Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 10:36 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: The biggest point of discussion relates to the interrupts in threads implementation. It is largely identical to what is implemented in the generic irq handling. However, ARM doesn't not implement generic irq handling, and will not

Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 10:36 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: The biggest point of discussion relates to the interrupts in threads implementation. It is largely identical to what is implemented in the generic irq handling. However, ARM doesn't not

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-02-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
* William Weston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jackd (-R -P64 -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p64 -n3 -i2 -o2) w/ one soft-synth client (using 15% to 30% of the CPU) will run for over 12 hours without any xruns, even during kernel compiles and nightly updatedb runs. Running wmcube (an impractical,

Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:31 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: I'm just waiting until the new SMP bits are there before I have another go and clean up the missing SMP bits. any chances for (most of) these bits going upstream as well? In any case, the -RT tree can be a testbed for this. I guess

Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: VM accounting bugfix (2.6.11-rc3-bk5)

2005-02-09 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Chris Wright wrote: * Mark F. Haigh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If security_vm_enough_memory() fails there, then we vm_unacct_memory() that we never accounted (if security_vm_enough_memory() fails, no memory is accounted). You missed one subtle point. That failure

Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-09 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:31:40PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 10:36 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: The biggest point of discussion relates to the interrupts in threads implementation. It is largely identical to what is

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-02-09 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 16:58, William Weston wrote: Hi Ingo, Great work on the -RT kernel! Here's a status report from my Athlon box w/ kernel -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-03, realtime-lsm-0.8.5, jack-0.99.48, alsa-1.0.8, and latencytest-0.5.5: snip A couple BUGs are being logged (see below),

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Paulo Marques
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Hi! I've written a driver for probably the most common touchscreen type - the serial Elo touchscreen. If we are serious about getting support for serial touchscreens into the kernel, I can certainly give a hand there. I work for a company that develops software for

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread David Roundy
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:58:22PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: Kevin Puetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: erm, svk is cool and all, but it keeps a local repository mirror (not necessarily full I suppose, but usually it is). So it's *much* heavier on the client side than normal svn. Pays off in

intelligent pre-configuration

2005-02-09 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, Maybe it's nice to have a pre-kernel-configuration-auto-configurator script in the kernel. Like, something that detects (by parsing lspci/lsusb/lssbus's output or so) what hardware is on-board and then creates an initial .config for your kernel. That way the chance that you accidently forgot

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4 routing: multipath with cache support, 2.6.10-rc3

2005-02-09 Thread Einar Lück
David S. Miller wrote: Can you describe more precisely the scenerios, that are relevant to us? The scenarios we have in mind are setups in which a set of collaborating servers steadly establish connections among each other with a very high rate. This high rate requirement drove us to consider

Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] Eicon: disable debuglib for modules

2005-02-09 Thread Armin Schindler
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote: Is there a good reason why debuglib is enabled for modules? Yes. Without it, there would be no possibility to use the maintainance module to debug the isdn/card/capi interaction. If not, I'd propose the patch below to disable it. I

Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Russell, On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:50 +, Russell King wrote: We have done the conversion to the generic irq handling and it works fine on a couple of machines. great - this would be a much preferred approach indeed. Well, I remain unconvinced about the generic irq handling.

Re: [PATCH] New sys_chmod() hook for the LSM framework

2005-02-09 Thread Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
El mar, 08-02-2005 a las 16:15 -0800, Chris Wright escribió: * Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As commented yesterday, I was going to release a few more hooks for some *critical* syscalls, this one adds a hook to sys_chmod(), and makes us able to apply checks and

[PATCH] 2.6 - alpha: add missing dma_mapping_error

2005-02-09 Thread Stefan Knoblich
Hi, attached patch defines dma_mapping_error on alpha. Without this libata-core.c won't compile. stefan --- linux-2.6.10/include/asm-alpha/dma-mapping.h.orig 2004-12-26 20:45:25.139475104 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.10/include/asm-alpha/dma-mapping.h 2004-12-26 20:46:54.684862136 +0100 @@ -25,6

Getting errors in compilation of Hello World!

