Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-14 Thread Gábor Lénárt
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:45:39PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > >last thing that gets run. There is just no reason for this. We should > >start X and initialize the display and get the login prompt up there > >ASAP, and let the system acquire the DHCP lease and start sendmail and > >apache and

Re: [PATCH][RFC]: Clean up resource allocation in i8042 driver

2005-02-14 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:32:30AM -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > I didn't see a final ACK on this patch -- just checking for one :) The patch was redone - we now check for error from the 'flush' command before sending CTL_TEST. > P. > > Prarit Bhargava wrote: > > >I've taken into account

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-14 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:39:37AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:30:54AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > >> > >>If it is not possible to use klibc together with a non-Linux > >>system (e.g. FreeBSD or Mach), then I would suggest to make > >>klibc an

Re: 2.6-bk: cpu hotplug + preempt = smp_processor_id warnings galore

2005-02-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nathan Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Works ok here. > > It looks as if we need to explicitly bind worker threads to a newly > onlined cpu. This gets rid of the smp_processor_id warnings from > cache_reap. Adding a little more instrumentation to the debug > smp_processor_id showed that

Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-14 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 17:15, Jim Crilly wrote: > Nigel Cunningham said the following: > > You warmed my heart until... > > Good to know someone reads my email =) > > > Why not? :> I guess you mean to the problem of slow booting in the first > > place - I would agree with you there, but is

asm-m32r/bug.h (was Re: )

2005-02-14 Thread Hirokazu Takata
Hi, There is no special reason at this moment. Please apply this patch. Thank you. From: Daniel Dickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:24:13 -0800 (PST) > For the m32r architecture, is there a reason not to use the generic bug.h > definition? > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman

Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-14 Thread Jim Crilly
Nigel Cunningham said the following: You warmed my heart until... Good to know someone reads my email =) Why not? :> I guess you mean to the problem of slow booting in the first place - I would agree with you there, but is there are reason why we should have booting being the norm instead of

Re: Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels

2005-02-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:07:34PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Nope. No printk outputs from _set_par, _write_mode, or _engine_init. > > > > Just to clarify: the gdm stop is done from tty1 while gdm is running > > on tty7, so I don't think it's a matter of mode switch logic. > >

Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 14 Feb 2005 21:11, Pavel Machek wrote: [snip] > > Table of known working systems: > > Model hack (or "how to do it") > --- >--- IBM TP R32 / Type 2658-MMG none (1) > Athlon HP Omnibook

[PATCH] New 2/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi, On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 04:11:09PM -0500, Kurt Garloff wrote: > From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Clean LSM stub file [...] So, for convenience, I merged Andreas' fix on top of this patch into a new patch 2, which is attached. So CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK disabled should work

Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-14 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Ah Jim. On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:38, Jim Crilly wrote: > I agree boot up is too slow and that some things should be started in the > background, but not things that are required for the main purpose of the box > to > work properly, what should be started sync and what should be async is a hard

[RCF/RFT] Fix race timer race in gameport-based joystick drivers

2005-02-14 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi, There seems to be a race WRT to timer handling in all gameport-based joystick drivers. open() and close() methods are used to start and stop polling timers on demand but counter and the timer itself is not protected in any way so if several clients will try to open/close corresponding input

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-14 Thread Harald Dunkel
Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:30:54AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: If it is not possible to use klibc together with a non-Linux system (e.g. FreeBSD or Mach), then I would suggest to make klibc an optional kernel patch and drop it from udev and hotplug. But it is not possible to use

RE: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Hua Zhong
> Linus has never worked on Unix in any form, and most of the > other kernel hackers hasn't either. Ever. Huh? I believe they have used Unix, as in the BitKeeper case. In neither case they get access to the source code of the software they use, to make the comparison equal. Whether they used a

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Scott Lockwood
> > On 2005-02-14, at 19:17, Matthew Jacob wrote: > He is simply plain dishonest about his intentions. And since he is > driving a > company it's not difficult to deduce what his intentions really are: > Making money. > That's plain and simple what all companies are all about. > Now you can start

Re: [PATCH] 0/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-14 Thread Chris Wright
* Kurt Garloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > this goes back to a discussion in August last year: > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.1/0623.html Thanks for follow up Kurt. I'm travelling at the moment so bear with me if my response time is slow. In short, I don't mind switching

