2.6.12.4: Continuous Sound from internal speaker from boot to shutdown

2005-08-14 Thread Florian Hars
I have an NForce4 board with an Athlon 64 and use the 2.6.8 kernel from the inofficial debian AMD64 port, and everything works, except that the proprietary nvidia driver for my geforce card complains about "Your Linux kernel has problems in its implementation of the change_page_attr kernel

Re: [RFC][2.6.12.3] IRQ compression/sharing patch

2005-08-14 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, James Cleverdon wrote: > > > +static int next_irq = 16; > > > > Won't this need a lock for hotplug later? > > That's what I thought originally, but maybe not. We initialize all RTEs > and assign IRQs+vectors fairly early in boot, plus store the results in > arrays.

Re: Preemptive patch for 2.4.25

2005-08-14 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:25:56PM +1000, Dmytro Bablinyuk wrote: > I hope this is the right place to ask. My apologise if it's wrong. > I have found 2.4.25-low-latency.patch.gz for the 2.4.25 kernel but I > couldn't find preemptible patch for this version of kernel. > I found

Re: Linux 2.6.12.5

2005-08-14 Thread Chris Wright
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 12 -EXTRAVERSION = .4 +EXTRAVERSION = .5 NAME=Woozy Numbat # *DOCUMENTATION* diff --git a/arch/ppc64/boot/zlib.c b/arch/ppc64/boot/zlib.c --- a/arch/ppc64/boot/zlib.c +++

Linux 2.6.12.5

2005-08-14 Thread Chris Wright
We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.12.5 kernel. The diffstat and short summary of the fixes are below. I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch between 2.6.12.4 and 2.6.12.5, as it is small enough to do so. The updated 2.6.12.y git tree can be

Re: starting a user defined daemon at linux startup.

2005-08-14 Thread P.Manohar
Thanks Sumit, I did it in the same way as ur first solution. it worked. On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, sumit kalra wrote: Hi Manohar, Yes, you need to put a scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d which would invoke your daemon. You should provide options in this script to start/stop this daemon and fetch it's

Re: [patch] unexport __mntput()

2005-08-14 Thread Coywolf Qi Hunt
On 8/15/05, Mike Waychison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Unexport __mntput() was talked about two months ago. > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/9/69 > > Modules should not call __mntput() directly. If autofs or nfsd does that, > > it's > > being wrong. >

[ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Peter Williams
This version contains minor bug fixes and improvements to the zaphod scheduler including changes to the default configuration parameters that take into account the results of tests using Con Kolivas's new (and very useful) interbench benchmark tool. A patch from Plugsched-5.2.3 to

RE: [RFC][2.6.12.3] IRQ compression/sharing patch

2005-08-14 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> On Thursday 04 August 2005 02:22 am, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:05:50AM -0700, James Cleverdon wrote: > > > diff -pruN 2.6.12.3/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c > > > n12.3/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c --- > > > 2.6.12.3/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c 2005-07-15 >

[PATCH] [TRIVIAL] relayfs: remove comment on overwrite mode

2005-08-14 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi Andrew, The overwrite arg has been removed from the relay_subbufs_consumed() (since it has been removed from relayfs altogether) so the comment preceding the function must go. Thanks, Hareesh diff -ruN linux-akpm/fs/relayfs/relay.c linux/fs/relayfs/relay.c ---

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2005-08-14 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> On Thursday 04 August 2005 02:22 am, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:05:50AM -0700, James Cleverdon wrote: > > > diff -pruN 2.6.12.3/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c > > > n12.3/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c --- > > > 2.6.12.3/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c 2005-07-15 >

2.6.13 ub 4: Zaitcev's quasi-S/G

2005-08-14 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Back out Axboe-style quasi-S/G and replace it with one command and repeated URBs. This is similar to what usb-storage does, only instead of a few URBs allocated together, one URB is reused. Jens's idea was very nice, but it collapsed when I had to support packet commads for CD burning. I cannot

Re: [patch] unexport __mntput()

