Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-22 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 22/01/07, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there going to be another 2.6.18-stable release? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[PATCH 005 of 5] knfsd: Don't mess with the 'mode' when storing a exclusive-create cookie.

2007-01-22 Thread NeilBrown
From: Peter Staubach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NFS V3 (and V4) support exclusive create by passing a 'cookie' which can get stored with the file. If the file exists but has exactly the right cookie stored, then we assume this is a retransmit and the exclusive create was successful. The cookie is

[PATCH 004 of 5] knfsd: Replace some warning ins nfsfh.h with BUG_ON or WARN_ON

2007-01-22 Thread NeilBrown
A couple of the warning will be followed by an Oops if they ever fire, so may as well be BUG_ON. Another isn't obviously fatal but has never been known to fire, so make it a WARN_ON. Cc: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ### Diffstat output

[PATCH 003 of 5] knfsd: Fix an NFSD bug with full sized, non-page-aligned reads.

2007-01-22 Thread NeilBrown
NFSd assumes that largest number of pages that will be needed for a request+response is 2+N where N pages is the size of the largest permitted read/write request. The '2' are 1 for the non-data part of the request, and 1 for the non-data part of the reply. However, when a read request is not

[PATCH 002 of 5] knfsd: Fix setting of ACL server versions.

2007-01-22 Thread NeilBrown
Due to silly typos, if the nfs versions are explicitly set, no NFSACL versions get enabled. Also improve an error message that would have made this bug a little easier to find. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ### Diffstat output ./fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c |8

[PATCH 001 of 5] knfsd: Update email address and status for NFSD in MAINTAINERS.

2007-01-22 Thread NeilBrown
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ### Diffstat output ./MAINTAINERS |5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff .prev/MAINTAINERS ./MAINTAINERS --- .prev/MAINTAINERS 2007-01-23 11:13:46.0 +1100 +++ ./MAINTAINERS 2007-01-23 11:14:14.0

[PATCH 000 of 5] knfsd: Introduction - Assorted bugfixes

2007-01-22 Thread NeilBrown
Following are 5 patches for kNFSd suitable for inclusion in 2.6.20. A couple should go to 2.6.19-stable, but I'll send those separately. NeilBrown [PATCH 001 of 5] knfsd: Update email address and status for NFSD in MAINTAINERS. [PATCH 002 of 5] knfsd: Fix setting of ACL server versions.

Why active list and inactive list?

2007-01-22 Thread Niki Hammler
Dear Linux Developers/Enthusiasts, For a course at my university I'm implementing parts of an operating system where I get most ideas from the Linux Kernel (which I like very much). One book I gain information from is [1]. Linux uses for its Page Replacing Algorithm (based on LRU) *two* chained

Re: [BUG] e100: eth0 appers many times in /proc/interrupts after resume

2007-01-22 Thread Auke Kok
Frederik Deweerdt wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 01:45:27PM -0800, Auke Kok wrote: Frederik Deweerdt wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:17:41PM +0200, Andrei Popa wrote: It's the 10th resume and in /proc/interrupts eth0 appers 10 times. The e100_resume() function should be calling

Re: [PATCH] select: fix sys_select to not leak ERESTARTNOHAND to userspace

2007-01-22 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:24:06AM -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > The error was reported to me second hand. I'm expecting a reproducer > (although > to date, I'm still waiting for it, so I may have jumped the gun here). In > fact, I've asked for a repoducer weeks ago and nothing happened,

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-22 Thread Pavel Machek
On Mon 2007-01-22 13:48:44, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > On Sun 2007-01-21 14:27:34, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to > > > invoke > > > the OOM killer and kill all of my processes? > >

Re: [PATCH -rt] whitespace cleanup for 2.6.20-rc5-rt7

2007-01-22 Thread Richard Knutsson
Michal Piotrowski wrote: How about this script? "d) Ensure that your patch does not add new trailing whitespace. The below script will fix up your patch by stripping off such whitespace. #!/bin/sh strip1() { TMP=$(mktemp /tmp/XX) cp "$1" "$TMP" sed

dfsg isn't fsf (Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19])

2007-01-22 Thread Oleg Verych
On 2006-12-14, Alan wrote: [] > I doubt any distribution but the FSF "purified" Debian (the one that has > no firmware so doesn't work) would do it. DFSG "purified" Debian[1], please. [1] -- -o--=O C info emacs : not found /. .\ ( is there any reason to

Re: Problem with POSIX threads in latest kernel...

