Re: [ACPI] Re: Fw: Anybody? 2.6.11 (stable and -rc) ACPI breaks USB

2005-03-15 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
Hi Bjorn, On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > That seems awfully suspicious to me. So the following is > probably safe as far as it goes, but not sufficient for all > cases. VIA bridges allow for IRQ routing updates by programming PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE, so it is supposed to work even if

Re: [PATCH 0/5] I8K driver facelift

2005-03-15 Thread Frank Sorenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, (a) the next rev of the patch will hopefully provide more access to the > second thermal probe than just detecting its existence (it still doesn't do > the sysfs or whatever magic to make the actual value accessible),

Re: [PATCH 1/6] PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Driver

2005-03-15 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi, On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:12:18PM -0800, long was heard to remark: > +void hw_aer_unregister(void) > +{ > + struct pci_dev *dev = (struct pci_dev*)host->dev; > + unsigned short id; > + > + id = (dev->bus->number << 8) | dev->devfn; > + > + /* Unregister with AER Root

Re: qla2xxx fail over support

2005-03-15 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 07:43 AM 16/03/2005, comsatcat wrote: Unfortunantly all the beta drivers seem to have issues working with mcdata switches. I've tried about 10 different versions available from qlogic's ftp and all of them give trace messages and "scheduling while atomic" messages when detecting luns that are

Re: [PATCH] APM: fix interrupts enabled in device_power_up

2005-03-15 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 08:21:29AM -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > > > On APM resume this morning on my Thinkpad X31, I got a "spin_lock is > > > already locked" error; see below. This doesn't

Re: [PATCH] Add missing refrigerator calls

2005-03-15 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 09:27, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Nigel, > > > There are a number of threads that currently have no refrigerator > > handling in Linus' tree. This patch addresses part of that issue. The > > remainder will be addressed in other patches, following soon. > > > >

Re: [PATCH 1/2] No-exec support for ppc64

2005-03-15 Thread Alan Modra
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 03:51:35PM -0600, Jake Moilanen wrote: > I believe the problem is that the last PT_LOAD entry does not have the > correct size, and we only mmap up to the sbss. The .sbss, .plt, and > .bss do not get mmapped with the section. Huh? .sbss, .plt and .bss have no file

Re: Proposal: "Latest Base Kernel" on kernel.org

2005-03-15 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > Hello, > > The "Latest Stable Kernel" on the main page of www.kernel.org is 2.6.11.2 and > this is of course right. > > But people who want to apply an -rc patch, or some other patchsets (e.g. -ck) > want 2.6.11. They can currently get it only by

Re: Capabilities across execve

2005-03-15 Thread Chris Wright
* Russell King ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At some point, I decided I'd like to run a certain program non-root > with certain capabilities only. I looked at the above two programs > and stupidly thought they'd actually allow me to do this. > > However, the way the kernel is setup today, this

[PATCH][alpha] "pm_power_off" [drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_poweroff.ko] undefined!

2005-03-15 Thread PaweÅ Sikora
Fix for modpost warning: "pm_power_off" [drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_poweroff.ko] undefined! --- linux-2.6.11.3/arch/alpha/kernel/alpha_ksyms.c.orig 2005-03-13 07:44:05.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11.3/arch/alpha/kernel/alpha_ksyms.c 2005-03-15 23:20:00.405832368 +0100 @@ -67,6 +67,9 @@

RE: [PATCH 0/6] PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Driver

2005-03-15 Thread Nguyen, Tom L
On Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:38 PM Grant Grundler wrote: >> >A co-worker made the following observation (I'm paraphrasing): >> >...this proposal does not deal with the Error Reporting ECN. >> >For example, they do not show the advisory non-fatal bit in >> >the correctable error status

Re: [PATCH] CON_BOOT

2005-03-15 Thread Andrew Morton
Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > + if (console_drivers && (console_drivers->flags & CON_BOOT)) { > + unregister_console(console_drivers); > + console->flags &= ~CON_PRINTBUFFER; > + } > + Should we support more than a single CON_BOOT-labelled driver? -

Re: [PATCH 0/6] PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Driver

2005-03-15 Thread Grant Grundler
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:54:32PM -0800, Nguyen, Tom L wrote: > On Tuesday, March 15, 2005 12:12 PM Grant Grundler wrote: > >Tom, > >A co-worker made the following observation (I'm paraphrasing): > > ...this proposal does not deal with the Error Reporting ECN. > > For example, they do not

Re: [PATCH] APM: fix interrupts enabled in device_power_up

2005-03-15 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 08:21:29AM -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > On APM resume this morning on my Thinkpad X31, I got a "spin_lock is > > already locked" error; see below. This doesn't happen on every resume, > > though it's happened before.

