Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI_QLA2ABC mustn't select SCSI_FC_ATTRS

2005-07-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 21:04 -0700, randy_dunlap wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 23:11:26 -0400 Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 04:38 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > SCSI_QLA2XXX is automatically enabled for (SCSI && PCI). > > > > This has bugged me for a while. Why does this one SCSI

Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI_QLA2ABC mustn't select SCSI_FC_ATTRS

2005-07-16 Thread randy_dunlap
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 23:11:26 -0400 Lee Revell wrote: > On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 04:38 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > SCSI_QLA2XXX is automatically enabled for (SCSI && PCI). > > This has bugged me for a while. Why does this one SCSI driver default > to Y in the first place? It's not a driver, it's

Re: [PATCH 1/1] V4L CX88 patch - against 2.6.12-mm2

2005-07-16 Thread David Lloyd
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: - Add remove for MSI [EMAIL PROTECTED] You mean of course "Add remote" not "Add remove"... - D - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 19:35 -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > As you've seen, I think it depends on the timesource: for the PIT, it > would be arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_pit.c::setup_pit_timer(). That one looks pretty straightforward. arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c really looks like fun.

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc3] pcmcia: pcmcia_request_irq for !IRQ_HANDLE_PRESENT

2005-07-16 Thread Noah Misch
Between 2.6.10 and 2.6.11, the kernel began to print this message when I inserted my IBM Home and Away adapter (pcnet_cs) into an i82365 slot: 1.0: RequestIRQ: Unknown error code 0xffea Initialization of the device then aborted; no `eth0' appeared. Another user recently reported the same

[PATCH 2.6.12.3] libata: add support for Promise SATA 300 TX2plus PDC40775

2005-07-16 Thread Ed Kear
I'm using this card in a RAID1 with 2 new SATA drives with no problems. Card - SATA 300 TX2plus PDC40775 (3d73) Signed-off-by: Ed Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -urN a/drivers/scsi/sata_promise.c b/drivers/scsi/sata_promise.c --- a/drivers/scsi/sata_promise.c 2005-07-15 17:18:57.0

Re: [PATCH] char: Add Dell Systems Management Base driver

2005-07-16 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 06:17:29PM -0500, Doug Warzecha wrote: > Because the hardware interfaces on those systems and the Dell > systems management software that access the interfaces are > proprietary, I can't provide specifications for the interfaces or > source code for the software. So you

[PATCH] make SPEAKUP_DEFAULT depend on SPEAKUP

2005-07-16 Thread Jesper Juhl
When running `make oldconfig' with my 2.6.13-rc3 config on 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 I got a bit surprised when I answered `N'o to CONFIG_SPEAKUP but then still got prompted for CONFIG_SPEAKUP_DEFAULT - that didn't make sense, why would I want to select a default synthesizer for speakup if I have disabled

Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI_QLA2ABC mustn't select SCSI_FC_ATTRS

2005-07-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 04:38 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > SCSI_QLA2XXX is automatically enabled for (SCSI && PCI). This has bugged me for a while. Why does this one SCSI driver default to Y in the first place? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

[2.6 patch] SCSI_QLA2ABC mustn't select SCSI_FC_ATTRS

2005-07-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
[ The subject was adapted to linux-kernel spam filters... ] On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 07:40:37AM -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:36:53AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >... > > > Changes since 2.6.13-rc2-mm2: > > >... > > >

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-16 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 7/16/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/15/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/15/05, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > > > > > It's buggy, that I know. setting kernel_hz (the new boot parameter)

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 04:13 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Where do we actually program the tick rate we want? > In arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_pit.c: 166 void setup_pit_timer(void) 167 { 168 unsigned long flags; 169 170 spin_lock_irqsave(_lock, flags);

Re: 2.6.12 vs. /sbin/cardmgr

2005-07-16 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:36:45 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tracy) wrote: >rct wrote: >> Dominik Brodowski wrote: >> > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:37:22PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: >> > > Dominik Brodowski wrote: >> > > > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:12:17AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: >> > > > >

