[GIT PULL] sh updates

2007-02-15 Thread Paul Mundt
Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6.git Which contains: Andrew Morton (1): sh: add SH_CLK_MD Kconfig default. Jamie Lenehan (1): sh: allow earlyprintk baud rate to be set via command line Manuel Lauss (2): sh: add SH7760 IPR IRQ

Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC, PATCH] CELL Oprofile SPU profiling updated patch

2007-02-15 Thread Maynard Johnson
Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Thursday 15 February 2007 00:52, Carl Love wrote: --- linux-2.6.20-rc1.orig/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Kconfig 2007-01-18 16:43:14.0 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.20-rc1/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Kconfig 2007-02-13 19:04:46.271028904 -0600 @@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ config OPROFI

[PATCH 2.6.21-rc1 5/5] ehca: query_port() returns LINK_UP instead UNKNOWN

2007-02-15 Thread Hoang-Nam Nguyen
set port phys state as a result of ehca_query_port() to LINK_UP. On pSeries ehca actually represents a logical HCA, whose phys/link state always is LINK_UP. Signed-off-by: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ehca_hca.c |3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/i

[PATCH 2.6.21-rc1 3/5] ehca: allow en/disabling scaling code via module parameter

2007-02-15 Thread Hoang-Nam Nguyen
allow users to en/disable scaling code when loading ib_ehca module Signed-off-by: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Kconfig|8 ehca_classes.h |1 + ehca_irq.c | 47 +-- ehca_main.c|4 4 files changed

[PATCH 2.6.21-rc1 4/5] ehca: replace yield() by wait_for_completion()

2007-02-15 Thread Hoang-Nam Nguyen
remove yield() and use wait_for_completion() in order to wait for running completion handlers finished before destroying associated completion queue Signed-off-by: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ehca_classes.h |3 +++ ehca_cq.c |5 +++-- ehca_irq.c |6 +- 3 f

[PATCH 2.6.21-rc1 2/5] ehca: fix race condition/locking issues in scaling code

2007-02-15 Thread Hoang-Nam Nguyen
fix a race condition in find_next_cpu_online() and some other locking issues in scaling code Signed-off-by: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ehca_irq.c | 68 + 1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: SATA-performance: Linux vs. FreeBSD

2007-02-15 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Martin. Martin A. Fink wrote: TestOpenSuSE(AHCI) FreeBSD(AHCI) --- SSD(vfat 25GB) 41+/

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-15 Thread Tejun Heo
Patrick Ale wrote: So, my AMD Athlon XP2400+ with pata_pdc2027x, pata_sil680 and pata_via Now, since functionality by design is boring and my employer doesn't torture me enough,, I' pulled the libsata-dev git and linux-2.6 git and will see how that goes. It's libata. I mean, you yourself are t

[PATCH 2.6.21-rc1 1/5] ehca: reworked irq handler to avoid/reduce missed irq events

2007-02-15 Thread Hoang-Nam Nguyen
reworked irq handler to avoid/reduce missed irq events Signed-off-by: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ehca_classes.h | 18 +++- ehca_eq.c |1 ehca_irq.c | 214 +++-- ehca_irq.h |1 ehca_main.c| 28 +-

sparse chokes on arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c (was: 2.6.20-mm1)

2007-02-15 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Trying to build 2.6.20-mm1 on i386 with C=1, sparse 0.2 chokes on arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c: CHECK arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c linux/marker.h: No such file or directory include/linux/jiffies.h:18:5: warning: undefined preprocessor identifier 'CONFIG_HZ' include/linux/jiffies.h:20:7: warning: unde

FW: UI getting "killed" randomely on Fedora machines

2007-02-15 Thread Brian D. McGrew
Good morning all, We're seeing a problem where an application is being killed from what appears to be an out of memory issue. Can anyone offer any insight on this for me? Thanks! -brian Brian D. McGrew{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] } -- > Do not read this email while waxing t

Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb

2007-02-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Sergei Organov wrote: > > Yes, there is. There are at least 2 drawbacks. Minor one is > initialization eating cycles. Major one is that if later I change the > code and there will appear a pass that by mistake uses those fake value, > I won't get the warning anymore. The lat

