Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:41:27 -0700 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Rob Landley wrote: > > > On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > >> > > >> ... > > >> > > >>> The old "ramdisk=" has

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > The old "ramdisk=" has been changed to > > > > "ramdisk_size=" to make it clearer. The

Re: mail client to send patches

2007-08-30 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:29:07 +0400 Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: >>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> This was totally

Re: [PATCH] Remove write-only variable from pktgen_thread

2007-08-30 Thread David Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:33:56 -0700 > Pavel Emelianov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | The pktgen_thread.pid is set to current->pid and is never used > | after this. So remove this at all. > | > | Found during isolating the explicit pid/tgid usage. > | > | Signed-off-by:

Re: new x86 setup code hangs on Dell Inspiron 5150

2007-08-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Will Simoneau wrote: While trying to put together a new kernel for my laptop (Dell I5150, as in subject) I found that recent kernels just don't boot. Right after grub loads the kernel, before the "Uncompressing Linux" message is shown, it hangs. The BIOS appears to still be alive (ctrl-alt-del

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Ian Kent
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > > It did not. The previous behaviour was to always silently override the > > user mount options. > > ..so it still worked for any sane setup, at least. > > You broke that. Hua gave good reasons

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: EC: Check if boot_ec was really found in DSDT

2007-08-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:29:07 +0400 Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > > > >> Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > > > > This was totally whitespace-damaged. You have some

[RFC][PATCH] detect & print stack overruns at oops time

2007-08-30 Thread Eric Sandeen
In thinking about the 4KSTACKS + STACKOVERFLOW problems, I thought about this - if an oops occurs, explicitly print whether the current esp is now overrunning the stack, whether the thread has ever overrun the stack, else print the max stack excursion for the oopsing thread, if DEBUG_STACK_USAGE

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: EC: Check if boot_ec was really found in DSDT

2007-08-30 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > >> Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > This was totally whitespace-damaged. You have some broken email client > that turns s into four spaces. > > May I suggest rethinking the use of

RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Hua Zhong
Trond, > So you are saying that it is acceptable for the kernel to decide > unilaterally to override mount options? Why aren't we doing that for > any other filesystem than NFS? I think there are two reasons. First, I have no problem with the new behavior if it didn't cause a regression. I am

Re: linux-2.6.23-rc4 ppc build failure

2007-08-30 Thread Bret Towe
On 8/30/07, Tony Breeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:56:50PM -0700, Bret Towe wrote: > > On 8/29/07, Bret Towe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > while trying to build a fresh kernel for my mini after upgrading from > > > gutsy > > > (and forgetting to save my .config) I

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: EC: Check if boot_ec was really found in DSDT

2007-08-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This was totally whitespace-damaged. You have some broken email client that turns s into four spaces. May I suggest rethinking the use of Thunderbird (aka "mangles things

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > So you are saying that it is acceptable for the kernel to decide > unilaterally to override mount options? IT'S WHAT WE'VE APPARENTLY ALWAYS DONE! > Why aren't we doing that for any other filesystem than NFS? How hard is it to acknowledge the

Re: [stable] [patch 25/28] USB: cdc-acm: fix sysfs attribute registration bug

2007-08-30 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 07:33:41PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On 08/24/2007 02:04 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >> I don't understand. The history for stable/linux-2.6.22.y.git at > >> http://git.kernel.org shows that the commit for my patch, labelled > >> > >>

RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Ian Kent
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 16:44 -0700, Hua Zhong wrote: > > > How is the NFS client to know that these directories are disjoint, or > > > that no-one will ever create a hard link from one directory to another? > > > To my knowledge, the only way to ensure

[PATCH] ACPI: EC: Check if boot_ec was really found in DSDT

2007-08-30 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
From: Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> acpi_get_devices() returns success if it did not find any device. We have to check for this case. Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/acpi/ec.c |3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 21:59 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > > It did not. The previous behaviour was to always silently override the > > user mount options. > > ..so it still worked for any sane setup, at least. > > You broke that. Hua gave

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > It did not. The previous behaviour was to always silently override the > user mount options. ..so it still worked for any sane setup, at least. You broke that. Hua gave good reasons for why he cannot use the current kernel. It's a regression.

RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 21:38 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > > No. Solaris defaults to breaking cache consistency. > > If so, and since that's obviously what people _expect_ to happen, why not > make that the default, with the "consistent"

RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Hua Zhong
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > > No. Solaris defaults to breaking cache consistency. > > If so, and since that's obviously what people _expect_ to happen, why > not make that the default, with the "consistent" behaviour being the > one that needs an explicit option. > >

Re: [PATCH] Fix out-by-one error in traps.c

2007-08-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Rusty Russell wrote: > > We don't care if ebp is on the stack, we care about ebp + 4. Without > this, lguest (with CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP) can touch a page unmapped by > CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. Hmm.. This *really* cannot happen with a normal kernel - it implies that the

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 20:49 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > > Which is better than having it fail silently, or giving you a mount with > > the wrong mount options. > > No, Trond. > > That commit gets reverted or fixed. It's a regression, and

[PATCH] Increase lockdep MAX_LOCK_DEPTH

2007-08-30 Thread Eric Sandeen
The xfs filesystem can exceed the current lockdep MAX_LOCK_DEPTH, because when deleting an entire cluster of inodes, they all get locked in xfs_ifree_cluster(). The normal cluster size is 8192 bytes, and with the default (and minimum) inode size of 256 bytes, that's up to 32 inodes that get

Re: ifconfig changing a routing table?

2007-08-30 Thread David Miller
From: Dan Stromberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:55:53 + (UTC) > I'm not accustomed to ifconfig changing the routing table. Is this > normal? Every time you enable an IP address on an interface, the kernel creates a route to that subnet which gets likewise deleted when you

Re: XFS Fails Quality Assurance Tests on ARM

2007-08-30 Thread David Miller
From: Byron Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:12:46 + (UTC) > Anybody got any ideas of how we fix this? I don't know how much testing XFS gets on ARM, but one thing that some ARM chips have is D-cache aliasing problems and one thing XFS uses a lot is virtual remapping of

RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > No. Solaris defaults to breaking cache consistency. If so, and since that's obviously what people _expect_ to happen, why not make that the default, with the "consistent" behaviour being the one that needs an explicit option. Just out of

Re: [BUG] problem with nfs_invalidate_page

2007-08-30 Thread Ryusuke Konishi
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:49:22 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: >OK. I see your point... Basically, you are saying that the new >->invalidatepage() semantics do not allow us to rely on the dirty status >of the page in order to figure out if we need to clean up. Exactly. >Andrew, that was a fairly

Re: [PATCH RFC] iw_cxgb3: Support "iwarp-only" interfaces to avoid 4-tuple conflicts with the host stack.

2007-08-30 Thread Roland Dreier
> The sysadmin creates "for iwarp use only" alias interfaces of the form > "devname:iw*" where devname is the native interface name (eg eth0) for the > iwarp netdev device. The alias label can be anything starting with "iw". > The "iw" immediately after the ':' is the key used by the iwarp

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc4][reRESEND] ata_piix: IDE mode SATA patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Jason Gaston
Resend trying to remove 8-bit characters in the email. This patch adds the Intel Tolapai IDE mode SATA controller DID's. Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.23-rc4/drivers/ata/ata_piix.c.orig2007-08-27 18:32:35.0 -0700 +++

Re: [PATCH] fix maxcpus=1 oops in show_stat()

2007-08-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > So stay safe for now and just revert those #ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU > optimizations in rc1's commit. Thanks for the debugging, applied. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 16:44 -0700, Hua Zhong wrote: > > How is the NFS client to know that these directories are disjoint, or > > that no-one will ever create a hard link from one directory to another? > > To my knowledge, the only way to ensure this is to put them on > > different disk

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 18:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:37:13 -0400 Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:07 -0700, Hua Zhong wrote: > > > I am re-sending this after help from Ian and git-bisect. To me it's a > > > show-stopper: I

Re: Designers and Builders (was: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases?)

