Re: 2.6.18.5 usb/sysfs bug.

2006-12-16 Thread Chuck Ebbert
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:18:28 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > That's strange. Remove_files called sysfs_hash_and_remove() > > with dir==0xfff3 (-13 decimal.) > > Hmm, That's -EACCESS. Something not checking a return code at a lower > level maybe ? In

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work

2006-12-16 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Tobias Diedrich wrote: >> >> No such luck, it still panics and the APIC error is also unchanged. > > Ok. I don't see anything wrong off-hand, but I'll keep the patch in the > tree in the hopes that Andi and/or Eric can see what's

Re: [BUG KERNEL 2.6.20-rc1] ftp: get or put stops during file-transfer

2006-12-16 Thread Komuro
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 04:02:22 + Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:27:52PM +0900, Komuro wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > On kernel 2.6.20-rc1, ftp (get or put) stops > > during file-transfer. > > > > Client: ftp-0.17-33.fc6 (192.168.1.1) > > Server:

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work

2006-12-16 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Tobias Diedrich wrote: >> >> No such luck, it still panics and the APIC error is also unchanged. > > Ok. I don't see anything wrong off-hand, but I'll keep the patch in the > tree in the hopes that Andi and/or Eric can see what's

Re: [RFC 2.6.19 1/1] fbdev,mm: hecuba/E-Ink fbdev driver v2

2006-12-16 Thread Jaya Kumar
On 12/13/06, Franck Bui-Huu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/12/06, Jaya Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that PTEs set up by vmalloc are marked cacheable and via the > above nopage end up as cacheable. I'm not doing DMA. So the accesses > are through the cache so I don't think cache

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:22:12AM +0100, Ricardo Galli wrote: > OK, let assume your perspective of the history is the valid and real one, > then, ¿where are all lawsits against other big GPL only projects? For example > libqt/kdelibs. You can hardly provide any example where the GPL wasn't hold

Re: [BUG KERNEL 2.6.20-rc1] ftp: get or put stops during file-transfer

2006-12-16 Thread Al Viro
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:27:52PM +0900, Komuro wrote: > > Hello, > > On kernel 2.6.20-rc1, ftp (get or put) stops > during file-transfer. > > Client: ftp-0.17-33.fc6 (192.168.1.1) > Server: vsftpd-2.0.5-8 (192.168.1.3) > > This problem does _not_ happen on kernel-2.6.19. > is it caused by

[BUG KERNEL 2.6.20-rc1] ftp: get or put stops during file-transfer

2006-12-16 Thread Komuro
Hello, On kernel 2.6.20-rc1, ftp (get or put) stops during file-transfer. Client: ftp-0.17-33.fc6 (192.168.1.1) Server: vsftpd-2.0.5-8 (192.168.1.3) This problem does _not_ happen on kernel-2.6.19. is it caused by network-subsystem change on 2.6.20-rc1?? Best Regards Komuro - To

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 02:56:09AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > Otherwise, it seems to be highly unlikely that anyone will want to sue a > company that is often located in a different country, and the only > possible legal action will be cease and desist letters against people > who are

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 01:33:01PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 09:20:15AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Anything else, you have to make some really scary decisions. Can a judge > > decide that a binary module is a derived work even though you didn't > > actually

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kill_something_info: misc cleanups

2006-12-16 Thread Eric W. Biederman
I'm CC'ing the containers list these namespaces are what it is setup to talk about. Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12/16, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On top of >> >

Re: [PATCH][2.6.20-rc1-mm1] sparsemem vmem_map optimzed pfn_valid() [0/2]

2006-12-16 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:38:53 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > > By this, we'll not access mem_section[] in usual ops. > > Why do we need mem_section? We have a page table that fulfills the same > role. > Basically, we

Re: [Fwd: escape key]

2006-12-16 Thread Stephen Clark
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Dec 16 2006 08:45, Pavel Machek wrote: Two escapes works now. :-) Actually could we fix our consoles, somehow, to make esc usable? Having important key like esc unusable on consoles is quite ugly. It's something between a misdesign and a

Schedule tsdev.c for removal

2006-12-16 Thread Richard Purdie
Schedule drivers/input/tsdev.c for removal, nobody should be using this anymore. See the patch for details. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 14 ++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) Index:

