Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread Tarkan Erimer
debian developer wrote: On 6/10/07, Tarkan Erimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: debian developer wrote: > On 6/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Tarkan Erimer wrote: >> >> >> > And maybe another questions should be : How long a copyright >> owner can >> >>

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-10 Thread Paul Mundt
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:01:34PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > Overall, I feel that async_tx is perhaps justifiably receiving the > silent treatment because offload engines are not a mainstream > occurrence. Currently only people with an Xscale IOP or a PPC 440spe > [4] will notice that mainline

Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching

2007-06-10 Thread david
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Crispin Cowan wrote: Casey Schaufler wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, and in the process, AA stores compiled regular expressions in kernel. Ouch. I'll take "each file it's own label" over _that_ any time. and if each file has it's own label you are going to need

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread Tarkan Erimer
Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 05:21:53PM +0300, Tarkan Erimer wrote: I hope we should upgrade to GPLv3 and Sun should "Dual License" the OpenSolaris via GPLv3 (or at least,GPLv3 should be CDDL compatible.). The OpenSolaris community has already stated that they do not want t

Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching

2007-06-10 Thread david
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: extended out this can come close to giving each file it's own label. AA essentially does this and calls the label the path and computes it at runtime instead of storing it somewhere. Yes, and in the process, AA stores compiled regular expressions in ker

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:01:34 -0700 "Dan Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be very helpful to have a clear merge path for dmaengine > changes and the async offload api. Yes, this needs some attention. I'd suggest that you prepare a standalone tree for Linus to pull and we aim at ask

Re: [PATCHSET 2.6.22-rc4] sysfs: fix race conditions

2007-06-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Andrew Morton wrote: >> This patchset contains three minimal backports of fixes in -mm. With >> all patches in the patchset and sysfs-races.patch applied, kernel >> survived ~20 hours of stress test without any problem. > > So these are being proposed for 2.6.22? Yeap. > I do wonder about Rafae

Re: [PATCHSET 2.6.22-rc4] sysfs: fix race conditions

2007-06-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:01:07 +0900 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently, there are several race conditions around dentry/inode > reclamation. > > a. sysfs_dirent->s_dentry dereferencing in sysfs_readdir() > > b. sysfs_dirent->s_dentry dereferencing in sysfs_drop_dentry() > > c. sysf

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Tarkan Erimer wrote: > And maybe another questions should be : How long a copyright owner can > hold the copyright, if died or lost for sometime ? if died, the > copyright still should be valid or not ? If lost, what the law orders at > this point for copyright holding ? In most countries, copyrig

Re: [RFD] Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese

2007-06-10 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 07:56:52PM +0200, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 02:24:51PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > >> Since the common language of most kernel contributors is english I > >> personally feel that we should stick to just that one language i

Re: [RFD] Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese

2007-06-10 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 11:55:57AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > Hi, thank you for your work. I was impressed. > > BTW, how about adding following lines (both in Japanese and English) ? > == > This is translated "HOWTO" documentation. Original "HOWTO" is maintaind by > Greg Kroah-Hartman <

Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese]

2007-06-10 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 07:52:28PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:22:21AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > Since the common language of most kernel contributors is english I > > > personally feel that we should stick to just that one language in the > > > tree and then perhap

Re: [patch-mm 01/23] NOHZ: Fix ARM,SH,SPARC64 idle nohz handling

2007-06-10 Thread Paul Mundt
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 07:20:59AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 09:26 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > > > > There are two paths here depending on hlt/nohlt setting, we need to have > > tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() for the TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG case, too. > > Do you really want to r

Re: [patch-mm 01/23] NOHZ: Fix ARM,SH,SPARC64 idle nohz handling

2007-06-10 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 09:26 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > > There are two paths here depending on hlt/nohlt setting, we need to have > tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() for the TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG case, too. Do you really want to run through that in every loop iteration ? If you have nohlt, then nohz is rat

