[PATCH 529] M68k: Update signal delivery handling

2005-03-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
M68k: Update signal delivery handling, which was broken by the removal of notify_parent() in 2.6.9-rc2 Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1/arch/m68k/kernel/signal.c 19 Oct 2004 23:06:39 - +++ linux-m68k-2.

[PATCH 543] Zorro: replace printk() with pr_info() in drivers/zorro/zorro.c

2005-03-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Zorro: This fixes the only printk() in drivers/zorro that has no KERN_* constant. Signed-off-by: James Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1/drivers/zorro/zorro.c 2005-01-20 16:33:13.246088014 -0500 +++ linux-m68k-2.6.12-rc1/dr

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm1

2005-03-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 09:15:53AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Monday, March 21, 2005 2:51 am, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc1/2. > >6.12-rc1-mm1/ > > Andrew, please drop > > revert-allow-oem-written-modules-to-make-calls-to-ia

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm1

2005-03-21 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:51:59AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > - Linus is away this week. Not a lot more should be going into 2.6.12 now > and I have a list of ~140 bugs, many of which are post-2.6.10 regressions. > We should fix these. Is this your own personal bug list, or is it accessib

Re: Need break driver<-->pci-device automatic association

2005-03-21 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:39:30PM +0200, Jacques Goldberg wrote: > Here is a modem which cannot be used because it is grabbed by the > serial driver: > > 00:0f.0 Modem: ALi Corporation SmartLink SmartPCI561 56K Modem (prog-if 00 > [Generic]) Ok, this is what I wanted to know. There seem

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Problems with connect/disconnect cycles

2005-03-21 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Norbert Preining wrote: > Dear usb developers, dear Andrew! > > I found that my builtin sd card reader connected via USB port > experiences several connect/reconnect cycles every time I boot. > > I am using 2.6.11-mm4. > > Here an excerpt from syslog: > I guess that this s

[PATCH][SELINUX] Audit unrecognized netlink messages

2005-03-21 Thread Stephen Smalley
This patch changes SELinux to audit any unrecognized netlink messages in controlled classes rather than silently rejecting them, and to allow them if in permissive mode. Please apply. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> security/s

Re: [PATCH RFC]: DEBUG for PCI IO & MEM allocation

2005-03-21 Thread Prarit Bhargava
Thanks Andrew. Shouldn't this also be printing the ->name of the new resource? A lot of the statements which you're adding will look screwy in an 80-col xterm. Please wrap 'em. -- new patch with Andrew's comments fixed. P. Index: io_debug/kernel/resource.c =

[patch 2.6.11] e1000: flush work queues on remove

2005-03-21 Thread John W. Linville
Flush work queues in ->remove() for e1000. Acked-by: Ganesh Venkatesan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Since e1000 is using work queues, we need to call flush_scheduled_work() before removing the driver from memory. Otherwise, we are prone to an Oops...

Re: [PATCH 1/1] pcmcia: select crc32 in Kconfig for PCMCIA [Was: Re: pcmcia compile problems in 2.6.11-mm4 and above]

2005-03-21 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mon, 21 Mär 2005, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > That's a missing dependency on CONFIG_CRC32. Could you check whether this > patch helps, please? Yes, thanks. Best wishes Norbert --- Norbert Preining Uni

Re: 140 bugs, many of which are post-2.6.10 regressions - got a list?

2005-03-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> I'm wondering if you have a list of those bugs somewhere? >I need to get down and sort through the list, categorise, weed things out. How about the "unplugged" list? Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMA

2.6.12-rc1-mm1 AGP/DRM

2005-03-21 Thread Andrew Clayton
Hi, Just tried this kernel. Unfortunately the machine still locks up when X starts. Cheers, Andrew Clayton - 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.htm

Re: [PATCH] NMI handler message passing / work deferral API

2005-03-21 Thread Dave Peterson
On Monday 21 March 2005 11:07 am, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Yes exactly. That's one reason why I posted the patch. Different > > sybsystems that need this type of functionality shouldn't have to > > individually reinvent the wheel. With a single implementation, code > > is more compact and easier to

