Re: [PATCH] A new entry for /proc

2005-03-02 Thread Mauricio Lin
Does anyone know if the place I put pte_unmap is logical and safe after several pte increments? pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address); address = ~PMD_MASK; end = address + size; if (end PMD_SIZE) end = PMD_SIZE; do { pte_t page

Re: [PATCH] raw1394 missing failure handling

2005-03-02 Thread Panagiotis Issaris
Hi, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 12:10 +0100, Panagiotis Issaris wrote: In the raw1394 driver the failure handling for a __copy_to_user call is missing. Your patch is obviously incorrect as it doesn't free the request before it returns. Oops. Thanks for replying! Any

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:02:03AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok, there it is. Only small stuff lately - as promised. Shortlog from -rc5 appended, nothing exciting there, mostly some fixes from various code checkers (like fixed init sections, and some coverity tool finds). So it's

Re: Support for GEODE CPU's in Kernel 2.6.10.

2005-03-02 Thread David Vrabel
Kianusch Sayah Karadji wrote: This is a small patch for GEODE CPU support in Kernel 2.6.10. [...] + - MediaGX/Geode for Cyrix MediaGX aka Geode. How about changing this to: - Geode/MediaGX for the AMD (formerly National) Geode family and the Cyrix MediaGX. And similarly for

smartlink alsa modem problem in 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Michal Semler
Hi, I tried use snd_intel8x0m with smartlink modem, but without success: Mar 2 13:49:15 notas kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Mar 2 13:49:15 notas kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 Mar 2 13:49:35 notas pppd[5169]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root,

Re: [BK] cvs export

2005-03-02 Thread Catalin Marinas
Hi Larry, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry McVoy) wrote: One problem is that the set of files in patches may not be disjoint, the same file may participate in multiple patches. I think we can handle that in the following way, we put multiple comments, one for each patch, so you'd see

Re: smartlink alsa modem problem in 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Michal Semler wrote: Hi, I tried use snd_intel8x0m with smartlink modem, but without success: Mar 2 13:49:37 notas kernel: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x701300] Mar 2 13:49:37 notas kernel: codec_write 1: semaphore is not ready for It's known

Re: trouble with Dell dimension 3000 network adapter

2005-03-02 Thread Ganesh Venkatesan
Did you try e100? What kernel are you using? You could download the latest e100 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/. The latest version 3.3.6. ganesh. On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:47:56 +0800, Zhonghua Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I've installed the debian(woody) on my Dell dimension

Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Vincent Vanackere
Works fine for me now, thanks ! Vincent On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 03:24:14 -0800, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, there are no vmlinux references to lib/parser.o's symbols. So it isn't getting linked in. In lib/Makefile, remove parser.o from the lib-y: rule and add obj-y +=

2.6.11-ck1

2005-03-02 Thread Con Kolivas
These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness. It is configurable to any workload but the default ck* patch is aimed at the desktop and ck*-server is available with more emphasis on serverspace. http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-ck1/patch-2.6.11-ck1.bz2 web:

Re: Tracing memory leaks (slabs) in 2.6.9+ kernels?

2005-03-02 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: + slab_bufctl(slabp)[objnr] = (unsigned long)caller; Umm... this patch looks strange.. slab_bufctl() returns kmem_bufctl_t *, but kmem_bufctl_t is unsigned short. I guess that this debug patch was broken by something else... -- OGAWA

Re: UserMode bug in 2.6.11-rc5?

2005-03-02 Thread Christophe Lucas
Kristian Sørensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi! I've just tried usermode Linux with a 2.6.11-rc5 kernel. My kernel boots, but when the shell is to be spawned it freezes: INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 Starting system log daemon: syslogd. Starting kernel log daemon: klogd. Starting

Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code

2005-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-03-02 at 08:02, Dave Jones wrote: If there are any of them still being used out there, I'd be even more surprised if they're running 2.6. Then again, there are probably loonies out there running it on 386/486's. 8-) I have one here running 2.4 still. I can test a 2.6 fix for the

[patch 1/1] uml: trivial removal of Makefile var

2005-03-02 Thread blaisorblade
That var is used only once, use its value directly. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/drivers/Makefile |4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN

Re: UserMode bug in 2.6.11-rc5? autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2

2005-03-02 Thread Kristian Sørensen
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 14:45, Christophe Lucas wrote: Kristian Sørensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi! I've just tried usermode Linux with a 2.6.11-rc5 kernel. My kernel boots, but when the shell is to be spawned it freezes: INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 Starting system log

Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:24:14AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Vincent Vanackere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the exact same problem. .config is attached (this may be a debian specific problem as I'm running debian too) OK, there are no vmlinux references to lib/parser.o's

Re: smartlink alsa modem problem in 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Alessandro Suardi
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:01:41 +0100 (CET), Jaroslav Kysela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Michal Semler wrote: Hi, I tried use snd_intel8x0m with smartlink modem, but without success: Mar 2 13:49:37 notas kernel: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready

Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Keenan Pepper
Oops, should have read all the messages before posting! I'll try the fix you said, I knew it'd be something like that. It's attached. BTW, is attaching things like this the preferred method? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: UserMode bug in 2.6.11-rc5? autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2

2005-03-02 Thread Kristian Sørensen
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 14:59, Kristian Sørensen wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 14:45, Christophe Lucas wrote: Kristian Sørensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi! I've just tried usermode Linux with a 2.6.11-rc5 kernel. My kernel boots, but when the shell is to be spawned it

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Michael Tokarev
Herbert Poetzl wrote: [] BUG_ON() and friends are still broken (at least on x86) [] Freeing unused kernel memory: 244k freed [ cut here ] kernel BUG at bad filename:9377! ~~~ Have you tried compiling with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y ? (Looks like

Re: [2.6.11-rc4-mm1 patch] fix buggy IEEE80211_CRYPT_* selects

2005-03-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:43:04AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: +select CRYPTO select CRYPTO_AES ---help--- Include software based cipher suites in support of IEEE 802.11i (aka TGi, WPA, WPA2, WPA-PSK, etc.) for use with CCMP enabled networks.

Re: [patch ide-dev 8/9] make ide_task_ioctl() use REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-03-02 Thread Mark Lord
SATA, PATA, or anything else: if it has to cross the PCI bus, a simple readX()/writeX() can stall the CPU for the equivalent of hundreds of instructions. I agree with Jeff, it is always worth even moderately complex logic to avoid I/O. Note that an isolated write{bwl}() *may* be almost free in

Re: [PATCH] raw1394 missing failure handling

2005-03-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:28:23 +0100, Panagiotis Issaris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 12:10 +0100, Panagiotis Issaris wrote: In the raw1394 driver the failure handling for a __copy_to_user call is missing. Your patch is obviously

Module Vs app?

2005-03-02 Thread BZ Benny
Hi, I have an app wich run in the user space. I want to create a virtual network device for catching data under the IP layer and sending data to IP layer. I want to creaate such a second eth0. I know how we can do this with /linux/netdevice.h but how can we do that from the user space? regards

Re: UserMode bug in 2.6.11-rc5? autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2

2005-03-02 Thread Christophe Lucas
Kristian Sørensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 14:59, Kristian Sørensen wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 14:45, Christophe Lucas wrote: Kristian Sørensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi! I've just tried usermode Linux with a 2.6.11-rc5 kernel. My kernel

Re: memory mapping of vmalloc

2005-03-02 Thread Prakash Bhurke
Hi Hugh, rvmallaoc is working. Very Very Thanks. Regards, Prakash --- Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Prakash Bhurke wrote: I am trying to map a vmalloc kernel buffer to user space using remap_page_range(). In my module, this function returns success

Re: [PATCH] raw1394 missing failure handling

2005-03-02 Thread Panagiotis Issaris
Hi, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:28:23 +0100, Panagiotis Issaris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops. Thanks for replying! Any more problems with the updated patch? Formatting... Opening curly brace should go on the same line with if. Thanks. Here's my third try :-) With

Re: [2.6.11-rc5-mm1 patch] reiser4 Kconfig help cleanup

2005-03-02 Thread Nikita Danilov
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jes Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1]$ grep PG_arch fs/reiser4/*.c fs/reiser4/page_cache.c: page_flag_name(page, PG_arch_1), fs/reiser4/txnmgr.c:assert(vs-1448,

Re: UserMode bug in 2.6.11-rc5?

