Re: [PATCH] Use proper seq_file api for /proc/scsi/scsi

2005-04-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:10:11AM -0700, Jeremy Higdon wrote: > Just as a sanity check, you meant "lsscsi" and not "lssci" in your original > reply, right? Yes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Why not to use sql as backend instead of the tree of directories? Because it sucks? I can come up with millions of ways to slow things down on my own. Please come up with ways to speed things up instead. Linus - To unsubscribe

PATCH add support for system on chip (SoC) devices.

2005-04-08 Thread Ian Molton
Hi. This patch add support for a new 'System on Chip' or SoC bus type. This allows common drivers used in different SoC devices to be shared in a clean and healthy manner, for example, the MMC function on toshiba t7l66xb, tc6393xb, and Compaq IPAQ ASIC3. This is in common use in the

Re: [BUG] 2.6.12-rc1/rc2 mouse0 became mouse1

2005-04-08 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi, On Apr 8, 2005 6:58 AM, Ali Akcaagac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > This doesn't sound right to me. After upgrading from 2.6.11.5/6 to > 2.6.12-rc1/rc2 I detected that my mouse didn't operate anymore when > loading up XOrg, I realized that /dev/input/mouse0 (which worked for >

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-08 Thread Jan Dittmer
Andrew Morton wrote: > create-a-kstrdup-library-function.patch > create a kstrdup library function > > create-a-kstrdup-library-function-fixes.patch > create-a-kstrdup-library-function-fixes ppc defconfig build is broken due to this make ARCH=ppc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-

Re: Problem in log_do_checkpoint()?

2005-04-08 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 10:04, Jan Kara wrote: > In log_do_checkpoint() we go through the t_checkpoint_list of a > transaction and call __flush_buffer() on each buffer. Suppose there is > just one buffer on the list and it is dirty. __flush_buffer() sees it and > puts it to an array of

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [7/12]: support configuration of AOE_PARTITIONS from Kconfig

2005-04-08 Thread Ed L Cashin
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:56:39PM -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote: ... >> Just aoe-AOE_PARTITIONS.patch, the seventh of the twelve, should be >> dropped. > > Ok, dropped. > >> Then later I'll send a batch of patches that will include a change to >> make aoe disks

Re: Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-08 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:50:32PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Jan Harkes wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:16:14AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: In the not-too distant past, one could disable Ctl-Alt-DEL. Can't do it

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-08 Thread Martin Waitz
hoi :) On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:28:25PM +, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > htmldocs (haven't look at pdf, etc...) became K'ish. > Also, Documentation/Docbook/*.html uses book1.html, but there are only > Documentation/Docbook/*/index.html > Functions are not hyperlinked from index.html. IIRC,

[PATCH] bootmem.c clean up bad pfn convertions

2005-04-08 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
Hi, As I described in my previous email, bootmem.c does improper pfn convertions into phys addr. This simple patch fixes that. Regards, Franck. --- This message contains confidential information and is intended only

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 3/4

2005-04-08 Thread Ladislav Michl
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:08:38PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Looks OK to me. Ok, I have few more fixes for this driver and will send them later when I find time to split them out into smaller chunks. Again, here is patch with signed off line. dev_{dbg,err} functions should print client's

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

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:20:52PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > On Fri, 8 April 2005 15:00:08 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > Joerg's > > Please! ;) Ups, sorry... > Jörn cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been

PCMCIA in 2.6

2005-04-08 Thread sauro
Hi. I know it's a little bit off topic, but, has anyone _ever_ got a PCMCIA SRAM card running in kernel 2.6 using pcmciamtd? Any help would be appreciated. -- Best regards, Sauro Salomoni Ztec www.ztec.com.br smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-08 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Friday 08 April 2005 10:08, Andrew Morton wrote: > +docbook-use-xmlto-to-process-the-docbook-files.patch htmldocs (haven't look at pdf, etc...) became K'ish. Synopsis struct sk_buff * skb_share_check (skb,

