Re: Fw: ati-remote strangeness from 2.6.12 onwards

2005-08-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I discovered a minor change in 2.6.10-mm1, changing this value back > corrects the "ok" button issue. > > > diff -urN linux/drivers/usb/input/ati_remote.c > linux-2.6.11/drivers/usb/input/ati_remote.c > --- linux/drivers/usb/input/ati_remote.c2005-08-02 > 17:56:26.0 +1200

Re: [PATCH] String conversions for memory policy

2005-08-02 Thread Paul Jackson
Christoph wrote: > Could you rework the patch to all of that? Next week - I am on vacation at the moment. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.925.600.0401 - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] String conversions for memory policy

2005-08-02 Thread Paul Jackson
Christoph wrote: > Ok. The str_to_mpol function needs to be executed from the task whose > memory policies are to be displayed but why would mpol_to_str need that? You are probably right. I doubt mpol_to_str needs that. I was probably painting with too wide a brush. > I am quite concerned

Re: Sandisk Compact Flash

2005-08-02 Thread somshekar . c . kadam
HI David , Thanks a Lot for clearing all the doubts , yes its the drawback of my hardware which i cant use high speed compact flash as DMA is not supported , Is there anyway with the help of software to message that , this compact flash cant be used anymore , first of all is this a good idea

[PATCH] Fix for kexec boot issue

2005-08-02 Thread Paul Mackerras
The kexec boot is not successful on some power machines since all CPUs are getting removed from global interrupt queue (GIQ) before kexec boot. Some systems always expect at least one CPU in GIQ. Hence, this patch will make sure that only secondary CPUs are removed from GIQ. [This only affects

Re: ahci, SActive flag, and the HD activity LED

2005-08-02 Thread Martin Wilck
Jens Axboe wrote: If I am reading the specs correctly, that'd mean the ahci driver is wrong in setting the SActive bit. I completely agree, that was my reading of the spec as well and hence my original posts about this in the NCQ thread. Have you (or has anybody else) also seen the wrong

[PATCH] Xmon bug fix for soft-reset

2005-08-02 Thread Paul Mackerras
From: Haren Myneni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For soft reset during system hang, got an error "CPU did not take control" for some CPUs even though they responded to soft-reset (called SystemReset, die and called debugger - xmon). First these CPUs entered into xmon by IPI callback and then got a

Re: Testing RC kernels [KORG]

2005-08-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Michael Krufky wrote: Why not just have the scripts plug values into a database, and have the html/php be formatted like Bodo suggests, and reads content from database? Very simple, less maintenance... Only requires 1 initial redesign, and easier maintainence of the scripts that you speak of.

Re: Testing RC kernels [KORG]

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Krufky
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Bodo Eggert wrote: I hacked some changes to create vogon-compatibility. Maybe you like it. I'm not completely happy, but it's too late now. Changes: - Make first column more terse - Move full download links to a seperate table, where they can be found. - Add headings

Re: Testing RC kernels [KORG]

2005-08-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Bodo Eggert wrote: I hacked some changes to create vogon-compatibility. Maybe you like it. I'm not completely happy, but it's too late now. Changes: - Make first column more terse - Move full download links to a seperate table, where they can be found. - Add headings above the patches and

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-08-02 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--"Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, August 02, 2005 18:17:33 -0700): > --Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, July 28, 2005 > 23:10:29 -0700): > >> "Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> NUMA-Q boxes are still crashing on boot with -mm BTW.

Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS

2005-08-02 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Aug 2, 2005, at 21:00:02, Hans Reiser wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: because reiser got merged before jbd. Next question. That is the wrong reason. We use our own journaling layer for the reason that Vivaldi used his own melody. I don't know anything about GFS, but expecting a filesystem

Re: [PATCH linux-2.6.13-rc3] SATA: rewritten sil24 driver

2005-08-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Edward Falk wrote: Hi Tejun; I'm the guy at Google working on SATA drivers (port multipliers right now). As soon as I can (next week perhaps, I'll start looking at the driver you wrote. From what I can see, it looks quite good. + +static u8 sil24_check_status(struct ata_port *ap) +{ +

Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS

2005-08-02 Thread David Teigland
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:45:24AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > * The on disk structures are defined in terms of uint32_t and friends, > which are NOT endian neutral. Why are they not le32/be32 and thus > endian-defined? Did you run bitwise-sparse on GFS yet ? GFS has had proper endian

BTTV - experimental no_overlay patch

2005-08-02 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Bodo/Andrew, This small patch will allow no_overlay flag to disable BTTV driver to report OVERLAY capabilities. It should fix your troubles by enabling no_overlay=1 when inserting bttv module. This patch is against our CVS tree, but should apply with some hunk on 2.6.13-rc4 or

Re: Testing RC kernels [KORG]

2005-08-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 22:13, Randy.Dunlap wrote: >> >I've been complaining about this for some time. Kernel.org really >> > needs to show more information about the rc kernels and how to >> > create them. We want more testers, but I wonder how many people >> > go through the above steps and

nForce2 box doesnt turn off with 2.6.13-rc5

2005-08-02 Thread Martin Drab
Hi, my box with nForce2 doesn't turn off automatically with 2.6.13-rc5 (perhaps also with -rc4). Everything seems to go as it should (both with "poweroff" and ) (even disks park) except for the actual turn-off. With -rc3 it works fine. Martin P.S.: It's a Gigabyte 7NNXP with latest BIOS. -

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01

2005-08-02 Thread Daniel Walker
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 22:42 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 19:25 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 20:00 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 16:38 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > > Couldn't you just do some math off

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01

2005-08-02 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 19:25 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 20:00 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 16:38 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > Couldn't you just do some math off current->timestamp to see how long > > > the task has been running? This per arch

Re: Testing RC kernels [KORG]

2005-08-02 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 19:13 -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > Was the request cc-ed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (along with > the [KORG] in the subject line)? > I can't tell from the email archives. Yep, my first (and only?) post on this CC'ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I added [KORG] to the subject. Hopefully

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01

2005-08-02 Thread Daniel Walker
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 20:00 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 16:38 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > Couldn't you just do some math off current->timestamp to see how long > > the task has been running? This per arch stuff seems a bit invasive.. > > The thing is, I'm tracking how

Re: [Patch] v4l cx88 hue offset fix

2005-08-02 Thread Horms
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 04:20:00PM +0900, Horms wrote: > Hi Marcelo, > > Another fix from 2.6.12.3 that seems approprite for 2.4. > Should apply cleanly to your tree. Please ignore this. I sent the wrong patch. I don't think thie cx88 driver is in 2.4 at all. > Signed-off-by: Horms <[EMAIL

Re: Linux, Get the facts?

2005-08-02 Thread Martin Drab
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Puneet Vyas wrote: > Hmmm . They put it such that it plays only in microsoft media player. Case > closed :) I think you're vastly underestimating the skills of MPlayer. ;-) For instance mplayer

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01

2005-08-02 Thread George Anzinger
Keith Owens wrote: On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:12:27 -0700, George Anzinger wrote: How about something like: if (current + THREAD_SIZE/sizeof(long) - (regs + sizeof(pt_regs)) > MAGIC) current points to the current struct task, regs points to the kernel stack. Those two data areas can

Re: Testing RC kernels [KORG]

2005-08-02 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:04:16 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 02 August 2005 15:21, Steven Rostedt wrote: > >On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:54 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > >> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:36 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > >> > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:36 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > >> > > On

Re: Testing RC kernels [KORG]

2005-08-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 15:21, Steven Rostedt wrote: >On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:54 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: >> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:36 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: >> > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:36 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: >> > > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:33 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: >> > > > >> >

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-02 Thread Puneet Vyas
Thanks for this wonderful effort! Add one more to the testing team. ~Puneet Jesper Juhl wrote: Hi, How to apply the -rc, -git, -mm and the 2.6.x.y (-stable) patches is a quite frequently asked question on LKML and elsewhere. Since so many people seem to be confused by this I gathered it

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01

2005-08-02 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:12:27 -0700, George Anzinger wrote: >How about something like: > if (current + THREAD_SIZE/sizeof(long) - (regs + sizeof(pt_regs)) > > MAGIC) current points to the current struct task, regs points to the kernel stack. Those two data areas can be completely