[PATCH] Consolidate the last compat sigvals

2005-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi all, This patch just consolidates the last of the (what should have been) compat_sigval_ts. It worries me that S390 has a sigval_t in its struct compat_siginfo, but I have left that for now. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P.S. this patch has not even been compiled as I

my bk-pci and bk-driver trees are back up

2005-02-14 Thread Greg KH
Could you put my bk-pci and bk-driver trees back into the next -mm releases? They are at: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/pci-2.6 and bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/driver-2.6 Respectively. I've pluled the 64bit resource stuff out of the pci tree, that was causing a

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Horst von Brand
Marcin Dalecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 2005-02-14, at 19:56, Larry McVoy wrote: > > All we are trying to do is > > > > 1. Provide the open source community with a useful tool. > > 2. Prevent that from turning into the open source community > > creating a clone of our tool.

Re: Logitech MX1000 Horizontal Scrolling

2005-02-14 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On mar, 2005-02-15 at 03:45 +0100, Esben Stien wrote: > Jeremy Nickurak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Oddly, my horizontal scroll worked fine as extra buttons under 2.6.10. > > 2.6.11-rc3 causes the scroll wheel to appear under X.org 6.8.1 with the > > evdev driver as two seperate mouse

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: Hi, don't feel much better but thanks a lot! in conclusion ? 1- hdc=ide-scsi, now should be hdc=ide-cd for general cd-writer, because cdrecorder don't need scsi emulation anymore. At least partially correct: don't use "hdc=ide-scsi". However, I don't use "hdc=ide-cd"

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-14 Thread Sergio Monteiro Basto
Hi, don't feel much better but thanks a lot! in conclusion ? 1- hdc=ide-scsi, now should be hdc=ide-cd for general cd-writer, because cdrecorder don't need scsi emulation anymore. 2- as hdc already is ide-cd by default, therefore is not necessary to write it and what should be made is erase the

Re: RTC Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-02-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: Hi, Having CONFIG_RTC=y, I tried on x86 the rtctest program found in linux-2.6.10/Documentation/rtc.txt. However, it failed at: ioctl(fd, RTC_UIE_ON, 0); with: ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device Did I miss something? Maybe something else conflicts with CONFIG_RTC? Cheers.

Re: Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels

2005-02-14 Thread Vincent C Jones
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On my Thinkpad T30 with a Radeon Mobility M7 LW, I get interesting >console video corruption if I start GDM, switch back to text mode, >then stop it again. X is Xfree86 from Debian/unstable or X.org 6.8.2. > >The corruption shows up whenever the console

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 19:01 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > Would the tarball + patch server suffice for you? We could make a > ChangeSet file which had bk changes -v output in it and that would > give you a fairly useful set of version information. For those who > don't know, bk changes -v is

Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-14 Thread Jim Crilly
Lee Revell said the following: The reason I marked by response OT is that the time from power on to userspace does not seem to be a big problem. It's the amount of time from user space to presenting a login prompt that's way too long. My distro (Debian) runs all the init scripts one at a time,

Re: [PATCH/RFC] A method for clearing out page cache

2005-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
Questions concerning this page cache patch that Martin submitted, as a merge of something originally written by Ray Bryant. The following patch is not really a patch. It is a few questions, a couple minor space tweaks, and a never compiled nor tested rewrite of proc_do_toss_page_cache_nodes() to

X86_64 kernel support MAX memory.

2005-02-14 Thread YhLu
Andi, How much is max RAM 2.6.11 x86_64 support on AMD64? 64G or 128G? YH - 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

Re: [RFC] Changing COW detection to be memory hotplug friendly

2005-02-14 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you're right something might be different now > that we don't follow a swapout virtual address space order anymore There's a patch in -mm which attempts to do so, and afair, succeeds. However the performance seems to be crappy. Its main benefit

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
Ray wrote: > [Thus the disclaimer in > the overview note that we have figured all the interaction with > memory policy stuff yet.] Does the same disclaimer apply to cpusets? Unless it causes some undo pain, I would think that page migration should _not_ violate a tasks cpuset. I guess this

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
Another variation - allow _one_ flip, either way, into or out of BK. But each flip sets a one year timer within which you can't reverse flip. ... just brainstorming ... -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability

[PATCH] Consolidate compat_sys_waitid

2005-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi all, This patch does: - consolidate the three implementations of compat_sys_waitid (some were called sys32_waitid). - adds sys_waitid syscall to ppc - adds sys_waitid and compat_sys_waitid syscalls to ppc64 Parisc seemed to assume th existance of

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:00:59PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > I guess you are dealing with three groups of people. > > 1) The ones paying you. The companies that spend money to get things > done. -- Needs full version of BK. Agreed. > 2) The Open Source developers, Linus and others that

Re: Logitech MX1000 Horizontal Scrolling

2005-02-14 Thread Esben Stien
Jeremy Nickurak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oddly, my horizontal scroll worked fine as extra buttons under 2.6.10. > 2.6.11-rc3 causes the scroll wheel to appear under X.org 6.8.1 with the > evdev driver as two seperate mouse buttons being pressed simultaneously. I'm a little unclear as to

Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

2005-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> You shouldn't, although many people do. It's a derived work and hence the > GPL is applicable. The only exception we make is for code which was > written for other operating systems and was then ported to Linux. As one of the copyright holders I make no such exception. Its either a derived

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Tristan Wibberley
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:54:14 +0100, Juergen Stuber wrote: > g BK, I can immediately start working on another SCM > but I can't go back to BK immediately IMHO, it should be the other way around, and more like two years, then you can buy back time at something like 1/12th full BK license price per

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
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 > > specific requests to clarify this part of the license. > > > > So how would you

Re: Logitech MX1000 Horizontal Scrolling

2005-02-14 Thread Esben Stien
Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please try if 2.6.11-rc3 is any better. Yes, nice, the error is gone and I've verified with blender that the horizontal scroll works as it should;). Firefox gives me something strange, but the kernel issue is resolved. I'll explain what firefox

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: for the google archives : I work with Linux more than 10 years and this messages are a great sheet ! I can't understand a thing of the fuck is going in the mind of the author. "Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device" cracks me up , Can someone translate this to

Re: Repeatable hang with XFS under 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-14 Thread Nathan Scott
Hi Peter, On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:49:45PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: > Running Reaim-7 on a 4G ram disk with 4 processors on > Itanium... Every few runs, as the multiprocessing level increases, we > see 22 processes hung in sync(), all except one waiting in > sync_filesystems() and that one

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-14 Thread Sergio Monteiro Basto
for the google archives : I work with Linux more than 10 years and this messages are a great sheet ! I can't understand a thing of the fuck is going in the mind of the author. "Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device" cracks me up , Can someone translate this to English ? reading man

Re: aacraid fails under kernel 2.6

2005-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-02-11 at 14:28, Jonathan Knight wrote: > Fedora and the 2.6 kernel nothing has worked well. The latest 2.6.10 build > is the worst so far. We've even gone and unpacked the rc3 for 2.6.11 and > dug out the aacraid controller but that didn't perform any better. We think > 2.6.8 was

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Monday 14 February 2005 10:40, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:08:20AM -0500, Jeff Sipek wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:08:58PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:08:02 -0800, Larry McVoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > is to clarify

Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...

2005-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Arjan van de Ven wrote: No. You also need to consider situations such as out-of-tree drivers for the same hardware (might not use PCI API), and situations where you have peer devices discovered and used (PCI API doesn't have "hey, device is associated with , too" capability) there's not a

Re: Pty is losing bytes

2005-02-14 Thread Alex Davis
Problem does not exist on 2.6.8.1. Compiling your program and running ./a.out < README | diff README - produces no output. I tested various files ranging in size from 10 to 60k. -Alex = I code, therefore I am __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!

Repeatable hang with XFS under 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-14 Thread Peter Chubb
Running Reaim-7 on a 4G ram disk with 4 processors on Itanium... Every few runs, as the multiprocessing level increases, we see 22 processes hung in sync(), all except one waiting in sync_filesystems() and that one waiting in pagebuf_iowait(). There's lots of free memory, the ram-disk is not

Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-14 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Feb 14, 2005, at 20:17, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:16 -0800, Tim Bird wrote: Lee Revell wrote: But, I was referring more to things like GDM not being started until all the other init scripts are done. Why not start it first, and let the network initialize while the user is

Re: avoiding pci_disable_device()...