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

2005-04-08 Thread Jörn Engel
On Fri, 8 April 2005 15:00:08 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Joerg's Please! ;) Jörn -- It's just what we asked for, but not what we want! -- anonymous - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:50:32PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Jan Harkes wrote: > > >On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:16:14AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > >>In the not-too distant past, one could disable Ctl-Alt-DEL. > >>Can't do it anymore. > >... > >>Observe that

Re: [PATCH] mtime attribute is not being updated on client

2005-04-08 Thread Trond Myklebust
to den 07.04.2005 Klokka 20:52 (-0400) skreiv Linda Dunaphant: > Hi Trond, > > The acregmin (default=3) and acregmax (default=60) NFS attributes that > control the min and max attribute cache lifetimes don't appear to be > working after the first few timeouts. Using a test program that loops >

Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:02:22PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:19:39 +0400 > Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I know, the same thing holds for most architectures, including i386. > > > However, this is not an issue for uni-processor kernels anywhere

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.11 - NMI lockup with CFQ scheduler

2005-04-08 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Apr 08 2005, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:45 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > So clear ->request_queue instead. > > > Will do. Did you want me to look after your patch and add this, or do > you want to send it to Linus (after the purdah is over)? Just queue it with the

Assalam Alaikum

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

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:38:22PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:26:31PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > > Hi Adrian, Hi Paolo, > >>[...] > >>pros: > >> - smaller kernel image size > >> - smaller (and more readable) source code > > > >Which is

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 2/4

2005-04-08 Thread Ladislav Michl
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:51:00AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Yes, this one is OK with me too. Ok, here it is with signed off line. Use correct macros to convert between bdc and bin. See linux/bcd.h Signed-off-by: Ladislav Michl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: Crash during boot for 2.6.12-rc2.

2005-04-08 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 22:58, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > I got exactly the same thing on both my P4 HT and my Celeron 933 :<. > Trying fresh builds. Actually I tell a lie. I looked at James' trace too quickly. I'll see what I can collect :> Nigel > Regards, > > Nigel > > On Wed,

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.11 - NMI lockup with CFQ scheduler

2005-04-08 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:45 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > So clear ->request_queue instead. Will do. Did you want me to look after your patch and add this, or do you want to send it to Linus (after the purdah is over)? James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

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

2005-04-08 Thread Jörn Engel
On Fri, 8 April 2005 13:38:22 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >E.g. read my "Stack usage tasks" email. The benefits would only be > >present for people using GNU gcc 3.4 or SuSE gcc 3.3 on i386, but this > >is a reasonable subset of the kernel users - and it brings them a >

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 1/4

2005-04-08 Thread Ladislav Michl
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:36:29PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Oops, you forgot to add a Signed-off-by: line for every patch, as per > Documentation/SubmittingPatches. Care to redo them? Here it is (I'm sorry about that). Use i2c_transfer to send message, so we get proper bus locking.

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Thomas Renninger
Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Thomas Renninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050408 04:34]: >>Here are some figures about idle/C-states: >> >>Passing bm_history=0xF to processor module makes it going into C3 and deeper. >>Passing lower values, deeper states are reached more often, but system could >>freeze: >

linker error lib/lib.a (lib/string.c)

2005-04-08 Thread Wotan23
when i compile the 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 on a ppc with "make all" i got for line: ld -m elf32ppc -o arch/ppc/boot/openfirmware/coffboot -T /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm1/arch/ppc/boot/ld.script -e _start -Ttext 0x0050 -Bstatic arch/ppc/boot/openfirmware/coffcrt0.o arch/ppc/boot/openfirmware/start.o

Re: Crash during boot for 2.6.12-rc2.

