Re: [RFC PATCH] type safe allocator

2007-08-01 Thread Miklos Szeredi
I wonder why we don't have type safe object allocators a-la new() in C++ or g_new() in glib? fooptr = k_new(struct foo, GFP_KERNEL); is nicer and more descriptive than fooptr = kmalloc(sizeof(*fooptr), GFP_KERNEL); ... But it's much more likely to break when someone

Re: [PATCH FINAL] Merge the Sonics Silicon Backplane subsystem

2007-08-01 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 20:26 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Look. Kconfig's `select' Just. Does. Not. Work. If you find yourself contemplating using it, please, don sackcloth, take a cold shower and several analgesics, then have another go, OK? Amen. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Typo fixes interrrupt - interrupt ( try 2 )

2007-08-01 Thread Gabriel C
This patch fixes some interrrupt - interrupt typos Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/holly.c|2 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/linkstation.c |2 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/mpc7448_hpc2.c |2 +-

Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Typo fixes interrrupt - interrupt

2007-08-01 Thread Gabriel C
Stephen Rothwell wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:16:27 +0200 Gabriel C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/it_lp_naca.h | 87 +++-- NAK this part as it just makes a lot of the lines more than 80 characters for no real gain on a platform that is

Re: [PATCH] flush icache before set_pte take6. [4/4] optimization for cpus other than montecito

2007-08-01 Thread Zoltan Menyhart
Luck, Tony wrote: This seems crazy to me. Flushing should occur according to the *architecture*, not model-by-model. Even if we happen to get lucky on pre-Montecito CPUs, that doesn't justify such ugly hacks. Or you really want to debug this *again* come next CPU? Ditto. The only reason

[RFC PATCH] type safe allocator

2007-08-01 Thread Miklos Szeredi
I wonder why we don't have type safe object allocators a-la new() in C++ or g_new() in glib? fooptr = k_new(struct foo, GFP_KERNEL); is nicer and more descriptive than fooptr = kmalloc(sizeof(*fooptr), GFP_KERNEL); and more safe than fooptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo), GFP_KERNEL);

[PATCH] prevent SSB compilation on s390 part 2

2007-08-01 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] drivers/ssb/Kconfig has already a depends on HAS_IOMEM which should prevent SSB from being selected. But appearantly it looks like this doesn't matter at all if it gets selected from somewhere else. So add an explicit depends on HAS_IOMEM to the Broadcom

Re: [RFC 12/26] ext2 white-out support

2007-08-01 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007 19:00 schrieb Jan Blunck: On Tue, Jul 31, Josef Sipek wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 06:13:35PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote: Introduce white-out support to ext2. I think storing whiteouts on the branches is wrong. It creates all sort of nasty cases when people

Re: [PATCH 06/68] 0 - NULL, for arch/frv

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 7/31/07, Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On 7/27/07, Robin Getz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is a definite style or semantic preference that everyone should live with - does it make sense to put checks in checkpatch.pl to enforce it?

Re: Reboot hang FIXED

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 11:37 AM, kriko wrote: I just want to add that my DVD drive is not detected when using new driver. So back to old one You shouldn't have dropped Alan from CC then... pata_amd, right? Rene. Sorry, yes its pata_amd. IBM drive is on Primary master (detected as /dev/sdc)

Re: [RFC] tablet buttons driver for fujitsu siemens laptops

2007-08-01 Thread Evgeny Stambulchik
Hello, Just wanted to mention that the driver by Robert Gerlach also works[1] with a Fujitsu P1610 convertible, after a trivial modification: static struct keymap_entry keymap_t1610[] = { { 0x0010, KEY_SCROLLDOWN }, { 0x0020, KEY_SCROLLUP }, { 0x0040, KEY_DIRECTION }, {

Re: [RFC PATCH] type safe allocator

2007-08-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:06:46AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: I wonder why we don't have type safe object allocators a-la new() in C++ or g_new() in glib? fooptr = k_new(struct foo, GFP_KERNEL); is nicer and more descriptive than fooptr = kmalloc(sizeof(*fooptr), GFP_KERNEL); ...

