Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] print an explanation why i810 fb doesn't come up

2005-04-13 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Monday 28 March 2005 20:30, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > I've spent silly amonunt of time trying to use i810 fb on my new spiffy > flat panel. This patch will hopefully help other poor souls. > > Patch also fixes module parameter comments. Thanks, should help. Tony - To unsubscribe from this

Feriado em Campos - linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

2005-04-13 Thread Feriado
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Re: hard lockup on nx5000 laptop with 2.6.11+hack and FC2's 2.6.10-1.770_FC2

2005-04-13 Thread Yu, Luming
Do you have acpi enabled? If the problem just happend with acpi enabled, please try latest acpi patch through testing latest mm tree, If it still doesn't work, please file a bug on www.kernel.org Thanks, Luming On Thursday 07 April 2005 09:42, Ben Greear wrote: > Several wierd things with my

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

2005-04-13 Thread Raul Miller
> > What compels you to agree with an EULA? On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 06:54:29PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > If you do not agree with the EULA, you cannot and do not acquire > lawful possession of the work. What about cases where you pay for the software before you're allowed to see the

Re: 2.4.30 Oops when connecting external USB hard drive

2005-04-13 Thread Willy Tarreau
You may try to unload the ehci-hcd driver and load only uhci and check if it still happens. I guess from the trace that the problem lies in the ehci driver itself. Regards, willy On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 07:39:11PM +0200, Kiniger wrote: > Pls see the hand-copied decoded backtrace. > > It happens

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

2005-04-13 Thread Kyle Moffett
This thread should probably get moved off-list soon, it's like beating the dead horse long after its flesh has decayed and its bones disintegrated to dust. On Apr 13, 2005, at 21:54, David Schwartz wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:05:59PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: Yes, the GPL can give you

pcmcia/cardbus issue

2005-04-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hi ! I'm occasionally getting "pcmcia: voltage interrogation timed out" error when inserting a cardbus card on TI1510 based laptops here. I haven't yet reproduced on other models. This happens with 2.6.12-rc2. The card isn't detected right after insertion, then about 10 seconds later, it is

iproute/iptables best?

2005-04-13 Thread Gene Heskett
Scenario: 1 machine, two net cards, two networks How can we make the reply to an action go back out through the route it came in on? As it exists, queries, ssh sessions etc coming in thru a vpn from one router are being replied to on the default gateways card that hits the other network. Is

Re: security issue: hard disk lock

2005-04-13 Thread Mark Lord
hdparm-6.0 is currently winding through release channels, and includes support for freezing/managing the security status. Cheers - 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: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread bd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le mercredi 13 avril 2005 Ã 10:25 +0100, David Woodhouse a Ãcrit : > >>On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:59 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: >> >>>Theoretically, you are never supposed to share your index if you work >>>in fully git

[patch] sched: fix sched domain degenerate

2005-04-13 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
Appended patch makes sched domain degenerate really work. For example, now NUMA domain really gets removed on a non-NUMA system. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3/kernel/sched.c 2005-04-13 11:15:00.942609504 -0700 +++ linux-mc/kernel/sched.c

Re: [RFC][PATCH] X86_64: no legacy HPET fix

2005-04-13 Thread Venkatesh Pallipadi
This adds another timer combination of PIT/HPET to go with HPET/HPET, HPET/TSC and PIT/TSC! This system that has HPET and doesn't have Legacy support, does it support routing HPET interrupts through IOAPIC in standard routing option? If yes, then I think adding support to route HPET interrupts

RE: Why system call need to copy the date from the userspace before using it

2005-04-13 Thread David Schwartz
> Catalin Marinas wrote: > >Tomko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Inside the system call , the kernel often copy the data by calling > >>copy_from_user() rather than just using strcpy(), is it because the > >>memory mapping in kenel space is different from user space? > >No, it is because this

