[PATCH] SELinux: make mmap hint addresses greater than mmap_min_addr

2007-06-28 Thread Eric Paris
The new protection to keep users from writing to the first couple of pages of virtual memory also is stopping mmap operations which are only giving a hint address greater than 0 but less than mmap_min_addr. This patch should take the address given to mmap and move it up to mmap_min_addr thus elimi

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-28 Thread Meelis Roos
Our developers chose ALSA over OSS as the sound API for a VOIP-like fullduplex application and one of the reasons was API - OSS mixer API was not flexible enough (something to do with separating muting and volume control IIRC). -- Meelis Roos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

Re: speedstep-centrino (no such device)

2007-06-28 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Renato S. Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > Is impossible use speedstep in my Laptop with Pentium M 1,86Ghz: > > #modprobe speedstep-centrino > FATAL: Error inserting speedstep_centrino > (/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-686/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.ko): > No such device > > To do that

Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-28 Thread Anton Petrusevich
>>I don't like random applications blocking my sound card. >So don't use random applications. I have ICE1724, a very good sound card to my taste, works like a charm. But with ALSA I had a really hard time to configure it properly, wanna see my .asoundrc? And I am not sure I have done it right

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-28 Thread Rene Herman
On 06/28/2007 01:50 PM, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: If can I join .. (again) Welcome... After upgrade to skype 1.4.x all sound output in skype I have only in left channel. Serching for skype+left+channel on google shows many people have this kind problem :> This would seem to be a (fairly, it's

Re: [PATCH 1/7] ICH Force HPET: Make generic time capable of switching broadcast timer

2007-06-28 Thread Eric Paris
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 01:27 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:12:21 -0700 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can't start the X server any more, but that's probably unrelated ;) > > > > > me hopelessly outnumbered> > > And the winner of the u-o-akpm-1-hour-of-his

Re: [AppArmor 00/44] AppArmor security module overview

2007-06-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 01:27:12PM +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > David Miller schrieb: > > What you get by the code going into the upstream kernel tree is that > > it a) adds some pseudo legitimacy to AppArmour (which I don't > > personally think is warranted) and b) gets the work of keeping > > a

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-28 Thread Rene Herman
On 06/28/2007 05:04 AM, Patrick Draper wrote: Rene Herman wrote: So -- the fact that mixing actually works for you when using libaoss means software mixing is working correctly for your ALSA setup. The only thing you should do is _use_ ALSA (natively) and not its OSS emulation so you can dr

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues

2007-06-28 Thread Steven Rostedt
Hi Dan, On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Dan Williams wrote: > Yes you are right, ARM does not flush L1 when prev==next in switch_mm. > > > Perhaps something else is at fault here. > > > I'll try and dig a bit deeper... BTW: static int __init iop_adma_init (void) { + iop_adma_workqueue = create_wo

Re: Add INPUT support to toshiba_acpi

2007-06-28 Thread Renato S. Yamane
Rolf Eike Beer wrote: Richard Hughes wrote: Yes, although this is out of my area or expertise, sorry. I've looked a bit but can't find any driver interaction of those programs. Any further ideas welcome. Do you try omnibook driver? svn export https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/omnibook/omn

speedstep-centrino (no such device)

2007-06-28 Thread Renato S. Yamane
Hi, Is impossible use speedstep in my Laptop with Pentium M 1,86Ghz: #modprobe speedstep-centrino FATAL: Error inserting speedstep_centrino (/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-686/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.ko): No such device To do that (speedstep), I need install powersaved,

Re: [RFC] fsblock

2007-06-28 Thread Chris Mason
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 04:44:43AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:35:48AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:50:56AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > > Lets look at a typical example of how IO actually gets done today, > > > starting with sys_write(): >

Re: Userspace compiler support of "long long"

2007-06-28 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jun 28, 2007, at 07:36:14, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 13:34 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: We do not support building Linux with Turbo C (or MS Visual C for Win64 P64). We're talking about types which are exposed to userspace. Yes, and all 64-bit software built using

