Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-04 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jens! Thanks for the sample code. I've trimmed the recipient list a bit... Jens Axboe wrote: > Perhaps the IDLE or IDLEIMMEDIATE commands imply a head parking, that > would make sense. As you say, you can hear a drive parking its head. > Here's

[PATCH][Update 2] Kconfig changes: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
> Part 1: The easy stuff. > > In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest > of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more > convenient "menuconfig" keyword. > > I hope I got it right, especially the conversions to "if SYMBOL" and > merging the

[PATCH][Update 2] Kconfig changes: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote: > Part 1b: The easy stuff for 2.6.13-rc1. This is the same patch without the changes in /net, as requested by Sam Ravnborg. It does include the first update. --- rc1-a/drivers/md/Kconfig2005-06-30 11:21:40.0 +0200 +++ rc1-b/drivers/md/Kconfig

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see your point. But then this is really not a security issue, but > an "are you sure you want to format C:" style protection for the > user's own sake. Adding a mount option (checked by the library) for > this would be fine. E.g. with

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc1-mm1] connector: Remove the union declaration

2005-07-04 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
Hello, This patch removes the ugly union declaration in cn_fork.h and cn_exit.h files. The code is cleaner without the union and the price is only four bytes added in the structure. Thanks to Alexander Nyberg for reporting this. Signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/usb/net/: remove two unused multicast_filter_limit variables

2005-07-04 Thread Petko Manolov
ok, looks all right to me. Petko On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: The only uses of both variables were recently removed. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/usb/net/pegasus.c |1 - drivers/usb/net/rtl8150.c |2 -- 2 files changed, 3

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes 4: s/menu/menuconfig/ CPU scaling menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 4b: The CPU scaling menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. This patch applies to 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc1 --- x/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig 2005-07-04

Re: [PATCH] securityfs

2005-07-04 Thread serge
Quoting Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 02:53:17PM -0400, James Morris wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Tony Jones wrote: > > > > > There just isn't enough content to justify a stacker specific filesystem > > > IMHO. > > > > It might be worth thinking about a more general

[ANNOUNCE] OOPS Reporting Tool v.b5

2005-07-04 Thread Michał Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is our (see copyright section ;)) simple script that help to create a bug report: http://stud.wsi.edu.pl/~piotrowskim/files/ort/beta/ort-b5.tar.bz2 Why do we do this? Because many people don't have time to prepare a good (with all importrant pieces of information) bug report.

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:06:01PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > Part 1: The easy stuff. > > In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest > > of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more > > convenient

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use conditional

2005-07-04 Thread serge
Hey, Quoting Kurt Garloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Getting rid of dummy entirely would be better, I agree, but someone > needs to review that this won't break anything. Unfortunately I think it's way too soon for that. Even if stacker is accepted, it is still a module (for now at least) which can

Re: 2.6.13-rc1-mm1

2005-07-04 Thread Joseph Fannin
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 04:40:18AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc1/2.6.13-rc1-mm1/ I get this when building on ppc32: CC [M] drivers/net/skge.o drivers/net/skge.c: In function `skge_probe': drivers/net/skge.c:3151:

[PATCH][Update] Kconfig changes 1b: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 1b: The easy stuff. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. These are some missing changes from the first patch(es). I don't know where they went missing.

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-04 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 7/4/05, Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { > Please pull from: > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6.git > } > > Does it fix the idedriver int/dma problem? What is the "int/dma problem"? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

[PATCH][Update] Kconfig changes 2b: s/menu/menuconfig/ USB menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 2b: The USB menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. Patch for .13-rc1. This patch includes the missing changes from the previous patch ---

[PATCH][Update] Kconfig changes 2b: s/menu/menuconfig/ USB menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 2b: The USB menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. This patch includes the missing changes from the previous patch --- x/drivers/usb/atm/Kconfig

Kernel panic when booting without acpi=off as of 2.6.12-rc1 and above

2005-07-04 Thread Daniel Andersen
Summary of error: insmod error inserting '/lib/ata_piix.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! Mounting root filesystem mount: error 19 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none Switching to new root switchroot: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use conditional

2005-07-04 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Serge, On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:01:05AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Tony Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 08:59:02AM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > > > > > The topic of replacing dummy (with capability) was discussed there > > > > last week, in the

