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 parking the head.

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(ibm_hdaps_available)) {

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: 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 up? To

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 now - that part is

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. that will

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: [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 cases?

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 in

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 convenient

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 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 context of stacker,

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: [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

[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

[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 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: 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:

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: [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 menuconfig

[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] 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 securityfs as

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

[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: 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 mount_nonempty it

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 line

[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

[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 depends ons.

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 a

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
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 mount_nonempty it would not refuse to mount on a

re: function ordering (was: Re: [RFC] exit_thread() speedups in x86

2005-07-04 Thread Dan Kegel
Arjan van de Ven wrote: hmm. I wonder if a slightly different approach (based on the __slow) idea would make sense 1) Use -ffunction-sections option from gcc to put each function in it's own section 2) Use readprofile/oprofile data to collect an (external to the code) list of hot/cold functions

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Lenz Grimmer wrote: -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

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use conditional

2005-07-04 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Serge, On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:37:21AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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.

[PATCH] Kconfig changes 6: Move the Fusion MPT menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote: Part 4: The profiling menu. ^ Obviously I can't count to 5. And now to something completely different: The Fusion MPT controler seems to belong into the SCSI low level driver submenu. I may well be wrong here. patch is for 2.6.12, 2.6.13 will be

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig changes 6: Move the Fusion MPT menu

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote: And now to something completely different: The Fusion MPT controler seems to belong into the SCSI low level driver submenu. I may well be wrong here. patch is for 2.6.13 --- rc1-a/arch/arm/Kconfig 2005-07-04 15:28:02.0 +0200 +++

wake_up() from interrupt - on the next jiffie?

2005-07-04 Thread gl
Hi This might well be my basic misunderstanding, or the test was wrong, but the probability is pretty low, so, asking here. I thought, if a task sleeps on, say, read() and then data come and there's no other runnable task with a higher priority, the sleeping task should be woken up immediately.

[PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message

2005-07-04 Thread Kurt Wall
If you try to run `make menuconfig' on a system that lacks ncurses development libs, you get an error message telling you to install ncurses-devel. Some popular distributions don't have an ncurses-devel package. This patch generalizes the error message. Patch is against 2.6.12. MAINTAINERS

Re: psmouse, proto

2005-07-04 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:20:14PM +0200, Côté Alexandre wrote: kernel : 2.6.11 from kernel-tree 2.6.11-7 on debian sid psmouse module install automatically when booting the system (nothing write in /etc/modules, don't know why it's now automatically install) and dmesg says input:

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

2005-07-04 Thread Shawn Starr
We could put it in userspace, but if the system is swapping like mad, can we still get a critical response if this remains in userspace fully? Someone mentioned we should use a kernel thread(s) to handle stopping all I/O so we can safely park heads. Shawn. --- Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with inotify

2005-07-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 11:34 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: I reverted the patch you sent earlier (inotify_unmount_inodes-list-iteration-fix.diff) and applied the one you attached here (inotify_unmount_inodes-list-iteration-fix2.diff). The good news is that the hang is gone. The bad news is that

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-04 Thread Shawn Starr
From what I'm told its not specific to hard disk, you can put any laptop HD and it will work the same (?). Shawn. --- Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Lenz Grimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jens! Thanks for the sample code.

Re: [TRIVIAL] drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64.h

2005-07-04 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 06:11:49PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: Hi Andrew. Non-trivial in that I'm unsure of original intent but trivial in that it's just a printk()... On bootup, I see: pnp: the driver 'i8042 kbd' has been registered pnp: match found with the PnP device '00:05' and the

Re: Problem with inotify

2005-07-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 15:27 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 11:34 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: I reverted the patch you sent earlier (inotify_unmount_inodes-list-iteration-fix.diff) and applied the one you attached here (inotify_unmount_inodes-list-iteration-fix2.diff).