[ANNOUNCE] yaird 0.0.5, a mkinitrd based on hotplug concepts

2005-03-21 Thread Erik van Konijnenburg
Version 0.0.5 of yaird is now available at: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekonijn/yaird/yaird-0.0.5.tar.gz Yaird is a proof of concept perl rewrite of mkinitrd. It aims to reliably identify the necessary modules by using the same algorithms as hotplug, and comes with a template system to to tune

Re: 140 bugs, many of which are post-2.6.10 regressions - got a list?

2005-03-21 Thread Andrew Morton
Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 announce.txt you say > > "- Linus is away this week. Not a lot more should be going into 2.6.12 now > and I have a list of ~140 bugs, many of which are post-2.6.10 regressions. > We should fix these." > > I'm wondering if you

Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS

2005-03-21 Thread Phillip Lougher
Pavel Machek wrote: Well, out-of-tree maintainenance takes lot of time, too, so by keeping limited code out-of-kernel we provide quite good incentive to make those limits go away. Sorry but I'm not calling Squashfs "limited" and I don't think it is. If you wanted to nit-pick many of the current fi

Re: [BUG?] x86_64 : Can not read /dev/kmem ?

2005-03-21 Thread Andi Kleen
Sorry for the late answer. On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:37:19AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > Hi Andi > > I tried to read /dev/kmem on x86_64 (linux-2.6.11) and got no success. > > read() or pread() returns EINVAL Yes. I fixed this once for 2.4, but somehow the changes never made it into 2.6.

Re: [PATCH] ppc64: fix linkage error on G5

2005-03-21 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 03:32:59 +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: >> When 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 is configured for a ppc64/G5, so CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES >> is disabled, linking of vmlinux fails with: >> >> arch/ppc64/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x7de0): In function `.sys_call_table32': >> : undefined reference to `.ppc_

Re: clone() and pthread_create() segment fault in 2.4.29

2005-03-21 Thread jmerkey
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:54:10AM -0700, jmerkey wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:35 -0700, jmerkey wrote: In case nobody has already reported it, clone() and pthread_create() return SIGSEGV faults when a 2.4.29 kernel on the Taroon Re

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC/Patch 0/12] ACPI based root bridge hot-add

2005-03-21 Thread Rajesh Shah
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 03:50:16PM +0200, Paul Ionescu wrote: > > Does this mean that when it will be ported for i386, I will be able to > really use my Docking Station ? No. The current patches only trigger when a _root_ bridge is hot-added, not a PCI to PCI bridge (which is what the docking st

Re: Status of SATA support

2005-03-21 Thread Andre Tomt
Jeff Garzik wrote: Andre Tomt wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Carlos Fernandez Sanz wrote: Since this document is a bit our of date: http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html What's out-of-date about that URL? Jeff A update on the Marvell status? :-P No Marvell status change, so no need to update..

[PATCH 1/1] pcmcia: select crc32 in Kconfig for PCMCIA [Was: Re: pcmcia compile problems in 2.6.11-mm4 and above]

2005-03-21 Thread Dominik Brodowski
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 04:01:43PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > HI Andrew! > > Compiling 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 with the attached config gives me an error > while compiling pcmcia (I made a make oldconfig) > drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xaf2a2): In function `pcmcia_check_driver': > : undefined reference

Re: clone() and pthread_create() segment fault in 2.4.29

2005-03-21 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:54:10AM -0700, jmerkey wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:35 -0700, jmerkey wrote: > > > > > >>In case nobody has already reported it, clone() and pthread_create() > >>return SIGSEGV faults > >>when a 2.4.29 kernel on the Taroon Red Hat rele

Re: [PATCH] NMI handler message passing / work deferral API

2005-03-21 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:03:56AM -0800, Dave Peterson wrote: > On Monday 21 March 2005 07:08 am, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Dave Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Below is an experimental 2.6.11.5 kernel patch that implements the > > > following: > > > > > > - A generic mechanism for saf

