Re: regression tracking (Re: Linux 2.6.21)

2007-06-19 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 19 June 2007 02:28, Martin Bligh wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: I'm seeing this long (198) thread and just have no idea how it has ended (wiki? hand-mailing?). I'm hoping it's not ended. IOW, I really don't think we _resolved_

[PATCH] I2C: TSL2550 support.

2007-06-19 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
Add support for Taos TSL2550 ambient light sensors. (http://www.taosinc.com/product_detail.asp?cateid=4proid=18). Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig | 10 + drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile |1 + drivers/i2c/chips/tsl2550.c | 453

Re: [i2c] [PATCH] I2C: TSL2550 support.

2007-06-19 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:39:40PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: Hi Rodolfo, On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:10:20 +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: Add support for Taos TSL2550 ambient light sensors. (http://www.taosinc.com/product_detail.asp?cateid=4proid=18). Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti

bug in libata [was Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup

2007-06-19 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:22:38PM -0500, linas wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:04:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: please try using the libata driver. Its worse. I get a hard hang (sysrq doesn't work) during boot, just when the system goes to read the partition table. Recap: this is an

Re: Error -71 on device descriptor read/all

2007-06-19 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Renato S. Yamane wrote: I see this in dmesg: usb 1-1: device descriptor read/all, error -71 Using 2.6.21.1 Someone know what it is? Is this a USB 2.0 high-speed device? Don't you for example have USB extension cable too long to work on-high speed? I guess the situation

Re: Question about a strange behavior of copy_to_user() in ioctl call

2007-06-19 Thread News Letter
Thank you for your reply. I put the access_ok() as a debugging tool. I suspected that copy_to_user() failed at the access_ok() test. It is for debugging. I did replace copy_from_user() with __copy_from_user(). It gave out the same result. On 6/19/07, Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: News

Re: [rtc-linux] RTC_CLASS is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL?

2007-06-19 Thread Atsushi Nemoto
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:09:19 +0200, Alessandro Zummo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is mature enough to remove EXPERIMENTAL label from RTC_CLASS, isn't it? I'd say yes, I will submit a patch. ty. RTC class is mature enough. Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

2007-06-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 04:05:12PM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: ... On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:48:55PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:06:47AM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: ... When patch in sent to this PTS, your lovely checkpatch/check-whatever-crap-has-being-sent

Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

2007-06-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: The goal is to get all patches for a maintained subsystem submitted to Linus by the maintainer. Well, to be honest, I've actually over the years tried to have a policy of *never* really having black-and-white policies. The fact is, some maintainers

Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup

2007-06-19 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi Sergei, On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:07:07PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think reading the IDE status register clears the interrupt in the IDE device, which might be causing the drive to think it's OK to generate another interrupt. This is not how IDE

Re: JIT emulator needs

2007-06-19 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 02:35:22AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: Right now, Linux isn't all that friendly to JIT emulators. Here are the problems and suggestions to improve the situation. There is an SE Linux execmem restriction that enforces W^X. Assuming you don't wish to just disable SE

Re: limits on raid

2007-06-19 Thread Phillip Susi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one channel, 2 OS drives plus the 45 drives in the array. Huh? You can only have 16 devices on a scsi bus, counting the host adapter. And I don't think you can even manage that much reliably with the newer higher speed versions, at least not without some very

Re: v2.6.21.4-rt11

2007-06-19 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:04:30AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the patch below is correct. With the patch applied, I could not recreate the imbalance with rcutorture. Let me know whether you still see the problem with this patch

Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

2007-06-19 Thread Stefan Richter
Oleg Verych wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:48:55PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: The -mm kernel already implements what your proposed PTS would do. ... Plus it gives testers more or less all patches currently pending inclusion into Linus' tree in one kernel they can test. Crazy

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take5 6/7] add ioctls for adding/removing target

2007-06-19 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi again Keiichi, On 6/19/07, Keiichi KII [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Satyam, *ugh*. I was wondering what a show-stopper this particular patch was -- introduces a couple of ioctl()'s, exports a new structure to userspace, adds a hitherto-unneeded header file, brings in

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21.3] ppp_mppe: account for osize too small errors in mppe_decompress()