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

2005-07-04 Thread Jens Axboe
(don't top post!) On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Shawn Starr wrote: We could put it in userspace, but if the system is swapping like mad, can we still get a critical response if this remains in userspace fully? Just make sure the program isn't swapped out. Someone mentioned we should use a kernel

Documentation mismatch in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt

2005-07-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
--- Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt --- - input prompt: prompt prompt [if expr] Every menu entry can have at most one prompt, which is used to display to the user. Optionally dependencies only for this prompt can be added with if. --- This is misleading, since the if will not

Re: Problem with inotify

2005-07-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 15:39 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 15:27 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 11:34 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: I reverted the patch you sent earlier (inotify_unmount_inodes-list-iteration-fix.diff) and applied the one you

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]Fix menuconfig error message

2005-07-04 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:57:00AM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote: If you try to run `make menuconfig' on a system that lacks ncurses development libs, you get an error message telling you to install ncurses-devel. Some popular distributions don't have an ncurses-devel package. This patch generalizes

Re: FUSE merging? (2)

2005-07-04 Thread Ragnar Kjørstad
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:17:35PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi 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.

Problem: scsi/libata/sata

2005-07-04 Thread Rinaldi J. Montessi
About the time the SCSI subsystem is loaded the hard drive activity light comes on and never goes out. The disk is mounted and appears to function correctly: mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda2 on /home type ext3 (rw)

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 securityfs as

RE: Problem with inotify

2005-07-04 Thread Gautam Singaraju
Anton, I had used the 2.6.12 kernel with the latest Inotify. There was no I_WILL_FREE in the any place. And, there was no problem in compilation. I believe Inotify is very useful and should be included in the next versions of the kernel. Are there any ongoing plans for this? Thanks, Gautam

Re: A new driver model and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL question

2005-07-04 Thread Michal Jaegermann
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:44:41PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 05:12:02PM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote: Was a decision to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL deliberate and if yes then what considerations dictated it, other then the patch author wrote it that way, and what drivers

RE: Problem with inotify

2005-07-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Gautam, On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 11:55 -0400, Gautam Singaraju wrote: I had used the 2.6.12 kernel with the latest Inotify. There was no I_WILL_FREE in the any place. And, there was no problem in compilation. Er, yes, obviously. You are not using my patch on top of inotify and original inotify

Re: patch to create sysfs char device nodes

2005-07-04 Thread Coywolf Qi Hunt
On 6/9/05, Paolo Galtieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, with DEVFS going away I discovered that no character device nodes are created if a flash device is present which contains filesystems. The mtd-utils package requires the existence of character device nodes for performing erase, lock and

RE: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-04 Thread Al Boldi
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { What is the int/dma problem? } Hdparm -tT gives 38mb/s in 2.4.31 Cat /dev/hda /dev/null gives 2% user 33% sys 65% idle Hdparm -tT gives 28mb/s in 2.6.12 Cat /dev/hda /dev/null gives 2% user 25% sys 0% idle 73% IOWAIT It feels like DMA is not being applied

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-04 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 7/4/05, Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { What is the int/dma problem? } Hdparm -tT gives 38mb/s in 2.4.31 Cat /dev/hda /dev/null gives 2% user 33% sys 65% idle Hdparm -tT gives 28mb/s in 2.6.12 Cat /dev/hda /dev/null gives 2% user 25% sys 0% idle

Re: [PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message

2005-07-04 Thread Kurt Wall
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 05:16:32PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:57:00AM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote: If you try to run `make menuconfig' on a system that lacks ncurses development libs, you get an error message telling you to install ncurses-devel. Some popular

[PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message

2005-07-04 Thread Kurt Wall
If you try to run `make menuconfig' on a system that lacks ncurses development libs, you get an error message telling you to install ncurses-devel. Some popular distributions don't have an ncurses-devel package. This patch generalizes the error message. Patch is against 2.6.12. This patch fixes a

Two 2.6.13-rc1 kernel crashes

2005-07-04 Thread Martin Mokrejs
Hi, I use on i686 architecture Gentoo linux with XFS filesystem. Recently it happened to me 3 time that the machine locked, although at least once sys-rq+b worked. Here is the log from remote console. I don't remeber having such problems with 2.6.12-rc6-git2, which was my previous testing