Re: Userspace compiler support of "long long"

2007-06-28 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jun 28, 2007, at 08:08:03, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 07:53:51AM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: Oh, ok, that makes it even easier to say this with certainty: Changing the other 64-bit archs to use "long long" for their 64- bit numbers will not cause additional warnings. I'm a

Re: [PATCH 1/7] ICH Force HPET: Make generic time capable of switching broadcast timer

2007-06-28 Thread James Morris
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: Sorry, we should have discovered this before you. > (Shouldn't this be in /proc/sys/vm?) Probably. > My fix: This should work. (We have some code to allow things like this to be added without needing new policy, but it's too late for this case).

Re: Userspace compiler support of "long long"

2007-06-28 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jun 28, 2007, at 06:26:06, Harald Arnesen wrote: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is there any userspace Linux compiler that does not support "long long"? If yes, is there any other way to tell that something is a 64bit int on 32bit architectures? TenDRA C: "test.c", line 6: Err

Re: Userspace compiler support of "long long"

2007-06-28 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 07:53:51AM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Jun 27, 2007, at 23:57:54, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 06:30:52PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > >>Then all 64-bit archs have: > >>typedef signed long __s64; > >>typedef unsigned long __u64; > >> > >>W

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1

2007-06-28 Thread Gabriel C
Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc6/2.6.22-rc6-mm1/ Compile error here. ... Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready (#1) ERROR: "check_signature" [drivers/input/misc/wistron_btns.ko] undefined! ERROR: "check_signature" [drivers/blo

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-28 Thread Gabriel C
Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Patrick Draper wrote: Rene Herman wrote: So -- the fact that mixing actually works for you when using libaoss means software mixing is working correctly for your ALSA setup. The only thing you should do is _use_ ALSA (natively) and not its OS

sh section mismatches [was Re: 2.6.22-rc6 on Dreamcast (SH4)]

2007-06-28 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi, On Monday 25 June 2007, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > Still getting this: > > MODPOST vmlinux > WARNING: arch/sh/boards/dreamcast/built-in.o(.data+0x0): Section > mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'mv_dreamcast' and > 'systemasic_int') I had sent a patch for this earlier ... Adrian,

[PATCH] CONFIG_SCSI_FD_8xx no longer exists

2007-06-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
CONFIG_SCSI_FD_8xx no longer exists. Apparently it was renamed to CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE, but the Makefile was not correctly updated. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Makefile b/drivers/scsi/Makefile index b1b6327..eb92b31 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/Ma

Re: Userspace compiler support of "long long"

2007-06-28 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jun 27, 2007, at 23:57:54, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 06:30:52PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: Then all 64-bit archs have: typedef signed long __s64; typedef unsigned long __u64; While all 32-bit archs have: typedef signed long long __s64; typedef unsigned long

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-28 Thread Tomasz Kłoczko
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Lee Revell wrote: On 6/26/07, Andreas Hartmetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not put the whole sound system in userland? It has been done before. Sound is just not performance critical at all and it's almost never mission critical. There are dozens of companies selling

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-28 Thread Tomasz Kłoczko
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Patrick Draper wrote: Rene Herman wrote: So -- the fact that mixing actually works for you when using libaoss means software mixing is working correctly for your ALSA setup. The only thing you should do is _use_ ALSA (natively) and not its OSS emulation so you can drop th

Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API)

2007-06-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 10:40 +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:31:14AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 10:15 +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > > > Do you think I should add these functions into my patch, even if I > > > cannot test it, or it's enought

Re: Userspace compiler support of "long long"

2007-06-28 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jun 27, 2007, at 20:30:42, Andi Kleen wrote: On Thursday 28 June 2007 00:30:52 Kyle Moffett wrote: The only trick is if you care about building 32-bit compat code using 64-bit linux kernel headers. In that case we should probably just make all archs use "long long" for their 64-bit inte

