Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:14:22AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: After applying a patch, I can do a complete show-diff on the kernel tree to see the effect of it in about 0.15 seconds. How does that work? Can you stat the entire tree in that time? I measure it as being higher than that. - To

Re: Problem in log_do_checkpoint()?

2005-04-08 Thread Badari Pulavarty
I get OOPs in log_do_checkpoint() while using ext3 quotas. Is this anyway related to what you are working on ? Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address printing eip: 801aeee1 *pde = 52b31001 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU:3 EIP:

Re: [PATCH] restrict inter_module_* to its last users

2005-04-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 19:08 +0200, Jrn Engel wrote: Derived from a patch Arjan sent around. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:54:40AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:31:36AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:05:05PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:56:47PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: ... If your statement was true that Debian

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: SQL Databases like SQLite aren't slow. After applying a patch, I can do a complete show-diff on the kernel tree to see the effect of it in about 0.15 seconds. Also, I can use rsync to efficiently replicate my database

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Apr 7, 2005 6:54 PM, Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I propose that everybody who is interested, pick one of the above projects and join it, to help get it to the point of being able to losslessly import the version graph. Given the importance, I think that _all_ viable

[PATCH] Add Force Feedback interface to joydev

2005-04-08 Thread Anssi Hannula
This patch adds Force Feedback interface to joydev. I felt this necessary because games usually don't run as root while evdev usually can't be read or written by anyone else. Patch is against 2.6.12-rc2. If there is a reason this can't be applied or needs modifications, please say it :) If I

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: SQL Databases like SQLite aren't slow. After applying a patch, I can do a complete show-diff on the kernel tree to see the effect of it in about 0.15 seconds. Also, I can use rsync to efficiently replicate my database without

Odd Timer behavior in 2.6 vs 2.4 (1 extra tick)

2005-04-08 Thread jdavis
Hello, I've created a pretty straight forward timer using setitimer, and noticed some odd differences between 2.4 and 2.6, I wonder if I could get a clarification if this is the way it should work, or if I should continue to try to fix it. I create a RealTime Thread( SCHED_FIFO, maxPriority-1

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:14:22AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: After applying a patch, I can do a complete show-diff on the kernel tree to see the effect of it in about 0.15 seconds. How does that work? Can you stat the entire tree in that

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 4/4

2005-04-08 Thread James Chapman
Ladislav Michl wrote: 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,

Re: [PATCH] restrict inter_module_* to its last users

2005-04-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next step for inter_module removal. This patch makes the code conditional on its last users and shrinks the kernel binary for the huge majority of people. If we do this, nobody will get around to fixing up the remaining users. - To unsubscribe from this

Re: init process freezed after run_init_process

2005-04-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Make your own initrd and put a bash into it. Then start that, e.g. (for our linux live cd), initrd=initrd.sqfs root=/dev/ram0 init=/bin/bash I have tried these kernel parameters: init=/bin/bash init=/linuxrc init=/init init=/sbin/init None works. What's the error message? Also, after

Re: [PATCH] restrict inter_module_* to its last users

2005-04-08 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 10:48 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next step for inter_module removal. This patch makes the code conditional on its last users and shrinks the kernel binary for the huge majority of people. If we do this, nobody will get

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

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:22:00AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 à 23:07 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : 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,

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

2005-04-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 19:34 +0200, Adrian Bunk a crit : When there are several possible interpretations, you have to pick up the more conservative one, as it's not up to us to make the interpretation, but to a court. If Debian was at least consistent. Why has Debian a much more

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

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:42:51PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 à 19:34 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : When there are several possible interpretations, you have to pick up the more conservative one, as it's not up to us to make the interpretation, but to a

Re: [PATCH] restrict inter_module_* to its last users

2005-04-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 10:48 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Jrn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next step for inter_module removal. This patch makes the code conditional on its last users and shrinks the kernel binary for the huge majority of people. If we do this, nobody will get around

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:46:40AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: I can indeed stat the entire tree in that time (assuming it's in memory, of course, but my kernel trees are _always_ in memory ;), but in order to do so, I have to be good at finding the names to stat. pause ... tapity tap I

[INFO] Kernel strict versioning

2005-04-08 Thread Franco \Sensei\
Hi. I'm new in the list... please excuse me, I'm probably naive. I'm using linux from 1997, and now I'm wondering why the kernel versioning system has been so strict. I've been following the thread ``RFD: Kernel release numbering'', but still I have some concerns... Earlier versions used the

