[PATCH 3/6] Clean up the open flags

2005-07-28 Thread Stephen Rothwell
This patch puts the most popular of each open flag into asm-generic/fcntl.h and cleans up the arch files. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ diff -ruNp linus-fcntl.2/include/asm-alpha/fcntl.h

Re: serial device driver

2005-07-28 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 5:12 am, Rahul Tank wrote: >i am writing a serial device driver. After going > thru few linux journals i have understood that serial > ports get mapped at standard addrerss.We need to take > these regions, register driver and talk to them > (read,write). If your

[PATCH 2/7] UML - Fix skas0 stub return

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Dike
From: Bodo Stroesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's wrong to pop a fixed number of words from stack before calling sigreturn, as the number depends on what code is generated by the compiler for the start of stub_segv_handler(). What we need is esp containing the address of sigcontext. So we explicitly

[PATCH 3/7] UML - Fix redundant assignment

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Dike
By this point, .is_user has already been set, so this assignment is useless. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.12/arch/um/kernel/skas/trap_user.c === --- linux-2.6.12.orig/arch/um/kernel/skas/trap_user.c

[PATCH 6/6] Clean up struct flock64 definitions

2005-07-28 Thread Stephen Rothwell
This patch gathers all the struct flock64 definitions (and the operations) and puts them under !CONFIG_64BIT and cleans up the arch files. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ diff -ruNp linus-fcntl.5/include/asm-arm/fcntl.h

Re: [PATCH] speed up on find_first_bit for i386 (let compiler do the work)

2005-07-28 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > I've been playing with different approaches, (still all hot cache > though), and inspecting the generated code. It's not that the gcc > generated code is always better for the normal case. But since it sees > more and everything is not hidden in asm,

Re: RFC: Raise required gcc version to 3.2 ?

2005-07-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > What is the oldest gcc we want to support in kernel 2.6? > > Currently, it's 2.95 . > > I'd suggest raising this to 3.2 which should AFAIK not be a problem for > any distribution supporting kernel 2.6 . You have all my support for this. Some weird

Re: Re: Problem while inserting pciehp (PCI Express Hot-plug) driver

2005-07-28 Thread Kristen Accardi
On 7/28/05, Rajat Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Rajat, you can learn more about the OSHP method by reading the PCI > > express spec. It is used to tell an ACPI bios that the OS will be > > handling the hotplug events natively. It may be that your BIOS does > > not allow native

Re: RFC: Raise required gcc version to 3.2 ?

2005-07-28 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:00:12 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >What is the oldest gcc we want to support in kernel 2.6? > >Currently, it's 2.95 . > >I'd suggest raising this to 3.2 which should AFAIK not be a problem for >any distribution supporting kernel 2.6 . > >Is there any good reason why we should

Re: [PATCH] speed up on find_first_bit for i386 (let compiler do the work)

2005-07-28 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 17:34 +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Since you're considering GCC-generated code for ffs(), ffz() and friends, > how about trying __builtin_ffs(), __builtin_clz() and __builtin_ctz() as > apropriate? Reasonably recent GCC may actually be good enough to use the >

Re: [PATCH 1/5] Add AIO event ring size tunable

2005-07-28 Thread Trond Myklebust
to den 28.07.2005 Klokka 17:46 (+0200) skreiv Sébastien Dugué: > > > > > > > > ukjent vedlegg > (aiomaxevents) Please don't post these patches as base-64 encoded anonymous attachments. It makes them very annoying to review. In you must use attachments, use inlined ascii. Better still,

[PATCH 1/7] UML - -mm3 compile fix

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Dike
-mm3 adds an include of asm/vm86.h in include/asm-i386/ptrace.h. Since UML includes the underlying arch's ptrace.h, it needs an asm/vm86.h in order to build. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.12-rc3-mm2/include/asm-um/vm86.h

Re: kernel guide to space (updated)

2005-07-28 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:52:25AM -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > > 7. Comments > > Don't use C99 // comments. > > I don't think this is correct. In fact, I remember a discussion > where // was preferred for new code.