[2.6 patch] export dev_get_flags

2005-03-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:52:53PM -0500, Pete Clements wrote: > Fyi: > 2.6.11.3-bk1 net/ipv6/ipv6.ko missing symbol dev_get_flags It seems this patch is required (untested). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-mm3-full/net/core/dev.c.old2005-03-15

Re: [PATCH] Add missing refrigerator calls

2005-03-15 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Nigel, > There are a number of threads that currently have no refrigerator > handling in Linus' tree. This patch addresses part of that issue. The > remainder will be addressed in other patches, following soon. > > Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am fine with the

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread David Brownell
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 2:05 pm, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > I think I was shopping around for the examples of proper driver model > integration in 2.6.2 - 2.6.3 timeframe for the serio bus. I was > looking at how USB was working around the fact that one can not > add/remove children from the

[PATCH] CON_BOOT

2005-03-15 Thread Matthew Wilcox
New console flag: CON_BOOT CON_BOOT is like early printk in that it allows for output really early on. It's better than early printk because it unregisters automatically when a real console is initialised. So if you don't get consoles registering in console_init, there isn't a huge delay

[PATCH] Add freezer call in

2005-03-15 Thread Nigel Cunningham
This patch adds a freezer call to the slow path in __alloc_pages. It thus avoids freezing failures in low memory situations. Like the other patches, it has been in Suspend2 for longer than I can remember. Signed-of-by: Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruNp

Re: 2.6.11-mm3: BUG: atomic counter underflow at: rpcauth_destroy

2005-03-15 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 13:32, you wrote: > Hi there! Hi, I got those too.. > I got some atomic counter underflows in the nfs code: > > Mar 14 17:19:15 phoebee rpc.statd[6890]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON > request from phoebee for 192.168.0.1 Mar 14 17:19:15 phoebee BUG: atomic > counter

Re: swsusp_restore crap

2005-03-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 15 of March 2005 21:46, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > > x86-64 needs this, too Otherwise it looks okay. > > > > > > > > It breaks compilation on i386 either, because nr_copy_pages_check > > > > is static in swsusp.c. May I propose the following patch instead > > > >

Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:15:03PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:34:15AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > And what about device_driver and device structure? Are they going to > > > be changed over to be separately allocated linked objects? > > > > The driver stuff

[PATCH] Make md thread NO_FREEZE.

2005-03-15 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi again. The md driver is currently frozen during suspend. I'm told this doesn't help much if you're seeking to suspend to RAID :> Signed-of-by: Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruNp 213-missing-refrigerator-calls-old/drivers/md/md.c

Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday core subsystem (v. A3)

2005-03-15 Thread George Anzinger
john stultz wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:37 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: Note that similarities exist between the posix clock and the time sources. Will all time sources be exportable as posix clocks? At this point I'm not familiar enough with the posix clocks interface to say, although its

Re: OOM problems with 2.6.11-rc4

2005-03-15 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 16:56 -0500, Sean wrote: > On Tue, March 15, 2005 3:44 pm, Noah Meyerhans said: > > The machine in question is a dual Xeon system with 2 GB of RAM, 3.5 GB > > of swap, and several TB of NFS exported filesystems. One notable point > > is that this machine has been running in

[PATCH] Add missing refrigerator calls

2005-03-15 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. There are a number of threads that currently have no refrigerator handling in Linus' tree. This patch addresses part of that issue. The remainder will be addressed in other patches, following soon. Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Prepared against 2.6.11) diff -ruNp

Re: rtc misses interrupts after resume

2005-03-15 Thread Pavel Machek
On Út 15-03-05 23:00:31, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > I recently upgraded my laptop to 2.6.11.3 and removed the notsc boot > option I added a fairly long time ago to see if things worked properly > without it now. It seems to work, except that after a resume I get > an awful lot of these messages: >

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:14:40 -0800, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You still haven't answered my question. My observation was that > only the class code can in any sense be called "new" ... so your > blanket statement seemed to overlook several essential points! > > Which parts of

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_PM for ppc64, to allow sysrq o

2005-03-15 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Mar 15, Olaf Hering wrote: > > For some weird reason, sysrq o is hidden behind CONFIG_PM. > Why? One can power off just fine without that. Can pm_sysrq_init be > moved to a better place? I think it used to be in sysrq.c in 2.4. > > Too bad, with this patch radeonfb fails to compile.