[2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_PCI_NAMES

2005-07-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes CONFIG_PCI_NAMES. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Due to it's size, the patch is available at http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel/patch-remove-CONFIG_PCI_NAMES Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |9 MAINTAINERS

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-16 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 7/15/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/15/05, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > > > It's buggy, that I know. setting kernel_hz (the new boot parameter) to > > > 250 causes my system clock to run at something like

Re: [2.6.13-rc3][PCMCIA] - iounmap: bad address f1d62000

2005-07-16 Thread Vincent C Jones
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 05:12:58PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > Could you check whether this patch helps, please? > > Index: 2.6.13-rc3-git2/drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c > === > --- 2.6.13-rc3-git2.orig/drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c > +++

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1

2005-07-16 Thread Joseph Fannin
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:36:53AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ > +suspend-update-documentation.patch > +swsusp-fix-printks-and-cleanups.patch > +swsusp-fix-remaining-u32-vs-pm_message_t-confusion.patch

[2.6 patch] VIDEO_SAA7134 must depend on SOUND

2005-07-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
VIDEO_SAA7134=y and SOUND=n results in the following compile error: <-- snip --> ... LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x4fafcb): In function `saa7134_initdev': : undefined reference to `unregister_sound_dsp' drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x4fb141): In function `saa7134_initdev': :

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] new human-time soft-timer subsystem

2005-07-16 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 15.07.2005 [00:28:44 +0200], Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > We no longer use jiffies (the variable) as the basis for determining > > what "time" a timer should expire or when it should be added. Instead, > > we use a new function,

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] add jiffies_to_nsecs() helper and fix up size of usecs

2005-07-16 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 15.07.2005 [14:14:25 +0200], Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > +static inline u64 jiffies_to_nsecs(const unsigned long j) > > > > +{ > > > > +#if HZ <= NSEC_PER_SEC && !(NSEC_PER_SEC % HZ) > > > > + return (NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ) * (u64)j; > > > > +#elif HZ > NSEC_PER_SEC && !(HZ %

Re: relayfs documentation sucks?

2005-07-16 Thread Tom Zanussi
bert hubert writes: > Ok, I'm working furiously on my OLS presentation (Wednesday, 3pm, be > there), but I'm running into a wall with relayfs, which I intend to use to > convey large amounts of disk statistics towards userspace. > > Now, I've read Documentation/filesystems/relayfs.txt many

RE: 2.6.9 chrdev_open: serial_core: uart_open

2005-07-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Alan Cox wrote: > A good rule of thumb > is to trace the sequence of calls and assume that the last sane sequence > is the one that occurred before the failure. Note also that gcc does sibling optimization, i.e. it will happily reduce the code at the end of int bar(a,b) { [...]

Re: [2.6.13-rc3][PCMCIA] - iounmap: bad address f1d62000

2005-07-16 Thread Dominik Brodowski
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 04:21:44PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 05:12:58PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > Could you send me the output of /proc/iomem on both a working kernel and on > > 2.6.13-rc3-APM, please? > > Dominik, I'd suggest looking elsewhere. The memory

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: lxdialog: Enable UTF8

2005-07-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > > > > OK, I'll bite - non utf8 here, and no libncursesw : a quick google > > > suggests I can get it if I recompile ncurses with --enable-widec, but > > > why would I want to do that ? > > Could you try if

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 : oops in dnotify_parent

2005-07-16 Thread Laurent Riffard
Le 15.07.2005 10:36, Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ Hello, I just got this oops : Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0104 printing eip: c016c7c4 *pde = Oops: [#1]

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1: a regression

2005-07-16 Thread Andrew Morton
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday, 15 of July 2005 10:36, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ > > > > (http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.13-rc3-mm1.gz until > >