Re: [PATCH] ISA DMA API documentation

2005-07-04 Thread Pierre Ossman
Documentation for how the ISA DMA controller is handled in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> New version after feedback from Randy Dunlap. Index: linux-wbsd/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt === ---

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes 4: s/menu/menuconfig/ CPU scaling menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Russell King wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 12:43:56PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > Part 4: The CPU scaling menu. > > > > In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest > > of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more > >

RE: [PATCH] quieten OOM killer noise

2005-07-04 Thread Al Boldi
Anton Blanchard wrote: { Id suggest adding a printk level to the printks in mm/oom-kill.c and using /proc/sys/kernel/printk to silence them. } Good option! Also, why is OOM-killer needed when overcommit is disabled? Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

RE: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-04 Thread Al Boldi
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { Please pull from: rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6.git } Does it fix the idedriver int/dma problem? Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use conditional

2005-07-04 Thread serge
Quoting Tony Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 08:59:02AM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > > > The topic of replacing dummy (with capability) was discussed there > > > last week, in the context of stacker, but a common solution for both > > > cases would be needed. > > > > Both

Re: [patch 5/12] lsm stacking v0.2: actual stacker module

2005-07-04 Thread serge
Quoting Tony Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hey Serge, > > I don't think your symbol_get() is doing what you think it is ;-) Hmm, I wonder whether something changed. It shouldn't be possible to rmmod module b if module a has done a symbol_get on it... This may mean more stringent locking will be

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 12:27:13PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > E.g. with "mount_nonempty" it would not refuse to > mount on a non-leaf dir, and README would document, that using this > option might cause trouble. Otherwise the mount would be refused with > a reference to the above option.

Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-24

2005-07-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* William Weston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Which video driver is X using? What nice value is the X server running > > at? > > Hardware is Intel 82865G (integrated) with DRM i915 1.1.0 20040405 and > xorg-3.8.2 i810 driver, running at nice 0, priority 15. Should I bump > the priority

wireless lan, defragmentation in driver module.

2005-07-04 Thread P Lavin
Hi, I need help in the following issue, i'll explain the mechanisum & the problem i'm facing, 1) In the existing wireless lan driver we've MPDU's & MSDU's, all the MPDU's are handled by the firmware where as all the MSDU's by the driver. Now i need to implement 802.11E protocol based block

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Jens Axboe wrote: > > > It isn't too pretty to rely on such unreliable timing anyways. I'm > > not too crazy about spinning the disk down either, it's useless wear > > compared to just

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 7/4/05, Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jesper, > > On 7/4/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > static int > > ibm_hdaps_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) > > { > > printk("%s() start\n", __func__); > > if (!atomic_dec_and_test(_hdaps_available)) {

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:06:01PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > Part 1: The easy stuff. > > In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest > of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more > convenient "menuconfig" keyword. Please do not touch

Re: [PATCH] ALPS: fix enabling hardware tapping

2005-07-04 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:28:06AM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote: > Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 01:49:13PM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > > Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > It looks like logic for enabling hardware tapping

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes 4: s/menu/menuconfig/ profiling menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 4: The profiling menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. This patch is designed for 2.6.12 and .13-rc1 --- a/./arch/sh/oprofile/Kconfig

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes 4: s/menu/menuconfig/ CPU scaling menu

2005-07-04 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 12:43:56PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > Part 4: The CPU scaling menu. > > In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest > of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more > convenient "menuconfig" keyword. > > This patch is

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Jesper, On 7/4/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > static int > ibm_hdaps_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) > { > printk("%s() start\n", __func__); > if (!atomic_dec_and_test(_hdaps_available)) { > printk("%s() busy\n", __func__); >

[PATCH] Kconfig changes 4: s/menu/menuconfig/ CPU scaling menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 4: The CPU scaling menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. This patch is designed for 2.6.13-rc1 --- rc1-a/./arch/sh/Kconfig 2005-06-30

Re: FUSE merging?