Re: Userspace compiler support of "long long"

2007-06-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 13:34 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > We do not support building Linux with Turbo C (or MS Visual C for > Win64 P64). We're talking about types which are exposed to userspace. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bod

Re: Userspace compiler support of "long long"

2007-06-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jun 28 2007 04:12, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:57:15 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> > LDD3 ch. 11 says that long on Sparc64 is 32 bits. > >> > Same for "ppc" (don't know which power

Re: [AppArmor 00/44] AppArmor security module overview

2007-06-28 Thread Tilman Schmidt
David Miller schrieb: > What you get by the code going into the upstream kernel tree is that > it a) adds some pseudo legitimacy to AppArmour (which I don't > personally think is warranted) and b) gets the work of keeping > apparmour working with upstream largely off of your back and in the > hands

Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0

2007-06-28 Thread Helge Hafting
Bill Waddington wrote: (And taking my drivers main-line isn't an option. It would be fine with me, but there is *zero* chance that my funky code would be welcomed into the tree.) If the only merge-stopper is code quality, why not post your driver and get some feedback? Cleaning up code will

Re: Add INPUT support to toshiba_acpi

2007-06-28 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Richard Hughes wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 07:03 +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: >> Richard Hughes wrote: >>> On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 16:56 +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: None of the above keys generated a key event. Neither does "Brightness down", but it still works. "Brightness up" generate

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-28 Thread Rene Herman
On 06/28/2007 04:28 AM, Rene Herman wrote: On 06/28/2007 03:58 AM, Rene Herman wrote: to figure it out. If you need to specify an ALSA device somewhere, make sure it's not the old "hw:0" but "default" (or "default:0" for the first card, "default:1" for the second, ...). The "hw:N" devices don'

RE: [PATCH] PXA27x UDC driver.

2007-06-28 Thread Li Yang-r58472
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rodolfo Giometti > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 6:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Andrew Morton > Subject: [PATCH] PXA27x UDC driver. > > Hello, > > attached you can

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-06-28 Thread Michael Tokarev
Michael Tokarev wrote: [] > I'm planning to test several models of SCSI drives. On SCSI front > (or maybe with different drives - I don't know) things are WAY more > interesting wrt TCQ. Difference in results between 1 and 32 threads > goes up to 4 times sometimes!. But I'm a bit stuck with SCSI

Re: Linux Kernel include files

2007-06-28 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Thu, 2007-06-28 12:39:57 +0200, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > By the way, your mailer seems to be sometimes omitting In-Reply-To: and > > > > References: headers, which RFC2822 says you SHOULD include in replies. > > > > > > Sending such accusation without knowing the reas

Some NCQ numbers...

2007-06-28 Thread Michael Tokarev
[Offtopic notice: For the first time I demonstrated some speed testing results on linux-ide mailinglist, as a demonstration how [NT]CQ can help. But later, someone becomes curious and posted that email to lkml, asking for more details. Since that, I become more curious as well, and decided to loo

Re: 2.6.22-rc6 on Dreamcast (SH4)

2007-06-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 25 June 2007, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > Still getting this: > > MODPOST vmlinux > WARNING: arch/sh/boards/dreamcast/built-in.o(.data+0x0): Section > mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'mv_dreamcast' and > 'systemasic_int') > WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x168e0): Section mi

Re: Userspace compiler support of "long long"

2007-06-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there any userspace Linux compiler that does not support "long long"? > > If yes, is there any other way to tell that something is a > > 64bit int on 32bit architectures? > > TenDRA C: > > "test.c", line 6

Re: Linux Kernel include files

2007-06-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > gcc -c t.c > > In file included from /usr/include/linux/ext2_fs.h:20, > > from t.c:2: > > /usr/include/linux/ext2_fs_sb.h:40: error: syntax error before âuid_tâ > > /usr/include/linux/ext2_fs_sb.h:49: error: syntax error before > > âs_n

2.6.22-rc6-mm1

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Morton
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc6/2.6.22-rc6-mm1/ - NOTE (an uppercase one, indeed): there are a lot of menuconfig changes in here which break `make oldconfig' badly. If you grab an old .config and run `make oldconfig', your kernel probably won't work.