[PATCH] FRV: Make BSG declarations dependent on CONFIG_BLOCK

2007-08-01 Thread David Howells
From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make BSG function declarations dependent on CONFIG_BLOCK as they are not compilable if the block layer is compiled out. Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/bsg.h |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff

[PATCH] drivers/char/sonypi.c: fix ids member of struct acpi_driver

2007-08-01 Thread Eugene Teo
ids member of struct acpi_driver is of type struct acpi_device_id, not a character array. Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/char/sonypi.c |8 +++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/sonypi.c b/drivers/char/sonypi.c index

[PATCH] FRV: Connect up fallocate

2007-08-01 Thread David Howells
From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connect up the fallocate() system call. Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/frv/kernel/entry.S |1 + include/asm-frv/unistd.h |3 ++- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/frv/kernel/entry.S

Re: Load interrupt code dynamically

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Realistically - the one case it is done right now is by the mainframe people, simply because the underlying hypervisor does it. You probably have much more chance that way using a microkernel (real one not MACH) underneath. Still a huge task. There are

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Jiri Kosina
(CCs adjusted) On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2 BUG: atomic counter underflow at: [c010456a] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 [c010508d] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [c01051e0] dump_stack+0x15/0x17 [c01418cf] __free_pages+0x50/0x52 [c01418f0]

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: delete CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_SLEEP (again)

2007-08-01 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 1 August 2007 05:27, Len Brown wrote: From: Len Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_SLEEP is a NO-OP -- delete it (again). Apparently 296699de6bdc717189a331ab6bbe90e05c94db06 creating CONFIG_SUSPEND and CONFIG_PM_SLEEP was based on an out-dated version of

Re: Whats the problem with my IDE...

2007-08-01 Thread Manuel Reimer
At first: Thank you very much for the detailled information! Alan Cox wrote: Bad CRC indicates a data transfer problem between the drive and the controller. The CRC is computed one end and verified the other. The OS isn't directly involved. This usually means either #1 A 40 wire cable in use

Re: Reboot hang FIXED

2007-08-01 Thread kriko
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:01:15 +0200, Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/01/2007 11:37 AM, kriko wrote: I just want to add that my DVD drive is not detected when using new driver. So back to old one You shouldn't have dropped Alan from CC then... pata_amd, right? Rene.

Re: [RFC PATCH] type safe allocator

2007-08-01 Thread Miklos Szeredi
I wonder why we don't have type safe object allocators a-la new() in C++ or g_new() in glib? fooptr = k_new(struct foo, GFP_KERNEL); is nicer and more descriptive than fooptr = kmalloc(sizeof(*fooptr), GFP_KERNEL); and more safe than fooptr =

Re: [PATCH 2/7] Simple Performance Counters: x86_64 support

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Export cycles_to_ns (after renaming the cycles_2_ns to cycles_to_ns to be conforming to other arches). This function is broken in some cases (e.g Opteron with powernow or AMD dual core or older Intel systems) and going away. The TSCs tick with

Re: [patch] add kdump_after_notifier

2007-08-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Takenori Nagano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. The problem with your patch is that it doesn't have a code impact. We need to see who is using this and why. My motivation is very simple. I want to use both kdb and kdump, but I think it is too weak to satisfy kexec guys. Then I brought up the

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-08-01 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday August 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other issue is with the layered IO design - no matter what we configure the stack size to, it is still possible to create a set of translation layers that will cause it to crash regularly: XFS on dm_crypt on loop on XFS on dm_crypt on loop