Re: [patch-mm 00/23] High resolution timer updates and x86_64 support

2007-06-10 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Mark, On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 18:46 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Do you know if there's anything specific in there that would fix > the start-up race condition with HRTIMERS on my machine here > (previously discussed, yet unresolved)? > > It still happens sporadically on boot-up -- maybe one in 10 boo

[PATCH 2/3] sysfs: fix condition check in sysfs_drop_dentry()

2007-06-10 Thread Tejun Heo
The condition check doesn't make much sense as it basically always succeeds. This causes NULL dereferencing on certain cases. It seems that parentheses are put in the wrong place. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/sysfs/inode.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+

Re: mm: memory/cpu hotplug section mismatch.

2007-06-10 Thread Paul Mundt
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 02:01:45PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:35:43 +0900 > Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When building with memory hotplug enabled and cpu hotplug disabled, we > > end up with the following section mismatch: > > > > WARNING: mm/built-in

[PATCH 3/3] sysfs: fix race condition around sd->s_dentry, take#2

2007-06-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Allowing attribute and symlink dentries to be reclaimed means sd->s_dentry can change dynamically. However, updates to the field are unsynchronized leading to race conditions. This patch adds sysfs_lock and use it to synchronize updates to sd->s_dentry. Due to the locking around ->d_iput, the ch

[PATCH 1/3] sysfs: store sysfs inode nrs in s_ino to avoid readdir oopses

2007-06-10 Thread Tejun Heo
From: Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Backport of ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc1/2.6.22-rc1-mm1/broken-out/gregkh-driver-sysfs-allocate-inode-number-using-ida.patch For regular files in sysfs, sysfs_readdir wants to traverse sysfs_dirent->s_dentry->d_ino

[PATCHSET 2.6.22-rc4] sysfs: fix race conditions

2007-06-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, all. Currently, there are several race conditions around dentry/inode reclamation. a. sysfs_dirent->s_dentry dereferencing in sysfs_readdir() b. sysfs_dirent->s_dentry dereferencing in sysfs_drop_dentry() c. sysfs_dirent->s_dentry clearing in sysfs_d_iput() All aboves are done without s

Re: mm: memory/cpu hotplug section mismatch.

2007-06-10 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:35:43 +0900 Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When building with memory hotplug enabled and cpu hotplug disabled, we > end up with the following section mismatch: > > WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.text+0x4e58): Section mismatch: reference to > .init.text: (between 'free_are

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-10 Thread Dan Williams
On 6/7/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:01:08 +1000 Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:54:50AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > /me points at Herbert > > Andrew would not add options between the "menuconfig CRYPTO" and > > the

Re: [PATCH] libata: limit post SRST nsect/lbal wait to ~100ms

2007-06-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tejun Heo wrote: After SRST, libata used to wait for nsect/lbal to be set to 1/1 for the slave device. However, some ATAPI devices don't set nsect/lbal after SRST and the wait itself isn't too useful as we're gonna wait for !BSY right after that anyway. Before reset-seq update, nsect/lbal wait

[git patches] more libata fixes

2007-06-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
The following is CUMULATIVE to the previous push, but in the same linear history. IOW, pulling 'linus-plus-plus' also gets you 'upstream-linus'. But if you have already pulled 'upstream-linus', you will only receive these two changesets. Please pull from branch 'linus-plus-plus' of master.kernel

[PATCH] input: make 2 macros in gameport.c TSC-aware

2007-06-10 Thread Miltiadis Margaronis
This makes DELTA and GET_TIME in drivers/input/gameport/gameport.c similar to the ones in drivers/input/joystick/analog.c . Worked on 2.6.22-rc4-git2. Signed-off-by: Miltiadis Margaronis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- a/drivers/input/gameport/gameport.c 2007-06-05 03:57:02.0 +0300 +++ b/dr

Re: [PATCH] pata_it821x: (partially) fix DMA in RAID mode

2007-06-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Code intended to check DMA status was checking DMA command register. Moreover firmware seems to "forget" to set DMA capable bit for the slave device (at least in RAID mode but without ITE RAID volumes) so check device ID for DMA capable bit when deciding whether

mm: memory/cpu hotplug section mismatch.