Re: [PATCH 1/2] No-exec support for ppc64

2005-03-15 Thread Jake Moilanen
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:18:04 +1100 Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jake Moilanen writes: > > > > I don't think I can push that upstream. What happens if you leave > > > that out? > > > > The bss and the plt are in the same segment, and plt obviously needs to > > be executable. > >

rtc misses interrupts after resume

2005-03-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
I recently upgraded my laptop to 2.6.11.3 and removed the notsc boot option I added a fairly long time ago to see if things worked properly without it now. It seems to work, except that after a resume I get an awful lot of these messages: Mar 15 09:53:04 typhoon kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts

Re: [WATCHDOG] linux-2.6-watchdog-mm patches

2005-03-15 Thread Andrew Morton
Wim Van Sebroeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > please do a > > bk pull http://linux-watchdog.bkbits.net/linux-2.6-watchdog-mm I do, about three times a day ;) And I resolve conflicts between the bk trees and Linus's tree. And I resolve conflicts if there's a clash between one bk tree and

Re: OOM problems with 2.6.11-rc4

2005-03-15 Thread Sean
On Tue, March 15, 2005 3:44 pm, Noah Meyerhans said: > Hello. We have a server, currently running 2.6.11-rc4, that is > experiencing similar OOM problems to those described at > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/9633559fea029f6e > and discussed further by several developers

Re: Capabilities across execve

2005-03-15 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 07:21:17PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > * Alexander Nyberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > This makes it possible for a root-task to pass capabilities to > > nonroot-task across execve. The root-task needs to change it's > > cap_inheritable mask and set

RE: [PATCH 0/6] PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Driver

2005-03-15 Thread Nguyen, Tom L
On Tuesday, March 15, 2005 12:12 PM Grant Grundler wrote: >Tom, >A co-worker made the following observation (I'm paraphrasing): > ...this proposal does not deal with the Error Reporting ECN. > For example, they do not show the advisory non-fatal bit in > the correctable error

[patch 2.6.11] bonding: avoid tx balance for IGMP (alb/tlb mode)

2005-03-15 Thread John W. Linville
Add special case to bond_alb_xmit() to avoid tx balance for IGMP. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Some switches (e.g. the Cisco Catalyst 3750) use IGMP snooping to determine which hosts belong to which multicast groups. Typically such switches use a timeout to determine

[WATCHDOG] linux-2.6-watchdog patches

2005-03-15 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
Hi Linus, please do a bk pull http://linux-watchdog.bkbits.net/linux-2.6-watchdog This will update the following files: drivers/char/watchdog/Makefile | 13 +++-- drivers/char/watchdog/pcwd_pci.c|6 +++--- drivers/char/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c|6 +++---

[WATCHDOG] linux-2.6-watchdog-mm patches

2005-03-15 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
Hi Andrew, please do a bk pull http://linux-watchdog.bkbits.net/linux-2.6-watchdog-mm This will update the following files: drivers/char/watchdog/Kconfig | 14 drivers/char/watchdog/Makefile | 86 +++--- drivers/char/watchdog/i6300esb.c| 508

[PATCH] CONFIG_PM for ppc64, to allow sysrq o

2005-03-15 Thread Olaf Hering
For some weird reason, sysrq o is hidden behind CONFIG_PM. Why? One can power off just fine without that. Can pm_sysrq_init be moved to a better place? I think it used to be in sysrq.c in 2.4. Too bad, with this patch radeonfb fails to compile. Index: linux-2.6.11-olh/arch/ppc64/Kconfig

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread Dominik Brodowski
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:14:40PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > That pre-driver model stuff went away in maybe 2.6.5 or so, I > forget just when. If you think those changes can easily be > reversed, I suggest you think again ... they enabled a LOT of > likewise-overdue cleanups. ... >

Re: where did 2.6.11-bkx go?