2007-06-19 Thread Sergey Vlasov
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:23:02 +1100 Konstantin Sharlaimov wrote: Prevent mppe_decompress() from generating osize too small errors when checking for output buffer size. When receiving a packet of mru size the output buffer for decrypted data is 1 byte too small since mppe_decompress() tries to

Re: [PATCH 8/8] cpuidle: first round of documentation updates

2007-06-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Documentation changes based on Pavel's feedback. Thanks! -System global cpuidle information are under +System global cpuidle related information and tunables are under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle The current interfaces in this directory has self-explanatory names: +*

RE: [PATCH] Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTO

2007-06-19 Thread Li Yang-r58472
Hi all, I hope this document can get into the kernel tree. As I read through the discussion about Japanese translation, there are quite some arguments that one cannot do kernel development effectively without solid English skill. As a non-native English speaker, I would say that it is much

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

2007-06-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! In a smaller scale example, I want to share some files with a friend. I can't be bothered to set up a proper access control system, so I just mv the files to ~crispin/public_html/lookitme and in IRC say get it now, going away in 10 minutes and then move it out again. Yes, you can

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

2007-06-19 Thread Manu Abraham
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Well much as I don't like what Tivo did with only allowing signed kernels to run, I don't see anything in the above that says they can't Well, it is not Tivo alone -- look at http://aminocom.com/ for an example. If you want the kernel sources pay USD 50k and we will

Re: mount-2.12r-ggk.tar.gz

2007-06-19 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 04:15:28PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: We use GIT for development, the utils/util-linux-ng is for releases. Aha - and there have not been any releases yet. Anyway, Dirk Gerrits, Ren?? Gabri??l and Peter Kooijmans sent me I meant Dirk Gerrits, Ren?? Gabri??ls and Peter

Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5?

2007-06-19 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:36:30 -0700 Jay Vosburgh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following patch (based on a patch from Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]) removes use after free conditions in the unregister path for the bonding master. Without this patch, an operation of the form echo

Re: [PATCH] Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTO

2007-06-19 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:26:36PM +0800, Li Yang-r58472 wrote: Hi all, I hope this document can get into the kernel tree. As I read through the discussion about Japanese translation, there are quite some arguments that one cannot do kernel development effectively without solid English

Re: [linux-lvm] 2.6.22-rc5 XFS fails after hibernate/resume

2007-06-19 Thread David Greaves
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: This is on 2.6.22-rc5 Is the Tejun's patch http://www.sisk.pl/kernel/hibernation_and_suspend/2.6.22-rc5/patches/30-block-always-requeue-nonfs-requests-at-the-front.patch applied on top of that? 2.6.22-rc5 includes it. (but, when I was testing rc4, I did apply this

Re: [PATCH] Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTO

2007-06-19 Thread WANG Cong
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:21:03PM +0800, Li Yang wrote: This is a Chinese translated version of Documentation/HOWTO. Currently Chinese involvement in Linux kernel is very low, especially comparing to its largest population base. Language could be the main obstacle. Hope this document will help

Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

2007-06-19 Thread Oleg Verych
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 04:27:15PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: On 6/19/2007 4:05 PM, Oleg Verych wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:48:55PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: The Debian BTS requires you to either write emails with control messages or generating control messages with external tools.

Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup

2007-06-19 Thread Mark Lord
Sergei Shtylyov wrote: Alan Cox wrote: I can prepare a patch, but only with a lot of guidance. I can test debug, I'm highly motivated just right now ... If you've got a nice repeatable problem please try using the libata driver. That handles the error paths differently and doesn't try a

Re: [-RT] multiple streams have degraded performance

2007-06-19 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 07:25 -0700, Vernon Mauery wrote: On Monday 18 June 2007 11:51:38 pm Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 22:12 -0700, Vernon Mauery wrote: In looking at the performance characteristics of my network I found that 2.6.21.5-rt15 suffers from degraded thoughput

Re: Error -71 on device descriptor read/all

2007-06-19 Thread Renato S. Yamane
Jiri Kosina wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Renato S. Yamane wrote: I see this in dmesg: usb 1-1: device descriptor read/all, error -71 Is this a USB 2.0 high-speed device? lspci -v | grep 1d.7 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller

Re: [PATCH] create_new_namespaces: fix improper return of NULL

2007-06-19 Thread Cedric Le Goater
Oleg Nesterov wrote: On 06/19, Cedric Le Goater wrote: Oleg Nesterov wrote: Untested. dup_mnt_ns() and clone_uts_ns() return NULL on failure. This is wrong, create_new_namespaces() uses ERR_PTR() to catch an error. This means that the subsequent create_new_namespaces() will hit BUG_ON() in

Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup

2007-06-19 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Mark Lord wrote: I can prepare a patch, but only with a lot of guidance. I can test debug, I'm highly motivated just right now ... If you've got a nice repeatable problem please try using the libata driver. That handles the error paths differently and doesn't try a FIFO drain which might

Re: [PATCH 1/7] KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki hot-remove patches

2007-06-19 Thread Mel Gorman
On (18/06/07 09:56), Christoph Lameter didst pronounce: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: @@ -632,18 +632,27 @@ static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get goto unlock; wait_on_page_writeback(page); } - + /* anon_vma should not be freed while

Re: Error -71 on device descriptor read/all

2007-06-19 Thread Jiri Kosina
[ OK, it probably seems like a faulty hardware (controller or the device itself), which is not able to run at high speed, but runs nicely on full speed. Do you have a chance to try another high speed device in this machine to check whether it works? Adding linux-usb-devel into CC ,

[PATCH 1/2] rtc: add rtc-m41txx driver

2007-06-19 Thread Atsushi Nemoto
This is a new-style i2c driver for ST M41TXX RTC chip, derived from works by Alexander Bigga [EMAIL PROTECTED] who wrote the original rtc-m41txx.c based on drivers/i2c/chips/m41t00.c driver. This driver supports M41T80, M41T81 and M41ST85. The old m41t00 driver supports M41T00, M41T81 and

[PATCH 2/2] rtc: watchdog support for rtc-m41txx driver

2007-06-19 Thread Atsushi Nemoto
This patch add a watchdog driver interface to rtc-m41txx driver. This is derived from works by Alexander Bigga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Alexander Bigga [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/rtc/Kconfig |7 + drivers/rtc/rtc-m41txx.c |

Re: [PATCH 2/7] Allow CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set without CONFIG_NUMA

2007-06-19 Thread Mel Gorman
On (18/06/07 10:04), Christoph Lameter didst pronounce: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: CONFIG_MIGRATION currently depends on CONFIG_NUMA. move_pages() is the only user of migration today and as this system call is only meaningful on NUMA, it makes sense. However, memory

[PATCH] Chinese translated version of Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt

2007-06-19 Thread TripleX
This is the Chinese translated version of Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt Signed-off-by: Li Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: TripleX Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/zh_CN/stable_api_nonsense.txt | 158 +++ 1 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 0

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

2007-06-19 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
The GPL was never about allowing you to load modified software onto hardware where the legitimate creators/owners of that hardware say, no, you may not modify the software running on this hardware. Good try but you had to add creators there so the sentence actually supported your opinion.

Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup

2007-06-19 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Linas Vepstas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think reading the IDE status register clears the interrupt in the IDE device, which might be causing the drive to think it's OK to generate another interrupt. This is not how IDE drives are supposed to act -- they won't proceed any

RE: [PATCH] Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTO

2007-06-19 Thread Li Yang-r58472
Hi Wangcong, Thanks for your comments. Most of the comments are literal. I don't believe all of them are necessary as language is a matter of personal preference. :) I will consider your suggestions carefully and pick up those which are really necessary. - Leo -Original Message-

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

2007-06-19 Thread Alan Cox
Well, it is not Tivo alone -- look at http://aminocom.com/ for an example. If you want the kernel sources pay USD 50k and we will provide the kernel sources, was their attitude. GPLv2 deals with that case, and they can (and should) be sued for it [except that US copyright law is designed for

[PATCH] remove usage of memmem from scripts/kallsyms.c

2007-06-19 Thread Paulo Marques
The only in-kernel user of memmem is scripts/kallsyms.c and it only uses it to find tokens that are 2 bytes in size. It is trivial to replace it with a simple function that finds 2-byte tokens. This should help users from systems that don't have the memmem GNU extension available.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester’s Guide v0.3-rc1