2007-06-10 Thread Paul Mundt
When building with memory hotplug enabled and cpu hotplug disabled, we end up with the following section mismatch: WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.text+0x4e58): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'free_area_init_node' and '__build_all_zonelists') This happens as a result of: ->

Re: [PATCH 1/7] Add a new debug function to kernel.h

2007-06-10 Thread Ian Kent
On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 09:06 +0100, Jack Stone wrote: > This patch adds a new macro to print to KERN_ERR initially for ncp but > others may want to use it Yes, the patch set takes away local control of debug printing that I may need to turn on for the module without re-compiling the kernel. > > S

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:54:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > GPLv2 probably forbids Tivoisation anyway. Which is good IMHO even if not > > > > > > Now that is a bit waving in the air. GPLv2 forbids Tivoisation > > theoretically but practically it didnt stop them doing it

Re: A kexec approach to hibernation

2007-06-10 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 21:54 -0400, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> But kernel threads also rely on userspace, due to e.g. fuse and usermode > >> helpers. > > > Yes, I know that and I think these issues are solvable within the current > >

Re: [RFD] Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese

2007-06-10 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Hi, thank you for your work. I was impressed. BTW, how about adding following lines (both in Japanese and English) ? == This is translated "HOWTO" documentation. Original "HOWTO" is maintaind by Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and linux kernal mailing list. And this one is maintained by T

Re: Jinxed VAIO wreckage - current state of affairs

2007-06-10 Thread Thomas Davis
Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 22:59:49 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm, how's 2.6.22-rc4-mm2 doing on the Vaio? People would have heard if it was busted ;) Have seen occasional hangs in e100 resume-from-RAM, and occasional all-black-and-dead symptoms after

Re: A kexec approach to hibernation

2007-06-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Matthew Garrett wrote: > No, it only supports ext2 (and reading ext3 as if it's ext2). Right now, > the assumption that syncing during suspend will cause data to hit > something grub can read isn't a safe one. I brought this issue up quite a few years ago at an OLS BOF. We pretty much need a "s

Re: [patch] Move led attributes out of device name and into sysfs attributes, was Re: LED devices

2007-06-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Hi Richard! On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 12:11 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Can we keep the original naming? spitz:disk is as unique as led02, and > > it is _way_ easier to use. > > Come on, I want to use the led subsystem from the scripts... > > I don't

Re: [RFD] Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt translated into Japanese

2007-06-10 Thread IKEDA Munehiro
Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Sunday 10 June 2007 13:03:15 you wrote: > >>訳注(2) >>「引火性の高い」の原文は "valatile"。 >>valatile には「揮発性の」「爆発しやすい」という意味の他、「変わり >>やすい」「移り気な」という意味がある。 >>「(この話題は)爆発的に激しい論争を巻き起こしかねない」ということ >>を、「(カーネルのソースレベルインターフェースは)移ろい行くもので >>ある」ということを連想させる "valatile" という単語で表現している。 > > > No

Re: v2.6.21.4-rt11

2007-06-10 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 11:05:07PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i'm pleased to announce the v2.6.21.4-rt11 kernel, which can be > downloaded from the usual place: > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/ > > more info about the -rt patchset can be found in the RT wiki: >

Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese]

2007-06-10 Thread Paul Mundt
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:59:00AM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > On Sunday 10 June 2007 20:58, Rene Herman wrote: > > All that stuff only serves to multiply the speed at which a fixed > > percentage of content obsoletes itself. When it's still new and > > shiny, sure, stuff will get translated but

Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese]

