[-mm patch] drivers/net/netxen/: possible cleanups

2006-12-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:02:46AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.19-rc6-mm1: >... > git-netdev-all.patch >... > git trees >... This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - #if 0 the following unused global functions: - netxe

[PATCH] softmac: fix unbalanced mutex_lock/unlock in ieee80211softmac_wx_set_mlme

2006-12-02 Thread Maxime Austruy
Found a hang while playing with wpa_supplicant and a zd1211 usb adapter using linux 2.6.19. The problem is that ieee80211softmac_wx_set_mlme forgets to release a mutex when mlme->cmd is IW_MLME_DEAUTH. The fix below allows me to kill wpa_supplicant and to restart it without having to reboot the

HDA Intel sound driver fails on Acer notebook

2006-12-02 Thread Chuck Ebbert
The HDA Intel sound driver still fails to load on my Acer Aspire 5102 notebook (Turion64 X2, ATI chipset): Here is the PCI info while running x86_64. I tried i386 and x86_64 and it fails on both: 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 437b (rev 01) Subsystem: Acer Inco

[2.6 patch] FW_LOADER should select HOTPLUG

2006-12-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
[ fixed patch below ] Since FW_LOADER is an option that is always select'ed by the code using it, it mustn't depend on HOTPLUG. It's only relevant in the EMBEDDED=y case, but this might have resulted in illegal FW_LOADER=, HOTPLUG=n configurations. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: la la la la ... swappiness

2006-12-02 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 00:16:38 -0600 "Aucoin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I set swappiness to zero and it doesn't do what I want! > > I have a system that runs as a Linux based data server 24x7 and occasionally > I need to apply an update or patch. It's a BIIIG patch to the tune of > several hundr

Re: Mounting NFS root FS

2006-12-02 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 07:02 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > That's a valid point, but in fact, building with NFS client and serial > port support in the kernel on some archs is as common as building with > IDE driver and VGA console in the kernel on x86. With some architectures > used in light netwo

RE: la la la la ... swappiness

2006-12-02 Thread Aucoin
Reformatted as plain text. From: Aucoin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 12:17 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: la la la la ... swappiness I set swappin

Re: Mounting NFS root FS

2006-12-02 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 09:37:18PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 23:55 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > I'm not saying initramfs is not powerful, and indeed your example is > > the common way of parsing cmdline for me too. What I'm saying is that > > before nfsroot stops bein

[PATCH] Export current_is_keventd() for libphy

2006-12-02 Thread Ben Collins
Fixes this problem when libphy is compiled as module: WARNING: "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined! diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index 17c2f03..1cf226b 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -608,6 +608,7 @@ int current_is_kevent

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ensure i_ino uniqueness in filesystems without permanent inode numbers (via idr)

2006-12-02 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 09:56:27PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > My main reasoning for doing this was that the structures involved are > per-superblock. There is virtually no reason that a filesystem would > ever need to touch these structures in another filesystem. I don't think this is relevant

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7621] New: 2.6.19 breaks IPv6

2006-12-02 Thread David Miller
From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 19:20:09 -0800 > > On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:23:54 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7621 > > > >Summary: 2.6.19 breaks IPv6 > > Kernel Version: 2.6.19 > > Status: NEW

Re: CD/DVD drive errors and lost ticks

2006-12-02 Thread Parag Warudkar
Christoph Anton Mitterer scientia.net> writes: > Dec 3 04:12:16 euler kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > Dec 3 04:12:16 euler kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown > Dec 3 04:12:16 euler kernel: hdb: DMA disabled > Dec 3 04:12:16 euler kernel: hdb: ATAPI reset complete > Dec

RE: [patch 2.6.19-rc6] Stop gcc 4.1.0 optimizing wait_hpet_tick away

2006-12-02 Thread David Schwartz
> > It comes down to just what those guarantees GCC provides actually are. > This is the first correct statement in your email. In any case the > documented GCC guarantees have always been much stronger than you > have been trying to persuade us they should be. I would argue that > the C standa

Re: Bad PCI function mask in atiixp driver (was: Re: Linux 2.6.19)

2006-12-02 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 23:06:57 -0500 Chuck Ebbert wrote: > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:54:38 +0100, Matthijs wrote: > > > make modules gives me these warnings in modpost and then errors out: > > WARNING: Can't handle masks in drivers/ide/pci/atiixp:05 > > Messag