2005-04-08 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. I got exactly the same thing on both my P4 HT and my Celeron 933 :<. Trying fresh builds. Regards, Nigel On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 03:26, James Morris wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, James Morris wrote: > > > > Surprise, surprise, it works OK here. > > > > > > What compiler version? > > > >

what is lmsensor package

2005-04-08 Thread karthik
Hi, Can anybody tell me what is lmsensor package used for and from where can we obtain its programs (that access i2c-interface or general source). Karthik - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

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

2005-04-08 Thread Paulo Marques
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:26:31PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: [...] Hi Paulo, Hi Adrian, [...] pros: - smaller kernel image size - smaller (and more readable) source code Which is better readable depends on what you are used to. That's true to some degree, but look at code

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 4/4

2005-04-08 Thread Ladislav Michl
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:08:46PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Add support for DS1339. The only difference against DS1337 is Trickle > > Charge register at address 10h, which is used to enable battery or gold > > cap charging. Please note that value may vary for different batteries, > > so it

Re: [PATCH] pm_message_t corrections still missing from 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Here, for your consideration, are fixups I still have in my tree after > updating to rc2. > > (USB & Framebuffer lists copied because a reasonable number apply > there). > > Regards, > > Nigel > > diff -ruNp > 840-combined-pm_message_t-patch.patch-old/drivers/base/power/resume.c >

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

2005-04-08 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:41:35AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > BTW, have any of you read the analysis i made, where i claim, rooted > in the GPL FAQ and with examples, why i believe that the firmware can > be considerated a non derivative of the linux kernel. I hadn't. I did just now. Here's my

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > I think I have an idea on what's going on; Your system does not wake to > > > > APIC interrupt, and the system timer updates time only on other > > > > interrupts. > > > > I'm experiencing the same on a loaner ThinkPad T30. > > > > > > > > I'll try to do another patch today.

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-08 Thread Indrek Kruusa
Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm2/ Wow... it responds despite the load average of 83.63 :) http://www.tuleriit.ee/progs/img/pic1.png http://www.tuleriit.ee/progs/img/pic2.png http://www.tuleriit.ee/progs/img/pic3.png

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Matthias Andree: >> commiter_name VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL CHECK(commiter_name != >> ''), >> commiter_email VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL CHECK(commiter_email >> != ''), > > The length is too optimistic and insufficient to import the current BK > stuff. I'd vote for

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

2005-04-08 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:08 -0300, Humberto Massa wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > >Debian doesn't seem to care much about the possible legal problems of > >patents. You have lots of "possible legal problems" of any kind. Basically everyone can sue you for (almost) whatever he wants almost all ofth

[patch] sched: unlocked context-switches

2005-04-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
the scheduler still has a complex maze of locking in the *arch_switch() / *lock_switch() code. Different arches do it differently, creating diverging context-switch behavior. There are now 3 variants: fully locked, unlocked but irqs-off, unlocked and irqs-on. Nick has cleaned them up in

buggy ia64_fls() ? (was Re: /dev/random problem on 2.6.12-rc1)

2005-04-08 Thread Simon Derr
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:56:51AM +0200, Simon Derr wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:36:59PM +0200, Simon Derr wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I run: > > # dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=1 | od > >

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

2005-04-08 Thread Humberto Massa
Adrian Bunk wrote: Debian doesn't seem to care much about the possible legal problems of patents. The possible legal problem of software patents is, up to the present time, AFAICT, not producing effects yet in Europe, and is a non-problem in jurisdictions like mine (down here neither

[PATCH] pm_message_t corrections still missing from 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-08 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. Here, for your consideration, are fixups I still have in my tree after updating to rc2. (USB & Framebuffer lists copied because a reasonable number apply there). Regards, Nigel diff -ruNp 840-combined-pm_message_t-patch.patch-old/drivers/base/power/resume.c

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Matthias Andree
Andrea Arcangeli schrieb am 2005-04-08: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:42:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > play with something _really_ nasty (but also very _very_ fast), take a > > look at kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/torvalds/. > > Why not to use sql as backend instead of the tree of

