Re: [2/2] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions with patches

2007-09-03 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc5 with patches available. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007 Adrian Bunk9

Re: [1/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions

2007-09-03 Thread Jan Dittmer
Michal Piotrowski wrote: Subject : 2.6.23-rc2 cross compile regressions (alpha,xtensa) References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/6/43 Last known good : alpha: 2.6.22-git8 xtensa: 2.6.22-git6 Submitter : Jan Dittmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caused-By : ?

Re: [PATCH] Blackfin BF54x NAND Flash Controller driver

2007-09-03 Thread Clemens Koller
Hi, Bryan! Bryan Wu schrieb: This is the driver for latest Blackfin BF54x nand flash controller - use nand_chip and mtd_info common nand driver interface - provide both PIO and dma operation - compiled with ezkit bf548 configuration - use hardware 1-bit ECC - tested with YAFFS2 and can

Re: [1/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions

2007-09-03 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 03/09/07, Jan Dittmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michal Piotrowski wrote: Subject : 2.6.23-rc2 cross compile regressions (alpha,xtensa) References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/6/43 Last known good : alpha: 2.6.22-git8 xtensa: 2.6.22-git6 Submitter

Re: [patches] [patch 3/5] x86: Add PCI extended config space access for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread Andi Kleen
But it is needed for some devices for full functionality. Examples? I can only think of PCI express error reporting, which few drivers implement anyways and isn't really a show stopper if it doesn't work. Besides I would be surprised if it even works on the cheap desktop boards which have MCFG

System clock frequency offset changes drastically across reboots

2007-09-03 Thread John Sigler
[ Re-sending... Please feel free to comment, even if you don't have The Solution. I'd just like to get some feedback. ] Hello everyone, I'm using 2.6.20.7-rt8 on a P3. I've noticed that the frequency offset of my system clock (computed either by ntpd, or by hand) changes drastically across

Re: [1/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions

2007-09-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:14:05PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 03/09/07, Jan Dittmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michal Piotrowski wrote: Subject : 2.6.23-rc2 cross compile regressions (alpha,xtensa) References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/6/43 Last known good :

[PATCH] [ALSA] Added new pin config for first gen macbook.

2007-09-03 Thread Abhijit Bhopatkar
commit 5d5d3bc3eddf2ad97b2cb090b92580e7fed6cee1 changed all pin configs for intel macs, but it breaks sound on Macbook first generation. Readded a known working pin config for first gen macbooks. Signed-off-by: Abhijit Bhopatkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- sound/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c | 10

Re: [PATCH] i386: per-CPU double fault TSS and stack

2007-09-03 Thread Jan Beulich
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01.09.07 12:33 Can you cc the next version to Linus please? He's probably best qualified to review the i386 double fault handler because he wrote it originally. I must admit the code always scared me a bit. Will do. +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU +static void

Re: [1/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions

2007-09-03 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 03/09/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:14:05PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 03/09/07, Jan Dittmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michal Piotrowski wrote: Subject : 2.6.23-rc2 cross compile regressions (alpha,xtensa) References :

Re: [PATCH] [ALSA] Added new pin config for first gen macbook.

2007-09-03 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 3 Sep 2007 15:55:18 +0530, Abhijit Bhopatkar wrote: commit 5d5d3bc3eddf2ad97b2cb090b92580e7fed6cee1 changed all pin configs for intel macs, but it breaks sound on Macbook first generation. Please elaborate how does it break. it breaks sound is too ambigious like the most popular bug

[PATCH][-mm] Fix setup_per_zone_pages_min() lock.

2007-09-03 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Fix setup_per_zone_pages_min(). Now setup_per_zone_pages_min() uses zone-lru_lock. This has 2 problems. 1. setup_page_zone_pages_min() modifies zone-pages_min,pages_low,pages_high. in atomic. But readers of these values tend not to take lru_lock. (At least, we need lock between memory

2.6.23-rc5 regression: uml on x86_64 compile error

2007-09-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
Commit d1254b12c93e1e586137a2ffef71fd33cf273f35 causes the following compile error (found at [1]): -- snip -- ... CC fs/binfmt_elf.o In file included from fs/binfmt_elf.c:30: include/linux/elfcore.h: In function ‘elf_core_copy_regs’: include/linux/elfcore.h:103: error: ‘union

Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions

2007-09-03 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Michal Piotrowski wrote: Unclassified Subject : console is messed up after resume from s2ram or switching to console from X References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/6 Last known good : ? Submitter : Jeff Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caused-By : ? Handled-By : H.