Re: driver for Marvell 88E8053 PCI Express Gigabit LAN

2005-07-28 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:19:20 +0100 Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > Alexander Fieroch wrote: > > Alexander Fieroch wrote: > > > >> http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/lan/marvell/8053/8053_others2.zip > > > > > > Oh, that driver is very old. Here is the latest one

Re: kernel guide to space (updated)

2005-07-28 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 7/28/05, Michael S. Tsirkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 9. The following is helpful with VIM >set cinoptions=(0:0 > And this will highlight whitespace damage: highlight RedundantSpaces ctermbg=red guibg=red match RedundantSpaces /\s\+$\| \+\ze\t/ -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe

[PATCH 5/7] UML - Fix typo

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Dike
From: Bodo Stroesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix a typo in wait_stub_done. Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.12-rc3-mm2/arch/um/kernel/skas/process.c === ---

[PATCH 4/7] UML - Fix load average >=1

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Dike
update_process_times was missing its irq_enter/irq_exit wrapper. This caused ksoftirqd to be scheduled on every clock tick. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.12-rc3-mm2/arch/um/kernel/time_kern.c === ---

[PATCH 7/7] UML - Clean up prink calls

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Dike
From: Christophe Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> printk() calls should include appropriate KERN_* constant. Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index:

[PATCH 2/6] consildate asm-ppc*/fcntl.h

2005-07-28 Thread Stephen Rothwell
These two files are basically identical, so make one just include the other (protecting the 32-bit-only parts with CONFIG_64BIT). Also remove some completely unused defines. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ diff -ruNp

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: colormap fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Jon Smirl
On 7/28/05, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > Jon Smirl wrote: > > > On 7/28/05, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > > > > > There are a couple of ways to

[PATCH 1/6] Collect all the identical parts of asm*/fcntl.h

2005-07-28 Thread Stephen Rothwell
This patch just gathers all the identical bits of the asm-*/fcntl.h files into asm-generic/fcnl.h. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ diff -ruNp linus/include/asm-alpha/fcntl.h linus-fcntl.1/include/asm-alpha/fcntl.h ---

[PATCH 0/6] Consolidate asm/fcntl.h

2005-07-28 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi all, I finally got inspired enough to consolidate all the asm-*/fcntl.h files. This set of patches is the result. Comments? This has only been built in PPC64 - others are welcome to try as well :-) --- asm-alpha/fcntl.h | 35 asm-arm/fcntl.h | 78

[PATCH 5/6] Clean up struct flock definitions

2005-07-28 Thread Stephen Rothwell
This patch just gathers together all the struct flock definitions. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ diff -ruNp linus-fcntl.4/include/asm-alpha/fcntl.h linus-fcntl.5/include/asm-alpha/fcntl.h ---

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: sync_tsc fix the race (so we can boot)

2005-07-28 Thread yhlu
Do you mean solve the timing problem for 2 way dual core or 4 way single core above? YH On 7/27/05, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sync_tsc was using smp_call_function to ask the boot processor > to report it's tsc value. smp_call_function performs an IPI_send_allbutself >

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH] arch/xx/pci: remap_pfn_range -> io_remap_pfn_range

2005-07-28 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:57:51PM +0100, Ian Pratt wrote: > > > Greg> Hm, you do realize that io_remap_pfn_range() is the same > > > Greg> thing as remap_pfn_range() on i386, right? > > > > > > Greg> So, why would this patch change anything? > > > > > > It's not the same thing under

Re: Upcoming 2.6.13 and hostap driver

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jar wrote: Hostap driver has been in the -mm tree for a long time. Any plans to merge it to upcoming 2.6.13? It needs to be merged with the ieee80211 generic layer, before it can go upstream. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [PATCH] speed up on find_first_bit for i386 (let compiler do the work)

2005-07-28 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 08:30 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I suspect the old "rep scas" has always been slower than > compiler-generated code, at least under your test conditions. Many of the > old asm's are actually _very_ old, and some of them come from pre-0.01 > days and are more about

[PATCH 2/5] Add support for AIO completion notification

2005-07-28 Thread Sébastien Dugué
aioevent Description: Binary data

Re: [git pull] Final InfiniBand updates for 2.6.13

2005-07-28 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:20:08PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: > Linus, please pull from > > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git > for-linus Not to be a pain, but didn't we say that we would only do email patches after -rc1 comes out at the last kernel