Re: ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies

2005-04-08 Thread Mingming Cao
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:40 +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 00:37, Mingming Cao wrote: Actually, we do not have to do an rbtree link and unlink for every window we search. If the reserved window(old) has no free bit and the new reservable window's is right

Re: ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies

2005-04-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 11:10 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: However I am still worried that the rw lock will allow concurrent files trying to lock the same window at the same time. Only one succeed though., high cpu usage then. And also, in the normal case the filesystem is not really full,

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Ok, but if you want to search for information in such big text files it slow, because you do linear search No I don't. I don't search for _anything_. I have my own content-addressable filesystem, and I guarantee you that it's faster than

[-mm patch] x86_64: kill obsolete check_nmi_watchdog prototype

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:14:19AM +0200, Mickael Marchand wrote: ... - compiling 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 on amd64 : arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c:116: error: static declaration of 'check_nmi_watchdog' follows non-static declaration include/asm/apic.h:102: error: previous declaration of

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-08 Thread AsterixTheGaul
Its a T41 without p :) On Apr 8, 2005 9:09 PM, Nish Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 7, 2005 11:28 PM, AsterixTheGaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I have the same problem on a T41p with 2.6.11 and 2.6.12-rc2, except that neither returns from suspend-to-ram with video restored

Re: kernel compile

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:09:18PM -0400, Allison wrote: Hi, Is it possible to compile a 2.4.20 kernel on a 2.6 system ? And use the new image successfully ? It doesn't matter what the system you are compiling on is running. thanks, Allison cu Adrian -- Is there not promise of

Re: [PATCH] restrict inter_module_* to its last users

2005-04-08 Thread Jörn Engel
On Fri, 8 April 2005 10:48:26 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next step for inter_module removal. This patch makes the code conditional on its last users and shrinks the kernel binary for the huge majority of people. If we do this, nobody will get

Re: [patch 3/8] lib/c: documentation strncpy()

2005-04-08 Thread Domen Puncer
this clarifys the documentation on the behavier of strncpy(). From: walter harms [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [Geez, again, next time i'll send them to myself first] kj-domen/lib/string.c |4 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -puN

Re: [-mm patch] x86_64: kill obsolete check_nmi_watchdog prototype

2005-04-08 Thread Mickael Marchand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Bunk a écrit : On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:14:19AM +0200, Mickael Marchand wrote: ... - compiling 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 on amd64 : arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c:116: error: static declaration of 'check_nmi_watchdog' follows non-static declaration

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Jon Smirl
On Apr 8, 2005 2:14 PM, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you replicate your database incrementally? I've given you enough clues to do it for git in probably five lines of perl. Efficient database replication is achieved by copying the transaction logs and then replaying

Re: kernel compile

2005-04-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 20:17 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:09:18PM -0400, Allison wrote: Hi, Is it possible to compile a 2.4.20 kernel on a 2.6 system ? And use the new image successfully ? It doesn't matter what the system you are compiling on is running. ...

RE: [patch] sched: unlocked context-switches

2005-04-08 Thread Luck, Tony
tested on x86, and all other arches should work as well, but if an architecture has irqs-off assumptions in its switch_to() logic it might break. (I havent found any but there may such assumptions.) The ia64_switch_to() code includes a section that can change a pinned MMU mapping (when the

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: Well... it took me over 30 seconds just to 'rm -rf' the unpacked tarballs of git and sparse-git, over my LAN's NFS. Don't use NFS for development. It sucks for BK too. That said, normal _use_ should actually be pretty efficient even over NFS. It

[PATCH] Use ALIGN to remove duplicate code

2005-04-08 Thread Nick Wilson
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:50:42PM -0700, 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().

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

2005-04-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 20:01 +0200, Adrian Bunk a crit : Because we already know that patents on MP3 decoders are not enforceable. Furthermore, the holders of these patents have repeatedly How do you know the patents aren't enforceable? Because decoding a MP3 is a trivial operation.