Re: [patch] enable userspace cpu core voltage control with acpi-cpufreq

2007-09-03 Thread Andi Kleen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i want to make a patch known that provides a userspace interface to control the core voltage of a computer processor(s). That would be essentially linux supported undervolting which for stability is as bad as overclocking. The problem is that such games tend to

2.6.22.6 pata_via cable detect

2007-09-03 Thread Howard Chu
Still have a slight glitch here. I have 2 hard drives on the primary channel, detected correctly as 80-wire and UDMA100. I have a DVD burner on the secondary channel, detected incorrectly as 40-wire. (It's sitting by itself on an 80-wire cable.) This is on an Asus A8V-Deluxe. Here's the dmesg

Re: [-mm patch] IPV6 must select XFRM

2007-09-03 Thread Masahide NAKAMURA
Hello, On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:25:57 +0200 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:58:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: ... git-net.patch ... git trees ... This patch fixes the following compile error: -- snip -- ...

Re: [PATCH] [ALSA] Added new pin config for first gen macbook.

2007-09-03 Thread Ivan N. Zlatev
On 9/3/07, Takashi Iwai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Mon, 3 Sep 2007 15:55:18 +0530, Abhijit Bhopatkar wrote: commit 5d5d3bc3eddf2ad97b2cb090b92580e7fed6cee1 changed all pin configs for intel macs, but it breaks sound on Macbook first generation. For the record I have just verified that

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc5] driver/char/hpet.c: remove clocksourcewarning on !IA64

2007-09-03 Thread Bob Picco
luck wrote: [Sun Sep 02 2007, 03:13:45AM EDT] This patch eliminates the warnings when the clocksoure isn't used. It also removes some other unused stuff that goes along with the clocksource .. I don't have access to an ia64 machine, or even a compiler .. So this one is untested for

Re: [patches] [patch 3/5] x86: Add PCI extended config space access for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread Robert Richter
Andi, On 03.09.07 12:15:03, Andi Kleen wrote: But it is needed for some devices for full functionality. Examples? I can only think of PCI express error reporting, which few drivers implement anyways and isn't really a show stopper if it doesn't work. Besides I would be surprised if it

Re: [patches] [patch 3/5] x86: Add PCI extended config space access for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread Andreas Herrmann
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:15:03PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: But it is needed for some devices for full functionality. Examples? I can only think of PCI express error reporting, which few drivers implement anyways and isn't really a show stopper if it doesn't work. Besides I would be

Re: [patches] [patch 3/5] x86: Add PCI extended config space access for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 11:17:18 +0200 Andreas Herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \ Do you see any other issues besides the naming of the bit? I wonder if we should key this off a PCI ID of the chipset rather than the cpu id... I mean, how sure are you that all via chipsets connected to the barcelona

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3

2007-09-03 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Junio C Hamano wrote: Assuming that we do not give the old git-p4import script packaged in git-p4 package, would the following patch be all that is needed, or do we need other things in the spec file? -- snipsnap clipcrap -- +Obsoletes: git-p4 That depends. If packages outside of git

query regarding usb-hotplug

2007-09-03 Thread Renuka Pampana
hi all, iam having one doubt about the usb driver application. i written one small application (u can see this file usbthread.c in attachment , cc -o usbthread usbthread.c -lpthread -lusb (for compilation) ) on usb device drivers using LIBUSB-0.1.12 in user space. my project leader has given

Re: [PATCH] [ALSA] Added new pin config for first gen macbook.

2007-09-03 Thread Ivan N. Zlatev
On 9/3/07, Ivan N. Zlatev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/3/07, Takashi Iwai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Mon, 3 Sep 2007 15:55:18 +0530, Abhijit Bhopatkar wrote: commit 5d5d3bc3eddf2ad97b2cb090b92580e7fed6cee1 changed all pin configs for intel macs, but it breaks sound on Macbook

Re: [2.6.22] circular lock detected

2007-09-03 Thread Jan Kara
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:00:33 +0200 Folkert van Heusden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 2.6.22 kernel with hyperthreading enabled only ext3 filesystems (2). [ 346.314640] === [ 346.314758] [ INFO: possible circular locking

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases?