2005-08-14 Thread Mike Waychison
Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: Hello, Unexport __mntput() was talked about two months ago. http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/9/69 Modules should not call __mntput() directly. If autofs or nfsd does that, it's being wrong. I think you missed the point in the last discussion. __mntput is called from

Re: Preemptive patch for 2.4.25

2005-08-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 13:25 +1000, Dmytro Bablinyuk wrote: > I hope this is the right place to ask. My apologise if it's wrong. > I have found 2.4.25-low-latency.patch.gz for the 2.4.25 kernel but I > couldn't find preemptible patch for this version of kernel. > I found

Re: 2.6.13-rc6 Oops with Software RAID, LVM, JFS, NFS

2005-08-14 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Robert Love wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 20:40 -0600, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > > I'm new here, if the inode isn't being watched, what's to stop d_delete > > from removing the inode before fsnotify_unlink proceeds to use it? > > Nothing. But check out > >

Re: 2.6.13-rc6 Oops with Software RAID, LVM, JFS, NFS

2005-08-14 Thread Robert Love
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 20:40 -0600, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > I'm new here, if the inode isn't being watched, what's to stop d_delete > from removing the inode before fsnotify_unlink proceeds to use it? Nothing. But check out

Re: [RFC][2.6.12.3] Use vectors 0x21-0x2F

2005-08-14 Thread James Cleverdon
Quick and dirty patch to use the 16 vectors that appear to have fallen through the cracks. This also is useful for older CPUs that have serial APICS: P54C, P6, P2, P3, K5, K6, etc. They can benefit from the extra vector space to hash the IRQs. I suppose I could have started at 0x20 instead of

Re: [RFC][2.6.12.3] IRQ compression/sharing patch

2005-08-14 Thread James Cleverdon
On Thursday 04 August 2005 02:22 am, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:05:50AM -0700, James Cleverdon wrote: > > diff -pruN 2.6.12.3/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c > > n12.3/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c --- > > 2.6.12.3/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c 2005-07-15 14:18:57.0 >

Re: 2.6.13-rc6 Oops with Software RAID, LVM, JFS, NFS

2005-08-14 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Phil Dier wrote: > I just got this: > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address eeafefc0 > printing eip: > c0188487 > *pde = 00681067 > *pte = 2eafe000 > Oops: [#1] > SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC > Modules linked in: > CPU:1 > EIP:0060:[]Not

Re: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1: BUG: rwlock recursion on CPU#0

2005-08-14 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > I've got the following BUG on Asus L5D (x86-64) with the 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 > kernel: > > BUG: rwlock recursion on CPU#0, nscd/3668, 8817d4a0 > > Call Trace:{add_preempt_count+105} > {rwlock_bug+114} >{_raw_write_lock+62} >

Re: 2.6.13-rc6 Oops with Software RAID, LVM, JFS, NFS

2005-08-14 Thread Phil Dier
I just got this: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address eeafefc0 printing eip: c0188487 *pde = 00681067 *pte = 2eafe000 Oops: [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: CPU:1 EIP:0060:[]Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010296 (2.6.13-rc6) EIP is at

[patch] unexport __mntput()

2005-08-14 Thread Coywolf Qi Hunt
Hello, Unexport __mntput() was talked about two months ago. http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/9/69 Modules should not call __mntput() directly. If autofs or nfsd does that, it's being wrong. Coywolf Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 3

2005-08-14 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Ok perhaps on the resume side instead. When trying to resume can you try > > booting with 'dyntick=disable'. Note this isn't meant to be a long term fix > > but once we figure out where the problem is we should be able to code > > around > > it. >

Re: Increasing PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x4000 broke on-board nvidia audio

2005-08-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Lukas Sandström wrote: > > The commits 71db63acff69618b3d9d3114bd061938150e146b ([PATCH] increase > PCIBIOS_MIN_IO on x86) and 0b2bfb4e7ff61f286676867c3508569bea6fbf7a > (ACPI: increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO on x86) shortly after -rc5 caused my > on-board audio to stop working.

