Greg KH writes:
I do care about this, please don't think that. But here's my reasoning
for why it needs to go:
[...]
- original developer of devfs has publicly stated udev is a
replacement.
Well, that's news to me!
What is more news to me:
(
From: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:45:54 +1000
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 02:20:21PM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
The compiler first does ~((a)-1)) and then expands the unsigned int to
unsigned long for the operation. So we end up with only the lower 32
bits
From: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The current suspend code modifies thread-flags from outside the
context of the thread. This creates a SMP race.
This patch fixes that by introducing a TIF_FREEZE flag in thread_info.
(This is not the end of the races in the suspend code since TIF_FREEZE
hi all,
is there such a thing anywhere as a working patch to enable NAPI in the
natsemi driver? or is someone working on one?
so far i have found two non-working patches, which i tried to get to
work without success. one locks up the kernel, the other says interrupt
while polling. any help with
În data de Sî, 16-07-2005 la 22:56 -0400, Horst von Brand a scris:
I'm getting:
# modprobe toshiba_acpi
FATAL: Error inserting toshiba_acpi
(/lib/modules/2.6.13-rc3/kernel/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.ko): No such device
This is definitely a Toshiba M30 notebook with this.
Anything else that
Hi,
I have now been trying to get Linux 2.6.11.5 (built
with gcc 3.3.3 and binutils 2.15.91.0.2) up and
running on my Helio PDA, a MIPS R3912 based ASSP (the
emulator to be exact) and have been stuck at the last
step for a while now :-(.
The kernel runs up fine, the problem starts when init
is
Russell King wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:21:43PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
Russell King wrote:
Also note that since we have a class_dev, the mmc_host 'dev' field can
be removed. However, we'll probably have to update the host drivers
to do this, so it should be a separate
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:21:43PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
Russell King wrote:
Also note that since we have a class_dev, the mmc_host 'dev' field can
be removed. However, we'll probably have to update the host drivers
to do this, so it should be a separate patch.
I believe there's a
I think this patch is rather obvious, so maybe I should ask Andrew to
apply it to -mm for now, to get some testing. Would that help to verify
it for acceptance?
-- Pete
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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:00:23 -0700
From: Pete Zaitcev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
My apologies for taking so long to look at these patches.
I agree there is an issue here, but large parts of this
we need to address kernel side. If the parameter buffer is allocated
after the kernel there is no guarantee that it will be addressable
from the kernels early page table so this fix
Hi Ingo;
I just built 51-31, mode 4, and although I spent an hour putting in
debug printouts in /etc/init.d/ntpd, I couldn't make it work, and
the /var/log/ntpd.log is being flooded with bad file descriptor
messages.
So I'm back on 51-30 in mode 3 for the time being so tvtime works.
--
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:53:27PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 03:53:44PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
The setup-bus code doesn't work correctly for configurations
with more than one display adapter in the same PCI domain.
This stuff actually is a leftover of an
On Friday 15 July 2005 16:14, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Mark Gross wrote:
What would be wrong in expecting the folks making the driver changes
have some story on how they are validating there changes don't break
existing working hardware? I could probly be accomplished in
I hit a small problem (first observed in 2.6.13-rc3-mm1) that resulted in
my kernels no longer building because of undefined references to
request_firmware and release_firmware.
After a little research, I found that the QLA stuff requires CONFIG_FW_LOADER.
I was using the sn2_defconfig as a
On 7/18/05, vamsi krishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All,
I have a program working fine on a 2.6.xx-smp kernel, and the program
crashes on the same version kernel with bigmem i.e (2.6.xxx-bigmem).
What is your program ??? what it is doing ??? Can u explain ?? or send
some code portion
On 14.07.2005 [13:40:11 -0700], Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
From: Nishanth Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description: The core revision to the soft-timer subsystem to divorce it
from the timer interrupt in software, i.e. jiffies. Instead, use
getnstimeofday() (via do_monotonic_clock()) as the
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 19:47 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
On Jul 17, 2005 10:40 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
@@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ struct ext3_inode {
#define EXT3_MOUNT_BARRIER 0x2 /* Use block barriers */
#define EXT3_MOUNT_NOBH0x4 /* No bufferheads */
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:11:42PM +0900, Hidetoshi Seto wrote:
[This is 5 of 10 patches, iochk-05-check_bridge.patch]
...
It means that A or B hits a bus error, but there is no data
which one actually hits the error. So, C should notify the
error to both of A and B, and clear the H's
Hi,
I recieved an email from someone claiming to be stuck with Linux 2.4, due to
relying on a Promise TX4200 disk controller (using the fdsata driver from
promise's website, which is 2.4-only):
:01:09.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device
3519 (rev 02)
Daniel Drake wrote:
Hi,
I recieved an email from someone claiming to be stuck with Linux 2.4,
due to relying on a Promise TX4200 disk controller (using the fdsata
driver from promise's website, which is 2.4-only):
:01:09.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown
device
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 06:12, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
What is more news to me:
( http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ )
Q: Why was devfs marked OBSOLETE if udev is not finished yet?
A: To quote Al Viro (Linux VFS kernel maintainer):
== - the devfs
Hi Martin,
Martin Povolný wrote:
We are succesfully running patched sata_promise with 3 disks in a
raid5/raid1 setup. (Patched against ubuntu linux-image 2.6.11-1-686
package.)