Re: [PATCH] fbdev: colormap fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > Can you review this fix for the issues below? I fixed things to > automatically adjust the number of entries to whatever fits in > PAGE_SIZE. Looks OK, but... > @@ -317,18 +317,18 @@ static ssize_t show_cmap(struct class_de > !fb_info->cmap.green)

[PATCH 3/5] Add support for LIO completion notification

2005-07-28 Thread Sébastien Dugué
lioevent Description: Binary data

[PATCH 4/5] Add support for POSIX LIO_WAIT

2005-07-28 Thread Sébastien Dugué
liowait Description: Binary data

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: colormap fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > Jon Smirl wrote: > > On 7/28/05, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > > > There are a couple of ways to fix this. > > 1) Add a check to limit use of the sysfs attributes to

Re: kernel guide to space (updated)

2005-07-28 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > 7. Comments > Don't use C99 // comments. I don't think this is correct. In fact, I remember a discussion where // was preferred for new code. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.12 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips).

[PATCH 0/5] Add kernel AIO support for POSIX AIO

2005-07-28 Thread Sébastien Dugué
This set of patches adds functionality to the kernel AIO infrastructure to be used by user level libraries aiming at implementing a POSIX compliant API on top of this kernel support. This patchset is comprised of 5 patches, each implementing a specific functionality: - aiomaxevents:

[PATCH 1/5] Add AIO event ring size tunable

2005-07-28 Thread Sébastien Dugué
aiomaxevents Description: Binary data

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:04:20PM +0200, Thorsten Knabe wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that > >support the same hardware) for removal. > > Hello Adrian. Hi Thorsten, > I'm the maintainer of the OSS AD1816

[PATCH 5/5] Add support for AIO cancelation against a file descriptor

2005-07-28 Thread Sébastien Dugué
cancelfd Description: Binary data

Re: [ACPI] Re: system freezes for 0.2 to 0.5 seconds when reading /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature

2005-07-28 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
I get the same short freezes with cat /proc/acpi/battery/*/{state,info} and also with the 'acpi' command-line tool. I'm about to try the the suggested kernel profiling with -mm3 and will report the results. Meanwhile: >>> readprofile -r >> do i have to activate something special during

Re: [PATCH] speed up on find_first_bit for i386 (let compiler do the work)

2005-07-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > The 32 looks like it may be problamatic. Is there any i386 64 bit > machines. Or is hard coding 32 OK? We have BITS_PER_LONG exactly for this usage, but the sizeof also works. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Helpme WitCh Cpu Scaling. Hi People

2005-07-28 Thread gabri
BIOS ID: 63-0100-00-0010-040705-ATHLON64-1ABYP006 BIOS Date: 04/07/05 13:22:08 CHIPSET: VIA 82C204 rev 0 DATE: 04/07/05 BIOS TYPE: American Megatrends SUPER i/o: ITE 8705/SiS 950 rev 3 found at port 2Eh - Original Message - From: "Lennart Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: VIA PCI routing problem

2005-07-28 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Thursday 28 July 2005 6:10 am, Nick Piggin wrote: > I have a VIA SMP system and somewhere between 2.6.12-rc3 and 2.6.12 > the USB mouse started moving around really slowly. Anyway, it turns > out that the attached patch (against 2.6.13-rc3-git8) fixes the problem. Can you try this: Index:

Re: [PATCH] speed up on find_first_bit for i386 (let compiler do the work)

2005-07-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > In the thread "[RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO > configurable" I discovered that a C version of find_first_bit is faster > than the asm version now when compiled against gcc 3.3.6 and gcc 4.0.1 > (both from versions of Debian

Re: [PATCH] New include file for marking old style api files

2005-07-28 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:50:22PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Jiri Slaby napsal(a): > > >Hi. > >Do you think, that this would be useful in the kernel tree? > >I have an idea to mark old drivers, which should I or somebody rewrite. > >For example drivers/isdn/hisax/gazel.c. Anyway you could

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:39:42PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:08:37PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that > > support the same hardware) for removal. > > oss/harmony.c can probably go, unless someone from

Re: Helpme WitCh Cpu Scaling. Hi People

2005-07-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:56:49PM +0200, gabri wrote: > I have 2.6.12.3 and 2.6.8 too > I hace amd mobile sempron 28000 What brand and model is the laptop. Certainly the error says it is a bios error, so most likely the maker of the laptop has to fix their mistakes in the PST table. I guess

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2

2005-07-28 Thread Martin J. Bligh
Seems to have some odd problem on PPC64 - crashes on boot. Seems to affect power 4 boxes, both LPAR and bare metal. raid5: using function: 32regs (4524.000 MB/sec) md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 3.38 oprofile: using ppc64/power4 performance monitoring.

