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

2005-07-28 Thread Florian Engelhardt
Hello, On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:16:05 -0700 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florian Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, first of all, sorry for the long headline. second: Every time, i try to do the following: cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature the whole

[PATCH] Disable the debug.exception-trace sysctl by default

2005-07-28 Thread Nicholas Miell
debug.exception-trace causes a large amount of log spew when on, and it's on by default, which is an irritation. Here's a patch to turn it off. --- linux-2.6.12/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c.~1~ 2005-06-28 21:33:27.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.12/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c 2005-07-27

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

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Florian Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:16:05 -0700 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florian Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, first of all, sorry for the long headline. second: Every time, i try to do the following:

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

2005-07-28 Thread Mitchell Blank Jr
Greg KH wrote: + /* locate trailng white space */ + z = y = x; + while (y - buffer-page count) { + y++; + z = y; + while (isspace(*y) (y - buffer-page count)) { + y++; + } + } + count = z - x; Hm, I

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

2005-07-28 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/xx/pci: remap_pfn_range - io_remap_pfn_range On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:32:00AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Greg, Martin, does the following make sense? If it does, should other architectures be updated as well? Hm,

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

2005-07-28 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:48:59AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Quoting r. Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/xx/pci: remap_pfn_range - io_remap_pfn_range On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:32:00AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Greg, Martin, does the following make

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A colleague of mine, well actually the VP of my company of the time, Doug Locke, gave me a perfect example. If you have a program that runs a nuclear power plant that needs to wake up and run 4 seconds every 10 seconds, and on that same computer

any one knows device driver programming

2005-07-28 Thread deepak jose
hello, is ther anyone capable me to help in writing device driver programming? if so i'll be very greatful to you. waiting 4 a +ve reply. deepak - 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: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a fair number of apps assume that there's _at least_ 100 levels of priorities. The moment you have a custom kernel that offers more than 100 priorities, there will be apps that assume that there are more than 100 priority levels, and will

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

2005-07-28 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This could be used to have a process execute any other piece that is required to run in the context of the thread. Maybe such a feature could help with PTRACE or/and get_user_pages that currently do ugly things to a process. It may also allow changing values that so far cannot be

Re: [PATCH 0/23] reboot-fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Yes, I think we should do device_suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) in reboot path. Considering how many device drivers that are likely broken, I disagree. Especially since Andrew seems to have trivially found a machine where it doesn't work. I'm not sure if we want to do that for 2.6.13,

Re: [PATCH 0/23] reboot-fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! So unless you are really ambitious I'd like to take device_suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) out of the reboot path for 2.6.13, put in -mm where people can bang on it for a bit and see that it is coming and delay the merge with the stable branch until the bugs with common hardware have been sorted

Re: [PATCH][TRIVIAL] Real-Time Preemption V0.7.51-38: fix compile bug in drivers/block/paride/pseudo.h

2005-07-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Luca Falavigna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch, built against kernel version 2.6.13-rc3, fixes a small bug in drivers/block/paride/pseudo.h which prevents its related drivers from being compiled successfully when RT patch (version 0.7.51-38) is compiled in. This is due to the new

Re: [PATCH][RFC] swsusp for OSK

2005-07-28 Thread Hiroki Kaminaga
From: Ben Dooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] swsusp for OSK Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 16:03:37 +0100 Hmm, I have no idea if this is correct... I assume it is not saving the page tables over suspend/resume, and that is why you are having trouble restoring the page table? I looked

Re: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function

2005-07-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* david mosberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, should this be called prefetch_stack() or perhaps even just prefetch_task()? Not every architecture defines a switch_stack structure. yeah. I'd too suggest to call it prefetch_stack(), and not make it a macro hook but something defined on

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc3 1/6] failure of acpi_register_gsi() should be handled properly - change acpi_register_gsi() interface

2005-07-28 Thread Kenji Kaneshige
This patch changes the type of return value of acpi_register_gsi() from unsigned int to int to indicate an error. If acpi_register_gsi() fails to register gsi, it returns negative value. Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc3 3/6] failure of acpi_register_gsi() should be handled properly - change hpet driver

2005-07-28 Thread Kenji Kaneshige
This patch adds the error check of acpi_register_gsi() into hpet driver. Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.13-rc3-kanesige/drivers/char/hpet.c |8 ++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc3 2/6] failure of acpi_register_gsi() should be handled properly - change acpi pci code

