Re: [PATCH] configfs, a filesystem for userspace-driven kernel object configuration

2005-04-05 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 12:57:28PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > Folks, > I humbly submit configfs. With configfs, a configfs > config_item is created via an explicit userspace operation: mkdir(2). > It is destroyed via rmdir(2). The attributes appear at mkdir(2) time, > and can be read or

[PATCH] ppc64: fix export of wrong symbol

2005-04-05 Thread Paul Mackerras
In arch/ppc64/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c, we are still exporting flush_icache_range, but that has been changed to be an inline in include/asm-ppc64/cacheflush.h which calls __flush_icache_range (defined in arch/ppc64/kernel/misc.S). This patch changes the export to __flush_icache_range, thus allowing

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2005-04-05 Thread patrick Dekeledi
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Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 08/13] scsi: move request preps in other places into prep_fn()

2005-04-05 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, James. James Bottomley wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 14:25 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Ah.. with later requeue path consolidation patches, all requests get their sense buffer cleared during requeueing, which, IMHO, is more logical. Moving scsi_init_cmd_errh() should come after the patch.

[PATCH] biarch compiler support for i386

2005-04-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
This allows the i386 architecture to be built on a system with a biarch compiler that defaults to x86-64, merely by specifying ARCH=i386. As previously discussed, this uses the equivalent logic to the ppc port. -hpa Signed-Off-By: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index:

Re: ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies

2005-04-05 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 06:13 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can trigger latencies up to ~1.1 ms with a CVS checkout. It looks > > like inside ext3_try_to_allocate_with_rsv, we spend a long time in this > > loop: > > We have not modify the reservation

2.6.12-rc2: random oops on nmi_watchdog=1

2005-04-05 Thread Akinobu Mita
With nmi_watchdog=1, I got random Oopses (Unable to handle kernel paging request, not by the NMI oopser) from many processes. It is not happend with -rc1. The following change fixes this problem. but I'm not familiar with these area. If anyone wants more information, let me know. ---

Re: [PATCH] RCU in kernel/intermodule.c

2005-04-05 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 11:28:12 + Luca Falavigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch, compiled against version 2.6.12-rc1, implements RCU mechanism in > intermodule functions. This sounds like a pure and unmitigated insanity to me. Please tell us why in the world you wanted to do this. --

[06/08] rwsem fix

2005-04-05 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- We should merge this backport - it's needed to prevent deadlocks when dio_complete() does up_read() from IRQ context. And perhaps other places. From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] rwsem: Make

[patch] updated inotify 0.22

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Love
Below is an updated inotify 0.22 patch, with various small clean ups and a fix for the oops reported by Prakash Punnoor. The oops was unrelated to the semaphore change, which seems to of been the right thing. Patch is against 2.6.12-rc2. Robert Love inotify! inotify is intended to

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread James Morris
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:05 -0400, James Morris wrote: Evgeniy, Please send networking patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It was sent there two times. I googled around quite a lot to track the origin of the patches down but didn't do the obvious

Re: [PATCH 00/04] Load keyspan firmware with hotplug

2005-04-05 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Jan, I agree with Dmitry on this point. The IHEX parser should not be inside firmware_class.c. What about using keyspan_ihex.[ch] for it? That's what I had originally, actually called firmware_ihex.ko, since the IHEX format parser is not in any way keyspan specific and there

Re: [IrDA] Oops with NULL deref in irda_device_set_media_busy

2005-04-05 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:02:26AM +0200, Michal Rokos wrote: Hello, I've problems with IrDA - when debug is off, I'm getting oops for obvious reason... (I don't have a log, this is just rewrite from screen: EIP: irda_device_set_media_busy+0x15/0x40 [irda] ali_ircc_sir_receive+0x4a/0x70

[patch] updated inotify 0.22 for 2.6-mm

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Love
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 12:56 -0400, Robert Love wrote: Mr Morton, Below is an updated inotify 0.22 patch, with various small clean ups and a fix for the oops reported by Prakash Punnoor. The oops was unrelated to the semaphore change, which seems to of been the right thing. Below is an

Re: pktcddvd - immediate crash

2005-04-05 Thread Nix
On 5 Apr 2005, Soeren Sonnenburg whispered secretively: I wonder whether anyone could use the pktcddvd device without killing random jobs (due to sudden out of memory or better memory leaks in pktcddvd) and finally a complete freeze of the machine ? I'm using it without difficulty. To