2007-09-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:24:37PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: ... Al Boldi wrote in Designers and Builders (was: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases?): | So, what's wrong with tapping into people's design suggestions, and | allowing others to implement it? Design suggestions

Re: highres timers break cpu hotplug in 2.6.23-rc5 [was Re: cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3]

2007-09-03 Thread Jeff Chua
On 9/3/07, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It gets weirder. With nohz=off on commandline, I have to press any key (generate interrupt?) for echo 1 online to finish. 2.6.23-rc5 kernel... but hotplug/unplug works reliably now. With nohz=off highres=off I can unplug/replug cpus as much

Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions

2007-09-03 Thread Jeff Chua
On 9/3/07, Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject : console is messed up after resume from s2ram or switching to console from X References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/6 Last known good : ? Submitter : Jeff Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caused-By : ?

Re: 2.6.23-rc5 regression: uml on x86_64 compile error

2007-09-03 Thread Jan Dittmer
Adrian Bunk wrote: Commit d1254b12c93e1e586137a2ffef71fd33cf273f35 causes the following compile error (found at [1]): -- snip -- ... CC fs/binfmt_elf.o In file included from fs/binfmt_elf.c:30: include/linux/elfcore.h: In function ‘elf_core_copy_regs’: include/linux/elfcore.h:103:

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-09-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:54:32AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:42:02AM -0700, Natalie Protasevich wrote: ... Then I think bugzilla needs: adding more categories such as security, security would be a flag like regression, not a category.

Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions

2007-09-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:48:00 +0100 H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michal Piotrowski wrote: Unclassified Subject : console is messed up after resume from s2ram or switching to console from X References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/6 Last known good : ?

Re: [2.6.22] circular lock detected

2007-09-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 14:27:02 +0200 Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:00:33 +0200 Folkert van Heusden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 2.6.22 kernel with hyperthreading enabled only ext3 filesystems (2). [ 346.314640]

Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions

2007-09-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:36:32 +0800 Jeff Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/3/07, Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject : console is messed up after resume from s2ram or switching to console from X References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/6 Last known good :

Re: [patches] [patch 3/5] x86: Add PCI extended config space access for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread Andi Kleen
And unfortunately this is too often the case. On Barcelona systems? See for instance Robert Hancock's patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/30/2 to enable MMCONFIG access in certain cases where BIOS did not correctly set up MCFG. Why are people working on such stuff if it is not serious

Re: [patches] [patch 3/5] x86: Add PCI extended config space access for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread Andi Kleen
On Monday 03 September 2007 13:27, Robert Richter wrote: On 03.09.07 12:15:03, Andi Kleen wrote: But it is needed for some devices for full functionality. Examples? I can only think of PCI express error reporting, which few drivers implement anyways and isn't really a show stopper if

ramdisk

2007-09-03 Thread Xu Yang
Hi everyone, I want to use ramdisk to boot my filesystem, as I can't use NFS and harddisk. I have load the ramdisk into the ram memory (start address :0x400) and in the boot options I specified : root =dev/ram0 initrd=0x400 but the kernel said it can not find any file system on it.

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc5 - oops

2007-09-03 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
[Zilvinas Valinskas - Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:11:51PM +0300] | Jeff was not swearing at all. All he said and meant that you did provide | fix faster then he was able to ;) Slight culture differences at play. ;) | | | | | heh, you beat me to it. That should indeed fix it. | | Jeff |

Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions

2007-09-03 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:36:32 +0800 Jeff Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/3/07, Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject : console is messed up after resume from s2ram or switching to console from X References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/6 Last

Re: [TOMOYO 15/15] LSM expansion for TOMOYO Linux.

2007-09-03 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Hello. Paul Moore wrote: I apologize for not recognizing your approach from our earlier discussion on the LSM mailing list in July. Unfortunately, I have the same objections to these changes that I did back then and from what I can recall of the discussion the rest of the kernel

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-09-03 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:43:29AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: ... This is *not* a security hole. In order to make it a security hole, you need to be root in the first place. Non-root users can write to places where root might believe they cannot write because he might be under the mistaken

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases?