Re: CS5530 Alsa driver fails

2007-08-01 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 1 Aug 2007 00:53:10 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: After modprobe snd-cs5530 I have: CS5530: XpressAudio at 0x220 CS5530: MPU at 0x330 CS5530: IRQ: 9 DMA8: 0 DMA16: 5 sb: can't grab irq 9 CS5530: Could not create SoundBlaster CS5530_Audio: probe of :00:12.3 failed with error

Re: [RFC PATCH] type safe allocator

2007-08-01 Thread Miklos Szeredi
#define k_new(type, flags) ((type *) kmalloc(sizeof(type), flags)) The cast doesn't make it more safe in any way I does, since a warning will be issued, if the type of the assigned pointer doesn't match the requested allocation. And yes, warnings are _very_ useful in C for enforcing type

[PATCH] drivers/video/geode/lxfb_core.c: fix lxfb_setup warning

2007-08-01 Thread Eugene Teo
This patch fixes the following warning: drivers/video/geode/lxfb_core.c: In function 'lxfb_setup': drivers/video/geode/lxfb_core.c:564: warning: unused variable 'opt' Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/video/geode/lxfb_core.c |7 +-- 1 files changed, 1

Re: [RFC PATCH] type safe allocator

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: #define k_new(type, flags) ((type *) kmalloc(sizeof(type), flags)) The cast doesn't make it more safe in any way (at least as long as you don't care about portability to C++; the kernel doesn't) -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH 06/68] 0 - NULL, for arch/frv

2007-08-01 Thread Richard Knutsson
Mike Frysinger wrote: On 7/31/07, Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On 7/27/07, Robin Getz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is a definite style or semantic preference that everyone should live with - does it make sense to put checks in

unionfs compile error ( Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 )

2007-08-01 Thread Gabriel C
fs/unionfs/file.c:147: error: 'file_fsync' undeclared here (not in a function) make[2]: *** [fs/unionfs/file.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [fs/unionfs] Error 2 make: *** [fs] Error 2 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs ... Config can be found there - http://194.231.229.228/MM/config-auto-3

Re: Can't unload uhci_hcd module with 2.6.22 -- also oops

2007-08-01 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Alan. Alan Stern wrote: Tejun: Can you look at this oops message please? It appears similar to the sysfs bug in 2.6.23-rc1, but it occurred under 2.6.22. Is a similar fix needed for the 2.6.22-stable series? 2.6.23-rc1 bug was one too many put during symlink creation failure path

Re: acpi=off vs. blacklist (HP DC 7700)

2007-08-01 Thread Ph. Marek
On Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007, Len Brown wrote: Please get Linux up and running on the two boxes using whatever means are at your disposal ... Then open two a bug report for each machine here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI Done, see

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: another reaction below in this thread reported kbd problems in vanilla 2.6.22.1 as well. What is the X versions, etc.? Does the problem go away if the X kbd driver selection is tweaked to a simpler model, say: Or perhaps just test with CFS reverted? It

Re: [PATCH 2/3] sound/pci ioremap/iounmap balancing

2007-08-01 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:02:56 -0400, Scott Thompson wrote: ioremap / iounmap balancing in sound/pci tree Signed-off-by: Scott Thompson postfail at hushmail.com --- diff --git a/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c b/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c index ac007ce..871b09f 100644 ---

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Gabriel C
Andrew Morton wrote: ... - git-wireless is back. It is still a 3MB diff, and appears to compile. ... allmodconfig on UML ... In file included from drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx_main.c:48: drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx_pio.h: In function

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] e.g. in this example there are three tasks that run only for about 1ms every 3ms, but they get far more time than should have gotten fairly: 4544 roman 20 0 1796 520 432 S 32.1 0.4 0:21.08 lt 4545 roman 20 0 1796 344

[PATCH] fix slown down printk on boot compile error

2007-08-01 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] The slow-down-printk-during-boot patch depends on preset_lpj being available. That's not the case for architectures that have it's own calibrate_delay() function. kernel/sched.c:3840: undefined reference to `preset_lpj' Cc: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 01:31 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: another reaction below in this thread reported kbd problems in vanilla 2.6.22.1 as well. What is the X versions, etc.? Does the problem go away if the X kbd driver selection is tweaked to a simpler model, say:

Re: [RFC PATCH] type safe allocator

2007-08-01 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Aug 1 2007 12:45, Miklos Szeredi wrote: #define k_new(type, flags) ((type *) kmalloc(sizeof(type), flags)) The cast doesn't make it more safe in any way I does, since a warning will be issued, if the type of the assigned pointer doesn't match the requested allocation. And yes,

Re: [PATCH 3/3] sound/soc ioremap/iounmap balancing

2007-08-01 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:06:06 -0400, Scott Thompson wrote: ioremap / iounmap balancing in sound/soc tree Signed-off-by: Scott Thompson postfail at hushmail.com Applied to ALSA tree. Thanks. Takashi --- diff --git a/sound/soc/s3c24xx/s3c24xx-i2s.c b/sound/soc/s3c24xx/s3c24xx-i2s.c

Re: [RFC 12/26] ext2 white-out support

2007-08-01 Thread Josef Sipek
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:00:42PM +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007 19:00 schrieb Jan Blunck: On Tue, Jul 31, Josef Sipek wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 06:13:35PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote: Introduce white-out support to ext2. I think storing whiteouts on

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] the increase in code size: 2.6.22: textdata bss dec hex filename 10150 243344 1351834ce kernel/sched.o recent git: textdata bss dec hex filename 14724 2282020 16972424c

Re: [PATCH] add check do_direct_IO() return val

2007-08-01 Thread gurudas pai
Joe Jin wrote: Does a patch like this work? I don't have any test-cases, but it would be good to have something like this tested and passed back with proper explanations and sign-offs. Yes it work find after apply the patch, thanks. Joe I tried with Badari's and Linus's patch using same

Re: [RFC PATCH] type safe allocator

2007-08-01 Thread Miklos Szeredi
#define k_new(type, flags) ((type *) kmalloc(sizeof(type), flags)) The cast doesn't make it more safe in any way I does, since a warning will be issued, if the type of the assigned pointer doesn't match the requested allocation. And yes, warnings are _very_ useful in C for

Re: [PATCH 1/3] coredump: cleanup documentation for suid_dumpable

2007-08-01 Thread Alan Cox
NAK - this feature is actively used and can be set by the sysctl interface. The PRCTL fixup was just a bug being fixed. The sysctl interface is still relevant. Thank you for correcting me. Appreciated. I am not aware that it is still being actively used. May I know who or which program

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: [...] e.g. in this example there are three tasks that run only for about 1ms every 3ms, but they get far more time than should have gotten fairly: 4544 roman 20 0 1796 520 432 S 32.1

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Jason Wessel
Paul Mundt wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:09:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: - Is anyone testing the kgdb code in here? Testing, yes. Succeeding, no. It's utterly hosed on SH in its present condition at least. Presumably it's been tested on at least one platform with some measure

Re: CS5530 Alsa driver fails

2007-08-01 Thread Rafał Bilski
Might be worth setting the IRQ to sharable. I've never seen a 5530 with the sound IRQ shared so I don't know if that works and is a valid configuration for the VSA firmware The relevant patch is below. Please give it a try. Takashi - if (request_irq(irq, irq_handler, hardware ==

Re: [PATCH] RT: Add priority-queuing and priority-inheritance to workqueue infrastructure

2007-08-01 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 20:52 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: Here's a simpler version .. uses the plist data structure instead of the 100 queues, which makes for a cleaner patch .. Hi Daniel, I like your idea on the plist simplification a lot. I will definitely roll that into my series. I am

Re: [linux-dvb] SAA7160/2

2007-08-01 Thread Steven Toth
Manu Abraham wrote: Hi All, After a bit of talks with NXP, they stated that if shown enough of a user base (future business forecast) for the SAA7160 / SAA7162 PCIe chipset, they would take into consideration, an investment into support, such that the chips can be better supported. ie, i need

Re: Cleaning up the USBHID's blacklist.