[2.4 hotfix] Linux-2.4.31-hf2, Linux-2.4.30-hf5, Linux-2.4.29-hf12

2005-07-16 Thread Willy TARREAU
Hi, Here is a new 2.4 hotfix. Nothing alarming, though. I reverted the netlink socket hashing bug fix that I took from Davem's tree and introduced in 2.4.31-hf1 because Marcelo informed me that Davem says it's broken and a better fix is needed. It was also a right moment to merge Julien Tinnes'

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-16 Thread Manfred Spraul
Daniel Drake wrote: So, you want this instead: #define DEV_HAS_LARGEDESC0x0004 Autsch. Yes, you are right. Sorry for that, I should have reread the patch once more. I've fixed it on my website. -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1: a regression

2005-07-16 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 15 of July 2005 10:36, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ > > (http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.13-rc3-mm1.gz until > kernel.org syncs up) There seems to be a regression wrt 2.6.13-rc3

Re: 2.6.12 vs. /sbin/cardmgr

2005-07-16 Thread Dominik Brodowski
Hi! On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:36:45AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > rct wrote: > > Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:37:22PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > > Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:12:17AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Daniel Drake wrote: After applying the v0.38 patch, I can't get any network at all. DHCP fails to get an IP. v0.37 works fine. Tracked it down. (sorry for linewraps) +#define DEV_NEED_TIMERIRQ 0x0001 /* set the timer irq flag in the irq mask */ +#define DEV_NEED_LINKTIMER 0x0002 /*

relayfs documentation sucks?

2005-07-16 Thread bert hubert
Ok, I'm working furiously on my OLS presentation (Wednesday, 3pm, be there), but I'm running into a wall with relayfs, which I intend to use to convey large amounts of disk statistics towards userspace. Now, I've read Documentation/filesystems/relayfs.txt many times over, and I don't get it. It

Kernel Panic: VFS cannot open a root device

2005-07-16 Thread GlupFire
> Hi , i have kernel 2.4.29 at slack 10.1 and when I upgrade my kernel to > 2.6.11 I get these erros on booting > > VFS: Cannot open a root device "301" or unknow block > please append a correct "root" boot option > KERNEL PANIC : not syncing; VFS; Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block >

Re: NFS and fifos.

2005-07-16 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 7/16/05, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:25:01PM +0530, Dhruv Matani wrote: > > On 7/16/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 7/16/05, Dhruv Matani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 7/16/05, Arvind Kalyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

[PATCH] lib/int_sqrt.c: speedup compilation

2005-07-16 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
It uses only EXPORT_SYMBOL, so... Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- lib/int_sqrt.c |2 -- 1 files changed, 2 deletions(-) --- linux-vanilla/lib/int_sqrt.c2005-07-16 02:05:11.0 +0400 +++ linux-int_sqrt/lib/int_sqrt.c 2005-07-16 03:11:38.0

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 09:57 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:34, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:27 +0200, szonyi calin wrote: > > > I have the following problem with audio: > > > Xmms is running with threads for audio and spectrum > > > analyzer(OpenGL). > > > The

Re: Sandisk Compact Flash

2005-07-16 Thread Norbert van Nobelen
So then you will have to reboot sometimes. BTW, IDE can be hot swapped if you are carefull: Umount the device, unplug it. Plug in the same device (same model) Remount. A bit risky to your hardware, but I have used this way for harddisks several time when a system has to keep running. Never used

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Manfred Spraul wrote: Attached is a patch that modifies the tx interrupt handling of the nForce nic. It's part of the attempts to figure out what causes the nic hangs (see bug 4552). The change is experimental: It affects all nForce versions. I've tested it on my nForce 250-Gb. Please

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

2005-07-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Karsten Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is it. Apply it on top of -51-30 and 'make oldconfig'. You'll be > asked about the new CONFIG_ONE_IOAPIC. Answering yes, io_apic_one.c > will be used, which is ((io_apic.c minus quirks) minus > multi_io_apic_capability) . It'll propably crash

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-16 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Karsten Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Have I corrected the other path of ioapic early initialization, which >>had lacked virtual-address setup before ioapic_data[ioapic] was to be >>filled in -51-28? Please test attached patch on top of -51-29 or >>later. Also

Re: Volatile vs Non-Volatile Spin Locks on SMP.