2007-09-03 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:24:37PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: [on whether to track missing features] Where I am around, there are always far too few people who fix things and build things. But very, very occasionally there is someone new who wonders if there is an

Re: [PATCH] Make rcutorture RNG use temporal entropy

2007-09-03 Thread Matt Mackall
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 06:15:54PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 02:40:37PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:58:31AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 01:06:58PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: That whole Linux stealing our code thing]

2007-09-03 Thread Jonathan Gray
This is a lot more relevant than much of the ongoing discussion, so perhaps people could take a moment to read it over. - Forwarded message from Reyk Floeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Reyk Floeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 13:23:04 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: the Linux kernel, testsuites, and maybe *you*

2007-09-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mike Frysinger wrote: On 9/1/07, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to test that stuff and run it on the current code in the kernel, how about a kernel module? You could modprobe sanitytest or something and report to syslog at module load time. And maybe have a parameter

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

2007-09-03 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. John Sigler wrote: When my system boots, I get several set_drive_speed_status errors. (Please see attached dmesg output.) Can someone explain what they mean? How do I get rid of them? IDE code attempts to autotune PIO mode and fails at that because your device is too old (or

Re: [2.6.22] circular lock detected

2007-09-03 Thread Jan Kara
On Mon 03-09-07 05:49:59, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 14:27:02 +0200 Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:00:33 +0200 Folkert van Heusden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 2.6.22 kernel with hyperthreading enabled only ext3 filesystems (2).

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-09-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Jakob Oestergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:43:29AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: ... This is *not* a security hole. In order to make it a security hole, you need to be root in the first place. Non-root users can write to places where root might believe

Re: [PATCH 12/32] Unionfs: documentation updates

2007-09-03 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:59:02AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Sep 2 2007 22:20, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: + +While rebuilding Unionfs's objects, we also purge any page mappings and +truncate inode pages (see fs/Unionfs/dentry.c:purge_inode_data). This is to fs/unionfs/dentry.c

Re: [PATCH 09/32] Unionfs: cache-coherency - dentries

2007-09-03 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:52:17AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Sep 2 2007 22:20, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: @@ -184,10 +183,92 @@ out: } /* + * Determine if the lower inode objects have changed from below the unionfs + * inode. Return 1 if changed, 0 otherwise. + */ +int

Re: [PATCH 09/32] Unionfs: cache-coherency - dentries

2007-09-03 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 3 2007 10:08, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: +int is_newer_lower(const struct dentry *dentry) Could use bool and true/false as return value. I remember that way back when there was a discussion about the bool type. What how did that end? Is bool preferred? Well if there were objections,

Re: [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink

2007-09-03 Thread Jan Kara
On Tue 28-08-07 21:51:28, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:13:18 +0200 Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +static void send_warning(const struct dquot *dquot, const char warntype) +{ + static unsigned long seq; + struct sk_buff *skb; + void *msg_head; + int ret;

Re: bogomips discrepancy on Intel Core2 Quad CPU

2007-09-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bauke Jan Douma wrote: $ uname -a Linux skyscraper 2.6.22.5 #7 SMP PREEMPT Sun Sep 2 12:12:25 CEST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep bogomips bogomips: 4813.46 bogomips: 4810.91 bogomips: 4810.91 bogomips: 10583.94 The latter seems way off base. Prod me for more

Re: [patches] [patch 3/5] x86: Add PCI extended config space access for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread Robert Richter
Andi, On 03.09.07 14:48:41, Andi Kleen wrote: As said above, I do not see CF8 access as a workaround. I expect my system to work in the same way also if MMCONFIG is not available. It should boot sure, but exotic stuff not working is not a major issue It is not only about booting the

Re: ramdisk

2007-09-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Xu Yang wrote: Hi everyone, I want to use ramdisk to boot my filesystem, as I can't use NFS and harddisk. I have load the ramdisk into the ram memory (start address :0x400) and in the boot options I specified : root =dev/ram0 initrd=0x400 but the kernel said it can not find any file

RFC: [PATCH] Small patch on top of per device dirty throttling -v9

2007-09-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 08:59 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: --- Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 05:49 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: Peter, any chance to get a rollup against 2.6.22-stable?