2007-08-01 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Chr wrote: But I have one (final?) question. Since I am sometimes stuck to 80x25 console... can we alphabetically sort the blacklist by the Vendor (the first field), instead of the quirk field(last field)? Or is there a technical/theoretical reason behind it? I find

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: [...] e.g. in this example there are three tasks that run only for about 1ms every 3ms, but they get far more time than should have gotten fairly: 4544 roman 20 0 1796 520 432 S 32.1 0.4 0:21.08 lt 4545 roman 20 0

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-01 Thread Alan Cox
has to get the blessing of the maintainer. On the other hand, as you just said, the maintainer has no such obligation. Umm nope. As a maintainer if you feed Linus stuff you wrote that he thinks is a bad idea it will not go in, and you'll get an explanation of why. The process isn't perfect

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: especially if one already knows that scheduler clock has only limited resolution (because it's based on jiffies), it becomes possible to use mostly 32bit values. jiffies based sched_clock should be soon very rare. It's probably not worth optimizing for

[RFC] Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
- 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 Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[RFC] [PATCH] Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
[apologies for the empty mail earlier; wetware error] RFC: Deprecate a.out ELF interpreter support The Linux ELF loader is quite complicated and messy code (that could probably need a rewrite, but that's a different chapter). One particular messy part in it is the support for non ELF a.out

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Indan Zupancic
On Wed, August 1, 2007 13:01, Rene Herman wrote: On 08/01/2007 01:31 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: another reaction below in this thread reported kbd problems in vanilla 2.6.22.1 as well. What is the X versions, etc.? Does the problem go away if the X kbd

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 02:34 PM, Indan Zupancic wrote: On Wed, August 1, 2007 13:01, Rene Herman wrote: Teresa was already using 2.6.22.1, with CFS (v19.1) patched in, so reverting that would be a matter of patching it out again. She said she wasn't seeing trouble on other kernels though. I was the

Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86_64 EFI support -v3: EFI boot support

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Should I change change_page_attr to make it work before mem_init? Or Should I change init_memory_mapping to make it can be used to change mapping attributes? Which one is better? It's probably better to change init_memory_mapping. Just do it cleanly and correctly please. As in only change

Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

2007-08-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Borislav Petkov wrote: if i do delete here, it loads the second stage of grub and continues to load the kernel. Is there another way to land at the jmp instruction instead of poking blindly, maybe disassemble something parts of the initial code. \me reading grub-docs... Oh lovely. The

Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver

2007-08-01 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Segher Boessenkool wrote: This doesn't mean that shift is better anyway. If everyone considers it better, I give up. But be warned that shift (stride) is not the only property characterizing register accesses -- the regs might be only accessible as 16/32-bit quantities, for

Re: [PATCH] prevent SSB compilation on s390 part 2

2007-08-01 Thread John W. Linville
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:34:04AM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] drivers/ssb/Kconfig has already a depends on HAS_IOMEM which should prevent SSB from being selected. But appearantly it looks like this doesn't matter at all if it gets selected from

Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Get rid of dead code in sound/pci/ac97/ac97_patch.c

2007-08-01 Thread Liam Girdwood
I'd prefer we keep this code in atm. The WM97xx touch driver needs it to eliminate any audio noise from the touchscreen ADC. I'll post the remaining touch driver patches in time for the next merge window. Liam On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 22:36 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi, File

Re: [PATCH, RFD]: Unbreak no-mmu mmap

2007-08-01 Thread David Howells
Bernd Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. munmap can now unmap subparts of previously allocated blocks. This makes behaviour more consistent with mmu Linux, and allows us to simplify and speed up the uClibc malloc implementation. There's a problem with your alteration to do_munmap() to