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests

2005-04-05 Thread Mingming Cao
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 13:04 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Mingming Cao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 18:35 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Mingming Cao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run into OOM problem again on 2.6.12-rc1. I run some(20) fsx tests on 2.6.12-rc1

Re: security issue: hard disk lock

2005-04-05 Thread Jonas Diemer
Am Dienstag 05. April 2005 17:41 schrieb Vernon Mauery:  This makes sense because a particularly malicious place to put something like this is a worm that attaches to your boot loader.  Then, even doing it in the kernel at boot time is too late. I understand... Didn't know that worms could

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Christophe Saout
Hi Andrew, - Nobody said anything about the PM resume and DRI behaviour in 2.6.12-rc1-mm4. So it's all perfect now? Yes, works for me. DRI (i915) is working again and USB is now happy after a PM resume too. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[03/08] fix ia64 syscall auditing

2005-04-05 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- Attached is a patch against David's audit.17 kernel that adds checks for the TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT thread flag to the ia64 system call and signal handling code paths. The patch enables auditing of system

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Humberto Massa
Richard B. Johnson wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Humberto Massa wrote: Josselin Mouette wrote: You are mixing apples and oranges. The fact that the GFDL sucks has nothing to do with the firmware issue. With the current situation of firmwares in the kernel, it is illegal to redistribute binary

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.12-rc1-mm4 x86_64 genapic update

2005-04-05 Thread Andi Kleen
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:37:27PM -0500, Jason Davis wrote: Hello, x86_64 genapic mechanism should be aware of machines that use physical APIC mode regardless of how many clusters/processors are detected. ACPI 3.0 FADT makes this determination very simple by providing a feature flag

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc1-mm3] [1/2] kprobes += function-return

2005-04-05 Thread Jim Keniston
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 01:15, Prasanna S Panchamukhi wrote: Hi Hien, This patch looks good to me, but I have some comments on this patch. int register_kretprobe(struct kprobe *kp, struct rprobe *rp); ... int register_jretprobe(struct jprobe *jp, struct rprobe *rp); ... Why two interfaces

Re: clock runs at double speed on x86_64 system w/ATI RS200 chipset

2005-04-05 Thread Andi Kleen
Christopher Allen Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Well, first step is to try w/o ACPI. ACPI is inherently fragile and bugs there can easily explain your timer problems. Either recompile with CONFIG_ACPI=n, or boot with acpi=off pci=noacpi. When

Re: [00/11] -stable review

2005-04-05 Thread Greg KH
Hm, sorry about the wrong subject, there were only 8 patches. And here's a diffstat of all of them, just to make this email worth reading and not just an apology: lib/rwsem-spinlock.c | 42 ++ lib/rwsem.c | 16

Re: Crash during boot for 2.6.12-rc2.

2005-04-05 Thread James Morris
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, James Morris wrote: Surprise, surprise, it works OK here. What compiler version? gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: i386-redhat-linux Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c: remove an unused label

2005-04-05 Thread Roland Dreier
CC drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.o drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c: In function `mthca_init_icm': drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c:479: warning: label `err_unmap_eqp' defined but not used Thanks, good catch. I screwed up the error path in

Re: [PATCH] network configs: disconnect network options from drivers

2005-04-05 Thread Sridhar Samudrala
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Sam Ravnborg wrote: Only bit that I am worried about is the statement in SCTP: depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n That looked like a noop to me. It had the sideeffect that SCTP menu entries where idented an extra level which was not desireable with currect layout. No. This is

Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Love
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 19:20 +0200, Prakash Punnoor wrote: BTW, what else could I use to make use of inotify? I know fam, which afaik only uses dnotify. Beagle, a desktop search infrastructure. Check out http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle Some other little projects. If anyone else is using

Re: [SCSI] Driver Broken in 2.6.x (attemp 2)

2005-04-05 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 19:25 +0200, |TEcHNO| wrote: This is my second attemp to make anyone notice the bug that is in the 2.6.x tree. While many people tried to put blame on nvidia, here's a log that shows that it's purely kernel fault not to work. At the end of this mail you can

Re: [PATCH] configfs, a filesystem for userspace-driven kernel object configuration

2005-04-05 Thread Zach Brown
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 12:57 -0700, Joel Becker wrote: Folks, I humbly submit configfs. With configfs, a configfs config_item is created via an explicit userspace operation: mkdir(2). It is destroyed via rmdir(2). The attributes appear at mkdir(2) time, and can be