Re: [patches] [patch 3/5] x86: Add PCI extended config space access for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread Andi Kleen
On Monday 03 September 2007 15:48, Robert Richter wrote: Andi, On 03.09.07 14:48:41, Andi Kleen wrote: As said above, I do not see CF8 access as a workaround. I expect my system to work in the same way also if MMCONFIG is not available. It should boot sure, but exotic stuff not

Re: [patch] enable userspace cpu core voltage control with acpi-cpufreq

2007-09-03 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:56:13PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i want to make a patch known that provides a userspace interface to control the core voltage of a computer processor(s). That would be essentially linux supported undervolting which for

Re: bogomips discrepancy on Intel Core2 Quad CPU

2007-09-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Bauke Jan Douma wrote: $ uname -a Linux skyscraper 2.6.22.5 #7 SMP PREEMPT Sun Sep 2 12:12:25 CEST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep bogomips bogomips: 4813.46 bogomips: 4810.91 bogomips: 4810.91 bogomips: 10583.94 The

Re: [patches] [patch 3/5] x86: Add PCI extended config space access for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread Andreas Herrmann
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:33:19AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 11:17:18 +0200 Andreas Herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \ Do you see any other issues besides the naming of the bit? I wonder if we should key this off a PCI ID of the chipset rather than the cpu id...

Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: Add power meters to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface

2007-09-03 Thread Jean Delvare
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 23:02:01 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 02 Sep 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: I guess power[1-*]_average would be OK? AFAIK, yes. It is probably not 100% in sync with the power supply class, though. Is the power supply class creating sysfs files? I see a

Re: GPL weasels and the atheros stink

2007-09-03 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:03:07 +0200, Marc Espie said: Look at the situation: Reyk Floeter writes some code, puts it under a dual licence, and goes on vacation. While he's away, some other people (Jiri, for starters) tweak the copyright and licence on the file he's mostly written. Without

Re: [PATCH 01/32] VFS: export release_open_intent symbol

2007-09-03 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index a83160a..b2b7c8e 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ void release_open_intent(struct nameidata *nd) else fput(nd-intent.open.file); }

Re: [GIT PULL -mm] Unionfs/fsstack/eCryptfs updates/cleanups/fixes

2007-09-03 Thread Erez Zadok
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Al Boldi writes: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: The following is a series of patches related to Unionfs, which include three small VFS/fsstack patches and one eCryptfs patch; the rest are Unionfs patches. The patches here represent several months of work and

Mounts and namespaces

2007-09-03 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, what happens to mounts when the namespace they exist in, exits? In my concrete case: ./newns /bin/bash # clone(CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_VM) # and exec to given program mount /dev/loop0 /mnt exit Still mounted and unreachable

Re: Mounts and namespaces

2007-09-03 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 06:23:18PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Hi, what happens to mounts when the namespace they exist in, exits? In my concrete case: ./newns /bin/bash # clone(CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_VM) # and exec to given program

Re: [PATCH -mm][resend] softlockup-improve-debug-output.patch fix

2007-09-03 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:07:06 +0530, Satyam Sharma said: On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: --- kernel/softlockup.c~fix 2007-09-02 04:23:49.0 +0530 +++ kernel/softlockup.c 2007-09-02 04:34:45.0 +0530 ^^ Ick, I botched a trivial patch, it doesn't

Re: [PATCH] Blackfin BF54x NAND Flash Controller driver

2007-09-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 15:25 +0800, Bryan Wu wrote: + if (hardware_ecc) { + if (plat-page_size == NFC_PG_SIZE_256) { + chip-ecc.bytes = 3; + chip-ecc.size = 256; + } else if (mtd-writesize == NFC_PG_SIZE_512) {

Re: [patch 5/5] x86: Set PCI config space size to extended for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread dean gaudet
it's so very unfortunate the PCI standard has no feature bit to indicate the presence of ECS. FWIW in my testing on a range of machines spanning 7 or 8 years i could read config space reg 256... and get 0x when the device didn't support ECS, and get valid data when the device did

Re: [pre-2.6.23 REGRESSION] 2.6.23-rc3-git1 crash/stuck on VIA CN700 system

2007-09-03 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:59:58 +0300 Stefan Becker wrote: Hi, Stefan Becker wrote: while trying to debug a hibernation/rtc_cmos alarm wakeup problem in 2.6.22 (or later) I noticed that the latest kernel crashes (or gets stuck sometimes) during boot after the message: SMP