2005-07-28 Thread Kenji Kaneshige
This patch adds the error check of acpi_register_gsi() into acpi_pci_enable_irq(). Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.13-rc3-kanesige/drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c |9 - 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc3 5/6] failure of acpi_register_gsi() should be handled properly - change acpi based 8250 driver

2005-07-28 Thread Kenji Kaneshige
This patch adds the error check of acpi_register_gsi() into ACPI based 8250 serial driver. Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.13-rc3-kanesige/drivers/serial/8250_acpi.c | 20 +++ 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc3 0/6] failure of acpi_register_gsi() should be handled properly

2005-07-28 Thread Kenji Kaneshige
Hi, Current acpi_register_gsi() function has no way to indicate errors to its callers even though acpi_register_gsi() can fail to register gsi because of some reasons (out of memory, lack of interrupt vectors, incorrect BIOS, and so on). As a result, caller of acpi_register_gsi() cannot handle

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc3 6/6] failure of acpi_register_gsi() should be handled properly - change ia64 iosapic code

2005-07-28 Thread Kenji Kaneshige
Change iosapic_register_intr(), which called by acpi_register_gsi(), to return negative value on error instead of panic. Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.13-rc3-kanesige/arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c | 20 --- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7

Re: [ACPI] Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] 2.6.13-rc3-git5: fix Bug #4416 (1/2)

2005-07-28 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:52:49 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! The following patch adds free_irq() and request_irq() to the suspend and resume, respectively, routines in the snd_intel8x0 driver. The patch looks OK to me although I have some concerns. - The error in resume can't

Re: [PATCH] fbdev: colormap fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: tree 17014af0ea8b19dae7848736d324499715b7a1a3 parent 3ca34fcbfbf8a7cbe99d54ae81c4e28fdc6f4ac6 author Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 28 Jul 2005 01:46:05 -0700 committer Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 28 Jul 2005 06:26:18 -0700

Re: 2.6.12: no sound on SPDIF with emu10k1

2005-07-28 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 28 Jul 2005 03:21:55 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: [1 text/plain (quoted-printable)] On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:44 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 21:46 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: I cannot get my SB Live! 5.1's SPDIF (digital) output to work with kernel

[PATCH] i386: clean up vDSO alignment padding

2005-07-28 Thread Roland McGrath
This makes the vDSO use nops for all its padding around instructions, rather than sometimes zeros, and nop-pads the end of the area containing instructions to a 32-byte cache line, to keep text and data in separate lines. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: v850, which gcc and binutils version?

2005-07-28 Thread Jan Dittmer
Miles Bader wrote: Jan Dittmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which is the recommended gcc/binutils combination for v850? The most crucial thing is that all supported processors are v850e derivatives (note the e), so please configure gcc/binutils for target v850e-elf. Thanks, that got me

Re: [ACPI] Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] 2.6.13-rc3-git5: fix Bug #4416 (1/2)

2005-07-28 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! The following patch adds free_irq() and request_irq() to the suspend and resume, respectively, routines in the snd_intel8x0 driver. The patch looks OK to me although I have some concerns. - The error in resume can't be handled properly. What should we do for the

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc3 4/6] failure of acpi_register_gsi() should be handled properly - change phpacpi driver

2005-07-28 Thread Kenji Kaneshige
This patch adds the error check of acpi_register_gsi() into pnpacpi driver. Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.13-rc3-kanesige/drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN

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

2005-07-28 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:38:37 +0200, Zoran Dzelajlija wrote: Zach Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the same hardware) for removal. I've Cc'ed the people listed in MAINTAINERS as being

Re: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function

2005-07-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Keith Owens kaos@ocs.com.au wrote: yeah. I'd too suggest to call it prefetch_stack(), and not make it a macro hook but something defined on all arches, with for now only ia64 having any real code in the inline function. i'm wondering, is the switch_stack at the same/similar place as

Re: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function

2005-07-28 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:41:18 +0200, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * david mosberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, should this be called prefetch_stack() or perhaps even just prefetch_task()? Not every architecture defines a switch_stack structure. yeah. I'd too suggest to call it

Re: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Keith Owens wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:41:18 +0200, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm wondering, is the switch_stack at the same/similar place as next-thread_info? If yes then we could simply do a prefetch(next-thread_info). No, they can be up to 30K apart. See