2007-06-19 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi Clemens, On 19/06/07, Clemens Koller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Michal, Rafael! Good work! Thanks :) Some (minor) comments below. Michal Piotrowski schrieb: Hi, We are pleased to announce the availability of Linux Kernel Tester's Guide v0.3-rc1. This short guide describes

[PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used video mode

2007-06-19 Thread Jan Beulich
The code to retrieve this information was (a) inside a CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT section and (b) protected by a check of a variable (vbe_version) that would get initialized only when a VESA mode was selected on the command line. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich [EMAIL PROTECTED] arch/i386/boot/video.S |

Re: Error -71 on device descriptor read/all

2007-06-19 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 06/19/2007 10:45 AM, Renato S. Yamane wrote: Hi, I see this in dmesg: usb 1-1: device descriptor read/all, error -71 Using 2.6.21.1 Someone know what it is? Try disabling CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND [usb developers: what are the drawbacks of doing this?] - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup

2007-06-19 Thread Alan Cox
Indeed... but the thing is we don't know what's asserted in this case -- remember, it's reading the status register that locks everything up... Exactly. And IORDY shouldn't really apply there, unless some nitwit standards person wrote it into a spec.. Could it be we need to reset the

Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI autoloading - Create __mod_acpi_device_table symbol for all acpi drivers.

2007-06-19 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:53:27PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 19:49 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Thomas Renninger wrote: Create __mod_acpi_device_table symbol for all acpi drivers. ... model-specific drivers like thinkpad-acpi

Re: [PATCH] relay-file-read-start-pos-fix.patch

2007-06-19 Thread Tom Zanussi
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 12:43 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: Hi David and Tom, David Wilder wrote: This patch fixes a bug in the relay read interface causing the number of consumed bytes to be set incorrectly. Thank you. Your patch fixes one of my concerns. However there is another bug

Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup

2007-06-19 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Alan Cox wrote: Indeed... but the thing is we don't know what's asserted in this case -- remember, it's reading the status register that locks everything up... Exactly. And IORDY shouldn't really apply there, unless some nitwit standards person wrote it into a spec.. Could it be we need

[PATCH] mmc: at91_mci typo

2007-06-19 Thread Nicolas Ferre
Typo fix in at91_mci driver : standardized the typo (at91_mci everywhere) Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Will not make the driver works better but will satisfy the most demanding typo specialists. drivers/mmc/host/at91_mci.c | 30 +++--- 1

Re: [PATCH 5/7] Introduce a means of compacting memory within a zone

2007-06-19 Thread Mel Gorman
On (18/06/07 10:18), Christoph Lameter didst pronounce: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: + /* Isolate free pages. This assumes the block is valid */ + for (; blockpfn end_pfn; blockpfn++) { + struct page *page; + int isolated, i; + + if

Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

2007-06-19 Thread Oleg Verych
Linus, On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:01:19AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: The goal is to get all patches for a maintained subsystem submitted to Linus by the maintainer. Nice quote. I'm trying to make proposition/convince Adrian, who is in

Dual licensing

2007-06-19 Thread Liberty
I don't get it. It's really necessary to continue this rant on what license the kernel should use ? I thought Linus was pretty clear on his choice. It's becoming ridiculous and boring. STOP THE FLAME ALREADY -- HOO-YA / SEMPER FIDELIS 01COMPUTERS di OVIDIO PIRVU 30174, CHIRIGNAGO-VE VIA

How would I do this? (expert tricks) OT

2007-06-19 Thread Marc Perkel
I have a server with port 25 closed. I was to be able to run a script every time someone tries to connect to port 25, but from the outside the port remains closed. I need the script that I'm going to run get the IP address that tried to connect. I know it's off topic but it's part of an

Re: [patch 1/2] kprobes i386 quick fix mark-ro-data

2007-06-19 Thread Andi Kleen
Please find the quick fix as per your suggestion below. I've already done it myself. But I ended up doing it the other way around -- making DEBUG_RODATA dependent on !KPROBES because I figured KPROBES is more important than DEBUG_RODATA and it is less confusing for the user this way. -Andi -

Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup

2007-06-19 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:10:25PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: I'm thinking that trying to debug libata is a better idea, rather than investing time in ide, right? Although at the moment, libata works even less; see other email. Which makes me think this really is some *hardware*

Re: [PATCH 5/7] Introduce a means of compacting memory within a zone

2007-06-19 Thread Mel Gorman
On (19/06/07 21:54), Yasunori Goto didst pronounce: Hi Mel-san. This is very interesting feature. Now, I'm testing your patches. +static int isolate_migratepages(struct zone *zone, + struct compact_control *cc) +{ + unsigned long high_pfn,

Re: [PATCH 7/7] Compact memory directly by a process when a high-order allocation fails

2007-06-19 Thread Mel Gorman
On (18/06/07 10:22), Christoph Lameter didst pronounce: You are amazing. Thanks! There are still knots that need ironing out but I believe the core idea is solid and can be built into something useful. Thanks for reviewing. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Mel

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:05:07AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: There is a partial implementation lieing around somewhere, but there were a number of problems we ran into that were discussed in the slidedeck. Basically, if the only program accessing the files containing forks was the Samba

Re: How would I do this? (expert tricks) OT

2007-06-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jun 19 2007 09:48, Marc Perkel wrote: I have a server with port 25 closed. I was to be able to run a script every time someone tries to connect to port 25, but from the outside the port remains closed. I need the script that I'm going to run get the IP address that tried to connect. I know

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jeremy Allison wrote: I'm not talking WinFS, I'm talking streams. Streams are already being used (mainly by malware writers of course - but hey, don't you want full compatibility ? :-). Reminds me of the Linux Journal (I believe?) article which did viruses-on-Wine compatibility

Re: [PATCH 0/7] Memory Compaction v2

2007-06-19 Thread Mel Gorman
On (18/06/07 10:24), Christoph Lameter didst pronounce: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: The patchset implements memory compaction for the page allocator reducing external fragmentation so that free memory exists as fewer, but larger contiguous blocks. Instead of being a full

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jakub Narebski
Kyle Moffett wrote: On Jun 18, 2007, at 13:56:05, Bryan Henderson wrote: The question remains is where to implement versioning: directly in   individual filesystems or in the vfs code so all filesystems can   use it? Or not in the kernel at all.  I've been doing versioning of the   types I

Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

2007-06-19 Thread Oleg Verych
* Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:08:13 +0200 Crazy development{0}. Somebody knows, that comprehensively testing hibernation is their thing. I don't care about it, i care about foo, bar. Thus i can apply for example lguest patches and implement and test new asm-offset replacement, *easily*.

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Error -71 on device descriptor read/all

2007-06-19 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Dienstag, 19. Juni 2007 schrieb Chuck Ebbert: Try disabling CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND [usb developers: what are the drawbacks of doing this?] Increased power consumption. Regards Oliver - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Writing a driver for a legacy serial device

2007-06-19 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi all, I want to write a Linux kernel driver for a device which connects to the legacy serial port. I started writing a driver, however I am already stuck at the very beginning. The .connect function of my serial driver is never called, and I just don't get why. I couldn't find any documentation

Re: [PATCH] atmel_serial: Fix break handling

2007-06-19 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 01:36:05PM +0300, Ivan Kuten wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:33:54 +0100 Russell King wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:21:21PM +0300, Ivan Kuten wrote: Hi Haavard, I tried /dev/ttyAT3, break appeared but not the way I expected, after: stty -F /dev/ttyAT3

Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

2007-06-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: I'm proposing kind of smart tracking, summarized before. I'm not an idealist, doing manual work. Making tools -- is what i've picked up from one of your mails. Thus hope of having more opinions on that. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't actually responing

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

2007-06-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2007 04:04:52 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2007 02:44:32 Alexandre Oliva wrote: GPLv3 forbids tivoization, therefore developer has requirement

Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes

2007-06-19 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Egmont Koblinger wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:54:52PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: Does the FLUSH DTRT by design, or does it just shrink and hide the original race? long snip But you may be right: yes, it might be a bug (or misfeature) in the FB code, too. Could

