Re: [patch 07/21] Xen-paravirt: remove ctor for pgd cache

2007-02-16 Thread Nick Piggin
Pekka Enberg wrote: On 2/16/07, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Remove the ctor for the pgd cache. There's no point in having the cache machinery do this via an indirect call when all pgd are freed in the one place anyway. The reason we have slab constructors and destructors

Re: [patch 12/21] Xen-paravirt: Allocate and free vmalloc areas

2007-02-16 Thread Andi Kleen
> It's for populating the pagetable in a vmalloc area. There's magic in If the lazy setup doesn't work for you you can always call vmalloc_sync() early. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo in

RE: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-16 Thread David Schwartz
> I'll say that again, for everyone else who is reading this: the GPL > makes it really clear that extensions to a GPL work are required to be > distributed under the terms of the GPL. All this junk about > "derivative works" is just the legal jargon used to implement the > intent of the GPL. Yo

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 21:48 -0800, v j wrote: > We only get crap because no one here yet knows how to interpret > proprietary modules loaded into the kernel. The proprietary modules where only a tiny wrapper is linux-specific and the rest is cross-platform are in a grey area, yes. But your modules

Re: [patch 04/21] Xen-paravirt: ===================================================================

2007-02-16 Thread Andi Kleen
Subject? description? On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:24:53PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > -static void vmi_set_pte_present(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, > pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte) > +static void vmi_set_pte_present(struct mm_struct *mm, u32 addr, pte_t *ptep, > pte_t pte) And wh

Re: FW: [PATCH] i386: irq: Kill IRQ compression

2007-02-16 Thread Natalie Protasevich
From: Eric W. Biederman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:44 AM To: Len Brown Cc: Andi Kleen; Protasevich, Natalie; lkml - Kernel Mailing List; linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: irq: Kill IRQ compression Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This

[PATCH] i386: adjustments to page table dump during oops (v4)

2007-02-16 Thread Jan Beulich
- make the page table contents printing PAE capable - make sure the address stored in current->thread.cr2 is unmodified from what was read from CR2 - don't call oops_may_print() multiple times, when one time suffices - print pte even in highpte case, as long as the pte page isn't in actually in

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

2007-02-16 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:28:57AM -0800, Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > THAT was the point. Interfaces are really really subtle and important. > It's absolutely not a case of "we can just write wrappers to fix up any > library issues". Interfaces can be created and destroyed - the

Re: kbuild question

2007-02-16 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> > Now is there some way to not have to duplicate the 'config choices > between if ONLY_HAVE_ONE and if !ONLY_HAVE_ONE > > To use your example I want to do: > > config ONLY_HAVE_ONE > prompt "only have one?" > boolean > > if ONLY_HAVE_ONE > config VAL_FIRST > bool "First va

Re: [patch 07/21] Xen-paravirt: remove ctor for pgd cache

2007-02-16 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 2/16/07, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Remove the ctor for the pgd cache. There's no point in having the cache machinery do this via an indirect call when all pgd are freed in the one place anyway. The reason we have slab constructors and destructors is to _avoid_ reinitial

Re: Problem with 2.6.20 and highmem64

2007-02-16 Thread Nilshar
I can confirm that it works fine with 2.6.20-rc2. Do you need me to try any other ? do you need any more info ? 2007/2/14, Nilshar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I have an issue with latest 2.6.20 kernel.. my last kernel was a 2.6.18 and I wanted to upgrade to a 2.6.20, I copied .config and did a m

Re: [patch 14/21] Xen-paravirt: Add XEN config options and disable unsupported config options.

2007-02-16 Thread Dan Hecht
On 02/16/2007 12:05 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Dan Hecht wrote: On 02/15/2007 11:04 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: HZ - I'm assuming dynticks will appear in the short term, and this will become moot Doesn't Xen send any non-blocked domain a 100hz alarm implicitly, without anyway for the gu

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-16 Thread Martin Mares
Hello! > Assuming these need not be GPL, I have a problem with > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL and the general trend in the direction of making > proprietary drivers harder on companies. Most kernel developers did always say they don't agree with proprietary drivers, don't want to support them and that they

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/isdn/gigaset/: build asyncdata.o into the gigaset module

2007-02-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:17:19AM +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 15.02.2007 22:56 schrieb Adrian Bunk: > > This patch fixes the following compile error: > > > > <-- snip --> > > > > ... > > LD drivers/isdn/gigaset/built-in.o > > drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser_gigaset.o: In function `gigase

Re: [patch 14/21] Xen-paravirt: Add XEN config options and disable unsupported config options.

2007-02-16 Thread Zachary Amsden
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 00:33 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: I know there actually has been some work to get kexec actually working under Xen but I don't know where that has gone. kexec/kdump works with Xen 3.0.4

Re: 2.6.20-rt5 Oops on boot [-rt8 OK]

2007-02-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Rui Nuno Capela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rui Nuno Capela (me) wrote: > > > > I have terrible news: 2.6.20-rt5 does not boot at all on a couple > > machines I was brave enough to try -- a [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMP/HT desktop, > > and a > > Core2 Duo [EMAIL PROTECTED] laptop. For the first case

Re: [patch 14/21] Xen-paravirt: Add XEN config options and disable unsupported config options.

2007-02-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 00:33 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I know there actually has been some work to get kexec actually working under > Xen but I don't know where that has gone. kexec/kdump works with Xen 3.0.4 but it's a dom0 only thing so it doesn't appear in this patchset. Ian. - To uns

Re: [patch 2.6.20-git] remove modpost false warnings on ARM

2007-02-16 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:10:45PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > This patch stops "modpost" from issuing erroneous modpost warnings on ARM > builds, which it's been doing since since maybe last summer. A canonical > example would be driver method table entries: > > WARNING: - Section mismatch

Re: [patch 14/21] Xen-paravirt: Add XEN config options and disable unsupported config options.

2007-02-16 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 00:33 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> I know there actually has been some work to get kexec actually working under >> Xen but I don't know where that has gone. > > kexec/kdump works with Xen 3.0.4 but it's a dom0 only thing so it

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:32:30 EST, "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" said: > There are a lot of device drivers that will never make it into the > mainline kernel because they are for one-of-a-kind devices or boards > that companies embed into their products. Nobody would even want a > copy of the software t

Re: [PATCH] Add Cobalt button interface driver support

2007-02-16 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
Hi, Thank you for your comments. On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:09:43 -0500 Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 15 February 2007 22:36, Yoichi Yuasa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This patch adds support for the back panel buttons on Cobalt server. > > It's tested on the Cobalt Qube2. > >

Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 1/4] freezer-cpu-hotplug core

2007-02-16 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:46:17PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > frozen. The only exception is cleaning up of per-cpu threads (which is > not possible with processes frozen - if we can find a way to make that > possible, then everything can be done in CPU_DEAD). How abt a patch like below?

Re: [patch 14/21] Xen-paravirt: Add XEN config options and disable unsupported config options.

2007-02-16 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Dan Hecht wrote: > On 02/15/2007 11:04 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> HZ - I'm assuming dynticks will appear in the short term, and this will >> become moot > > Doesn't Xen send any non-blocked domain a 100hz alarm implicitly, > without anyway for the guest to disable it? I guess you'll have to

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