Re: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function

2005-07-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, they can be up to 30K apart. See include/asm-ia64/ptrace.h. thread_info is at ~0xda0, depending on the config. The switch_stack can be as high as 0x7bd0 in the kernel stack, depending on why the task is sleeping. Just a minor point, I agree

Re: [ACPI] Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] 2.6.13-rc3-git5: fix Bug #4416 (1/2)

2005-07-28 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Thursday, 28 of July 2005 10:06, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:52:49 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! The following patch adds free_irq() and request_irq() to the suspend and resume, respectively, routines in the snd_intel8x0 driver. The patch looks OK

Re: [ACPI] Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] 2.6.13-rc3-git5: fix Bug #4416 (1/2)

2005-07-28 Thread Shaohua Li
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 10:06 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:52:49 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! The following patch adds free_irq() and request_irq() to the suspend and resume, respectively, routines in the snd_intel8x0 driver. The patch looks OK to me

Re: v850, which gcc and binutils version?

2005-07-28 Thread Miles Bader
Jan Dittmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: v850e-elf. Thanks, that got me much further, compilation aborts now with Hmmm, what sources are you compiling exactly? I last tested with 2.6.12 + 2.6.12-uc0 (uClinux) patches + the v850 patches I sent to the LKML recently (from which I presume you got

Re: [ACPI] Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] 2.6.13-rc3-git5: fix Bug #4416 (1/2)

2005-07-28 Thread Shaohua Li
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 10:43 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi, On Thursday, 28 of July 2005 10:06, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:52:49 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! The following patch adds free_irq() and request_irq() to the suspend and resume,

Re: Linux 2.4.32-pre2

2005-07-28 Thread Grant Coady
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:05:12 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here goes another -pre, after a long period. Breaks Toshiba laptop: hard lockup -- what is on screen is same as working dmesg up to point: host/uhci.c: detected 2 port Same .config as for 2.4.31-hf3 or 2.4.32-pre1

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2

2005-07-28 Thread Reuben Farrelly
On 27/07/2005 9:45 a.m., Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm2/ - Lots of fixes and updates all over the place. There are probably over 100 patches here which need to go into 2.6.13. - A reminder that -mm commit

Re: ppc: Sungem auto-negotiation problem

2005-07-28 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:34 -0700, Ajay Patel wrote: Hi, I have a PowerMac G5. (Newer Model with SMU). It has a Sungem ethernet with PHY ID: 2060d2. When this ethernet is connected to Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704A6) rev 2002 PHY(5704)] or to the cisco switch, The PowerMac declares link up

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Reuben Farrelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27/07/2005 9:45 a.m., Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm2/ - Lots of fixes and updates all over the place. There are probably over 100 patches here which need to go

Re: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, they can be up to 30K apart. See include/asm-ia64/ptrace.h. thread_info is at ~0xda0, depending on the config. The switch_stack can be as high as 0x7bd0 in the kernel stack, depending on why the task is sleeping. Just a minor

Re: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function

2005-07-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] If yes then we want to have something like: prefetch(kernel_stack(next)); to make it more generic. By default kernel_stack(next) could be next-thread_info (to make sure we prefetch something real). On e.g. x86/x64, kernel_stack(next)

Re: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function

2005-07-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a minor point, I agree with David: I'd like it to be called prefetch_task(), because some architecture may want to prefetch other memory. such as? Not sure. thread_info? Maybe next-timestamp or some other fields in next, something in

Re: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function

2005-07-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: next-mm we might want to prefetch, but it's probably not worth it because we are referencing it too soon, in context_switch(). (while the kernel stack itself wont be referenced until the full context-switch is done) But might be worth trying - but

Re: Mouse Freezes in Xorg on ASUS P4C800 Deluxe

2005-07-28 Thread cengizkirli
It seems to work after comparing my .config with Andreas Baer's and also setting USB Support to built-in and not module. Somehow the modules are unloaded or whatever. It seems to work now. Hopefully it will last... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

USB wireless keyboard/mouse will not work

2005-07-28 Thread Constantinos A. Kotsokalis
Hello, Apologies for sending this to the list but I am not sure about who is the maintainer: It is a USB (HID) specific problem but the error messages are coming from the base bus.c driver. Full problem details follow. Thank you in advance, Costas