2005-07-16 Thread Robert Hancock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, By using volatile keyword for spin lock defined by in spinlock_t, it seems Linux choose to always reload the value of spin locks from cache instead of using the content from registers. This may be helpful for synchronization between multithreads in a single

Re: init 0 stopped working

2005-07-16 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, On 7/16/05, Martin Mokrejs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I used to shutdown my P4 machine based on ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe > with simple "init 0" command. That somehow broke between 2.6.12-rc6-git2 > and 2.6.13-rc1. The machines makes the sound like shutdown but it > immediately turns the

Re: Sandisk Compact Flash

2005-07-16 Thread David Hinds
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 03:04:54AM -0400, Michael Krufky wrote: > I recommend picking up a CF-to-IDE adapter, such as this: > > http://www.acscontrol.com/Index_ACS.asp?Page=/Pages/Products/CompactFlash/IDE_To_CF_Adapter.htm That's fine if you have a spare IDE port, but unlikely if you're using

Re: NFS and fifos.

2005-07-16 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:25:01PM +0530, Dhruv Matani wrote: > On 7/16/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/16/05, Dhruv Matani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 7/16/05, Arvind Kalyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 7/16/05, Dhruv Matani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: NFS and fifos.

2005-07-16 Thread Dhruv Matani
On 7/16/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/16/05, Dhruv Matani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/16/05, Arvind Kalyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 7/16/05, Dhruv Matani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I can't seem to be able to use fifos on an NFS mount.

Re: [PATCH] latency logger for realtime-preempt-2.6.12-final-V0.7.51-30

2005-07-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* yangyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Ingo > > This patch can record interrupt-off latency, preemption-off latency > and wakeup latency in a big history array, in the meanwhile, it > dummies up printks produced by these latency timing. looks pretty good! I'll look at merging your patch

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1: horribly drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/Makefile

2005-07-16 Thread Jindrich Makovicka
Andrew Vasquez wrote: > Yes, quite. How about the following to correct the intention. > > > > Add correct Kconfig option for ISP24xx support. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/Kconfig > ---

Re: compiling Kernel Modules with debugging information enabled

2005-07-16 Thread Brice Goglin
Le 16.07.2005 19:11, k8 s a écrit : > To be more clear, say I have selected CONFIG_XFRM=y in .config file > I want to make a change such that net/xfrm/Makefile has an entry > CFLAGS += -g so that it generates debugging information for all the > modules in that directory Look at

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Karsten Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have I corrected the other path of ioapic early initialization, which > had lacked virtual-address setup before ioapic_data[ioapic] was to be > filled in -51-28? Please test attached patch on top of -51-29 or > later. Also on Systems that liked

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

2005-07-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 07:56 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 16:46 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I haven't tested it recently . This was on an older version of RT > > >

compiling Kernel Modules with debugging information enabled

2005-07-16 Thread k8 s
Hello, How can I compile a kernel module ,that is statically compiled at the kernel compilation time, with debugging information. To be more clear, say I have selected CONFIG_XFRM=y in .config file I want to make a change such that net/xfrm/Makefile has an entry CFLAGS += -g so that it generates

Re: Linux 2.6.12.3

2005-07-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:48:16PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: >... > Summary of changes from v2.6.12.2 to v2.6.12.3 > == >... > Ralf Baechle: > SMP fix for 6pack driver >... Will this patch [1] also be forward-ported to Linus' tree, or will 2.6.12.3 stay

Re: Module option for compiled-in parts

2005-07-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> I have added a module_param() to a component that is compiled in >> (drivers/char/vt.c). Since it's not a module, will it still show a >> /sys/module/WhatGoesHere/parameters/myvariablename file? What will be put as >> "WhatGoesHere" as vt.c does not become vt.ko? I actually done it, and a