2007-01-22 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:56:30 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:47:10 +0100 "J.A. Magallón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Hi... > > > > I run the (almost) latest -mm kernel (2.6.20-rc3-mm1), and see some strange > > behaviour > > with POSIX threads

Re: [patch] md: bitmap read_page error

2007-01-22 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday January 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If the bitmap size is less than one page including super_block and > bitmap and the inode's i_blkbits is also small, when doing the > read_page function call to read the sb_page, it may return a error. > For example, if the device is 12800 chunks,

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-22 23:27]: > > which reflects precisely what I've been saying concerning the addition > of __initdata. 100 % correct, thanks. Regards, Bernhard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH 13/15] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks

2007-01-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan wrote: Wouldn't mind the older 64x (not 640) data sheets if they are sharable. If they are sharable, I would love to archive them at http://gkernel.sourceforge.net/specs/ Regards, Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Tony Foiani wrote: > > "Jan" == Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jan> For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use > Jan> k=1000 and K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem > Jan> gone. > >The one-letter abbreviations are

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:14:00PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-18 16:23]: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:31:51PM +0100, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > > > Russell King wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: > > > >>

Re: [PATCH 50/59] sysctl: Move utsname sysctls to their own file

2007-01-22 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 12:31:22PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Kirill Korotaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Eric, though I personally don't care much: > > 1. I ask for not setting your authorship/copyright on the code which you > > just > > copied > > from other places. Just doesn't

Re: [RFC 1/6] bidi support: request dma_data_direction

2007-01-22 Thread William Studenmund
On Jan 21, 2007, at 10:06 PM, Benny Halevy wrote: Douglas Gilbert wrote: Boaz Harrosh wrote: - Introduce a new enum dma_data_direction data_dir member in struct request. and remove the RW bit from request->cmd_flag - Add new API to query request direction. - Adjust existing API and

Re: [PATCH 25/59] sysctl: C99 convert arch/frv/kernel/pm.c

2007-01-22 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 08:14:17PM +0300, Kirill Korotaev wrote: > another small minor note. > > > From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - unquoted > > > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > > arch/frv/kernel/pm.c | 50 > >

Re: [PATCH -mm] ipc namespace : remove CONFIG_IPC_NS

2007-01-22 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:17:49AM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Cedric Le Goater ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > CONFIG_IPC_NS has very little value as it only deactivates the unshare > > of the ipc namespace and does not improve performance. > > > > Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <[EMAIL

2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-22 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Is there going to be another 2.6.18-stable release? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-18 16:23]: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:31:51PM +0100, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > > Russell King wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: > > >> -static char command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; > > >> +static char

ls, df hang and sshd takes long time to accept connection (Kernel 2.6.19)

2007-01-22 Thread Steven Truong
Hi, all. I have a Centos 4.4 box and compiled the vanila kernel 2.6.19 for a HPC environment. Somehow, whenever I did df /home it would just hang and my user try to ls his home directory and the terminal hang. The /home is lvm raid 1 on a 3 ware (3w-) card (6 drives total, 2 HDs raid 1 for

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] SPI: alternative fix for spi_busnum_to_master

2007-01-22 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 21 January 2007 6:25 pm, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > Here is a revised version. The children list of spi_master_class > contains only spi_master class so we can just compare bus_num member > instead of class_id string. Looks just a bit iffy ... though, thanks for helping to finally sort