[BUG] 2.6.12-rc1/rc2 mouse0 became mouse1

2005-04-08 Thread Ali Akcaagac
Hello, This doesn't sound right to me. After upgrading from 2.6.11.5/6 to 2.6.12-rc1/rc2 I detected that my mouse didn't operate anymore when loading up XOrg, I realized that /dev/input/mouse0 (which worked for years) had to be changed to /dev/input/mouse1. Anyone care to explain why this had to

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Thomas Renninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050408 04:34]: > > Here are some figures about idle/C-states: > > Passing bm_history=0xF to processor module makes it going into C3 and deeper. > Passing lower values, deeper states are reached more often, but system could > freeze: Hmm, I wonder why it

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-08 Thread Michael Thonke
Hello Andrew, along the 2.6.12-rcX-mmX PCI-Express is not usable at all with mm-patchsets. I posted some days ago the problem taht the IRQs get not regonized by the kernel also with pci=routeirq nothing helped. The problem still the same and some new problems now with 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 in addition.

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-08 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 8 of April 2005 12:08, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm2/ > > > - Although small, bk-audit.patch was causing conflits with a couple of > other projects. Dropped for now. > > - Greg is not using bk now,

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Catalin Marinas
Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm playing with monotone right now. Superficially it looks like it > has tons of gee-whiz neato stuff... however, it's *agonizingly* slow. > I mean glacial. A heavily sedated sloth with no legs is probably > faster. I tried some time ago to import

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Thomas Renninger
Frank Sorenson wrote: > Tony Lindgren wrote: > | * Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050407 23:28]: > | > |>I think I have an idea on what's going on; Your system does not wake to > |>APIC interrupt, and the system timer updates time only on other > interrupts. > |>I'm experiencing the same on a

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

2005-04-08 Thread Jörn Engel
On Fri, 8 April 2005 09:22:00 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 à 23:07 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : > > > As a contrast, read the discussion between Christoph and Arjan in a part > > of this thread how to move firmware out of kernel drivers without > > problems for the

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 4/4

2005-04-08 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Ladislav, > Add support for DS1339. The only difference against DS1337 is Trickle > Charge register at address 10h, which is used to enable battery or gold > cap charging. Please note that value may vary for different batteries, > so it should be made module parameter. 0xaa is sane default

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050408 03:30]: > Hi! > > > > I think I have an idea on what's going on; Your system does not wake to > > > APIC interrupt, and the system timer updates time only on other > > > interrupts. > > > I'm experiencing the same on a loaner ThinkPad T30. > > > > > >

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc1-mm4] fork_connector: add a fork connector

2005-04-08 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Could you give attached patch a try instead of previous one. It adds gfp mask into cn_netlink_send() call also. If you need updated CBUS sources, feel free to ask, I will send updated sources with Andrew's comments resolved too. I do not know exactly your connector version, so patch will

Re: [PATCH 0/6] add generic round_up_pow2() macro

2005-04-08 Thread P
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Nick Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The first patch adds a generic round_up_pow2() macro to kernel.h. The remaining patches modify a few files to make use of the new macro. We already have ALIGN() and roundup_pow_of_two(). cool. It doesn't handle

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > Ok, I've narrowed the problem down to one patch. In 2.6.11-mm3, the > > > problem goes away if I remove this patch: > > > swsusp-enable-resume-from-initrd.patch > > > > That really helps, thanks. > > You're welcome. > > > The patch looks fairly innocent. I'll give up on this and cc

Re: [linux-pm] Re: [RFC] Driver States

2005-04-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > You have a few things here that can easily conflict, and that will be > > > > developed at different paces. I like the direction that it's going, but > > > > how do you intend to do it gradually. I.e. what to do first? > > > > > > I think the first step would be for us to all agree

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > I think I have an idea on what's going on; Your system does not wake to > > APIC interrupt, and the system timer updates time only on other interrupts. > > I'm experiencing the same on a loaner ThinkPad T30. > > > > I'll try to do another patch today. Meanwhile it now should work > >