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-16 Thread Manfred Spraul
Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, Manfred Spraul wrote: Attached is a patch that modifies the tx interrupt handling of the nForce nic. It's part of the attempts to figure out what causes the nic hangs (see bug 4552). The change is experimental: It affects all nForce versions. I've tested it on my

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] new timeofday core subsystem

2005-07-16 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 16.07.2005 [02:32:14 -0600], Frank Sorenson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > +extern nsec_t do_monotonic_clock(void); > This looks okay ... > > > +/** > > + * do_monotonic_clock - Returns monotonically increasing nanoseconds > > + * > > + * Returns the

Re: 2.6.13-rc3 ACPI regression and hang on x86-64

2005-07-16 Thread Kenneth Parrish
-=> Mikael Pettersson wrote to All <=- MP> With the i386 kernel, 2.6.13-rc3 mostly works, but MP> it fails to detect the CPU's C2 state. This kernel fails to boot, occasionally, stopping at the system BIOS check successful message, but got C2 back with the recent patch here. LILO version 22.5.9

Re: 2.6.12 vs. /sbin/cardmgr

2005-07-16 Thread Bob Tracy
rct wrote: > Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:37:22PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:12:17AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > > > (/sbin/cardmgr chewing up lots of CPU cycles with 2.6.12 kernel) > > > > > > > > Please

Re: Module option for compiled-in parts

2005-07-16 Thread randy_dunlap
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 10:45:17 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Hi, > > > I have added a module_param() to a component that is compiled in > (drivers/char/vt.c). Since it's not a module, will it still show a > /sys/module/WhatGoesHere/parameters/myvariablename file? What will be put as >

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Manfred Spraul wrote: Attached is a patch that modifies the tx interrupt handling of the nForce nic. It's part of the attempts to figure out what causes the nic hangs (see bug 4552). The change is experimental: It affects all nForce versions. I've tested it on my nForce 250-Gb. This

Re: NFS and fifos.

2005-07-16 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 7/16/05, Dhruv Matani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/16/05, Arvind Kalyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/16/05, Dhruv Matani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I can't seem to be able to use fifos on an NFS mount. Is there any > > > reason why this is disallowed, or is this

Re: NFS and fifos.

2005-07-16 Thread Dhruv Matani
On 7/16/05, Arvind Kalyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/16/05, Dhruv Matani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I can't seem to be able to use fifos on an NFS mount. Is there any > > reason why this is disallowed, or is this is a bug? v.2.4.20. > > Are both the processes

Re: PCMCIA_SOCKET unable to apply filter after Ram Upgrade

2005-07-16 Thread Dominik Brodowski
Hi, On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 05:14:36PM +0200, Frederic Gaus wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi folks! > > I've recently done a RAM upgrade on my IBM Thinkpad R40 (2722). > > 1. Ram-Chip: pc2100 cl 2.5 512 MB > 2. Ram-Chip: pc2700 cl 2.5 1024 MB > > When booting

Re: [2.6.13-rc3][PCMCIA] - iounmap: bad address f1d62000

2005-07-16 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 05:12:58PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > Could you send me the output of /proc/iomem on both a working kernel and on > 2.6.13-rc3-APM, please? Dominik, I'd suggest looking elsewhere. The memory regions must be free to be able to call into readable(), and therefore

Re: init 0 stopped working

2005-07-16 Thread Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
On Saturday, 16 July 2005, at 02:09:47 +0200, Martin Mokrejs wrote: > Any clues? I still happens even with 2.6.13-rc3-git2. > Check message with subject: [2.6.12-git8] ACPI shutdown fails to power off machine http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=112094139204799=2 So it seems there are

PCMCIA_SOCKET unable to apply filter after Ram Upgrade

2005-07-16 Thread Frederic Gaus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks! I've recently done a RAM upgrade on my IBM Thinkpad R40 (2722). 1. Ram-Chip: pc2100 cl 2.5 512 MB 2. Ram-Chip: pc2700 cl 2.5 1024 MB When booting with only one Chip inside, everything works perfecly. (Never mind in which slot). But when