Re: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: such as? Not sure. thread_info? Maybe next-timestamp or some other fields in next, something in next-mm? next-thread_info we could and should prefetch - but from the generic scheduler code (see the patch i just sent).

build system changed? cannot build any module

2005-07-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Andrew! I cannot build any external module (acerhk, pwc), in all the cases it the make run looks similar: make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/src/hotkey/acerhk-0.5.25 modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc3-mm2' scripts/Makefile.build:14:

2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm3/ - Added the anonymous pagefault scalability enhancement patches. I remain fairly dubious about this - it seems a fairly specific and complex piece of work to speed up one extremely specific part of one

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-28 Thread Esben Nielsen
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, K.R. Foley wrote: Esben Nielsen wrote: [...] All of the RT priorities that we have are not absolutely necessary. As I think Steven pointed out in another email, it is nice though to be able to priortize tasks using large jumps in priorities and then being able to

Re: [PATCH] signed char fixes for scripts

2005-07-28 Thread Paulo Marques
J.A. Magallon wrote: On 07.27, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:14:43PM +, J.A. Magallon wrote: On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote: On 07.15, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ This time I did not

Cpu Scaling. Hi People

2005-07-28 Thread gabri
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 ningun module from the kernel inside cpuscalig in that it(he,she)

Re: any one knows device driver programming

2005-07-28 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thursday 28 July 2005 09:31, deepak jose wrote: hello, is ther anyone capable me to help in writing device driver programming? if so i'll be very greatful to you. waiting 4 a +ve reply. deepak - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: build system changed? cannot build any module

2005-07-28 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Andrew! I cannot build any external module (acerhk, pwc), in all the cases it the make run looks similar: make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/src/hotkey/acerhk-0.5.25 modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc3-mm2' scripts/Makefile.build:14:

Re: [PATCH] signed char fixes for scripts

2005-07-28 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:02 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: J.A. Magallon wrote: On 07.27, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:14:43PM +, J.A. Magallon wrote: On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote: On 07.15, Andrew Morton wrote:

Re: [PATCH 1/7] shared subtree

2005-07-28 Thread Miklos Szeredi
This is an example, where having struct pnode just complicates things. If there was no struct pnode, this function would be just one line: setting the shared flag. So your comment is mostly about getting rid of pnode and distributing the pnode functionality in the vfsmount structure. Yes,

Re: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function

2005-07-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm not sure what you mean by prefetching next-timestamp, it's an inline field to 'next', in the first cacheline of it, which we've already used so it's present. (If you mean the value of next-timestamp, that has no address meaning at all so would

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2

2005-07-28 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 11:43, Andrew Morton wrote: Hi again, you can ignore the conntrack patch - it has already been submitted by somebody else. My bad, sorry. Regards, Boris. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Mouse Freezes in Xorg on ASUS P4C800 Deluxe

2005-07-28 Thread cengizkirli
On 7/28/05, cengizkirli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to work after comparing my .config with Andreas Baer's and also setting USB Support to built-in and not module. Somehow the modules are unloaded or whatever. It seems to work now. Hopefully it will last... now I know why I set USB to

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-28 Thread Sebastian Kaergel
CC arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.o arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c: In Funktion »set_mtrr«: arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c:225: error: `ipi_handler' undeclared (first use in this function) arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c:225: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once

Re: [PATCH] signed char fixes for scripts

2005-07-28 Thread Paulo Marques
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:02 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: J.A. Magallon wrote: [...] All the problems are born here: struct sym_entry { unsigned long long addr; unsigned int len; unsigned char *sym; }; What are you guys talking about? unsigned char * is

Re: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] prefetch_area(void *first_addr, void *last_addr) (or as addr,len) Yep. We have prefetch_range. Yeah, then a specific field _within_ next-mm or thread_info may want to be fetched. In short, I don't see any

Re: Incorrect driver getting loaded for Qlogic FC-HBA

2005-07-28 Thread Rajat Jain
A similar problem was noted with RHEL4, it seems the modules.pcimap and pci.ids file were correct, but the pcitable file contained entries for all ql[ae]23xx based HBAs to load qla2300.ko. It's my understanding that this was fixed for RHEL4 U1. Which distro are you using? If