Re: Why system call need to copy the date from the userspace before using it

2005-04-13 Thread Tomko
Catalin Marinas wrote: Tomko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Inside the system call , the kernel often copy the data by calling copy_from_user() rather than just using strcpy(), is it because the memory mapping in kenel space is different from user space? No, it is because this function checks

[PATCH 1/2 - 2.6.11.7] x25 : Selective subaddress matching with call user data

2005-04-13 Thread Shaun Pereira
Hi This is the first (independent of the second) patch of two that I am working on with x25 on linux (tested with xot on a cisco router). Details are as follows. Current state of module: A server using the current implementation (2.6.11.7) of the x25 module will accept a call request/ incoming

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

2005-04-13 Thread David Schwartz
> It seems to me, that to be consistent with the argument you seem to be > presenting concerning binary data in GPLd code, that you also need to be > demanding the "source" hardware design for binary register values. > > Why not consider the binary firmware in the same category as binary >

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

2005-04-13 Thread David Schwartz
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:05:59PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > Yes, the GPL can give you rights you wouldn't otherwise have. A > > EULA can take away rights you would otherwise have. > What compels you to agree with an EULA? If you do not agree with the EULA, you cannot and do

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

2005-04-13 Thread David Schwartz
> >Would you agree that compiling and linking a program that > >uses a library creates a derivative work of that library? > No. Compiling and linking are mechanical, > non-intellectually-novel acts. At most, you have a collective > work where the real intellectually-novel work was to select >

[GIT PATCH] scsi updates for 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-13 Thread James Bottomley
This is a small set of bugfixes for 2.6.12-rc2 ... you asked me to try git, so I did (I actually updated my bk backport script simply to export from a BK tree to a git tree). For the time being, I plan to keep the scsi changes in BK, but I'll export them for you to try merging The patch (against

RE: [PATCH] kernel 2.6.11.6 - I2C adaptor for ColdFire 5282 CPU

2005-04-13 Thread Derek Cheung
OK, hope this patch can satisfy everyone :-) The following is the diffstat of the enclosed patch file: drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig | 10 drivers/i2c/busses/Makefile |1 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mcf5282.c | 414 +++

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-13 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > The dmcrypt swap can only be unlocked by the user with a passphrase, > which is analogous to how you unlock your ssh private key stored > on the disk using a passphrase. We talk about the unlocked system getting hacked. However I am not why the hacker

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-13 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > The ssh keys are *encrypted* in the swap when dmcrypt is used. > When the swap runs over dmcrypt all writes including those from > swsusp are encrypted. The problem is that after an resume the running system has access to the swap, because the key is

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 April 2005 20:20, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Don't think so - it works OK here. Checked the .config? Does the > serial > > > > port work if you do `echo foo > /dev/ttyS0'? ACPI?

Linux Audio Conference 2005 Live Audio/Video streams

2005-04-13 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
hi everyone! for those interested in linux audio development, the linux audio conference 2005 (http://lac.zkm.de) at the center for arts and media in karlsruhe/germany will be streamed live in both vorbis and theora formats. the conference takes place from april 21 - 24, with lectures and

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-13 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:26:47PM -0400, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:09:39PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:43:37PM -0400, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote: > > > Ahh. Thanks Herbert. > > > > > > Matt, > > > > > > Any insight on how to test syn cookies and

Re: [PATCH] PC300 pci_enable_device fix

2005-04-13 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:02:43PM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:31:43PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > >Call pci_enable_device() before looking at IRQ and resources. > >The driver requires this fix or the "pci=routeirq" workaround > >on 2.6.10 and later

SLEEP_ON_BKLCHECK

2005-04-13 Thread tsuchiya yoshihiro
Hi, (BIn Fedora Core3, interruptible_sleep_on() checks if the system is (Block_kernel()'ed (Bby SLEEP_ON_BKLCHECK. Same thing is done in RedHatEL4. (BAlso I found a patch including SLEEP_ON_BKLCHECK was posted before, (Bbut is not included in 2.6.11. (BWhy SLEEP_ON_BKLCHECK checks