PCMCIA_SOCKET unable to apply filter after Ram Upgrade

2005-07-16 Thread Frederic Gaus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks! I've recently done a RAM upgrade on my IBM Thinkpad R40 (2722). 1. Ram-Chip: pc2100 cl 2.5 512 MB 2. Ram-Chip: pc2700 cl 2.5 1024 MB When booting with only one Chip inside, everything works perfecly. (Never mind in which slot). But when

Re: [2.6.13-rc3][PCMCIA] - iounmap: bad address f1d62000

2005-07-16 Thread Dominik Brodowski
Hi, Could you send me the output of /proc/iomem on both a working kernel and on 2.6.13-rc3-APM, please? Thanks, Dominik - 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: PS/2 Keyboard is dead after resume.

2005-07-16 Thread Andrew Haninger
On 7/16/05, Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, so you start with IRQ 12 disabled.. You don't have a PS/2 mouse, > do you? Nope :). > > serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 > > serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 > > You did not select PNP support (but as far as keyboard

Re: [2.6.13-rc3][PCMCIA] - iounmap: bad address f1d62000

2005-07-16 Thread Vincent C Jones
Testing 2.6.13-rc3 and getting nasty output during bootup from yenta socket initialization. dmesg output follows: Linux version 2.6.13-rc3-APM ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #13 Fri Jul 15 23:55:12 EDT 2005 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820:

Re: NFS and fifos.

2005-07-16 Thread Arvind Kalyan
On 7/16/05, Dhruv Matani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I can't seem to be able to use fifos on an NFS mount. Is there any > reason why this is disallowed, or is this is a bug? v.2.4.20. Are both the processes (reader/writer) on the same machine? FIFOs are local objects. -- Arvind

Re: reiserfs+acl makes processes hang?

2005-07-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>You made one mistake, the last echo "1" >blah should not be >to the file you created earlier.. the echo is meant to Right. Hangs now. If someone wants a stack trace, below is one. However, I wonder why my traces have become so distorted -- e.g. the proc_lookup in the last one should not be

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc3] Add support for Netcell Revolution to pci-ide generic driver

2005-07-16 Thread Matt Gillette
Description: Adds support for Netcell Revolution to pci-ide generic driver by including it in the list of devices matched. Includes the Revolution in the list of simplex devices forced into DMA mode. Signed-off-by: Matt Gillette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff -purN

Re: Module snd-intel8x0.ko broken in 2.6.12

2005-07-16 Thread Arvind Kalyan
On 7/16/05, FyD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the error message I get whatever the kernel 2.6.12 I use: > FATAL: Error inserting snd-intel8x0 > (/lib/modules/2.6.12.2/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko) > unknown symbol in module or unknown parameter (see dmesg) May be you chose additional

[PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-16 Thread Manfred Spraul
[If you receive the mail twice - sorry. I forgot to attach the actual patch] Hi, Attached is a patch that modifies the tx interrupt handling of the nForce nic. It's part of the attempts to figure out what causes the nic hangs (see bug 4552). The change is experimental: It affects all nForce

[PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-16 Thread Manfred Spraul
Hi, Attached is a patch that modifies the tx interrupt handling of the nForce nic. It's part of the attempts to figure out what causes the nic hangs (see bug 4552). The change is experimental: It affects all nForce versions. I've tested it on my nForce 250-Gb. Please test it. And

Re: resuming swsusp twice

2005-07-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > I of course won't say that this cannot happen, but by design, the > > swsusp > > signature is invalidated even before reading the image, so > > theoretically > > it should not happen. > > Yes, I'd seen that happen on earlier swsusps, so I was quite suprised > when it blew up like this. >

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > The real answer here is for the tickless patches to cleaned up to > > the point where they can be merged, and then we won't waste battery > > power entering the timer interrupt in the first place. :-) > > Whilst conceptually this is a nice idea I've yet to see any viable > code that

Re: Why is 2.6.12.2 less stable on my laptop than 2.6.10?