Re: clock runs at double speed on x86_64 system w/ATI RS200 chipset

2005-04-05 Thread Christopher Allen Wing
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: Alternatively you can try to boot with noapic. Does that help? Yes, with 'noapic' the system boots normally and the clock runs at normal speed. dmesg of 2.6.11.6 without any command line options. (default: ACPI enabled, APIC enabled):

Re: pktcddvd - immediate crash

2005-04-05 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 18:04 +0100, Nix wrote: On 5 Apr 2005, Soeren Sonnenburg whispered secretively: I wonder whether anyone could use the pktcddvd device without killing random jobs (due to sudden out of memory or better memory leaks in pktcddvd) and finally a complete freeze of the

Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

2005-04-05 Thread Jörn Engel
On Tue, 5 April 2005 17:26:31 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: Would this be a good thing to clean up, or isn't it worth the effort at all? I would welcome such a stream of patches. But in spite of the calloc interface being rather stupid, I'd prefer to see patches with kcalloc instead of

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mikael Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - jz restore_all + jz restore_nocheck testl $IF_MASK,EFLAGS(%esp) # interrupts off (exception path) ? - jz restore_all + jz restore_nocheck call preempt_schedule_irq jmp need_resched #endif Is this

Re: clock runs at double speed on x86_64 system w/ATI RS200 chipset (with APIC enabled)

2005-04-05 Thread Christopher Allen Wing
I booted with 'apic=debug' in case this is useful to find out what's wrong. dmesg of 2.6.11.6 with ACPI enabled, APIC enabled, 'apic=debug': http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~wingc/apictimer/dmesg/dmesg-2.6.11.6-acpi-apicdebug (clock runs at double speed) dmesg of 2.6.11.6

Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11

2005-04-05 Thread Prakash Punnoor
Robert Love schrieb: On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 09:58 +0200, Prakash Punnoor wrote: I am having a little trouble with inotify 0.22. Previous version worked w/o trouble (even with nvidia and nvsound loaded) with 2.6.12-rc1-kb2 and gamin Now I use 2.6.12-rc2 with inotify 0.22 and got this after a few

[SCSI] Driver Broken in 2.6.x (attemp 2)

2005-04-05 Thread |TEcHNO|
Hi, This is my second attemp to make anyone notice the bug that is in the 2.6.x tree. While many people tried to put blame on nvidia, here's a log that shows that it's purely kernel fault not to work. At the end of this mail you can find some logs which show how 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels work

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Horst von Brand
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:16:48AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Humberto Massa wrote: But, the question made here was a subtler one and you are all biting around the bush: there *are* some misrepresentations of licenses to the firmware blobs in the

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 05 avril 2005 11:50 -0400, Richard B. Johnson a crit : You are mixing apples and oranges. The fact that the GFDL sucks has nothing to do with the firmware issue. With the current situation of firmwares in the kernel, it is illegal to redistribute binary images of the kernel. Full

UML on s390 (31Bit)

2005-04-05 Thread Bodo Stroesser
Hi, currently I'm porting UML to s390 31-bit. A first 2.6.11 UML system already is running in UML-SKAS0 mode, which normally should run on an unpatched host (no skas3-patch). To make UML build and run on s390, I needed to do these two little changes (the patches are copy and paste. I hope that

It's getting worse: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 and suspend2ram

2005-04-05 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear Andrew, dear Pavel, dear developers! WIth 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 I cannot resume, and the laptop not even freezes, it immediately goes into reboot when resuming (suspend did work, well it looks like). I booted into single user mode, stopped all programs (I could), unloaded all modules (I could),

[PATCH 2.6.11.6 2/6] piix: IDE PATA patch for Intel ESB2

2005-04-05 Thread Jason Gaston
Hello, This patch adds the Intel ESB2 DID's to the piix.c file for IDE PATA support.  This patch was built against the 2.6.11.6 kernel.   If acceptable, please apply. Note: This patch depends on the previous 1/6 patch for pci_ids.h Thanks, Jason Gaston Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston [EMAIL

Re: clock runs at double speed on x86_64 system w/ATI RS200 chipset

2005-04-05 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:02:20PM -0400, Christopher Allen Wing wrote: Are you thinking of blacklisting the APIC on this system until we figure out what's going on? Some more debugging first might be good. Perhaps it is the same issue many Nvidia boards have with the APIC timer override