2005-03-15 Thread sean darcy
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:01:42 -0500, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. > > Something screwed up in the mirroring scripts it seems. > They're in old/ > > Dave Thanks sean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Make /proc/ chmod'able

2005-03-15 Thread Rene Scharfe
Albert Cahalan wrote: This really isn't about security. Privacy may be undesirable. I agree, privacy is not security. My patch tries to enhance privacy without giving up security. You think losing the social pressure that comes with mutual surveillance results in loss of security, I don't.

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread David Brownell
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:48 pm, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:35:02 -0800, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:14 pm, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > > > It looks to me (and I might be wrong) that USB was never really > > > integrated into

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Make /proc/ chmod'able

2005-03-15 Thread Bodo Eggert
(refiled the CC list) On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Albert Cahalan wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 15:31 +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 00:08 +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > > This really

Re: where did 2.6.11-bkx go?

2005-03-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:28:26PM -0500, sean wrote: > I used to find the main line bk snapshots in: > > pub/mirrors/linux/kernel/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots > > Now there just the 2.6.11.x snapshots. > > For instance where is bk10? Something screwed up in the mirroring scripts it

Re: [PATCH] blockdev: fix for racing mount/umount

2005-03-15 Thread Jeff Mahoney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Jeff Mahoney wrote: > >>This patch is another take at fixing the race between mount and umount >>resetting the blocksize and causing buffer errors, infinite loops in >>__getblk_slow, and possibly other

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:35:02 -0800, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:14 pm, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > It looks to me (and I might be wrong) that USB was never really > > integrated into the driver model. It was glued with it but the driver > > model came

Re: swsusp_restore crap

2005-03-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > x86-64 needs this, too Otherwise it looks okay. > > > > > > It breaks compilation on i386 either, because nr_copy_pages_check > > > is static in swsusp.c. May I propose the following patch instead (tested > > > on > > > x86-64 and i386)? > > > > > > > +asmlinkage int

Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread Dominik Brodowski
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:51:21AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > Also, it seems to me that you view the class subsystem to be too closely > > related to /dev entries -- and for these /dev entries class_simple was > > introduced, IIRC. However, /dev is not the reason the class subsystem was > >

OOM problems with 2.6.11-rc4

2005-03-15 Thread Noah Meyerhans
Hello. We have a server, currently running 2.6.11-rc4, that is experiencing similar OOM problems to those described at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/9633559fea029f6e and discussed further by several developers here (the summary is at

Re: qla2xxx fail over support

2005-03-15 Thread comsatcat
Unfortunantly all the beta drivers seem to have issues working with mcdata switches. I've tried about 10 different versions available from qlogic's ftp and all of them give trace messages and "scheduling while atomic" messages when detecting luns that are going through the mcdata switch. any

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash

2005-03-15 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 18:58 +, James Simmons wrote: > Not every device has a 3D core!!! DRM is not the answer for the entire > graphics > world. Its only for 3D functionality. Not quite. It's also to support hardware accelerated MPEG like on the Unichrome boards. Lee - To unsubscribe from

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread David Brownell
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:14 pm, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > It looks to me (and I might be wrong) that USB was never really > integrated into the driver model. It was glued with it but the driver > model came after most of the domain was defined, and it did not get to > be "bones" of the

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] IBM TrackPoint support

2005-03-15 Thread PaweÅ Sikora
On Monday 14 of March 2005 06:02, Stephen Evanchik wrote: > Here's the latest patch for TracKPoint devices. I have changed the > sysfs filenames to be more descriptive for commonly used attributes. I > also implemented the set_properties flag for initialization. > > It patches against 2.6.11 and

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Matt Mackall wrote: In your world, do you want to do: cp -rl linux-2.6.11 linux-2.6.11.5 cd linux-2.6.11.5 bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.1.bz2 | patch -p1 bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.2.bz2 | patch -p1 bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.3.bz2 | patch -p1 bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.4.bz2 | patch -p1

[PATCH] InfiniBand: remove unsafe use of in_atomic()