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've just tried usermode Linux with a 2.6.11-rc5 kernel. My kernel boots, but when the shell is to be spawned it freezes: Can you try narrowing the problem down? Start with the 2.6.11-rcx patches to figure out what -rc broke, and then start figuring out which patch

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc5+ sata_qstor] sata_qstor: eh_timeout fix (RESEND)

2005-03-02 Thread Mark Lord
(I think this got missed first time around, so resubmitting here) Here is an update to sata_qstor.c to enable full/proper register access during eh_timeout handling. Patch is against 2.6.11-rc5 + earlier sata_qstor cosmetic patch. Signed-off-by: Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark Lord Real-Time

Re: Module Vs app?

2005-03-02 Thread Paulo Marques
BZ Benny wrote: Hi, I have an app wich run in the user space. I want to create a virtual network device for catching data under the IP layer and sending data to IP layer. I want to creaate such a second eth0. I know how we can do this with /linux/netdevice.h but how can we do that from the user

Re: [2.6.11-rc5-mm1 patch] reiser4 cleanup (PG_arch_1)

2005-03-02 Thread Vladimir Saveliev
Hello On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 12:14, Andrew Morton wrote: Jes Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian == Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adrian The current reiser4 help texts have two disadvantages: 1. they Adrian are more marketing speech than technical speech with some

investingating kernel :Cnx error

2005-03-02 Thread bj
Hi ! I am using Red Hat 8 with kernel 2.4.20-30.8.legacy I am facing the following error some times . It hangs my computer when I am doing a make or am using x-windows . How do I go about investigating the cause of it ? Thank you for your help. Cheers, bj Feb 25 10:14:20 HOME kernel:

Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code

2005-03-02 Thread Ondrej Zary
Andries Brouwer wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:52:44PM +, Alan Cox wrote: On Llu, 2005-02-28 at 19:20, Andries Brouwer wrote: One such case is the mtrr code, where struct mtrr_ops has an init field pointing at __init functions. Unless I overlook something, this case may be easy to settle,

compilation problem of modules

2005-03-02 Thread sounak chakraborty
the code of the module that i written is as follows: #define MODULE #include linux/module.h #include linux/proc_fs.h #define MODULE_NAME manti struct manti { char mm[20]; }; static struct proc_dir_entry *example_dir; struct manti m1; int init_module(void) {

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc4-mm1] connector: Add a fork connector

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Jackson
Guillaume wrote: I also run the lmbench and results are send in response to another thread A common layer for Accounting packages. When fork connector is turned off the overhead is negligible. Good. If I read this code right: +static inline void fork_connector(pid_t parent, pid_t

Re: investingating kernel :Cnx error

2005-03-02 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 09:52 +0545, bj wrote: Hi ! I am using Red Hat 8 with kernel 2.4.20-30.8.legacy I am facing the following error some times . It hangs my computer when I am doing a make or am using x-windows . How do I go about investigating the cause of it ? Thank you for

[2.6 patch] kernel/power/pm.c: make pm_send static

2005-03-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
pm_send is deprecated and has no user except for the deprecated pm_send_all in the same file. Let's make pm_send static before someone might use it again. This patch was already ACK'ed by Pavel Machek. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 24 Feb

[Patch] gcc 4 errors out on i2c.h (2.6.11)

2005-03-02 Thread Mickey Stein
I've noticed no problems with today's new 2.6.11 in the i2c realm on gcc3.x, but the last couple of weeks of gcc 4.x cvs give this: Error msgs building i2c modules on 2.6.11 using gcc 4: In file included from drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:29: include/linux/i2c.h:58: error: array type has

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Jackson
Andrew wrote: 5-10% slowdown on fork is expected, but why was exec slower? Thanks for the summary, Andrew. Guillaume (or anyone else tempted to do this) - it's a good idea, when posting 100 lines of data, to summarize with a line or two of words, as Andrew did here. It is far more efficient

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Matthias Andree wrote: ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6 doesn't seem to carry a crypto signature for the patch, patch-2.6.11.gz.sign It's there now (along with the ChangeLog). The signatures are automatically generated at the master site, and the mirroring out to

Re: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
Hello, On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 09:53, Andrew Morton wrote: Aurlien Francillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] cvs diff Makefile cvs diff: cannot create read lock in repository `/mnt/iseran/roca/cvsroot/ldpc': No such file or directory cvs [diff aborted]: read lock failed -

Re: [nfsacl v2 15/16] ACL umask handling workaround in nfs client

2005-03-02 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
Aurlien Francillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] found a bug in this patch. The delta is: Index: linux-2.6.11/fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c === --- linux-2.6.11.orig/fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c +++ linux-2.6.11/fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c @@ -423,6 +423,9 @@ exit:

Improving mmap() support for !MMU further

2005-03-02 Thread David Howells
Hi Linus, I'd like to improve mmap() support on !MMU still further by overloading struct backing_dev_info::memory_backed to hold flags describing what the backing device is capable of with respect to direct memory access. (*) If bdi-memory_backed is 0, then the backing device is not accessible

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc4-mm1] connector: Add a fork connector

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Jackson
In addition to worrying about performance and scaling, with accounting enabled or disabled, one should also try to minimize code clutter in key kernel files, such as fork.c For example, one might, instead of adding 40 lines os fork_connector() code to kernel/fork.c, instead add something like

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 01/11] ide: task_end_request() fix

2005-03-02 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:56:18 -0500, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: If somebody implements SG_IO ioctl and SCSI command pass-through from libata for IDE driver (and add possibility for discrete taskfiles), we can just deprecate HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE,

Re: [BUG] 2.4.27 - 2.4.29 tar: /dev/nst0: Warning: Cannot seek: Illegal seekg

2005-03-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
I'm ccing Linux kernel because this bug is also present in v2.6. Andrew, Viro: tar --verify (which uses lseek) on SCSI tapes fails with: tar: /dev/nst0: Warning: Cannot seek: Illegal seek The problem was introduced by Viro's f_pos fixes which added no_llseek as the llseek method in st.c.

Re: Network speed Linux-2.6.10

2005-03-02 Thread venom
I wonder if switch ports are configured as 100FDX auto=off or 100HDX auto=off. from the report I saw it seems that switch ports are 100HDX auto=off instead of 100FDX auto=off. On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:20 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: What happens if you just

Re: Network speed Linux-2.6.10

2005-03-02 Thread venom
not the e100 driver, but some switch, (e.g. some matrix) has a buggy autonegotiation. On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Ben Greear wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:20 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: What happens if you just don't muck with the NIC and let it auto-negotiate on it's own? This can be

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread John Cherry
Linux 2.6 Compile Statistics (gcc 3.4.1) Web page with links to complete details: http://developer.osdl.org/cherry/compile/ Kernel bzImagebzImage bzImage modules bzImage modules (defconfig) (allno) (allyes) (allyes) (allmod) (allmod) --- ---

Re: UserMode bug in 2.6.11-rc5? autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hey! Thanks - that fixed the problem! :-D Didn't you say this this setup worked with 2.6.10? That's why I didn't suggest staring at /etc/inittab. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

RE: v2.4 megaraid2 update Re: [PATCH] Prevent NMI oopser

2005-03-02 Thread Bagalkote, Sreenivas
Hello Marcelo, As per our offline conversation, I have verified the update that went into 2.4.30-pre2. I confirm that all changes are correct. I have only one doubt: The driver was using sleep_on_timeout for lack of msleep. Should it start using msleep now? Vasily Andrey, thank you for your

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 01/11] ide: task_end_request() fix

2005-03-02 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 01:49:52 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Bartlomiej. On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 03:30:32PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:49:22 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taskfile DMA path is still broken. Also calling

Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In lib/Makefile, remove parser.o from the lib-y: rule and add obj-y += parser.o This I didn't find. Is it really the intention to silently omit objects that are not referenced or could this be changed? In some cases, yes, it it

Re: Tracing memory leaks (slabs) in 2.6.9+ kernels?

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
OGAWA Hirofumi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: + slab_bufctl(slabp)[objnr] = (unsigned long)caller; Umm... this patch looks strange.. slab_bufctl() returns kmem_bufctl_t *, but kmem_bufctl_t is unsigned short. Good point. This seems to

Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:15:42AM -, Mark Yeatman wrote: Hi Never had to log a bug before, hope this is correctly done. Thanks Mark Detail [1.] One line summary of the problem: SCSI tape drive is refusing to rewind after backup to allow verify and causing illegal

Re: compilation problem of modules

2005-03-02 Thread Randy.Dunlap
sounak chakraborty wrote: the code of the module that i written is as follows: #define MODULE #include linux/module.h #include linux/proc_fs.h #define MODULE_NAME manti struct manti { char mm[20]; }; static struct proc_dir_entry *example_dir; struct manti m1; int init_module(void) {

[patch 1/9] s390: soft-float, 4GB swap bug, smp clean cpu hotplug.