[PATCH 2.6.11.6 5/6] ahci: AHCI mode SATA patch for Intel ESB2

2005-04-05 Thread Jason Gaston
Hello, This patch adds the Intel ESB2 DID's to the ahci.c file for AHCI mode SATA support.  This patch was built against the 2.6.11.6 kernel.   If acceptable, please apply. Thanks, Jason Gaston Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11.6/drivers/scsi/ahci.c.orig

[PATCH 2.6.11.6 4/6] ata_piix: IDE mode SATA patch for Intel ESB2

2005-04-05 Thread Jason Gaston
Hello, This patch adds the Intel ESB2 DID's to the ata_piix.c and quirks.c file for IDE mode SATA support.  This patch was built against the 2.6.11.6 kernel.   If acceptable, please apply. Thanks, Jason Gaston Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [PATCH] configfs, a filesystem for userspace-driven kernel object configuration

2005-04-05 Thread Zach Brown
Matt Mackall wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 12:57:28PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: An interface in /proc where the API is: or an ioctl(2) interface where the API is: becomes this in configfs: # cd /config/mythingy # mkdir foo # echo 1 foo/index # echo 3

Re: [07/08] [TCP] Fix BIC congestion avoidance algorithm error

2005-04-05 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:22:02 -0400 Theodore Ts'o [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the congestion control alogirthm is Reno-like, what is user-visible impact to users? There are OS's out there with TCP/IP stacks that are still using Reno, aren't there? An incorrect implementation of any

Re: [07/08] [TCP] Fix BIC congestion avoidance algorithm error

2005-04-05 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:47:59AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. While redoing BIC for the split up version, I discovered that the existing 2.6.11 code doesn't really do binary search. It ends up being just a slightly

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-05 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Apr 5, 2005 1:20 PM, Stefan Seyfried [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jaco Kroon wrote: Dmitry Torokhov wrote: OT: I think I prefer synaptics multi-finger tapping to the tapping in specific locations to get right and middle clicking, but that is another story that probably has nothing to do

Re: [08/08] uml: va_copy fix

2005-04-05 Thread Renate Meijer
On Apr 5, 2005, at 6:48 PM, Greg KH wrote: -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- Uses __va_copy instead of va_copy since some old versions of gcc (2.95.4 for instance) don't accept va_copy. Are there many kernels still being built with

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could you send the full bootlog (starting at the 'gcc...' line)? I'm not sure whether TSC calibration was done on your CPU. If cyc2ns_scale is not set up then sched_clock() will return 0, and this could result in that printk symptom. Here you

Re: [08/08] uml: va_copy fix

2005-04-05 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 20:47, Renate Meijer wrote: On Apr 5, 2005, at 6:48 PM, Greg KH wrote: -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- Uses __va_copy instead of va_copy since some old versions of gcc (2.95.4 for instance) don't

[PATCH 2.6.11.6 6/6] i2c-i801: I2C patch for Intel ESB2

2005-04-05 Thread Jason Gaston
Hello, This patch adds the Intel ESB2 DID's to the i2c-i801.c and Kconfig files for I2C support.  This patch was built against the 2.6.11.6 kernel.   If acceptable, please apply. Note:  This patch depends on the previous 1/6 patch for pci_ids.h Thanks, Jason Gaston Signed-off-by:  Jason

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:33:49PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: +sched-remove-unnecessary-sched-domains.patch +sched-improve-pinned-task-handling-again.patch [snip] CPU scheduler updates It is no problem that you picked these up for testing. But don't merge

Re: [2.6.12-rc1][ACPI][suspend] /proc/acpi/sleep vs /sys/power/state issue - 'standby' on a laptop

2005-04-05 Thread Shawn Starr
I'm working o --- Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I've noticed something strange with issuing 'standby' to the system: when echoing standby to /sys/power/state, nothing happens, not even a log or system activity to attempt standby mode. However, trying echo 1 to

Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

2005-04-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Paulo Marques wrote: Hi, I noticed there are a number of places in the kernel that do: ptr = kmalloc(n * size, ...) if (!ptr) goto out; memset(ptr, 0, n * size); It seems that these could be replaced by: ptr = kcalloc(n, size, ...)