Re: [netfilter-core] iptables redirect is broken on bridged setup

2005-08-02 Thread Patrick McHardy
Denis Vlasenko wrote: Linux 2.6.12 Was running for months with this simple iptables rule: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -s 172.17.6.44 -d 172.16.42.201 -p tcp --dport 9100 -j REDIRECT --to 9123 Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) 00 REDIRECT tcp -- * *

Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS

2005-08-02 Thread Hans Reiser
Arjan van de Ven wrote: >On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 16:57 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >>>* Why use your own journalling layer and not say ... jbd ? >>> >>> >>Why does reiser use its own journalling layer and not say ... jbd ? >> >> > >because reiser got merged before jbd. Next

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-08-02 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, July 28, 2005 23:10:29 -0700): > "Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> NUMA-Q boxes are still crashing on boot with -mm BTW. Is the thing we >> identified earlier with the sched patches ... >> >>

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01

2005-08-02 Thread George Anzinger
Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 16:38 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: Couldn't you just do some math off current->timestamp to see how long the task has been running? This per arch stuff seems a bit invasive.. The thing is, I'm tracking how long the task is running in the kernel

Re: [ACPI] [PATCH] PNPACPI: fix types when decoding ACPI resources [resend]

2005-08-02 Thread Kenji Kaneshige
Hi Bjorn, static void -pnpacpi_parse_allocated_irqresource(struct pnp_resource_table * res, int irq) +pnpacpi_parse_allocated_irqresource(struct pnp_resource_table * res, u32 irq) { int i = 0; while (!(res->irq_resource[i].flags & IORESOURCE_UNSET) && @@ -85,13 +85,13 @@

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-02 Thread Richard Hubbell
Thank you! I agree that having a link off of kernel.org makes sense. Richard On 8/2/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > How to apply the -rc, -git, -mm and the 2.6.x.y (-stable) patches is a quite > frequently asked question on LKML and elsewhere. > Since so many people seem

Re: [PATCH] PNPACPI: fix types when decoding ACPI resources [resend]

2005-08-02 Thread Shaohua Li
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 09:55 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > Any objections to the patch below? I posted it last Wednesday, > but haven't heard anything. Once we have this fix, 8250_pnp > should have sufficient functionality that we can get rid of > 8250_acpi. > > > > Use types that match the

Re: Testing RC kernels [KORG]

2005-08-02 Thread Bodo Eggert
Sean Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 15:21 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: >> I've been complaining about this for some time. Kernel.org really needs >> to show more information about the rc kernels and how to create them. >> We want more testers, but I wonder how many

Re: [PATCH] sunrpc: cache_register can use wrong module reference

2005-08-02 Thread Bruce Allan
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:51, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 02:29:36PM -0700, Bruce Allan wrote: > > [resending to Neil, Trond and linux-nfs list; initial copy to lkml] > > > > When registering an RPC cache, cache_register() always sets the owner as > > the sunrpc module.

Discussion regarding pmu usage and functionality requirements happening on '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

2005-08-02 Thread Spirakis, Charles
For those interested, there is a discussion regarding pmu usage and kernel functionality requirements happening on the perfctr mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). The goal is to understand what functionality people need so that we can eventually have better support for pmu's in the kernel. - To

Re: Determining if the current processor is Hyperthreaded

2005-08-02 Thread Athul Acharya
On 8/2/05, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Athul Acharya wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > Is there a quick way to determine if the current processor is > > Hyperthreaded, and if so, which logical processor represents the other > > thread on the chip? Please cc replies to me as I am not

Re: Testing RC kernels [KORG]

2005-08-02 Thread Shayne O'Connor
Thanks for testing the RCs, we need more users to do that. If any of your hardware stops working, make sure to report it, don't assume that it will fix itself! Assume you're the first to notice the bug. I've been complaining about this for some time. Kernel.org really needs to show more

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01

2005-08-02 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 16:38 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > Couldn't you just do some math off current->timestamp to see how long > the task has been running? This per arch stuff seems a bit invasive.. The thing is, I'm tracking how long the task is running in the kernel without doing a schedule.

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01

2005-08-02 Thread Daniel Walker
Couldn't you just do some math off current->timestamp to see how long the task has been running? This per arch stuff seems a bit invasive.. Daniel On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 15:45 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 12:19 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL

Re: Linux, Get the facts?