2005-07-04 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 7/4/05, Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are some numbers on the size these filesystems as in current -mm > ('wc fs/${fs}/* include/linux/${fs}*') Sloccount [1] gives more meaningful numbers than wc: ('sloccount fs/${fs}/* include/linux/${fs}*') nfs: 21,046 9p:3,856

[PATCH] Kconfig changes 4: s/menu/menuconfig/ CPU scaling menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote: Part 4: The CPU scaling menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. This patch is designed for 2.6.12 , the patch for

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Jens Axboe wrote: > It isn't too pretty to rely on such unreliable timing anyways. I'm > not too crazy about spinning the disk down either, it's useless wear > compared to just parking the head. Fully agreed, and that's the approach the IBM

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jens, thanks for your quick reply! Jens Axboe wrote: > Dunno if there's something that explicitly only parks the head, the > best option is probably to issue a STANDBY_NOW command. You can test > this with hdparm -y. Thanks for the hint! As

Re: function ordering (was: Re: [RFC] exit_thread() speedups in x86 process.c)

2005-07-04 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 01:30:23PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > this way we don't need to put a lot of __slow's in the code *and* it's > > > based on measurements not assumptions, and can be tuned for a specific > > > situation in addition. > > >

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> "solving it properly" refers to hardening the leaf node constraint > against circumvention I assume. Suppose there's a script for doing simple > on-line backups using "find". Now explain to the user why he lost his > data due to a backup script geting EACCES on a non-leaf FUSE mount. I see your

[PATCH] Kconfig changes 3: s/menu/menuconfig/ APM menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote: Part 3: The APM menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. This patch is designed for .13-rc1. ---

[PATCH] Kconfig changes 3: s/menu/menuconfig/ APM menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 3: The APM menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. This patch is designed for 2.6.12; the patch for .13-rc1 will be posted as a reply. ---

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ORT - Oops Reporting Tool v.b4

2005-07-04 Thread Tomasz Kłoczko
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Hi, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Sorry to say that, but: I definitely won't be interested in bug reports from an automated tool like this. I don't have the time to go through the heaps of information it collects - I need a short and to the point

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:56:30AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > It is important because on UNIX, "root" rules on local filesystems. > > I dont't like the idea of root not being able to run "find -xdev" > > anymore for administrative tasks, just because something got hidden > > by accident or

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 2: The USB menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. Patch for .13-rc1. Only offset changes compared to .12. --- rc1-a/./drivers/usb/net/Kconfig

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 2: The USB menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient "menuconfig" keyword. This patch is designed for 2.6.12; the patch for .13-rc1 will be posted as a reply. ---

Re: Re: Re: PATCH for ide_floppy

2005-07-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yes, #define IDEFLOPPY_TICKS_DELAY HZ/20 seems to be the solution. when I've tested some values for IDEFLOPPY_TICKS_DELAY in December 2004, I cannot found the best value for this. The Kernel version was 2.6.8 from the SuSE9.2 distribution. I take a look in ide-cd.c and found there the function

Re: function ordering (was: Re: [RFC] exit_thread() speedups in x86 process.c)

2005-07-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 01:30:23PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > this way we don't need to put a lot of __slow's in the code *and* it's > > based on measurements not assumptions, and can be tuned for a specific > > situation in addition. > > This is reminiscent of "fur", whose source Old SCO

Re: 2.6.12-ck3

2005-07-04 Thread Rudo Thomas
> Changes since 2.6.12-ck2: > +cfq-ts-2.diff > +cfq-ts-4.diff > Two cfq-timeslice updates from Jens > > +patch-2.6.12.2 > Latest stable version Hi Con and everyone. Time seems to pass very fast with this kernel. The console blanks after some 10 seconds; I wasn't able to log on as agetty timed

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 08:42:24PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > >>Right. But, /proc started somewhere, didn't it? > >> > >> > > > >Sun. > > > > > No, plan 9. Almost on the right track, it was v8, two steps before plan9. But that's just the process-part of procfs, not the big mess we have

Re: FUSE merging?