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 13 April 2005 20:20, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Don't think so - it works OK here. Checked the .config? Does the serial > > > port work if you do `echo foo > /dev/ttyS0'? ACPI? > > > > Turned out it was some old ups software that got

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-13 Thread Matt Mackall
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:46:02AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > On ??t 14-04-05 09:39:04, Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:24:31AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > > > The ssh keys are *encrypted* in the swap when dmcrypt is used. > > > > When the swap runs over dmcrypt all

Re: [PATCH] ppc64: improve g5 sound headphone mute

2005-04-13 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:23:02PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Hi ! > > This patch fixes a couple more issues with the management of the GPIOs > dealing with headphone and line out mute on the G5. It should fix the > remaining problems of people not getting any sound out of the

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-13 Thread Jean-Luc Cooke
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:09:39PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:43:37PM -0400, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote: > > Ahh. Thanks Herbert. > > > > Matt, > > > > Any insight on how to test syn cookies and the other network stuff in > > random.c? My patch is attached, but I havn't

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Don't think so - it works OK here. Checked the .config? Does the serial > > port work if you do `echo foo > /dev/ttyS0'? ACPI? > > Turned out it was some old ups software that got reactivated on the box > displaying the > console - was a pain

Re: CDR read problems with 2.6.11?

2005-04-13 Thread Bradley Reed
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 02:03:07 +0200 "Bernd Schubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen exactly the same on my fathers computer and could solve this > by not starting the udftools. Didn't have the time to digg further into > this... > Can you confirm thats really a udf problem? Just run >

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 07:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Monday 11 April 2005 04:25, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > > > > > > > > - The anticipatory I/O

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-13 Thread Matt Mackall
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:42:11AM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now if you can assume that blobs never change and are never deleted, > > you can simply append them all onto a log, and then index them with a > > separate file containing an htree

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-13 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:43:37PM -0400, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote: > Ahh. Thanks Herbert. > > Matt, > > Any insight on how to test syn cookies and the other network stuff in > random.c? My patch is attached, but I havn't tested that part yet. For starters, this is not against anything like a

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 6/10] tg3: use new TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS flag

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Replace a number of two-way if statements checking for 5750, and/or 5752 to reference the newly-defined TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS flag instead. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tg3.c | 38 +- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 25

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 1/10] tg3: add basic bcm5752 support

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Track-down all references to ASIC_REV_5750 and mirror them with references to the newly defined ASIC_REV_5752. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tg3.c | 63 -- 1 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 21

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 7/10] tg3: more use of TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS flag

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Rewrite of a couple of troublesome multi-way if statements to use TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS flag. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tg3.c | 12 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- bcm5752-support/drivers/net/tg3.c.orig 2005-04-08

Re: CDR read problems with 2.6.11?

2005-04-13 Thread Bernd Schubert
[...] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~[1009]# mount /mnt/cdrom > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, >missing codepage or other error >In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try >dmesg | tail or so > [...] > The drive is a NEC DVD+RW

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 3/10] tg3: add bcm5752 entry to pci_ids.h

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Add proper entry for bcm5752 PCI ID to pci_ids.h, and use it in tg3. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- I did this separately in case patches like this (i.e. new PCI IDs) need to come from more "official" sources. drivers/net/tg3.c |2 +- include/linux/pci_ids.h |

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 8/10] tg3: use TG3_FLG2_57{05,50}_PLUS flags in tg3_get_invariants

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Rewrite checks in tg3_get_invariants to use TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS and TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS flags. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tg3.c |7 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- bcm5752-support/drivers/net/tg3.c.orig 2005-04-08

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 10/10] tg3: add support for bcm5752 rev a1