2007-08-30 Thread Al Boldi
Alan Cox wrote: > > The problem is not builders, or designers - this list has plenty of > > both. > > > > What Adrian is talking about are the people who go to designers and say > > "Build me something blue, with a design that doesn't work with the VFS". > > And the real test of whether someone is

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc4][reRESEND] ahci: RAID mode SATA patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Jason Gaston
Resend trying to remove 8-bit characters in the email. This patch adds the Intel Tolapai RAID controller DID's for SATA support. Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.23-rc4/drivers/ata/ahci.c.orig2007-08-27 18:32:35.0 -0700 +++

ifconfig changing a routing table?

2007-08-30 Thread Dan Stromberg
If I "ifconfig eth1 down", a rogue route disappears. If I "ifconfig eth1 up" or "ip link set dev eth1 up", the rogue route comes back. The route in question is for 10.3/16, and it's breaking some of my communications that should be handled by my default route. I'm not accustomed to ifconfig

Re: linux-2.6.23-rc4 ppc build failure

2007-08-30 Thread Tony Breeds
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:56:50PM -0700, Bret Towe wrote: > On 8/29/07, Bret Towe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > while trying to build a fresh kernel for my mini after upgrading from gutsy > > (and forgetting to save my .config) I hit the below build error > > 2.6.23-rc3 I did work under feisty

RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Hua Zhong
Hi Linus, > Hua - that said, I don't actually see why the commit you bisected to > has anything to do with the issue being discussed. Can you double-check > that it's literally that particular commit that breaks for you (you could > try just reverting that commit). I will double check that

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > Which is better than having it fail silently, or giving you a mount with > the wrong mount options. No, Trond. That commit gets reverted or fixed. It's a regression, and your theories that it's "better" that way are obviously broken. It's

[PATCH] Fix discrepancy between VDSO based gettimeofday() and sys_gettimeofday().

2007-08-30 Thread Tony Breeds
On platforms that copy sys_tz into the vdso (currently only x86_64, soon to include powerpc), it is possible for the vdso to get out of sync if a user calls (admittedly unusual) settimeofday(NULL, ptr). This patch adds a hook for architectures that set CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL to ensure when

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc4][reRESEND] i2c-i801: SMBus patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Jason Gaston
Resend with uppercase define. This updated patch adds the Intel Tolapai SMBus Controller DID's. This patch relies on the Tolapai patch to pci_ids.h Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.23-rc4/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c.orig 2007-08-27 18:32:35.0 -0700

[PATCH -mm] pcmcia: Updates to electra_cf driver

2007-08-30 Thread Olof Johansson
Fix build of electra_cf, since the IO space setup interfaces were changed when BenH rewrote it. Also clean it up a bit, add 5V support, make it unloadable, remove some dead variables, etc. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Andrew, I did this as an incremental patch that

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc4][RESEND] ahci: RAID mode SATA patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Jeremy Higdon
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 06:00:26PM -0700, Gaston, Jason D wrote: > > > >Resend without wordwrap. > > > >This patch adds the Intel Tolapai RAID controller DID's for SATA support. > > > >Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >--- linux-2.6.23-rc4/drivers/ata/ahci.c.orig 2007-08-27 >

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc4][reRESEND] irq: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Jason Gaston
Resend with uppercase define. This updated patch adds the Intel Tolapai LPC and SMBus controller DID's. Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.23-rc4/arch/i386/pci/irq.c.orig 2007-08-27 18:32:35.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc4/arch/i386/pci/irq.c

[PATCH] fix maxcpus=1 oops in show_stat()

2007-08-30 Thread Hugh Dickins
Alexey Dobriyan reports that maxcpus=1 is still broken in 2.6.23-rc4: if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not set, x86_64 bootup oopses in show_stat() - for_each_possible_cpu accesses a per-cpu area which was never set up. Alexey identified commit 61ec7567db103d537329b0db9a887db570431ff4 (ACPI: boot

XFS Fails Quality Assurance Tests on ARM

2007-08-30 Thread Byron Bradley
[to: linux-xfs] [cc: lkml] Hello, I am one of the developers at http://linkstationwiki.net , we are trying to port linux (2.6.22) to the LinkStation Pro. This has an ARM926EJ chip and we are having problems with XFS (the default filesystem for these devices). While we only have a few users who