Re: ramdisk

2007-09-03 Thread Xu Yang
thanks for the reply. no , it is not decompressed. isn' t the kernel supposed to do that? As we have tried to load this filesystem on the pc, it turns out the the kernel can recognize it. concerning the root=/dev/ram0, as the default value is root=/dev/nfs, so I just modify the nfs to ram0. is

bug in 2.6.22.6, net/sunrpc/svcsock.c

2007-09-03 Thread Wolfgang Walter
Hello, in 2.6.22.6, net/sunrpc/svcsock.c random characters are printed by svc_tcp_accept: lockd: last TCP connect from some random chars because buf is used unitialized: printk(KERN_NOTICE %s: last TCP connect from %s\n, serv-sv_name, buf); Probably it should be

Re: [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink

2007-09-03 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:43:36 +0200 Jan Kara wrote: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Mutt knows how to send patches inline vs. attachments... :( Anyway, on to the patch. Thanks for adding the new doc file. +This command is used to send a notification about any of the above mentioned

Re: GPL weasels and the atheros stink

2007-09-03 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then go yell at Mr. Floeter. The code is dual-licensed and he put BSD-License only code in it. Because that's the *EXACT* *SAME* thing you're talking about. Actually it is not. Dual BSD/GPL licence essentially means BSD, because rights given by

Re: [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink

2007-09-03 Thread Jan Kara
On Mon 03-09-07 10:12:34, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:43:36 +0200 Jan Kara wrote: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Mutt knows how to send patches inline vs. attachments... :( Hmm, I thought Andrew either does not mind or prefers attachments. If it isn't the case, I can

Re: [PATCH] Blackfin BF54x NAND Flash Controller driver

2007-09-03 Thread Bryan Wu
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 17:46 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 15:25 +0800, Bryan Wu wrote: + if (hardware_ecc) { + if (plat-page_size == NFC_PG_SIZE_256) { + chip-ecc.bytes = 3; + chip-ecc.size = 256; +

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

2007-09-03 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
Hi, Jiri Kosina wrote: [snip] +/* overriden by architectures supporting brk randomization */ +void __weak arch_randomize_brk(struct mm_struct *mm) { } I was actually suggesting in my last email: unsigned long randomize_brk(unsigned long brk) therefore arch specific code don't

Re: [PATCH 01/32] VFS: export release_open_intent symbol

2007-09-03 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:59:15PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index a83160a..b2b7c8e 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ void release_open_intent(struct nameidata *nd)

Re: GPL weasels and the atheros stink

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
(As noted before - I am surround all-caps text with *'s to indicate vocal stress, not volume) On Monday 03 September 2007 05:47:59 David Schwartz wrote: Daniel Hazelton wrote: Your entire argument is based on the false assumption that these licenses are compatible. They are not. You

mutex vs cache coherency protocol(for multiprocessor )

2007-09-03 Thread Xu Yang
Hello everyone, Just got a rough question in my head. don't know whether anyone interested . mutex vs cache coherency protocol(for multiprocessor) both of these two can be used to protect shared resource in the memory. are both of them necessary? for example: in a multiprocessor system, if

Re: libata not working for sis5533

2007-09-03 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 2 2007 11:40, Alan Cox wrote: i've been out for a week, but found no notice, did i lost any email or no activity on this issue? I tagged it onto the obscure IDE report pile. It doesn't contain any really useful information and its probably not an IDE layer bug as of itself. But its on

Re: [PATCH] Blackfin BF54x NAND Flash Controller driver

2007-09-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 9/3/07, Clemens Koller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Wu schrieb: This is the driver for latest Blackfin BF54x nand flash controller - use nand_chip and mtd_info common nand driver interface - provide both PIO and dma operation - compiled with ezkit bf548 configuration - use

Re: [PATCH] Blackfin BF54x NAND Flash Controller driver

2007-09-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 9/3/07, Bryan Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig @@ -131,6 +131,24 @@ config MTD_NAND_AU1550 +config MTD_NAND_BF54X + tristate NAND Flash support for Blackfin BF54X SoC DSP i'd just describe it as Blackfin on-chip NAND rather

Re: Fwd: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 03 September 2007 05:48:00 David Schwartz wrote: Mr. Floeter *CAN* request that his code be removed from said fork - his code is solely licensed (AFAICT and IIRC) under the BSD/ISC license and was only covered by the dual-license because it was integrated into a work that

Re: GPL weasels and the atheros stink

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 03 September 2007 13:18:35 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then go yell at Mr. Floeter. The code is dual-licensed and he put BSD-License only code in it. Because that's the *EXACT* *SAME* thing you're talking about. Actually it is not. Dual

