Re: 2.6.25-rc[12] Video4Linux Bttv Regression

2008-02-21 Thread Bongani Hlope
I've enabled MUTEX and SPINLOCK DEBUG, this is what I get [ cut here ] WARNING: at /home/bongani/kernel/git/linux-2.6/kernel/mutex.c:134 mutex_lock_nested+0xc0/0x2a3() Modules linked in: snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq binfmt_misc loop nls_cp437 vfat

Re: 2.6.25-rc[12] Video4Linux Bttv Regression

2008-02-21 Thread Bongani Hlope
I've enabled MUTEX and SPINLOCK DEBUG, this is what I get [ cut here ] WARNING: at /home/bongani/kernel/git/linux-2.6/kernel/mutex.c:134 mutex_lock_nested+0xc0/0x2a3() Modules linked in: snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq binfmt_misc loop nls_cp437 vfat

Re: 2.6.25-rc[12] Video4Linux Bttv Regression

2008-02-19 Thread Bongani Hlope
More info add Ingo to CC, maybe he can explain what might cause such failure in the mutex code (sorry Ingo, I need to bother you once more) Ingo: I got the oops bellow whilst using the radio functionality of the bttv-drivers, nothing seems obvious except that I dies while calling

Re: 2.6.25-rc[12] Video4Linux Bttv Regression

2008-02-18 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Monday 18 February 2008 23:20:40 Bongani Hlope wrote: > On Monday 18 February 2008 18:11:25 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > Have you tested Robert's patch? > > Sorry almost forgot, I have and it fixes the TV but not the radio. > > > I can't see anything wrong on bttv

Re: 2.6.25-rc[12] Video4Linux Bttv Regression

2008-02-18 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Monday 18 February 2008 18:11:25 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:36:19 +0200 > > Bongani Hlope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The bttv driver seems to be experiencing problems in the 2.6.25-rcX > > kernels. I have the divided by error that Ro

Re: 2.6.25-rc[12] Video4Linux Bttv Regression

2008-02-18 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Monday 18 February 2008 18:11:25 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:36:19 +0200 Bongani Hlope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bttv driver seems to be experiencing problems in the 2.6.25-rcX kernels. I have the divided by error that Robert Fitzsimons has already reported

Re: 2.6.25-rc[12] Video4Linux Bttv Regression

2008-02-18 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Monday 18 February 2008 23:20:40 Bongani Hlope wrote: On Monday 18 February 2008 18:11:25 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Have you tested Robert's patch? Sorry almost forgot, I have and it fixes the TV but not the radio. I can't see anything wrong on bttv_g_tuner lock. I suspect

2.6.25-rc[12] Video4Linux Bttv Regression

2008-02-17 Thread Bongani Hlope
The bttv driver seems to be experiencing problems in the 2.6.25-rcX kernels. I have the divided by error that Robert Fitzsimons has already reported (I'll test his patch and see if it fixes it for me) and I have the following Oops when I try to use the radio: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL

2.6.25-rc[12] Video4Linux Bttv Regression

2008-02-17 Thread Bongani Hlope
The bttv driver seems to be experiencing problems in the 2.6.25-rcX kernels. I have the divided by error that Robert Fitzsimons has already reported (I'll test his patch and see if it fixes it for me) and I have the following Oops when I try to use the radio: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL

Re: irq 21: nobody cared 2.6.24-rc1

2007-11-01 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 01 November 2007 22:32:38 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:45:36 +0200 > > Bongani Hlope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Booting with irqpoll works > > > > ls /proc/irq/21/ (with irqpoll) > > ehci_hcd:usb1/ smp_affinity uhci_hcd:u

Re: irq 21: nobody cared 2.6.24-rc1

2007-11-01 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 01 November 2007 22:32:38 Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:45:36 +0200 Bongani Hlope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Booting with irqpoll works ls /proc/irq/21/ (with irqpoll) ehci_hcd:usb1/ smp_affinity uhci_hcd:usb2/ uhci_hcd:usb3/ uhci_hcd:usb4/ Disabling

irq 21: nobody cared 2.6.24-rc1

2007-10-25 Thread Bongani Hlope
Booting with irqpoll works ls /proc/irq/21/ (with irqpoll) ehci_hcd:usb1/ smp_affinity uhci_hcd:usb2/ uhci_hcd:usb3/ uhci_hcd:usb4/ irq 21: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) Call Trace: [__report_bad_irq+56/124] __report_bad_irq+0x38/0x7c []

irq 21: nobody cared 2.6.24-rc1

2007-10-25 Thread Bongani Hlope
Booting with irqpoll works ls /proc/irq/21/ (with irqpoll) ehci_hcd:usb1/ smp_affinity uhci_hcd:usb2/ uhci_hcd:usb3/ uhci_hcd:usb4/ irq 21: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) Call Trace: IRQ [__report_bad_irq+56/124] __report_bad_irq+0x38/0x7c IRQ [802622eb]