[PATCH] opl3sa2: MODULE_PARM_DESC

2005-04-05 Thread Magnus Damm
opl3sa2: Fix irq-parameter name typo for parameter description. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.12-rc2/sound/oss/opl3sa2.c2005-04-05 16:57:30.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc2-autoparam/sound/oss/opl3sa2.c 2005-04-05 19:22:49.469074368 +0200 @@ -199,7

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-05 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:05:15AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 08:42 +0100, Russell King wrote: Not so. There are two different styles of big endian. (Lets just face it, BE is fucked in the head anyway...) physical bus: 31...24 23...16 15...8 7...0

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 05 avril 2005 14:17 -0400, Richard B. Johnson a crit : You are completely missing the point. I don't care whether the firmwares should be free, or whether they could be free. The fact is they are not free, and Debian doesn't distribute non-free software in the main archive. The

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Chris Friesen
Josselin Mouette wrote: The fact is also that mixing them with a GPLed software gives an result you can't redistribute - although it seems many people disagree with that assertion now. This is only true if the result is considered a derivative work of the gpl'd code. The GPL states In addition,

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 05 avril 2005 12:50 -0600, Chris Friesen a crit : Josselin Mouette wrote: The fact is also that mixing them with a GPLed software gives an result you can't redistribute - although it seems many people disagree with that assertion now. This is only true if the result is

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc2-V0.7.44-00

2005-04-05 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
i have released the -V0.7.44-00 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ I'm having plenty of this on boot, on my SMP/HT desktop (P4/x86), while running RT-V0.7.44-01 (SMP+PREEMPT_RT): BUG: kstopmachine:

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm4 crash while mounting a reiserfs3 filesystem

2005-04-05 Thread Mathieu Bérard
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz a écrit : On Apr 3, 2005 11:56 PM, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mathieu Bérard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I get a 100% reproductible oops while booting linux 2.6.12-rc1-mm4. (Everyting run smoothly using 2.6.11-mm1) It seems to be related with mounting a

[PATCH] CON_CONSDEV bit not set correctly on last console

2005-04-05 Thread Greg Edwards
According to include/linux/console.h, CON_CONSDEV flag should be set on the last console specified on the boot command line: 86 #define CON_PRINTBUFFER (1) 87 #define CON_CONSDEV (2) /* Last on the command line */ 88 #define CON_ENABLED (4) 89 #define CON_BOOT

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-05 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hi Ingo et all. Ingo Molnar wrote: the crashes below happen when PAGEALLOC is enabled. It's this instruction: movb OLDSS(%esp), %ah I am really sorry about that screwup :( I can't do too much right now as I am reading the mail in a batch mode, and the next time I'll be reading it will be 24

Re: Logitech MX1000 Horizontal Scrolling

2005-04-05 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Esben Stien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David A. Desrosiers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Using these same instructions [..] doesn't work at all This is too little information to work with. Please be more specific as to what you've done. I've looked at his configuration a bit, it's maybe an X

Re: clock runs at double speed on x86_64 system w/ATI RS200 chipset

2005-04-05 Thread Christopher Allen Wing
here's the patch for x86_64 The kernel is compiling... I'll try it when it finishes. -Chris --- linux-2.6.11.6/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c.orig 2005-03-25 22:28:14.0 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.11.6/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c 2005-04-05 15:05:47.656886736 -0400 @@ -333,6 +333,12 @@

Re: clock runs at double speed on x86_64 system w/ATI RS200 chipset

2005-04-05 Thread Christopher Allen Wing
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: Some more debugging first might be good. Perhaps it is the same issue many Nvidia boards have with the APIC timer override being wrong; although in this case it should more not tick at all, but might be still worth a try. Try booting with

Re: [PATCH] network configs: disconnect network options from drivers

2005-04-05 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:11:33PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: - in Networking support, move Network testing and Netpoll support to the end of the menu (basically put the devel. tools toward the bottom of the menu) Done - I would rather not hide Amateur Radio, IrDA, and

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Stas Sergeev wrote: Attached is a quick fix, which I'll be testing to death tomorrow at work. This one can pass through vm86 mode stuff without the high-16-bit fixup, as far as I can tell. Also, I think your optimization to optimistically load SS is valid per se, but

Re: 2.4.30: pwc pwc_isoc_handler() called with status -84

2005-04-05 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Gabor, This seems to be a USB specific problem and my USB knowledge is null. CCing Pete. On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:59:57PM +0200, Gabor Z. Papp wrote: I have a Philips 750 webcam camera, equipped with a Sony CCD sensor + TDA878. It was working fine with 2.4.29 and earlier kernels,