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kill_something_info: misc cleanups

2006-12-16 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 12/16, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On top of > > signal-rewrite-kill_something_info-so-it-uses-newer-helpers.patch > > > > - Factor out sending PIDTYPE_PGID wide signals. > > > > - Use is_init(p) instead of "p->pid > 1". We don't hash idle

kernel-rt-15 give NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out

2006-12-16 Thread Sergio Monteiro Basto
Hi, kernel-rt-14 rocks but wiht kernel-rt-15 I got kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out, I downgrade to kernel-rt-14 and that got this problem anymore. I not use my on-board via-rhine II Ethernet. This tests has been made with one external Ethernet card, one Realtek Semiconductor

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread Ricardo Galli
On Saturday 16 December 2006 22:01, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Ricardo Galli wrote: > > As you probably know, the GPL, the FSF, RMS or even GPL "zealots" never > > tried to change or restrict "fair use". GPL[23] covers only to > > "distibution" of the covered program. The freedom

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-16 Thread Andrei Popa
Hello, I had filesystem data corruption with rtorrent with 2.6.19. I tried recent git with Peter Zijlstra patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/16/144 and it seems that the problem is fixed. Please CC as I am not subscribed to lkml. Andrei - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work

2006-12-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Tobias Diedrich wrote: > > No such luck, it still panics and the APIC error is also unchanged. Ok. I don't see anything wrong off-hand, but I'll keep the patch in the tree in the hopes that Andi and/or Eric can see what's wrong and solve it. If we don't find a solution,

Re: r8169 on n2100 (was Re: r8169 mac address change (was Re: [0/3] 2.6.19-rc2: known regressions))

2006-12-16 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 12:31:34AM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > > Sounds good. How about something like the patch below plus the > > corresponding r8169 diff? > > Go wild. Martin/Riku, I'm pretty busy with other stuff at the moment, can you give this (on top of 2.6.20-rc1) a spin?

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.13

2006-12-16 Thread Catalin Marinas
Hi Ingo, On 16/12/06, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FYI, i'm working on integrating kmemleak into -rt. Firstly, i needed the fixes below when applying it ontop of 2.6.19-rt15. Do you need these fixes to avoid a compiler error? If yes, this is caused by a bug in gcc-4.x. The kmemleak

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Tobias Diedrich wrote: > > With commit b0268726 backed out, 2.6.20-rc1 boots fine. Ok. It's sad, because that thing really did clean stuff up, and seemed like a nice and robust approach. Your dmesg is kind of interesting: ..TIMER: trying IO-APIC=0 PIN=0 with 8259 IRQ0

Re: r8169 on n2100 (was Re: r8169 mac address change (was Re: [0/3] 2.6.19-rc2: known regressions))

2006-12-16 Thread Francois Romieu
Lennert Buytenhek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > Sounds good. How about something like the patch below plus the > corresponding r8169 diff? Go wild. -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-16 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Moving the cleaning of the page out from under the private_lock opened > up a window where newly attached buffer might still see the page dirty > status and were thus marked (incorrectly) dirty themselves; resulting in > filesystem data corruption. I'm

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kill_something_info: misc cleanups

2006-12-16 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On top of > signal-rewrite-kill_something_info-so-it-uses-newer-helpers.patch > > - Factor out sending PIDTYPE_PGID wide signals. > > - Use is_init(p) instead of "p->pid > 1". We don't hash idle threads anymore, > no need to worry about p->pid

Re: r8169 on n2100 (was Re: r8169 mac address change (was Re: [0/3] 2.6.19-rc2: known regressions))

2006-12-16 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:14:35PM +, Russell King wrote: > > > > Is there a way we can have this done by default on the n2100? I guess > > > > that since it's a PCI device, there isn't much hope for that..? > > > > > > Do you mean an automagically tuned default value based on CONFIG_ARM ?