2005-02-09 Thread Deepti Patel
Hi all, I am new to Linux. I am tring to load a module in kernel of 'Fedora core2'. I wrote a simple Hello world program and tring to compile it with Makefile. I tried 3 differnt types of make file but still it is giving me error. I will really appritiate any help. Here is my Hello world

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-bk5: XFS: fcron: could not write() buf to disk: Resource temporarily unavailable

2005-02-09 Thread Alexander Y. Fomichev
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 04:29, Nathan Scott wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:51:36PM +0300, Alexander Y. Fomichev wrote: G' day It looks like XFS broken somewhere in 2.6.11-rc1, sadly i can't sand right bugreport, some facts only. Upgrade to 2.6.11-rc2 makes fcron non-working for

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread d.c
El 09 Feb 2005 05:06:02 -0200, Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: So you've somehow managed to trick most kernel developers into granting you power over not only the BK history, in such a way that anyone willing to extract all the information available from the BK repository and

Re: Getting errors in compilation of Hello World!

2005-02-09 Thread linux-os
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Deepti Patel wrote: Hi all, I am new to Linux. I am tring to load a module in kernel of 'Fedora core2'. I wrote a simple Hello world program and tring to compile it with Makefile. I tried 3 differnt types of make file but still it is giving me error. I will really appritiate

Re: [patch, BK] clean up and unify asm-*/resource.h files

2005-02-09 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Ingo, On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:39:27 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- linux/include/asm-sparc/resource.h.orig +++ linux/include/asm-sparc/resource.h . . -#define RLIMIT_NOFILE6 /* max number of open files */ -#define RLIMIT_NPROC 7

Re: [PATCH 1/1] PCI: Dynids - passing driver data

2005-02-09 Thread Brian King
Adam Belay wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:18:20PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:00:27PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently, code exists in the pci layer to allow userspace to specify driver data when adding a pci dynamic id from sysfs. However, this data is never used

Re: [rfc] keytables - the new keycode-keysym mapping

2005-02-09 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:26:54PM +0100, Jirka Bohac wrote: Hi folks, find attached a patch that improves the keycode to keysym mapping in the kernel. The current system has its limits, not allowing to implement keyboard maps that people in different countries are used to. This patch tries

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?

2005-02-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:10:18PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: We could just remove the printk and stick a comment over it. If the application later tries to access the not-there pages then it'll just fault. However I worry if there is some way in which we can leave unzeroed memory

Re: 2.4.x kernel BUG at filemap.c:81

2005-02-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:15:03AM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: Running slackware 10 and 10.1, with kernels 2.4.26, 2.4.27, 2.4.28, 2.4.29 with highmem 4GB, and highmem i/o support enabled, I get a system lockup. This happens in both X and console. Happens with and without my Nvidia drivers

Re: 2.6.10-ac12 + kernbench == oom-killer: (OSDL)

2005-02-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:57:07PM -0800, cliff white wrote: Running 2.6.10-ac10 on the STP 1-CPU machines, we don't seem to be able to complete a kernbench run without hitting the OOM-killer. ( kernbench is multiple kernel compiles, of course ) Machine is 800 mhz PIII with 1GB memory. We

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Larry McVoy
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:06:02AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: So you've somehow managed to trick most kernel developers into granting you power over not only the BK history It's exactly the same as a file system. If you put some files into a file system does the file system creator owe you

Re: [rfc] keytables - the new keycode-keysym mapping

2005-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 04:27:40PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: The keycodes are mapped into keysyms using so-called keymaps. A keymap is an array (of 255 elements per default) of keysyms, and there is one such keymap for each modifier combination. There are 9 modifiers (such as Alt,

Re: [BUG] linux-2.6.11-rc3 probably in ACPI battery procfs ...