2005-07-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
[CC restored] > Okay, I just wanted to mention CODA. Modifying CODA is probably still > better than modifying NFS (as akpm suggested at one point). Definitely. Here are some numbers on the size these filesystems as in current -mm ('wc fs/${fs}/* include/linux/${fs}*') nfs: 25495 9p:6102

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> It is important because on UNIX, "root" rules on local filesystems. > I dont't like the idea of root not being able to run "find -xdev" > anymore for administrative tasks, just because something got hidden > by accident or just for fun by a user. It's not about malicious > users who want to

Re: [CFT:PATCH] Serial + Serial PCI card cleanup

2005-07-04 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 12:15:00PM +0400, Andrey Panin wrote: > Me too, but I can confirm that my SIIG single port serial card still works > with the patch, so at least SIIG quirk table cleanup didn't broke anything. Thanks for testing. > IMHO this cleanup could became a separate easy to merge

Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-24

2005-07-04 Thread William Weston
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 18:46 -0700, William Weston wrote: > > FWIW, I'm still seeing the SMT scheduling? meltdown issues with > > -50-42. > > Running two instances of 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=65536' > > instead > > of 'burnP6' results in the same

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Andrey Panin
On 185, 07 04, 2005 at 08:00:12AM +0200, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Jesper, > > Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > I just had a nice chat with the guys there and we got some > > improvements made by them and us merged up. And I /think/ we agreed > > that

Re: FUSE merging?

2005-07-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> Actually, the right question is "how is fuse better than coda". I've > asked that before; unlike nfs, userspace filesystems implemented with > coda actually *work*, but do not provide partial-file writes. You answered your own question. I did talk to Jan Harkes about the file I/O issue before

Re: [PATCH] ISA DMA API documentation

2005-07-04 Thread Pierre Ossman
randy_dunlap wrote: >+The DMA:able address space is the lowest 16 MB of _physical_ memory. > The DMA-able >+Also the transfer block may not cross page boundaries (which are 64k). > I would write:(which are 64 KB). > >if I knew that was correct, but I don't.

Re: [CFT:PATCH] Serial + Serial PCI card cleanup

2005-07-04 Thread Andrey Panin
On 176, 06 25, 2005 at 04:21:00PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > Hi, > > I've decided to get rid of the code duplication between parport_serial > and 8250_pci. > > Essentially, we have two modules which support serial PCI devices. > As far as these serial PCI devices go, both modules contain

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use conditional

2005-07-04 Thread Tony Jones
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 08:59:02AM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > The topic of replacing dummy (with capability) was discussed there > > last week, in the context of stacker, but a common solution for both > > cases would be needed. > > Both cases? CONFIG_SECURITY_STACKER and

Re: [patch] call device_shutdown with interrupts enabled

2005-07-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Do not call device_shutdown with interrupts disabled. It is wrong and > > produces ugly warnings. > > Hm. How about (possible whitespace damage): Hmm, right, that's better patch. Applied (will push upstream with next batch). Pavel

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > Yeah, that likely needs a little help from the ide driver. If you force > > a spindown, you will effectively have parked the head for as long as the > > spindown + spinup takes. That could turn out to be enough, it will take > > more than

Re: If ACPI doesn't find an irq listed, don't accept 0 as a valid PCI irq.

2005-07-04 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> tree e6a38b3d6bf434f08054562113bb660c4227769f > parent 4a89a04f1ee21a7c1f4413f1ad7dcfac50ff9b63 > author Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:35:33 -0700 > committer Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:35:33 -0700 > > If ACPI doesn't find an irq listed,

Re: the magic in do_page_fault() ???

2005-07-04 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > in do_page_fault() (kernel 2.6.11.11) include one piece of code as > follow: > > > if (!down_read_trylock(>mmap_sem)) { > if ((error_code & 4) == 0 && > !search_exception_tables(regs->eip)) > goto

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > Yeah, that likely needs a little help from the ide driver. If you force > a spindown, you will effectively have parked the head for as long as the > spindown + spinup takes. That could turn out to be enough, it will take > more than 1-2 seconds anyways. I doubt it; laptop disks seem to be

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Yeah, that likely needs a little help from the ide driver. If you force a spindown, you will effectively have parked the head for as long as the spindown + spinup takes. That could turn out to be enough, it will take more than 1-2 seconds anyways. I doubt it; laptop disks seem to be

Re: the magic in do_page_fault() ???

2005-07-04 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in do_page_fault() (kernel 2.6.11.11) include one piece of code as follow: if (!down_read_trylock(mm-mmap_sem)) { if ((error_code 4) == 0 !search_exception_tables(regs-eip)) goto

Re: If ACPI doesn't find an irq listed, don't accept 0 as a valid PCI irq.