Re: [patch] bug fix in usbdevfs

2005-04-08 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 07:51:23PM -0500, Christopher Li wrote: Hi, I am sorry that the last patch about 32 bit compat ioctl on 64 bit kernel actually breaks the usbdevfs. That is on the current BK tree. I am retarded. Here is the patch to fix it. Tested with USB hard disk and webcam in

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:47:10AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Don't use NFS for development. It sucks for BK too. Some times NFS is unavoidable. In the best case (see previous email wrt to only stat'ing the parent directories when you can) for a current kernel though you can get away with

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jon Smirl: On Apr 8, 2005 2:14 PM, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you replicate your database incrementally? I've given you enough clues to do it for git in probably five lines of perl. Efficient database replication is achieved by copying the transaction logs and

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote: Actually, I could probably make this *much* still faster with a caveat. Given that my editor when I write a file will write a temporary file and rename it, for files in directories where nlink==2 I can check chat first and skip the stat of the

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

2005-04-08 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:19:44PM +0100, Ian Molton wrote: 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. Here's some comments on the patch itself. I'm

Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:08:28PM -0500, Franco Sensei wrote: ... Actually changing a kernel results in creating a /lib/modules/version directory, creating a heavy confusion for a user, especially when compiling other modules outside the official kernel release: he juts looses the modules

Re: Linux Alpha port: kernel panik under moderate DISK IO conditions

2005-04-08 Thread Richard Henderson
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 04:57:11PM +0200, Rao Davide wrote: My name is David Rao and I have an old alpha DS10 ds10 (ev6 Tsunami-webbrick cpu) with internal HDU on a LSI controller and external HSZ80 storage attached to a Qlogic. Well, the CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP driver isn't supported, and

[PATCH] Re: LIBATA AHCI engine timeout hang with ATAPI devices

2005-04-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Eric A. Cottrell wrote: Hello, I made the mistake of getting the Plextor SATA DVD Recorder with my new system not realizing that SATA support is just coming online. I want to turn this into an opportunity to make the Plextor work. Thanks to the IDE information pages I got a good start. I

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Ok, but if you want to search for information in such big text files it slow, because you do linear search No I don't. I don't search for _anything_. I have my own content-addressable filesystem, and I guarantee you

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:03:49PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Yes, doing the stat just on the directory (on leaf directories only, of course, but nlink==2 does say that on most filesystems) is indeed a huge potential speedup. Here I measure about 6ms for cache --- essentially below the

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: But as mentioned you need to _open_ each file (It doesn't matter if it's cached (this speeds up only reading it) -- you need a _slow_ system call and _very slow_ hardware access anyway). Nope. System calls aren't slow. What crappy OS are

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Chris Wedgwood: It doesn't matter so much for the cached case, but it _does_ matter for the uncached one. Doing the minimal stat cold-cache here is about 6s for local disk. Does sorting by inode number make a difference? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote: It doesn't matter so much for the cached case, but it _does_ matter for the uncached one. Doing the minimal stat cold-cache here is about 6s for local disk. I'm somewhat surprised it's that bad actually. One of the reasons I do inode numbers

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

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:24:42PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: [...] On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:26:31PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: Hi Adrian, Hi Paolo, Paulo, please :) ... The second name I got wrong today... Sorry. ... Joerg's list of recursions should be

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: But as mentioned you need to _open_ each file (It doesn't matter if it's cached (this speeds up only reading it) -- you need a _slow_ system call and _very slow_ hardware access anyway). Nope. System calls aren't

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:38:09PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Does sorting by inode number make a difference? It almost certainly would. But I can sort more intelligently than that even (all the world isn't ext2/3). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

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

2005-04-08 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:43:55 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote: | On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:24:42PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: | Adrian Bunk wrote: | [...] | On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:26:31PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: | | Hi Adrian, | | ... | Joerg's list of recursions should be valid

[2.4] Fix introduced in 2.4.27pre2 for bluetooth hci_usb race causes kernel hang

2005-04-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
Hello. I have noticed a problem with a race condition fix introduced in 2.4.27-pre2 that causes the kernel to hang when disconnecting a Bluetooth USB dongle or doing 'hciconfig hci0 down'. No message is printed, the kernel just doesn't respond anymore. Seen in Changelog: Marcel Holtmann: o

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

2005-04-08 Thread Rich Walker
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:42:51PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 à 19:34 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : GFDL documentation will still be available in the non-free archive. Assuming you have an online connection and a friend told

Re: [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver

2005-04-08 Thread Kylene Jo Hall
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:14 -0500, Kylene Jo Hall wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 13:33 -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 04:04:25PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:02:24PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Kylene Hall wrote: what is the

Uncached stat performace [ Was: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. ]