2005-03-02 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 1/9] s390: soft-float, 4GB swap bug, smp clean cpu hotplug. From: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] s390 core changes: - Add -msoft-float to CFLAGS. - Remove experimantal tag from cpu hotplug. - Allow more than 4GB swap on a single device for 64 bit. - Fix race in machine_restart

[patch 2/9] s390: gcc4 compile fixes.

2005-03-02 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 2/9] s390: gcc4 compile fixes. From: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make s390 compile and work with gcc4. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] diffstat: drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c | 10 +- drivers/s390/cio/chsc.h |2 --

[patch 3/9] s390: key management.

2005-03-02 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 3/9] s390: key management. From: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add key management system calls. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] diffstat: arch/s390/kernel/compat_wrapper.S | 17 + arch/s390/kernel/syscalls.S |3 +++

[patch 6/9] s390: z90crypt reader task rescheduling.

2005-03-02 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 6/9] s390: z90crypt reader task rescheduling. From: Eric Rossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] z90crypt device driver changes: - Correct the condition for which the reader task is scheduled to run. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] diffstat: drivers/s390/crypto/z90main.c |6

[patch 5/9] s390: irb faking.

2005-03-02 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 5/9] s390: irb faking. From: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Common i/o layer changes: - If a device driver tries to start I/O while the common I/O layer wants to start path verification, don't reject the I/O with -EBUSY (which might prompt the driver to retry the next tick) but

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Matthias Andree wrote: ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6 doesn't seem to carry a crypto signature for the patch, patch-2.6.11.gz.sign It's there now (along with the ChangeLog). The signatures are automatically

Patch Linux-2.6.11 jiffies.h uses shadowed variable names.

2005-03-02 Thread linux-os
The attached patch was sent for 2.6.10 but the kernel was never updated. The kernel used to be compiled with -Wshadow and would catch these problems. It no longer is (and it should be). I attached it so the M$ mail-sender doesn't dork with white-space. Signed Off By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Dick

Re: x86_64: 32bit emulation problems

2005-03-02 Thread Trond Myklebust
on den 02.03.2005 Klokka 12:33 (+0100) skreiv Bernd Schubert: I can see no good reason for truncating inode number values on platforms that actually do support 64-bit inode numbers, but I can see several Well, at least we would have a reason ;) A 32-bit emulation mode is clearly a

RE: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread Mark Yeatman
Hi Many Thanks Marcelo, the patch has corrected the fault in our 2.4.29 kernel. Mark -Original Message- From: Marcelo Tosatti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 March 2005 12:04 To: Mark Yeatman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems with SCSI tape

Re: [PATCH: 2.6.11-rc5] i2c chips: add adt7461 support to lm90 driver

2005-03-02 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 05:13:35PM +, James Chapman wrote: Add ADT7461 (temperature sensor) support to LM90 driver. Signed-off-by: James Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied, thanks. greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

ext3 journal commit performance

2005-03-02 Thread Muthian Sivathanu
Hi, I have a question on ext3 journal commit code. When a transaction is committed in the ordered mode, ext3 first issues the data writes, waits for them to finish, then issues the journal writes, waits for them to finish, and then writes out the commit record. It appears that the first wait

Re: [PATCH: 2.6.11-rc5] i2c chips: ds1337 RTC driver

2005-03-02 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 07:21:56PM +, James Chapman wrote: Revised ds1337 chip driver patch. Signed-off-by: James Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - change all driver log messages to use dev_dbg() or dev_err() - remove debug module parameter Hm, doesn't seem to apply at all:

2.6.11: usbnet broken

2005-03-02 Thread Holger Klawitter
Hi there, in 2.6.11 the usbnet module is not being loaded for my Zaurus SL-C860 (Vendor ID = 044d, Product ID = 9031), which used to work in 2.6.10. (as stated in previous post, rc4 and rc5 were also broken). Moreover, there seems to be a wrong Product ID in usbnet (already in 2.6.9): is=9050

Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 07:03, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:15:42AM -, Mark Yeatman wrote: Hi Never had to log a bug before, hope this is correctly done. Thanks Mark Detail [1.] One line summary of the problem: SCSI tape drive is refusing to rewind after

Re: UserMode bug in 2.6.11-rc5? autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2

2005-03-02 Thread Kristian Sørensen
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 19:42, Jeff Dike wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hey! Thanks - that fixed the problem! :-D Didn't you say this this setup worked with 2.6.10? That's why I didn't suggest staring at /etc/inittab. Yes - it works fine with 2.6.10. Does anyone of you know why/where the