Re: patch to create sysfs char device nodes

2005-07-04 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 00:14 +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: On 6/9/05, Paolo Galtieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, with DEVFS going away I discovered that no character device nodes are created if a flash device is present which contains filesystems. The mtd-utils package requires the

Re: notebook buttons trouble, acpi related

2005-07-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
Hetfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if it turns off tft and change brightness i guess kernel should receive some events but /proc/acpi/event doesn't get them. In general, these keys generate events that are handled by the hardware. The kernel never gets told about them. If you disassemble your

Re: setitimer expire too early (Kernel 2.4)

2005-07-04 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 08:56:59AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 02:14:42PM -0700, George Anzinger wrote: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Hi Olivier, On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 07:52:12PM +0200, Olivier Croquette wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Linus, Andrew, do you

Re: Two 2.6.13-rc1 kernel crashes

2005-07-04 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Martin Mokrejs wrote: Hi, I use on i686 architecture Gentoo linux with XFS filesystem. Recently it happened to me 3 time that the machine locked, although at least once sys-rq+b worked. Here is the log from remote console. I don't remeber having such problems with

Re: notebook buttons trouble, acpi related

2005-07-04 Thread Hetfield
Il giorno lun, 04/07/2005 alle 17.30 +0100, Matthew Garrett ha scritto: Hetfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if it turns off tft and change brightness i guess kernel should receive some events but /proc/acpi/event doesn't get them. In general, these keys generate events that are handled

Re: Two 2.6.13-rc1 kernel crashes

2005-07-04 Thread Martin MOKREJŠ
# grep CONFIG_4KSTACKS .config # CONFIG_4KSTACKS is not set # .config is attached. Thanks. BTW: The .config should be almost same as for the previous kernel. I usually copy the old-one into new source tree and do make oldconfig. Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Martin Mokrejs wrote:

RE: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-04 Thread Al Boldi
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { On 7/4/05, Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hdparm -tT gives 38mb/s in 2.4.31 Cat /dev/hda /dev/null gives 2% user 33% sys 65% idle Hdparm -tT gives 28mb/s in 2.6.12 Cat /dev/hda /dev/null gives 2% user 25% sys 0% idle 73% IOWAIT It feels like DMA is

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-04 Thread Ondrej Zary
Al Boldi wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { On 7/4/05, Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hdparm -tT gives 38mb/s in 2.4.31 Cat /dev/hda /dev/null gives 2% user 33% sys 65% idle Hdparm -tT gives 28mb/s in 2.6.12 Cat /dev/hda /dev/null gives 2% user 25% sys 0% idle 73% IOWAIT It feels

Linux 2.4.32-pre1

2005-07-04 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, Here goes the first -pre of v2.4.32. It contains a small amount of fixes, most notably x86_64 security updates. Check for canonical addresses in ptrace (CAN-2005-1762) Fix canonical checking for segment registers in ptrace (CAN-2005-0756) Fix buffer overflow in 32bit execve on x86-64/ia64

Re: Problem with inotify

2005-07-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Anton Altaparmakov wrote: )-: I have addressed the only things I can think off that could cause the oops and below is the resulting patch. Could you please test it? Yeah!! After removing I_WILL_FREE stuff, that fixed both the oops *and* the hang. Everything works nicely now. Thanks a

Re: Two 2.6.13-rc1 kernel crashes

2005-07-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Martin Mokrejs wrote: Hi, I use on i686 architecture Gentoo linux with XFS filesystem. Recently it happened to me 3 time that the machine locked, although at least once sys-rq+b worked. Here is the log from remote console. I don't remeber having such problems with

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-07-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:13:09PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: On Wednesday 08 June 2005 14:12, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:39:56PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: ... NB: gcc 3.4.3 can use excessive stack in degenerate cases, so please include gcc version in your

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-04 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Jens Axboe wrote: That's madness, we can't add a kernel thread for every single little silly thing. You don't need to stop any io, you just want to make sure that your park request gets issued right after the current io has finished. HI, For me, the heads have to park so fast. That I