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc2-rt2] ARM: use raw lock in __new_context

2007-08-30 Thread Kevin Hilman
The ARM CPU ASID lock should be raw as it's used by schedule() when creating a new context. Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- dev.orig/arch/arm/mm/context.c +++ dev/arch/arm/mm/context.c @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ #include #include -static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cpu_asid_lock); +static

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc2-rt2] call IRQ-chip's end hook in thread_simple_irq()

2007-08-30 Thread Kevin Hilman
When using the 'simple' handler as a chained handler, the end hook should be called so the chained handler can properly ack/unmask etc. after the threaded handler has completed. In particular, the chained GPIO IRQ hander on OMAP uses the 'simple' handler since the GPIO IRQs can be dynamically

Re: [PATCH] Add all thread stats for TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_TGID

2007-08-30 Thread Jonathan Lim
On Sat Aug 25 21:58:44 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Also, I don't understand why the code to update btime: > > > > /* calculate task elapsed time in timespec */ > > do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(); > > ts = timespec_sub(uptime, tsk->start_time); > > ... > >

Re: [BUG] kernel crash with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM on my ia32 box

2007-08-30 Thread bibo,mao
I tried 2.6.21 version, it also crashed similarly. thanks bibo,mao Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:49:53 +0800 "bibo,mao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Let's cc linux-mm. >I have one machine with 4G memory and 1G pci memory hole > between 2G and 3G. I compiled kernel

new x86 setup code hangs on Dell Inspiron 5150

2007-08-30 Thread Will Simoneau
While trying to put together a new kernel for my laptop (Dell I5150, as in subject) I found that recent kernels just don't boot. Right after grub loads the kernel, before the "Uncompressing Linux" message is shown, it hangs. The BIOS appears to still be alive (ctrl-alt-del works, keyboard lock

Re: [BUG] kernel crash with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM on my ia32 box

2007-08-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:49:53 +0800 "bibo,mao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Let's cc linux-mm. >I have one machine with 4G memory and 1G pci memory hole > between 2G and 3G. I compiled kernel with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM > option without PAE enabled, system crashed when booting. >I check

Re: [2.6 patch] make the dummy touchkit_ps2_detect() static

2007-08-30 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi Adrian, On Tuesday 14 August 2007 17:22, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The dummy touchkit_ps2_detect() for the CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TOUCHKIT=n case > shouldn't be a global function. > Applied, thank you. Btw, sorry for the long silence - I had a hard drive crash and the day after I restored everything

[git pull] Input updates for 2.6.23-rc4

2007-08-30 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi Linus, Please consider pulling from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git for-linus or master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git for-linus to receive updates to the input subsystem. Changelog: - Adrian Bunk (1): Input:

Re: [git pull request] scheduler updates

2007-08-30 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Friday 24 August 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Why the hell can't you just make the code sane and do what the comment > *says* it does, and just admit that HZ has nothing what-so-ever to do with > that thing, and then you do > > unsigned int sysctl_sched_granularity __read_mostly =

[BUG] kernel crash with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM on my ia32 box

2007-08-30 Thread bibo,mao
Hi, I have one machine with 4G memory and 1G pci memory hole between 2G and 3G. I compiled kernel with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM option without PAE enabled, system crashed when booting. I check the source code, function sparse_init will only allocate mem_map space for valid section which is set in

Re: [11/36] Use page_cache_xxx in fs/buffer.c

2007-08-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
This may already be handled? submit_bh() calls submit_bio() which calls __generic_make_request() and there we do: if (unlikely(bio_sectors(bio) > q->max_hw_sectors)) { printk("bio too big device %s (%u > %u)\n",

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc4] irq: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:46:56PM -0700, Jason Gaston wrote: > This updated patch adds the Intel Tolapai LPC and SMBus Controller DID's. > +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_Tolapai_00x5031 > +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_Tolapai_10x5032 NACK -- use all upper-case. -- Intel are

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:37:13 -0400 Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:07 -0700, Hua Zhong wrote: > > I am re-sending this after help from Ian and git-bisect. To me it's a > > show-stopper: I cannot find an acceptable workaround that I can implement. > > > > The

