mailing list indicates that it should be back soon (or should have been back soon)... Stefan Richter has tarballs of his svn checkouts here: http://me.in-berlin.de/~s5r6/linux1394/ BTW, the Linux1394 mailinglists can be accessed from http

Re: Juju

2007-01-25 Thread Stefan Richter
Since there aren't many mapped ORBs per target, a linked list is a reasonable data structure to search over. That said --- Kristian, doesn't fw-sbp2 have at most 1 ORB in sd->orb_list? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= ==-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: Juju

2007-01-26 Thread Stefan Richter
Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:35:19 +0100, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The target wrote an SBP-2 status block into our memory. The status block >> contains the FireWire bus address of the ORB to which it belongs. [...] > > I see. SRP ha

Re: Juju

2007-01-26 Thread Stefan Richter
4 has a number of more serious issues pending at bugzilla.kernel.org, and meanwhile people are eager to run things like FreeBob or Kino on Juju --- thus it remains to be seen who of us gets to it first. :-) -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= ==-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this li

[RFT PATCH] ieee1394: ohci1394: serialize reset requests and irq handler

2007-01-26 Thread Stefan Richter
ocking to a single lock per host. - Audit the selfID complete event handling, including what happens higher up in ieee1394 core, for the possibility to move workload into tasklets or workqueue jobs. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Robert, does this do any

Re: [RFT PATCH] ieee1394: ohci1394: serialize reset requests and irq handler

2007-01-26 Thread Stefan Richter
r migrates to a another CPU between two interrupt events in quick succession. Can the latter happen in Linux or/and with -rt kernels? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= ==-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-rt2: kernel oops when ejecting cardbus firewire card

2007-01-26 Thread Stefan Richter
Pieter Palmers wrote: > cc'ing linux1394-devel because it seems to be a problem in the ieee1394 > stack. Yes, this bug is in stock Linux 2.6 too. Ever has been. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7121 -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= ==-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsub

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-rt2: kernel oops when ejecting cardbus firewire card

2007-01-27 Thread Stefan Richter
Pieter Palmers wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7121 > Oops, missed that. Sorry for the noise. No, it's OK. We have a pile of old open bugs, and those that are rubbed in our face more often might even get a chance to be fixed some day.

Re: In-tree version of new FireWire drivers available

2007-01-27 Thread Stefan Richter
> > We can't use cmpxchg in generic code. From: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: firewire: use atomic type for fw_device.state Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/firewire/fw-card.c |2 +- drivers/firewire/fw-device.c |6

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-rt2: kernel oops when ejecting cardbus firewire card

2007-01-27 Thread Stefan Richter
imple: I don't need dv1394, so I just don't > build it anymore. It has the annoying tendency to auto-load when raw1394 > is loaded. This is a correlation but not a causality. dv1394's and raw1394's _device_id tables for driver matching both match AV/C devices. -- Ste

Re: [RFC] cycle timer read extension for raw1394/libraw1394

2007-01-27 Thread Stefan Richter
evision 168) > +++ src/main.c(working copy) > @@ -478,3 +478,15 @@ > return 0; > } > > +int raw1394_read_cycle_timer(raw1394handle_t handle, struct > raw1394_cycle_timer *ctr) > +{ > + int err; > + > + err = ioctl(handle->fd, RAW1394_IOC_G

Re: [RFC] cycle timer read extension for raw1394/libraw1394

2007-01-27 Thread Stefan Richter
Pieter Palmers wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> Thus? >> preempt_disable(); >> local_irq_save(flags); >> >> read_cycle_timer; >> read_time_of_day; >> >> local_irq_restore(flags); >> preempt_enable(); >> >&

[PATCH 2/2] ieee1394: dv1394: tidy up card removal

2007-01-27 Thread Stefan Richter
small coding style touch-up and terser coding Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c | 36 +--- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.20-rc6/drivers/ieee1394/dv

[PATCH 1/2] ieee1394: dv1394: fix CardBus card ejection

2007-01-27 Thread Stefan Richter
Fix NULL pointer dereference on hot ejection of a FireWire card while dv1394 was loaded. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7121 I did not test card ejection with open /dev/dv1394 files yet. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c

Re: [PATCH RFC] sd: spin down disks on removal or power-down

2007-01-31 Thread Stefan Richter
l of the SCSI disk (i.e. > writing 1 to its "delete" file in sysfs, what scsiadd -r does). Isn't sd_shutdown called at this occasion? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= = http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: rmmod ohci1394 -> BUG