Re: [PATCH] compat_sys_read/write

2005-07-28 Thread Stephen Rothwell
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:02:58 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And where were you a week ago when I asked if I should post this patch? > > A :-) Can't remember it at all, maybe you forgot that we mere mortals can't > read linux-arch@vger.kernel.org ? Sorry about that, my

Re: [PATCH] compat_sys_read/write

2005-07-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> And where were you a week ago when I asked if I should post this patch? A :-) Can't remember it at all, maybe you forgot that we mere mortals can't read linux-arch@vger.kernel.org ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

kernel guide to space (updated)

2005-07-28 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
> I've been tasked with edicating some new hires on linux kernel coding style. > While we have Documentation/CodingStyle, it skips detail that is supposed to > be learned by example. > > Since I've been burned by this a couple of times myself till I learned, > I've put together a short list of

Re: [PATCH] compat_sys_read/write

2005-07-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:13:07AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:02:58 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > And where were you a week ago when I asked if I should post this patch? > > > > A :-) Can't remember it at all, maybe you forgot that

2.6.13-rc3-mm3 acpi compile problems

2005-07-28 Thread Florian Engelhardt
Hello, i get this warnings when compiling: CC drivers/acpi/utilities/utalloc.o drivers/acpi/utilities/utalloc.c: In function `acpi_ut_create_caches': drivers/acpi/utilities/utalloc.c:107: warning: passing arg 3 of `acpi_ut_create_list' from incompatible pointer type

Re: Alternative to TIF_FREEZE -> a notifier in the task_struct?

2005-07-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > > process. It may also allow changing values that so far cannot be > > changed from the outside in the task struct by running a function > > in the context of the process. > > Well, we really need slightly more from "running in process context": > we

Re: ACPI processor C-state regression in 2.6.13-rc3?

2005-07-28 Thread Kevin Radloff
On 7/28/05, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:39:13PM -0400, Kevin Radloff wrote: > > > With the ACPI merge in 2.6.13-rc3, C2 and C3 processor states are no > > longer detected/enabled on my Fujitsu Lifebook P7010D. Enabling ACPI > > debugging doesn't result in

Re: Helpme WitCh Cpu Scaling. Hi People

2005-07-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:20:10PM +0200, gabri wrote: > In windows i have a driver that regulate the mhz of amd mobile sempron but > in linux i can not load any module for amd. The laptop is "supratech > xpert2601"and procesor is amd mobile sempron Well the website for the company sure looks

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-07-28 Thread Thorsten Knabe
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the same hardware) for removal. Hello Adrian. I'm the maintainer of the OSS AD1816 sound driver. I'm aware of two problems of the ALSA AD1816 driver, that do not show up with

Broke nice range for RLIMIT NICE

2005-07-28 Thread Michael Kerrisk
Hello Ingo, I'm guessing that it was you that added the RLIMIT_NICE resource limit in 2.6.12. (A passing note to all kernel developers: when making changes that affect userland-kernel interfaces, please send me a man-pages patch, or at least a notification of the change, so that some

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: colormap fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Jon Smirl wrote: On 7/28/05, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: There are a couple of ways to fix this. 1) Add a check to limit use of the sysfs attributes to 256 entries. If you want more you have to use /dev/fb0 and the

Re: ACPI processor C-state regression in 2.6.13-rc3?