2005-02-09 Thread Stefan Seyfried
aurelien francillon wrote: CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG=y This one is also bad for you. If you unset this, it will even run fast even without the object cache (i'm recompiling right now with object cache _and_ unset debug to see what i can gain from this :-) Maybe a patch like the attached one for the

Re: 2.4.x kernel BUG at filemap.c:81

2005-02-09 Thread Todd Shetter
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:15:03AM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: Running slackware 10 and 10.1, with kernels 2.4.26, 2.4.27, 2.4.28, 2.4.29 with highmem 4GB, and highmem i/o support enabled, I get a system lockup. This happens in both X and console. Happens with and

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: softlockup and suspend/resume

2005-02-09 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 8 of February 2005 12:04, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The warning is printed right after the image is restored (ie somewhere around the local_irq_enable() above, but it goes before the PM: Image restored successfully. message that is

Re: 2.4.x kernel BUG at filemap.c:81

2005-02-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:30:05AM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:15:03AM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: Running slackware 10 and 10.1, with kernels 2.4.26, 2.4.27, 2.4.28, 2.4.29 with highmem 4GB, and highmem i/o support enabled, I get a

Re: [rfc] keytables - the new keycode-keysym mapping

2005-02-09 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:03:45PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: It seems very unlikely that you cannot handle Czech with all combinations of 8 keys pressed, and need 9. A czech keyboard has the letters 'escrzyaie' with accents on the number row of keys. With a Shift, they are supposed to

Re: [rfc] keytables - the new keycode-keysym mapping

2005-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:38:56PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:03:45PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: It seems very unlikely that you cannot handle Czech with all combinations of 8 keys pressed, and need 9. A czech keyboard has the letters 'escrzyaie' with

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 01:23:27PM +, Paulo Marques wrote: Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Hi! I've written a driver for probably the most common touchscreen type - the serial Elo touchscreen. If we are serious about getting support for serial touchscreens into the kernel, I can certainly

[PATCH] i386 defconfig: trim modules

2005-02-09 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Hi, Is there some logical reason that these modules are selected in i386/defconfig? Can we not default them to =m ? Reduce number of modules built via defconfig. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] diffstat:= arch/i386/defconfig | 12 ++-- 1 files changed, 6

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2005-02-09 18:00:15 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 01:23:27PM +, Paulo Marques wrote: Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Hi! I've written a driver for probably the most common touchscreen type - the serial Elo

Re: [rfc] keytables - the new keycode-keysym mapping

2005-02-09 Thread Jirka Bohac
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 04:27:40PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:26:54PM +0100, Jirka Bohac wrote: Hi folks, find attached a patch that improves the keycode to keysym mapping in the kernel. The current system has its limits, not allowing to implement

[PATCH] Update to IPMI driver to support old DMI spec

2005-02-09 Thread Corey Minyard
BTW, I'm also working with the person who had the trouble with the I2C non-blocking driver updates, but we haven't figured it out yet. Hopefully soon. (Though that has nothing to do with this patch.) Thanks, -Corey The 1999 version of the DMI spec had a different configuration than the newer

[PATCH] Fix IPMI SMBus driver to select the I2C layer instead of depend on it

2005-02-09 Thread Corey Minyard
This is on top of the IPMI SMBus driver in the current mm kernel. Thanks, -Corey Make the IPMI SMBus select I2C, not depend on it, so I2C gets enabled properly when the IPMI SMBus is enabled. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.11-rc3/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 06:14:38PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: I want serious support for ALL touchscreens in Linux. Maybe I'd write drivers for the T-Sharc and fujitsu controllers, too. These are in a lot of POS hardware, too, and sometimes they're a pain to use (esp. calibration).