Re: How would I do this? (expert tricks) OT

2007-06-19 Thread Marc Perkel
--- Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 19 2007 09:48, Marc Perkel wrote: I have a server with port 25 closed. I was to be able to run a script every time someone tries to connect to port 25, but from the outside the port remains closed. I need the script that I'm going to

Re: [-RT] multiple streams have degraded performance

2007-06-19 Thread Vernon Mauery
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 8:38:50 am Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 07:25 -0700, Vernon Mauery wrote: On Monday 18 June 2007 11:51:38 pm Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 22:12 -0700, Vernon Mauery wrote: In looking at the performance characteristics of my network I

Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver

2007-06-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:51:25PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 01:39:23PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: From: Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add a Disk Storage Driver for the PS3: - Implemented as

Re: [patch 0/5] m68k 53c700 SCSI

2007-06-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:47:04PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Hi James, These patches add support for m68k to the 53c700 SCSI core and introduce new drivers for various m68k hardware using this 53c700 SCSI core, to replace the just removed drivers using the old 53c7xx SCSI core.

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

2007-06-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2007 04:04:52 Alexandre Oliva wrote: So your claim is that a user's possibility to scratch her own itches makes no difference whatsoever as to their amount of contributions she is likely to make? Exactly. Hmm,

Re: [rtc-linux] Re: rtc_cmos: error after first write to wakealarm

2007-06-19 Thread Tino Keitel
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 14:24:04 +0200, Alessandro Zummo wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:03:19 +0200 Tino Keitel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the following strange behaviour with rtc_cmos: $ echo 1181934240 /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm bash: echo: write error: Device or

Re: regression tracking (Re: Linux 2.6.21)

2007-06-19 Thread Martin J. Bligh
Yes, good work, thanks a lot for it! The new interface is much better and more useful. Greetings, Rafael PS BTW, would that be possible to create the Hibernation/Suspend subcategory of Power Management that I asked for some time ago, please? :-) Oops. Sorry. Done. M. - To unsubscribe

Re: How would I do this? (expert tricks) OT

2007-06-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jun 19 2007 10:14, Marc Perkel wrote: tcpdump -lni any port 25 iptables -p tcp --dport 25 -j NFQUEUE ... Thanks Jan, but I'm not sure it answers my question. There's more than one way to do it. One is... tcpdump -lni eth0 tcp [extra operands to match SYN packets] |

Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

2007-06-19 Thread Natalie Protasevich
On 6/19/07, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: I'm proposing kind of smart tracking, summarized before. I'm not an idealist, doing manual work. Making tools -- is what i've picked up from one of your mails. Thus hope of having more opinions on

Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

2007-06-19 Thread Oleg Verych
* Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:04:58 -0700 (PDT) On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: I'm proposing kind of smart tracking, summarized before. I'm not an idealist, doing manual work. Making tools -- is what i've picked up from one of your mails. Thus hope of having more opinions on that.

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

2007-06-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 19, 2007, Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alexandre, On 6/19/07, Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dispute this: non-tivoized hardware = users can scratch their itches = more contributions from these users tivoized hardware = users can't scratch their itches =

Re: [PATCH] remove usage of memmem from scripts/kallsyms.c

2007-06-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Paulo Marques wrote: The only in-kernel user of memmem is scripts/kallsyms.c and it only uses it to find tokens that are 2 bytes in size. It is trivial to replace it with a simple function that finds 2-byte tokens. This should help users from systems that don't have

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Error -71 on device descriptor read/all

2007-06-19 Thread Paul Walmsley
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote: Am Dienstag, 19. Juni 2007 schrieb Chuck Ebbert: Try disabling CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND [usb developers: what are the drawbacks of doing this?] Increased power consumption. speaking of CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND, I've encountered at least one device -- a

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

2007-06-19 Thread David Schwartz
The GPL was never about allowing you to load modified software onto hardware where the legitimate creators/owners of that hardware say, no, you may not modify the software running on this hardware. Good try but you had to add creators there so the sentence actually supported your

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

2007-06-19 Thread David Schwartz
On Jun 18, 2007, David Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is the fact that only the root user can load a kernel module not a further restriction? Because the user (under whose control the computer is, be it person or company) set up the root password herself? Well, duh. TiVo, under

Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

2007-06-19 Thread Stefan Richter
Oleg Verych wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 04:27:15PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: There are different people involved in - patch handling, - bug handling (bugs are reported by end-users), therefore don't forget that PTS and BTS have different requirements. Sure. But if tracking was

Re: Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5?