Re: 2.6.11: touchpad unresponsive

2005-03-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:55:59 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just compiled 2.6.11 from 2.6.10 config using 'make oldconfig', activate new options to default values (i.e. set main kernel lock preemtive to YES). Booting X in new kernel makes my touchpad very unresponsive. I

Re: compilation problem of modules

2005-03-02 Thread Tommy Reynolds
Uttered Randy.Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED], spake thus: compile/build is wrong. a minimum 2.4 kernel build needs at least: gcc -c -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -O2 -nostdinc proc.c Don't forget the kernel headers! # gcc -c -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -O2 -I/usr/src/linux/include -nostdinc proc.c and, if

Re: [Patch] gcc 4 errors out on i2c.h (2.6.11)

2005-03-02 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:21:04AM -0800, Mickey Stein wrote: I've noticed no problems with today's new 2.6.11 in the i2c realm on gcc3.x, but the last couple of weeks of gcc 4.x cvs give this: Error msgs building i2c modules on 2.6.11 using gcc 4: In file included from

Re: Improving mmap() support for !MMU further

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Linus, I'd like to improve mmap() support on !MMU still further by overloading struct backing_dev_info::memory_backed to hold flags describing what the backing device is capable of with respect to direct memory access. -memory_backed is already

[patch 7/9] s390: iucv driver init call.

2005-03-02 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 7/9] s390: iucv driver init call. From: Ursula Braun-Krahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] iucv changes: - Initialize iucv with subsys_initcall to make sure that it is there before either vmlogrdr or netiucv start using it. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] diffstat:

Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:28:46 PST, Andrew Morton said: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why doesn't an EXPORT_SYMBOL create a reference? It does, but that reference is within the same compilation unit as the definition. IOW: there are no references to the symbol which are external to

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Matthias Andree wrote: Is the master side a hidden host rather than ftp.kernel.org? Yes. The private keys etc used to generate the signatures are not on the public sites, which is what I assume your question _really_ is. (In contrast the full ChangeLog was missing

Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (hermes.c) static int __init init_hermes(void) { return 0; } static void __exit exit_hermes(void) { } module_init(init_hermes); module_exit(exit_hermes); That's it. As far as I can tell, gcc 4.0 semi-correctly determined they were

Re: Network speed Linux-2.6.10

2005-03-02 Thread Horst von Brand
Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:20 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: [...] What happens if you just don't muck with the NIC and let it auto-negotiate on it's own? This can be asking for trouble too (auto negotiation is often buggy). I'be seen much more broken networks

Re: ext3 journal commit performance

2005-03-02 Thread linux-os
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Muthian Sivathanu wrote: Hi, I have a question on ext3 journal commit code. When a transaction is committed in the ordered mode, ext3 first issues the data writes, waits for them to finish, then issues the journal writes, waits for them to finish, and then writes out the

Re: [PATCH] aoe: fix printk warning (sparc64)

2005-03-02 Thread Ed L Cashin
Randy Dunlap writes: aoeblk: mac_addr() returns u64, coerce to unsigned long long to printk it: (sparc64 build warning) drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c:245: warning: long long unsigned int format, u64 arg (arg 2) drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c:31: warning: long long unsigned int format, u64 arg

Re: ext3 journal commit performance

2005-03-02 Thread Muthian Sivathanu
I have a question on ext3 journal commit code. When a transaction is committed in the ordered mode, ext3 first issues the data writes, waits for them to finish, then issues the journal writes, waits for them to finish, and then writes out the commit record. It appears that the

Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-02 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:28:01AM +0900, Hidetoshi Seto was heard to remark: Note that here is a difficulty: the MCA handler on some arch would run on special context - MCA environment. In other words, since some MCA handler would be called by non-maskable interrupt(e.g. NMI), so it's

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc4-mm1] connector: Add a fork connector

2005-03-02 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Wednesday, March 2, 2005 6:51 am, Paul Jackson wrote: Guillaume wrote: I also run the lmbench and results are send in response to another thread A common layer for Accounting packages. When fork connector is turned off the overhead is negligible. Good. If I read this code right:

Re: [nfsacl v2 01/16] acl kconfig cleanup

2005-03-02 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 18:42, Andre Tomt wrote: The Kconfig cleanup from Matt breaks compilation for me, on 2.6.11 kernel.org release. It's based on a patch by Matt, but all bugs are mine ;) The attached patch went out privately before; I should have posted it here as well. This should fix the

Re: Network speed Linux-2.6.10

2005-03-02 Thread linux-os
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Horst von Brand wrote: Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:20 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: [...] What happens if you just don't muck with the NIC and let it auto-negotiate on it's own? This can be asking for trouble too (auto negotiation is often buggy).