Re: clone() and pthread_create() segment fault in 2.4.29

2005-03-21 Thread jmerkey
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:35 -0700, jmerkey wrote: In case nobody has already reported it, clone() and pthread_create() return SIGSEGV faults when a 2.4.29 kernel on the Taroon Red Hat release. you're running an OS that requires a kernel with NPTL support. Yet you ru

Re: [PATCH] NMI handler message passing / work deferral API

2005-03-21 Thread Dave Peterson
On Monday 21 March 2005 07:08 am, Andi Kleen wrote: > Dave Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Below is an experimental 2.6.11.5 kernel patch that implements the > > following: > > > > - A generic mechanism for safely passing information from NMI > > handlers to code that executes outside

Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS

2005-03-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >>>Also, this filesystem seems to do the same thing as cramfs. We'd need to > >>>understand in some detail what advantages squashfs has over cramfs to > >>>justify merging it. Again, that is something which is appropriate to the > >>>changelog for patch 1/1. > >> > >>Well, probably Phillip

Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS

2005-03-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > >Also, this filesystem seems to do the same thing as cramfs. We'd need to > > > >understand in some detail what advantages squashfs has over cramfs to > > > >justify merging it. Again, that is something which is appropriate to the > > > >changelog for patch 1/1. > > > > > > Well, prob

Re: clone() and pthread_create() segment fault in 2.4.29

2005-03-21 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:35 -0700, jmerkey wrote: > In case nobody has already reported it, clone() and pthread_create() > return SIGSEGV faults > when a 2.4.29 kernel on the Taroon Red Hat release. you're running an OS that requires a kernel with NPTL support. Yet you run a kernel without. Bad i

clone() and pthread_create() segment fault in 2.4.29

2005-03-21 Thread jmerkey
In case nobody has already reported it, clone() and pthread_create() return SIGSEGV faults when a 2.4.29 kernel on the Taroon Red Hat release. Jeff - 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:

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11.2][RFC] printk with anti-cluttering-feature

2005-03-21 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. > > (I'm using a keyboard switch and a IBM PS/2 keyboard) > > This one should be just taken out. It is as far as I can figure out > completely u

[PATCH] Fix compile warning in drivers/pnp/resource.c with !CONFIG_PCI

2005-03-21 Thread Mika Kukkonen
With !CONFIG_PCI I get following warning: CC drivers/pnp/resource.o drivers/pnp/resource.c:24: warning: `pnp_skip_pci_scan' defined but not used Two ways to fix this, first one would be to simply #ifdef the variable. But the variable in question is not (according to cscope) actually used o

Re: mmap/munmap bug

2005-03-21 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 17:32 +0200, Hayim Shaul wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an unexplained bug with mmap/munmap on 2.6.X. > > I'm writing a kernel module that gives super-fast access to the network. > It does so by doing mmap thus avoiding the memcpy to/from user. well... you are aware the networ

Re: [RFC/Patch 0/12] ACPI based root bridge hot-add

2005-03-21 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:04:57AM -0800, Rajesh Shah wrote: > > - Are you wanting the acpi specific patches to go into the tree > > through the acpi developers? How about the ia64 specific > > patches? > > I honestly don't know what the best approach is here - what do you > recom

Re: [PATCH] alpha build fixes

2005-03-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:16:18AM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:52:10PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > The issue is bigger - it's needed for the CMD controllers on PA-RISC for > > example it appears - and anything else where IDE legacy IRQ is wired > > oddly. > > Sure,

[PATCH 1/2] FAT: set MS_NOATIME to msdos

2005-03-21 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Hi, These patches is fixes and improvements for ->adate of msdos. Please apply. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MSDOS doesn't have atime, so this sets MS_NOATIME to msdos in order that we don't get unnecessary writes. Signed-off-by: Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by:

[PATCH 2/2] FAT: Fix msdos ->[ac]{date,time}

2005-03-21 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
MSDOS doesn't have ->adate and ->c{date,time}, those should be filled by zero. This fixes my recent changes. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/msdos/namei.c |6 -- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/msdos/namei.c~fat_msdos-zeroed-adate

Re: [PATCH] alpha build fixes

2005-03-21 Thread Richard Henderson
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:52:10PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > The issue is bigger - it's needed for the CMD controllers on PA-RISC for > example it appears - and anything else where IDE legacy IRQ is wired > oddly. Sure, but who queries this information? That's my question. r~ - To unsubscribe fr

Re: Status of SATA support

2005-03-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andre Tomt wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Carlos Fernandez Sanz wrote: Since this document is a bit our of date: http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html What's out-of-date about that URL? Jeff A update on the Marvell status? :-P No Marvell status change, so no need to update... Anyway, is there

Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS

2005-03-21 Thread Mws
hi everybody, hi pavel >On Monday 21 March 2005 11:14, you wrote: > Hi! > > > >Also, this filesystem seems to do the same thing as cramfs. We'd need to > > >understand in some detail what advantages squashfs has over cramfs to > > >justify merging it. Again, that is something which is appropria

Re: [RFC/Patch 0/12] ACPI based root bridge hot-add

2005-03-21 Thread Rajesh Shah
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 09:13:32PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > This all looks very good, nice job. I only had one minor comment on the > patches, which I'll reply to directly. > > But I did have a few questions: > - This series relys on Mathew's rewrite of the acpiphp driver. > Is th

Re: Status of SATA support

2005-03-21 Thread Andre Tomt
Jeff Garzik wrote: Carlos Fernandez Sanz wrote: Since this document is a bit our of date: http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html What's out-of-date about that URL? Jeff A update on the Marvell status? :-P Anyway, is there any of the current work on Marvell available somewhere, so that some

[PATCH] ppc64: fix gcc4 compile error in paca.h

2005-03-21 Thread Anton Blanchard
Thanks, looks good. Anton -- From: Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Compiling 2.6.12-rc1 or 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 for ppc64 with gcc4 fails with: In file included from include/asm/spinlock.h:20, from include/linux/spinlock.h:43, from include/linux/signal.h:5,

Re: Status of SATA support

2005-03-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
Carlos Fernandez Sanz wrote: Since this document is a bit our of date: http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html What's out-of-date about that URL? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo in

Re: Make NFS userspace and server directories cookies independant [patch, fc3, 2.6.10-1.766_FC3]

2005-03-21 Thread Trond Myklebust
må den 21.03.2005 Klokka 17:21 (+0100) skreiv Olivier Galibert: > Patch is against a fedora core 3 2.6.10, it requires minor > modifications (context change, not contents) in the nfs_do_filldir par > of the dir.c change to account for the dirent addition to apply to > 2.6.11. I can update it if u

Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS

2005-03-21 Thread Phillip Lougher
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Also, this filesystem seems to do the same thing as cramfs. We'd need to understand in some detail what advantages squashfs has over cramfs to justify merging it. Again, that is something which is appropriate to the changelog for patch 1/1. Well, probably Phillip can answ

Re: drivers/block/ub.c and multiple LUNs

2005-03-21 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:42:45 +0100 Jan Kasprzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is the ub.c USB storage driver supposed to work with multi-LUN(?) devices? There's no reason why it won't, see the attached patch. I just need to send the patch to Greg Kroah one day. > PS.: There is no MAINTAINERS file

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm1

2005-03-21 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Monday, March 21, 2005 2:51 am, Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc1/2. >6.12-rc1-mm1/ Andrew, please drop revert-allow-oem-written-modules-to-make-calls-to-ia64-oem-sal-functions.patch The tiocx.c driver is now in the tree, and it us

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm1

2005-03-21 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Monday, March 21, 2005 2:51 am, Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc1/2. >6.12-rc1-mm1/ > > > - We might have a fix here for the recent AGP/DRM problems. If you were > having problems with that, please test and report. > > - An update