2005-08-02 Thread Puneet Vyas
Hmmm . They put it such that it plays only in microsoft media player. Case closed :) ~Puneet Alejandro Bonilla wrote: Hi Guys/Gals, I watched some commercials and I almost puked when I looked at the Microsoft Get the Facts for Linux vs Windows Server stuff. They have a url

[patch 2/2] ACPI: increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO on x86

2005-08-02 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
We have increased PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x4000, but still want motherboard resources to be allocated properly. So we need to state 0x1000 (according to the comment) limit explicitely. Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- 2.5.13-rc5/drivers/acpi/motherboard.c Fri Jun 17

[OT] util-linux 2.13-pre1

2005-08-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
util-linux 2.13-pre1 is available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/testing/util-linux-2.13-pre1.tar.gz Changes: * use GNU autoconf/automake/libtool for building * added schedutils * removed support for curses implementations other than ncurses * removed programs: arch,

strange issues with JFS on sparc64

2005-08-02 Thread Alex Deucher
I have a 7 TB JFS volume on a sparc64 box (sun enterprise 220R) running 2.6.12.2 on debian sparc. When copying large numbers of files, files start to dissappear, but they are not actually gone they just stop showing up. when you delete enough files from the directory, all of a sudden all of the

[patch 1/2] increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO on x86

2005-08-02 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 02:57:19PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But you don't need to split up any patches you've already prepared: I can > easily just edit away the part I already committed. OK, I keep your change here - mostly for Mikael, so he can try that ASAP. There is a number of x86

Re: [PATCH linux-2.6.13-rc3] SATA: rewritten sil24 driver

2005-08-02 Thread Edward Falk
Hi Tejun; I'm the guy at Google working on SATA drivers (port multipliers right now). As soon as I can (next week perhaps, I'll start looking at the driver you wrote. From what I can see, it looks quite good. + +static u8 sil24_check_status(struct ata_port *ap) +{ + return ATA_DRDY;

Re: Touchpad errors

2005-08-02 Thread Sid Boyce
Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 00:14 +0400, Dmitrij Bogush wrote: This happens when some software check battery state or current cpu rate too often. Acer laptops are notorious for buggy SMM implementations that disable interrupts for many timer ticks. Does it work any better with

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-02 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Hi, > > Looking forward to your feedback (and possible inclusion). > > I guess this document could also be placed somewhere on kernel.org and linked > to from the front page so that people downloading the various patches will > have this information

[PATCH] Add Documentation/kprobes.txt

2005-08-02 Thread Jim Keniston
The enclosed patch creates Documentation/kprobes.txt, a guide to using the existing Kprobes facility for dynamic kernel instrumentation. Please apply. Jim Keniston Acked-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

RE: [PATCH] optimize writer path in time_interpolator_get_counter()

2005-08-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Luck, Tony wrote: > Yes this is an SMP system (Intel Tiger4). Cpu0 is the boot cpu, and is > indeed the one that takes the write lock, and thus the fast-return from > the get_counter() code. I'm just very confused as to why I only see these > 10X worse outliers on cpu3.

Re: Touchpad errors

2005-08-02 Thread Sid Boyce
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On 8/2/05, Sid Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: New SuSE 9.3 x86_64 install after HD crash. With 2.6.13-rc3 and up to 2.6.13-rc4-git4. I can't remember seeing these errors for quite a long time, thought they were fixed, perhaps there is a regression in recent kernels. It

Re: Touchpad errors

2005-08-02 Thread Dmitrij Bogush
>Acer laptops are notorious for buggy SMM implementations that disable >interrupts for many timer ticks. Does it work any better with HZ=100? Maybe, but I do not see any difference between 100 and 1000 hz on 2.6.13-rc5. With 2.6.13(from rc4) I do not get "crazy jumps" like in 2.6.12 or later,

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-08-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 02:21:44PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Nice, care to make up a single patch with these two changes in it? > > Yep, I'll do it shortly, plus some minor additions as separate > patches. Actually, since everybody seems to like

Re: [PATCH] sunrpc: cache_register can use wrong module reference

2005-08-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 02:29:36PM -0700, Bruce Allan wrote: > [resending to Neil, Trond and linux-nfs list; initial copy to lkml] > > When registering an RPC cache, cache_register() always sets the owner as > the sunrpc module. However, there are RPC caches owned by other modules. > With the

RE: [PATCH] optimize writer path in time_interpolator_get_counter()

2005-08-02 Thread Luck, Tony
>> I'm still seeing the asymmetric behavior where cpu3 sees the really high >> times, >> while cpu0,1,2 are seeing peaks of 170us, which is still not pretty. > >Is this an SMP system? Updates are performed by cpu0 and therefore the >cacheline is mostly exclusively owned by that processor and

Re: Where is place of arch independed companion chips?