2007-02-01 Thread Stefan Richter
gt;{pci_device_remove+33} > {__device_release_driver+120} >{driver_detach+202} > {bus_remove_driver+111} >{driver_unregister+13} > {pci_unregister_driver+26} >{sys_delete_module+406} > {tracesys+209} > > > Any idea ? (if any, please cc [EMAIL P

[PATCH update] ieee1394: cycle timer read extension for raw1394/libraw1394

2007-02-03 Thread Stefan Richter
ove it to other ieee1394_core high-level API functions. - Rename userspace-exported struct _raw1394_cycle_timer to raw1394_cycle_timer. Change comments in raw1394. - Adjust whitespace. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Pieter, Dan, is this OK? I only compile-teste

which header for local_irq_save? (was Re: [PATCH update] ieee1394: cycle timer read extension for raw1394/libraw1394)

2007-02-03 Thread Stefan Richter
e > +#include > +#include > > #include > Is the correct header for local_irq_save/ local_irq_restore? It seems to be under Linux 2.6.16 but I'm not sure about later kernels. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== --=- ---== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH update] ieee1394: cycle timer read extension for raw1394/libraw1394

2007-02-03 Thread Stefan Richter
Pieter Palmers wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: ... >> - Fix integer overflow. > I had to use 100ULL instead of USEC_PER_SEC to avoid weird behavior. OK, I'll change that and will wait for... > I can't test it right now, but I'll report later. ...your and Dan&#

Re: [PATCH update] ieee1394: cycle timer read extension for raw1394/libraw1394

2007-02-03 Thread Stefan Richter
I wrote: > - Rename userspace-exported struct _raw1394_cycle_timer to > raw1394_cycle_timer. Argh. This makes maintenance of libraw1394's header files more difficult. I will revert this to _raw1394_cycle_timer, unless somebody has a better idea how to deal with this issue.

Re: [PATCH update] ieee1394: cycle timer read extension for raw1394/libraw1394

2007-02-03 Thread Stefan Richter
t; #endif /* IEEE1394_RAW1394_H */ Pieter, one more thing. Do you want to hand out the cycle_timer bitfield to userspace as-is, or would it make sense to postprocess it in some way? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== --=- ---== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &qu

Re: [PATCH] Missing critical phys_to_virt in lib/swiotlb.c

2007-02-04 Thread Stefan Richter
HYS_ADDRESS(sg)) > - sync_single(hwdev, (void *) sg->dma_address, > + sync_single(hwdev, phys_to_virt(sg->dma_address), > sg->dma_length, dir, target); > } > -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== --=-

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled IEEE1394_EXPORT_FULL_API removal

2007-01-02 Thread Stefan Richter
butes (CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB) > -When:January 2007 > -Files: drivers/ieee1394/: oui.db, oui2c.sh > -Why: big size, little value > -Who: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > - > -------- > - This hunk is wrong. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= -

announce: ls1394 - tool to list connected FireWire devices

2007-01-02 Thread Stefan Richter
(0) CYC_CLK_ACC(255) capabilities: 0x0083c0 vendor_id: 0x000104 DVICO Co., Ltd. vendor_name_kv: DViCO 1:ffc2 0001041010004beb DVICO Co., Ltd. 'MOMOBAY CX-1' IRMC(0) CMC(0) ISC(0) BMC(0) PMC(0) GEN(0) LSPD(2) MAX_REC(2048) MAX_ROM(0) CYC_CLK_ACC(255)

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled IEEE1394_OUI_DB removal

2007-01-02 Thread Stefan Richter
o delete drivers/ieee1394/.gitignore. I'll do so when I commit your patch, if nobody objects. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= ---== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More m

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled IEEE1394_EXPORT_FULL_API removal

2007-01-03 Thread Stefan Richter
|7 -- > drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c | 22 - > 3 files changed, 37 deletions(-) ... Committed to linux1394-2.6.git with the proper section of feature-removal-schedule.txt pulled out. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= ---== http://arcgraph.de/

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled IEEE1394_OUI_DB removal

2007-01-03 Thread Stefan Richter
7145 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 drivers/ieee1394/.gitignore delete mode 100644 drivers/ieee1394/oui.db delete mode 100644 drivers/ieee1394/oui2c.sh -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= ---== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&q

[rfc PATCH 2.6] ieee1394: ohci1394: drop pcmcia-cs compatibility code

2007-01-06 Thread Stefan Richter
#ifdef PCMCIA is only true if compiled inside pcmcia-cs, isn't it? Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c |9 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) Index: linux/drivers/ieee1394

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