2005-07-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Why can't I expect SWSusp work better and more reliable from release to > release? Patches welcome. Or employ someone to do swsusp development for you. > Some possible things that could help: > > *Addopt a no-regressions-allowed policy and everthing stops until any > identified

Re: resuming swsusp twice

2005-07-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > I of course won't say that this cannot happen, but by design, the > > swsusp > > signature is invalidated even before reading the image, so > > theoretically > > it should not happen. > > Yes, I'd seen that happen on earlier swsusps, so I was quite suprised > when it blew up like this. >

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] add jiffies_to_nsecs() helper and fix up size of usecs

2005-07-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > +static inline u64 jiffies_to_nsecs(const unsigned long j) > > > +{ > > > +#if HZ <= NSEC_PER_SEC && !(NSEC_PER_SEC % HZ) > > > + return (NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ) * (u64)j; > > > +#elif HZ > NSEC_PER_SEC && !(HZ % NSEC_PER_SEC) > > > + return ((u64)j + (HZ / NSEC_PER_SEC) - 1)/(HZ /

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Alan tested it and said that 250HZ does not save much power anyway. > > Len Brown, a year ago: "The bottom line number to laptop users is battery > lifetime. Just today somebody complained to me that Windows gets twice the > battery life that Linux does." > > And "Maybe I can get Andy

Re: resuming swsusp twice

2005-07-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Yesterday I booted my laptop to 2.6.13-rc2-mm1, suspended to swsusp, and > then resumed. It ran fine overnight, including a fair amount of IO > (running firefox, rsyncing ~/Mail/archive from my mail server, hg pull, > etc). This morning I did a swsusp: > > echo shutdown >

strange boot problem since 2.6.12

2005-07-16 Thread Fabio Erculiani
The problem is simple and I have it since 2.6.12 final (tested on 2.6.12, 2.6.12.2, 2.6.13-rc3). After grub stage2 (kernel image loaded) the system freeze and I can only hit the three-finger-salute (ctrl+alt+del). The system is: Asus A8V Deluxe bios 1014.007 (tested with 1014.001 and 1013) AMD

PATCH: Adjust PCI rom code to handle more broken ROMs

2005-07-16 Thread Jon Smirl
There are ROMs reporting that their size exceeds their PCI ROM resource window. This patch returns the minimum of the resource window size or the size in the ROM. An example of this breakage is the XGI Volari Z7. Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Patch is in an attachment since gmail

Re: [patch 2.6.13-git] 8250 tweaks

2005-07-16 Thread Sam Song
Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The interrupts are only claimed when the port is > actually opened, so if > only one port was open, you'll only see one > appearing in /proc/interrupts. Get it. Thanks so much, Sam

Re: [patch 1/1] Audit return code of create_proc_*

2005-07-16 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi Domen, On Friday 15 July 2005 00:19, you wrote: > Audit return of create_proc_* functions. This (and related changes) spam the log, if kernel is compiled without /proc-support. Kernels without /proc-support are quite common in the embedded world. Just provide a function in a suitable header

NFS and fifos.

2005-07-16 Thread Dhruv Matani
Hello, I can't seem to be able to use fifos on an NFS mount. Is there any reason why this is disallowed, or is this is a bug? v.2.4.20. ps. pl. cc to me. Thanx in advance. -- -Dhruv Matani. http://www.geocities.com/dhruvbird/ The race of quality has no finish line. ~Anon. - To

Re: [patch 2.6.13-git] 8250 tweaks

2005-07-16 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 03:12:01AM -0700, Sam Song wrote: > Still one puzzle related serial port. That's interrupt itself. I > enabled two serial ports attached two different interrupt levels > like 9/10 with disable interrupt shared. How come only one appeared > in /proc/interrupts? What could