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-16 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 16 December 2006 21:36, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > In total isolation, v2.6.19..0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e it > > breaks. Reverting just 0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e, it works > > again. > > > > So I think

[patch 1/2] acpi: Remove procfs from bay

2006-12-16 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
Remove the procfs related code from the bay driver. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/acpi/bay.c | 152 - 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 150 deletions(-) --- kristen-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/bay.c +++

2.6.20-rc1-git4: drivers/connector/connector.c doesn't build due to work_struct changes

2006-12-16 Thread Alessandro Suardi
CC [M] drivers/char/hangcheck-timer.o CC drivers/clocksource/acpi_pm.o LD drivers/clocksource/built-in.o CC [M] drivers/connector/cn_queue.o CC [M] drivers/connector/connector.o drivers/connector/connector.c: In function 'cn_call_callback': drivers/connector/connector.c:138:

[patch 0/2] more patches for removable drive bay

2006-12-16 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
Hi Len, Here's a set of patches for changing the removable drive bay driver (drivers/acpi/bay) from using the old proc interface to using a sysfs interface instead. I made the bay driver a platform driver, and so it's entries will now be located in /sys/devices/platform/bay.X. There are still 2

[patch 2/2] Convert the bay driver to be a platform driver

2006-12-16 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
Convert the bay driver to be a platform driver, so that we can have sysfs entries. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/acpi/bay.c | 87 + 1 file changed, 75 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) ---

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alistair John Strachan wrote: It could simply be that bisect isn't working here because it's actually broken by two separate patches. Out of bad luck, I've ended up singling out the one that already has a "fix", and the "real bug" hasn't been found. I guess I should repeat the bisection, and

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-16 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 16 December 2006 21:36, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > In total isolation, v2.6.19..0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e it > > breaks. Reverting just 0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e, it works > > again. > > > > So I think

[PATCH 1/1] Char: tty_wakeup cleanup

2006-12-16 Thread Jiri Slaby
tty_wakeup cleanup - remove wake_up_interruptible(>write_wait) surrounding tty_wakup(tty); - substitute tty->ldisc.write_wakeup(tty) + wake_up() by tty_wakeup(tty); Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 2acac8f970a75a3dc8466781845ae5d14c3d8988 tree

Re: cxgb3 and 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 16 2006 13:55, Divy Le Ray wrote: >> > A corresponding monolithic patch is posted at the following URL: >> > http://service.chelsio.com/kernel.org/cxgb3.patch.bz2 >> > >> >> I was unable to compile this on 2.6.20-rc1, because: >> >> CC [M] drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.o >>

Re: r8169 on n2100 (was Re: r8169 mac address change (was Re: [0/3] 2.6.19-rc2: known regressions))

2006-12-16 Thread Francois Romieu
Lennert Buytenhek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 01:54:39AM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: [...] > I'm thinking that the entire option is just wrong. It sucks for > distributors to have to make the choice between having it always on > and having it always off. It sucks for end

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > In total isolation, v2.6.19..0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e it > breaks. Reverting just 0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e, it works > again. > > So I think this is the source, but I can't explain why it "goes away"

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-16 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 19:18 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-12-09 10:26]: > > > Unfortunately, I am lacking the knowledge needed to do this in an > > > informed way. I am neither familiar enough with git nor do I

Re: Recent mm changes leading to filesystem corruption?

2006-12-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-12-16 21:55]: > What is not clear from all these reports is what architectures this is > seen on. I suspect some of them are i686, which together with the > explicit mention of ARM make it a cross platform issue. Problems have been seen at least on x86,

Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel

2006-12-16 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. I've have git trees against a few versions besides Linus', and have just moved all but Linus' to staging to help until you can get your new hardware. If others were encouraged to do the same, it might help a lot? Regards, Nigel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 03:23:12PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 05:30:31PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > I don't think this is the same case. The film _author_'s primary goal is > > to have a lot of families buy his DVD to watch it. Whatever the MPAA says, > > I can

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Ricardo Galli wrote: > As you probably know, the GPL, the FSF, RMS or even GPL "zealots" never tried > to change or restrict "fair use". GPL[23] covers only to "distibution" of the > covered program. The freedom #0 says explicitly: "right to use the program > for any

OOPS: 2.6.20-rc1 in __find_get_block()

2006-12-16 Thread Ben Collins
This occurred on a X40 (amd64 running x86 kernel) after a few minutes of uptime. Cc'd Daniel, since he originally reported the bug. Kernel is SMP, voluntary-preempt. [ 287.328000] invalid opcode: [#1] [ 287.328000] SMP [ 287.328000] CPU:0 [ 287.328000] EIP:

Re: Recent mm changes leading to filesystem corruption?

