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

2007-06-28 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/6/28, Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Antonino Ingargiola wrote: > $ cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1.2/idVendor > 046d > $ cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1.2/idProduct > c311 Please try the patch below (against any post-2.6.22-rc1 kernel) Tried on 2.6.2

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

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

[Possible BUG] Logitech USB keyboard inconsistent led state

2007-06-27 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
Dear Kernel Developers, I'm using a logitech USB keyboard, I think it's one of the most cheap and diffuse logitech keyboard models. I have an inconsistent led state. During boot the NumLock led blinks several times and is on as boot finishes. However the numeric keypad works as it was off (no nu

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v18

2007-06-25 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/6/24, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: * Antonino Ingargiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, I've discovered with great pleasure that CFS has also the > SCHED_ISO priority. I may have missed something, but I don't remember > to have read this in any o

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v18

2007-06-24 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/6/23, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: * Antonino Ingargiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/6/23, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >i'm pleased to announce release -v18 of the CFS scheduler patchset. > > I'm running -v18 on 2

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v18

2007-06-23 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
Hi, 2007/6/23, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: i'm pleased to announce release -v18 of the CFS scheduler patchset. I'm running -v18 on 2.6.22-rc5, no problems so far. How can I change a task to SCHED_IDLE or SCHED_BATCH priority under CFS? Thanks, ~ Antonio - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: [ck] 2.6.22-rc3-ck1

2007-05-29 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/5/29, Antonino Ingargiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [cut] Swap Prefetch OFF # ./sp_tester Ram 776388000 Swap 51404 Total ram to be malloced: 1033408000 bytes Starting first malloc of 516704000 bytes Starting 1st read of first malloc Touching this much ram takes 1642 milliseconds St

Re: [ck] 2.6.22-rc3-ck1

2007-05-29 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
Hi, 2007/5/27, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: New test release: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/pre-releases/2.6.22-rc3/2.6.22-rc3-ck1/ This is a resync with newer -rc and contains the updated swap prefetch code. With this patch there is a stunning difference with the no swap prefetch case o

Re: 2.6.21.1 fails to suspend/resume to disk (sort of)

2007-05-24 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
Hi, 2007/5/23, Romano Giannetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [cut] Uf, I will try to find the time. I am on my way to try to compile 2.6.21.2 now. Problem is that a kernel compile "the ubuntu way" last hours here. If there is an expert on make-kpkg here, I could use some advise. I'd prefer to test patch

Re: [PATCH] mm: swap prefetch improvements

2007-05-22 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/5/21, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: * Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A suggestion for improvement: right now swap-prefetch does a small > > bit of swapin every 5 seconds and stays idle inbetween. Could this > > perhaps be made more agressive (optionally perhaps), if the syst

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
Hi Jean, 2007/5/14, Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [cut] > I've not found an obvious way to set it in sensors.conf. Could you > point me to some doumentation, thanks. sensors.conf supposedly _is_ the the documentation ;) Search for the following line in /etc/sensors.conf: chip "via686a-*"

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
Hi Jean! 2007/5/14, Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sure. On 2.6.21.1: > > via686a-isa-6000 > Adapter: ISA adapter > CPU core: +1.63 V (min = +0.06 V, max = +3.10 V) > +2.5V: +2.45 V (min = +0.06 V, max = +3.10 V) > I/O: +3.52 V (min = +3.12 V, max = +3.45 V) ALARM > +

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
Hi Jean, 2007/5/14, Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [cut] This is a rather bad idea to build the abituguru and hdaps drivers into your kernel if you don't have these devices. Especially abituguru, as it does arbitrary port probing. My bad. I have an abit motherboard and in doubt I selected t

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/5/14, Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [cut] I am not familiar with the gnome sensors applet. Does it say where it is getting the data (driver name, device name...)? The applet settings show a list of sensors under the libsensors name. Those are the sensors that work on 2.6.21.1. However

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-13 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
Hi, 2007/5/13, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sun, 13 May 2007, Antonino Ingargiola wrote: > > On my desktop pc with Debian Etch and 2.6.22-rc1 the gnome panel > applet "Sensors Applet" give an error message "No chip detected". > Works fine on 2

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-13 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/5/13, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Ok, the merge window has closed, and 2.6.22-rc1 is out there. [cut] So give it a good testing. We'll see how the regression tracking ends up working, but in order to actually track that, we want people actively testing -rc1 and making good repor

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-09 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/5/6, Antonino Ingargiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2007/5/5, Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Samstag, 5. Mai 2007 20:08 schrieb Antonino Ingargiola: > > Now I don't want to abuse your kindness, but I (personally) would be > > *really* interested in a sim

Re: [Linux-usb-users] [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-07 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/5/6, Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sun, 6 May 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > However, whatever policy the buffer uses, the fundamental point it's that > > when I flush the input buffer I should be sure that each byte read > > after the flush is *new* (current) data and not old one. This bec

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-06 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/5/6, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > However, whatever policy the buffer uses, the fundamental point it's that > when I flush the input buffer I should be sure that each byte read > after the flush is *new* (current) data and not old one. This because Define "new" and "old" in this case. I