2005-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:39:13PM -0400, Kevin Radloff wrote: > With the ACPI merge in 2.6.13-rc3, C2 and C3 processor states are no > longer detected/enabled on my Fujitsu Lifebook P7010D. Enabling ACPI > debugging doesn't result in any extra info about this being reported. > I assume it's

Re: [PATCH] compat_sys_read/write

2005-07-28 Thread Stephen Rothwell
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:48:38 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > readv/writev were done ages ago (since they are necessary for other But you are right, compat_sys_readv/writev need adjusting to call the compat_read/write method if they exist ... -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell

Re: [PATCH 0/23] reboot-fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I always thought that device_shutdown is different phase -- the one > with interrupts disabled... Nope. device_shutdown runs before interrupts are disabled. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: [PATCH] compat_sys_read/write

2005-07-28 Thread Stephen Rothwell
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:16:53 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This looks totally horrible, especially as we'd need readv/writev and > pread/pwrite aswell. I don't think anyone but Andi actually liked this > approach when discussed earlier. readv/writev were done ages ago

[2.6 patch] arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c: remove unused #define EXPORT_SYMTAB_STROPS

2005-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
This #define is only used on sparc. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 10 Jul 2005 --- linux-2.6.13-rc2-mm1-full/arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c.old 2005-07-10 17:35:05.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc2-mm1-full/arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c

Re: [PATCH] fbdev: colormap fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Jon Smirl
Can you review this fix for the issues below? I fixed things to automatically adjust the number of entries to whatever fits in PAGE_SIZE. diff --git a/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c b/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c --- a/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c @@ -244,15 +244,15 @@ static ssize_t

RE: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH] arch/xx/pci: remap_pfn_range -> io_remap_pfn_range

2005-07-28 Thread Ian Pratt
> > For example, drivers/char/mem.c uses io_remap_pfn_range for > mmap'ing > > /dev/mem > > That is my (limited) understanding also, but when I built > io_remap_pfn_range(), I didn't search all callers of > remap_pfn_range() to see which ones that I could fix (or > break) by changing them.

Re: [V9fs-developer] [PATCH 2.6.13-rc3-mm2] v9fs: add fd based transport

2005-07-28 Thread Russ Cox
> +static int v9fs_fd_recv(struct v9fs_transport *trans, void *v, int len) > +{ > + struct v9fs_trans_fd *ts = trans ? trans->priv : NULL; > + > + return kernel_read(ts->in_file, ts->in_file->f_pos, v, len); > +} > +static int v9fs_fd_send(struct v9fs_transport *trans, void *v, int

Re: [discuss] x86_64-2.6.13rc3-1 released

2005-07-28 Thread Ronny V. Vindenes
ons, 27,.07.2005 kl. 13.47 +0200, skrev Andi Kleen: > A new version of the x86-64 patch for the linux kernel has been > released. It contains my queued patches and some work in progress. > Patch against the 2.6.13rc3 kernel.org kernel. > Should be still fairly usable. Please test. > > ptrace-ebp

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH] arch/xx/pci: remap_pfn_range -> io_remap_pfn_range

2005-07-28 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:57:51 +0100 Ian Pratt wrote: > > > Greg> Hm, you do realize that io_remap_pfn_range() is the same > > > Greg> thing as remap_pfn_range() on i386, right? > > > > > > Greg> So, why would this patch change anything? > > > > > > It's not the same thing under Xen.

Re: Help Me Please

2005-07-28 Thread Eric Piel
07/28/2005 03:53 PM, gabri wrote/a écrit: I have a laptop. Is amd mobile SEMPRON but when I ejecute cpufreq say this: analyzing CPU 0: no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU I remcompiled a lot of kernel" 2.6.12.3 2.6.8 etc" witch support for cpu scaling but when i am triying

Re: [PATCH] New include file for marking old style api files

2005-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:07:57PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Adrian Bunk napsal(a): > > >On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:42:26PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > > > > >>Hi. > >>Do you think, that this would be useful in the kernel tree? > >>I have an idea to mark old drivers, which should I or somebody

Re: [PATCH] New include file for marking old style api files

2005-07-28 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Thu, 2005-07-28 16:07:57 +0200, Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adrian Bunk napsal(a): > >What's wrong with __deprecated ? > > > > > Nothing, but this marks entire driver, not a function, that it uses. > I.e. gazel doesn't emit any warning or so, I think; so for these cases. So what's

Re: [V9fs-developer] Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc3-mm2] v9fs: add fd based transport

2005-07-28 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Couldn't the two other transports be implemented ontop of this one using > a mount helper doing the pipe or tcp setup? that's how we did it in the version we did for 2.4. I don't see why not. ron - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Helpme WitCh Cpu Scaling. Hi People

2005-07-28 Thread gabri
In windows i have a driver that regulate the mhz of amd mobile sempron but in linux i can not load any module for amd. The laptop is "supratech xpert2601"and procesor is amd mobile sempron - Original Message - From: "Lennart Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "gabri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Re[2]: kernel oops, fast ethernet bridge, 2.4.31

2005-07-28 Thread jleima
I have included a patch that adds Cisco ISL support to the ethernet bridge code. When I first debugged it I had to make changes to ip_output.c and netfilter_bridge.h to leave room for the ISL header. The changes to ip_output.c I got from looking at the 2.6 changes and tweeking them a bit.