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Replace existing ASIC_REV_5752 definition with ASIC_REV_5752_A0, and add definition for ASIC_REV_5752_A1. Then, add ASIC_REV_5752_A1 to check for setting TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS in tg3_get_invariants. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tg3.c |3 ++-

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-13 Thread Pavel Machek
On Ät 14-04-05 09:39:04, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:24:31AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > The ssh keys are *encrypted* in the swap when dmcrypt is used. > > > When the swap runs over dmcrypt all writes including those from > > > swsusp are encrypted. > > > > Andreas is

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 2/10] tg3: add bcm5752 to tg3_pci_tbl

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Add hard-coded definition of bcm5752 PCI ID to tg3_pci_tbl. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Next patch will change entry to use pci_ids.h-based definition. drivers/net/tg3.c |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+) --- bcm5752-support/drivers/net/tg3.c.orig

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 5/10] tg3: define TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS flag

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Define TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS flag and set it in tg3_get_invariants for ASIC_REV_5750 or ASIC_REV_5752. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tg3.c |4 drivers/net/tg3.h |1 + 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+) --- bcm5752-support/drivers/net/tg3.c.orig

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 0/10] add bcm5752 support plus some cleanup to tg3

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Add support to tg3 for bcm5752 hardware. Also clean-up a lot of multi-way if statements and replace them with checks of flags representing classes of tg3 hardware. Patches to follow... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 9/10] tg3: check TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS flag to set TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS flag

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Use check of TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS in tg3_get_invariants to set TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS flag. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tg3.c |9 - 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- bcm5752-support/drivers/net/tg3.c.orig 2005-04-08

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 4/10] tg3: use TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS instead of multi-way if's

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Replace a number of three-way if statements checking for 5705, 5750, and 5752 to reference the equivalent TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS flag instead. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tg3.c | 16 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) ---

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-13 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now if you can assume that blobs never change and are never deleted, > you can simply append them all onto a log, and then index them with a > separate file containing an htree of (sha1, offset, length) or the > like. That mean a problem with rsync,

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-13 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:24:31AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > The ssh keys are *encrypted* in the swap when dmcrypt is used. > > When the swap runs over dmcrypt all writes including those from > > swsusp are encrypted. > > Andreas is right. They are encrypted in swap, but they should not be

CDR read problems with 2.6.11?

2005-04-13 Thread Bradley Reed
I am running 2.6.11 with -ac4 and realtime-preempt-2.6.11-final-V0.7.40-00 patches. Up to now, no complaints, great job everyone. Today I burnt two data backup CDs onto CD-R (I used k3b if it matters) and the burn went 100% fine. No errors, I can read the disks on other computers or on this one

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-13 Thread Pavel Machek
On Ät 14-04-05 09:10:44, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:29:36AM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > > > > > Why is that? In the case of swap over dmcrypt, swsusp never reads/writes > > > the disk directly. All operations are done through dmcrypt. > > > > > > The user has to enter a

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

2005-04-13 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:00:06PM -0400, Ross Biro wrote: > > If you take a look at quirks.c and DMI options you will see we have quite > > a lot > > of workarounds for various hardware bug. Just imagine there were > > CONFIG options for all of this. It would be a big mess! > > The

[PATCH][TRIVIAL][DOCUMENTATION] - Version clarification - support status of 3com OfficeConnect card

2005-04-13 Thread Daniel Andersen
Version 2 of the 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 is not supported by the prism54 project. To stop confusion, the kernel documentation should state so as 3com made a good job hiding the version difference. Daniel Andersen -- --- linux/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig.orig

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-13 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:29:36AM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > > > Why is that? In the case of swap over dmcrypt, swsusp never reads/writes > > the disk directly. All operations are done through dmcrypt. > > > > The user has to enter a password before the system can be resumed. > > Think

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2-mm3] serial: update NEC VR4100 series serial support

2005-04-13 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:02:48 +0100 Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:18:27PM +0900, Yoichi Yuasa wrote: > > static struct uart_ops early_uart_ops = { > > - .set_termios= early_set_termios, > > + .set_termios= siu_set_termios, > > }; > > In this