Re: Linux Kernel include files

2007-06-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 12:27 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 16:00 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > > Warning: *** linux/ext2_fs.h is not usable at all *** > > > > Warning:

Re: [patch-mm 00/28] High resolution timer updates and x86_64 support - V3

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:47:04 +0200 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 28 June 2007 11:42:33 Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > The patch set has been tested in the -hrt and -rt trees for quite a while > > > and the initial problems have been sorted out. Thanks to the folks from > > >

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_driver.c

2007-06-28 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi, [ It's good that you're trying to fix this, code in documentation should be setting standards, clearly. ] On 6/27/07, Anders Blomdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Minor modifications to make the example load and unload without Oops [...] static int sample_init(void) { - device_i

Re: Linux Kernel include files

2007-06-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 12:27 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 16:00 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > Warning: *** linux/ext2_fs.h is not usable at all *** > > > Warning: *** This makes it impossible to support Linux file flags

Re: Userspace compiler support of "long long"

2007-06-28 Thread Harald Arnesen
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any userspace Linux compiler that does not support "long long"? > If yes, is there any other way to tell that something is a > 64bit int on 32bit architectures? TenDRA C: "test.c", line 6: Error: [ISO 6.5.2]: Illegal type specifier, 'long long

Re: Linux Kernel include files

2007-06-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 16:00 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Warning: *** linux/ext2_fs.h is not usable at all *** > > Warning: *** This makes it impossible to support Linux file flags *** > > You may try to compile using 'make COPTX=-DTRY_EXT2_FS' > >

Re: [AppArmor 00/44] AppArmor security module overview

2007-06-28 Thread Alan Cox
> > Anyone can apply the apparmour patch to their tree, they get the > > choice that way. Nobody is currently prevented from using apparmour > > if they want to, any such suggestion is pure rubbish. > > The exact same argument was made prior to SELinux going upstream. Its made for every thing be

Re: [PATCH 0/6][TAKE5] fallocate system call

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:58:10 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > N O T E: > --- > 1) Only Patches 4/7 and 7/7 are NEW. Rest of them are _already_ part >of ext4 patch queue git tree hosted by Ted. Why the heck are replacements for these things being sent out again when they

Re: [patch-mm 00/28] High resolution timer updates and x86_64 support - V3

2007-06-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 28 June 2007 11:42:33 Andrew Morton wrote: > > The patch set has been tested in the -hrt and -rt trees for quite a while > > and the initial problems have been sorted out. Thanks to the folks from the > > PowerTop project for testing and feedback. > > hrm. Looks like none of your tes

Re: [patch-mm 00/28] High resolution timer updates and x86_64 support - V3

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:32:25 - Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

[RFC/PATCH] debug workqueue deadlocks with lockdep

2007-06-28 Thread Johannes Berg
This patch adds a fake lock to each workqueue in order to debug things where you have something like my_function() -> lock(); ...; flush_workqueue(); ... vs run_workqueue() -> my_work() -> ...; lock(); ... which can obviously deadlock if my_work is scheduled when my_function() is invoked (but

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues

2007-06-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tasklets fill a niche not filled by either workqueues (slower, > requiring context switches, and possibly much latency is all wq's > processes are active) [...] ... workqueues are also possibly much more scalable (percpu workqueues are easy without c

Re: [PATCH 1/5 v2] Add the explanation and a sample of RapidIO DTS sector to the document of booting-without-of.txt file.