2005-03-15 Thread Roland Dreier
Using in_atomic() to decide between GFP_KERNEL and GFP_ATOMIC is not safe (it doesn't work if CONFIG_PREEMPT=n). Change to just always allocating with GFP_ATOMIC, since we don't know if we can sleep or not. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: [PATCH 0/6] PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Driver

2005-03-15 Thread Grant Grundler
Tom, A co-worker made the following observation (I'm paraphrasing): ...this proposal does not deal with the Error Reporting ECN. For example, they do not show the advisory non-fatal bit in the correctable error status register. I believe he is referring to the "Error

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:51:21 -0800, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > class interfaces are not going away, there's a good need for them like > you have pointed out. I'm not expecting to just delete those api > functions tomorrow, but slowly phase out the use of them over time, and >

Re: dmesg verbosity [was Re: AGP bogosities]

2005-03-15 Thread Greg Stark
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And those occasional people are often not going to eb very good at > reporting bugs. If they don't see anything happening, they'll just give up > rather than bother to report it. So I do think we want the fairly verbose > thing enabled by default. You

Re: enabling IOAPIC on C3 processor?

2005-03-15 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:09 +0100, jerome lacoste wrote: > I have a VIA Epia M1 board that crashes very badly (and pretty > often, especially when using DMA). I want to fix that. > Are the crashes associated with any particular workload or device? My M6000 works perfectly. The one big

Re: [PATCH] Export dev_get_flags in net/core/dev.c to fix missing symbols

2005-03-15 Thread Patrick McHardy
Alex Tribble wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-03-15 13:46:12-06:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Export dev_get_flags to fix missing symbols in ipv6.ko The same patch is already in Linus' tree: ChangeSet 1.2186, 2005/03/15 10:16:32-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [NET]: Need to export dev_get_flags() to

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] IBM TrackPoint support

2005-03-15 Thread Stephen Evanchik
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:49:25 +0100, PaweÅ Sikora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 14 of March 2005 06:02, Stephen Evanchik wrote: > > Here's the latest patch for TracKPoint devices. I have changed the > > sysfs filenames to be more descriptive for commonly used attributes. I > > also

Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread Dominik Brodowski
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:34:15AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > And what about device_driver and device structure? Are they going to > > be changed over to be separately allocated linked objects? > > The driver stuff probably will be, and the device stuff possibly. > However, they are used by a very

Re: 2.6.11-mm3 mouse oddity

2005-03-15 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:01:46AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:25:12 +0100, Helge Hafting > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2.6.11-mm1 and earlier: mouse appear as /dev/input/mouse0 > > > 2.6.11-mm3: mouse appear as

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Re: [PATCH] ia64 kernel fails to link because of PCI MSI quirk

2005-03-15 Thread Andrew Morton
James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem is that the MSI code has an unconditional dependency on > pci_msi_quirk. However, the quirk and the variable are only defined if > CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC is defined, which it never is on ia64. Yes, I hit that as well. > The solution is

Re: [BUG] Re: [PATCH] scripts/patch-kernel: use EXTRAVERSION

2005-03-15 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> > > > Actually, why not just replace patch-kernel with ketchup? > > > > Matt, is that ok with you? > > Yes. There are a handful of cleanups that I should do first though. Please make one of those a better help. It should be obvious that ketchup 2.6-mm fetch newest -mm At least in my current

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

2005-03-15 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Andrew Morton wrote: I added this patch to -mm. Many thanks! Alan, sorry for bothering you with that. - If the patch patches something which is in Linus's kernel, prepare a diff against Linus's latest kernel. - If the patch patches something which is only in -mm, prepare a patch

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:34:15 -0800, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:47:38PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:08:34 -0800, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > So I'll be slowly converting the kernel over to using this

[PATCH] Export dev_get_flags in net/core/dev.c to fix missing symbols

2005-03-15 Thread Alex Tribble
You can import this changeset into BK by piping this whole message to: '| bk receive [path to repository]' or apply the patch as usual. === [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-03-15 13:46:12-06:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Export dev_get_flags to

Re: 2.6.11-mm3 mouse oddity

2005-03-15 Thread Sean
On Tue, March 15, 2005 2:34 pm, Dmitry Torokhov said: >> > Vojtech, is it possible to detect whether a keyboard has scroll >> > wheel(s) by its ID? >> >> What sort of keyboard has a scroll wheel?? > > Some Microsoft ones IIRC. > Almost all Logitech keyboards have them now (all but 1 I think).