Re: [patch] sched: fix active load balance

2005-04-13 Thread Nick Piggin
Siddha, Suresh B wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:08:28PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Siddha, Suresh B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - for_each_domain(target_cpu, sd) { + for_each_domain(target_cpu, sd) if ((sd->flags & SD_LOAD_BALANCE) && -

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

2005-04-13 Thread Ross Biro
On 13 Apr 2005 20:37:25 +0200, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > \> > > You're argument that no one can make sense of such options is totally off > > base. Once you are having a problem, it's pretty easy to see if it's related > > I dont think it is in any way help to put suche highly

Re: [PATCH] Maintainers list update: linux-net -> netdev

2005-04-13 Thread George Anzinger
Horms wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:14:56PM -0700, George Anzinger wrote: Horms wrote: Use netdev as the mailing list contact instead of the mostly dead linux-net list. ~ PHRAM MTD DRIVER @@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ POSIX CLOCKS and TIMERS P: George Anzinger M: george@mvista.com -L:

Re: [Bug] invalid mac address after rebooting (2.6.12-rc2-mm2)

2005-04-13 Thread Peter Baumann
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:24:04PM +0200, Daniel Ritz wrote: > On Tuesday 12 April 2005 11:09, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Peter Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:52:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Peter Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-13 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Herbert Xu wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:59:28PM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > >>Herbert Xu wrote: >> >>>What's wrong with using swap over dmcrypt + initramfs? People have >>>already used that to do encrypted swsusp. >> >>Nothing. The problem is the fact that after resume there is then

Re: [PATCH] PC300 pci_enable_device fix

2005-04-13 Thread Ashok Raj
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:31:43PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > >Call pci_enable_device() before looking at IRQ and resources. >The driver requires this fix or the "pci=routeirq" workaround >on 2.6.10 and later kernels. the failure cases dont seem to worry about

Re: [OSS] Add CXT48 to modem black list in ac97

2005-04-13 Thread SuD (Alex)
Herbert Xu wrote: BTW Alex, if you have the time please determine whether ALSA works properly on your machine. Yes, alsa works, it's what i'm using now. About how alsa detects the hardware, i have been reading some sources and didn't get the whole point, but some facts: - In intel8x0.c: In

weird X problem - priority inversion?

2005-04-13 Thread Lee Revell
I am having a problem with the RT preempt kernels where xscreensaver will cause the X server to consume excessive CPU, starving other processes. This should not happen as xscreensaver runs at the highest nice value. It seems that there's some kind of priority inversion happening between the high

[PATCH] PC300 pci_enable_device fix

2005-04-13 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
Call pci_enable_device() before looking at IRQ and resources. The driver requires this fix or the "pci=routeirq" workaround on 2.6.10 and later kernels. Reported and tested by Artur Lipowski. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = drivers/net/wan/pc300_drv.c 1.24 vs edited =

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-13 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:59:28PM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > Herbert Xu wrote: > > What's wrong with using swap over dmcrypt + initramfs? People have > > already used that to do encrypted swsusp. > > Nothing. The problem is the fact that after resume there is then > unencrypted(*) data on

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

2005-04-13 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Tomas, > > > 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

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-13 Thread aeriksson
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:07:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > growisofs -Z /dev/hdc -J -R /path/to/dir/with/less/than/4.5GB/of/files > > That should do it. To do scsi I suspect it would be /dev/sg0 or > /dev/scd0. I haven't actually tried burning in scsi emulation mode with > these

Further copy_from_user() discussion.

2005-04-13 Thread Vadim Lobanov
Hi, Interested by the recent discussions concerning the copy_from_user() function, I browsed the 2.6.11.7 kernel source, and came up with a few questions. 1. Is there any particular reason why __copy_from_user_ll() is currently EXPORT_SYMBOL()ed for i386? At least none of the in-tree modules

Re: Re: more git updates..