Re: [PATCH -mm] uts namespace : remove CONFIG_UTS_NS

2007-01-22 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:27:34AM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Cedric Le Goater ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > CONFIG_UTS_NS has very little value as it only deactivates the unshare > > of the uts namespace and does not improve performance. > > > > Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <[EMAIL

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba -> RAID5)

2007-01-22 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday January 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > My .config is attached, please let me know if any other information is > > needed and please CC (lkml) as I am not on the list, thanks! > > > > Running Kernel 2.6.19.2 on a MD RAID5 volume. Copying files over Samba to > >

Re: [PATCH] update MMConfig patches w/915 support

2007-01-22 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:28 am, Olivier Galibert wrote: > > But won't the bridge register value control what actually gets > > decoded? If so, it sounds like this BIOS is buggy wrt mmconfig > > mapping in general; good thing I'm not using any PCIe devices I > > guess... > > Yeah. I've

Re: [PATCH -rt] whitespace cleanup for 2.6.20-rc5-rt7

2007-01-22 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 22/01/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Noah Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fixes trailing whitespace and spaces before tab indents in > 2.6.20-rc5-rt7 as reported with: git-apply --whitespace=error-all thanks. Did you do the patch manually, or do you have a script for

Re: i810fb fails to load

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Airlie
>> >> > > Don't know. But I bet someone on the Cc does... > Tilman, Thanks for reporting. Can you try the attached patch to see if that fixes the problem. Hi Thomas, This also fixes X starting on old i810/5 hardware, I had noticed it broken but hadn't had time to investigate it, this patch

Re: Data corruption with raid5/dm-crypt/lvm/reiserfs on 2.6.19.2

2007-01-22 Thread Christophe Saout
Am Montag, den 22.01.2007, 11:56 -0800 schrieb Andrew Morton: > There has been a long history of similar problems when raid and dm-crypt > are used together. I thought a couple of months ago that we were hot on > the trail of a fix, but I don't think we ever got there. Perhaps > Christophe can

Re: [PATCH -rt] whitespace cleanup for 2.6.20-rc5-rt7

2007-01-22 Thread noah
No script. Does trailing whitespace and spaces before tab indents seem to cover all the whitespace problem scenarios? -noah On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:58:36PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Noah Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > fixes trailing whitespace and spaces before tab indents

[PATCH] Change incorrect "CONFIG_INPUT_ATIXL" to "CONFIG_MOUSE_ATIXL".

2007-01-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Change the apparently incorrect check for CONFIG_INPUT_ATIXL in a source file to be consistent with the kernel config option CONFIG_MOUSE_ATIXL. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- this *looks* like a bug. diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/inport.c

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20 2/2] ehca: ehca_irq.c: fix mismatched spin_unlock in irq handler

2007-01-22 Thread Hoang-Nam Nguyen
> I think the right thing to do is restructure this function so you > don't have lines starting 6 tab stops to the right. Yes. Have reworked this irq handler and still struggling with testing. When we feel comfortable with the test result, we'll post it here (soon) and hopefully it is easier to

Re: OT: snow tux

2007-01-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 22 2007 15:47, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Monday 22 January 2007 15:21, David Nicol wrote: >>http://www.cymor.com/gallery/SnowPenguin/aah > >Cute, somebody obviously has time on their hands. I take it the colors >are water colors? :) Hm watercolor painting should have sufficed (I think -

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 22 2007 15:43, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:58:42PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and >> K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone. > >And for 10^6 vs 2^20? "My harddisk is a

Re: [PATCH 13/15] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
> >>Ugh, I'm not seeing any *actual* support for MW/SW DMA in this > >> driver... > > > Thats long been broken. Should be correct in the libata driver > > Here's a surprise for you. pata_cmd64x copied the SW/MW DMA setup code > from the IDE driver. No way it could be working. You

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:36:19PM +, Alan wrote: >> K is Kelvin, k is kilo- > > K is a unit is Kelvin, k/K as a prefix is kilo. > >> See ISO 31. There is a standard for this stuff which is used worldwide >> and only bits of the computing