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc1-mm4] fork_connector: add a fork connector

2005-04-08 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 15:47 -0700, Jay Lan wrote: > BTW, when it happened last time, my program listening to the socket > complained about duplicate messages received. > > Unmatched seq. Rcvd=1824062, expected=1824061 <=== > Unmatched seq. Rcvd=1824062, expected=1824063 <=== >

Re: [patch] use cheaper elv_queue_empty when unplug a device

2005-04-08 Thread Nick Piggin
Jens Axboe wrote: On Fri, Apr 08 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: I guess this isn't a problem, as io contexts should be allocated comparatively rarely. It would be possible to move it out of the lock though if we really want to. Lets just keep it inside the lock, for the fast case it should just be an

ACPI/HT or Packet Scheduler BUG?

2005-04-08 Thread Tarhon-Onu Victor
I am not subscribed to this list so please CC me if you post a reply, if you need additional info or if you suggest a patch (in which I would be very interested). Occurrence: - the kernels must be compiled with Hyper Threading support (and the CPU/MB must support it); - a (tc) process is

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 3/4

2005-04-08 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Ladislav, > dev_{dbg,err} functions should print client's device name. data->id can > be dropped from message, because device is determined by bus it hangs on > (it has fixed address). Looks OK to me. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [patch] use cheaper elv_queue_empty when unplug a device

2005-04-08 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Apr 08 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 30 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > > >>So Kenneth if you could look into this one as well, to see if > >>it is worthwhile, that would be great. > > > > > >For that to work, you have to change the get_io_context() allocation to

Re: [PATCH 0/6] add generic round_up_pow2() macro

2005-04-08 Thread P
Andrew Morton wrote: Nick Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The first patch adds a generic round_up_pow2() macro to kernel.h. The remaining patches modify a few files to make use of the new macro. We already have ALIGN() and roundup_pow_of_two(). cool. It doesn't handle x={0,1} though. Maybe we

Re: [patch] use cheaper elv_queue_empty when unplug a device

2005-04-08 Thread Nick Piggin
Jens Axboe wrote: On Wed, Mar 30 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: So Kenneth if you could look into this one as well, to see if it is worthwhile, that would be great. For that to work, you have to change the get_io_context() allocation to be GFP_ATOMIC. Yes of course, thanks for picking that up. I guess

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

2005-04-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Humberto Massa wrote: > First, there is *NOT* any requirement in the GPL at all that requires > making compilers available. Otherwise it would not be possible, for > instance, have a Visual Basic GPL'd application. And yes, it is > possible. >From section 3 of the GNU GPL, version 2:

Re: [patch] use cheaper elv_queue_empty when unplug a device

2005-04-08 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Mar 30 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > >Jens Axboe wrote: > > > >>Looks good, I've been toying with something very similar for a long time > >>myself. > >> > > > >Here is another thing I just noticed that should further reduce the > >locking by at least 1, sometimes 2

Re: CCISS problems continue with 2.4.28

2005-04-08 Thread Atro Tossavainen
Mike, On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:07:50 -0600, you wrote: > Sorry, I let this one drop though the cracks. Try booting with acpi=off. > It appears the interrupt is not being detected properly. If acpi=off works > try updating the system ROM. We have been known to have buggy acpi tables. acpi=off

[PATCH 2.6.12-rc2 1/2] ppc32: fix for misreported SDRAM size on Radstone PPC7D platform

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Elston
This patch fixes the SDRAM output from /proc/cpuinfo. The previous code assumed that there was only one bank of SDRAM, and that the size in the memory configuration register was the total size. Signed-off-by: Chris Elston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PATCH 2.6.12-rc2 2/2] ppc32: add rtc hooks in PPC7D platform file