2005-04-08 Thread Ragnar Kjrstad
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:39:26PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: One of the reasons I do inode numbers in the index file (apart from checking that the inode hasn't changed) is in fact that stat() is damn slow if it causes seeks. Since your stat loop is entirely You can optimize your stat()

Re: Uncached stat performace [ Was: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. ]

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:11:51PM +0200, Ragnar Kj?rstad wrote: It does, so why isn't there a way to do this without the disgusting hack? (Your words, not mine :) ) inode sorting probably a good guess for a number of filesystems, you can map the blocks used to do better still (somewhat fs

'BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled' when umounting NFS volume

2005-04-08 Thread Lee Revell
Kernel is 2.6.12-rc1-RT-V0.7.43-05. BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled: umount/0x/20612 caller is schedule_timeout+0x63/0xc0 [c01033d3] dump_stack+0x23/0x30 (20) [c02b4f5a] schedule+0xea/0x140 (36) [c02b5b23] schedule_timeout+0x63/0xc0 (64) [c02b5744]

Re: [PATCH] s390: claw network device driver

2005-04-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! As mentioned in the email, you want netdev, not linux-net... Just out of curiosity: why are there two mailing lists? Especially if one of them is the Wrong One. shrug linux-net is mostly dead. I get the impression it is occasionally used by users. netdev (as, perhaps, the

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

2005-04-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:15 -0500, K.R. Foley wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:22 +0100, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: Our first victim!! :-) No kidding!? V0.7.44-02 does not even compile for me. It appears to be full of merge errors. I must be in the

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

2005-04-08 Thread K.R. Foley
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:15 -0500, K.R. Foley wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:22 +0100, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: Our first victim!! :-) No kidding!? V0.7.44-02 does not even compile for me. It appears to be full of merge errors. I must be in the twilight zone

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

2005-04-08 Thread Jay Lan
My workarea was based on 2.6.12-rc1-mm4 plus Guilluame's patch. Your patch caused 5 out of 8 hunks failure at connector.c and one failure at connector.h. Could you generate a new patch based on my version? A tar file of complete source of drivers/connector would work also. :) Thanks! - jay

Re: 'BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled' when umounting NFS volume

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Walker
I submitted a fix for this a while ago, I think .. interruptible_sleep_on()'s are broken .. Daniel On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 13:15, Lee Revell wrote: Kernel is 2.6.12-rc1-RT-V0.7.43-05. BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled: umount/0x/20612 caller is schedule_timeout+0x63/0xc0

Re: PCI-Express not working/unuseable on Intel 925XE Chipset since 2.6.12-rc1[mm1-4]

2005-04-08 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 21:23 +0200, Jacek Luczak wrote: Michael Thonke napisa(a): Hello Jacek, I finially got it working :-) my PCI-Express devices working now... I grabbed the last bk-snapshot from kernel.org 2.6.12-rc1-bk3 and et volia everything except the Marvell Yokon PCI-E device

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

2005-04-08 Thread David Schwartz
I think the derivative work angle is a red herring. I do not think that either of the two parts that are being linked together (i.e. the driver and the firmware) are derivates of the other. The relevant point is that distribution of the linked _result_ is nevertheless subject to the

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Luck
It looks like an operation like show me the history of mm/memory.c will be pretty expensive using git. I'd need to look at the current tree, and then trace backwards through all 60,000 changesets to see which ones had actual changes to this file. Could you expand the tuple in the tree object to

Re: Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-08 Thread Richard B. Johnson
It wasn't the kernel. Many thanks to those who helped me track down this problem. It seems that the 'C' runtime library was trapping the call to reboot() which probably should have been _reboot() in earlier code to prevent this. Anyway, the fix is to call the kernel directly so it doesn't get

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

2005-04-08 Thread Linda Dunaphant
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:11, Trond Myklebust wrote: I'm a bit unclear as to what your end-goal is here. Is it basically to ensure that fstat() always return the correct value for the mtime? The reason I ask is that I think your change is likely to have nasty consequences for the general

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

2005-04-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:26 -0500, K.R. Foley wrote: Lee Revell wrote: Meh, I'll try again, maybe it's some weird NFS problem. Lee Hmm. Maybe. I should probably mention that I am doing an FC3 install via NFS from my older SMP system right now while also building V0.7.44-03.