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20 2/2] ehca: ehca_irq.c: fix mismatched spin_unlock in irq handler

2007-01-22 Thread Roland Dreier
Thanks, queued for 2.6.20 (although I left the line a little longer). I think the right thing to do is restructure this function so you don't have lines starting 6 tab stops to the right. - R. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
> There are three different fixes: > 1. Fix for THRE errata That should be handled anyway. The current code actually spots this and uses a backup timer for dodgy UARTS > 2. Fix for Busy Detect on LCR write > 3. Workaround for interrupt/data concurrency issue > case UPIO_MEM: > +#ifdef

mixer hw loosing its settings during suspend

2007-01-22 Thread Klaus Vink Slott
Hi I was discussing yesterday with Danny on his blok http://dkukawka.blogspot.com/2006/11/kpowersave-config-tutorial.html about how to restore sound on my old laptop. He told me that I should drop you a note as my problem in reality should be handled by the kernel. Short story is that I

Re: SATA hotplug from the user side ?

2007-01-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > - For SIL3114 and SIL3124 you don't have to run any commands at all. It > should notice when you yank the cable, or plug in a new device. All you > have to do is to stop using the devices before unplugging, e.g. unmount > partitions on the disk or

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 1/22/07, Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I refreshed the patches from Alon against 2.6.20-rc4-mm1. Or was I totally wrong? I don't know what is "Avoid top-posting? ;)" I hope it is a good thing... :) I will look at it again and submit it as requested. Thank you, Alon Bar-Lev. -

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba -> RAID5)

2007-01-22 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Justin Piszcz wrote: My .config is attached, please let me know if any other information is needed and please CC (lkml) as I am not on the list, thanks! Running Kernel 2.6.19.2 on a MD RAID5 volume. Copying files over Samba to the RAID5 running XFS. Any idea what happened here?

Re: Bug in drivers/md/md.c ?

2007-01-22 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday January 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I'm getting "md: bug in file drivers/md/md.c, line 1652" (see below) after > writing data to a md-device using dd. > Is it really a bug or am I just using mdadm in the wrong way? I'm unsure > about the --assume-clean flag when creating the

Re: OT: snow tux

2007-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 January 2007 15:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have to ask why the yellow snow appears to have run, bad aim? > Chuckle. Reminds me of a joke that's centuries old. Seems farmer Brown was giving farmer Jones (who had a son) hell because his daughters name "Becky" was written in the

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-22 21:44]: > > > Some general comments... or should I CC other people etc... > > I submitted this several times but got almost no architecture to ACK. > > > > I just don't know how we can progress with this issue... All we wanted > > is to break the

Re: ATA - pata_mpiix.c support for 82371AB chipsets?

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
> 00:07.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE > [8086:7111] (rev 01) This isn't an MPIIX, Use the ata_piix driver - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
> What's that? Software raid or hardware raid? If the latter, which driver? Software RAID (md) On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:27:34 -0500 (EST) Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the

Re: OT: snow tux

2007-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 January 2007 15:21, David Nicol wrote: >http://www.cymor.com/gallery/SnowPenguin/aah Cute, somebody obviously has time on their hands. I take it the colors are water colors? :) >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" > in the body of a message to

[patch 2.6.20-rc5] rm pointless dmaengine exports

2007-01-22 Thread David Brownell
This removes several pointless exports from drivers/dma/dmaengine.c; the dma_async_memcpy_*() functions are inlined by so those exports are inappropriate. It also moves the existing EXPORT_SYMBOL declarations next to their functions, so it's now trivial to confirm one-to-one correspondence

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

2007-01-22 Thread Stefan Richter
>>> Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the following cleanups: - "extern inline" -> "static inline" - fw-topology.c: make struct fw_node_create static Committed to linux1394-2.6.git. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= =-==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:31:48 +0200 "Alon Bar-Lev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Andrew, > > Can I do anything more in order to be closer to merge? Avoid top-posting? ;) > Some general comments... or should I CC other people etc... > I submitted this several times but got almost no