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Elston
This patch adds the hooks into the PPC7D platforms file to support the DS1337 RTC device as the clock device for the PPC7D board. Signed-off-by: Chris Elston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses

question about init procedure in linux kernel

2005-04-08 Thread Ko Yu Ting
Hi, I would like to ask why nfs and devfs are initiated in the function filesystem_setup() rather than do in the function do_init_calls()? as i see other filesystem like ext2 are initiated there by init_ext2_fs(). Can anyone tell me why ? Regards, TOM - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Marcel Lanz wrote: > git on sarge > > --- git-0.02/Makefile.orig 2005-04-07 23:06:19.0 +0200 > +++ git-0.02/Makefile 2005-04-08 09:24:28.472672224 +0200 > @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ all: $(PROG) > install: $(PROG) > install $(PROG) $(HOME)/bin/ > > -LIBS= -lssl

Re: Signing modules in Kernel 2.4

2005-04-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 10:32 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > > I found a patch for Kernels 2.6 that ensures kernel integrity by > digitally signing kernel modules. Is something similar available for > 2.4-Kernels? 2.4 kernels have a userspace insmod. so you would need to have a trusted

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Frank Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050408 01:49]: > Tony Lindgren wrote: > | * Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050407 23:28]: > | > |>I think I have an idea on what's going on; Your system does not wake to > |>APIC interrupt, and the system timer updates time only on other > interrupts. >

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 2/4

2005-04-08 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Ladislav, > Use correct macros to convert between bdc and bin. See linux/bcd.h Yes, this one is OK with me too. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 1/4

2005-04-08 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Ladislav, > Use i2c_transfer to send message, so we get proper bus locking. Looks all OK to me, let alone the lack of Signed-off-by line, as Greg underlined elsewhere. Please resent the patches with the Signed-off-by line after I finish reviewing them. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare - To

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Frank Sorenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Lindgren wrote: | * Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050407 23:28]: | |>I think I have an idea on what's going on; Your system does not wake to |>APIC interrupt, and the system timer updates time only on other interrupts. |>I'm experiencing the

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:41:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I know I can import things myself, but the reason I ask is because I've > got several SCM's I should check out _and_ I've been spending the last two > days writing my own fallback system so that I don't get screwed if nothing > out

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Matt Johnston
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:42:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > > I'm playing with monotone right now. Superficially it looks like it > > has tons of gee-whiz neato stuff... however, it's *agonizingly* slow. > > I mean glacial. A heavily

[patch 1/1] printk : drivers/block/DAC960.c

2005-04-08 Thread domen
printk() calls should include appropriate KERN_* constant. Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kj-domen/drivers/block/DAC960.c |6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN

[patch 1/1] block/cpqarray: Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant

2005-04-08 Thread domen
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h when calling pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() instead of custom macros. This patch includes dma-mapping.h explicitly because it caused errors on some architectures otherwise. See

Signing modules in Kernel 2.4

2005-04-08 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I found a patch for Kernels 2.6 that ensures kernel integrity by digitally signing kernel modules. Is something similar available for 2.4-Kernels? Kind regards Christoph - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

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

2005-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:50:14PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > 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

[patch 7/8] lib/sha1.c: fix sparse warning

2005-04-08 Thread domen
Fix lib/sha1.c:44:10: warning: cast to restricted type Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kj-domen/lib/sha1.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN lib/sha1.c~sparse-lib_sha1 lib/sha1.c ---

[patch 5/8] printk : drivers/char/applicom.c

2005-04-08 Thread domen
printk() calls should include appropriate KERN_* constant. Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kj-domen/drivers/char/applicom.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN

[patch 6/8] printk : drivers/char/ftape/compressor/zftape-compress.c

2005-04-08 Thread domen
printk() calls should include appropriate KERN_* constant. Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kj-domen/drivers/char/ftape/compressor/zftape-compress.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN

Re: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-08 Thread Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 08:28 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This patch adds the priority list data structure from Inaky > > Perez-Gonzalez to the Preempt Real-Time mutex. > > this one looks really clean. > > it makes me wonder, what is the