2005-08-02 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 11:13 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Good question. I was about to submit a patch that created > > drivers/platform because the toplevel driver for MQ11xx is a > > platform_device driver. Any thoughts on this? > > drivers/platform sounds good to me. In another thread (about

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-08-02 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 02:21:44PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Nice, care to make up a single patch with these two changes in it? Yep, I'll do it shortly, plus some minor additions as separate patches. Ivan. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [2.6 patch] remove support for gcc < 3.2

2005-08-02 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
ostdinc -isystem /home/jbglaw/vax-linux/scm/build-20050802-171439-vax-linux/install/usr/lib/gcc/vax-linux/4.1.0/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffreestanding -O1 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -Wdeclaration-aft

Re: [Patch] don't kick ALB in the presence of pinned task

2005-08-02 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 04:09:17PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > I have a patch here which I still need to do more testing with, > which might help performance on HT systems. > > I found that idle siblings could cause SMP and NUMA balancing to > be too aggressive in some cases. > -- > If an idle

Re: Testing RC kernels [KORG]

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Krufky
Sean Bruno wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 15:21 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: I've been complaining about this for some time. Kernel.org really needs to show more information about the rc kernels and how to create them. We want more testers, but I wonder how many people go through the above

Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-02 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi, How to apply the -rc, -git, -mm and the 2.6.x.y (-stable) patches is a quite frequently asked question on LKML and elsewhere. Since so many people seem to be confused by this I gathered it ought to be properly documented once and for all so we a) get more people testing those trees and

[PATCH] sunrpc: cache_register can use wrong module reference

2005-08-02 Thread Bruce Allan
[resending to Neil, Trond and linux-nfs list; initial copy to lkml] When registering an RPC cache, cache_register() always sets the owner as the sunrpc module. However, there are RPC caches owned by other modules. With the incorrect owner setting, the real owning module can be removed

[PATCH] IDE disks show invalid geometries in /proc/ide/hd*/geometry

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Bellon
The ATA specification tells large disk drives to return C/H/S data of 16383/16/63 regardless of their actual size (other variations on this return include 15 heads and/or 4092 cylinders). Unfortunately these CHS data confuse the existing IDE code and cause it to report invalid geometries in

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-08-02 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:11:40AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So I think it would be much easier to just make the change in > "pci_bus_alloc_resource()", and say that if the parent resource that we're > testing starts at some non-zero value, we just use that instead of "min" > when we call

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-08-02 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 01:13:37AM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:11:40AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So I think it would be much easier to just make the change in > > "pci_bus_alloc_resource()", and say that if the parent resource that we're > > testing starts at

Re: **SPAM** [PATCH 3/3] usb gadget driver for MQ11xx graphics chip

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Krufky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch adds USB gadget support for the USB peripheral controller on the MQ11xx graphics chip. Signed-off-by: Jamey Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The email subject. "Re: **SPAM** [PATCH 3/3] usb gadget driver

Re: **SPAM** [PATCH 3/3] usb gadget driver for MQ11xx graphics chip

2005-08-02 Thread Greg KH
3/3? I seem to be missing the other two patches... On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:20:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This patch adds USB gadget support for the USB peripheral controller > on the MQ11xx graphics chip. > > Signed-off-by: Jamey Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by:

Re: [PATCH] optimize writer path in time_interpolator_get_counter()

2005-08-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sadly, running my test case (running 1-4 tasks, each bound to a cpu, each > pounding > on gettimeofday(2)) I'm still seeing significant time spent spinning in this > loop. > Things are better: worst case time was down to just over 2ms from 34ms ...