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:06:02AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: So you've somehow managed to trick most kernel developers into granting you power over not only the BK history It's exactly the same as a file system. If you put some files into a

Re: [PATCH] Fix ALPS sync loss

2005-02-09 Thread Joseph Pingenot
From Dmitry Torokhov on Tuesday, 08 February, 2005: Hi, Here is the promised patch. It turns out protocol validation code was a bit (or rather a byte ;) ) off. Please let me know if it fixes your touchpad and I believe it would be nice to have it in 2.6.11. This patch seems to be working for me

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Jon Smirl
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:17:48 -0500 (EST), Nicolas Pitre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: Larry, why can't you compete only on the tool instead of claiming exclusive rights on the test bench as well? Nicolas, Larry has not said he won't make the changes that

Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-09 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 04:50, Russell King wrote: What you'll find is that the ARM interrupt structure is designed to efficiently meet the requirements of our wide range of hardware interrupt controllers, with chained interrupt controllers, with as low latency as possible. In essence, I'm

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:30:54 EST, Nicolas Pitre said: If I don't want to use a certain filesystem, I mount it and copy the files over to another filesystem. What users are interested in are the files themselves of course, and the efficiency with which the filesystem handles those files.

Re: [ckrm-tech] Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-09 Thread Chandra Seetharaman
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 12:42:34PM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote: Matthew wrote: I found no useful and significant basis for integration of cpusets and CKRM either involving CPU or Memory Node management. As best as I can figure out, CKRM is a fair share scheduler with a gussied up more

Re: [patch, BK] clean up and unify asm-*/resource.h files

2005-02-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Stephen Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ingo, On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:39:27 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- linux/include/asm-sparc/resource.h.orig +++ linux/include/asm-sparc/resource.h . . -#define RLIMIT_NOFILE 6 /* max number

Re: [PATCH 1/1] tpm: update tpm sysfs file ownership

2005-02-09 Thread Kylene Hall
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:37:20PM -0600, Kylene Hall wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 14:52, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:12:50PM -0600, Kylene Hall wrote: +static struct class tpm_class = { + .name = tpm, +

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Paulo Marques
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 06:14:38PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: I want serious support for ALL touchscreens in Linux. I'm glad to hear it. I was just pointing out the serial part, because, unlike USB and other interfaces, a serial port can not say what is attached to it,

Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-09 Thread Peter Osterlund
Stephane Raimbault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does the Enable hardware tapping for ALPS touchpads patch help? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=110708138225873w=2 Yes, works really better but the release event is sent only if I move the pointer. It's as if I still

Re: IRQ threading and non-generics

2005-02-09 Thread Daniel Walker
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 23:43, Ingo Molnar wrote: eventually ARM should be merged to the generic IRQ subsystem and in the process it is very likely that the generic IRQ subsystem has to be changed to fit ARM's needs as well. But separating out new features and keeping the old ARM blob in place

Re: [PATCH 1/1] tpm: update tpm sysfs file ownership

2005-02-09 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:05:42PM -0600, Kylene Hall wrote: @@ -539,9 +551,8 @@ void tpm_remove_hardware(struct device * dev_set_drvdata(dev, NULL); misc_deregister(chip-vendor-miscdev); - device_remove_file(dev, dev_attr_pubek); - device_remove_file(dev,

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:17:48 -0500 (EST), Nicolas Pitre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: Larry, why can't you compete only on the tool instead of claiming exclusive rights on the test bench as well? Nicolas, Larry

Problem on SATA-disk with Promise SATAII 150 TX4 (DriveReady SeekComplete Error)

2005-02-09 Thread Johannes Resch
Hi, [please CC me on replies] I've got a box running 2.6.10 (with the patch[0] needed to support the Promise SATAII 150 TX4 controller). This box has three software raid1 partitions mirrored on a SATA disk on the Promise controller and a disk on the mainboard IDE controller (VIA vt8235).

[PATCH] PREEMPT in UTS_VERSION

2005-02-09 Thread Matt Mackall
Add PREEMPT to UTS_VERSION where enabled as is done for SMP to make preempt kernels easily identifiable. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: mm1/scripts/mkcompile_h === --- mm1.orig/scripts/mkcompile_h

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Larry McVoy
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:17:48PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: You know, you could change all this. Instead of complaining that we are somehow hurting you, which virtually 100% of the readers know is nonsense, you could be producing an alternative

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Jon Smirl
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 13:24:06 -0500 (EST), Nicolas Pitre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry turned it down with the usual we're'll fear you if we do that answer although I still have problems seeing why BK would be suplented with that info available. The SCM problem is much much more than just a