Re: [patch 3/4] ipmi: add pci remove handling

2007-02-15 Thread Corey Minyard
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:27:45AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Judging from the patch headers you were working against 2.6.19, which is > most optimistic. Please always prepare and test patches against the > latest kernel. Well, I had it applied against a 2.6.20 kernel, but I messed up the t

Re: [patch 4/4] ipmi: add new IPMI nmi watchdog handling

2007-02-15 Thread Corey Minyard
Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:05:56 +1100 Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Morton writes: This is all fairly unpleasant. What architecture is preventing us from using DIE_NMI_POST on all architectures which support ipmi? ia64? It would be better to sim

Re: [PATCH 00/05] Linux Kernel Markers - kernel 2.6.20

2007-02-15 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
akpm wrote: > [...] And what can I do with these markers? And once I've done it, > are there any userspace applications I can use to get the data out > in human-usable form? [...] The LTTng user-space programs use it today. Systemtap used to support the earlier marker prototype and will be r

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc1 1/5] ehca: reworked irq handler to avoid/reduce missed irq events

2007-02-15 Thread Hoang-Nam Nguyen
> Looks fine but this patch at least has serious whitespace > damage... please resend a fixed version. Sorry for this. Resending the patches 1-5. Nam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at htt

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
I sympathize with you, VJ, I really do, but you're going to have to do a lot more homework in order to understand what is happening to Linux in embedded space. Allow me to supply some worthless, non-lawyer, non-measurable-kernel-contributor observations, which are at least quite different from th

Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb

2007-02-15 Thread Sergei Organov
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Sergei Organov wrote: [...] > BUT (and this is a big but) within the discussion of "strlen()", that is > no longer true. "strlen()" exists _outside_ of a single particular > implementation. As such, "implementation-defined" is no l

[PATCH] do_basic_setup: implicit declaration of function ‘init_irq_proc'

2007-02-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Add missing #include , which caused | init/main.c: In function ‘do_basic_setup’: | init/main.c:705: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘init_irq_proc’ Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index 2421e15..8bba00e 100644 --- a/init/main

Re: [PATCH] use movntq version of fast_clear_page/fast_copy_page on Geode

2007-02-15 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:16:46PM +, Alan wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:08:39 -0200 > Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > movntq instruction is supported by Geode CPU's, so use > > fast_clear_page/fast_copy_page versions that have it. > > Is it actually faster for macro p

[-mm patch] MARKERS should depend on, not select MODULES

2007-02-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:14:08AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.20-rc6-mm3: >... > +linux-kernel-markers-kconfig-menus.patch >... > Linux Kenrel Markers >... Never ever select MODULES. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- BTW: Can we get in-kernel users?

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/15/07, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't think of GPL as a religion, only as an experiment that has run amok. The point of GPL, is that even if the vendor stopped supporting, you could fix the device driver by yourself. This is really happening, vendors do sell h

Re: [PATCH 07/10] local_t : powerpc extension

2007-02-15 Thread Kumar Gala
On Feb 15, 2007, at 1:20 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: * Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:18:12 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: local_t : powerpc extension This diff contains changes which are also present in "[PATCH 07/10] atomic.h : Add

[PATCH] 2.6.21 iw_cxgb3 Fail posts synchronously when in TERMINATE state.

2007-02-15 Thread Steve Wise
From: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fail posts synchronously when in TERMINATE state. For T3B devices, mark user qp in error once we transition to TERMINATE. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_qp.c |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 15:37 +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote: > > "JDL" == Jan De Luyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JDL> I think a nice example of that might be the Linksys WRT54G > JDL> routers. > > They don't ship with Linux anymore, except the WRT54GL. Apparently > switching was worth it to

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 22:46 -0800, v j wrote: > You don't get it do you. Our source code is meaningless to the Open > Source community at large. It is only useful to our tiny set of Perhaps you should leave that decision to the open source community at large. [ Useless fullquote deleted ]

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 23:28 -0800, v j wrote: > On 2/14/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At least one of us is confused about that an embedded User is. > > It seems to me that you are an embedded developer, not User. > > I doubt that most Embedded Users care what their OS is, > > or

[PATCH] 9p: add write-cache support to loose cache mode (take 2)

2007-02-15 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
Loose cache mode was added primarily to asssist exclusive, read-only mounts (like venti) -- however, there is also a case for using loose write cacheing in support of read/write exclusive mounts. This feature is linked to the loose cache option and is disabled by default. This code adds the neces