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm1

2005-03-21 Thread Brice Goglin
Andrew Morton a écrit : ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc1/2.6.12-rc1-mm1/ - We might have a fix here for the recent AGP/DRM problems. If you were having problems with that, please test and report. +fix-agp_backend-usage-in-drm_agp_init.patch Might fix the

Re: [PATCH][2.6.12-rc1-mm1] fix compile error in ppc64 prom.c

2005-03-21 Thread Nathan Lynch
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 04:19:01PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > Compiling 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 for ppc64 fails with: > > arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c:1691: error: syntax error before > 'prom_reconfig_notifier' > arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c:1692: error: field name not in record or union > initializer > a

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-00

2005-03-21 Thread Paul Mckenney
> got this early-bootup crash on an SMP box: > > BUG: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address > > printing eip: > c0131aec > *pde = > Oops: 0002 [#1] > PREEMPT SMP > Modules linked in: > CPU:1 > EIP:0060:[]Not tainted VLI > EFLAGS: 00010

Re: Short sleep precision

2005-03-21 Thread Chris Friesen
Jan Engelhardt wrote: You can spin on the gettimeofday() result in userspace. How can I use it? Something like: gettimeofday(&curtime,0); add_usecs(&curtime, time_to_sleep); do { gettimeofday(&curtime,0); } while (time_before(&curtime, &expiry); Of course, if someone changes the system ti

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

2005-03-21 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:07 -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > OK. Try this one for size. It differs from what's currently in > the tree in these ways: > > - It's a quirk, so we don't have to clutter acpi_pci_irq_enable() > and pirq_enable_irq() with Via-specific code. > > - It doesn't

[PATCH] ppc64: fix linkage error on G5

2005-03-21 Thread Anton Blanchard
> When 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 is configured for a ppc64/G5, so CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES > is disabled, linking of vmlinux fails with: > > arch/ppc64/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x7de0): In function `.sys_call_table32': > : undefined reference to `.ppc_rtas' > arch/ppc64/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x8668): In function

Re: [PATCH] correctly name the Shell sort

2005-03-21 Thread Paul Jackson
Kernel patches, unless they are very big, should be submitted inline, as part of the email text, not via a link. Simple patches that are not urgent can be submitted to the Trivial Patch Monkey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] See Documentation/SubmittingPatches for more details on the above. --

Make NFS userspace and server directories cookies independant [patch, fc3, 2.6.10-1.766_FC3]

2005-03-21 Thread Olivier Galibert
Following Trond's advice, I made a patch to make the userspace nfs directory cookies independant of the nfs server ones. It nows behaves pretty much identically to tmpfs and friends, with f_pos being the entry number and a 1-entry cache to ensure that you can read part of the directory, delete fil

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-03-21 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:31:08 +0100, Kenan Esau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Montag, den 21.03.2005, 09:52 -0500 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov: > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:44:07 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:25:42PM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > > >

[PATCH] cifs: MODULE_PARM_DESC

2005-03-21 Thread Magnus Damm
Fix parameter description typo, use parameter name "cifs_min_small" instead of non-existing "cifs_small_rcv" for MODULE_PARM_DESC. Error detected with section2text.rb, see autoparam patch. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c 2005-03-20 18:20:17

[PATCH][SELINUX] Make code static and remove unused code

2005-03-21 Thread Stephen Smalley
This patch from Adrian Bunk makes needlessly global code static and removes a number of unused global and static functions from SELinux. Please apply. Author: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> security/selinux/avc.c| 174 ---

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11.2][RFC] printk with anti-cluttering-feature

2005-03-21 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. > > (I'm using a keyboard switch and a IBM PS/2 keyboard) > > This one should be just taken out. It is as far as I can figure out > completel