Re: [patch 0/4] Linux Kernel Markers

2007-08-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:12:40 +0200 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:05:40PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > > > Here are the Linux Kernel Markers for 2.6.23-rc3-mm1. It depends on the > > "immediate values" and on the "sorted module

Re: [PATCH] i386 and x86_64: randomize brk()

2007-08-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:10:03 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > Blackfin too please :) i think v850 also falls into this category, but > > i'm not terribly familiar with it ... > > Andrew, do you still strongly oppose to

RE: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc4][RESEND] ahci: RAID mode SATA patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Gaston, Jason D
>-Original Message- >From: Gaston, Jason D >Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 5:54 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Gaston, Jason D >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Subject: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc4][RESEND] ahci: RAID mode SATA patch for Intel >Tolapai > >Resend without wordwrap. >

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc4][RESEND] ahci: RAID mode SATA patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Jason Gaston
Resend without wordwrap. This patch adds the Intel Tolapai RAID controller DID's for SATA support. Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.23-rc4/drivers/ata/ahci.c.orig2007-08-27 18:32:35.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc4/drivers/ata/ahci.c 2007-08-28

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc4][RESEND] ata_piix: IDE mode SATA patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Jason Gaston
Resend without wordwrap. This updated patch adds the Intel Tolapai IDE mode SATA controller DID. Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.23-rc4/drivers/ata/ata_piix.c.orig2007-08-27 18:32:35.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc4/drivers/ata/ata_piix.c

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc4][RESEND] irq: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Jason Gaston
Resend without wordwrap. This updated patch adds the Intel Tolapai LPC and SMBus Controller DID's. Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.23-rc4/arch/i386/pci/irq.c.orig 2007-08-27 18:32:35.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc4/arch/i386/pci/irq.c2007-08-28

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc4][RESEND] i2c-i801: SMBus patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Jason Gaston
Resend without wordwrap. This updated patch adds the Intel Tolapai LPC and SMBus Controller DID's.  This patch relies on the irq Tolapai patch to pci_ids.h. Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.23-rc4/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig.orig2007-08-27 18:32:35.0

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc4][RESEND] i2c-i801: Documentation patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Jason Gaston
Resend without wordwrap. This patch adds the Intel Tolapai SMBus Controller text to i2c-i801 documentation. Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.23-rc4/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.orig 2007-08-30 15:56:39.0 -0700 +++

Re: resume failing on ATA controller

2007-08-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 06:29:48PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: (I've already mentioned this to Dave, but for the benefit of anyone else) > I also know someone running the same laptop using drivers/ide drivers > whose suspend/resume works properly > > I'm running the latest Fedora rawhide

Re: [Lguest] [PATCH] modify lguest console to support multiple hvc's

2007-08-30 Thread Rusty Russell
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 13:38 -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > From: Eric Van Hensbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This was a quick modification I did of lguest to be able to support multiple > HVC channels for some experiements I was doing. I'm not sure if this is more > generally useful, so I'm

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/00-INDEX notice ecryptfs.txt moved.

2007-08-30 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 30 August 2007 2:04:37 pm Randy Dunlap wrote: > Please use the expected (canonical) patch format. > > See Documentation/SubmittingPatches: > 14) The canonical patch format from Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ecryptfs.txt moved into

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 30/08/2007, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > initrd/initramfs/ramdisk docs: > - fix typos/spellos/grammar > - clarify RAM disk config location > - correct cpio option > > Cc: Bryan O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Rob Landley <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return value casts in zd1211 driver

2007-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Jesper Juhl wrote: What would be wrong in applying my patch that removes the cast of the kmalloc() return value and then also remove the "__nocast" here? We use it as a safety measure when coding. For example the write register function takes an address and a value. We got one of these the

RE: FC - NPIV in 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-30 Thread Duane Grigsby
-Original Message- From: Matthew Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:47 AM To: Seokmann Ju Cc: Abhishek Kane; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Linux Driver; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FC - NPIV in 2.6.23-rc2 > > some sought of documentation for this,

RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Hua Zhong
> How is the NFS client to know that these directories are disjoint, or > that no-one will ever create a hard link from one directory to another? > To my knowledge, the only way to ensure this is to put them on > different disk partitions. > > I don't know if all Unix systems have this issue, but

RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 16:30 -0700, Hua Zhong wrote: > There are two disjoint directories. I am wondering why there would be cache > coherency issues in this case? Is this Linus nfs implementation specific or > all other Unix systems all have the same issue? How is the NFS client to know that

RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Hua Zhong
> On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 15:47 -0700, Hua Zhong wrote: > > > > > > Which is better than having it fail silently, or giving you a mount > > > with the wrong mount options. > > > > Well, it depends on how you define "better". > > "better" as in: "I now have a chance to notice, when my 'read-only >

RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 15:47 -0700, Hua Zhong wrote: > Hi Trond, > > > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:07 -0700, Hua Zhong wrote: > > > I am re-sending this after help from Ian and git-bisect. To me it's a > > > show-stopper: I cannot find an acceptable workaround that I can > > > implement. The problem:

Re: hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

2007-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
> PIO mode 2 is mentioned. Even DMA seems to be supported. > Or am I mistaken? > > Could there be a bug in my south bridge? Nothing there about DMA support. The data sheet says the media can only do 4.1MB/second which is consistent with only needing PIO2 (actually its far slower than PIO2) -

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Randy Dunlap wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:41:27 -0700 H. Peter Anvin wrote: Rob Landley wrote: On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: ... The old "ramdisk=" has been changed to "ramdisk_size=" to make it clearer. The

Re: [1/1] Block device throttling [Re: Distributed storage.]

2007-08-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 01:53, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > Then, if of course you will want, which I doubt, you can reread > previous mails and find that it was pointed to that race and > possibilities to solve it way too long ago. What still bothers me about your response is that, while you

Re: [PATCH 00/23] drm: introduce drm_zalloc

2007-08-30 Thread Dave Airlie
Note the slab has a memory tracking feature that accounts memory to callers of the allocator. IF that's not enough for you please help improving the common code instead of inventing your own. Christoph that code was written over 6-7 years ago, feel free to provide a patch for it to use the

Re: NFS woes again

2007-08-30 Thread Florin Iucha
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:18:37PM -0700, Bret Towe wrote: > > uptime of 3 hours and keyboard is still working fine > > I'll hopefully get to test this on the mini tomorrow for at least 3 hours > > also > > got 45min on mini before I had to go elsewhere > the amd64 shutdown fine and has been up

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-30 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:41:27 -0700 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> > >> ... > >> > >>> The old "ramdisk=" has been changed to > >>> "ramdisk_size=" to make it clearer.

Re: Designers and Builders (was: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases?)

2007-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
> The problem is not builders, or designers - this list has plenty of both. > > What Adrian is talking about are the people who go to designers and say > "Build me something blue, with a design that doesn't work with the VFS". And the real test of whether someone is a good engineer or a dodgy

Re: [PATCH] Override 80-wire cable detection for Toshiba S1800-814

2007-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
> What's the max length of a 40wire cable to sustain 80wire cable > characteristics? Depends on the materials and connector. The required electrical characteristics for any cable are in the spec, and if you want to know more you'll need to know a lot more than I do about transmission line

Re: [PATCH] Don't needlessly initialize variable to NULL in zd_chip (was: Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return value casts in zd1211 driver)

2007-08-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 31/08/2007, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > BTW: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless=118831813500769=2 > ... Heh, thanks Randy. All too often patches get missed since I don't happen to include the right magic person to Cc. So I generally take a "better to have one Cc too many

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc4] i2c-i801: Documentation patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Jason Gaston
This patch adds the Intel Tolapai SMBus Controller text to i2c-i801 documentation. Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.23-rc4/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.orig 2007-08-30 15:56:39.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc4/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801

Re: [PATCH] input: Silence 'unused variable' warning in iforce joystick driver

2007-08-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 31/08/2007, Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > Hmm, would this not still give a warning when JOYSTICK_IFORCE_USB=y? Arrgh, I messed that one up real good... Thank you for your keen eye Satyam :-) > [ I didn't know mixing code and declarations (not at top of statement >