[-mm patch] fix MTRR compilation with SMP=n

2005-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:58:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.13-rc3-mm2: ... +alpha-fix-statement-with-no-effect-warnings.patch Alpha warning fixes ... This patch broke the compilation on i386 with CONFIG_SMP=n and CONFIG_MTRR=y: -- snip -- ... CC

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-28 Thread Alexandre Buisse
Sebastian Kaergel wrote: CC arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.o arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c: In Funktion »set_mtrr«: arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c:225: error: `ipi_handler' undeclared (first use in this function) arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c:225: error: (Each undeclared

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

2005-07-28 Thread Lukasz Spaleniak
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:13:33 + (UTC) Joy Leima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lukasz, I think I have a fix for you. Verify for me that it is the same problem. Send a large UDP packet through the bridge. I believe the problem is the ip_fragment code is not taking into account the VLAN

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

2005-07-28 Thread Rajat Jain
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 hotplug for pcie, in which case you need to be using the acpiphp

Re: [PATCH] signed char fixes for scripts

2005-07-28 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:40 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: [...] You're comming really late in this thread :) Well, the same issue arised recently somewhere else too on this list and lots of C programmers (not only beginners) don't know about the 3 char types as speficied in the C standard. [ The C

Drivers for Ricoh SD Card Reader

2005-07-28 Thread Tomàs Núñez Lirola
Hi I have a Thinpad X40 notebook, with a Ricoh SD Card Reader. This card reader has not a Linux driver, so I can't use it. Googling I've deduced nobody can, as everybody notes the same problem with the device. The device is not new, as my notebook is one year old. So it's strange we still don't

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2 (kbuild broken for external modules)

2005-07-28 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Thanks for the report. I had overlooked this usage when modifying this part of kbuild. The following fix it - and work in the following test setups: make make O= make M= make O= M= Yes, it works now. Thanks, Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [ACPI] Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] 2.6.13-rc3-git5: fix Bug #4416 (1/2)

2005-07-28 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 28 of July 2005 10:48, Shaohua Li wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 10:43 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi, On Thursday, 28 of July 2005 10:06, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:52:49 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! The following patch adds

Upcoming 2.6.13 and hostap driver

2005-07-28 Thread Jar
Hello Hostap driver has been in the -mm tree for a long time. Any plans to merge it to upcoming 2.6.13? -- Best Regards, Jar - 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: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2

2005-07-28 Thread Reuben Farrelly
On 28/07/2005 9:10 p.m., Andrew Morton wrote: Reuben Farrelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27/07/2005 9:45 a.m., Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm2/ - Lots of fixes and updates all over the place. There are probably

QoS scheduler

2005-07-28 Thread Vitor Curado
I'm working on a research about QoS schedulers for Linux clusters. Moreover, the ideal would be that the scheduler is implemented altering the native kernel scheduler. I'm kind of having trouble to find such schedulers, can anybody help me out? Thanks, Vitor - To unsubscribe from this list: send

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

2005-07-28 Thread Steven Rostedt
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 unstable). I wrote a benchmark (attached) that runs the code

core file not generated when kernel is crashed with Sysrq key

2005-07-28 Thread dipankar das
Hi, core file is not generated when kernel is crashed with Sysrq key ? What could be the reason for this ? Br, Dipankar. Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs - To

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-28 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 09:22 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: nitpicking: i guess the answer also depends on what the precise requirement is. If the requirement is 'run for 4 seconds every 10 seconds, uninterrupted, else the power plant melts down', i'd sure not make the washing machine process

RFC: Raise required gcc version to 3.2 ?

2005-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
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 not drop support for older compilers? cu Adrian --

Re: core file not generated when kernel is crashed with Sysrq key

2005-07-28 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:52:42AM -0700, dipankar das wrote: core file is not generated when kernel is crashed with Sysrq key ? That's right. What could be the reason for this ? Because it wasn't designed to do so. Core files are for crashing userland programs. There are projects for

Re: tx queue start entry x dirty entry y (was 8139too PCI IRQ issues)

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Burton
For reference, Thanks to Ogawa Hirofumi, the solution was to use noapic on the boot line, as my machine is too old to handle APIC well. Cheers Mark. On 19 Jul 2005, at 18:00, Mark Burton wrote: Hi, I'm getting similar results to Nick Warne, in that when my ethernet is stressed at all (for

VIA PCI routing problem

2005-07-28 Thread Nick Piggin
Hi, Sorry in taking so long to track this down. I just got motivated today. 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. Let me

Re: core file not generated when kernel is crashed with Sysrq key

2005-07-28 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, dipankar das wrote: Hi, core file is not generated when kernel is crashed with Sysrq key ? What could be the reason for this ? Br, Dipankar. It's not supposed to write any 'core' file. A 'core' file is a dump of users' virtual memory. It has nothing to do with

Re: v850, which gcc and binutils version?