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:36:19PM +, Alan wrote: > K is Kelvin, k is kilo- K is a unit is Kelvin, k/K as a prefix is kilo. > See ISO 31. There is a standard for this stuff which is used worldwide > and only bits of the computing industry appear incapable of following it. -- Len Sorensen -

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:58:42PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and > K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone. And for 10^6 vs 2^20? > kegs perhaps? :) Hmm, Mega -> Megs, Kilo -> Kils? -- Len Sorensen - To

Re: OT: snow tux

2007-01-22 Thread lkml
I have to ask why the yellow snow appears to have run, bad aim? On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:21:54PM -0600, David Nicol wrote: > http://www.cymor.com/gallery/SnowPenguin/aah > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL

RE: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git mast er

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing to linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... Original Message Subject: RE: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:11:04 -0800 From: Marc St-Jean To: Sergei Shtylyov CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > -Original

Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git mast er

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing to linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... Original Message Subject:Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git mast er Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:23:56 -0800 From: Sergei Shtylyov Organization: MontaVista Software Inc. To: Marc St-Jean CC:

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Hello Andrew, Can I do anything more in order to be closer to merge? Some general comments... or should I CC other people etc... I submitted this several times but got almost no architecture to ACK. I just don't know how we can progress with this issue... All we wanted is to break the 256 limit

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [GIT PATCH] USB fixes for 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Greg, > > > They include a small number of fixes for some USB bugs, and some new > > > device ids, all of the details are below. I've also disabled the USB > > > multithreaded probe option, as it broke a number of people's machines. > > > > what about the two pending patches to make

Re: [PATCH 13/15] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks

2007-01-22 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Alan wrote: Ugh, I'm not seeing any *actual* support for MW/SW DMA in this driver... Thats long been broken. Should be correct in the libata driver Here's a surprise for you. pata_cmd64x copied the SW/MW DMA setup code from the IDE driver. No way it could be working. You

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [GIT PATCH] USB fixes for 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:15:04PM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Greg, > > > They include a small number of fixes for some USB bugs, and some new > > device ids, all of the details are below. I've also disabled the USB > > multithreaded probe option, as it broke a number of people's

OT: snow tux

2007-01-22 Thread David Nicol
http://www.cymor.com/gallery/SnowPenguin/aah - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [GIT PATCH] USB fixes for 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Greg, > They include a small number of fixes for some USB bugs, and some new > device ids, all of the details are below. I've also disabled the USB > multithreaded probe option, as it broke a number of people's machines. what about the two pending patches to make device_move() working as

[PATCH] [UML] fix mknod

2007-01-22 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Hi, I was playing with user-mode Linux and found that mknod creates devices node in hostfs with wrong major/minor numbers. The patch below fixes it for me. Johannes --- mknod() is broken on UML because userspace has differernt dev_t size and encoding than kernel. Signed-off-by: Johannes

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

2007-01-22 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:41:29PM -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:26:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.20-rc3-mm1: ... git-ieee1394.patch ... git trees ... This patch contains the following cleanups: -

[GIT PATCH] PCI fixes for 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Greg KH
Here is a PCI quirk and two docmuentation updates for 2.6.20-rc5 Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6.git/ The full patches will be sent to the linux-pci mailing list, if anyone wants to see it thanks, greg k-h Documentation/pci.txt| 702

[GIT PATCH] USB fixes for 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Greg KH
Here are some USB fixes for 2.6.20-rc5 They include a small number of fixes for some USB bugs, and some new device ids, all of the details are below. I've also disabled the USB multithreaded probe option, as it broke a number of people's machines. Most of them have been in the -mm releases, but

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

2007-01-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:41:29PM -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:26:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>... > >>Changes since 2.6.20-rc3-mm1: > >>... > >> git-ieee1394.patch > >>... > >> git trees > >>... > > > > > >This patch contains the