Re: Invalidating dentries

2005-03-21 Thread linux-os
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Hello list, how can I invalidate all buffered/cached dentries so that ls -l /somefolder will definitely go read the harddisk? fsync() on the file(s) in the directory then fsync() on the directory itself. For this, one can open the directory as though it wa

[PATCH] dvb_frontend: MODULE_PARM_DESC

2005-03-21 Thread Magnus Damm
Remove "dvb_"-prefix from parameters. Without the patch all parameters except the declaration of parameter "frontend_debug" have a "dvb_"-prefix. Error detected with section2text.rb, see autoparam patch. --- linux-2.6.12-rc1/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c 2005-03-20 18:20:16.000

Re: [PATCH] cifs: MODULE_PARM_DESC

2005-03-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, are you sure that all your patches go into mainline? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[PATCH][SELINUX] Allow mounting of filesystems with invalid root inode context

2005-03-21 Thread Stephen Smalley
This patch alters the SELinux handling of inodes with invalid security contexts so that a filesystem with a root inode that has an invalid security context can still be mounted for administrative recovery without disabling SELinux altogether. Please apply. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-00

2005-03-21 Thread K.R. Foley
Lee Revell wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 20:16 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the -V0.7.41-00 Real-Time Preemption patch (merged to 2.6.12-rc1), which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ 3ms latency in the NFS client code. Workload was a k

[PATCH] ppc32: typo fix in load/store string emulation

2005-03-21 Thread Kumar Gala
Andrew, Patch fixes a typo in the emulation of load/store string emulations pointed out by Segher Boessenkool. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff -Nru a/arch/ppc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/ppc/kernel/traps.c --- a/arch/ppc/kernel/traps.c 2005-03-21 09:36:28 -06:00 +++ b/arch/p

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-03-21 Thread Kenan Esau
Am Montag, den 21.03.2005, 09:52 -0500 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:44:07 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:25:42PM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > > > Here is a new version of the patch: > > > - minimal changes > > > - reint

mmap/munmap bug

2005-03-21 Thread Hayim Shaul
Hi all, I have an unexplained bug with mmap/munmap on 2.6.X. I'm writing a kernel module that gives super-fast access to the network. It does so by doing mmap thus avoiding the memcpy to/from user. It works well for some time but then the kernel panics with a bad_page message (full stack is given b

Re: [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order

2005-03-21 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Friday 18 March 2005 21:28, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 07:00:06AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > > > > NT stores are not about 5% increase. 200%-300%. Provided you are ok with > > > the fact that zeroed page ends up evicted fr

Re: [PATCH] ppc32: emulate load/store string instructions

2005-03-21 Thread Kumar Gala
Thanks, will send a patch to fix that. - kumar On Mar 19, 2005, at 8:36 AM, Segher Boessenkool wrote: + /* Early out if we are an invalid form of lswi */ + if ((instword & INST_STRING_MASK) == INST_LSWX) Typo ^ Segher - To unsubscribe from thi

Invalidating dentries

2005-03-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hello list, how can I invalidate all buffered/cached dentries so that ls -l /somefolder will definitely go read the harddisk? Jan Engelhardt -- - 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:

[PATCH] asus_acpi: MODULE_PARM_DESC

2005-03-21 Thread Magnus Damm
Remove incorrect "asus_"-prefix from parameter name. Error detected with section2text.rb, see autoparam patch. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c 2005-03-20 18:09:14.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-autoparam/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi

[PATCH][2.6.12-rc1-mm1] fix ppc64 linkage error on G5

2005-03-21 Thread Mikael Pettersson
When 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 is configured for a ppc64/G5, so CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES is disabled, linking of vmlinux fails with: arch/ppc64/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x7de0): In function `.sys_call_table32': : undefined reference to `.ppc_rtas' arch/ppc64/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x8668): In function `.sys_call_t

[PATCH][2.6.12-rc1-mm1] fix compile error in ppc64 prom.c

2005-03-21 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Compiling 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 for ppc64 fails with: arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c:1691: error: syntax error before 'prom_reconfig_notifier' arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c:1692: error: field name not in record or union initializer arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c:1692: error: (near initialization for 'prom_reconfig_nb'