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] Fix kmem read on 32-bit archs

2005-08-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > GCC warns about using llseek and suggests lseek64 instead. That works > for me, but up till 2.6.11 plain lseek worked too. I guess it really > shouldn't have? Well, we have had various special-cases for /dev/[k]mem to try to make it work even

Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Voluspa
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:37:08 +0100 Alan Cox wrote: > > We certainly could interpret 0x51, 0x04 specifically. Its not an "error" > in the usual spew at the user case generally speaking but a "do this" > "no" sequence. Its useful to log because sending unknown commands to an > IDE device is

Re: [PATCH] add transport class symlink to device object

2005-08-14 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 11:25:25PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 04:02:31PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > Last time I tried to do something like this, it fell over with > > multi-function serial ports. Look at this example: > > > > # ls -l /sys/class/tty/ttyS*/device |

Re: usb camera failing in 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:29:20 +1000, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Remember that dmesg diff you sent? That's the one. If you strace > > the digikamcameracl, it probably keels over after EBUSY. > > Nice shot! Got it in one. bugzilla updated with confirmation. > > So how do we proceed

Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-08-15 at 00:51 +0200, Voluspa wrote: > hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } > ide: failed opcode was: 0xec > ide: Did you just run "hdparm -I" or do you use a nosy desktop? We certainly could interpret 0x51,

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread CaT
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 02:33:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > What does a full identify data set for the drive look like ? Here it is for the two drives. Please note that multisect was turned on manually as well as the security freeze. /dev/hda: ATA device, with non-removable media Model

Re: usb camera failing in 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Con Kolivas
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:56, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:42:12 +1000, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:00, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:12:06 +1000, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > Yes all those dmesgs etc

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 15:59 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > I know the alternatives are available. That doesn't make it any less > idiotic to use non ASCII characters as operators. I think it's a very > slippery slope. We write code in ASCII, dammit. Its a trivial patch and there is a lot to be

Re: BSD jail

2005-08-14 Thread Joshua Hudson
Quoting Serge E. Hallyn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >Quoting Joshua Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Why would you want a virtual network device implementation? The whole > >So that a jailed process can use the net but can't use your network >address (intercept ssh, imap/stunnel, etc). [snip] >But in the

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Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Voluspa
On 2005-08-14 20:10:49 Nick Warne wrote: >Note the last sentence: > >' This variation is designed for use with "libraries" of drive >identification information, and can also be used on ATAPI drives which may >give media errors with the standard mechanism. My jaw just clonked on the

Re: [PATCH] add transport class symlink to device object

2005-08-14 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 04:02:31PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 02:39:56PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Heh, I already have a patch like this pending for 2.6.14 at: > > > >

Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi bug fixes for 2.6.13

2005-08-14 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, James Bottomley wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 21:33 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > Just to make sure everyone agrees on this - there's currently a know bug > > in dc395x with highmem reported by Pierre Ossman in thread "Kernel panic > > with dc395x in 2.6.12.2" on

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:52:36 EDT, Kyle Moffett said: > > Note that ?^ is functionally identical to !.?| differs from || in > Since when is the string "!.?|" an operator??? I think that was supposed to read: Note that ?^ is functionally identical to !. ?| differs from ?? in that ?| returns

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Lee Revell wrote: > For strings, of course. But there's no need for UTF-8 operators. Indeed - this is the main rationale for the patch, of course. People want to write non-ASCII in script primarily in string literals, and (perhaps even more often) in comments. Now, for comments, it wouldn't

Re: [PATCH] Fix PPC signal handling of NODEFER, should not affect sa_mask

2005-08-14 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Aug 12, 2005, at 17:53:53, Steven Rostedt wrote: Two more systems that are different from Linux. So far, Linux is the odd ball out. Make that three more systems (Mac OS X has the same behavior as the BSDs): zeus:~ kyle$ uname -a Darwin zeus.moffetthome.net 8.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version

[PATCH] [CIFS] Two small cifs patches

2005-08-14 Thread Steve French
Based on testing at the cifs plugfest last week these were the two most important patches from among those pending in my tree. The rest can wait until after 2.6.12 [PATCH] [CIFS] Fix missing entries in search results when very long file names and more than 50 (or so) of such long search

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Aug 14, 2005, at 02:18:13, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: "LR" == Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LR> Is Larry smoking crack? From the Perl6-Bible: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl6-Bible/lib/ Perl6/Bible/S03.pod: I think this confirms that the answer is yes. See the following at

Re: Problem with usb-storage and /dev/sd?