Could you please either send in your patch, or tell me which board_ setting
(2037x/20319/20619) the device ID table
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 02:23:57PM -0500, Erik Jacobson wrote:
I hit a small problem (first observed in 2.6.13-rc3-mm1) that resulted in
my kernels no longer building because of undefined references to
request_firmware and release_firmware.
After a little research, I found that the QLA
I'm seeing the following compile error in 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 (but it doesn't
seem to be specific to -mm) with CONFIG_NET=n:
-- snip --
...
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
drivers/built-in.o: In function `w1_alloc_dev':
w1_int.c:(.text+0x65d81f): undefined reference to `netlink_kernel_create'
On 7/18/05, Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:32:27AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
--- linux-2.6.13-rc3-orig/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c 2005-06-17
21:48:29.0 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc3/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c 2005-07-16
23:35:55.0
The first try to send the message below didn't work. Hoping it does
now ... :)
Regards
Wolfgang
- Forwarded message from Wolfgang Pfeiifer -
To: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
reiserfs_new_inode() can call iput() with the xattr lock held. This will
cause a deadlock to occur when reiserfs_delete_xattrs() is called to
clean up.
The following patch releases the lock and reacquires it after the iput. This
is safe because interaction with xattrs is complete, and the
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 19:47 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
On Jul 17, 2005 10:40 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
@@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ struct ext3_inode {
#define EXT3_MOUNT_BARRIER 0x2 /* Use block barriers */
#define EXT3_MOUNT_NOBH0x4 /* No bufferheads */
The patch is for mixed files from all over the tree.
Kernel version: 2.6.13-rc3-git4
* This patch removes from kernel tree pci_find_device and changes
it with pci_get_device. Next, it adds pci_dev_put, to decrease reference
count of the variable.
* Next, there are some (about 10 or so) gcc
On 7/18/05, art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2.6.12.3 ompilation errors with linux1394.org rev.1315
[]$ make make modules
That's redundant, make implicitly does make modules, so just
running make will do.
..
LD drivers/ieee1394/built-in.o
CC [M]
On 7/18/05, regatta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I want to join the Kernel community and help in developing Linux
kernel, I'm good in C,Perl and not that good in C++
The kernel is written in (mainly) C and (a little bit of) asm, no C++ in there.
is there any How-To page in how to help or
On 7/19/05, Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/18/05, regatta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I want to join the Kernel community and help in developing Linux
kernel, I'm good in C,Perl and not that good in C++
The kernel is written in (mainly) C and (a little bit of) asm, no C++
On 7/18/05, Pete Zaitcev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think this patch is rather obvious, so maybe I should ask Andrew to
apply it to -mm for now, to get some testing. Would that help to verify
it for acceptance?
-- Pete
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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:00:23 -0700
On 7/19/05, Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/18/05, Pete Zaitcev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think this patch is rather obvious, so maybe I should ask Andrew to
apply it to -mm for now, to get some testing. Would that help to verify
it for acceptance?
-- Pete
Begin forwarded
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:29:39 +0530 (IST),
Subbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have REDHAT 9.0 (kernel version 2.4.20-8) and i want to have KDB.
please tell me which version of KDB i can use with redhat 9.0 and above
mentioned kernel version.
Sorry, not available. RedHat do not want kdb so SGI do
On 7/18/05, Parminder Chhabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I get repeated Oops messages on 2.6.12.2. I get the message on inserting a
Have you tested a more recent kernel like 2.6.13-rc3 or
2.6.13-rc3-git4 or 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 to see if the problem is already
solved?
module that spawns a
-= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to Kenneth Parrish =-
ax ok, AS is definitely broken, it does an internal HZ - msec
ax conversion in the store/show functions as well. This should fix
ax it.
thank ya :-)
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On 07/18/05 10:12:29PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Something's wondering me, though:
FreeBSD just (5.0) introduced devfs, so either they are behind The Facts
(see udev FAQ), or devfs (anylinux/anybsd) is not so bad after all.
There's not much to wonder about here, the basic idea of devfs
On 7/19/05, Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, not available. RedHat do not want kdb so SGI do not do KDB
patches against RedHat distributions. Use SuSE instead, that has KDB
built in.
I want to add one more thing, you can compile your own kernel with KDB
patch applied if u
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 02:10:31PM +0200, Esben Nielsen wrote:
Unfortunately, one of the goals of the preempt-rt branch is to avoid
altering too much code. Therefore the type semaphore can't be removed
there. Therefore the name still lingers ... :-(
This is where you failed. You assumed that
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:16:55AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
I don't agree with that. But of course I'm always speaking from a real
time perspective . PI is expensive , but it won't always be. However, no
one is forcing PI on anyone, even if I think it's good ..
It depends on what kind of PI
Hi all,
When I first wrote the compat layer patches, I was somewhat cavalier about the
definition of compat_uid_t and compat_gid_t (or maybe I just misunderstood :-)).
This patch makes the compat types much more consistent with the types we are
being
compatible with and hopefully will fix a few
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:25:23AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
The patch is for mixed files from all over the tree.
Kernel version: 2.6.13-rc3-git4
* This patch removes from kernel tree pci_find_device and changes
it with pci_get_device. Next, it adds pci_dev_put, to decrease reference
count
Daniel Drake wrote:
Hi Martin,
Martin Povolný wrote:
We are succesfully running patched sata_promise with 3 disks in a
raid5/raid1 setup. (Patched against ubuntu linux-image 2.6.11-1-686
package.)
Could you please either send in your patch, or tell me which board_
setting
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