2007-06-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 07:52:28PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:22:21AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > Since the common language of most kernel contributors is english I > > > personally feel that we should stick to just that one language in the > > > tree and then perhap

Re: [patch-mm 01/23] NOHZ: Fix ARM,SH,SPARC64 idle nohz handling

2007-06-10 Thread Paul Mundt
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:43:59AM -, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm/arch/sh/kernel/process.c > === > --- linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm.orig/arch/sh/kernel/process.c 2007-06-10 > 10:44:38.0 +0200 > +++ linux-2.6

Re: [RFD] Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese

2007-06-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 06:46:17PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jun 11 2007 01:34, Tsugikazu Shibata wrote: > > > >We are usually using ISO-2022-JP for email exchange and if anyone > >would comment on my document, > > well I can't! Not sure if this is a flaw in pine, but all I get is > [he

Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese]

2007-06-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:41:38PM +0200, Diego Calleja wrote: > El Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:52:28 +0200, Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > I advocated that they should stay out back then. > > But on the other hand I do not see it causing much troubles > > having scripts/kconfig/po/da.po

Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese]

2007-06-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:59:00AM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > On Sunday 10 June 2007 20:58, Rene Herman wrote: > > All that stuff only serves to multiply the speed at which a fixed > > percentage > > of content obsoletes itself. When it's still new and shiny, sure, stuff > > will > > get tr

Hidden IO-Ports: workarounded but WHY?

2007-06-10 Thread Federico Di Dio
Hi everybody, I have an IT8705F SuperIO on my motherboard and everything is working but the voltage/temperature sensors (running kernel 2.6.21.3). I read the specs and figured out how to get direct access to the chip: you can setup it through IO port 0x2e (or 0x4e), and decide where the sensors wil

Re: [PATCH RFC] struct list_node

2007-06-10 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 13:19 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > And if you want a head, you really do want to use "hlist", since the head > is smaller than a list entry (a single pointer rather than two). No, now you're entirely missing the point. The normal Linux lists are beautiful, and should be u

Re: [PATCH RFC] struct list_node

2007-06-10 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 10:20 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > > The current list.h has the same type for list elements and list heads > > even though most code and coders treat them as distinct. > > I think the old list.h is technically superior to y

Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese]

2007-06-10 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Sunday 10 June 2007 20:58, Rene Herman wrote: > All that stuff only serves to multiply the speed at which a fixed percentage > of content obsoletes itself. When it's still new and shiny, sure, stuff will > get translated but in no time at all it'll become a fragmented mess which > nobody ever

radeonfb problem in 2.6.19.5

2007-06-10 Thread DervishD
Hi all :)) If I enable CONFIG_FB + CONFIG_FB_RADEON + CONFIG_DRM + CONFIG_DRM_RADEON, my system hangs badly as soon as I start X Window System (namely X.Org 7.2, although it happens in older versions too). I'm not completely sure about the hanging: the system may not be hung, but I do

Re: [AppArmor 38/45] AppArmor: Module and LSM hooks

2007-06-10 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 15:09, Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 16:30 +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > On Monday 04 June 2007 15:12, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > How will kernel work with very long paths? I'd suspect some problems, > > > if path is 1MB long and I attempt to print

[PATCH 1/1] UML: fix missing non-blocking I/O, now DEBUG_SHIRQ works

2007-06-10 Thread Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* DEBUG_SHIRQ generates spurious interrupts, triggering handlers such as mconsole_interrupt() or line_interrupt(). They expect data to be available to be read from their sockets/pipes, but in the case of spurious interrupts,

2.6.22-rc4-mm2: GPF during suspend to RAM on HPC nx6325

2007-06-10 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, gregkh-driver-sysfs-use-singly-linked-list-for-sysfs_dirent-tree.patch breaks suspend to RAM on HPC nx6325 (x86_64). With this patch applied I get a general protection fault in mutex_lock+0x15 (kernel/mutex.c:91), called by sysfs_hash_and_remove() (fs/sysfs/inode.c:298), called by threshold_c