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:56:50AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:23:26 + Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:31:51PM +0100, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > > > Russell King wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard

Re: [PATCH query] arm: i.MX/MX1 clock event source

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Pavel Pisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Thomas, Sascha and Ingo > > please can you find some time to review next patch > arm: i.MX/MX1 clock event source > which has been sent to you and to the ALKML at 2007-01-13. > >

Re: [PATCH -rt] whitespace cleanup for 2.6.20-rc5-rt7

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Noah Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fixes trailing whitespace and spaces before tab indents in > 2.6.20-rc5-rt7 as reported with: git-apply --whitespace=error-all thanks. Did you do the patch manually, or do you have a script for that perhaps? Ingo - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH 4/4] atl1: Ancillary C files for Attansic L1 driver

2007-01-22 Thread Luca Tettamanti
Il Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:33:39PM -0600, Jay Cliburn ha scritto: > Randy Dunlap wrote: > >On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:07:37 -0600 Jay Cliburn wrote: > [snip] > > >>+ value = ioread16(hw->hw_addr + REG_PCIE_CAP_LIST); > >>+ return ((value & 0xFF00) == 0x6C00) ? 0 : 1; > > > >Are there defines or

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5 1/1] MM: enhance Linux swap subsystem

2007-01-22 Thread Al Boldi
yunfeng zhang wrote: > My patch is based on my new idea to Linux swap subsystem, you can find > more in Documentation/vm_pps.txt which isn't only patch illustration but > also file changelog. In brief, SwapDaemon should scan and reclaim pages on > UserSpace::vmalist other than current

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:27:34 -0500 (EST) Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to invoke > the OOM killer and kill all of my processes? What's that? Software raid or hardware raid? If the latter, which driver? > Doing

Re: Data corruption with raid5/dm-crypt/lvm/reiserfs on 2.6.19.2

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:11:58 +0100 noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm experiencing data corruption in the following setup: > > 1. mdadm --create /dev/md0 -n3 -lraid5 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdc1 /dev/hde1 > 2. cryptsetup -c aes-cbc-essiva:sha256 luksFormat /dev/md0 mykey > 3. cryptsetup -d

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:23:26 + Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:31:51PM +0100, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > > Russell King wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: > > >> -static char command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; > > >>

Re: LEDS: S3C24XX generate name if none given

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:42:21 + Ben Dooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 01:44:28PM +, Richard Purdie wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 12:26 +, Ben Dooks wrote: > > > Generate a name if none is passed to the S3C24XX GPIO LED driver. Wouldn't it be better to fix

Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:15:22 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The following kernel components register a tunable structure and call the > auto-tuning routine: > . file system > . shared memory (per namespace) > . semaphore (per namespace) > . message queues (per namespace) This is the

Re: where to maintain userspace daemon for line discipline

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:36:14 +0100 Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The recent discussion on LKML convinced me that a line discipline > is the correct way to layer a driver over a serial interface. > This means, however, that I'll need a (trivial) userspace daemon > which will hold

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:30:39 +0100 Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would like to come with a suggestion I have been wondering about for a > while, why not add the config-flag, used in Kconfig/Makefile in the > MAINTAINERS-file? I find that the most practical way to find out who

ATA - pata_mpiix.c support for 82371AB chipsets?

2007-01-22 Thread John Stoffel
Hi Alan & Jeff, I've finally got the new ATA drivers setup and working for my main data disks, which is great. But I'm also trying to get my CDRW/DVDROM drive on the MPIIX (82371AB) chipset working. I'm running 2.6.20-rc5 currently on a Debian system, using the pata_mpiix as a module. The

Re: [PATCH 14/15] ide: rework the code for selecting the best DMA transfer mode

2007-01-22 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [PATCH] ide: rework the code for selecting the best DMA transfer mode Here's another portion of comments... Depends on the "ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks" patch. * add ide_hwif_t.filter_udma_mask hook for filtering UDMA mask Erm, maybe a