2007-06-28 Thread Segher Boessenkool
+- #address-cells : Address representation for "rapidio" devices. + This field represents the number of cells needed to represent + the RapidIO address of the registers. For supporting more than + 32-bits RapidIO address, this field should be <2>. + See 1) above for more d

Re: [PATCH 1/5 v2] Add the explanation and a sample of RapidIO DTS sector to the document of booting-without-of.txt file.

2007-06-28 Thread Segher Boessenkool
+ k) RapidIO + + Required properties: Should probably recommend a name for the node here, as well. "srio" I guess, from the example below. I would prefer "rapidio", being more generic and more readable. What would parallel RapidIO be, "prio"? No thanks :-) Segher - To unsubscribe fro

Re: [PATCH 16/16] fix handling of integer constant expressions

2007-06-28 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Here are three independently invalid non-ICEs that sparse doesn't diagnose. extern int f(void); enum { cast_to_ptr = (int) (void *) 0 }; enum { cast_to_float = (int) (double) 1 }; Those two *really* shouldn't fail. I don't care if the C standard says so, that is *fine*. GCC doesn't guarante

Re: libata-bug in 2.6.21.5 on amd64 with ali chipset

2007-06-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2007, you wrote: > It has worked in the past. I will try different kernels in the next > 24hours. I tried this kernels: 2.6.20 2.6.20.1 2.6.21 2.6.21.1 2.6.21.3 2.6.21.5 2.6.21.5 with and without cfs. Every other kernel without cfs. Patched with reiser4, nvidia not loaded

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_driver.c

2007-06-28 Thread Anders Blomdell
Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Anders, > >> Signed-off-by: Anders Blomdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Minor modifications to make the example load and unload without Oops >> >> This is what unpatched version generates with 2.6.21.3 >> >> kernel: Oops: [#2] >> ... >> kernel: Call Trace: >> kernel:

[PATCH] x86_64: arch_pick_mmap_layout() fixlet

2007-06-28 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
sparse now warns about arch/x86_64/mm/mmap.c:15:3: warning: returning void-valued expression Generated code looks correct: there is jump to the end of arch_pick_mmap_layout() after ia32_pick_mmap_layout(), but this should be fixed regardless. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API)

2007-06-28 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:31:14AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 10:15 +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > > Do you think I should add these functions into my patch, even if I > > cannot test it, or it's enought providing just the > > compat_sys_time_pps_fetch() function? > >

Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API)

2007-06-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 10:15 +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > Do you think I should add these functions into my patch, even if I > cannot test it, or it's enought providing just the > compat_sys_time_pps_fetch() function? Probably best to put them in. That way, you make it easier for people to tes

Re: [PATCH 1/7] ICH Force HPET: Make generic time capable of switching broadcast timer

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:12:21 -0700 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't start the X server any more, but that's probably unrelated ;) > > me hopelessly outnumbered> And the winner of the u-o-akpm-1-hour-of-his-life-back award (and the bonus u-delayed-next-mm-by-a-day award!) is ..

Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API)

2007-06-28 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:08:53AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 00:46 +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > > Just last question: I still don't well understand where I should > > declare the new compat_sys_time_pps_fetch() syscall... it's > > automagically defined by the system

Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API)

2007-06-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 00:46 +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > Just last question: I still don't well understand where I should > declare the new compat_sys_time_pps_fetch() syscall... it's > automagically defined by the system when CONFIG_COMPAT is enabled? :-o It isn't used on i386. On a 64-bit ar

Re: [PATCH RFC #2] hwrng: Add type categories

2007-06-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > Ok, all very good ideas. Patches are welcome ;) Not from me, sorry. I really don't have the time, or the drive, to do it right now. thinkpad-acpi is taking all my "kernel code" time, which is not much. > > I don't much like sysfs over IOCTLs for this,

Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories

2007-06-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Wednesday 27 June 2007 18:40:41 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > There *is* a much better way to deal with it, though. Add the fail always > > RNG device, and always select it by default. Let the user specifically set > > which RNG he wants, a