Re: Chroot bug

2007-09-26 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 13:06:51 David Newall wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > >>> The dot-dot entry in the root directory is interpreted to mean the > >>> root directory itself. Thus, dot-dot cannot be used to access files > >>> outside the subtree rooted at the root directory. > > > > Which is

Re: Chroot bug

2007-09-26 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 13:06:51 David Newall wrote: Alan Cox wrote: The dot-dot entry in the root directory is interpreted to mean the root directory itself. Thus, dot-dot cannot be used to access files outside the subtree rooted at the root directory. Which is behaviour chroot

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.23-rc1 Seems to be network related

2007-08-01 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 03:04:07 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 02:57:48 +0200 Bongani Hlope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure if the first email went through, resending without .config > > attachment. > > It did come through, an

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.23-rc1 Seems to be network related

2007-08-01 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 03:04:07 Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 02:57:48 +0200 Bongani Hlope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if the first email went through, resending without .config attachment. It did come through, and I replied ;) Thank you ;) - To unsubscribe from

[OOPS] 2.6.23-rc1 Seems to be network related

2007-07-31 Thread Bongani Hlope
Hi I'm not sure if the first email went through, resending without .config attachment. I got this partial Oops on my work laptop (DELL D800), while using the linux 2.6.23-rc1 kernel. I've been using this kernel ever since it was released and this is the first and only time it did not boot. It

[OOPS] 2.6.23-rc1 Seems to be network related

2007-07-31 Thread Bongani Hlope
Hi I got this partial Oops on my work laptop (DELL D800), while using the linux 2.6.23-rc1 kernel. I've been using this kernel ever since it was released and this is the first and only time it did not boot. It was around the time it should have been trying to connect to my linksys wireless

[OOPS] 2.6.23-rc1 Seems to be network related

2007-07-31 Thread Bongani Hlope
Hi I got this partial Oops on my work laptop (DELL D800), while using the linux 2.6.23-rc1 kernel. I've been using this kernel ever since it was released and this is the first and only time it did not boot. It was around the time it should have been trying to connect to my linksys wireless

[OOPS] 2.6.23-rc1 Seems to be network related

2007-07-31 Thread Bongani Hlope
Hi I'm not sure if the first email went through, resending without .config attachment. I got this partial Oops on my work laptop (DELL D800), while using the linux 2.6.23-rc1 kernel. I've been using this kernel ever since it was released and this is the first and only time it did not boot. It

Re: [2.6.23-rc1 REGRESSION] ThinkPad T42 poweroff failure by "PM: Introduce pm_power_off_prepare"

2007-07-30 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Monday 30 July 2007 23:51:42 Steven wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:29:55 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > OK, so here it goes again with a changelog: > > > > --- > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Generally, sysdev_shutdown() should be called after the ACPI preparation

Re: [2.6.23-rc1 REGRESSION] ThinkPad T42 poweroff failure by PM: Introduce pm_power_off_prepare

2007-07-30 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Monday 30 July 2007 23:51:42 Steven wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:29:55 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: OK, so here it goes again with a changelog: --- From: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Generally, sysdev_shutdown() should be called after the ACPI preparation for powering

Re: updatedb

2007-07-26 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 26 July 2007 10:01:11 Rene Herman wrote: > On 07/26/2007 09:08 AM, Bongani Hlope wrote: > > On Thursday 26 July 2007 08:56:59 Rene Herman wrote: > >> Great. Now concentrate on the "swpd" column, as it's the only thing > >> relevant here. The fac

Re: updatedb

2007-07-26 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 26 July 2007 08:56:59 Rene Herman wrote: > On 07/26/2007 08:39 AM, Bongani Hlope wrote: > > On Thursday 26 July 2007 05:59:53 Rene Herman wrote: > >> So what's happening? If you sit down with a copy op "top" in one > >> terminal and updatedb in ano

Re: updatedb

2007-07-26 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 26 July 2007 05:59:53 Rene Herman wrote: > > Problem spot no. 1. > > RAM intensive? If I run updatedb here, it never grows itself beyond 2M. > Yes, two. I'm certainly willing to accept that me and my systems are > possibly not the reference but assuming I'm _very_ special hasn't done

Re: updatedb

2007-07-26 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 26 July 2007 10:01:11 Rene Herman wrote: On 07/26/2007 09:08 AM, Bongani Hlope wrote: On Thursday 26 July 2007 08:56:59 Rene Herman wrote: Great. Now concentrate on the swpd column, as it's the only thing relevant here. The fact that an updatedb run fills/replaces caches