Re: [patch 1/1] reiserfs: make resize option auto-get new device size

2005-04-08 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 08 April 2005 10:10, Alex Zarochentsev wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 06:55:50AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, , > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > It's trivial for the resize option to auto-get the underlying device > > size, while it's harder for

Re: [patch 1/1] reiserfs: make resize option auto-get new device size

2005-04-08 Thread Alex Zarochentsev
Hi, On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 06:55:50AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, , <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It's trivial for the resize option to auto-get the underlying device size, > while > it's harder for the user. I've copied the code from jfs. > > Since of the

Re: [PATCH] Use proper seq_file api for /proc/scsi/scsi

2005-04-08 Thread Jeremy Higdon
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:56:43AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:23:46AM -0700, Jeremy Higdon wrote: > > Even if it's deprecated, wouldn't it be good to fix it as long as > > it's there, unless it hurts something else? Or at least fix the > > out of memory error,

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

2005-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:15:45PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 à 09:03 -0400, Richard B. Johnson a écrit : > > Well it doesn't make any difference. If GPL has degenerated to > > where one can't upload microcode to a device as part of its > > initialization, without

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

2005-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:15:07AM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote: > This is where you are wrong IMMHO. All that is needed for you > to distribute the hexdump blob under the GPL is a declaration > from the copyright holder saying "this, to me, is the > preferred form for modification of the firmware

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

2005-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 04:56:50AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [quoting me] > > >> No, it is completely wrong to say that the object file is merely an > >> aggregation. The two components are being coupled much more tightly > >> than in the

Re: [PATCH] Use proper seq_file api for /proc/scsi/scsi

2005-04-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:23:46AM -0700, Jeremy Higdon wrote: > > It works for those setups that already worked with 2.4.x, aka only a few > > luns. > > Even if it's deprecated, wouldn't it be good to fix it as long as > it's there, unless it hurts something else? Or at least fix the > out of

Re: /dev/random problem on 2.6.12-rc1

2005-04-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:56:51AM +0200, Simon Derr wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:36:59PM +0200, Simon Derr wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Yura Pakhuchiy wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 14:40 +0200, Patrice Martinez

Re: [PATCH] Use proper seq_file api for /proc/scsi/scsi

2005-04-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 08:56 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:23:46AM -0700, Jeremy Higdon wrote: > > > It works for those setups that already worked with 2.4.x, aka only a few > > > luns. > > > > Even if it's deprecated, wouldn't it be good to fix it as long as > >

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

2005-04-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:10:43AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > After a *lot* of discussion, it was deliberated on d-l that > > this is not that tricky at all, and that the "mere > > aggregation" clause applies to the combination, for various >

[patch 3/8] string.linux-2.6.10/lib/c: documentation strncpy()

2005-04-08 Thread domen
this clarifys the documentation on the behavier of strncpy(). Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kj-domen/lib/string.c |4 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -L lib/c.bak -puN /dev/null /dev/null diff -puN lib/string.c~comment-lib_string lib/string.c ---

[patch 4/8] serial/icom: Remove custom msescs_to_jiffies() macro

2005-04-08 Thread domen
Remove the MSECS_TO_JIFFIES() macro because msescs_to_jiffies() from jiffies.h should be used. The macro isn't referenced anywhere anyway. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kj-domen/drivers/serial/icom.h |2 -- 1 files

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-08 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050407 23:28]: > > I think I have an idea on what's going on; Your system does not wake to > APIC interrupt, and the system timer updates time only on other interrupts. > I'm experiencing the same on a loaner ThinkPad T30. > > I'll try to do another patch

[patch 2/8] correctly name the Shell sort

2005-04-08 Thread domen
As per http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/shellsort.html, this should be referred to as a Shell sort. Shell-Metzner is a misnomer. Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kj-domen/kernel/sys.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1

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