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc3-mm2] v9fs: add fd based transport

2005-07-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:57:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > v9fs: add file-descriptor based transport as was requested by LANL and > Plan 9 from User Space folks. Couldn't the two other transports be implemented ontop of this one using a mount helper doing the pipe or tcp setup? - To

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > > > On Mer, 2005-07-27 at 16:43 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > ISTR Alan saying there was some ALi hardware that either wasn't in ALSA, > > > or most likely didn't work in ALSA. If Alan

Re: [PATCH] compat_sys_read/write

2005-07-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:43:41PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, > > Someone mentioned the mess in evdev.c that is caused by the fact that the > structures that are passed to/from user mode via read/write require > conversion when this API is used from 32 bit tasks on 64 bit kernels.

Re: [PATCH] New include file for marking old style api files

2005-07-28 Thread Jiri Slaby
Adrian Bunk napsal(a): On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:42:26PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: Hi. Do you think, that this would be useful in the kernel tree? I have an idea to mark old drivers, which should I or somebody rewrite. For example drivers/isdn/hisax/gazel.c. ... --- /dev/null +++

Re: RFC: Raise required gcc version to 3.2 ?

2005-07-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:39:12PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Compilation speed? Don't know, using 3 (4?) years old Athlon 2000 > it's not a problem unless I need full build 30 times a day. > > But people on 266 MHz ARM5 may notice. Hmm, an a 400Mhz PXA 255 I found using gcc 3.x meant I

[ALSA PATCH] 1.0.9b+

2005-07-28 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
Linus, please do an update from: rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa.git The GNU patch is available at: ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/kernel-patches/alsa-git-2005-07-28.patch.gz Additional notes: Mostly cleanups and added the Sparc DBRI driver. The following

Re: Obsolete files in 2.6 tree

2005-07-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-07-27 at 17:43 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 00:40 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > sound/oss/skeleton.c > > > > Reference for writing drivers > > But we're not taking new OSS drivers, right? Fair comment - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] New include file for marking old style api files

2005-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:42:26PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Hi. > Do you think, that this would be useful in the kernel tree? > I have an idea to mark old drivers, which should I or somebody rewrite. > For example drivers/isdn/hisax/gazel.c. >... > --- /dev/null > +++ b/include/linux/oldapi.h >

Re: Helpme WitCh Cpu Scaling. Hi People

2005-07-28 Thread gabri
I have 2.6.12.3 and 2.6.8 too I hace amd mobile sempron 28000 - Original Message - From: "Lennart Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "gabri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 3:52 PM Subject: Re: Helpme WitCh Cpu Scaling. Hi People On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc3-mm2] v9fs: add fd based transport

2005-07-28 Thread ericvh
v9fs: add file-descriptor based transport as was requested by LANL and Plan 9 from User Space folks. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit e65b41c8081e0f7227a16d39a4bc65e2924d7680 tree 4cfd78c690d2e9852736499fe9d0a311c78beee8 parent

Re: Fix up qla2xxx configuration bogosity

2005-07-28 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 22:10 -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > Would you also apply the attached patch which adds the appropriate > FW_LOADER pre-requisite and a separate entry for ISP24xx support. That's what I see reading the code; however, it looks like it's *only* the 24xx that needs it

Re: Helpme WitCh Cpu Scaling. Hi People

2005-07-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:33:36PM +0200, gabri wrote: > It is the first mail that I write. I call gabri and I am 18 years old. I am > Spanish. I want to comment that me program does not work ningun to regulate > the Mhz of the processor. " Cpufreq, cpuydn, powernow ". I do not manage to > load