Re: XFS internal error xfs_da_do_buf(2) at line 2087 of file fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c. Caller 0xc01b00bd

2007-06-10 Thread Satyam Sharma
> On 6/8/07, Marco Berizzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> After few hours linux has crashed with this message: >> BUG: at arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:546 smp_call_function() > > Which kernel (exactly) was this 2.6.21.3 > and does this occur > reproducibly? I don't know. I try to explain. With all de

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread James Bruce
Jesper Juhl wrote: One thing that would make that easier in the future is if contributers at least started to dual-license their submissions. I.e. if instead of "GPL version 2", one could say "GPL version 2 or GPL version 3". It isn't the same thing as the problematic "GPL version 2 or later", b

Re: [patch-mm 00/23] High resolution timer updates and x86_64 support

2007-06-10 Thread Mark Lord
Thomas Gleixner wrote: The following patch series contains: - dyntick bugfixes for -mm (caused by the cpuidle changes in ACPI) - updates and improvements to high resolution timer / dynticks - high resolution timer / dynticks support for x86_64 The x86_64 support is based on an initial patch

Re: 2.6.22-rc regression: smartctl does not work with SATA disk

2007-06-10 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Mark Lord wrote: Kai Makisara wrote: The command 'smartctl -a /dev/sdb' fails with 2.6.22-rc4 kernel. The disk /dev/sdb is a SATA disk. The command does work still with a real SCSI disk. Last time I checked, one must supply the "-d ata" parameter to smartctl for it to w

Re: 2.6.22-rc regression: smartctl does not work with SATA disk

2007-06-10 Thread Mark Lord
Kai Makisara wrote: The command 'smartctl -a /dev/sdb' fails with 2.6.22-rc4 kernel. The disk /dev/sdb is a SATA disk. The command does work still with a real SCSI disk. Last time I checked, one must supply the "-d ata" parameter to smartctl for it to work with libata drives. Has this changed

[PATCH 1/1] UML: fix missing non-blocking I/O, now DEBUG_SHIRQ works

2007-06-10 Thread Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* DEBUG_SHIRQ generates spurious interrupts, triggering handlers such as mconsole_interrupt() or line_interrupt(). They expect data to be available to be read from their sockets/pipes, but in the case of spurious interrupts,

Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese]

2007-06-10 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:35:03PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jun 10 2007 19:52, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >> > Since the common language of most kernel contributors is english I > >> > personally feel that we should stick to just that one language in the > >> > tree and then perhaps keep

2.6.22-rc4-ck1 - Re: -ck patch | Feedback

2007-06-10 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Celso wrote: > Sáb, 2007-06-09 às 10:30 +0100, Miguel Figueiredo escreveu: >> Celso wrote: >>> Hello, I'm using -ck since... along time ago (I start using it with the >>> kernel 2.6.16) . I started using it with Ubuntu and the response of the >>> system was better. Since that I always compile my

Re: [RFD] Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese

2007-06-10 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:48:45PM +0900, Tsugikazu Shibata wrote: > Hi all, > > I am posting Documentation/HOWTO which is translated into Japanese at > bottom of this email. > This document had been reviewed by JF project which has long history > to translate documents into Japanese. (not only ke

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:52:41AM +0530, debian developer wrote: > I don't think that upgrading to GPLv3 just for the sake of tools > present in some other software should be the reason. We are capable > enough of developing our own tools, and many experienced people are > working on equivalent(e

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 10/06/07, James Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: [ snip ] > I consider dual-licensing unlikely (and technically quite hard), but at > least _possible_ in theory. I have yet to see any actual *reasons* for > licensing under the GPLv3, though. [ snip ] One thing that would

Re: [KJ] [PATCH] drivers/acpi: sizeof/sizeof array size calculations replaced with ARRAY_SIZE