2005-04-13 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 06:10:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > I wasn't suggesting to use CVS. I meant that for a newly developed SCM, > > the CVS/SCCS format as storage may be more appealing than the current > > git format. > > Go

Re: [patch] mspec driver for 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:50:08AM -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote: > +config MSPEC > + tristate "Special Memory support" > + select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR should depend on IA64_GENERIC || IA64_SGI_SN2 because it's using sn2 functions like bte_copy > +#define BTE_ZERO_BLOCK(_maddr, _len) \ > +

Re: [Crosspost] GNU/Linux userland?

2005-04-13 Thread John Lenz
On 04/13/05 14:40:31, Oliver Korpilla wrote: Hello! I wondered if there is a project or setup that does allow me to build a GNU/Linux userland including kernel, build environment, basic tools with a single script just as you can in NetBSD (build.sh) or FreeBSD (make world). You might also

Re: [patch] sched: fix active load balance

2005-04-13 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:08:28PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Siddha, Suresh B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - for_each_domain(target_cpu, sd) { > > + for_each_domain(target_cpu, sd) > > if ((sd->flags & SD_LOAD_BALANCE) && > > - cpu_isset(busiest_cpu,

Re: [patch] sched: fix active load balance

2005-04-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Siddha, Suresh B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - for_each_domain(target_cpu, sd) { > + for_each_domain(target_cpu, sd) > if ((sd->flags & SD_LOAD_BALANCE) && > - cpu_isset(busiest_cpu, sd->span)) { > - sd = tmp; > +

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Stas Sergeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ingo. > > I have some programs that crash > in 2.6.12-rc2-mm3. After seeing this: > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0504.1/1091.html does the patch below fix the problem for you? (already in Andrew's tree, should be in the next -mm

Re: New SCM and commit list

2005-04-13 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > > I have a feeling that the kernel.org mirror system is just going to > > _love_ us using it to store temporary git trees :) > > I

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

2005-04-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 04:53:56PM +0200, Marco Colombo wrote: > > > This is different. They are not giving the source at all. The licence > > > for those object files _has_ to be different. _They_ want it to be > > > different. > > > > Sure, but in this case, the binary firmware blob is also a

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 4/4

2005-04-13 Thread Ladislav Michl
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:02:53PM +0100, James Chapman wrote: > Ladislav Michl wrote: [snip] > >Patch bellow remove ds1337_do_command function and things needed by it. > >I think device should be identified by bus and address as Jean said. > >Please let me know if that fits your needs. > > I

Re: pty_chars_in_buffer NULL pointer (kernel oops)

2005-04-13 Thread Jason Baron
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > Alan, Linus, what correction to the which the above thread discusses has > > been deployed? > > This is the hacky "hide the problem" patch that is in my current tree (and > was discussed

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:07:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's with 2.6.11.7 Probably close to the 2.6.11 kernel I run on Debian-pure64/sarge. > Dunno yet. What's the fastest way to dump a file to a (fs on) a blank > 4.7 GB DVD RW? As I said this is not my home turf so I have to read

Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, I'm by no means an expert on this, but Libor and I looked at > rmap.c a little more, and there is code: > > if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_RESERVED)) || > ptep_clear_flush_young(vma, address, pte)) { >

Re: read failed EINVAL with O_DIRECT flag

2005-04-13 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:15:47 +0200 Yves Crespin wrote: | | >| How can I obtains an buffer alignement from a "user program" ? | > | >I actually left that as an exercise (after I did it at home | >last night). Did you read the hint (below)? | | Well ... either with malloc() and alignement or

Re: [Bug] invalid mac address after rebooting (2.6.12-rc2-mm2)