2007-06-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:36:30 -0700 Jay Vosburgh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following patch (based on a patch from Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]) removes use after free conditions in the unregister path for the bonding master. Without this patch, an

Re: Device hang when offlining a CPU due to IRQ misrouting

2007-06-19 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Darrick J. Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:54:34PM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: call to set_affinity [ 256.298787] irq=4341 affinity=d ethernet on irq 4341 stops working And just to make sure, at this point, your MSI irq 4341 affinity

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Chris Snook
Jack Stone wrote: Chris Snook wrote: The underlying internal implementation of something like this wouldn't be all that hard on many filesystems, but it's the interface that's the problem. The ':' character is a perfectly legal filename character, so doing it that way would break things. But

Re: Device hang when offlining a CPU due to IRQ misrouting

2007-06-19 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:54:45AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Darrick J. Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:54:34PM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: call to set_affinity [ 256.298787] irq=4341 affinity=d ethernet on irq 4341 stops working And just to

[PATCH] bonding: Fix use after free in unregister path

2007-06-19 Thread Jay Vosburgh
The following patch (based on a patch from Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]) removes use after free conditions in the unregister path for the bonding master. Without this patch, an operation of the form echo -bond0 /sys/class/net/bonding_masters would trigger a NULL pointer

Re: [PATCH] - Add IOAPIC NMI support on x86_64

2007-06-19 Thread John Keller
In our specific case, a loadable driver will register to process the NMI generated by a timer device on the IOAPIC pin. The driver will need to unmask/mask the NMI interrupt at init/exit time. The timer NMI interrupt will be used to synchronize cluster nodes. We normally don't

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

2007-06-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 19, 2007, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Where free loaders is a term introduced by Alexandre, not by me.) It's actually from game theory. Or something sufficiently mangled by translation back and forth between English and Portuguese. I think the original is actually

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs: a copy on write, snapshotting FS

2007-06-19 Thread david
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: 3. De-de-duplicate blocks on disk, i.e. copy them on write I suppose that de-duplication itself would be done by some user space process that would scan files, determine blocks with the same data and then de-duplicate them by using

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

2007-06-19 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mardi 19 juin 2007 à 10:50 -0700, David Schwartz a écrit : The GPL was never about allowing you to load modified software onto hardware where the legitimate creators/owners of that hardware say, no, you may not modify the software running on this hardware. Good try but you

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

2007-06-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 19, 2007, Anders Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-06-18 21:50:12, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Given the ROM exception in GPLv3, I guess you could seal and anti-tamper it as much as you want, and leave the ROM at such a place in which it's easily replaceable but with signature

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs: a copy on write, snapshotting FS

2007-06-19 Thread david
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Chris Mason wrote: 3. De-de-duplicate blocks on disk, i.e. copy them on write I suppose that de-duplication itself would be done by some user space process that would scan files, determine blocks with the same data and then de-duplicate them by using syscall or IOCTL (2).

Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup

2007-06-19 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Linas Vepstas wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:10:25PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: I'm thinking that trying to debug libata is a better idea, rather than investing time in ide, right? Although at the moment, libata works even less; see other email.

Re: [patch #2 1/6] SM501: suspend support

2007-06-19 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:56:21 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +/* power management support */ + +static int sm501_plat_suspend(struct platform_device *pdev, pm_message_t state) +{ + struct sm501_devdata *sm = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); + + sm-in_suspend = 1; + sm-pm_misc =

Re: mea culpa on the meaning of Tivoization

2007-06-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 19, 2007, Hans-Jürgen Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Dienstag 19 Juni 2007 04:46 schrieb Alexandre Oliva: The distrust for the FSF led to this very short-sighted decision of painting the Linux community into a corner from which it is very unlikely to be able to ever leave, no matter

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