Re: [patch, BK] clean up and unify asm-*/resource.h files

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Wright
* Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: this patch does the final consolidation of asm-*/resource.h file, without changing any of the rlimit definitions on any architecture. Primarily it removes the __ARCH_RLIMIT_ORDER method and replaces it with a more compact and isolated one that allows

Re: [patch, BK] clean up and unify asm-*/resource.h files

2005-02-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: this patch does the final consolidation of asm-*/resource.h file, without changing any of the rlimit definitions on any architecture. Primarily it removes the __ARCH_RLIMIT_ORDER method and replaces it with

Re: [rfc] keytables - the new keycode-keysym mapping

2005-02-09 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:55:00PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:38:56PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:03:45PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: It seems very unlikely that you cannot handle Czech with all combinations of 8 keys pressed, and

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 06:08:10PM +, Paulo Marques wrote: I want serious support for ALL touchscreens in Linux. I'm glad to hear it. I was just pointing out the serial part, because, unlike USB and other interfaces, a serial port can not say what is attached to it, so we need the

Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: VM accounting bugfix (2.6.11-rc3-bk5)

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Wright
* Hugh Dickins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: dup_mmap's charge starts out at 0 and gets added to each time around the loop through vmas; if security_vm_enough_memory fails at any point in that loop, we need to vm_unacct_memory the charge already accumulated. If that's the requirement, then it's

Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-09 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:41:10AM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: All I want to do is integrate the common IRQ threading code. To do that I need things , from Russell, like per descriptor locks .. And I need things , from Ingo, like pulling out the IRQ threading code.. I've said why per-IRQ

Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: VM accounting bugfix (2.6.11-rc3-bk5)

2005-02-09 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Chris Wright wrote: * Hugh Dickins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: dup_mmap's charge starts out at 0 and gets added to each time around the loop through vmas; if security_vm_enough_memory fails at any point in that loop, we need to vm_unacct_memory the charge already

latest version of /proc fs documentation

2005-02-09 Thread pranay pramod345678
Hi, i tried for the latest versionof the /proc fs document supposed to be available online at http://skaro.nightcrawler.com/~bb/Docs/Proc but couldn't get it. can i get some help in this regard ? thanks. -pranay = Pranay Pramod Army Institute of Technology Dighi Hills Pune-15

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Paulo Marques
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 06:08:10PM +, Paulo Marques wrote: [...] Touchscreens are one class of devices where the serial attachment is not dying. Very true. [...] We could parse a definition string, like this:

High Interrupt load crashes SMP Athlon MPs

2005-02-09 Thread Eric Bambach
Hello, After doing much research I have come to the conclusion that the kernel might be at fault (in conjuction with the mobo) for hard-locking my box. Please read below to see if you can help me. I am coming to wits end with this MSI K7D Master-L board. I have narrowed it down to find that

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2005-02-09 18:08:10 +, Paulo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Additionally, there are two other things that need to be addressed (and I'm willing to actually write code for this, but need input from other parties, too:) - Touchscreen calibration

Re: [rfc] keytables - the new keycode-keysym mapping

2005-02-09 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 06:19:21PM +0100, Jirka Bohac wrote: There are presently two ways around this, neither of them good enough 1) assigning one of the other modifier keysyms to the CapsLock key -- the LED will not work True. But by adding two modifiers to almost every keyboard map,

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2005-02-09 20:18:17 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would say that a tool to recover the touch screen into a usable state, by talking directly to the serial port, and calibrating it to max possible / min possible values would be the

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4 routing: multipath with cache support, 2.6.10-rc3

2005-02-09 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:28:49 +0100 Einar Lück [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The scenarios we have in mind are setups in which a set of collaborating servers steadly establish connections among each other with a very high rate. This high rate requirement drove us to consider the inclusion of all

Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: VM accounting bugfix (2.6.11-rc3-bk5)