2005-08-14 Thread DervishD
Hi Willy :) * Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > > That's not possible. sd_mod will assign different devices for > > different USB gadgets, and that's my problem in the first case!. If I > > plug my USB-whatever, it gets assigned /dev/sda1 (for the first > > partition, I mean).

Re: BSD jail

2005-08-14 Thread Joshua Hudson
All right, I'll see what I can come up with. This is quite a tall order. 1. A mechanism for creating virtual network interfaces 2. A mechanism for restricting binding to certain network interfaces 3. A mechanism for binding certain network interfaces. 4. The jail code itself Much of the work is

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

2005-08-14 Thread Ian Kumlien
Hi, all I might be missunderstanding things but... First of all, machines with long pipelines will suffer from cache misses (p4 in this case). Depending on the size copied, (i don't know how large they are so..) can't one run out of cachelines and/or evict more useful cache data? Ie, if it's

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 8/14/05, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 17:56 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > * your stuff was accepted after all (and some stuff like ide-cd > > fixes was never splitted from the -ac patchset and submitted) > > They were. I remember discussion about

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread James Tabor
Daniel Drake wrote: CaT wrote: 1. Alan Cox's IDE driver that was included in his ac patchset, which seems to have died at 2.6.11ac7. 2. A brief visit from a SCSI IDE driver in Andrew Mortons mm patchset. It lived a brief but noted life before being taken out without any reason (that I

Re: [PATCH 0/8] netpoll: various bugfixes

2005-08-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:31:09PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > Does the task dump work without patch 5/8 (add retry timeout)? I'll > > try testing it here. > > I spoke to soon, worked once, after reboot not anymore. Will try to play > with individual

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 17:56 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > * your stuff was accepted after all (and some stuff like ide-cd > fixes was never splitted from the -ac patchset and submitted) They were. > * you've never provided any technical details on "the stuff I broke" I did,

SOLVED: i386: 2.6.13-rc4 and -rc6 spontaneously reboot

2005-08-14 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 11-Aug-05, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Both -rc4 and -rc6 just silently reboot after two or three days. It was a failed UPS battery. __ Chuck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] Fix kmem read on 32-bit archs

2005-08-14 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 09:24:02 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yes, the thing needs to be opened with O_LARGEFILE and you need to use > "llseek()" to seek into it, but once you do that, everything should be > fine. GCC warns about using llseek and suggests lseek64 instead. That works for

Increasing PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x4000 broke on-board nvidia audio

2005-08-14 Thread Lukas Sandström
Hi. The commits 71db63acff69618b3d9d3114bd061938150e146b ([PATCH] increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO on x86) and 0b2bfb4e7ff61f286676867c3508569bea6fbf7a (ACPI: increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO on x86) shortly after -rc5 caused my on-board audio to stop working. See attached output from dmesg and lspci. On a

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 13:13 -0700, Stephen Pollei wrote: > Seems like lots of Europeans might want a bigger > charset, not to mention Asians, Hindus, and whomever else. For strings, of course. But there's no need for UTF-8 operators. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH]hande sysdev suspend failure

2005-08-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > This patch adds the return value check for sysdev suspend and does > restore in failure case. Send the patch to pm-list, but seems lost, so I > resend it. It seems to duplicate code a bit. Can that be fixed? Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123:

Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 3

2005-08-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > What happens when you disable it at runtime before suspending? > > > > > > echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/dyn_tick/dyn_tick0/enable > > > > This has no effect. The system stalls at exactly the same point. The > > last lines on my screen are: > > Ok perhaps on the resume side instead.