Re: 2.6VMM, uClinux, & Comedi

2005-08-02 Thread NZG
I'm running comedi-0.7.70, but the issue is seems be be coming from the fact that I'm using a nommu arch. grepping through my arch and include/asm, these symbols are indeed not defined. This makes sense because uClinux has no true virtual memory, vmalloc is just a wrapper for kmalloc. The

Re: Linux, Get the facts?

2005-08-02 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > Hi Guys/Gals, > > I watched some commercials and I almost puked when I looked at the > Microsoft Get the Facts for Linux vs Windows Server stuff. > > They have a url which is http://www.microsoft.com/getthefacts > > Is this crap any close to

Re: [patch] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim()

2005-08-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Martin Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:54:26PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > We could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack, > > > > > > That would be more appropriate. > > > > > >

[Patch 2/3] framebuffer driver for MQ11xx graphics chip

2005-08-02 Thread jamey
This patch adds a framebuffer driver for MQ11xx system-on-chip graphics chip. This chip is used in several non-PCI ARM and MIPS platforms such as the iPAQ H5550. This driver depends on the overall platform_device driver for the chip. Signed-off-by: Jamey Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Testing RC kernels [KORG]

2005-08-02 Thread Sean Bruno
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 15:21 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > I've been complaining about this for some time. Kernel.org really needs > to show more information about the rc kernels and how to create them. > We want more testers, but I wonder how many people go through the above > steps and just

**SPAM** [PATCH 3/3] usb gadget driver for MQ11xx graphics chip

2005-08-02 Thread jamey
This patch adds USB gadget support for the USB peripheral controller on the MQ11xx graphics chip. Signed-off-by: Jamey Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 9b2407962e0786705efeed755ab1d399deba8685 tree 7c9e5187687bec3112af0f83e9e3831b18c41fa5

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc4] fix get_user_pages bug

2005-08-02 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Go for it, I think whatever we do won't be wonderfully pretty. Here we are: get_user_pages quite untested, let alone the racy case, but I think it should work. Please all hack it around as you see fit, I'll check mail when I get home, but won't be

Re: Linux, Get the facts?

2005-08-02 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi, > Is this crap any close to real or by any chance "realistic" ? Are these > "benchmarks" simple marketing? they're marketing. Just the same stuff like the studies paid by Microsoft. It's not worth to spend any thought on it. Greets, Manuel -- Manuel Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Touchpad errors

2005-08-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 8/2/05, Dmitrij Bogush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > I have the same issue on Acer Aspire 1520 notebook. On SuSE 9.3 system > can not boot with acpi=off. > In 2.6.13-rc4-git4 this crazy touchpad jumps reports as: > > warning: many lost ticks. > Your time source seems to be instable or

[PATCH] Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

2005-08-02 Thread George Anzinger
It seems that the subject patch generates a warning (missed it on the compile). Here is a patch to eliminate the warning. -- George Anzinger george@mvista.com HRT (High-res-timers): http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ Source: MontaVista Software, Inc. George Anzinger Type:

Re: Touchpad errors

2005-08-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 00:14 +0400, Dmitrij Bogush wrote: > This happens when some software check battery state or current cpu > rate too often. Acer laptops are notorious for buggy SMM implementations that disable interrupts for many timer ticks. Does it work any better with HZ=100? Lee - To

[PATCH 2.6.12.3] Deny chmod in /proc//

2005-08-02 Thread Johan Veenhuizen
Hi! This patch tries to fix the strange behaviour in /proc//, where it is currently possible for the owner of a process to temporarily chmod the entries. Since the inodes for these entries are only temporary, the permissions will suddenly be reset when the cache is reclaimed. This is confusing

Re: Touchpad errors

2005-08-02 Thread Dmitrij Bogush
Hi. I have the same issue on Acer Aspire 1520 notebook. On SuSE 9.3 system can not boot with acpi=off. In 2.6.13-rc4-git4 this crazy touchpad jumps reports as: warning: many lost ticks. Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts rip handler_IRQ_event+0x20/0x60 and

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01

2005-08-02 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 15:45 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Here it is (Finally). I just had to be patient with the kjournal > lockup. I had to wait some time before the lockup occurred, but when it > did, I got my message out: Oh yeah, this goes against 52-10. -- Steve - To unsubscribe from