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 22:27 -0800, v j wrote: [...] > here. I am perfectly willing to live with the way Linux is today. I am > telling you as a user that if Linux continues on the current path it > will become less and less attractive to Embedded Users. Which is only (or more accurate: at most) tr

Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC, PATCH] CELL Oprofile SPU profiling updated patch

2007-02-15 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 15 February 2007 00:52, Carl Love wrote: > --- linux-2.6.20-rc1.orig/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Kconfig 2007-01-18 > 16:43:14.0 -0600 > +++ linux-2.6.20-rc1/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Kconfig2007-02-13 > 19:04:46.271028904 -0600 > @@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ > > config OPROFILE >

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "JDL" == Jan De Luyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JDL> I think a nice example of that might be the Linksys WRT54G JDL> routers. They don't ship with Linux anymore, except the WRT54GL. Apparently switching was worth it to save 2MB flash. /Benny - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: 2.6.20-mm1

2007-02-15 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Andrew Morton napisał(a): > Temporarily at > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-mm1/ > > Will appear later at > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm1/ > > BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /mnt/md0/devel/linux-mm/mm/

Re: 2.6.20-mm1 [kernel BUG at mm/swap.c:442]

2007-02-15 Thread James Morris
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, James Morris wrote: > Hit a BUG() via lvm: Also, I just disabled paravirt ops and saw the same bug, so it's not that stuff. -- James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PRO

Re: [PATCH 0/6] MODSIGN: Kernel module signing

2007-02-15 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, David Howells wrote: > Now, this is not a complete solution by any means: the core kernel is not > protected, and nor are /dev/mem or /dev/kmem, but it denies (or at least > controls) one relatively simple attack vector. This is really the weak point - it offers no advan

Re: [PATCH] Optimize generic get_unaligned / put_unaligned implementations.

2007-02-15 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:39:03PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Can someone please tell us how this magic works? (And it does appear to > work). > > It seems to assuming that the compiler will assume that members of packed > structures can have arbitrary alignment, even if that alignment is obv

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: > On 2/15/07, Mws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hi vj, >> >> On Thursday 15 February 2007, v j wrote: >>> This is in reference to the following thread: >>> >>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 >>> >>> I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but

Re: Linus' laptop and Num lock status

2007-02-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jean Delvare wrote: On x86, the BIOS led state can be read from byte 0x97 the BIOS RAM. The BIOS RAM is mapped at 0x400 so all we need to do is to one byte from RAM (offset 0x497). This is how Suse's hwinfo does. Perhaps that's what Suse does, but the proper address is 0x417. 0x497 is the ra

Re: 2.6.20-mm1 [kernel BUG at mm/swap.c:442]

2007-02-15 Thread James Morris
Hit a BUG() via lvm: Scanning logical volumes Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 Activating logical volumes [ 75.215078] [ cut here ] [ 75.230165] kernel BUG at mm/swap.c:442! [ 75.2445

Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 0/4] Freezer based Cpu-hotplug

2007-02-15 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:31:08PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > So I think tonight I'll start adding try_to_freeze() to the kernel threads > that > set PF_NOFREEZE. cool! While you are at it, let me try to enhance the freezer api's to incorporate the PFE_* flags. > > > > That would stil

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Jan De Luyck
On Thursday 15 February 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:46:13PM -0800, v j wrote: > > > Using our source code would not benefit anybody but > > our competitors. > > This excuse has been given time and time again, and repeatedly been > proven false. And as soon as one of your

Re: Linus' laptop and Num lock status

2007-02-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Dax Kelson wrote: Are there any technical or political reasons why kernel can't change from "force off" to "Follow BIOS"? How would you query it? I'm not even 100% sure that you can on all keyboards. We never query the leds, we always set them. I th

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Neil Horman
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:27:10PM -0800, v j wrote: > On 2/14/07, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:16:28PM -0800, v j wrote: > > > >Welcome to three months ago. > >Here in the future, this was deemed a non-issue. > >However this does highlight another problem. >

Re: [patch 05/11] syslets: core code

2007-02-15 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:38:16PM -0800, Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Or how would you do the trivial example loop that I explained was a good > idea: > > struct one_entry *prev = NULL; > struct dirent *de; > > while ((de = readdir(dir)) != NULL) { >

Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 0/4] Freezer based Cpu-hotplug

2007-02-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:20, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:09:51AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > Why should we make sure that PF_NOFREEZE tasks are also frozen for > > > cpu hotplug? Instead, we can create an infrastructure which allows > > > threads t

Re: [PATCH 9/11] Panic delay fix

2007-02-15 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 2/14/07, Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 19:53 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote: > Failure to use real-time delay here causes the keyboard to become demonically > possessed in the event of a kernel crash, with wildly blinking lights and > unpredictable behavior. This

Re: [PATCH] pxafb: Add option to enable/disable the cursor

2007-02-15 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:22:01PM +, James Simmons wrote: > > The reason you have a cursor is because you are using the framebuffer > console. Do you need fbcon ? Yes. During the system update process on in the production stage a console is very useful. Ciao, Rodolfo -- GNU/Linux Solu

Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb

2007-02-15 Thread Sergei Organov
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Sergei Organov wrote: >> >> Sorry, what do you do with "variable 'xxx' might be used uninitialized" >> warning when it's false? Turn it off? Annotate the source? Assign fake >> initialization value? Change the compiler so that it do

Re: [PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts

2007-02-15 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Thursday 15 February 2007 04:53, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > What's the point in changing pipefs... you can *never* > reach it *anyway*, even if it was a /-style path, since > pipefs is a NOMNT filesystem. The point is that we could then get rid of the special case for MS_NOUSER filesystems like p

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, On Feb 15 2007 21:35, Trent Waddington wrote: > > I, personally, don't know why anyone who owned copyright on any GPL > software and had no desire to enforce that copyright, would not offer > to assign their copyright to the FSF so they can defend it.. but I > imagine people have their reason

Re: irqdesc porting help

2007-02-15 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:41 +0530, Maximus wrote: > Hi, >My drivers in 2.6.14 use statements like > desc->triggered = 1; >And desc also points to some members of irqdesc which arent in > 2.6.19 but in 2.6.14. > >Im a newbie, What changes am i supposed to make to make it wo

Re: irqdesc porting help

2007-02-15 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:41:25PM +0530, Maximus wrote: > Hi, > My drivers in 2.6.14 use statements like > desc->triggered = 1; > And desc also points to some members of irqdesc which arent in > 2.6.19 but in 2.6.14. But why do you have code which accesses these members? Can you

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 15 2007 18:43, Neil Brown wrote: >> > We seem to have different definitions of open and closed. >> >> Open = 3rd party Linux drivers can be loaded. Closed = No third party >> Linux drivers can be loaded. > >Loading a driver is not at issue. Anyone may load a driver. And, after all, beca

Re: irqdesc porting help

2007-02-15 Thread Maximus
Hi, My drivers in 2.6.14 use statements like desc->triggered = 1; And desc also points to some members of irqdesc which arent in 2.6.19 but in 2.6.14. Im a newbie, What changes am i supposed to make to make it work in 2.6.19. Im not sure what changes are exactly needed. Ple

Re: [PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, On Feb 14 2007 14:57, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: >[2] > >pipe: "pipe:[439336]" (or "pipe/[439336]") > >[3] Always make disconnected paths double-slashed: >-- >pipe: "//pipe/[439336]" >

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/15/07, Mws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi vj, On Thursday 15 February 2007, v j wrote: > This is in reference to the following thread: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 > > I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_ > popular in the embedded space. We (an embed

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Neil Horman
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:16:44PM -0800, v j wrote: > On 2/14/07, v j <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This has nothing to do with politics. I am not a Linux contributor. I > >realize that people who have contributed to the Linux Kernel have very > >valid points. It is their sweat and blood. They h

Re: [linux-pm] Suspend to RAM, Sony Vaio PCG-SRX51P, lcd stays off

2007-02-15 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Thu, February 15, 2007 11:36 am, Pavel Machek said: > Hi! > >> I own an older Sony Vaio SRX51P, European Model, P3 based. s2ram >> identifies it with >> >> sys_vendor = "Sony Corporation" >> sys_product = "PCG-SRX51P(DE) " >> sys_version = "01 " >> b

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Mws
hi vj, On Thursday 15 February 2007, v j wrote: > This is in reference to the following thread: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 > > I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_ > popular in the embedded space. We (an embedded vendor) chose Linux 3 > years back beca

Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 0/4] Freezer based Cpu-hotplug

2007-02-15 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:09:51AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Why should we make sure that PF_NOFREEZE tasks are also frozen for > > cpu hotplug? Instead, we can create an infrastructure which allows threads > > to > > specify for the scenarios they would want to be excempted from fr

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] more support for memory-less-node.