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Stephen Pollei
On 8/14/05, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know the alternatives are available. That doesn't make it any less > idiotic to use non ASCII characters as operators. I think it's a very > slippery slope. We write code in ASCII, dammit. Yes you and I might write 99.9% of our code in

Re: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-14 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:12:55 +1000, Roger Luethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ #define APC_BPORT_REG 0x30 #define APC_REGMASK0x01 -define APC_BPMASK 0x03 +#define APC_BPMASK 0x03 Color me skeptical. I've seen some weird bit flips and

Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Nick Warne
I just remember a path I took when resolving the issue further to my post below. Here is what man hdparm says on -i and -I: -i Display the identification info that was obtained from the drive at boot time, if available. This is a feature of modern IDE drives, and

Implementing a network based filesystem

2005-08-14 Thread Guillermo López Alejos
Hi, I continue studying the VFS interface. As I said in previous e-mails, my goal is to integrate an existing parallel filesystem into the Linux kernel. Now, I am looking for a reduced subset of operations to focus on. I have selected the following: struct file_system_type get_sb()

Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Nick Warne
Voluspa wrote: > > The "hdparm -I /dev/hdc" > > hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } > de: failed opcode was: 0xec > > Is present on all kernels that I have locally (oldest 2.6.11.11) > so it is not related to the

Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi bug fixes for 2.6.13

2005-08-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 21:33 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Just to make sure everyone agrees on this - there's currently a know bug > in dc395x with highmem reported by Pierre Ossman in thread "Kernel panic > with dc395x in 2.6.12.2" on linux-scsi. It is also trivial to reproduce on >

Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi bug fixes for 2.6.13

2005-08-14 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
Hi On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, James Bottomley wrote: > This is my (hopefully final) collection of safe driver updates and bug > fixes for 2.6.13. Just to make sure everyone agrees on this - there's currently a know bug in dc395x with highmem reported by Pierre Ossman in thread "Kernel panic with

Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Voluspa
The "hdparm -I /dev/hdc" hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } de: failed opcode was: 0xec Is present on all kernels that I have locally (oldest 2.6.11.11) so it is not related to the threadstarters problems, it seems.

Re: [PATCH 2.4] (0/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Michael, > > Individual patches will be posted in reply to this post, with > > explanations and diffstat. Please consider applying them. > > How come these patches never showed up on LKML? They did, just with some delay. I'm only a human. -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: usb camera failing in 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:42:12 +1000, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:00, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:12:06 +1000, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes all those dmesgs etc were redone after it failed in rc6 as I needed it > working. Oh

Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Voluspa
Doing a "hdparm -I /dev/hdc" (without a disk/with a ISO disk/[u]mounted/music CD): Aug 14 19:14:33 sleipner kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Aug 14 19:14:33 sleipner kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } Aug 14 19:14:33 sleipner kernel: ide:

Re: 2.6.13-rcX really this bad ?

2005-08-14 Thread Danny ter Haar
Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is the machine running X? We need some output from it so we can debug >> what's going on, the info should be printed to the console. It would >> be great if you could run the latest kernel and see if you get any >> output. Also add nmi_watchdog=2 to

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] Fix kmem read on 32-bit archs

2005-08-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > It's ugly but so is the existing code. And it won't fix 64-bit > archs AFAICT. Tested on 2.6.11, patch offsets fixed up for 2.6.13-rc6. Btw, if you really want to allow negative ("huge positive") loff_t, then you should do it the way we did

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] Fix kmem read on 32-bit archs

2005-08-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > The first thing drivers/char/mem.c:read_kmem does is convert the > loff_t it gets as the offset for reading into an unsigned int. This > patch makes the kmem driver's llseek operator do that up-front, so > that fs/read_write.c:rw_verify_area

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] Fix kmem read on 32-bit archs

2005-08-14 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:12:52PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > The first thing drivers/char/mem.c:read_kmem does is convert the > loff_t it gets as the offset for reading into an unsigned int. This > patch makes the kmem driver's llseek operator do that up-front, so > that

[patch 2.6.13-rc6] Fix kmem read on 32-bit archs

2005-08-14 Thread Chuck Ebbert
The first thing drivers/char/mem.c:read_kmem does is convert the loff_t it gets as the offset for reading into an unsigned int. This patch makes the kmem driver's llseek operator do that up-front, so that fs/read_write.c:rw_verify_area doesn't return -EINVAL when we try to read from higher