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-04 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: Do you think that the kernel will STOP, HOLD and park the head in less than a second? OR on the time we need? this is why the windows driver uses heuristics to decide when the laptop is possibly unstable and *may* fall soon... because it takes

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: That's madness, we can't add a kernel thread for every single little silly thing. You don't need to stop any io, you just want to make sure that your park request gets issued right after the current io has finished. HI,

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

2005-07-04 Thread Aaron Cohen
On 7/4/05, Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Generel observation on this driver - why isn't it just contained in user space? You need to do the monitoring and sending of ide commands from there anyways, I don't see the point of putting it in the kernel. Can't the accelerometer be used as

Re: Problem with inotify

2005-07-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Daniel Drake wrote: Anton Altaparmakov wrote: )-: I have addressed the only things I can think off that could cause the oops and below is the resulting patch. Could you please test it? Yeah!! After removing I_WILL_FREE stuff, that fixed both the oops *and* the hang.

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, Aaron Cohen wrote: Can't the accelerometer be used as an input device in addition to just being a about to fall detector? Yes, it can - the kernel driver just prints the data taken from the accelerometer. It's up to another application to

[-mm patch] Fix inotify umount hangs.

2005-07-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi Andrew, Robert, The below patch against 2.6.13-rc1-mm1 fixes the umount hangs caused by inotify. It excludes more inodes from being messed around with in inotify_unmount_inodes(): the ones with zero i_count as they cannot have any watches and the I_WILL_FREE ones which it is not allowed to

Consistent kernel panic on 2.6.12 in sk_alloc when using vmware vmnet bridge. Works perfect on 2.6.11.x

2005-07-04 Thread Mitch
Hi, I'm getting a 100% reproduceable panic (stack attached) when testing out vmware bridged net module on 2.6.12, 2.6.12.[12]. Reverting back to 2.6.11.12 (or 2.6.11) works fine. M Jul 4 21:59:32 localhost kernel: vmmon: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel. Jul 4 21:59:32 localhost

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

2005-07-04 Thread Tony Jones
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 06:51:35AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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... Are you thinking of

Re: Consistent kernel panic on 2.6.12 in sk_alloc when using vmware vmnet bridge. Works perfect on 2.6.11.x

2005-07-04 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:30:34PM +0400, Mitch wrote: Hi, I'm getting a 100% reproduceable panic (stack attached) when testing out vmware bridged net module on 2.6.12, 2.6.12.[12]. Reverting back to 2.6.11.12 (or 2.6.11) works fine. I believe this was fixed by and update. Download

Re: Consistent kernel panic on 2.6.12 in sk_alloc when using vmware vmnet bridge. Works perfect on 2.6.11.x

2005-07-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:30:34PM +0400, Mitch wrote: Hi, Hi, I'm getting a 100% reproduceable panic (stack attached) when testing out vmware bridged net module on 2.6.12, 2.6.12.[12]. Reverting back to 2.6.11.12 (or 2.6.11) works fine. VMware bugs are offtopic on this list, since noone

Re: Firewire/SBP2 and the -mm tree

2005-07-04 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jul 03 2005, Stefan Richter wrote: Rogério Brito wrote: With 2.6.13-rc1-mm1, it works if I patch sbp2.[ch] *and* pass the disable_irm parameter. If I don't pass the parameter, I get the same strange behaviour as I did before. Thanks for the systematic tests. You're welcome. If I can be

Re: ASUS K8N-DL Beta BIOS

2005-07-04 Thread Sean Bruno
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 09:37 +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: lör 2005-07-02 klockan 21:32 -0700 skrev Sean Bruno: On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 21:44 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: I can't really remember whether the detection problem was resolved; my specific (APIC related) issue was. Andi?