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] the increase in code size: 2.6.22: textdata bss dec hex filename 10150 243344 1351834ce kernel/sched.o recent git: textdata bss dec

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Paul Mackerras
Mariusz Kozlowski writes: Second issue as reported earilier allmodconfig fails to build on imac g3. Do you really mean g3? If so it's a 32-bit kernel and it shouldn't be building lparmap.s. Or do you mean G5? CC arch/powerpc/kernel/lparmap.s AS arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o

Re: [linux-dvb] SAA7160/2

2007-08-01 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi Steve, On 8/1/07, Steven Toth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi manu, Hauppauge deal with NXP on a daily basis. We have a number of 716x products either in the market or coming to market and we can add some leverage. I can push this through our FAE and account manager. Who's your contact at

THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED seems regressive

2007-08-01 Thread Hugh Dickins
When updating this IBM ThinkPad T43p from 2.6.22 to 2.6.23-rc1 using make oldconfig, the text and default Y of config THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED bool Enable input layer support by default depends on THINKPAD_ACPI default y ---help--- Enables hot key

Re: [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: use platform IDE driver for CF interface

2007-08-01 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Segher Boessenkool wrote: +[EMAIL PROTECTED] { +compatible = mmio-ide; +device_type = ide; Why not ata? The hardware is called (E)IDE, the protocol is called ATA. Sorry for not denouncing this earlier. :-) ATA is the name of ANSI standard describing

[2.6 patch] update .gitignore

2007-08-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
Some shipped files were wrongly ignored by git. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- .gitignore |9 - 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2/.gitignore.old 2007-08-01 14:12:43.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2/.gitignore

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/advansys.c: fix advansys_board_found compile error

2007-08-01 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:39:12PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote: This patch fixes the following compile error: drivers/scsi/advansys.c: In function 'advansys_board_found': drivers/scsi/advansys.c:17781: error: implicit declaration of function 'to_pci_dev' Or just remove the ifdefs around the

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/advansys.c: fix advansys_board_found compile error

2007-08-01 Thread Gabriel C
Eugene Teo wrote: Hi Gabriel, Hi Eugene, Hope the following trivial patch helps. Yes it does , thx. quote sender=Gabriel C Getting this with a randconfig ( http://194.231.229.228/MM/randconfig-auto-10 ) [...] drivers/scsi/advansys.c:794:2: warning: #warning this driver is still not

Re: [PATCH] FRV: Make BSG declarations dependent on CONFIG_BLOCK

2007-08-01 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 10:13 +0100, David Howells wrote: From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make BSG function declarations dependent on CONFIG_BLOCK as they are not compilable if the block layer is compiled out. Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/bsg.h

Re: [2.6 patch] ppc .gitignore update

2007-08-01 Thread Grant Likely
On 8/1/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: arch/ppc/.gitignore shouldn't exclude arch/ppc/boot/include Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- /dev/null 2006-09-19 00:45:31.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2/arch/ppc/boot/.gitignore 2007-08-01

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:10:33AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: I was hoping for a 2.6.24 merge. But I haven't actually looked at it yet. Hopefully Jason is planning to get it all out for review soonish. The current version is quite messy. I'd be much happier if we could start with a light

Re: [PATCH] flush icache before set_pte take6. [4/4] optimization for cpus other than montecito

2007-08-01 Thread David Mosberger-Tang
On 8/1/07, Zoltan Menyhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You do have model specific I cache semantics. Not taking it into account will oblige you to flush in vain for the models which do not require it. Why do you want to take this option? Given unlimited resources, your proposal makes perfect

Re: Multiple CD-ROM Drives

2007-08-01 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:08:19PM -0400, Cal Peake wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Brian D. McGrew wrote: Using FC5 with a 2.6.15 kernel my system (Dell Optiplex) see both drives. Using the 2.6.16.16 kernel that I've built I see no CD-ROM drives. What could I have missed in the