Re: [PATCH 1/2] consolidate sys_ptrace

2005-08-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 08:48:48AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 11:35:43AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > This version has the arch_ptrace return value changes to long as > > recommended by Richard Henderson. > ... > > +extern int arch_ptrace(struct task_struct

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 8/14/05, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 17:01 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > Thats probably the fact other patches from -ac are missing in base. It > > > should be harmless. > > > > Therefore please submit them. > > Cut the crap, you know I've

Re: [PATCH 1/2] consolidate sys_ptrace

2005-08-14 Thread Richard Henderson
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 11:35:43AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This version has the arch_ptrace return value changes to long as > recommended by Richard Henderson. ... > +extern int arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request, long addr, > long data); No it doesn't. r~

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 17:01 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Thats probably the fact other patches from -ac are missing in base. It > > should be harmless. > > Therefore please submit them. Cut the crap, you know I've submitted the stuff again and again and again along with other

RE: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

2005-08-14 Thread Lion Vollnhals
Am Sonntag, den 14.08.2005, 09:29 -0400 schrieb Willem Riede: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:54:35 +, Allen Martin wrote: > > > Likely the only way nForce4 NCQ support could be added under Linux would > > be with a closed source binary driver, and no one really wants that, > > especially for

[PATCH 2.4] (5/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Five log messages lack their trailing new line in i2c-core. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 10 +- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- linux-2.4.31.orig/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c2005-04-09 12:35:59.0 +0200 +++

[PATCH 2.4] (4/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Fix two typos in the i2c documentation. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Documentation/i2c/functionality |2 +- Documentation/i2c/writing-clients |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.4.31.orig/Documentation/i2c/functionality 2000-12-29

[PATCH 2.4] (3/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Fix documentation to match code in include/linux/i2c-dev.h Signed-off-by: Jan Veldeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Documentation/i2c/dev-interface |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2

[PATCH 2.4] (2/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-14 Thread Jean Delvare
The lm_sensors project changed mailing lists. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MAINTAINERS |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.4.30.orig/MAINTAINERS 2005-06-03 19:21:41.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.4.30/MAINTAINERS2005-06-03

Re: [PATCH 2.4] (0/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-14 Thread Michael Krufky
Jean Delvare wrote: I have a total of 5 patches with minor fixes to the Linux 2.4 i2c subsystem and documentation. These fixes I gathered for the past few months as they were applied to the Linux 2.6 tree and to the i2c CVS repository. Individual patches will be posted in reply to this post,

[PATCH 2.4] (1/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Backport of a spelling fix Tobias Klauser sent to me for Linux 2.6.12-rc4. Already fixed in i2c CVS. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) ---

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 8/14/05, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 13:44 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > > > [227523.229557] hda: 390721968 sectors (200049 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, > > > CHS=24321/255/63, BUG > > Thats probably the fact other patches from -ac are missing in base. It > should be

Re: [PATCH] add transport class symlink to device object

2005-08-14 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 02:39:56PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Heh, I already have a patch like this pending for 2.6.14 at: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-01-driver/driver-link-device-and-class.patch Last time I tried to do something like this, it

Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 13:35 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > The symptoms vary. On some of my machines just inserting > > an audio CD makes the box instantly lock up. You've got all the gnome cruft running. Start by turning that off. Then try inserting/removing audio discs, playing

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 13:44 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > > [227523.229557] hda: 390721968 sectors (200049 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, > > CHS=24321/255/63, BUG Thats probably the fact other patches from -ac are missing in base. It should be harmless. > > [227523.229631] hda: cache flushes not

Re: IDE CD problems in 2.6.13rc6

2005-08-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 10:30 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > presumably related, on 2.6.13-rc6. Putting in a cd and trying to read it > > will cause huge delays and then error out with: > > > > ide-cd: cmd 0x28 timed out (Thats READ_10) > > hdc: DMA timeout retry > > hdc: timeout waiting for DMA >