Re: [PATCH] Don't needlessly initialize variable to NULL in zd_chip (was: Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return value casts in zd1211 driver)

2007-08-30 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:30:31 +0200 Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Friday 31 August 2007 00:19:53 Joe Perches wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 22:20 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > Ok, I must admit I didn't check with sparse since it seemed pointless > > > - we usually never cast void pointers to other

RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Hua Zhong
Hi Trond, > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:07 -0700, Hua Zhong wrote: > > I am re-sending this after help from Ian and git-bisect. To me it's a > > show-stopper: I cannot find an acceptable workaround that I can > > implement. The problem: upgrading to 2.6.23-rc4 from 2.6.22 causes > > several autofs

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc4] i2c-i801: SMBus patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Jason Gaston
This updated patch adds the Intel Tolapai LPC and SMBus Controller DID's.  This patch relies on the irq Tolapai patch to pci_ids.h. Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.23-rc4/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig.orig2007-08-27 18:32:35.0 -0700 +++

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc4] irq: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Jason Gaston
This updated patch adds the Intel Tolapai LPC and SMBus Controller DID's. Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.23-rc4/arch/i386/pci/irq.c.orig 2007-08-27 18:32:35.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc4/arch/i386/pci/irq.c2007-08-28 16:58:31.0 -0700 @@

Re: [PATCH] Fix lguest page-pinning logic ("lguest: bad stack page 0xc057a000")

2007-08-30 Thread Rusty Russell
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 18:38 +0200, Frederik Deweerdt wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 02:09:59AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > If the stack pointer is 0xc057a000, then the first stack page is at > > 0xc0579000 (the stack pointer is decremented before use). Not > > calculating this correctly

[PATCH] Fix out-by-one error in traps.c

2007-08-30 Thread Rusty Russell
We don't care if ebp is on the stack, we care about ebp + 4. Without this, lguest (with CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP) can touch a page unmapped by CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -r b0b1ab8ecf48 arch/i386/kernel/traps.c --- a/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c Fri

Re: [PATCH] input: Silence 'unused variable' warning in iforce joystick driver

2007-08-30 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi, On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote: > In the iforce driver we currently get this warning > > drivers/input/joystick/iforce/iforce-packets.c: In function > 'iforce_get_id_packet': > drivers/input/joystick/iforce/iforce-packets.c:249: warning: unused variable > 'status' > > if

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Rob Landley wrote: On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: ... The old "ramdisk=" has been changed to "ramdisk_size=" to make it clearer. The original "ramdisk=" has been kept around for compatibility reasons, but it may be

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc4] ata_piix: IDE mode SATA patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Jason Gaston
This updated patch adds the Intel Tolapai IDE mode SATA controller DID. Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.23-rc4/drivers/ata/ata_piix.c.orig2007-08-27 18:32:35.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc4/drivers/ata/ata_piix.c 2007-08-29 17:13:13.0

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc4] ahci: RAID mode SATA patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-08-30 Thread Jason Gaston
This patch adds the Intel Tolapai RAID controller DID's for SATA support. Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.23-rc4/drivers/ata/ahci.c.orig2007-08-27 18:32:35.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc4/drivers/ata/ahci.c 2007-08-28 16:58:11.0 -0700 @@ -411,6

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-30 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > ... > > > The old "ramdisk=" has been changed to > > "ramdisk_size=" to make it clearer. The original > > "ramdisk=" has been kept around for compatibility reasons, > > but it may be

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-30 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:07 -0700, Hua Zhong wrote: > I am re-sending this after help from Ian and git-bisect. To me it's a > show-stopper: I cannot find an acceptable workaround that I can implement. > > The problem: upgrading to 2.6.23-rc4 from 2.6.22 causes several autofs > mounts to fail

[PATCH] Don't needlessly initialize variable to NULL in zd_chip (was: Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return value casts in zd1211 driver)

2007-08-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Friday 31 August 2007 00:19:53 Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 22:20 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > Ok, I must admit I didn't check with sparse since it seemed pointless > > - we usually never cast void pointers to other pointer types, > > specifically because the C language nicely

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