[PATCH] drivers/scsi/advansys.c: fix advansys_board_found compile error

2007-08-01 Thread Eugene Teo
Hi Gabriel, Hope the following trivial patch helps. quote sender=Gabriel C Getting this with a randconfig ( http://194.231.229.228/MM/randconfig-auto-10 ) [...] drivers/scsi/advansys.c:794:2: warning: #warning this driver is still not properly converted to the DMA API

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread :::.. TeresaII ..:::
Indan Zupancic wrote: I'm having trouble reproducing this at will -- it sounded as though Teresa had less trouble at least originally. Teresa? I am at work actually, so i cant test anything. End of this week i got to vacation, so i possibly can return testing in 1 month again. Same here,

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: especially if one already knows that scheduler clock has only limited resolution (because it's based on jiffies), it becomes possible to use mostly 32bit values. jiffies based sched_clock should be soon very rare. It's probably not worth

[2.6 patch] ppc .gitignore update

2007-08-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
arch/ppc/.gitignore shouldn't exclude arch/ppc/boot/include Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- /dev/null 2006-09-19 00:45:31.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2/arch/ppc/boot/.gitignore 2007-08-01 15:18:33.0 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +!include - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] expand /proc/interrupts to include missing vectors, v2

2007-08-01 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:17:18PM -0400, Joe Korty wrote: Add missing IRQs and IRQ descriptions to /proc/interrupts. /proc/interrupts is most useful when it displays every IRQ vector in use by the system, not just those somebody thought would be interesting. This patch inserts the

Search for x86_64 documentation.

2007-08-01 Thread Francis Moreau
Hello, I'm used to hack Linux on a ARM based board and would like to be involved in x86_64 architecture but I don't know where I should start... Could anyone point out some nice documentations/books describing this architecture ? thanks -- Francis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

[PATCH] AT91: include atmel_lcdc.h in at91sam926{1,3}_devices.c

2007-08-01 Thread Jan Altenberg
Hi all, current git doesn't compile for CONFIG_ARCH_AT91SAM926{1,3} and and CONFIG_FB_ATMEL enabled, due to a missing inclusion of atmel_lcdc.h: /home/jan/kernel/git/linux-2.6/arch/arm/mach-at91/at91sam9263_devices.c: In function ‘at91_add_device_lcdc’:

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Indan Zupancic
On Wed, August 1, 2007 14:50, Rene Herman wrote: On 08/01/2007 02:34 PM, Indan Zupancic wrote: On Wed, August 1, 2007 13:01, Rene Herman wrote: Teresa was already using 2.6.22.1, with CFS (v19.1) patched in, so reverting that would be a matter of patching it out again. She said she wasn't

drivers/scsi/advansys.c compile error ( Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 )

2007-08-01 Thread Gabriel C
Getting this with a randconfig ( http://194.231.229.228/MM/randconfig-auto-10 ) ... drivers/scsi/advansys.c:794:2: warning: #warning this driver is still not properly converted to the DMA API drivers/scsi/advansys.c: In function 'advansys_board_found': drivers/scsi/advansys.c:17781: error:

Re: Whats the problem with my IDE...

2007-08-01 Thread Alan Cox
I still have those messages, but now there seem to be much less of them. It would really help me, if someone could tell me about how critical such error messages are. The CRC errors are indicative of cable or similar problems but each time you see a CRC error the transmission is repeated so

Re: [PATCH] sysace: HDIO_GETGEO has it's own method for ages

2007-08-01 Thread Grant Likely
On 7/30/07, Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The way this driver triesto implement HDIO_GETGEO it'll never be called. Then again on ppc it probably will never be called anyway because it's utterly pointless. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Heh, that's what I

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: Please also send me the output of this script: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/cfs-debug-info.sh Send privately. Could you also please send the source code for the l.c and lt.c apps you used for your testing so i can have a