2005-02-09 Thread Mark F. Haigh
Chris Wright wrote: snip You missed one subtle point. That failure case actually unaccts 0 pages (note the use of charge). Not the nicest, but I believe correct. Right. I did miss that. Thanks for the explanations, Chris and Hugh, I appreciate it. Mark F. Haigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To

2.6.11-rcX / 2.6.10-ac9 kernel do not more boot SATA disk on amd64

2005-02-09 Thread Marcus Hartig
Hello, I can not more boot any kernel =2.6.11-rcX also =2.6.10-ac9 and latest bk6. But I have here Alan Cox 2.6.10-ac8 and Cons 2.6.10-ck5 running and booting fine without any problems. But now all kernel versions after that failed (with the same config tried) with: mount: error 6 mounting

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2005-02-09 19:54:04 +, Paulo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We could have a library that would do that and link applications against it. It could also handle things like tap-n-drag, etc, something we certainly don't want in the kernel. I really like

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?

2005-02-09 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:10:18PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: It's asking for a lot of unwritable zeroed space. See this: LOAD 0x00 0x08048000 0x08048000 0xb7354 0x1b7354 R E 0x1000 LOAD 0x0b7354 0x08200354 0x08200354

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:03:51PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: It's even worse. Most keyboards don't separate the real keys from magnetic stripe reader events, and just simulate key presses for MSR data. They expect the software to be in a state where it is waiting for that

[BUG] in copy_siginfo_to_user32 on ppc64 (and others?) in 2.6.9/2.6.10

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Friesen
I found a bug which has since been fixed, but I'm hoping to save others the problems that I had tracking it down. It was fairly confusing--the information in the siginfo_t struct was different based on whether I used a signal handler in the regular way, or blocked the signal and retrieved the

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:17:48PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: You know, you could change all this. Instead of complaining that we are somehow hurting you, which virtually 100% of the readers know is

Re: latest version of /proc fs documentation

2005-02-09 Thread Randy.Dunlap
pranay pramod345678 wrote: Hi, i tried for the latest versionof the /proc fs document supposed to be available online at http://skaro.nightcrawler.com/~bb/Docs/Proc but couldn't get it. can i get some help in this regard ? Hi, Try

Re: [patch, BK] clean up and unify asm-*/resource.h files

2005-02-09 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 19:02:19 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New patch below. ... this patch does the final consolidation of asm-*/resource.h file, without changing any of the rlimit definitions on any architecture. I'm fine with this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [tpmdd-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] tpm: update tpm sysfs file ownership - updated version

2005-02-09 Thread Kylene Hall
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:05:42PM -0600, Kylene Hall wrote: @@ -539,9 +551,8 @@ void tpm_remove_hardware(struct device * dev_set_drvdata(dev, NULL); misc_deregister(chip-vendor-miscdev); - device_remove_file(dev, dev_attr_pubek); -

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4 routing: multipath with cache support, 2.6.10-rc3

2005-02-09 Thread Einar Lück
David S. Miller wrote: So essentially you want per-flow multipathing. Except that you're implementation is over-optimizing it to the point where it's only per-flow for your specific case where the connections are short lived and high rate. This hurts long lasting connections. So I'm pretty much

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4 routing: multipath with cache support, 2.6.10-rc3

2005-02-09 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:23:57 +0100 Einar Lück [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do not want per-flow multipathing. We want per connection multipathing with fast route lookups (that's why we have all routes in the cache). That is exactly what we implemented. Our tests prove that a connection keeps

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4 routing: multipath with cache support, 2.6.10-rc3

2005-02-09 Thread Einar Lück
David S. Miller wrote: This was brought up before. It's the case where the system is acting as a router, you have to consider that case and not just the one where the local system is where the connections are originating from. Your trick only works because of how routes are cached per-socket.