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc4] fix get_user_pages bug

2005-08-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > Yes, good point. If the thing is still marked dirty in the TLB, some other > > thread might be writing to the page after we've cleared dirty but before > > we've flushed the TLB - causing the new dirty bit to be lost. I think. > > Would that

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01

2005-08-02 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 12:19 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In my custom kernel, I have a wchan field of the task that records > > where the task calls something that might schedule. This way I can see > > where things locked up if I don't have a

Re: 2.6.13-rc5 - ACPI regression

2005-08-02 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:18:51PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > I did not notice before, but my values (capacity and so on) are completely > > wrong. It should contain values in mWh instead of mAh. > > There's a new kernel boot oprion ec_polling that you may want to try. Now it's ok

Re: 2.6.13-rc5 - ACPI regression

2005-08-02 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 02 Aug 2005 20:05, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: [snip] > > I did not notice before, but my values (capacity and so on) are completely > wrong. It should contain values in mWh instead of mAh. mWh is mAh x operational voltage. They're not "completely wrong", probably just whatever unit your

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-02 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2005-08-02T10:52:00, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Power consumption matters to server, desktop, and laptop. > > > > Assuming this is a laptop issue is wildly incorrect. > > I would think you'd get the best power/performance ration from a desktop > by just having it suspend after

Re: Testing RC kernels [KORG]

2005-08-02 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:54 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:36 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:36 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:33 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I have been trying to test the 2.6.13 and can't

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc4] fix get_user_pages bug

2005-08-02 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > It might not be so bad. It's going to access the struct page anyway. > > And clearing dirty from parent and child at fork time could save two > > set_page_dirtys at exit time. But I'm not sure that we

Re: 2.6.13-rc5 - ACPI regression

2005-08-02 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 2 of August 2005 21:05, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 08:59:08PM +0200, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > > On 8/2/05, Lukas Hejtmanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > newly with 2.6.13-rc5 (previous -rc1 was quite ok) > > > > > > $ time cat

removal of sys_set_zone_reclaim

2005-08-02 Thread Luck, Tony
The definition of __NR_set_zone_reclaim is still in the i386 and ia64 versions of . Was this intentional (keep the system call number reserved in case this is resurrected), or just an oversight in the removal patch? -Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: 2.6.13-rc5 - ACPI regression

2005-08-02 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 08:59:08PM +0200, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > On 8/2/05, Lukas Hejtmanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > newly with 2.6.13-rc5 (previous -rc1 was quite ok) > > > > $ time cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info > > present: yes > > design capacity:

Re: 2.6.13-rc5 - ACPI regression

2005-08-02 Thread Alessandro Suardi
On 8/2/05, Lukas Hejtmanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > newly with 2.6.13-rc5 (previous -rc1 was quite ok) > > $ time cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info > present: yes > design capacity: 6000 mAh > last full capacity: 6000 mAh > battery technology:

Re: kernel options for cd project with processor family

2005-08-02 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/2/05, Michael D. Setzer II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on the ghost for linux project, which uses various > kernels. The older version 0.14 version had two kernels that support > some configurations. I've added a number of additional builds > adding extra features, but left

Re: Testing RC kernels

2005-08-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:36 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:36 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:33 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have been trying to test the 2.6.13 and can't quite get the patches > > > applied cleanly. > > > > > > What

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc4] fix get_user_pages bug

2005-08-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > It might not be so bad. It's going to access the struct page anyway. > And clearing dirty from parent and child at fork time could save two > set_page_dirtys at exit time. But I'm not sure that we could batch the > the dirty bit clearing into one

Re: Testing RC kernels

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Krufky
Sean Bruno wrote: I have been trying to test the 2.6.13 and can't quite get the patches applied cleanly. What kernel version (full kernel source tar ball) should I be using to apply the patches(rc5) with? Is it 2.6.12.3? 2.6.13-rc* patches apply against 2.6.12 NOT 2.6.12.x -- Michael

Re: EOF and ptys

2005-08-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-08-01 at 19:57 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I notice that when one closes a pty, rather than the master side'd read > returning 0, it's an EIO. Seems to be this code, from n_tty.c. > if (test_bit(TTY_OTHER_CLOSED, >flags)) { > retval = -EIO; >

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