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 03:07 PM, Indan Zupancic wrote: On Wed, August 1, 2007 14:50, Rene Herman wrote: On 08/01/2007 02:34 PM, Indan Zupancic wrote: On Wed, August 1, 2007 13:01, Rene Herman wrote: Teresa was already using 2.6.22.1, with CFS (v19.1) patched in, so reverting that would be a matter

Re: [PATCH 2/3] sound/pci ioremap/iounmap balancing

2007-08-01 Thread Scott Thompson
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:38:16 -0400 Takashi Iwai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would be rater a lacking check of returned errors. The other changes look incorrect. All these drivers use card-private_free callback to release the resources even for the error exit. Thus, you don't need iounmap

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-08-01 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:11:23AM -0400, Dan Merillat wrote: How expensive would it be to allocate two , then use the MMU mark the second page unwritable? Hardware wise it should be possible, (for Tweaking kernel ptes is prohibitive during clone() because that's kernel memory and it would

Re: [PATCH] - Remove current defines and uses of pr_err, add pr_emerg, pr_alert, pr_crit, pr_err, pr_warn, pr_notice to include/linux/kernel.h

2007-08-01 Thread Joe Perches
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 16:24 +0800, Eugene Teo wrote: But why are you replacing the existing pr_*() with printk(KERN_*? Order of compilation if bisected? The idea is to eventually convert all single line printk(KERN_level fmt \n,...) to pr_level tree wide. This leaves only the multiline

Re: Problem - disabling IRQ #20 and others

2007-08-01 Thread debian developer
On 8/1/07, Andev Debi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Im getting the following error while booting the kernel 2.6.22.1-cfs Aug 1 09:14:09 localhost kernel: [ 30.272161] EXT3 FS on hda8, internal journal Aug 1 09:14:09 localhost kernel: [ 33.572083] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl

RE: [PATCH -rt] Preemption problem in kernel RT Patch

2007-08-01 Thread Beauchemin, Mark
Ingo, I tried just removing the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT code, but that drops packets if another task has the lock. Here's the debug printouts: 4xmit_lock_owner owned by sigd not softirq-net-rx/ 4xmit_lock_owner owned by sigd not softirq-net-rx/ 4xmit_lock_owner owned by sigd not softirq-net-rx/ Our

[PATCH -mm] Fix defined but not used warning in drivers/kvm/vmx.c

2007-08-01 Thread Gabriel C
Hi, move_msr_up() is used only on X86_64 and generates a warning on !X86_64 ... drivers/kvm/vmx.c:548: warning: 'move_msr_up' defined but not used ... Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PS: Btw Avi why do you think I'm mysterious ?:) ... git-kvm.patch:Noted by the

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: T60 ACPI issues

2007-08-01 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Hi! ACPI appears to have been broken with 2.6.23-rc1 on my T60 Userspace from ubuntu dapper. (Whereas I'm using a T43p with openSUSE 10.2.) 1. During boot, I see a lot of messages like this: [ 41.034204] acpi LNXSYSTM:00: uevent:

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/advansys.c: fix advansys_board_found compile error

2007-08-01 Thread Gabriel C
Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:39:12PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote: This patch fixes the following compile error: drivers/scsi/advansys.c: In function 'advansys_board_found': drivers/scsi/advansys.c:17781: error: implicit declaration of function 'to_pci_dev' Or just remove

Re: 2.6.22 new perfmon code base + libpfm + pfmon

2007-08-01 Thread Bob Nelson
On Thursday 26 July 2007 09:02:22 am Stephane Eranian wrote: Hello, I have released another version of the perfmon new code base package. This version of the kernel patch is relative to 2.6.22. Sorry for the delay but there was some traveling on my part + a lot of patches to integrate + a

Re: Is PIE randomization breaking klibc binaries?

2007-08-01 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: So it seems to me that either it is something x86_64 specific or initramfs-specific. Will try to reproduce it. My guess would be the former, rather than the latter. I haven't had a chance to reproduce it myself yet (I'm on the road), but I will

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