Bad PCI function mask in atiixp driver (was: Re: Linux 2.6.19)

2006-12-02 Thread Chuck Ebbert
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:54:38 +0100, Matthijs wrote: > make modules gives me these warnings in modpost and then errors out: > WARNING: Can't handle masks in drivers/ide/pci/atiixp:05 Message is from scripts/file2alias.c::do_pci_entry(): if ((baseclass

CD/DVD drive errors and lost ticks

2006-12-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I have a Plextor PX-760A DVD/CD drive,.. and some days ago I've updated to firmaware 1.05 (which is the most recent). Since that I have problems reading many DVDs but this is not what I'm asking here Some of the DVD-Videos work and I watched one some minutes ago. Suddenly the soundoutput

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives

2006-12-02 Thread Kurtis D. Rader
On Sat, 2006-12-02 17:17:37, Kurtis D. Rader wrote: > The same disks attached to a Promise TX2 SATA controller (in the same > system) experience no corruption. I spoke too soon. Corruption is occurring with the disks attached to the Promise TX2 SATA controller but much less frequently. With the dr

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ensure i_ino uniqueness in filesystems without permanent inode numbers (via idr)

2006-12-02 Thread Jeff Layton
Brad Boyer wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:21:36PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: Here's an updated (but untested) patch based on your suggestions. I also went ahead and made the exported symbols GPL-only since that seems like it would be appropriate here. Any further thoughts on it? This seem

Re: Mounting NFS root FS

2006-12-02 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 23:55 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > I'm not saying initramfs is not powerful, and indeed your example is > the common way of parsing cmdline for me too. What I'm saying is that > before nfsroot stops being supported, we'll need a working replacement > (and not "### further par

Re: [patch 14/23] x86 microcode: dont check the size

2006-12-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Willy Tarreau wrote: Shaohua, this one seems appropriate for 2.4 too. It is OK for you if I merge it ? Thanks, Willy On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:00:25PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Shaohua Li <[EM

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives

2006-12-02 Thread Kurtis D. Rader
On Sat, 2006-12-02 01:56:06, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > The issue was basically the following: I found a severe bug mainly by > fortune because it occurs very rarely. My test looks like the following: > I have about 30GB of testing data on my harddisk,... I repeat verifying > sha512 sums on

Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] 2.6.20 Chelsio T3 RDMA Driver

2006-12-02 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Francois Romieu wrote: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] Version 2 changes: - Make code sparse endian clean - Use IDRs for mapping QP and CQ IDs to structure pointers instead of arrays - Clean up confusing bitfields - Use random32() instead of local random function - Use krefs to track

Re: 2.6.18.2 x86_64 smp oops dst_destroy dst_rcu_free

2006-12-02 Thread Christian Parpart
On Saturday 02 December 2006 22:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > pls check it out, wtf is problem :) try disabling SMP and restart. I'm most probably sure that it works this way. if so, please tell me so :) Thanks in advance, Christian Parpart. pgps3w010nVxI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Confusing stream of atkbd messages after failed boot

2006-12-02 Thread Bernard Pidoux
I made a typo in my previous message. > ... on my second Linux machine, there is query for > ata_piix and no need for the above modules. Should be : ... on my second Linux machine, there is NO query for ata_piix and no need for the above modules. Please Cc: to me as I am not on the list. Ber

Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] 2.6.20 Chelsio T3 RDMA Driver

2006-12-02 Thread Francois Romieu
Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > Version 2 changes: > > - Make code sparse endian clean > - Use IDRs for mapping QP and CQ IDs to structure pointers instead of arrays > - Clean up confusing bitfields > - Use random32() instead of local random function > - Use krefs to track endpoint refere

Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety

2006-12-02 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Al Viro wrote: > > > > You need some more magic macros to access/modify the data field. > > > > > > Which is done bloody rarely. grep and you'll see... BTW, there are > > > other reasons why passing struct timer_list * is wrong: > > > * direct calls of the timer callb

[PATCH v2 06/13] Completion Queues

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Wise
Functions to manipulate CQs. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_cq.c | 231 + 1 files changed, 231 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_cq.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iw

[PATCH v2 10/13] Core HAL

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Wise
The RDMA Core interfaces with the T3 HW and ULLD providing a low level RDMA interface. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/core/cxio_hal.c | 1302 +++ drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/core/cxio_hal.h | 201 2 files changed, 1503