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc4-mm1] end-of-proces handling for acct-csa

2005-03-02 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Tuesday, March 1, 2005 11:48 pm, Guillaume Thouvenin wrote: Is it possible to merge BSD and CSA? I mean with CSA, there is a part that does per-process accounting. For exemple in the linux-2.6.9.acct_mm.patch the two functions update_mem_hiwater() and csa_update_integrals() update fields in

Re: ext3 journal commit performance

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Muthian Sivathanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a question on ext3 journal commit code. When a transaction is committed in the ordered mode, ext3 first issues the data writes, waits for them to finish, then issues the journal writes, waits for them to finish, and then writes out

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc4-mm1] end-of-proces handling for acct-csa

2005-03-02 Thread Jay Lan
I did not look into the userspace commands supported in BSD accounting on the dependency on the format of /var/account/pacct file. The accounting exit hook allows BSD/CSA to save accounting data stored in task_struct to internally kept data structure and then writes to their respective accounting

[PATCH 2/2] readahead: improve sequential read detection

2005-03-02 Thread Oleg Nesterov
1. Current code can't always detect sequential reading, in case when read size is not PAGE_CACHE_SIZE aligned. If application reads the file by 4096+512 chunks, we have: 1st read: first read detected, prev_page = 2. 2nd read: offset == 2, the read is considered random.

Re: RFC: disallow modular framebuffers

2005-03-02 Thread Jon Smirl
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:17:44 +0200, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems more sensible to just fix up the drivers that don't do this right.. most of the broken drivers seem to be geared at x86 anyways where people generally don't seem to care. X86 people don't care because they have VGA

[PATCH 1/2] readahead: simplify ra-size testing

2005-03-02 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On top of readahead: cleanup blockable_page_cache_readahead(), see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=110927049500942 Currently page_cache_readahead() treats ra-size == 0 (first read) and ra-size == -1 (ra_off was called) separately, but does exactly the same in both cases. With this

Crash in ext3 while extracting 2.6.11 (on 2.6.11-rc5-something)

2005-03-02 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Hello, I've noticed that 2.6.11 is released, so I run (flawlessly) 'bk pull', and now I'm trying to export tree from 'bk' by doing 'bk export -tplain /tmp/linux-2.6.11'. Unfortunately I tried it twice, and twice it died with same crash in log_do_checkpoint (see below). Anybody has a clue what

[PATCH] Resend: Determine SCx200 CB address at run-time

2005-03-02 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
The current SCx200 drivers use a fixed base address of 0x9000 for the Configuration Block, but some systems (at least the Soekris net4801) uses a base address of 0x6000. This patch first tries the fixed address then - if no configuration block could be found - tries the address written to the

Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-02 Thread linux-os
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Linas Vepstas wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:28:01AM +0900, Hidetoshi Seto was heard to remark: Note that here is a difficulty: the MCA handler on some arch would run on special context - MCA environment. In other words, since some MCA handler [SNIPPED...] /** * queue up a

Strange crashes of kernel v2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Steffen Michalke
Hi: I recently upgraded from linux kernel v2.6.10 to v2.6.11. Some programs like evolution 2.0 and leafnode2 crash the whole system immediatedly now. I would like to provide some further information if i could gather them. The ones I have: /usr/src/linux/scripts/ver_linux If some fields are

Re: x86_64: 32bit emulation problems

2005-03-02 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 17:53, Trond Myklebust wrote: on den 02.03.2005 Klokka 12:33 (+0100) skreiv Bernd Schubert: I can see no good reason for truncating inode number values on platforms that actually do support 64-bit inode numbers, but I can see several Well, at least we would

[request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace

2005-03-02 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Hi Andrew! Do you have any objections to merging FUSE in mainline kernel? It's been in -mm for the 2.6.11 cycle, and the same code was released a month ago as FUSE-2.2. So it should have received a fair amount of testing, with no problems found so far. The one originally merged into -mm

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