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

2007-01-22 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:26:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.20-rc3-mm1: ... git-ieee1394.patch ... git trees ... This patch contains the following cleanups: - "extern inline" -> "static inline" I guess that's fine, I do like how extern inline

[patch] mtrr: fix size_or_mask and size_and_mask

2007-01-22 Thread Andreas Herrmann
mtrr: fix size_or_mask and size_and_mask This fixes two bugs in /proc/mtrr interface: o If physical address size crosses the 44 bit boundary size_or_mask is evaluated wrong. o size_and_mask limits width of physical base address for an MTRR to be less than 44 bits. Signed-off-by: Andreas

Re: [patch] HZ-free NTP

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks John - i've applied the combined patch below to -rt. It appears > to work fine for me. updated patch below. (previous one was a delta in timex.h) Ingo > From: John Stultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [patch] HZ-free

Re: [git patches] net driver fixes

2007-01-22 Thread Auke Kok
Jeff Garzik wrote: Auke Kok wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream-linus Jeff, is there a reason that you didn't pull the e1000 tree from us? I send you all the information 5 days

Re: Linux 2.6.19.2 : Oops

2007-01-22 Thread Nicolas Bareil
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Since 2.6.19, I get the following Oops once a day, always with the same >> process, newspipe[1] which use a lot of CPU, threads and I/O. >> >> The kernel is patched by Grsecurity. The ext3 filesystem is on a >> software RAID device (the two disks are SATA2).

[patch] HZ-free NTP

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* john stultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And here would be the follow on patch (again *untested*) for > CONFIG_NO_HZ slowing the time accumulation down to once per second. thanks John - i've applied the combined patch below to -rt. It appears to work fine for me. Ingo

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
Thanks for your comments; the attached probably needs proofreading. The changes in response to the remainder of your comments are quite straightforward and I do not think needs proofreading, so I'll incorporate them and push the result out in 'todo'. diff --git a/v1.5.0.txt b/v1.5.0.txt index

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Tony Foiani
> "Jan" == Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use Jan> k=1000 and K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem Jan> gone. The one-letter abbreviations are identical to SI prefixes, except for "K", which is

Re: [RPC][PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] limit total vfs page cache

2007-01-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Aubrey Li wrote: > assume: > min = 123pages > pagecache_reserved = 200 pages > > if( alloc_flags & ALLOC_PAGECACHE) >watermark = min + pagecache_reserved ( 323 pages) > else >watermark = min ( 123 pages) > > So if request pagecache, when free pages < 323

Re: [git patches] net driver fixes

2007-01-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Auke Kok wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream-linus Jeff, is there a reason that you didn't pull the e1000 tree from us? I send you all the information 5 days ago, WITH the changes

Re: [PATCH -rt] make spin_unlock to slab_spin_unlock

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hit this bug on one of my work test machines. This bug is probably > what caused my laptop to crash ever so often too, but since I don't > have a serial or other debug output, my laptop never showed what was > wrong. ah, nice one! Thanks,

Re: [RPC][PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] limit total vfs page cache

2007-01-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > It doesn't reduce the amount of memory available to the system. It > > just reduce the amount of memory available to the page cache. So that > > page cache is limited and the reserved memory can be allocated by the > > application. > > But the patch

[PATCH -rt] make spin_unlock to slab_spin_unlock

2007-01-22 Thread Steven Rostedt
Ingo, I hit this bug on one of my work test machines. This bug is probably what caused my laptop to crash ever so often too, but since I don't have a serial or other debug output, my laptop never showed what was wrong. Here's the call trace: [ cut here ] kernel BUG at

[PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... -Original Message- From: Sergei Shtylyov Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:05 AM To: Marc St-Jean Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master Hello. Marc

[PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:23:01PM -0800, Marc St-Jean wrote: > Index: linux_2_6/drivers/serial/8250.c > === > RCS file: linux_2_6/drivers/serial/8250.c,v retrieving revision > 1.1.1.7

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