Re: 2.6.Stable and EXTRAVERSION

2005-03-15 Thread Matan Peled
Bill Davidsen wrote: I have to see what that generates. The problem is LOCALVERSION and current use of both 3 and 4 field kernel versions. You need a smarter script to handle that. ... To which the knee jerk solution would be ... Name Linus's kernel releases 2.6.z.0 ... ? -- [Name ] ::

Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:08:47PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:08:34AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > Then I moved the USB host controller code to use this new interface. > > That was a bit more complex as it used the struct class and struct > > class_device code

Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:47:38PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:08:34 -0800, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So I'll be slowly converting the kernel over to using this new > > interface, and when finished, I can get rid of the old class apis (or >

Re: x86: spin_unlock(), spin_unlock_irq() & others are out of line ?

2005-03-15 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 11:48 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Is it a regression, or is it needed ? > Please see the "Completely out of line spinlocks" thread from about a month ago. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread Sean
On Tue, March 15, 2005 2:08 pm, Dominik Brodowski said: > For example, temperature sensors could be exported > using /sys/class/temp_sensors/... -- then userspace wouldn't need to know > whether the temperature was determined using an ACPI BIOS call or by > accessing an i2c device. Such

Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread John Lenz
On 03/15/05 13:08:47, Dominik Brodowski wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:08:34AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Then I moved the USB host controller code to use this new interface. > That was a bit more complex as it used the struct class and struct > class_device code directly. As you can see by the

Re: 2.6.11-mm3 mouse oddity

2005-03-15 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:01:46 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:25:12 +0100, Helge Hafting > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2.6.11-mm1 and earlier: mouse appear as /dev/input/mouse0 > > > 2.6.11-mm3: mouse

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm3 patch for ext3 writeback "nobh" option

2005-03-15 Thread Andrew Morton
Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can we get rid of the "nobh" ext2 mount option too so other people don't > get mislead into thinking this is a good idea? What's wrong with ext2 -o nobh?? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [PATCH] ES7000 Legacy Mappings Update

2005-03-15 Thread Andrew Morton
Jason Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll be glad to revise the patch to include enumerated identifiers but would > it be more acceptable to comment on the semantics of the es7000_plat var in > the platform specific "es7000plat.c" file? I suppose that would suit. It's not a huge issue..

Re: [ACPI] Re: Fw: Anybody? 2.6.11 (stable and -rc) ACPI breaks USB

2005-03-15 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 16:14 +0100, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > So here's another patch to try (revert the first one, then apply this). > > > > = drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c 1.37 vs edited = > > --- 1.37/drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c 2005-03-01 09:57:29

Re: 2.6.11-mm3 mouse oddity

2005-03-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:01:46AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Vojtech, is is possible to detect whether a keyboard has scroll > > wheel(s) by its ID? > > What sort of keyboard has a scroll wheel?? Quite a few of them. http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=keyboard%20scroll%20wheel They

Re: drm lockups since 2.6.11-bk2

2005-03-15 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Tuesday, March 15, 2005 11:25 am, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jesse Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd be happy to test and fix things, but the page table walker patches > > broke ia64... Once that's cleared up I can go digging. > > We're hoping that davem's fix (committed yesterday) fixed

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:08:47 +0100, Dominik Brodowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:08:34AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > Then I moved the USB host controller code to use this new interface. > > That was a bit more complex as it used the struct class and struct > >

Re: Building server-farm

2005-03-15 Thread Wiktor
Hi, see, in fact it is not huge commercial solution what i need - i'm interested in squeezing every single electron from machines i have in school, and i thought that for some applications cluster is the best method of sharing computing power. i'm not thinking (yet) about optimizing it to some

[PATCH] add gfp_mask to page owner

2005-03-15 Thread Alexander Nyberg
Hi Andrew After looking at the recent memory leak thread I think it might have helped having the gfp mask of the allocated pages. This makes that available, no changes needed for the user-space sorter, same trace with different gfp masks will be in separate chunks. Output looks like: 4819