[PATCH v2 13/13] Kconfig/Makefile

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Wise
Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/Kconfig |1 + drivers/infiniband/Makefile |1 + drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/Kconfig | 27 +++ drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/Makefile| 12 drivers/i

[PATCH v2 11/13] Core Resource Allocation

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Wise
Core functions to carve up adapter memory, stag, qp, and cq IDs. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/core/cxio_resource.c | 331 ++ drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/core/cxio_resource.h | 70 + 2 files changed, 401 insertions(+), 0

[PATCH v2 12/13] Core Debug functions

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Wise
Debug code to dump various data structs, some of which are in adapter memory. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/core/cxio_dbg.c | 205 +++ 1 files changed, 205 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw

Re: Mounting NFS root FS

2006-12-02 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 10:56:38PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >> > I have been trying to make FC5's kernel do a boot with an NFS root file > >> > system. I see > >> > the support is in the kernel(?). I have tried this: > >> > > >> >> root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.1.1.12:/tftpboot/NFS/Root_FS >

[PATCH v2 05/13] Queue Pairs

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Wise
Code to manipulate the QP. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_qp.c | 1007 + 1 files changed, 1007 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_qp.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwc

[PATCH v2 07/13] Async Event Handler

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Wise
Code to handle async events coming from the T3 RDMA Core. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_ev.c | 228 + 1 files changed, 228 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_ev.c b/d

[PATCH v2 09/13] Core WQE/CQE Types

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Wise
T3 WQE and CQE structures, defines, etc... Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/core/cxio_wr.h | 685 1 files changed, 685 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/core/cxio_wr.h b/drivers/inf

[PATCH v2 08/13] Memory Registration

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Wise
Functions to register memory regions. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_mem.c | 170 1 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_mem.c b/drivers/infiniband/h

[PATCH v2 01/13] Linux RDMA Core Changes

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Wise
Support provider-specific data in ib_uverbs_cmd_req_notify_cq(). The Chelsio iwarp provider library needs to pass information to the kernel verb for re-arming the CQ. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c |9 +++-- drivers/infiniband

[PATCH v2 02/13] Device Discovery and ULLD Linkage

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Wise
Code to discover all the T3 devices and register them with the T3 RDMA Core and the Linux RDMA Core. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch.c | 189 drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch.h | 175 +

[PATCH v2 00/13] 2.6.20 Chelsio T3 RDMA Driver

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Wise
Version 2 changes: - Make code sparse endian clean - Use IDRs for mapping QP and CQ IDs to structure pointers instead of arrays - Clean up confusing bitfields - Use random32() instead of local random function - Use krefs to track endpoint reference counts - Misc nits - The following series

[PATCH v2 03/13] Provider Methods and Data Structures

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Wise
Provider methods to support the Linux RDMA verbs. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_provider.c | 1170 +++ drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_provider.h | 362 drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_user.h | 68 ++

Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety

2006-12-02 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 11:13:21PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Al Viro wrote: > > > > You need some more magic macros to access/modify the data field. > > > > Which is done bloody rarely. grep and you'll see... BTW, there are > > other reasons why passing struct ti

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-12-02 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Friday 01 December 2006 23:09, Akinobu Mita wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:19:00PM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > On Friday 01 December 2006 19:32, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:33:21 -0500 > > > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I booted without the

Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety

2006-12-02 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Al Viro wrote: > > You need some more magic macros to access/modify the data field. > > Which is done bloody rarely. grep and you'll see... BTW, there are > other reasons why passing struct timer_list * is wrong: > * direct calls of the timer callback Why should

Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

2006-12-02 Thread grundig
El Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:42:13 +, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I disagree. They can be very useful for tracking people down, and also If their mission is to be useful, they should at least have a "[EMAIL PROTECTED] (broken address)" warning. - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ensure i_ino uniqueness in filesystems without permanent inode numbers (via idr)

2006-12-02 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:21:36PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > Here's an updated (but untested) patch based on your suggestions. I also went > ahead and made the exported symbols GPL-only since that seems like it would be > appropriate here. Any further thoughts on it? I don't know that this is a

Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

2006-12-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: The only bits that should be made sure to remain valid are the MODULE_AUTHOR, as Arjan also mentioned. Even the "please contact the author" and the printk() should continue to contain known bouncing addresses? Ah, I forgot about that one, but I see Alan

Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety

2006-12-02 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 10:43:58PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > You need some more magic macros to access/modify the data field. Which is done bloody rarely. grep and you'll see... BTW, there are other reasons why passing struct timer_list * is wrong: * direct calls of the timer callbac

Re: Mounting NFS root FS

2006-12-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> > I have been trying to make FC5's kernel do a boot with an NFS root file >> > system. I see >> > the support is in the kernel(?). I have tried this: >> > >> >> root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.1.1.12:/tftpboot/NFS/Root_FS >> >> This feature is almost deprecated. One is supposed to use initramfs, >>

Confusing stream of atkbd messages after failed boot

2006-12-02 Thread Bernard Pidoux
I have the same problem with kernel 2.6.19 : When booting thare are a series of uninterrupted messages about atkbd.c spurious ACK on isa0060 / seri0 and a kernel panic. This is with 2.6.19 while 2.6.18.3 was fine on the same machine. First I want to say that the main board, CPU, chipset and bios

2.6.18.2 x86_64 smp oops dst_destroy dst_rcu_free

2006-12-02 Thread stanojr
hello developers, i have permanently oopsed one machine some days after boot (from 2 days to 2 weeks randomly) attached 2 latest oopses with 2.6.18.1 and 2.6.18.2 logged via netconsole .config is attached dmesg from boot attached stacktrace is very similar on all older oopses, same functions at

Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety

2006-12-02 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Saturday 02 December 2006 19:40, Al Viro wrote: > RTFPosting. It might be void *, but it's set via SETUP_TIMER which > does type checks before casting to void *. > > IOW, I don't want _any_ typecasts/container_of necessary in the code. > > Sane variant is > > void foo_timer(struct net_dev

x86-64 dual core: oops'ing alot, "null pointer deref, ..."

2006-12-02 Thread Christian Parpart
Hi all, (nearly?) just like bart trojanowski's problem, I get tons of oops'es when booting into the kernel using SMP activated. noapic cmdline does not help either. However, I made lots some screenshots of my oops times as it sometimes even happens before init got spawned: http://mylair.de/~t

Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

2006-12-02 Thread Alan
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 22:32:00 +0100 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as I explained with my email address as an example, email addresses > aren't suitable for this. I disagree. They can be very useful for tracking people down, and also for finding information as the email address (old or o

Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

2006-12-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote: In my opinion the addresses should be working ones or not present at all (or at the very least there should be a note that the email address is outdated). The above argument is not valid for entries in a revision history. Most likely (though not necessari

Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety

2006-12-02 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Saturday 02 December 2006 17:02, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 03:45:12PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > What's the cruft ? > > > > struct bla = container_of(timer, struct bla, timer); ??? > > That's it, right there. Any idea how much we've bloated the kernel with > s

Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

2006-12-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 09:08:56PM +, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Hi Adrian, Hi Tigran, > I have only now had time to read your patch and reject most of it --- the > email addresses in the revision histories etc are for historical purposes > and as such are very useful. They are NOT meant to

Re: 2.6.19: ALi M5229 - CD-ROM not found with pata_ali

2006-12-02 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 December 2006 00:57, Alan wrote: > > Still the same in 2.6.19 + suspend pata_ali patch. The only way I can get > > CD-ROM is with > > > > options pata_ali atapi_max_xfer_mask=0x7f > > And I've still got no idea why. Having studied the do

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/pcmcia/m32r_cfc.c: fix compilation

2006-12-02 Thread Dominik Brodowski
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:55:06PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > More fallout of the post 2.6.19-rc1 IRQ changes... > > <-- snip --> > > ... > CC drivers/pcmcia/m32r_cfc.o > In function 'pcc_interrupt_wrapper': > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/drivers/pcmcia/m32r_cfc.c:40

PATCH? rcu_do_batch: fix a pure theoretical memory ordering race

2006-12-02 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On top of rcu-add-a-prefetch-in-rcu_do_batch.patch rcu_do_batch: struct rcu_head *next, *list; while (list) { next = list->next; <-- [1] list->func(list); list = next; } We can't trust *list after list->func() call

Re: Mounting NFS root FS

2006-12-02 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 08:07:45PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > I have been trying to make FC5's kernel do a boot with an NFS root file > > system. I see > > the support is in the kernel(?). I have tried this: > > > >> root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.1.1.12:/tftpboot/NFS/Root_FS > > This featur