[ANNOUNCE] April Release of LTP now Available

2005-04-05 Thread Marty Ridgeway
The April release of LTP is now on SourceForge. LTP-20050405 - Fixed '-d' option to runltp.sh - Added optional ltp (fivextra) extended testsuite - Added digital signiture testcases from the security team - Applied patch from Gernot Payer to fix, mincore01, shmget02, capset02 - Applied

[PATCH 2.6.11.6 3/6] intel8x0: AC'97 audio patch for Intel ESB2

2005-04-05 Thread Jason Gaston
Hello, This patch adds the Intel ESB2 DID's to the intel8x0.c file for AC'97 audio support.  This patch was built against the 2.6.11.6 kernel.   If acceptable, please apply.   Note:  This patch depends on the previous 1/6 patch for pci_ids.h Thanks, Jason Gaston Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Humberto Massa
Josselin Mouette wrote: It merely depends on the definition of aggregation. I'd say that two works that are only aggregated can be easily distinguished and separated. This is not the case for a binary kernel module, from which you cannot easily extract the firmware and code parts. Not really...

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Josselin Mouette wrote: Finally, you shouldn't forget that, technically speaking, using hotplug for uploading the firmware is much more flexible and elegant than including it in the kernel. Upgrading the firmware and the module should be two independent operations. People who are advocating the

USB glitches after suspend on ppc

2005-04-05 Thread Colin Leroy
Hi, There are known issues with USB after suspend/resume (D3 hot) on powerpc. For example, plugging or unplugging devices during sleep results in oopses at resume; and one time out of two, the USB ports are unpowered on resume (because the registers think they are, and linux doesn't repower them.

Re: Logitech MX1000 Horizontal Scrolling

2005-04-05 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Esben Stien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Esben Stien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: can't find a single problem with the device. I should mention a couple of things after some testing: There are some inconsistencies with regard to cruise control. When I press TOP CLICK BACKWARD/TOP CLICK FORWARD

[RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode

2005-04-05 Thread Ross Biro
Currently Linux 2.6 assumes the BIOS (or firmware) sets the master abort mode flag on PCI bridge chips in a coherent fashion. This is not always the case and the consequences of getting this flag incorrect can cause hardware to fail or silent data corruption. This patch lets the user

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc2-V0.7.44-00

2005-04-05 Thread Steven Rostedt
Our first victim!! :-) On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 20:06 +0100, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: I'm having plenty of this on boot, on my SMP/HT desktop (P4/x86), while running RT-V0.7.44-01 (SMP+PREEMPT_RT): BUG: kstopmachine: RT task yield()-ing! See sample dmesg and .config on attach.

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
* The firmware distribution infrastructure is basically non-existent. There is no standard way to make sure that a firmware separated from the driver gets to all users. * The firmware bundling infrastructure is basically non-existent. (Arjan talked about this) There needs to be a a way

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-05 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hi Linus, Linus Torvalds wrote: This one can pass through vm86 mode stuff without the high-16-bit fixup, as far as I can tell. Yes, but according to Petr, vm86 is not affected by the bug at all. I did some rough tests in the past that seem to confirm that. Also, in any case, the dependance of vm86

Re: [07/08] [TCP] Fix BIC congestion avoidance algorithm error

2005-04-05 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 11:26:08 -0700 David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:22:02 -0400 Theodore Ts'o [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the congestion control alogirthm is Reno-like, what is user-visible impact to users? There are OS's out there with TCP/IP stacks that

Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

2005-04-05 Thread Roland Dreier
or simply if (!(ptr = kcalloc(n, size, ...))) goto out; and save an additional line of screen realestate while you are at it... No, please don't do that. The general kernel style is to avoid assignments within conditionals. - R. - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: clock runs at double speed on x86_64 system w/ATI RS200 chipset

2005-04-05 Thread Christopher Allen Wing
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: Try booting with acpi_skip_timer_override Nope, this doesn't fix the problem. Here's the dmesg of 2.6.11.6 with 'acpi_skip_timer_override apic=debug':

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:40:24PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: * The firmware distribution infrastructure is basically non-existent. There is no standard way to make sure that a firmware separated from the driver gets to all users. * The firmware bundling infrastructure is

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Stas Sergeev wrote: So I'd actually prefer to get that mystery explained.. IIRC if the interrupt doesn't do the CPL switch, the interrupt gate doesn't save the stack, and so there may not be the full struct pt_regs when the kernel thread is interrupted. Yes. But how