2005-07-28 Thread Greg Ungerer
Hi Miles, Miles Bader wrote: Jan Dittmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: v850e-elf. Thanks, that got me much further, compilation aborts now with Hmmm, what sources are you compiling exactly? I last tested with 2.6.12 + 2.6.12-uc0 (uClinux) patches + the v850 patches I sent to the LKML

[PATCH] kdump: Save parameter segment in protected mode (x86)

2005-07-28 Thread Vivek Goyal
o With introduction of kexec as boot-loader, the assumption that parameter segment will always be loaded at lower address than kernel and will be addressable by early bootup page tables is no longer valid. In kexec on panic case parameter segment might well be loaded beyond kernel image

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-28 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 23:32 +0200, Esben Nielsen wrote: This is rate monotonic scheduling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate-monotonic_scheduling). Bingo! you win the cigar! ((Notice: The article gets it wrong on the priority inheritance/ceiling stuff...)) It's too early in the morning

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

2005-07-28 Thread Ian Pratt
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. I think this patch fixes userspace access to PCI memory for XenLinux.

Re: driver for Marvell 88E8053 PCI Express Gigabit LAN

2005-07-28 Thread Daniel Drake
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 which is working with the current kernel:

Re: core file not generated when kernel is crashed with Sysrq key

2005-07-28 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:52:42AM -0700, dipankar das wrote: Hi, core file is not generated when kernel is crashed with Sysrq key ? Do you mean that /proc/vmcore is not present once you are booted into capture kernel after crash? If yes, have you enabled the support for /proc/vmcore in

Amd Mobile Sempron Problem

2005-07-28 Thread gabriel metadistros
Hi all , error when i try up the module powernow-k8 Jul 28 16:25:26 debian kernel: powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09b) Jul 28 16:25:26 debian kernel: powernow-k8: BIOS error: maxvid exceeded with pstate 0 what can do it?

Re: RFC: Raise required gcc version to 3.2 ?

2005-07-28 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any good reason why we should not drop support for older compilers? 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. --

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 compiles unrequested/unconfigured module!

2005-07-28 Thread Helge Hafting
I usually compile without module support. This time, I turned modules on in order to compile an external module. To my surprise, drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2xxx.ko were built even though no actual modules are selected in my .config, and the source is not patched at all except the mm1 patch. Helge

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2005-07-28 Thread John Que
Hello, I want ,for tracing and debugging purposes, to be able to generate a single interrupt on a device which (unlike the timer or ide devices, for example) does not get interrupts very frequently. Looking at the output of /proc/interrupts (and look at IRQ 6 of the floppy) shows that the

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

2005-07-28 Thread Steven Rostedt
[snip] static inline int find_first_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned size) { [snip] + int x = 0; + do { + if (*addr) + return __ffs(*addr) + x; + addr++; + if (x = size) + break; + x

generate a single How to generate a single interrupt on a floppy device

2005-07-28 Thread John Que
Hello, I want ,for tracing and debugging purposes, to be able to generate a single interrupt on a device which (unlike the timer or ide devices, for example) does not get interrupts very frequently. Looking at the output of /proc/interrupts (and look at IRQ 6 of the floppy) shows that the

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

2005-07-28 Thread Jon Smirl
On 7/28/05, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:49:21AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: @@ -207,6 +208,28 @@ flush_write_buffer(struct dentry * dentr struct attribute * attr = to_attr(dentry); struct kobject * kobj = to_kobj(dentry-d_parent); struct

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

2005-07-28 Thread 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; + while (isspace(*y) (y - buffer-page count)) { +

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 compiles unrequested/unconfigured module!

2005-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:50:24PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: I usually compile without module support. This time, I turned modules on in order to compile an external module. To my surprise, drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2xxx.ko were built even though no actual modules are selected in my

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 in this, but the

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 uncommon

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