2005-02-14 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> No. You also need to consider situations such as out-of-tree drivers > for the same hardware (might not use PCI API), and situations where you > have peer devices discovered and used (PCI API doesn't have "hey, > device is associated with , too" capability) there's not a lot you or

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this does mean that there would be somehat of a commiter/non-commiter split, with the difference between them being those who agree to the non-compete license of #1 and those who don't and use #2 to have a local read-only copy and have to use normal

Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:16 -0800, Tim Bird wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > But, I was referring more to things like GDM not being started until all > > the other init scripts are done. Why not start it first, and let the > > network initialize while the user is logging in? > > There are a number

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-14 Thread Steve Longerbeam
Andi Kleen wrote: For our use, the batch scheduler will give an intermediary program a list of processes and a series of from-to node pairs. That process would then ensure all the processes are stopped, scan their VMAs to determine what regions are mapped by more than one process, which are

Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes

2005-02-14 Thread Bernard Blackham
[Trimmed Cc] On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:15:56AM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Well, yes, if you switch pm_message_t into struct. But we are not yet > > ready to do that... it is going to be typedefed to u32 for 2.6.11... > > Ah. So I haven't realised that Bernard took your patches

Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in AGP

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This should fix u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in AGP. Last patch for tonight, please apply, Pavel --- clean-mm/drivers/char/agp/via-agp.c 2005-02-15 00:46:40.0 +0100 +++ linux-mm/drivers/char/agp/via-agp.c 2005-02-15

Re: [RFC UPDATE PATCH] add wait_event_*_lock() functions and comments

2005-02-14 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:00:52PM -0800, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 03:41:01 +0100, Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sünnavend 12 Februar 2005 14:28, Sergey Vlasov wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:38:26 +0100 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > #define

Re: Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels

2005-02-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Nope. No printk outputs from _set_par, _write_mode, or _engine_init. > > Just to clarify: the gdm stop is done from tty1 while gdm is running > on tty7, so I don't think it's a matter of mode switch logic. Ohhh, this is a known bug then. When you kill X while it's not on the front VT, it will

Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in bttv

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in bttv. Please apply, Pavel --- clean-mm/drivers/media/video/bttv-driver.c 2005-02-15 00:34:38.0 +0100 +++ linux-mm/drivers/media/video/bttv-driver.c 2005-02-15 01:04:10.0

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:35 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 07:14:11PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:00 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > How about this? > > > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/12/14/47 > > > > I don't know about others, but it solves

Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in serials

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in serials. Please apply, Pavel Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- clean-mm/drivers/serial/8250.c 2005-02-15 00:46:41.0 +0100 +++

Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t in macintosh

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in macintosh. Please apply, Pavel --- clean-mm/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c2005-02-15 00:46:40.0 +0100 +++ linux-mm/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c2005-02-15

Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in MMC

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in MMC layer. Please apply, Pavel --- clean-mm/drivers/mmc/mmc_block.c2005-02-15 00:34:38.0 +0100 +++ linux-mm/drivers/mmc/mmc_block.c2005-02-15 01:04:10.0 +0100

Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t in i8042.c

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes u32 vs. pm_message_t in i8042.c. Please apply, Pavel --- clean-mm/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c2005-02-15 00:46:40.0 +0100 +++ linux-mm/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c2005-02-15 01:04:10.0

Pty is losing bytes

2005-02-14 Thread Andreas Schwab
Recent kernel are losing bytes on a pty. Try running this program (needs to be linked against -lutil) with a moderately large input (10K - 20K). The output should match its input, but instead there is always one byte missing at the end of the first 4K chunk read by the child. #include #include

Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in framebuffers

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This should fix u32 vs pm_message_t confusion in framebuffers, and do no code changes. Please apply, Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pavel --- clean-mm/drivers/video/aty/aty128fb.c 2005-02-15

Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t in network device drivers

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This should fix confusion in network device drivers. No code changes. Please apply, Pavel Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- clean-mm/drivers/net/3c59x.c2005-02-15 00:34:38.0 +0100 +++

FIx u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in firewire

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This should fix u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in firewire. No code changes. Please apply, Pavel Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- clean-mm/drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c 2005-02-15 00:46:40.0 +0100 +++

Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in PCMCIA

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This should fix part of u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in pcmcia. PCMCIA is listed as unmaintained, that's why it goes directly... Pavel --- clean-mm/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c2005-02-15 00:34:39.0 +0100 +++