Re: [ck] Re: swap-prefetch: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-06 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/5/5, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [cut] Here's a better swap prefetch tester. Instructions in file. The system should be leaved totally inactive for the test duration (10m) right? Regards, ~ Antonio - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-06 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/5/5, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, 5 May 2007 20:07:15 +0200 Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [cut] > should I understand this so that, if tty_buffer_request_room() returns > less than requested, the rest of the data should be dropped on the > floor? If it returns NULL the

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-06 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/5/5, Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Am Samstag, 5. Mai 2007 20:08 schrieb Antonino Ingargiola: > Now I don't want to abuse your kindness, but I (personally) would be > *really* interested in a similar fix for the FTDI usb-serial driver, > because many measureme

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-05 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/5/5, Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 18:58 +0200, Antonino Ingargiola wrote: > This patch does not solve the problem with the cdc_acd driver. I still > need to flush two times to really flush the input. And the "secondary > buffer" still

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-05 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
On 5/5/07, Antonino Ingargiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/4/07, Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Antonino: > > Can you try two tests (with my patch applied): > > 1. comment out the tty_flush_buffer() call in tty_ldisc_flush() and test > > 2. uncomm

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-05 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
Forgot to include the links in the previous mail: [0] http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/info/RS-232_null_modem.html [1] http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/ ~ Antonio - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-05 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/5/5, Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 18:46 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Samstag, 5. Mai 2007 18:08 schrieb Paul Fulghum: > > I would argue that cdc-acm should do the same as the serial driver. > > Has this been tested? > If so we could reduce the complexity of the

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-05 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/5/5, Antonino Ingargiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2007/5/5, Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 11:08 -0500, Paul Fulghum wrote: > > I would argue that cdc-acm should do the same as the serial driver. > > Try this patch for the usb ports.

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-05 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/5/5, Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 11:08 -0500, Paul Fulghum wrote: > I would argue that cdc-acm should do the same as the serial driver. Try this patch for the usb ports. (I don't have that hardware) Building... thanks. The HW is a cypress demo-board for their

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-05 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
On 5/4/07, Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Antonino: Can you try two tests (with my patch applied): 1. comment out the tty_flush_buffer() call in tty_ldisc_flush() and test 2. uncomment (reenable) the above call and comment out the tty_flush_buffer() call in tty_ioctl() and test I as

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-05 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
2007/5/5, Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 17:30 -0600, Paul Fulghum wrote: > OK, this behavior is so unexpected I must be missing > something basic. And so I was. Try this patch. --- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c 2007-05-04 05:46:55.0 -0500 +++ b/drivers/char/tty_i

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-04 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
On 5/4/07, Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 21:06 +0200, Antonino Ingargiola wrote: > Filling with echo console-screen.sh I've found that the blocking command is: > > unicode_start 2> /dev/null || true > > or at least the echo be

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-04 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
On 5/4/07, Antonino Ingargiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [cut] I'm quite confident the system blocks on "Setting consoles fonts and modes.", and thus during the boot script console-screen.h. I'll try to see which commands blocks... Filling with echo console-scr

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-04 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
On 5/4/07, Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 19:25 +0200, Antonino Ingargiola wrote: > No. Ehmm ... I've an usb keybord and vga monitor on a standard desktop pc. OK, I'm stumped. I don't see how my patch could cause the machine to not boot

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-04 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
On 5/4/07, Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 19:13 +0200, Antonino Ingargiola wrote: > On 5/4/07, Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Antonino Ingargiola wrote: > > > The system blocks during booting. I can unblock it with SysReq+

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-04 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
On 5/4/07, Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Antonino Ingargiola wrote: > The system blocks during booting. I can unblock it with SysReq+K but > then I'm unable to log into X. Hmmm, it tests here with no problem. Does reversing the patch and rebuilding the kernel fi

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-04 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
On 5/4/07, Antonino Ingargiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/4/07, Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is a patch against 2.6.21 which flushes the tty flip buffer > on ioctl(TCFLSH) for input. > > --- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c 2007-04-25 22:08:32.000

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-04 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
On 5/4/07, Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here is a patch against 2.6.21 which flushes the tty flip buffer on ioctl(TCFLSH) for input. --- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c 2007-04-25 22:08:32.0 -0500 +++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c 2007-05-04 09:30:01.0 -0500 Thanks! I've

[SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-04 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
Accidentally I've replied privately, sorry. Forwarding to ML... -- Forwarded message -- From: Antonino Ingargiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 4, 2007 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug] To: Oliver Neu

[SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-04 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
Hi, On 4/14/07, Antonino Ingargiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi to the list, I report a problem found with a device that use the FTDI chip to communicate data to pc. The scenario is: a serial device streams data continuously toward the pc. The application requires the data be read o

FTDI usb-serial possible bug

2007-04-17 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
Hi to the list, I'm forwarding to lkml this mail that got no answer on linux-usb. It describes a nasty behavior of the ftdi usb-serial linux driver. -- Forwarded message -- From: Antonino Ingargiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Apr 14, 2007 4:47 PM Subject: FTDI usb-seri