2006-12-16 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 16:50 +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Debian recently applied a number of mm changes that went into 2.6.19 > to their 2.6.18 kernel for LSB 3.1 compliance (msync() had problems > before). Since then, some filesystem corruption has been observed > which can be traced back to

[PATCH 2/2] kill_something_info: really ignore -EPERM

2006-12-16 Thread Oleg Nesterov
kill(-1, sig) returns 0 if it has found some processes but there is no one for which we have permission to send the signal. Doesn't it make more sense to return -ESRCH in this case? Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- eric-mm1/kernel/signal.c~2_perm 2006-12-16

[PATCH 1/2] kill_something_info: misc cleanups

2006-12-16 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On top of signal-rewrite-kill_something_info-so-it-uses-newer-helpers.patch - Factor out sending PIDTYPE_PGID wide signals. - Use is_init(p) instead of "p->pid > 1". We don't hash idle threads anymore, no need to worry about p->pid == 0. - Use "p != current->group_leader" instead of

Re: DVD-RAM cannot be mounted RW with 2.6.18/2.6.19

2006-12-16 Thread Laurent Riffard
Le 16.12.2006 20:55, A. Kalten a écrit : Hello, DVD-RAM disks previously made with a Linux system can no longer be mounted in RW mode. For some reason, as indicated by the error message from the mount command, the disks are detected as being write-protected (which is not the case). To be able

Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel

2006-12-16 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 11:30:34AM -0800, J.H. wrote: > The problem has been hashed over quite a bit recently, and I would be > curious what you would consider the real problem after you see the > situation. One thing which isn't helping you is the way folk inevitably end up using ftp.kernel.org

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 16 2006 15:13, Lee Revell wrote: >On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 18:02 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> They use floating point in (Windows) kernelspace? Oh my. > >Yes, definitely. Explains why Windows is so slow ;-) [FPU restore and stuff...] On that matter, when does the Linux kernel do

[PATCH] kill_pid_info: kill acquired_tasklist_lock

2006-12-16 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Kill acquired_tasklist_lock, sig_needs_tasklist() is very cheap nowadays. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- eric-mm1/kernel/signal.c~3_kpi 2006-12-16 22:22:48.0 +0300 +++ eric-mm1/kernel/signal.c2006-12-16 23:14:05.0 +0300 @@ -1247,19 +1247,18 @@ int

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 05:30:31PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > I don't think this is the same case. The film _author_'s primary goal is > to have a lot of families buy his DVD to watch it. Whatever the MPAA says, > I can consider it "fair use" if a family of 4..8 persons watch the DVD at > the

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 18:02 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Dec 14 2006 10:56, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > > > >A small German manufacturer produces high-end AD converter cards. He sells > >100 pieces per year, only in Germany and only with Windows drivers. He would > >now like to make his cards

Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel

2006-12-16 Thread J.H.
The problem has been hashed over quite a bit recently, and I would be curious what you would consider the real problem after you see the situation. The root cause boils down to with git, gitweb and the normal mirroring on the frontend machines our basic working set no longer stays resident in

DVD-RAM cannot be mounted RW with 2.6.18/2.6.19

2006-12-16 Thread A. Kalten
Hello, DVD-RAM disks previously made with a Linux system can no longer be mounted in RW mode. For some reason, as indicated by the error message from the mount command, the disks are detected as being write-protected (which is not the case). To be able to write to these disks, the mount command

Re: [PATCH 0/10] cxgb3, p2

2006-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
> A corresponding monolithic patch is posted at the following URL: > http://service.chelsio.com/kernel.org/cxgb3.patch.bz2 Stylistic stuff that was mentioned. (TYPE * a -> TYPE *a) Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.20-rc1/drivers/net/cxgb3/common.h

Re: [PATCH 0/10] cxgb3, p1

2006-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
> I resubmit the patch supporting the latest Chelsio T3 adapter. > It incorporates the last feedbacks for code cleanup. > It is built gainst Linus'tree. > > We think the driver is now ready to be merged. > Can you please advise on the next steps for inclusion in 2.6.20 ? > > A corresponding