[PATCH][2.6.12-rc1] fix gcc4 compile error in ppc64 paca.h

2005-03-21 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Compiling 2.6.12-rc1 or 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 for ppc64 with gcc4 fails with: In file included from include/asm/spinlock.h:20, from include/linux/spinlock.h:43, from include/linux/signal.h:5, from arch/ppc64/kernel/asm-offsets.c:17: include/asm/paca.h:25

Re: pwc driver in -mm kernels

2005-03-21 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mon, 21 Mär 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > I pushed the tested one as a starting point. May have been the wrong > decision but it's my fault if so Ah ok. I checked the differences between the versions but there are too many `none-standard' changes, i.e. kernel-language changes (statics, inlines, __) e

pcmcia compile problems in 2.6.11-mm4 and above

2005-03-21 Thread Norbert Preining
HI Andrew! Compiling 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 with the attached config gives me an error while compiling pcmcia (I made a make oldconfig) drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xaf2a2): In function `pcmcia_check_driver': : undefined reference to `crc32_le' drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xafef1): In function `pcmcia_bus_hotpl

Re: [PATCH] NMI handler message passing / work deferral API

2005-03-21 Thread Andi Kleen
Dave Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Below is an experimental 2.6.11.5 kernel patch that implements the > following: > > - A generic mechanism for safely passing information from NMI handlers >to code that executes outside NMI context. See the machine check queueing implementa

[PATCH] ttpci/budget: MODULE_PARM_DESC

2005-03-21 Thread Magnus Damm
Remove incorrect "budget_"-prefix from parameter description. Error detected with section2text.rb, see autoparam patch. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-core.c 2005-03-20 18:20:16.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-autopar

Re: pwc driver in -mm kernels

2005-03-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2005-03-19 at 13:04, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Andrew, hi Luc! > > I just realized that there is now the pwc driver back in -mm kernels, > but interestingly not the one from Luc, or at least not the last > published one (10.0.6). and wanted to ask if there is a specific reason > for thi

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11.2][RFC] printk with anti-cluttering-feature

2005-03-21 Thread Andi Kleen
Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. > (I'm using a keyboard switch and a IBM PS/2 keyboard) This one should be just taken out. It is as far as I can figure out completely useless and happens on most machines. -Andi - To

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Re: [PATCH] alpha build fixes

2005-03-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2005-03-19 at 23:11, Richard Henderson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:34:07PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > +/* TODO: integrate with include/asm-generic/pci.h ? */ > > +static inline int pci_get_legacy_ide_irq(struct pci_dev *dev, int channel) > > +{ > > + return channel ? 15 : 14; >

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-03-21 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:44:07 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:25:42PM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > > Here is a new version of the patch: > > - minimal changes > > - reintroduced DMI-probing > > > > I had a look at the synaptic-sources to see ho

Re: 2.6.11 AC patch CD/DVD issues

2005-03-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-03-20 at 15:27, Takis Diakoumis wrote: > other ata controllers which then report errors as they can't be unloaded > - though i read somewhere on this list that this was by design???). IDE is designed to be compiled in. There is a lot to do to fix that. -ac has hackish unload support i

Re: [PATCH] driver model/scsi: synchronize pm calls with probe/remove

2005-03-21 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:18:46 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Dmitry, Mochel and James. > > I've been looking at sd code and found seemingly bogus 'if (!sdkp)' > tests with /* this can happen */ comment. I've digged changelog and > found out that this was to prevent oops which

prompt_ramdisk=1 and load_ramdisk=1 doesn't work with 2.6.11 on floppy

2005-03-21 Thread Tetsuji \"Maverick\" Rai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am making a small boot-floppy linux distro with kernel 2.6.11. The kernel is so big that I need to load ramdisk from the second floppy and I don't use initrd. My problem is the kernel wouldn't prompt to load ramdisk image. I tried syslinux, grub