2005-07-04 Thread Alexander Nyberg
tree e6a38b3d6bf434f08054562113bb660c4227769f parent 4a89a04f1ee21a7c1f4413f1ad7dcfac50ff9b63 author Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:35:33 -0700 committer Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:35:33 -0700 If ACPI doesn't find an irq listed, don't accept 0

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: Yeah, that likely needs a little help from the ide driver. If you force a spindown, you will effectively have parked the head for as long as the spindown + spinup takes. That could turn out to be enough, it will take more than 1-2 seconds

Re: [patch] call device_shutdown with interrupts enabled

2005-07-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Do not call device_shutdown with interrupts disabled. It is wrong and produces ugly warnings. Hm. How about (possible whitespace damage): Hmm, right, that's better patch. Applied (will push upstream with next batch). Pavel --

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use conditional

2005-07-04 Thread Tony Jones
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 08:59:02AM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: The topic of replacing dummy (with capability) was discussed there last week, in the context of stacker, but a common solution for both cases would be needed. Both cases? CONFIG_SECURITY_STACKER and !CONFIG_SECURITY_STACKER

Re: [PATCH] ISA DMA API documentation

2005-07-04 Thread Pierre Ossman
randy_dunlap wrote: +The DMA:able address space is the lowest 16 MB of _physical_ memory. The DMA-able +Also the transfer block may not cross page boundaries (which are 64k). I would write:(which are 64 KB). if I knew that was correct, but I don't. Does

Re: FUSE merging?

2005-07-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Actually, the right question is how is fuse better than coda. I've asked that before; unlike nfs, userspace filesystems implemented with coda actually *work*, but do not provide partial-file writes. You answered your own question. I did talk to Jan Harkes about the file I/O issue before

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Andrey Panin
On 185, 07 04, 2005 at 08:00:12AM +0200, Lenz Grimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jesper, Jesper Juhl wrote: I just had a nice chat with the guys there and we got some improvements made by them and us merged up. And I /think/ we agreed that I'll maintain

Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-24

2005-07-04 Thread William Weston
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 18:46 -0700, William Weston wrote: FWIW, I'm still seeing the SMT scheduling? meltdown issues with -50-42. Running two instances of 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=65536' instead of 'burnP6' results in the same behavior.

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
It is important because on UNIX, root rules on local filesystems. I dont't like the idea of root not being able to run find -xdev anymore for administrative tasks, just because something got hidden by accident or just for fun by a user. It's not about malicious users who want to hide data:

Re: [CFT:PATCH] Serial + SerialParallel PCI card cleanup

2005-07-04 Thread Andrey Panin
On 176, 06 25, 2005 at 04:21:00PM +0100, Russell King wrote: Hi, I've decided to get rid of the code duplication between parport_serial and 8250_pci. Essentially, we have two modules which support serial PCI devices. As far as these serial PCI devices go, both modules contain similar

Re: [CFT:PATCH] Serial + SerialParallel PCI card cleanup

2005-07-04 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 12:15:00PM +0400, Andrey Panin wrote: Me too, but I can confirm that my SIIG single port serial card still works with the patch, so at least SIIG quirk table cleanup didn't broke anything. Thanks for testing. IMHO this cleanup could became a separate easy to merge

Re: FUSE merging?

2005-07-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
[CC restored] Okay, I just wanted to mention CODA. Modifying CODA is probably still better than modifying NFS (as akpm suggested at one point). Definitely. Here are some numbers on the size these filesystems as in current -mm ('wc fs/${fs}/* include/linux/${fs}*') nfs: 25495 9p:6102

Re: 2.6.12-ck3

2005-07-04 Thread Rudo Thomas
Changes since 2.6.12-ck2: +cfq-ts-2.diff +cfq-ts-4.diff Two cfq-timeslice updates from Jens +patch-2.6.12.2 Latest stable version Hi Con and everyone. Time seems to pass very fast with this kernel. The console blanks after some 10 seconds; I wasn't able to log on as agetty timed out

Re: function ordering (was: Re: [RFC] exit_thread() speedups in x86 process.c)

2005-07-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 01:30:23PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: this way we don't need to put a lot of __slow's in the code *and* it's based on measurements not assumptions, and can be tuned for a specific situation in addition. This is reminiscent of fur, whose source Old SCO opened.