2007-02-15 Thread Bodo Eggert
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now if it's better to set up a empty node or use a nearby node > for a memory less cpu can be further discussed. I still think > I lean towards the later. Worst case: Only slot 0 is used. Plug your memoryless CPU card into the last slot before your plug the

Re: 2.6.20 mmc: problem with highspeed SD card

2007-02-15 Thread Eugene Ilkov
On 2/15/07, Pierre Ossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eugene Ilkov wrote: > I have I/O errors with Transcend SD highspeed card 2GB/150x when it's > mounted in r/w mode (cardreader on sharp sl-c1000) > It works well if I reverse mmcv4 patch commited to 2.6.19-git2 > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/4

Re: utrace regressions (was: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21)

2007-02-15 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:05:30PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:36:34PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: > > > 2. The following proggie renders box unusable in ~10 seconds (but not > > >mainline kernel where Ctrl+C will kill process). > > > > I haven't been able to rep

Re: [PATCH] Add PM_TRACE x86_64 support.

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:08:06 +1100 Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch add x86_64 support for PM_TRACE, and shifts per-arch code to > the appropriate subdirectories. ia64 allmodconfig: include/linux/resume-trace.h:4:30: asm/resume-trace.h: No such file or directory drivers/b

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Martin Mares
Hello! > >I think you have a bit of a misunderstanding... Linux is not royalty > >free. Just the royalty is not in the form of cash, but in the form of > >having to give your improvements back to the open source world. > > Sure. But this is not legally binding. Maybe it's not, but it certainly d

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:30:33PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > On Wednesday February 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am well aware of what Greg KHs position is, in fact he is the reason > > I started the whole rant. This is only a plea to the "higher > > authorities". Linus, please save Linux! >

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Bodo Eggert
v j <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote: >> > This is in reference to the following thread: >> > >> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 >> > >> > I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but l

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2007-02-15 Thread ddup1
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Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Trent Waddington
On 2/15/07, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I assume ATI's lawyers think its legal, as it's been a year and a half since I first brought this questionable act to their attention. Lawyers don't think X is legal.. that's not how lawyers think. If ATI's lawyers have advised ATI on this at a

[PATCH]mm __page_symlink retry loop error code fix

2007-02-15 Thread Dmitriy Monakhov
If prepare_write or commit_write return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE we jump to "retry" label and than if find_or_create_page() failed function return incorrect error code. Initilally i've add this fix as a part of prepare_write_retval patch, but IMHO it is better to split this to separate fix. Patch agains

Re: 2.6.20-git10: BUG at drivers/pci/pci.c:817 during suspend to disk

2007-02-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Update: On Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:16, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > I've got this in the resume-during-suspend phase of suspend to disk with > 2.6.20-git10 on HPC nx6325: > > PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:06.0 to 64 > sata_sil :00:12.0: resuming > BUG: at drivers/p

Re: [PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64

2007-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:49:57AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > It's always seemed broken (though perhaps this was a distro bug?) in > > module form, so I've been compiling it in to get it to work. > > Must have been a distro bug. It should have worked before as long

Re: [PATCH] sata_via: fix resource-managed iomap conversion

2007-02-15 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On 12-02-2007 21:10, Tejun Heo wrote: > Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:51:44AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote: >>> Conversion to resource-managed iomap was buggy causing init failures >>> on both vt6420 and 6421 - BAR5 wasn't mapped for both controllers >>> while on vt6420 sata_vi

Re: [PATCH 000/196] V4L/DVB updates

2007-02-15 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Heikki Orsila wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:59:55AM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Basically, this series adds support for a bunch of newer cards and newer drivers, do some relevant cleanups on cx88 (improving source code readability and reducing binary code size),

Re: Sata_via problems in a Vintage2-AE1: Resume

2007-02-15 Thread Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
A Dimarts 13 Febrer 2007 17:19, Jean Delvare va escriure: > Le Mardi 13 Février 2007 17:11, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda a écrit : > > A Dimarts 13 Febrer 2007 12:20, Jean Delvare va escriure: > > (...) > > > > > > > *If* the VT8251 needs the VIA IRQ quirk, then the attached patch > > > > > may help.