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm1

2005-03-21 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Not related to this mm release directly, but > All 609 patches: > ... > x86-fix-esp-corruption-cpu-bug-take-2.patch > x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2) I think that Stas tries to steal 1024 bytes from kernel's memory ... On top of his patch. --- 2.6.12/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c~stas

[PATCH] AGP fix for Xen VMM

2005-03-21 Thread Keir Fraser
(A second patch attempt, after my screw-up last week.) When Linux is running on the Xen virtual machine monitor, physical addresses are virtualised and cannot be directly referenced by the AGP GART. This patch fixes the GART driver for Xen by adding a layer of abstraction between physical addresse

Re: Problem: ip_nat_irc.c in kernel 2.6.11.5

2005-03-21 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 00:56 -0800, Andy K wrote: > Hello, > > I recently upgraded my system from kernel 2.6.7 to 2.6.11.5 and have > found that my DCC transfers no longer work inside my NAT'd network. It > appears that the ip_nat_irc.c code no longer takes a 'ports' > parameter, although it did in

140 bugs, many of which are post-2.6.10 regressions - got a list?

2005-03-21 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi Andrew, In the 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 announce.txt you say "- Linus is away this week. Not a lot more should be going into 2.6.12 now and I have a list of ~140 bugs, many of which are post-2.6.10 regressions. We should fix these." I'm wondering if you have a list of those bugs somewhere? I'd lik

Re: [PATCH] ppc32: emulate load/store string instructions

2005-03-21 Thread Segher Boessenkool
+ /* Early out if we are an invalid form of lswi */ + if ((instword & INST_STRING_MASK) == INST_LSWX) Typo ^ Segher - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More ma

Re: [PATCH] alpha build fixes

2005-03-21 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:27:39PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > IRQs on IDE in legacy mode is sort of an out-of-spec piece of junk that > was invented to make PCI based peecees "look like" good old rotten > hardware, unfortunately, some modern and non-x86 HW vendors still don't > haev a c

[PATCH] gadget/ether: MODULE_PARM_DESC

2005-03-21 Thread Magnus Damm
Fix "dev_addr"/"iProduct" parameter description duplication/mixup. Error detected with section2text.rb, see autoparam patch. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1/drivers/usb/gadget/ether.c 2005-03-20 18:20:17.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-autoparam/drivers/

[PATCH] edgeport: MODULE_PARM_DESC

2005-03-21 Thread Magnus Damm
Fix "low_latency"/"debug" parameter description duplication/mixup. Error detected with section2text.rb, see autoparam patch. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1/drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c 2005-03-20 18:20:17.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-autoparam/

OOM killer activations when there is plenty of memory and swap available

2005-03-21 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. I've just suffered a server crash, related to OOM killer. Server is a dual-xeon, and is used to provide remote desktops to terminals, and normally runs some services and 10-15 KDE sessions. The server has 6G of ram and 7G of swap space, running Debian kernel 2.6.10 recompiled with highm

[PATCH] arlan: MODULE_PARM_DESC

2005-03-21 Thread Magnus Damm
Some module parameter descriptions should only be present when debugging is enabled, ie when ARLAN_ENTRY_EXIT_DEBUGGING is defined. The patch fixes this and adds "arlan_entry_and_exit_debug" that was missing. Error detected with section2text.rb, see autoparam patch. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <[

Re: Suspend-to-disk woes

2005-03-21 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Hi, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:17, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> It's trivial to do this in userspace - just have an app in initramfs > It's not that trivial. > - Your image might not be stored in a swap partition. For Suspend2, it > can potentially in a swap file or (soon)

[PATCH 6/5] timers: enable irqs in __mod_timer()

2005-03-21 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On top of "[PATCH 5/5] timers: cleanup, kill __get_base()", see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=25359121372 If the timer is currently running on another CPU, __mod_timer() spins with interrupts disabled and timer->lock held. I think it is better to spin_unlock_irqrestore(&timer-

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