2007-06-10 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Sunday 10 June 2007 04:57:12 am Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > Any reason to not just replace ACPI_RSD_TABLE_SIZE with ARRAY_SIZE? > > > > > > Probably because ARRAY_SIZE doesn't exist in ACPICA, which is > > > where this code comes from... > > > > > > When we change syntax in ACPICA files in L

Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching

2007-06-10 Thread Joshua Brindle
Crispin Cowan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Greg KH wrote: I still want to see a definition of the AA "model" that we can then use to try to implement using whatever solution works best. As that seems to be missing the current argument of if AA can or can not be i

Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese]

2007-06-10 Thread Rene Herman
On 06/10/2007 08:58 PM, Rene Herman wrote: RESIST! UNITE! Stick a ";-)" on that, by the way... Rene. - 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 Pleas

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread James Bruce
Linus Torvalds wrote: [ snip ] I consider dual-licensing unlikely (and technically quite hard), but at least _possible_ in theory. I have yet to see any actual *reasons* for licensing under the GPLv3, though. [ snip ] One thing that would make that easier in the future is if contributers at le

Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching

2007-06-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >>extended out this can come close to giving each file it's own label. AA > >>essentially does this and calls the label the path and computes it at > >>runtime instead of storing it somewhere. > > > >Yes, and in the process, AA stores compiled regular expressions in > >kernel. Ouch. I'll tak

Re: 2.6.22-rc: regression: no irda0 interface (2.6.21 was OK), smsc does not find chip

2007-06-10 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Sunday 10 June 2007 12:47:07 am Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > Maybe we should also run the legacy probe when the PnP one fails. I > > don't know how the preconfiguration stuff will behave with the device > > being PnP enabled, but with your patch Andrey will still need to > > modprobe smsc-ircc wi

Re: Rules on how to use sysfs in userspace programs

2007-06-10 Thread Kay Sievers
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 09:56 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:02:00 -0400 Theodore Tso wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 01:36:37PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > The kernel exported sysfs exports internal kernel implementation-details > > > and depends on internal kernel-structu

Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching

2007-06-10 Thread Crispin Cowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Greg KH wrote: >> I still want to see a definition of the AA "model" that we can then use >> to try to implement using whatever solution works best. As that seems >> to be missing the current argument of if AA can or can not be >> implemented using SE

Re: [kvm-devel] [BUG] Oops with KVM-27

2007-06-10 Thread Luca
On 6/10/07, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Luca wrote: > On 6/5/07, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Luca Tettamanti wrote: >> > Il Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:51:10PM +0300, Avi Kivity ha scritto: >> > >> >>> While doing repeated tests with the installer I ran into another >> >>> (unr

Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching

2007-06-10 Thread Crispin Cowan
Casey Schaufler wrote: > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> Yes, and in the process, AA stores compiled regular expressions in >>> kernel. Ouch. I'll take "each file it's own label" over _that_ any time. >>> >> and if each file has it's own label you are going to need regex or similar >>

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread Alan Cox
> > GPLv2 probably forbids Tivoisation anyway. Which is good IMHO even if not > > > Now that is a bit waving in the air. GPLv2 forbids Tivoisation > theoretically but practically it didnt stop them doing it practically. They've never been given permission and there is no ca

Re: libata and legacy ide pcmcia failure

2007-06-10 Thread Mark Lord
Robert de Rooy wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Oh crap. I did test it a couple of months ago, but my boot/root drive is libata not IDE -- so no panic on boot with it. After booting, it worked just fine talking to PC-CARD CF devices using the polling. Ok, no problem. I recompiled the kernel with li

Re: 2.6.21-rt9 - IRQ23 consuming a steady 2.7% of CPU

2007-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/10/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GMail is being kranky. Can you please send the patch as a zipped > attachment? you can pick it up from: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/testing/forcedeth-rt-tweak.patch