Re: [RFC, PATCH 2/2] qrcu: add rcutorture test

2006-12-02 Thread Oleg Nesterov
(with sparse annotations from Josh) [PATCH 2/2] qrcu: add rcutorture test Add rcutorture test for qrcu. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- 19-rc6/include/linux/srcu.h~2_test 2006-11-30 04:32:42.0 +0300 +++ 19-rc6/includ

Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

2006-12-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Adrian, I have only now had time to read your patch and reject most of it --- the email addresses in the revision histories etc are for historical purposes and as such are very useful. They are NOT meant to be valid except at the moment of time when they are written. The only purpose of ema

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [GIT PATCH] USB patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-02 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > Here are a bunch of USB patches for 2.6.19. > > > > They contain: > > - new driver for usb debug device (client side only so far) > > - helper functions to find usb endpoints easier > > - minor bugfixes > > - new device support

do_coredump() and not stopping rewrite attacks?

2006-12-02 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 11:47:44PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > David Binderman compiled 2.6.19 with icc and grepped for "was set but never > used". Many warnings are on > http://coderock.org/kj/unused-2.6.19-fs Heh, the very first line: fs/exec.c(1465): remark #593: variable "flag" was s

Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety

2006-12-02 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Dec 02, 2006, at 07:42:51, Al Viro wrote: On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 04:23:32AM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Dec 01, 2006, at 12:21:49, Al Viro wrote: And that's where it gets interesting. It would be very nice to get to the following situation: * callbacks are void (*)(void *) * data is

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #57: libusb host program for PLX NET20DC debug device

2006-12-02 Thread yhlu
On 12/2/06, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please yank the direct out of the filename if you are making something like this out of it. That was my note I was going direct to hardware which is pretty much assumed if you are in LinuxBIOS. Yes, I adapted the code to used in LinuxBIO

icc: many "was set but never used" warnings

2006-12-02 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
David Binderman compiled 2.6.19 with icc and grepped for "was set but never used". Many warnings are on http://coderock.org/kj/unused-2.6.19-fs http://coderock.org/kj/unused-2.6.19-net http://coderock.org/kj/unused-2.6.19-sound http://coderock.org/kj/unused-2.6.19-dr

Re: hang booting onboard HPT 366 with libata (PATA)

2006-12-02 Thread Alan
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:13.1[B] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 > ata4: PATA max UDMA/66 cmd 0xE400 ctl 0xE802 bmdma 0xEC00 irq 16 > scsi3: pata_hpt366 > ata4.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) > ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) Ok that wil need more work. I think that you are e

Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH]Add notification for active Cell SPU tasks

2006-12-02 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Friday 01 December 2006 21:01, Maynard Johnson wrote: > +static void notify_spus_active(void) > +{ > + int node; > + for (node = 0; node < MAX_NUMNODES; node++) { > + struct spu *spu; > + mutex_lock(&spu_prio->active_mutex[node]); > + list_fo

Re: Linux 2.6.19

2006-12-02 Thread Matthijs
Linus Torvalds wrote: > There it finally is (or rather - I'm currently uploading the tar-file and > patches, and the mirrors are hopefully busily pushing out the git tree > that is already updated). > > There's not a lot to be said about the changes since -rc6: the shortlog > (appended) tells t

Re: [PATCH] USB: add driver for LabJack USB DAQ devices

2006-12-02 Thread David Lopez
On 12/2/06, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 05:12:56PM -0700, David Lopez wrote: > On 12/1/06, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:37:22PM -0700, David Lopez wrote: > >> From: David Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >> + /* Gets th

[PATCH] kbuild: Write astest files to $(KBUILD_EXTMOD) directory

2006-12-02 Thread Daniel Drake
The astest code in 2.6.19 causes problems for Gentoo and other distributions building external kernel modules in sandboxes. kbuild has generally been pretty good at not violating the sandbox for quite a while, I hope we can keep it that way. Right now it writes to a temporary astest file in the cu

Re: nforce chipset + dualcore x86-64: Oops, NMI, Null pointer deref, etc

2006-12-02 Thread Prakash Punnoor
Am Samstag 02 Dezember 2006 20:37 schrieb Bart Trojanowski: > * Prakash Punnoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061202 13:32]: > > Am Samstag 02 Dezember 2006 18:22 schrieb Bart Trojanowski: > > > In summary, I have an Opteron 170 in a Shuttle SN25P (nforce4 chipset). > > > I've tested the ram overnight and s