Re: [PATCH] radeonfb: (#2) Implement proper workarounds for PLL accesses

2005-04-08 Thread Andreas Schwab
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 01:58 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, that's very extreme, I suspect somebody is banging on set_par or something like that. fb_setcolreg is it. Ok, what about

patch to fix bashism

2005-04-08 Thread Han Boetes
Hi, This patch fixes a three bashisms in scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh; I'm not sure of the intention of the second change (local name=...). So it's very well possible that: + local name=${location%/$srcdir} is more appropriate. --- scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh.orig 2005-03-27

usbdux registers, but communcation to device times out

2005-04-08 Thread Melanie Dumas
Hello, I am working with Fedora Core 2 and the regular (not fast) usbdux controller. We recently upgraded our Dell 2650 machine from RH 9.0 (kernel 2.4) to Fedora Core 2, kernel 2.6.10-1.771_FC2smp. The usb-dux controller worked great on our old kernel, but the new kernel has the following

RE: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-08 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
From: Daniel Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 23:28, Ingo Molnar wrote: this one looks really clean. it makes me wonder, what is the current status of fusyn's? Such a light datastructure would be much more mergeable upstream than the former 100-queues approach.

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like an operation like show me the history of mm/memory.c will be pretty expensive using git. Yes. Per-file history is expensive in git, because if the way it is indexed. Things are indexed by tree and by changeset, and there are no

A way to smoothly overgive graphics control to an other process/program

2005-04-08 Thread Dennis Heuer
Hello, I feel disturbed by the fact that when display-controlling programs are started in line (like the bootloader, linux, and finally xdm/gdm/kdm), there appear several switches of display resolution, text- and graphics mode, and background images. I asked myself how to get that more smooth

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

2005-04-08 Thread K.R. Foley
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:26 -0500, K.R. Foley wrote: Lee Revell wrote: Meh, I'll try again, maybe it's some weird NFS problem. Lee Hmm. Maybe. I should probably mention that I am doing an FC3 install via NFS from my older SMP system right now while also building V0.7.44-03.

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

2005-04-08 Thread Frank Sorenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Lindgren wrote: * Frank Sorenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050408 01:49]: This updated patch seems to work just fine on my machine with lapic on the cmdline and CONFIG_DYN_TICK_USE_APIC disabled. Also, you were correct that removing lapic from the

Re: 'BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled' when umounting NFS volume

2005-04-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 13:38 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: I submitted a fix for this a while ago, I think .. interruptible_sleep_on()'s are broken .. I saw the fix in -stable, but it does not seem to be in 2.6.12-rc2. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

IDE CMD 64x PCI driver

2005-04-08 Thread Rob Gubler
Hello, I am having difficultly getting the IDE CMD 64x PCI driver to work for the CMD PCI-648 device. I have decided to dig through kernel and driver code to find out why and hopefully correct the problem. I am running linux, version 2.4.21, on a PowerPC in the PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) form

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Friday 08 April 2005 13:24, Jon Masters wrote: On Apr 7, 2005 6:54 PM, Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I propose that everybody who is interested, pick one of the above projects and join it, to help get it to the point of being able to losslessly import the version graph.

Re: [stable] [patch 1/1] uml: quick fix syscall table [urgent]

2005-04-08 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:38:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm resending this for inclusion in the -stable tree. I've deleted whitespace cleanups, and hope this can be merged. I've been asked to split the former patch, I don't know if I must split again this

Re: [PATCH] [fix Bug 4395] modprobe bttv freezes the computer

2005-04-08 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:55:52PM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Here's a patch that fixes http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4395. In case there's a 2.6.11.7 before 2.6.12 is released it would be nice to include this patch there, too. Thanks, I've added this to the stable queue.

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

2005-04-08 Thread Jay Lan
Hi Evgeniy, Forget about my previous request of a new patch. The failures were straight forward enough to figure out. - jay Jay Lan wrote: My workarea was based on 2.6.12-rc1-mm4 plus Guilluame's patch. Your patch caused 5 out of 8 hunks failure at connector.c and one failure at connector.h. Could

Re: [PATCH] 'is_enabled' flag should be set/cleared when the device is actually enabled/disabled

2005-04-08 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:53:31PM +0900, Kenji Kaneshige wrote: Hi, I think 'is_enabled' flag in pci_dev structure should be set/cleared when the device actually enabled/disabled. Especially about pci_enable_device(), it can be failed. By this change, we will also get the possibility of

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.12-rc1-mm3 Fix ver_linux script for no udev utils.