Re: 2.6.19-rc5: grub is much slower resuming from suspend-to-disk than in 2.6.18

2006-12-16 Thread Lee Garrett
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > [...] This is rather funny; in 2.6.19-rc5 grub is *really* slow loading kernel when I switch on the system after suspend to disk. Actually, after kernel has been loaded, the whole resuming (up to the point I have usable desktop again) takes about three time less than

[-mm patch] noinitramfs cleanup

2006-12-16 Thread Frederik Deweerdt
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:59:13PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc1/2.6.20-rc1-mm1/ > > +disable-init-initramfsc-updated.patch Jean-Paul, The following patch silences the following compile time warning introduced by

Re: pata_marvell and Marvell 88SE6121

2006-12-16 Thread Alan
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:41:26 +0100 Jose Alberto Reguero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to make work the driver pata_marvell of linux-2.6.20-rc1 with > Marvell 88SE6121. The 6121 is I believe ahci. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: cxgb3 and 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, On Dec 13 2006 21:40, Divy Le Ray wrote: > > A corresponding monolithic patch is posted at the following URL: > http://service.chelsio.com/kernel.org/cxgb3.patch.bz2 I was unable to compile this on 2.6.20-rc1, because: CC [M] drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.o

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-16 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-12-09 10:26]: > > Unfortunately, I am lacking the knowledge needed to do this in an > > informed way. I am neither familiar enough with git nor do I possess > > the necessary C powers. > > I wonder if what

[ANN] Acrypto asynchronous crypto layer 2.6.19 release.

2006-12-16 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Hello. I am pleased to announce new release of the acrypto for 2.6.19 kernel - first asynchronous crypto layer for Linux kernel 2.6. Acrypto allows to handle crypto requests asynchronously in hardware. Acrypto supports following features: * multiple asynchronous crypto device queues * crypto

Re: Recent mm changes leading to filesystem corruption?

2006-12-16 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-12-16 18:20]: > > Very disturbing. I'm not aware of any problem with them, and we > > surely wouldn't have released 2.6.19 with any known-corrupting patches > > in. There's some doubts about 2.6.19 itself in

Re: [patch] scrub non-__GLIBC__ checks in linux/socket.h and linux/stat.h

2006-12-16 Thread Erik Andersen
On Sat Dec 16, 2006 at 01:42:11PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 11/30/06, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >but there are a few other > >cases which still contain compound preprocessor directives such as: > > > > #if defined(__KERNEL__) || !defined(__GLIBC__) || (__GLIBC__ < 2) >

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-16 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Haber: > After updating to 2.6.19, Debian's apt control file > /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin corrupts pretty frequently - like in under > six hours. I've seen that with Debian's 2.6.18 kernels as well. Perhaps it's related to this Debian bug?

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-12-09 10:26]: > Unfortunately, I am lacking the knowledge needed to do this in an > informed way. I am neither familiar enough with git nor do I possess > the necessary C powers. I wonder if what you're seein is related to http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/16/73

Re: 2.6.18 mmap hangs unrelated apps

2006-12-16 Thread Christian Kuhn
Hi, I enabled some kernel hacking options on 2.6.20-rc1 and ran sysrq t when the problem occured. Some hopefully usefull information in the links below: .config, dmesg, vmstat and vmstat -m. Sorry for the links, I do not know what is relevant and this is too much to inline for this list (is it?)

Re: Recent mm changes leading to filesystem corruption?

2006-12-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-12-16 18:20]: > Very disturbing. I'm not aware of any problem with them, and we > surely wouldn't have released 2.6.19 with any known-corrupting patches > in. There's some doubts about 2.6.19 itself in the links below: were > it not for those, I'd suspect

[patch] scrub non-__GLIBC__ checks in linux/socket.h and linux/stat.h

2006-12-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 11/30/06, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: but there are a few other cases which still contain compound preprocessor directives such as: #if defined(__KERNEL__) || !defined(__GLIBC__) || (__GLIBC__ < 2) having never worked with unifdef before, i guess i was being overly

Re: [PATCH][2.6.20-rc1-mm1] sparsemem vmem_map optimzed pfn_valid() [0/2]

2006-12-16 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > By this, we'll not access mem_section[] in usual ops. Why do we need mem_section? We have a page table that fulfills the same role. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Recent mm changes leading to filesystem corruption?