[PATCH 2.6.11.6 1/6] irq and pci_ids: patch for Intel ESB2

2005-04-05 Thread Jason Gaston
Hello, This patch adds the Intel ESB2 DID's to the irq.c and pci_ids.h files. This patch was built against the 2.6.11.6 kernel.   If acceptable, please apply. Thanks, Jason Gaston Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11.6/arch/i386/pci/irq.c.orig 2005-03-28

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-05 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Jaco Kroon wrote: Dmitry Torokhov wrote: OT: I think I prefer synaptics multi-finger tapping to the tapping in specific locations to get right and middle clicking, but that is another story that probably has nothing to do with the kernel, and quite likely something that is configurable in the

Re: [BOOTMEM] bad physical address convertions.

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Hansen
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 09:39 +0200, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: Unfortunately there are some places in linux where this is not the case. bootmem.c is one of these places. For instance, it does addr PAGE_SHIFT instead of using phys_to_pfn macro in order to convert a physical address into a page

Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

2005-04-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Roland Dreier wrote: or simply if (!(ptr = kcalloc(n, size, ...))) goto out; and save an additional line of screen realestate while you are at it... No, please don't do that. The general kernel style is to avoid assignments

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
actually there is; you just perfectly described it. Until we have drivers that can use such firmware (and need it in initrds and the like) infrastructure for that is unlikely to come into existence, and until there is such infrastructure, driver authors like you are unlikely to want to

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11.6 3/6] intel8x0: AC'97 audio patch for Intel ESB2

2005-04-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jason Gaston wrote: Hello, This patch adds the Intel ESB2 DID's to the intel8x0.c file for AC'97 audio support. This patch was built against the 2.6.11.6 kernel. If acceptable, please apply. Note: This patch depends on the previous 1/6 patch for pci_ids.h Thanks, Jason Gaston Signed-off-by:

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-05 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: physical bus: 31...24 23...16 15...8 7...0 BE version 1 (word invariant) byte access byte 0 byte 1 byte 2 byte 3 word access 31-24 23-16 15-87-0 BE version 2 (byte invariant) byte access byte 3

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 05 avril 2005 ÿÿ 11:50 -0400, Richard B. Johnson a ÿÿcrit : You are mixing apples and oranges. The fact that the GFDL sucks has nothing to do with the firmware issue. With the current situation of firmwares in the kernel, it is illegal to

[patch 1/5] Hotplug firmware loader for Keyspan usb-serial driver

2005-04-05 Thread Jan Harkes
A simple Intel HEX format parser/loader. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes [EMAIL PROTECTED] include/linux/ihex_parser.h | 23 + lib/Kconfig |8 + lib/Makefile|2 lib/ihex_parser.c | 181 4 files

[patch 0/5] Hotplug firmware loader for Keyspan usb-serial driver

2005-04-05 Thread Jan Harkes
Here is another stab at making the keyspan firmware easily loadable with hotplug. Differences from the previous version, - keep the IHEX parser into a separate module. - added a fw-y and fw-m install targets to kbuild which will install a driver's firmware files in /lib/modules/`uname

[patch 2/5] Hotplug firmware loader for Keyspan usb-serial driver

2005-04-05 Thread Jan Harkes
Convert the keyspan USB serial driver to use request_firmware and firmware_load_ihex. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kconfig | 90 -- keyspan.c | 132 +++--- keyspan.h | 84

[patch 5/5] Hotplug firmware loader for Keyspan usb-serial driver

2005-04-05 Thread Jan Harkes
Add make install_firmware to the kbuild environment. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Makefile| 33 + drivers/usb/serial/Makefile |5 + scripts/Makefile.fwinst | 34 ++ 3 files

Re: [08/08] uml: va_copy fix

2005-04-05 Thread Renate Meijer
On Apr 5, 2005, at 8:53 PM, Blaisorblade wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 20:47, Renate Meijer wrote: On Apr 5, 2005, at 6:48 PM, Greg KH wrote: -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- Uses __va_copy instead of va_copy since some old versions of

Re: [03/08] fix ia64 syscall auditing

2005-04-05 Thread David Mosberger
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:46:48 -0700, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Greg -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please Greg let us know. Nitpick: the patch introduces trailing whitespace. Why doesn't everybody use emacs and enable show-trailing-whitespace? ;-) --david

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