Help Me Please

2005-07-28 Thread gabri
I have a laptop. Is amd mobile SEMPRON but when I ejecute cpufreq say this: analyzing CPU 0: no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU I remcompiled a lot of kernel" 2.6.12.3 2.6.8 etc" witch support for cpu scaling but when i am triying load a module powernow-k8 say this error:

Re: [PATCH] New include file for marking old style api files

2005-07-28 Thread Jiri Slaby
Jiri Slaby napsal(a): Hi. Do you think, that this would be useful in the kernel tree? I have an idea to mark old drivers, which should I or somebody rewrite. For example drivers/isdn/hisax/gazel.c. diff --git

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-07-28 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2005-07-27 at 16:43 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > ISTR Alan saying there was some ALi hardware that either wasn't in ALSA, > > or most likely didn't work in ALSA. If Alan says I'm smoking crack, > > then you all can ignore me :) > > The only big

[PATCH] compat_sys_read/write

2005-07-28 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi all, Someone mentioned the mess in evdev.c that is caused by the fact that the structures that are passed to/from user mode via read/write require conversion when this API is used from 32 bit tasks on 64 bit kernels. Some "discussion" followed during which I suggested an idea originally from

[PATCH] New include file for marking old style api files

2005-07-28 Thread Jiri Slaby
Hi. Do you think, that this would be useful in the kernel tree? I have an idea to mark old drivers, which should I or somebody rewrite. For example drivers/isdn/hisax/gazel.c. -- Jiri Slaby www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby ~\-/~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~\-/~ 241B347EC88228DE51EE

Re: [PATCH] fbdev: colormap fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 7/28/05, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > There are a couple of ways to fix this. > > 1) Add a check to limit use of the sysfs attributes to 256 entries. If > you want more you

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-07-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-07-27 at 16:43 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > ISTR Alan saying there was some ALi hardware that either wasn't in ALSA, > or most likely didn't work in ALSA. If Alan says I'm smoking crack, > then you all can ignore me :) The only big thing I know that still needed OSS (and may still

[ANNOUNCE] sdparm 0.94

2005-07-28 Thread Douglas Gilbert
information and downloads see: http://www.torque.net/sg/sdparm.html ChangeLog for sdparm-0.94 [20050728] - add CD/DVD (MM) capabilities and mechanical status mode page - add Background medium scan (SBC-2 pending) mode subpage - add '--command=' option with these s: ready, start, stop, load

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc3-git9] pl2303: pl2303_update_line_status data length fix

2005-07-28 Thread Horst Schirmeier
Minimum data length must be UART_STATE + 1, as data[UART_STATE] is being accessed for the new line_state. Although PL-2303 hardware is not expected to send data with exactly UART_STATE length, this keeps it on the safe side. Signed-off-by: Horst Schirmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ---

2.4.32-pre2: uhci.c: ff80: host controller halted. very bad

2005-07-28 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, More info on Toshiba laptop lockup with 2.4.32-pre2: /var/log/syslog: Jul 28 22:59:33 tosh kernel: Linux version 2.4.32-pre2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5) #4 Thu Jul 28 22:57:05 EST 2005 Jul 28 22:59:33 tosh kernel: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable)

Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace

2005-07-28 Thread Paulo Marques
Jon Smirl wrote: On 7/28/05, Mitchell Blank Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] It looks sane-ish to me, but also more complicated than need be. Why can't you just do something like: while (count > 0 && isspace(x[count - 1])) count--; Do we need to deal with UTF8 here?

Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace

2005-07-28 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 14:54 schrieb Jon Smirl: > On 7/28/05, Mitchell Blank Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greg KH wrote: > > > > + /* locate trailng white space */ > > > > + z = y = x; > > > > + while (y - buffer->page < count) { > > > > + y++; > > > > + z = y;

Re: [PATCH] fbdev: colormap fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Jon Smirl
On 7/28/05, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: There are a couple of ways to fix this. 1) Add a check to limit use of the sysfs attributes to 256 entries. If you want more you have to use /dev/fb0 and the ioctl. More is an

Re: [PATCH][1/3] ppc32: add 440ep support

2005-07-28 Thread Domen Puncer
On 27/07/05 18:56 -0400, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Andrew Morton writes: > > > Matt Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > +static u64 dma_mask = 0xULL; How about just DMA_32BIT_MASK from dma-mapping.h, that one has to be correct. ;-) > > > > I'm sure you're totally uninterested

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