2006-12-16 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Debian recently applied a number of mm changes that went into 2.6.19 > to their 2.6.18 kernel for LSB 3.1 compliance (msync() had problems > before). Since then, some filesystem corruption has been observed > which can be traced back to these mm

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/video/{s3fb,svgalib}.c: possible cleanups

2006-12-16 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 02:56:57PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch contains the following possible cleanups: > - CodingStyle: > - opening braces of functions at the beginning of the next line > - C99 struct initializers > - make the following needlessly global functions static: > -

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1] fix vm_events_fold_cpu() build breakage

2006-12-16 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Magnus Damm wrote: > fix vm_events_fold_cpu() build breakage Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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: [Fwd: escape key]

2006-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 16 2006 08:45, Pavel Machek wrote: > >> Two escapes works now. :-) > >Actually could we fix our consoles, somehow, to make esc usable? >Having important key like esc unusable on consoles is quite ugly. It's something between a misdesign and a misconfiguration of the ESC key. In other

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread Dave Jones
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 09:20:15AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Anything else, you have to make some really scary decisions. Can a judge > decide that a binary module is a derived work even though you didn't > actually use any code? The real answer is: HELL YES. It's _entirely_ >

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread Ricardo Galli
> I think it would be a hell of a lot better idea if people just realized > that they have "fair use" rights whether the authors give them or not, and ^ > that the authors copyrights NEVER extend to anything but a "derived work" ... > I find the RIAA's position and the

Re: V4L2: __ucmpdi2 undefined on ppc

2006-12-16 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> I posted a patch to Paul this week to fix this, as saw we saw it on > Ubuntu's powerpc kernel builds. > > Since ppc32 can't do a 64bit comparison on its own it seems, gcc > will generate a call to a helper function from libgcc. What other > arches do is link libgcc.a into libs-y, and export the

Re: lots of code could be simplified by using ARRAY_SIZE()

2006-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 16 2006 08:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Pavel Machek wrote: >> > but we already have, from "include/linux/kernel.h": >> > >> > #define ARRAY_SIZE(x) (sizeof(x) / sizeof((x)[0])) >> >> Hmmm. quite misleading name :-(. ARRAY_LEN would be better. > >i suspect it's *way*

Re: Horses and donkeys [Re: Binary Drivers]

2006-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 16 2006 08:12, Pavel Machek wrote: >> >> If you are going to mount a sanctimonious high horse it >> is a wise idea >> to mount a horse instead of a donkey. > >High horses are common and easy to ride. But a donkey... :-). The next thing that happens is that nvidia and ati undermine us a

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Tobias Diedrich wrote: > > 2.6.20-rc1 won't boot with the error message "IO-APIC + timer > doesn't work! Try using the 'noapic' kernel parameter". > However, IO-APIC seems to work just fine with 2.6.19-rc6 and I'd > rather like to continue using it. :) Can you try "git

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 16 2006 01:57, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > Alexey Dobriyan wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:20:58PM +, James Porter wrote: >> > For what it's worth, I don't see any problem with binary drivers from >> > hardware >> > manufacturers. >> >> Binary drivers from hardware manufacturers are

Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel

2006-12-16 Thread Randy Dunlap
Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:44:21 -0800 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:37:18 +0100 Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data/pavel$ finger @www.kernel.org [zeus-pub.kernel.org] ... The latest -mm patch to the stable Linux kernels is:

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make entries in the "Device drivers" menu individually selectable

2006-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 16 2006 11:52, Stefan Richter wrote: >Robert P. J. Day wrote on 2006-12-14: >> i've posted on this before so here's a slightly-updated patch that >> uses the kbuild "menuconfig" feature to make numerous entries under >> the Device drivers menu selectable on the spot. > >Works for me, but

Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel

2006-12-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:44:21 -0800 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:37:18 +0100 Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data/pavel$ finger @www.kernel.org > > [zeus-pub.kernel.org] > > ... > > The latest -mm patch to the stable Linux kernels is:

[PATCH] xt_request_find_match

2006-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, Reusing code is a good idea, and I would like to do so from my match modules. netfilter already provides a xt_request_find_target() but an xt_request_find_match() does not yet exist. This patch adds it. Objections welcome :) --- Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index:

pata_marvell and Marvell 88SE6121

2006-12-16 Thread Jose Alberto Reguero
I am trying to make work the driver pata_marvell of linux-2.6.20-rc1 with Marvell 88SE6121. I added the PCI ID: 0x6121 { PCI_DEVICE(0x11AB, 0x6101), }, { PCI_DEVICE(0x11AB, 0x6145), }, { PCI_DEVICE(0x11AB, 0x6121), }, { } /* terminate list */ But not succes.

[KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel

2006-12-16 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:37:18 +0100 Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data/pavel$ finger @www.kernel.org > [zeus-pub.kernel.org] > ... > The latest -mm patch to the stable Linux kernels is: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data/pavel$ head /data/l/linux-mm/Makefile > VERSION = 2

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/video/{s3fb,svgalib}.c: possible cleanups

2006-12-16 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:56:57 +0100 Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch contains the following possible cleanups: > - CodingStyle: > - opening braces of functions at the beginning of the next line > - C99 struct initializers I don't see anything about struct initializers in CodingStyle, but I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-16 Thread Nikolai Joukov
> I am looking at filling the net-pipe, and it only reaches 40-75% max, with > some short 100% bursts, and a slow 10% start. It seems that caching > somewhat delays the writes, which then batch up and sync at various speeds. > So you have the cache really hiding slow sync speeds. To tune this,

[git patches] libata fixes

2006-12-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
More fixes coming too - the thing Alan's talking about, and an ata_piix leak-on-err fix. By Monday-ish (its a working weekend). Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates:

Re: [2.6 patch] more ftape removal

2006-12-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 11:36:37AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch removes some more ftape code. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this affects userspace exported headers, so I'm not sure we want to kill that. even if the interface is

Re: [2.6 patch] more ftape removal

2006-12-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 11:36:37AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > >This patch removes some more ftape code. > > > >Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > this affects userspace exported headers, so I'm not sure we want to kill > that. even if the interface is gone

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > I understand your point, but not completely agree with the comparison, > because I think that you (as the "author") are in the type of authors > you describe below : > > > Of course, all reasonable true authors tend to agree with fair use. Sure.

Re: JMicron SATA, "softreset failed (1st FIS failed)" on every boot

2006-12-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tobias Diedrich wrote: > Hi, > > I'm seeing the following strange behaviour with libata in the > mm-series (currently 2.6.18-mm2): > > [ 31.324566] ata2: softreset failed (1st FIS failed) > [ 31.324674] ata2: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs > [ 36.642196] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps

Re: [PATCH] sata_promise: Port enumeration order - SATA 150 TX4, SATA 300 TX4

2006-12-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
Evan Harris wrote: I have a card that mirrors this one from your list: Retail name: SATA300 TX4 Chip label: PDC40718-GP SATAII300 Vendor-Device number: 105a:3d17 (rev 02) Through testing, I've found linux 2.6.16 and 2.6.17 find the ports in this order (the list is ordered by linux

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread David Nicol
On 12/15/06, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > blather and idiotic hogwash. "Information" doesn't want to be free, nor is > it somethign you should fight for or necessarily even encourage. As a pedant that is the one item I have to pick you up on Linus. Information wants to be free, the natural

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.13

2006-12-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Catalin Marinas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This series of patches represent version 0.13 of the kernel memory > leak detector. See the Documentation/kmemleak.txt file for a more > detailed description. The patches are downloadable from (the whole > patch or the broken-out series)

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Theodore Tso wrote: > P.S. For people who live in the US; write your congresscritters; the > MPAA wants to propose new legislation stating exactly this. > (Erm, that was a joke on a parody site; it got widely reported as "news". http://www.bbspot.com/News/2006/11/home-theater-regulations.html

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-16 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 08:28:20AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > > All this is about "fair use", and "fair use" comes from compatibility > > between the author's intent and the user's intent. > > No. "fair use" comes from an INcompatibility

Re: [2.6 patch] more ftape removal

2006-12-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch removes some more ftape code. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this affects userspace exported headers, so I'm not sure we want to kill that. even if the interface is gone is current kernels, people might want to build binaries against these

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