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

2005-07-04 Thread serge
Quoting Tony Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 06:51:35AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: 2.6.13-rc1-mm1

2005-07-04 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Saturday 02 July 2005 02:05, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: I get this errors on a dual-Opteron box (64-bit): ReiserFS: sdb3: warning: sh-2006: read_super_block: bread failed (dev sdb3, block 16, size 512) ReiserFS: sdb3: warning: sh-2006: read_super_block: bread failed (dev sdb3, block 128,

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

2005-07-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This is exactly what I said. Use hdparm to make the HD park inmediatelly. I did send the email to the HDPARM developer, but he never replied. I asked him what would be the best way to make the HD park with no exception and then let it come back 5 or 10 seconds

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

2005-07-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! BTW, we are on irc.freenode.org in #hdaps If anyone is interested. .Alejandro 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 the driver, merge fixes/features etc and eventually try

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-04 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Pavel Machek wrote: Actually, spin disk down and keep it down would be nice for other reasons. Taking computer for a jog playing mp3s from ramdisk is something I'd like to do... Isn't that called laptop-mode and available already? I remember

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

2005-07-04 Thread Tony Jones
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:06:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are calling __symbol_get(ops). Maybe (/probably :-)) I'm totally misunderstanding what you are doing but: a) I would have thought you would need to call symbol_get on the name the caller was passing, i.e

Re: 2.6.12-rc6 mm-total_vm accounting imbalance?

2005-07-04 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Friday 01 July 2005 18:13, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: It seems that mm-vm_total is decreased too many times and wraps below zero: VmSize: 4294966376 kB == VmData: 4294960304 kB == I've filed a bug at kernel bugzilla so your report won't be lost. See

Re: ASUS K8N-DL Beta BIOS

2005-07-04 Thread Sean Bruno
Even more fun today with the ASUS release 1004 of the BIOS. Looks like you CANNOT disable the Nvidia SATA controller without causing the system to lock. I can't seem to work around this new issue with the system without backing my BIOS down to 1003. With the Nvidia SATA controller enabled,

[patch] I-pipe 2.6.12-v0.9-00

2005-07-04 Thread Philippe Gerum
The interrupt pipeline patch v0.9-00 has been released, adding support for the ia64 architecture. A split version of the patch for x86, ppc32 and ia64 is available here: http://download.gna.org/adeos/patches/v2.6/ipipe/split/ Patch sequence to build a Linux 2.6.12 tree with I-pipe support:

ALPS psmouse_reset on reconnect confusing Tecra M2

2005-07-04 Thread Mike Waychison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just upgrade my Tecra M2 this weekend to the latest GIT tree and noticed that my mouse pointer/touchpad is now broken on resume. Investigating, it appears that mouse device gets confused due to the introduced psmouse_reset(psmouse) during

RE: IRQ routing problem

2005-07-04 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
I've been having interrupt problems. 2.6.12 worked fine, but soon after it got broken and was still broken just now that I checked git version. Interrupts get somehow misrouted. Here is a part from the syslog showing the problem: Jul 3 13:17:09 kohtala kernel: USB Universal Host

Re: ASUS K8N-DL Beta BIOS

2005-07-04 Thread Andi Kleen
2.6.13-rc1 has some kind of issue with my board due to it's 6GB of RAM. It stops when it discovers that there is no IOMMU. Since I don't see anything obvious in the BIOS to activate, I can't boot 2.6.13 at all. Full boot log please? -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: IRQ routing problem

2005-07-04 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Sunday 03 July 2005 15:16, Marko Kohtala wrote: irq 20: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) I've filed a bug at kernel bugzilla so your report won't be lost. See http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4843 You can register at http://bugme.osdl.org/createaccount.cgi and add

Re: ASUS K8N-DL Beta BIOS

2005-07-04 Thread Andi Kleen
Bootdata ok (command line is ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb apic=debug acpi=verbose acpi_skip_timer_override) Linux version 2.6.12 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)) #1 SMP Sat Jun 18 10:21:14 PDT 2005 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820:

Re: ASUS K8N-DL Beta BIOS

2005-07-04 Thread Sean Bruno
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 23:26 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: 2.6.13-rc1 has some kind of issue with my board due to it's 6GB of RAM. It stops when it discovers that there is no IOMMU. Since I don't see anything obvious in the BIOS to activate, I can't boot 2.6.13 at all. Full boot log please?

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