RE: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

2005-08-14 Thread Willem Riede
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:54:35 +, Allen Martin wrote: > Likely the only way nForce4 NCQ support could be added under Linux would > be with a closed source binary driver, and no one really wants that, > especially for storage / boot volume. We decided it wasn't worth the > headache of a binary

Re: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1: BUG: rwlock recursion on CPU#0

2005-08-14 Thread Patrick McHardy
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > I've got the following BUG on Asus L5D (x86-64) with the 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 > kernel: > > BUG: rwlock recursion on CPU#0, nscd/3668, 8817d4a0 > > Call Trace:{add_preempt_count+105} > {rwlock_bug+114} >{_raw_write_lock+62} > {_write_lock_bh+40} >

[PATCH 2.4] (0/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Marcelo, I have a total of 5 patches with minor fixes to the Linux 2.4 i2c subsystem and documentation. These fixes I gathered for the past few months as they were applied to the Linux 2.6 tree and to the i2c CVS repository. Individual patches will be posted in reply to this post, with

Re: Changing thread_info->task, does it harm?

2005-08-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 03:41:49PM +0300, Samer Sarhan wrote: > Hi, > I had a design problem of a Linux module (Linux 2.6.11) that lead me to do > this: > > int work_fn(void* data); > task_t my_task; > task_t* kthread = kthread_create(work_fn, NULL, "Task 1"); > // assume kthread create was

Re: Changing thread_info->task, does it harm?

2005-08-14 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 15:41 +0300, Samer Sarhan wrote: > Hi, > I had a design problem of a Linux module (Linux 2.6.11) that lead me to do > this: > > int work_fn(void* data); > task_t my_task; > task_t* kthread = kthread_create(work_fn, NULL, "Task 1"); > // assume kthread create was

[PATCH] mmc: Multi-sector writes

2005-08-14 Thread Pierre Ossman
Adds support for writing multiple sectors at once. This allows back-to-back transfers of sectors giving roughly double write throughput. To be able to detect which sector is causing problems the system falls back to single sector writes if a failure is detected. Tested by several people with no

2.6.13-rc5-mm1: BUG: rwlock recursion on CPU#0

2005-08-14 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, I've got the following BUG on Asus L5D (x86-64) with the 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 kernel: BUG: rwlock recursion on CPU#0, nscd/3668, 8817d4a0 Call Trace:{add_preempt_count+105} {rwlock_bug+114} {_raw_write_lock+62} {_write_lock_bh+40} {:ip_conntrack:destroy_conntrack+196}

Changing thread_info->task, does it harm?

2005-08-14 Thread Samer Sarhan
Hi, I had a design problem of a Linux module (Linux 2.6.11) that lead me to do this: int work_fn(void* data); task_t my_task; task_t* kthread = kthread_create(work_fn, NULL, "Task 1"); // assume kthread create was successfully... my_task = *kthread; // change what current maceo points to...

Re: 2.6.13-rcX really this bad ?

2005-08-14 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 01:43:18PM +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 10:10:18AM + Danny ter Haar wrote: > > I've posted a couple of times than my newsserver is not stable > > with any 2.6.13-rcX kernels. > > Last kernel that survived is 2.6.12-mm1 (18+days) > Is the

Re: [PATCH] Convert sigaction to act like other unices

2005-08-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/13/05, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:00:14AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 14:39 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:40:02PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wroqte: > > > > Here's a patch that converts all architectures

Re: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-14 Thread Roger Luethi
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ > #define APC_BPORT_REG 0x30 > > #define APC_REGMASK0x01 > -define APC_BPMASK 0x03 > +#define APC_BPMASK 0x03 Color me skeptical. I've seen some weird bit flips and data corruption; "paramters" to "paramEters" I could buy. But data

Re: BSD jail

2005-08-14 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Joshua Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Why would you want a virtual network device implementation? The whole So that a jailed process can use the net but can't use your network address (intercept ssh, imap/stunnel, etc). > I do like the idea of patching in through LSM, however not

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Daniel Drake
CaT wrote: 1. Alan Cox's IDE driver that was included in his ac patchset, which seems to have died at 2.6.11ac7. Alan's driver has been merged into 2.6.13. You can get the up-to-date Wooo! patches here:

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