RE: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread David Schwartz
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1915720,00.asp > has the answer. Quoting Linus: > > "If you want to license a program under any later version of the > GPL, you have > to state so explicitly. Linux never did." > > Hence, unless there's a "GPL 2 or later", all the "unspecified GPL" files > ar

Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-06-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jun 10 2007 22:06, Jiri Kosina wrote: >On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > >> Signed-of by: Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >This looks broken BTW. > >> +printk(KERN_INFO "Sig %d sent to %d owned by %d.%d >> (%s), sent by pid %d, uid %d\n", >> +

Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching

2007-06-10 Thread Casey Schaufler
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yes, and in the process, AA stores compiled regular expressions in > > kernel. Ouch. I'll take "each file it's own label" over _that_ any time. > > and if each file has it's own label you are going to need regex or similar > to deal with them as well. Now that

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Watchdog driver for AT32AP700X devices

2007-06-10 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
> Do you want me to fold all five patches? original + fix1 and fix2 + > iounmap patches. Th original driver + the 5 fixes have been added to the linux-2.6-watchdog-mm git tree. I'll review the driver later this week. Greetings, Wim. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

Re: [PATCH RFC] struct list_node

2007-06-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The Linux kernel list.h is _better_ than most stupid list implementations > that think that a head node is different from the list node. Exactly > because it very naturally supports the notion of "this structure exists in > a 'ring of entries'" w

Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-06-10 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > Signed-of by: Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED] This looks broken BTW. > + printk(KERN_INFO "Sig %d sent to %d owned by %d.%d > (%s), sent by pid %d, uid %d\n", > + sig, t->pid, t->uid, t->gid

Re: 2.6.22-rc: regression: no irda0 interface (2.6.21 was OK), smsc does not find chip

2007-06-10 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Sunday 10 June 2007 02:03:03 am Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > Can you set CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG=y, make it so smsc-ircc2 isn't loaded > > automatically, and try this (along with my previous patch to swap > > FIR and SIR): > > > > # dmesg -n 8 > > # echo 0x200 > /sys/module/acpi/parameters/debug_le

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:02:42 +0530 "debian developer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And what does Andrew Morton think of all this? I really want to know > his opinions I have yet to see Linus make a statement on these matters with which I didn't agree. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [patch] Move led attributes out of device name and into sysfs attributes, was Re: LED devices

2007-06-10 Thread Richard Hughes
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 12:11 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Can we keep the original naming? spitz:disk is as unique as led02, and > it is _way_ easier to use. > Come on, I want to use the led subsystem from the scripts... I don't see a problem with spitz_disk, which is just as easy to use in script

Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-06-10 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> > >> >+{ > > >> if (sig_fatal(t, sig)) { > > >> >+printk(KERN_WARNING "Sig %d send to %d owned by %d.%d > > >(%s)\n", > > >> s/send/sent/; > > >> >+sig, t -> pid, t -> uid, t -> gid, t -> comm); > > >> t->pid, t->uid, t->gid, t->comm); > > > > > > > Gargh ... why doe

Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese]

2007-06-10 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:52:28 +0200, Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I advocated that they should stay out back then. > But on the other hand I do not see it causing much troubles > having scripts/kconfig/po/da.po etc araound. > > Any opinion about the .po files? These days the confi

[PATCH trivial] include linux/mutex.h from attribute_container.c

2007-06-10 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
attribute_container.c uses DEFINE_MUTEX, so while linux/mutex.h seems to be pulled in indirectly by one of the headers it includes, the right thing is to include linux/mutex.h directly. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Does this make sense? Index: ofed_kernel/drivers/ba

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread debian developer
On 6/10/07, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > licensing under the GPLv3, though. All I've heard are shrill voices about > "tivoization" (which I expressly think is ok) and panicked worries about GPLv2 probably forbids Tivoisation anyway. Which is good IMHO even if not