Re: NAK (bashizm in the /bin/sh script): [PATCH v3] doc/oops-tracing: add Code: decode info

2007-06-28 Thread Arne Georg Gleditsch
Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:25:00 +0200 Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote: >> The correct expression could be $((${a} + 2)). Tested under NetBSD's >> sh, which is very POSIX-compliant. > > Thanks. Does anyone see other changes that are needed? [..] > and the co

Re: [Possible BUG] Logitech USB keyboard inconsistent led state

2007-06-28 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/6/27, Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Antonino Ingargiola wrote: > I'm using a logitech USB keyboard, I think it's one of the most cheap > and diffuse logitech keyboard models. > I have an inconsistent led state. During boot the NumLock led blinks > several times and i

Re: Oops on rmmod asus_acpi

2007-06-28 Thread Dmitry Monakhov
On 21:16 Срд 27 Июн , Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Hi, > > > > modprobe asus_acpi > rmmod asus_acpi > > is all that is needed to trigger an Oops in 2.6.22-rc6 (x86). > If you need more info, please let me know, thanks. > > Note that the machine is not ASUS at all (vmware). > (But su

[PATCH 1/1] Fix elf_core_dump() when writing arch specific notes (spu coredumps)

2007-06-28 Thread Michael Ellerman
elf_core_dump() supports dumping arch specific ELF notes, via the #define ELF_CORE_WRITE_EXTRA_NOTES. Currently the only user of this is the powerpc spu coredump code. There is a bug in the handling of foffset WRT the arch notes, which causes us to erroneously increment foffset by the size of the

Re: [PATCH] mtd: add module license to mtdbdi

2007-06-28 Thread David Howells
Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This seems to be a known issue [1] about Photron PNC-2000 module called > pnc2000. To reproduce this just 'modprobe pnc2000'. The patch attached at > least > makes the kernel to be not tainted when mtdbdi gets loaded. This is the wrong solutio

Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Add information about trailing whitespace.

2007-06-28 Thread Dave Young
On 6/28/07, Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 6/28/07, Li Yang-r58472 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Triplett > > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:59 PM > > To: Jan Engelhardt > > Cc: dave

linux.conf.au 2008 - call for proposals

2007-06-28 Thread Peter Lieverdink
I hope this is of some interest to some of you. :-) We can't run LCA without your participation and we hope you'll help us make it a great conference again. == linux.conf.au 2008 Call For Presentations == linux.conf.au isn't just a Linux conference. It is a technical conference about Free Soft

Re: [PATCH 1/7] ICH Force HPET: Make generic time capable of switching broadcast timer

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:38:22 -0700 Venki Pallipadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Auto-detect the presence of HPET on ICH5 or newer platforms and enable > HPET for broadcast timer. Hey. This works. The Vaio-of-doom is running tickless for the first time. I can't start the X server any more, but

Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Add information about trailing whitespace.

2007-06-28 Thread Dave Young
On 6/28/07, Li Yang-r58472 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Triplett > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:59 PM > To: Jan Engelhardt > Cc: dave young; Chris Shoemaker; Josh Triplett; linux-kernel@vger.kerne

RE: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Add information about trailing whitespace.

2007-06-28 Thread Li Yang-r58472
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Triplett > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:59 PM > To: Jan Engelhardt > Cc: dave young; Chris Shoemaker; Josh Triplett; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Codin

Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3?

2007-06-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 28, 2007, Jan Harkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As for making modifications, I'd like to take this opportunity to >> withdraw, for purposes of interpretation, my earlier agreement that >> TiVo permits modification, even though it doesn't permit modification >> in place. I don't see any

Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Add information about trailing whitespace.

2007-06-28 Thread Josh Triplett
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jun 28 2007 06:29, dave young wrote: >> IMHO, another cause of trailing whitespace is human error, for >> example long lines breaking will easy to cause the first line with one >> traling whitespace (original space between the last two words). > > Most common errors (to

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