Re: Fix pm_message_t in generic code [was Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes]

2005-02-14 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi Pavel. Thanks! Nigel -- Nigel Cunningham Software Engineer, Canberra, Australia http://www.cyclades.com Ph: +61 (2) 6292 8028 Mob: +61 (417) 100 574 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in OSS

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes (part of) u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in OSS. I found no maintainer for OSS in MAINTAINERS, that's why it goes to you... It should cause no code changes. Please apply, Pavel --- clean-mm/sound/oss/ali5455.c

Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t in USB [was Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes]

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes (part of) u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in USB. It should cause no code changes. Please apply, Pavel Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- clean-mm/drivers/usb/core/hcd-pci.c 2005-02-15

Fix pm_message_t in generic code [was Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes]

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes u32 vs. pm_message_t in generic code. No code changes. Please apply, Pavel --- clean-mm/Documentation/power/devices.txt2005-02-15 00:34:36.0 +0100 +++ linux-mm/Documentation/power/devices.txt

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-14 Thread Ray Bryant
Andi Kleen wrote: Ray Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: set of pages associated with a particular process need to be moved. The kernel interface that we are proposing is the following: page_migrate(pid, va_start, va_end, count, old_nodes, new_nodes); [Only commenting on the interface, haven't

ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-14 Thread Sergio Monteiro Basto
What this message means ? instead hdc=ide-scsi what should I put in options of boot kernel ? please cc me with a quick reply. for google the archives thanks, -- Sérgio M.B. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels

2005-02-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:08:11AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Appeared ? hah... that's strange. X is known to fuck up the chip when > > quit, but I wouldn't have expected any change due to the new version of > > radeonfb. From what you describe, it looks like an offset register is

Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes

2005-02-14 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 11:15, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > I guess I'm wrong then - I thought the other changes avoided compilation > > > > errors. > > > > > > Well, yes, if you switch pm_message_t into struct. But we are not yet > > > ready to do that... it is going to be typedefed

Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-14 Thread Tim Bird
Lee Revell wrote: > But, I was referring more to things like GDM not being started until all > the other init scripts are done. Why not start it first, and let the > network initialize while the user is logging in? There are a number of techniques used by CE vendors to get fast bootup time.

Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > I guess I'm wrong then - I thought the other changes avoided compilation > > > errors. > > > > Well, yes, if you switch pm_message_t into struct. But we are not yet > > ready to do that... it is going to be typedefed to u32 for 2.6.11... > > Ah. So I haven't realised that Bernard took

Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes

2005-02-14 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 10:41, Pavel Machek wrote: > > I guess I'm wrong then - I thought the other changes avoided compilation > > errors. > > Well, yes, if you switch pm_message_t into struct. But we are not yet > ready to do that... it is going to be typedefed to u32 for 2.6.11... Ah. So I

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:23:47PM -0800, David Lang wrote: > Larry, I don't think he's talking about making the free bk be a striped > down version, I think he's talking about having two different free > versions. Leaving aside the $600K/year or so it would cost us to do that... > this does

Re: Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels

2005-02-14 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 07:08, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Appeared ? hah... that's strange. X is known to fuck up the chip when > > quit, but I wouldn't have expected any change due to the new version of > > radeonfb. From what you describe, it looks like an offset register is > >

udev and cdsymlinks

2005-02-14 Thread J.A. Magallon
Hi all... There are some problems with current udev. I wil try to propose an acceptable solution (ie, patch ;) ). My problems are with cdsymlinks (the C version, mandrake cooker uses that; all I say is applicable also to the bash version). Problems with udev-053:cdymlinks.c: - Does not obey

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-14 Thread Ray Bryant
Andi Kleen wrote: But how do you use mbind() to change the memory placement for an anonymous private mapping used by a vendor provided executable with mbind()? For that you use set_mempolicy. -Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: IEEE-1394 and disks

2005-02-14 Thread Jody McIntyre
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:23:47PM -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote: > By bridge chips I mean IEEE-1394 to IDE. Also, is it possible to set > spin down time for these IDE disks through 1394? i.e. if they are > inactive for 1 hour, I would like them to spin down. Is this possible? Not currently. I'm

Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 23:23 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 22:11 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Stefan provided me initial list of machines where S3 works (including > > video). If you have machine that is not on the list, please send me a > > diff. If you have

Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes

2005-02-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > > Andrew, if you get one big patch doing only type-safety (u32 -> > > > > > pm_message_t, no code changes), would you still take it this late? I > > > > > promise it is not going to break anything... It would help merge > > > > > after > > > > > 2.6.11 quite a lot... > > > > > >

[OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 15:21 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > Lee> I don't see why so much effort goes into improving boot time > Lee> on the kernel side when the most obvious user space problem > Lee> is ignored. > > How much of a win is it to run init scripts in parallel? I seem to >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-14 Thread Diego Calleja
El Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:04:00 -0500, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Last I heard Gentoo does not even do it by default. > > I don't see why so much effort goes into improving boot time on the > kernel side when the most obvious user space problem is ignored. There's stuff that it

[PATCH] add timing information to printk messages

2005-02-14 Thread Tim Bird
Here's a little patch which is useful for showing timing information for kernel bootup activities. This patch adds a new Kconfig option under "Kernel Hacking" and a new option for the kernel command line. It also provides a script for showing delta information. Note that the timing data may not

Re: [PATCH] 4/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-14 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Kurt Garloff wrote: I sent out the full patch set, which moves the code from vanilla to the code we've been shipping since 7 months. Heh, it sounds like such a step back when it's said like that ;) If we can't find consensus for patches 4 and 5, I'd still think applying 1 -- 3

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 15:16 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > I don't see why so much effort goes into improving boot time on the > > kernel side when the most obvious user space problem is ignored. > > What user space problem is that? That init scripts with no interdependencies are run sequentially

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Gerold Jury
>if they really need the more powerful features. Or we could donate >some on a case by case basis. > >If the hackers who are using BK can reach agreement that it would be >better if the BK they had didn't move forward unless they got commercial >seats then we could start moving towards a license

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-02-14, at 19:56, Larry McVoy wrote: All we are trying to do is 1. Provide the open source community with a useful tool. 2. Prevent that from turning into the open source community creating a clone of our tool. Now that's pathetic! You recognize that point 2. is precisely

Re: [PATCH] 4/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Rik, On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:54:07AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > >The case that security_ops points to the default capability_ > >security_ops is the fast path and arguably the more likely one > >on most systems. > > Quite a few distributions

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread David Lang
Larry, I don't think he's talking about making the free bk be a striped down version, I think he's talking about having two different free versions. version 1 what you have today with the license you need to protect yourself version 2 a version with no check-in capability at all, all it can do

Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 22:11 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > Stefan provided me initial list of machines where S3 works (including > video). If you have machine that is not on the list, please send me a > diff. If you have eMachines... I'd like you to try playing with > vbetool (it worked for

Re: [PATCH] 5/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi James, On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:50:01AM -0500, James Morris wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > > /* Condition for invocation of non-default security_op */ > > #define COND_SECURITY(seop, def) \ > > - (likely(security_ops == _security_ops))? def: > >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-14 Thread Roland Dreier
Lee> I don't see why so much effort goes into improving boot time Lee> on the kernel side when the most obvious user space problem Lee> is ignored. How much of a win is it to run init scripts in parallel? I seem to recall seeing tests that show that it doesn't make much difference

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-14 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:04:00PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 09:51 +0100, Prakash Punnoor wrote: > > Paolo Ciarrocchi schrieb: > > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:06:51 -0500, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 17:16 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > >>

Re: fix iounmap and a pageattr memleak (x86 and x86-64)

2005-02-14 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
Hello, the fix for this bug in 2.6.11-rc3 for this bug is wrong, I thought I posted the right one (that I already applied to all SUSE branches except the HEAD branch that probably is in sync with the inferior fix in mainline). Right fix is the below one. And then of course drop those useless

Re: Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels

2005-02-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Appeared ? hah... that's strange. X is known to fuck up the chip when > quit, but I wouldn't have expected any change due to the new version of > radeonfb. From what you describe, it looks like an offset register is > changed by X, or the surface control. > > My patch did not change any of

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 09:51 +0100, Prakash Punnoor wrote: > Paolo Ciarrocchi schrieb: > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:06:51 -0500, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 17:16 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > >> > >>>All distros are trying to reduce boot time. > >> > >>They

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