Re: [2.6 patch] cleanup asm/setup.h userspace visibility (v2)

2006-12-02 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 07:26:00PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:02:33PM +, Russell King wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:55:39PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > This patch makes the contents of the userspace asm/setup.h header > > > consistent on all architecture

[2.6 patch] FW_LOADER should select HOTPLUG

2006-12-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
Since FW_LOADER is an option that is always select'ed by the code using it, it mustn't depend on HOTPLUG. It's only relevant in the EMBEDDED=y case, but this might have resulted in illegal FW_LOADER=, HOTPLUG=n configurations. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.19-rc6

Re: nforce chipset + dualcore x86-64: Oops, NMI, Null pointer deref, etc

2006-12-02 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Prakash Punnoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061202 13:32]: > Am Samstag 02 Dezember 2006 18:22 schrieb Bart Trojanowski: > > In summary, I have an Opteron 170 in a Shuttle SN25P (nforce4 chipset). > > I've tested the ram overnight and swapped out every component in the > > system except for the HDDs. I

Re: nforce chipset + dualcore x86-64: Oops, NMI, Null pointer deref, etc

2006-12-02 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061202 13:33]: > >[ 27.337641] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 > >[ 27.344035] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; > >override with idebus=xx > >[ 27.352191] Probing IDE interface ide0... > >[ 28.145997] hda: PL

swsusp: kill write-only variable

2006-12-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Cleanup write-only variable, suggested by D Binderman. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit e4bb3afa65dd97dd64fee857823040a963091444 tree ee5af7ebe992cbcffd3824f853411a26c3cd085a parent 7f5ff90d786d5a8ef2488334f86e59ded46d9b72 author Pavel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 02 Dec 200

Re: Mounting NFS root FS

2006-12-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
> > I have been trying to make FC5's kernel do a boot with an NFS root file > system. I see > the support is in the kernel(?). I have tried this: > >> root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.1.1.12:/tftpboot/NFS/Root_FS This feature is almost deprecated. One is supposed to use initramfs, /sbin/ip or some DHCP

Mounting NFS root FS

2006-12-02 Thread William Estrada
Hi guys, I have been trying to make FC5's kernel do a boot with an NFS root file system. I see the support is in the kernel(?). I have tried this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/0A0101 SERIAL 0 9600 Say SAY Hello SAY Trying NFS SAY ramdisk_size=1 debug ip=dhcp initrd

Re: Acer smart battery (was Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline)

2006-12-02 Thread Pavel Machek
On Sat 2006-12-02 18:34:59, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > On Saturday 02 December 2006 13:50, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Acer notebook users here dump DSDT from their own machine, fix it and > > > then load via initrd. No legal problems. (... and without that even > > > battery can't be monitored

Re: [patch]VMSPLIT_2G conflicts with PAE

2006-12-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> PAGE_OFFSET is 0x7800 with VMSPLIT_2G, this address is in the middle >> of the second pgd entry with pae enabled. This breaks assumptions >> (address is aligned to pgd entry's address) in a lot of places like >> pagetable_init. Fixing the assumptions is hard (eg, low mapping). SO I >> just

Re: hang booting onboard HPT 366 with libata (PATA)

2006-12-02 Thread Ricardo Lugo
On Dec 2, 2006, at 8:03 AM, Alan wrote: On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:19:28 + Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ACPI: PCI Interrup :00:13.1[B] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 ata5: PATA max UDMA/66 cmd 0xE400 ctl 0xE802 bmdma 0xEC00 irq 16 ata6: PATA max UDMA/66 cmd 0x0 ctl 0x2 bmdma 0xEC08 ir

Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety

2006-12-02 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:40:35PM +, Al Viro wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 07:27:56PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 18:19 +, Al Viro wrote: > > > > This is going to make a lot of data structures smaller, when the > > > > timer_list is embedded in the structure

Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety

2006-12-02 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 07:27:56PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 18:19 +, Al Viro wrote: > > > This is going to make a lot of data structures smaller, when the > > > timer_list is embedded in the structure itself and for the lot, which > > > ignores the timer callback ar

Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-12-02 Thread Ming Zhang
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 13:28 -0500, Ming Zhao wrote: > On 12/1/06, Ming Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > like to see this idea but any similarity with > > http://www.ele.uri.edu/Research/hpcl/STICS/stics.pdf? > > > > STICS is patent pending so not sure if kernel can be free to merge this > > dm