Re: 2.4.x kernel BUG at filemap.c:81

2005-02-09 Thread Todd Shetter
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:30:05AM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:15:03AM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: Running slackware 10 and 10.1, with kernels 2.4.26, 2.4.27, 2.4.28, 2.4.29 with highmem 4GB, and highmem i/o

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Paulo Marques
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-09 18:08:10 +, Paulo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] Touch screens doing this are severely brain-damaged. And yes, I've come across a few of them, but not lately. That's IMHO not brain-damaged, but pure physics:

Re: [PATCH] [SERIAL] add TP560 data/fax/modem support

2005-02-09 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 07:25 -0500, linux-os wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 15:12 -0500, linux-os wrote: I thought somebody promised to add a pci_route_irq(dev) or some such so that the device didn't have to be enabled before the IRQ was correct.

Re: USB / PCMCIA not working/panic on AVERATEC 3500

2005-02-09 Thread Dominik Brodowski
Hi, Socket status: 0720 This looks strange. Socket status 0720 can't really be true -- I assume there is a problem with the resource allocation. Can you send me /proc/iomem /proc/ioport please? Thanks, Dominik - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] Update to IPMI driver to support old DMI spec

2005-02-09 Thread Bukie Mabayoje
Corey Minyard wrote: BTW, I'm also working with the person who had the trouble with the I2C non-blocking driver updates, but we haven't figured it out yet. Hopefully soon. (Though that has nothing to do with this patch.) Thanks, -Corey

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4 routing: multipath with cache support, 2.6.10-rc3

2005-02-09 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:42:39 +0100 Einar Lück [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We considered the routing case: in the routing case ip_route_input is called. In this case we just select the first route in the cache which is always the same (we ensure that). Consequently, the routing behaviour is

Re: 2.4.x kernel BUG at filemap.c:81

2005-02-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:47:28PM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: Running slackware 10 and 10.1, with kernels 2.4.26, 2.4.27, 2.4.28, 2.4.29 with highmem 4GB, and highmem i/o support enabled, I get a system lockup. This happens in both X and console. Happens with and without my Nvidia drivers

Re: [PATCH][I2C] Marvell mv64xxx i2c driver

2005-02-09 Thread Mark A. Greer
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Thanks, I see that you did global replacement of __devinit by __init and __devexit by __exit - it seems correct *only* if: - there can be only one i2c controller in the system - there can be only one host bridge in the system - i2c core calls -probe only once

Re: [PATCH] Update to IPMI driver to support old DMI spec

2005-02-09 Thread Corey Minyard
Bukie Mabayoje wrote: Corey Minyard wrote: BTW, I'm also working with the person who had the trouble with the I2C non-blocking driver updates, but we haven't figured it out yet. Hopefully soon. (Though that has nothing to do with this patch.) Thanks, -Corey

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2005-02-09 20:51:43 +, Paulo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-09 18:08:10 +, Paulo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That's IMHO not brain-damaged, but pure physics: just consider

Re: How to retrieve version from kernel source (the right way)?

2005-02-09 Thread Sam Ravnborg
But... what is the right way to do this? I think you are looking for: make kernelrelease Sam - 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

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:39:30PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-09 20:51:43 +, Paulo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-09 18:08:10 +, Paulo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2005-02-09 21:10:32 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:03:51PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: The problematic part is that this needs to be done at a quite low level, since POS keyboards may send quite a lot more

[PATCH] PPC64 collect and export low-level cpu usage statistics

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Mackerras
POWER5 machines have a per-hardware-thread register which counts at a rate which is proportional to the percentage of cycles on which the cpu dispatches an instruction for this thread (if the thread gets all the dispatch cycles it counts at the same rate as the timebase register). This register

Re: [tpmdd-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] tpm: update tpm sysfs file ownership - updated version

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Wright
* Kylene Hall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: diff -uprN linux-2.6.10/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_atmel.c linux-2.6.10-tpm/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_atmel.c --- linux-2.6.10/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_atmel.c 2005-02-04 15:03:03.0 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.10-tpm/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_atmel.c 2005-02-09

tg3 broken in bk current?

2005-02-09 Thread john stultz
Hey, I'm having problems w/ the tg3 driver on IBM x440 and x445 systems. It seems the link doesn't hold and constantly flickers on and off. Reverting this patch appears to have fixed the issue.

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