Re: drm lockups since 2.6.11-bk2

2005-03-15 Thread Andrew Morton
Jesse Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd be happy to test and fix things, but the page table walker patches broke > ia64... Once that's cleared up I can go digging. We're hoping that davem's fix (committed yesterday) fixed that. ChangeSet 1.2181.1.2, 2005/03/14 21:16:17-08:00, [EMAIL

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash

2005-03-15 Thread James Simmons
> DRM doesn't know a thing about 3D. All it does is DMA, memory > management and queue things up for the GPU to work on. You don't even > have to have a GPU processor you could use the CPU to execute the > commands. > > It's the code up in mesa that knows about 3D and builds the commands > to be

RE: User mode drivers: part 1, interrupt handling (patch for 2.6.11)

2005-03-15 Thread Stephen Warren
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Chubb > > "Jon" == Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> The scenario I'm thinking about with these patches are things like > >> low-latency user-level networking between nodes in a cluster, where > >> for good

Re: [RFC] Changes to the driver model class code.

2005-03-15 Thread Dominik Brodowski
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:08:34AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Then I moved the USB host controller code to use this new interface. > That was a bit more complex as it used the struct class and struct > class_device code directly. As you can see by the patch, the result is > pretty much identical,

Re: [PATCH][1/2] SquashFS

2005-03-15 Thread Paul Jackson
> >>Shouldn't issues like this be in the coding style document? There is not a concensus (nor a King Penguin dictate) between the "while(1)" and "for(;;)" style to document. If this were a frequently asked question, I suppose someone would eventually note in a coding style doc that either style

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

2005-03-15 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:05 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Damn! The answer was right there in front of my eyes! Here's the cleanest > solution. I forgot about wait_on_bit_lock. I've converted all the locks > to use this instead. We probably need to get priority inheritence working > on this too

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

2005-03-15 Thread Andrew Morton
Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem here is that it's not ext3 bh's only. They're still the normal > buffer head. The problem arrises because the ext3 "journal head" is > allocated within these bit spin locks. Yes, the locks do want to live inside the buffer_head.

Re: 2.6.11-mm3 mouse oddity

2005-03-15 Thread Andrew Morton
Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:25:12 +0100, Helge Hafting > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2.6.11-mm1 and earlier: mouse appear as /dev/input/mouse0 > > 2.6.11-mm3: mouse appear as /dev/input/mouse1 > > > > No big problem, one change to xorg.conf and I got

[ANNOUNCE] Robust Mutex Special Interest Group

2005-03-15 Thread Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
Announcing the OSDL Robust Mutex Special Interest Group http://developer.osdl.org/dev/mutexes/ PURPOSE The general mission of the mutexes SIG is to establish a forum centralizing discussion pertaining to mutex-specific planning and development in Linux. The mutexes SIG is needed to

Re: [PATCH 0/2] del_timer_sync: proof of concept

2005-03-15 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > > However, this also means that __run_timers will not free up the timer and > > it has to be explicitly freed with del_timer_??. > > I am not sure I understand you but no, del_timer{,_sync} is not needed. > > __run_timer

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash

2005-03-15 Thread Jon Smirl
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:58:08 + (GMT), James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Why do we need patches in the kernel. Just set you config to > > > CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE, CONFIG_FB, CONFIG_INPUT and don't set fbcon or > > > vgacon. Then have a userspace app using /dev/fb and /dev/input

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash

2005-03-15 Thread James Simmons
> > Why do we need patches in the kernel. Just set you config to > > CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE, CONFIG_FB, CONFIG_INPUT and don't set fbcon or > > vgacon. Then have a userspace app using /dev/fb and /dev/input create a > > userland console. There is no need to do special hacks in the kernel. > >

[patch 1/1] uml: fixlet for arch_prctl_skas

2005-03-15 Thread blaisorblade
Fix it a bit (after some cross checking with "man arch_prctl"). There were: *) typos FS/GS and back *) FS in place of FS_BASE (and the same for GS) *) the procedure used put_user on , where addr was the parameter (i.e. changed its param with put_user, completely useless) rather than interpreting

2.6.11.3-bk1 -- net/ipv6/ipv6.ko missing symbol dev_get_flags

2005-03-15 Thread Pete Clements
Fyi: 2.6.11.3-bk1 net/ipv6/ipv6.ko missing symbol dev_get_flags -- Pete Clements - 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

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