Re: [patch 5/5] x86: Set PCI config space size to extended for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread Robert Richter
On 03.09.07 09:48:15, dean gaudet wrote: it's so very unfortunate the PCI standard has no feature bit to indicate the presence of ECS. Right. Not nice. FWIW in my testing on a range of machines spanning 7 or 8 years i could read config space reg 256... and get 0x when the device

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Daniel Walker wrote: For instance if there are three tasks in the system. Call them A,B, and C. then time equals time of A + time of B + time of C Ok, let's take a simple example. :) If we have three task A, B, C, each with a weight of 1, 2, 3, so the weight

Re: Fwd: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-03 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The fact remains that the person making a work available under *ANY* form of copyright license has the right to revoke said grant of license to anyone. Not after the licence has been given and accepted (and there might be restrictions), unless of

Re: [GIT PULL -mm] Unionfs/fsstack/eCryptfs updates/cleanups/fixes

2007-09-03 Thread Al Boldi
Erez Zadok wrote: Al, we have back-ports of the latest Unionfs to 2.6.{22,21,20,19,18,9}, all in http://unionfs.filesystems.org/. Before we release any change, we test it on all back-ports as well as the latest -rc/-mm code base (takes over 24 hours straight to get through all of our

Re: New x86-Setup code breaks HVM-XEN boot

2007-09-03 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi, On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:49:26AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Christian Ehrhardt wrote: Note the the xm console command terminates on its own, i.e. the guest machine seems to halt and not hang somewhere. I could verify that the real mode code up to the assembly code in pmjump.S is

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc5

2007-09-03 Thread Gabriel C
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Sunday, 2 September 2007 09:54, Prakash Punnoor wrote: Hi, 2.6.23-rc5 locks up hard (Magic Syskeys won't even work) after a few minutes of work on x86_64. 2.6.23-rc4 was fine. I'll try git-bisect to find out what is causing trouble. Yes, I am using nvidia binary

Ath5k panic fix

2007-09-03 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Ath5k panics on ath_open() because sc-pdev is never set, fixed. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_base.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_base.c @@ -2295,6 +2295,7 @@ static int __devinit ath_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, hw-max_rssi =

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Simple Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: Roman, as an addendum to my review, please find below a prototype patch i've just written that implements RSRFS (Really Simple Really Fair Scheduler) ontop of CFS. It is intended to demonstrate the essence of the math you have presented via your

Re: [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink

2007-09-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 19:48:46 +0200 Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon 03-09-07 10:12:34, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:43:36 +0200 Jan Kara wrote: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Mutt knows how to send patches inline vs. attachments... :( Hmm, I thought

Re: [GIT PULL -mm] Unionfs/fsstack/eCryptfs updates/cleanups/fixes

2007-09-03 Thread Erez Zadok
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Al Boldi writes: Erez Zadok wrote: Al, we have back-ports of the latest Unionfs to 2.6.{22,21,20,19,18,9}, all in http://unionfs.filesystems.org/. Before we release any change, we test it on all back-ports as well as the latest -rc/-mm code base (takes over

Re: [PATCH 3/4] ide: make ide_rate_filter() also respect PIO and SW/MW DMA mode masks (take 2)

2007-09-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Sunday 02 September 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: Make ide_rate_filter() also respect PIO/SWDMA/MWDMA mode masks. While at it, Hm, this seems to be already dealt with by:

Re: [PATCH 2/4] hpt366: MWDMA filter for SATA cards

2007-09-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Sunday 02 September 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: Hello, I wrote: The patch was 4/4 of course. :- Probably I was too esctatic about the code. ;-) The Marvell bridge chips used on HighPoint SATA cards do not seem to support the MWDMA modes (at least that caould be seen in

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Simple Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-03 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: Roman, as an addendum to my review, please find below a prototype patch i've just written that implements RSRFS (Really Simple Really Fair Scheduler) ontop of CFS. It is intended to demonstrate the

Re: Fwd: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 03 September 2007 14:26:29 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The fact remains that the person making a work available under *ANY* form of copyright license has the right to revoke said grant of license to anyone. Not after the licence has been

Re: [Lguest] [RFC] 9p Virtualization Transports

2007-09-03 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:52 -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: The lguest and kvm transports are functional, but we are still working out remaining bugs and need to spend some time focusing on performance issues. I wanted to send out this preview patch set to the community to solicit ideas on

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