2005-04-08 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:30:56AM -0700, Steven Cole wrote: Without the attached patch, the ver_linux script gives the following if udev utils are not present. ./scripts/ver_linux: line 90: udevinfo: command not found The patch causes ver_linux to be silent in the case of no udevinfo

Re: [PATCH] Reduce linux/debugfs.h dependencies

2005-04-08 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 09:16:58AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: The current linux/debugfs.h include file is a little fragile in that it is not self-contained and hence may cause compile warnings or errors depending on the files included before it, the kernel config and the architecture. This

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

2005-04-08 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:08:13 -0700 Jay Lan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Evgeniy, Forget about my previous request of a new patch. The failures were straight forward enough to figure out. Ok. The latest sources are always awailable at http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/archive/connector - jay

Re: Odd Timer behavior in 2.6 vs 2.4 (1 extra tick)

2005-04-08 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 10:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've created a pretty straight forward timer using setitimer, and noticed some odd differences between 2.4 and 2.6, I wonder if I could get a clarification if this is the way it should work, or if I should continue to try

Re: set keyboard repeat rate: EVIOCGREP and EVIOCSREP

2005-04-08 Thread Vernon Mauery
Vernon Mauery wrote: I was wondering if anyone knows how to change the repeatrate on a USB keyboard with a 2.4 kernel. The system is a legacy free system (no ps2 port), so kbdrate does nothing. With evdev loaded, the keyboard and mouse (both USB devices) get registered with the event

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Jan Dittmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: - The bk-acpi patch here causes my ia64 test box to hang during boot bk-ia64.patch ia64 defconfig does not even build anymore: CC [M] drivers/char/agp/hp-agp.o In file included from

PCMAC: 130US$ == Adobe Photoshop v7 ++ Adobe Premiere v7 ++ Adobe Illustrator v10, for download

2005-04-08 Thread edaphology
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Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
Linus wrote: It looks like an operation like show me the history of mm/memory.c will be pretty expensive using git. Yes. Per-file history is expensive in git, because if the way it is indexed. Things are indexed by tree and by changeset, and there are no per-file indexes. Although directory

Re: [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O

2005-04-08 Thread Benjamin LaHaise
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 12:43:02PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: - switch all current semaphore users that don't need counting semaphores over to use a mutex_t type. For now it can map to struct semaphore. - rip out all existing complicated struct semaphore implementations and

Re: A way to smoothly overgive graphics control to an other process/program

2005-04-08 Thread Måns Rullgård
Dennis Heuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I feel disturbed by the fact that when display-controlling programs are started in line (like the bootloader, linux, and finally xdm/gdm/kdm), there appear several switches of display resolution, text- and graphics mode, and background images. I

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: I really disliked that in BitKeeper too originally. I argued with Larry about it, but Larry (correctly, I believe) argued that efficient and reliable distribution really requires the concept of history is immutable. It makes replication much

RE: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:25, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: I concur with Daniel. If we can decide how to deal with that (toss one out, keep one, merge them, whatever), we could reuse all the user space glue that is the hardest part to get right. I have a preference to the Real-Time PI ,

Re: [PATCH 2/4] cifs: cleanup asn1.c - kfree

2005-04-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:01:45PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: Remove redundant NULL pointer check before calling kfree(). Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4/fs/cifs/asn1.c.with_patch1 2005-04-04

RE: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-08 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
From: Daniel Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Current tip of development has some issues with conditional variables and broadcasts (requeue stuff) that I need to sink my teeth in. Joe Korty is fixing up a lot of corner cases I wasn't catching, but other than that is doing fine. You try to

Re: LIBATA AHCI engine timeout hang with ATAPI devices

2005-04-08 Thread Eric A. Cottrell
Jeff Garzik wrote: You need something like the attached patch. In general, ATAPI is still very much experimental at this point. One known bug that affects libata is that ATAPI DMA is not aligned to a 4-byte boundary. Hello, Thanks. I already have that patch applied. I will poke around the

2.4.25+ ppc32 make xconfig error

2005-04-08 Thread Kevin Diggs
Hi, The make xconfig command spits out the following error (warning): ERROR - Attempting to write value for unconfigured variable (CONFIG_ALTIVEC). This is on a PowerMac 8600 running YellowDog 2.1. Commenting the VMX thing for the Power4 in arch/ppc/config.in fixes the problem: [EMAIL

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