Re: [PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:49:57AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > It's always seemed broken (though perhaps this was a distro bug?) in > > module form, so I've been compiling it in to get it to work. > > Must have been a distro bug. It should have worked before as long > as the config was

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:05:11PM +1000, Trent Waddington wrote: > On 2/15/07, Xavier Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But that's not the case with VJ's drivers, which are apparently solely > > for linux, so should be distributed under the GPL. > > In any case, you're free to use any dr

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:00:56PM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 12:51 +0200, Mohammed Gamal wrote: > > I am still a kernel newbie, and I am still not very much aware about > > the GPL vs. Non-GPL drivers debate. I personally think it'd be better > > that all drivers shoul

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Ihar `Philips` Filipau
Our source code is meaningless to the Open Source community at large. It is only useful to our tiny set of competitors that have nothing to do with Linux. The Embedded space is very specific. We are only _using_ Linux. Just as we could have used VxWorks or OSE. Using our source code would not bene

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Trent Waddington
On 2/15/07, Xavier Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But that's not the case with VJ's drivers, which are apparently solely for linux, so should be distributed under the GPL. In any case, you're free to use any driver, regardless of license.. copyright does not cover use, only "copying" and mos

Suspend to RAM, Sony Vaio PCG-SRX51P, lcd stays off

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Dittmer
Hi there, I own an older Sony Vaio SRX51P, European Model, P3 based. s2ram identifies it with sys_vendor = "Sony Corporation" sys_product = "PCG-SRX51P(DE) " sys_version = "01 " bios_version = "R0232U2" Suspend to RAM by using "s2ram -v -m -f" actual

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 12:51 +0200, Mohammed Gamal wrote: > I am still a kernel newbie, and I am still not very much aware about > the GPL vs. Non-GPL drivers debate. I personally think it'd be better > that all drivers should be GPL'd but if that's the case, what would be > the legal position of su

Re: [BUG] at drivers/char/vt.c:3332 do_blank_screen() on resume

2007-02-15 Thread S.Çağlar Onur
15 Şub 2007 Per tarihinde, Andrew Morton şunları yazmıştı: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:40:32 +0100 Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Contact fbcon people... > > There aren't any, basically. Since Tony disappeared James has been helping > out but doesn't have a lot of time. So we're pretty

Re: [BUG] at drivers/char/vt.c:3332 do_blank_screen() on resume

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:40:32 +0100 Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Contact fbcon people... There aren't any, basically. Since Tony disappeared James has been helping out but doesn't have a lot of time. So we're pretty much on our own with problems in this area. - To unsubscribe from

Re: [linux-pm] Suspend to RAM, Sony Vaio PCG-SRX51P, lcd stays off

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Dittmer
Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > I own an older Sony Vaio SRX51P, European Model, P3 based. s2ram identifies it with sys_vendor = "Sony Corporation" sys_product = "PCG-SRX51P(DE) " sys_version = "01 " bios_version = "R0232

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 04:44:51AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:46:13PM -0800, v j wrote: > > > Using our source code would not benefit anybody but > > > our competitors. > > > > This excuse has been given time and time again, and repeatedly

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Mohammed Gamal
I am still a kernel newbie, and I am still not very much aware about the GPL vs. Non-GPL drivers debate. I personally think it'd be better that all drivers should be GPL'd but if that's the case, what would be the legal position of such vendors as ATI or NVIDIA who supply closed source drivers? Wo

Re: Serial console issues.