Re: cat /dev/snapshot == OOPs

2007-06-10 Thread S.Çağlar Onur
10 Haz 2007 Paz tarihinde, Rafael J. Wysocki şunları yazmıştı: > Can you please try the appended patch? I cannot reproduce the oops with that patch applied... Cheers -- S.Çağlar Onur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/ Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gat

Re: [PATCH 0/7] Cleanup code to replace DPRINTK with pr_debug

2007-06-10 Thread Jack Stone
Randy Dunlap wrote: > Hi, > > Doesn't this move printk-debug control from local source files > (i.e., targeted, specific ones) to a more global control (DEBUG)? > > If so, I don't see that as a generally good thing. > > If not, please correct me and tell me how this is useful to just > one insta

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread debian developer
On 6/10/07, Tarkan Erimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: debian developer wrote: > On 6/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Tarkan Erimer wrote: >> >> >> > And maybe another questions should be : How long a copyright >> owner can >> >> > hold the copyright, i

Re: [Patch 15/18] fs/logfs/super.c

2007-06-10 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:10:15PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > I don't think logfs on block devices makes too much sense yet, so my > personal priority for this is low. Still, an obvious improvement. I see it as a good candidate to replace JFFS2 on CompactFlash. That one is becoming painfully sl

Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2

2007-06-10 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > for (i = 0; i < NR_OPEN; i++) > > if (!fd_is_special_to_us(i)) > > close(i); > > > > Note that this is conceptually buggy, but occurs in several major C > > programming books, most of the major shells, and a lot of other > > softw

Re: [Patch 15/18] fs/logfs/super.c

2007-06-10 Thread Jörn Engel
On Sun, 10 June 2007 20:33:05 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > Then maybe the submit_bio logic should only be done for the ->write > path, not for ->read. The data that gets written out should already > be present in the page cache for the files, so there is not much point > having again, while you

[PATCH] fuse: ->fs_flags fixlet

2007-06-10 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
fs/fuse/inode.c:658:3: error: Initializer entry defined twice fs/fuse/inode.c:661:3: also defined here Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/fuse/inode.c |3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/fuse/inode.c +++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c @@ -655,10 +655,

Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese]

2007-06-10 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:35:03PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> No, I think the translated files should be in the tree proper, we have > >> the space :) > > > >We once discussed about .po files for kconfig and back then > >the conclusion was not to keep them in the kernel tree. > > > >I advoca

Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese]

2007-06-10 Thread Rene Herman
On 06/10/2007 07:52 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: We once discussed about .po files for kconfig and back then the conclusion was not to keep them in the kernel tree. I advocated that they should stay out back then. But on the other hand I do not see it causing much troubles having scripts/kconfig/po/

Re: PROBLEM: system clock slow on Athlon AMD64 since 2.6.21

2007-06-10 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:02:00 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:14:03 +0200, Gerard H. Pille wrote: > >> [1.] One line summary of the problem: > >> Since I switched from 2.6.20 to 2.6.21 on my Athlon AMD64 laptop, the > >> system > >> time is slow -

[PATCH] Remove unneeded test of 'task' in dump_trace()

2007-06-10 Thread Jesper Juhl
Remove unneeded test of task != NULL from arch/i386/kernel/traps.c::dump_trace() At the start of the function we have this test: if (!task) task = current; so further down there's no need to test 'task'. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/kern

ide0=noprobe, hda=noprobe, hda=none ignored?

2007-06-10 Thread Carlo Wood
I've been trying for months to get my box to boot faster by ignoring the not connected hda/hdb (ide0). ansset:~>dmesg | egrep '(noprobe|ide0|hda|hdb)' Kernel command line: root=/dev/hde3 ro ide0=noprobe ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio Probing IDE interface ide0.

Re: [patch-mm 06/23] clockevents: Fix resume logic

2007-06-10 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 18:34 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Sunday, 10 June 2007 15:17, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 12:58 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > This is the resume part, or at least it seems so, but the above one is a > > > suspend callback. If I unde

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