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: lxdialog: Enable UTF8

2005-07-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > OK, I'll bite - non utf8 here, and no libncursesw : a quick google > > suggests I can get it if I recompile ncurses with --enable-widec, but > > why would I want to do that ? > Could you try if specifying both libraries works for you. the 'w' >

Re: [patch 2.6.13-git] 8250 tweaks

2005-07-16 Thread Sam Song
Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but it's not. We need PPC folk to fix their > SERIAL_PORT_DFNS and remove obsolete stuff like > RS_TABLE_SIZE. Hope Mark could take care this change. I have no sandpoint board at hand:-) I removed RS_TABLE_SIZE on my target successfully and happened to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.21

2005-07-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:01 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > Interbech is a an application is designed to benchmark interactivity in Linux. > > Version 0.21 update > > http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/interbench/interbench-0.21.tar.bz2 > I would suggest using microseconds for both the RT and non RT

Re: init 0 stopped working

2005-07-16 Thread Martin Mokrejs
> I used to shutdown my P4 machine based on ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe > with simple "init 0" command. That somehow broke between 2.6.12-rc6-git2 > and 2.6.13-rc1. The machines makes the sound like shutdown but it > immediately turns the power on again. I used acpi and the kernel > configs should be

Module option for compiled-in parts

2005-07-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, I have added a module_param() to a component that is compiled in (drivers/char/vt.c). Since it's not a module, will it still show a /sys/module/WhatGoesHere/parameters/myvariablename file? What will be put as "WhatGoesHere" as vt.c does not become vt.ko? Jan Engelhardt -- - To

Re: reiserfs+acl makes processes hang?

2005-07-16 Thread Tarmo Tänav
You made one mistake, the last echo "1" >blah should not be to the file you created earlier.. the echo is meant to create another file which is supposed to fail because there is no free space but for some reason instead of failing it will cause the process to enter D state. Here is how I just

Re: [patch 2.6.13-git] 8250 tweaks

2005-07-16 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:11:36PM -0700, Sam Song wrote: > Well, I use a sandpoint-based board. Not the same as > the reference one. There are two serial ports on the > board and I enabled them both with IRQ9/10. > In addition, No 8259 on this board. > > Pls don't apply this patch:-) Indeed I

RE: FC3 module sys_print how...

2005-07-16 Thread Mukund JB.
Dear Richard, Thanks for the copy. I will try it now. I know we should not try to open, Read, write files from the kernel module. We have problem with our flash media driver hanging at certain instances. And when it hangs you know I can't see the /var/log/messages. After the reboot, I do NOT find

Re: Serial core: 8250_pci could not register serial port for UART chip EXAR XR17D152

2005-07-16 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:47:29AM -0500, V. ANANDA KRISHNAN wrote: > I have been coming across a problem with my serial port EXAR chip XR > 17D152, when I try to use the 8250_pci driver. I am using > kernel-2.6.12.1 on RHEL4.0-U1 on pSeries box with 4-cpu. 8250_pci > during the boot time,

Kernel Panic: VFS cannot open a root device

2005-07-16 Thread GlupFire
Hi , i have kernel 2.4.29 at slack 10.1 and when I upgrade my kernel to 2.6.11 I get these erros on booting VFS: Cannot open a root device "301" or unknow block please append a correct "root" boot option KERNEL PANIC : not syncing; VFS; Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (3,1) I have

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] new timeofday core subsystem

2005-07-16 Thread Frank Sorenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > +extern nsec_t do_monotonic_clock(void); This looks okay ... > +/** > + * do_monotonic_clock - Returns monotonically increasing nanoseconds > + * > + * Returns the monotonically increasing number of nanoseconds > + * since the system booted via

Re: reiserfs+acl makes processes hang?

2005-07-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>Hi, > >Here's how to reproduce: >1. mount a reiserfs volume (loopmount will do) with "-o acl". >2. create a directory "dir" >3. set some default acl: setfacl -d -m u:username:rwX dir >4. cd dir >5. dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile1 bs=4k count=10 >(the idea is to run out of space) >6. now df

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