Re: [PATCH] USB: add driver for LabJack USB DAQ devices

2006-12-02 Thread David Lopez
On 12/2/06, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! > From: David Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This driver adds support for LabJack U3 and UE9 USB DAQ > devices. WTF is DAQ? DAQ is short for data acquisition. I should change so it's not abbreviated. > + For a user-space API and

Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH] dm-cache: block level disk cache target for device mapper

2006-12-02 Thread Ming Zhao
On 12/1/06, Ming Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: like to see this idea but any similarity with http://www.ele.uri.edu/Research/hpcl/STICS/stics.pdf? STICS is patent pending so not sure if kernel can be free to merge this dm-cache. I like the idea of STICS, an efficient bridge between SCSI and

[2.6 patch] cleanup asm/setup.h userspace visibility (v2)

2006-12-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:02:33PM +, Russell King wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:55:39PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > This patch makes the contents of the userspace asm/setup.h header > > consistent on all architectures: > > - export setup.h to userspace on all architectures > > - expor

Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety

2006-12-02 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 18:19 +, Al Viro wrote: > > This is going to make a lot of data structures smaller, when the > > timer_list is embedded in the structure itself and for the lot, which > > ignores the timer callback argument anyway. > > container_of => still lousy type safety. All over th

Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety

2006-12-02 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 07:06:43PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 09:02 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 03:45:12PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > What's the cruft ? > > > > > > struct bla = container_of(timer, struct bla, timer); ??? > > > > T

Re: rtc-ds1307 driver (especially for DS1337, DS1339)

2006-12-02 Thread David Brownell
On Saturday 02 December 2006 5:55 am, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > > Hello, > > given the recent patch for ds1337 initialization (drivers/i2c/chips), > I would like to ask owners of DS1307, DS1337, DS1338, DS1339, DS1340, ST > M41T00 > to give a try the rtc-ds1307 driver (drivers/rtc). > > I

[RFC: 2.6 patch] MAINTAINERS remove the v850 entry

2006-12-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
One bouncing email address and two non-existing URLs - we need either updated information or this patch applied... Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/MAINTAINERS.old2006-12-02 19:03:29.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/MAINTAINERS2006-12-0

Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety

2006-12-02 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 09:02 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 03:45:12PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > What's the cruft ? > > > > struct bla = container_of(timer, struct bla, timer); ??? > > That's it, right there. Any idea how much we've bloated the kernel with > sysfs

Re: [2.6 patch] cleanup asm/setup.h userspace visibility

2006-12-02 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:55:39PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch makes the contents of the userspace asm/setup.h header > consistent on all architectures: > - export setup.h to userspace on all architectures > - export only COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to userspace On ARM, all the ATAGs are exporte

Re: RFC: removing the dgrs net driver

2006-12-02 Thread Kilau, Scott
Hi everyone, > As I understand it a small number of such devices were produced, but I > have no objection to it going away. Even if someone had such a card it > would not actually be useful any more. > Alan Alan is correct. The "Digi RightSwitch" product did actually make it out to the real wor

[2.6 patch] drivers/pcmcia/m32r_cfc.c: fix compilation

2006-12-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
More fallout of the post 2.6.19-rc1 IRQ changes... <-- snip --> ... CC drivers/pcmcia/m32r_cfc.o In function 'pcc_interrupt_wrapper': /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/drivers/pcmcia/m32r_cfc.c:401: error: too many arguments to function 'pcc_interrupt' make[3]: *** [drive

[2.6 patch] fix v850 compilation

2006-12-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
More fallout of the post 2.6.19-rc1 IRQ changes... <-- snip --> ... CC init/main.o In file included from /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/include/linux/rtc.h:102, from /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/include/linux/efi.h:19,

[2.6 patch] drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c: cleanups

2006-12-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following cleanups: - #include for getting the prototypes of {dis,en}able_irq() - make the needlessly global wd33c93_setup() static Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 4 Sep 2006 --- linux-2.6.18-rc5-mm1/drivers/scsi/wd

[2.6 patch] cleanup asm/setup.h userspace visibility

2006-12-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes the contents of the userspace asm/setup.h header consistent on all architectures: - export setup.h to userspace on all architectures - export only COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to userspace - frv: move COMMAND_LINE_SIZE from param.h - i386: remove duplicate COMMAND_LINE_SIZE from param.h Sig

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