Re: updatedb

2007-07-26 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 26 July 2007 05:59:53 Rene Herman wrote: Problem spot no. 1. RAM intensive? If I run updatedb here, it never grows itself beyond 2M. Yes, two. I'm certainly willing to accept that me and my systems are possibly not the reference but assuming I'm _very_ special hasn't done much

Re: updatedb

2007-07-26 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 26 July 2007 08:56:59 Rene Herman wrote: On 07/26/2007 08:39 AM, Bongani Hlope wrote: On Thursday 26 July 2007 05:59:53 Rene Herman wrote: So what's happening? If you sit down with a copy op top in one terminal and updatedb in another, what does it show? Just tested

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 14 June 2007 21:32:08 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 14, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > > They let you have the code and make changes to it, > > Not to the software installed in the device. So now you want access to all the software that is installed in their

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 14 June 2007 21:55:09 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 14, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Diego Calleja wrote: > >> And the FSF is trying to control the design and licensing of > >> hardware throught the influence of their software. > > It's

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 14 June 2007 02:55:52 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 13, 2007, Bongani Hlope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 14 June 2007 01:49:23 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> if you distribute copies of such a program, [...] > >> you must give the recipi

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 14 June 2007 02:55:52 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 13, 2007, Bongani Hlope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 14 June 2007 01:49:23 Alexandre Oliva wrote: if you distribute copies of such a program, [...] you must give the recipients all the rights that you have So, TiVo

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 14 June 2007 21:55:09 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 14, 2007, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Diego Calleja wrote: And the FSF is trying to control the design and licensing of hardware throught the influence of their software. It's not. It's only

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 14 June 2007 21:32:08 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 14, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: They let you have the code and make changes to it, Not to the software installed in the device. So now you want access to all the software that is installed in their device?

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-13 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 14 June 2007 01:49:23 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 13, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The fact is, Tivo didn't take those rights away from you, yet the FSF > > says that what Tivo did was "against the spirit". That's *bullshit*. > > Oh, good, let's take this

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-13 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 14 June 2007 01:49:23 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 13, 2007, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The fact is, Tivo didn't take those rights away from you, yet the FSF says that what Tivo did was against the spirit. That's *bullshit*. Oh, good, let's take this one. if

Re: Use C++ in kernel module?

2007-03-30 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Friday 30 March 2007 05:49:14 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Mar 30 2007 11:37, Conke Hu wrote: > > Is it possible to use C++ in linux kernel module? how? > > I've tested but failed, there is an unknown symbol in the .o file from > > c++ source code. > > You answered it yourself. Linux does not

Re: Use C++ in kernel module?

2007-03-30 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Friday 30 March 2007 05:49:14 Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Mar 30 2007 11:37, Conke Hu wrote: Is it possible to use C++ in linux kernel module? how? I've tested but failed, there is an unknown symbol in the .o file from c++ source code. You answered it yourself. Linux does not have a C++

Re: Bad page state on AMD Opteron Dual System with kernel 2.6.13-rc6-git13

2005-08-29 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Monday 29 August 2005 12:28 pm, you wrote: > Hi, > 8< > > Update, with stable 2.6.13. I get nearly the same behavior. > I haven't tried 2.6.13 yet (still downloading), could you first try this (with yor last working kernel, since you seem to have a problem with 2.6.13) echo 0 >

Re: Bad page state on AMD Opteron Dual System with kernel 2.6.13-rc6-git13

2005-08-29 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Monday 29 August 2005 12:28 pm, you wrote: Hi, 8 Update, with stable 2.6.13. I get nearly the same behavior. I haven't tried 2.6.13 yet (still downloading), could you first try this (with yor last working kernel, since you seem to have a problem with 2.6.13) echo 0

Re: Tracking a bug in x86-64

2005-07-06 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 08:34 am, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 14:12 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Bongani Hlope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I haven't tested 2.6.12.2 but the problem was introduced around > > > 2.6.11-

Re: Tracking a bug in x86-64

2005-07-06 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 08:34 am, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 14:12 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Bongani Hlope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tested 2.6.12.2 but the problem was introduced around 2.6.11-mm1 and found its way to 2.6.12-rcX. First try to run

Re: Tracking a bug in x86-64

2005-07-05 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 10:36 am, Sven Rudolph wrote: > Bongani Hlope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 8< > > Hi Linus > > > > I just tested, 2.6.12-rc6 minus > > randomisation-top-of-stack-randomization.patch Works For Me (tm) > > Sorry, I didn't fo

Re: Tracking a bug in x86-64

2005-07-05 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 10:36 am, Sven Rudolph wrote: Bongani Hlope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 8 Hi Linus I just tested, 2.6.12-rc6 minus randomisation-top-of-stack-randomization.patch Works For Me (tm) Sorry, I didn't follow the original discussion: Is this problem expected