2007-02-15 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 05:39:22PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, this is the most bastardized sucker I've ever seen. . . I have had > no end of trouble with it (couldn't even get a boot loader to work with > it - had to write my own). And, as luck would have it, the serial port > is no d

[PATCH]mm incorrect direct io error handling (v4)

2007-02-15 Thread Dmitriy Monakhov
Incorrect direct io error handling (v4) Changes from v3: - Patch preparead gainst 2.6.20-rc6-mm3. It seems now it's not conflict with Nick's stuff. - fix generic segment check function. LOG: If generic_file_direct_write() has fail (ENOSPC condition) inside __generic_file_aio_write_nolock()

Re: sata_nv ADMA controller lockup investigation

2007-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Robert Hancock wrote: It's curious that only the post-cache-flush command is having issues, and normal NCQ operation seems fine. Maybe it's related to that tag 0 being reused repeatedly? If you take cache flush out of the equation, what happens when NCQ is enabled with a queue depth of 1 (to

Re: irqdesc porting help

2007-02-15 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:33:47PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:01:37PM +0530, Maximus wrote: > > Im trying to port some drivers between 2.6.14 and 2.6.19 > > > > I find that irqdesc has changed completely. how do i port > > the drivers between 2.6.14 and 2.6.19? > > > >

Re: [linux-pm] Suspend to RAM, Sony Vaio PCG-SRX51P, lcd stays off

2007-02-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >> I own an older Sony Vaio SRX51P, European Model, P3 based. s2ram > >> identifies it with > >> > >> sys_vendor = "Sony Corporation" > >> sys_product = "PCG-SRX51P(DE) " > >> sys_version = "01 " > >> bios_version = "R0232U2" > >> > >> Suspend to

Re: [linux-pm] Suspend to RAM, Sony Vaio PCG-SRX51P, lcd stays off

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Dittmer
Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > >> I own an older Sony Vaio SRX51P, European Model, P3 based. s2ram >> identifies it with >> >> sys_vendor = "Sony Corporation" >> sys_product = "PCG-SRX51P(DE) " >> sys_version = "01 " >> bios_version = "R0232U2" >> >> Susp

Re: [BUG] at drivers/char/vt.c:3332 do_blank_screen() on resume

2007-02-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > With 2.6.20, resuming from disk sometimes cannot returns on vt7 where X runs > but everything seems working, so just changing to vt1 and returning to vt7 > solves the problem. But dmesg shows some BUG() output like [1] whenever this > problem occurs > > I'm using 20070207 snapshot of susp

Re: [linux-pm] Suspend to RAM, Sony Vaio PCG-SRX51P, lcd stays off

2007-02-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I own an older Sony Vaio SRX51P, European Model, P3 based. s2ram > identifies it with > > sys_vendor = "Sony Corporation" > sys_product = "PCG-SRX51P(DE) " > sys_version = "01 " > bios_version = "R0232U2" > > Suspend to RAM by using "s2ram -v -

Re: irqdesc porting help

2007-02-15 Thread Paul Mundt
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:01:37PM +0530, Maximus wrote: > Im trying to port some drivers between 2.6.14 and 2.6.19 > > I find that irqdesc has changed completely. how do i port > the drivers between 2.6.14 and 2.6.19? > > is there a porting guide available to port the drivers > which use irqdesc

[patch 3/3] Input: psmouse - allow disabling of synaptics protocol extension

2007-02-15 Thread Andres Salomon
Allow disabling of synaptics via CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS; we leave synaptic_detect and synaptic_reset (for synaptics hardware that emulates other protocols), but get rid of synaptic_init. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c b/driver

[patch 2/3] Input: psmouse - wrap protocol extensions (except synaptics) with ifdefs

2007-02-15 Thread Andres Salomon
Allow ALPS, LOGIPS2PP, LIFEBOOK, and TRACKPOINT protocol extensions (in the psmouse driver) to be disabled during compilation. The synaptics stuff is left alone for now, since it needs special handling for synaptic pass-through ports. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a

[patch 1/3] Input: psmouse - create PS/2 protocol options for Kconfig

2007-02-15 Thread Andres Salomon
Initial framework for disabling PS/2 protocol extensions. The current protocols can only be disabled if CONFIG_EMBEDDED is selected. No source files are changed, merely build stuff. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig b/drivers/input/mouse/

Re: [patch 3/4] ipmi: add pci remove handling

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:06:24 -0600 Corey Minyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add pci_remove handling to the driver, so it will clean up if > the device is hot-removed. > > Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Index: linux-2.6.19/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c > ===

Re: [PATCH] sk98lin: planned removal

2007-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:18:30 -0800 Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Document planned removal of sk98lin driver. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |7 +++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+),

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