Re: Re: Re: PATCH for ide_floppy

2005-07-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yes, #define IDEFLOPPY_TICKS_DELAY HZ/20 seems to be the solution. when I've tested some values for IDEFLOPPY_TICKS_DELAY in December 2004, I cannot found the best value for this. The Kernel version was 2.6.8 from the SuSE9.2 distribution. I take a look in ide-cd.c and found there the function

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 2: The USB menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient menuconfig keyword. This patch is designed for 2.6.12; the patch for .13-rc1 will be posted as a reply. ---

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 2: The USB menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient menuconfig keyword. Patch for .13-rc1. Only offset changes compared to .12. --- rc1-a/./drivers/usb/net/Kconfig

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:56:30AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: It is important because on UNIX, root rules on local filesystems. I dont't like the idea of root not being able to run find -xdev anymore for administrative tasks, just because something got hidden by accident or just for fun

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ORT - Oops Reporting Tool v.b4

2005-07-04 Thread Tomasz Kłoczko
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Hi, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Sorry to say that, but: I definitely won't be interested in bug reports from an automated tool like this. I don't have the time to go through the heaps of information it collects - I need a short and to the point

[PATCH] Kconfig changes 3: s/menu/menuconfig/ APM menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 3: The APM menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient menuconfig keyword. This patch is designed for 2.6.12; the patch for .13-rc1 will be posted as a reply. ---

[PATCH] Kconfig changes 3: s/menu/menuconfig/ APM menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote: Part 3: The APM menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient menuconfig keyword. This patch is designed for .13-rc1. ---

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
solving it properly refers to hardening the leaf node constraint against circumvention I assume. Suppose there's a script for doing simple on-line backups using find. Now explain to the user why he lost his data due to a backup script geting EACCES on a non-leaf FUSE mount. I see your point.

Re: function ordering (was: Re: [RFC] exit_thread() speedups in x86 process.c)

2005-07-04 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 01:30:23PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: this way we don't need to put a lot of __slow's in the code *and* it's based on measurements not assumptions, and can be tuned for a specific situation in addition. This is

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jens, thanks for your quick reply! Jens Axboe wrote: Dunno if there's something that explicitly only parks the head, the best option is probably to issue a STANDBY_NOW command. You can test this with hdparm -y. Thanks for the hint! As others

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Jens Axboe wrote: It isn't too pretty to rely on such unreliable timing anyways. I'm not too crazy about spinning the disk down either, it's useless wear compared to just parking the head. Fully agreed, and that's the approach the IBM

[PATCH] Kconfig changes 4: s/menu/menuconfig/ CPU scaling menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote: Part 4: The CPU scaling menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient menuconfig keyword. This patch is designed for 2.6.12 , the patch for

Re: FUSE merging?

2005-07-04 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 7/4/05, Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are some numbers on the size these filesystems as in current -mm ('wc fs/${fs}/* include/linux/${fs}*') Sloccount [1] gives more meaningful numbers than wc: ('sloccount fs/${fs}/* include/linux/${fs}*') nfs: 21,046 9p:3,856 coda:

[PATCH] Kconfig changes 4: s/menu/menuconfig/ CPU scaling menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 4: The CPU scaling menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient menuconfig keyword. This patch is designed for 2.6.13-rc1 --- rc1-a/./arch/sh/Kconfig 2005-06-30

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Jesper, On 7/4/05, Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: static int ibm_hdaps_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) { printk(%s() start\n, __func__); if (!atomic_dec_and_test(ibm_hdaps_available)) { printk(%s() busy\n, __func__);

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes 4: s/menu/menuconfig/ CPU scaling menu

2005-07-04 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 12:43:56PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: Part 4: The CPU scaling menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient menuconfig keyword. This patch is designed for

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes 4: s/menu/menuconfig/ profiling menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Part 4: The profiling menu. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient menuconfig keyword. This patch is designed for 2.6.12 and .13-rc1 --- a/./arch/sh/oprofile/Kconfig

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes: s/menu/menuconfig/

2005-07-04 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:06:01PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: Part 1: The easy stuff. In many config submenus, the first menu option will enable the rest of the menu options. For these menus, It's appropriate to use the more convenient menuconfig keyword. Please do not touch net/Kconfig

Re: [PATCH] ALPS: fix enabling hardware tapping

2005-07-04 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:28:06AM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote: Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 01:49:13PM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote: Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks like logic for enabling hardware tapping in ALPS driver was

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