2005-04-13 Thread Daniel Ritz
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 11:09, Andrew Morton wrote: > Peter Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:52:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Peter Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm hitting an annoying bug in kernel 2.6.11.5 > > > > > >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Russell King wrote: Nothing much - I don't particularly care about them. I thought someone might object to using htonl/ntohl directly. Why would they? -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:13:39PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:03:07PM CEST, I got a letter > where Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:35:21AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > > > I tried this today, applied my patch

Re: Why system call need to copy the date from the userspace before using it

2005-04-13 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:40:05AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: The kernel does NOT have to copy data from user-space before using it. Incorrect. It must, or the kernel code in question is by definition buggy. What? Explain why a memory-mapped buffer

Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

2005-04-13 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > > Yet, the results from stat() don't distinguish the number spaces, > > > and "ls" doesn't map the numbers to names properly in the wrong > > > space. > > > > Well you can use "ls -n". It's up to the tools to present the > > information you want in the way you want it. If a tool can't do

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:03:07PM CEST, I got a letter where Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:35:21AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > > I tried this today, applied my patch for BE<->LE conversions and > > glibc-2.2 compatibility (attached,

Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

2005-04-13 Thread Roland Dreier
OK, I'm by no means an expert on this, but Libor and I looked at rmap.c a little more, and there is code: if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_RESERVED)) || ptep_clear_flush_young(vma, address, pte)) { ret = SWAP_FAIL; goto out_unmap;

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-13 Thread aeriksson
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:14:21PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well it does look odd that it loads with one and not the other. Which > kernel is this with? > It's with 2.6.11.7 > Does writing CDs and DVDs actually work using ide-scsi? Does it work > using ide-cd? Dunno yet. What's

[patch] sched: fix active load balance

2005-04-13 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
Recent changes to active load balance (sched2-fix-smt-scheduling-problems.patch in -mm) is not resulting in any task movement from busiest to target_cpu. Attached patch(ontop of -mm) fixes this issue. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3/kernel/sched.c

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:35:21AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > I tried this today, applied my patch for BE<->LE conversions and > glibc-2.2 compatibility (attached, still requires cleaning though), > and then tried git pull. Umm, whoops. Here's an updated patch which allows me to work with a

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 4/4

2005-04-13 Thread James Chapman
Ladislav Michl wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 07:10:55PM +0100, James Chapman wrote: [snip] It is used by the Radstone ppc7d platform, arch/ppc/radstone_ppc7d.c but wasn't added until very recently (2.6.12-rc2 I think). To be honest, I meant to remove the 'id' thing before submitting the driver.

Re: Add pcibus_to_node

2005-04-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:16:17PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Define pcibus_to_node to be able to figure out which NUMA node contains a > given PCI device. This defines pcibus_to_node(bus) in > include/linux/topology.h and adjusts the macros for i386 and x86_64 that > already provided a way

initrd support in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-13 Thread Nickolay
Hallo Guys! I has initrd, that nice loaded by all 2.4 kernels. But 2.6.9 kernel has some difference in loading initrd(as i discovered). This warning produced by kernel on boot: ...SKIP... Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/ram0 initrd=0x0080,32M ...SKIP... checking if image

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

2005-04-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:52:55AM -0400, Ross Biro wrote: > On Apr 10, 2005 9:29 AM, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > The right way to do this would be to have sysfs knobs that allow > > to change these bits, and then let a user space tool change > > it depending on PCI-ID. If

RE: FUSYN and RT

2005-04-13 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:33 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 08:46, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > How hard would it be to use the RT mutex PI for the priority inheritance > > for fusyn? I only work with the RT mutex now and haven't looked at the > > fusyn. Maybe Ingo can make a

Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

2005-04-13 Thread Jamie Lokier
Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Yet, the results from stat() don't distinguish the number spaces, > > and "ls" doesn't map the numbers to names properly in the wrong > > space. > > Well you can use "ls -n". It's up to the tools to present the > information you want in the way you want it. If a tool

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:14:21PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've just gotten myself a new DVD burner which triggers some > interesting events in the kernel. From the log: > > hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 > hdc:

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