Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-09 Thread Ed Sweetman
Mike Houston wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:42:15 +0100 Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:12:25 -0500, Elvis Pranskevichus wrote: This indeed looks like a broken ACPI BIOS since the aforementioned commit touches only the PNP ACPI driver. I'm not sure

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-09 Thread Ed Sweetman
Mike Houston wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:42:15 +0100 Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:12:25 -0500, Elvis Pranskevichus wrote: This indeed looks like a broken ACPI BIOS since the aforementioned commit touches only the PNP ACPI driver. I'm not sure how

Re: x86_64 dynticks not working prev: cpuidle, dynticks compatible or no?

2007-12-07 Thread Ed Sweetman
Ed Sweetman wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: System is idle now, previously it was doing something i couldn't halt at the time. I'm looking at "Local timer interrupts" in the "Loc:" section of /proc/interrupts. Across 1 second while the system is pretty mu

Re: x86_64 dynticks not working prev: cpuidle, dynticks compatible or no?

2007-12-07 Thread Ed Sweetman
Robert Hancock wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: System is idle now, previously it was doing something i couldn't halt at the time. I'm looking at "Local timer interrupts" in the "Loc:" section of /proc/interrupts. Across 1 second while the system is pretty much idle, i still get

Re: x86_64 dynticks not working prev: cpuidle, dynticks compatible or no?

2007-12-07 Thread Ed Sweetman
System is idle now, previously it was doing something i couldn't halt at the time. I'm looking at "Local timer interrupts" in the "Loc:" section of /proc/interrupts. Across 1 second while the system is pretty much idle, i still get 300 interrupts. My HZ variable is set to 300 in the kernel

Re: x86_64 dynticks not working prev: cpuidle, dynticks compatible or no?

2007-12-07 Thread Ed Sweetman
Ed Sweetman wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: System is idle now, previously it was doing something i couldn't halt at the time. I'm looking at Local timer interrupts in the Loc: section of /proc/interrupts. Across 1 second while the system is pretty much idle, i still get 300

Re: x86_64 dynticks not working prev: cpuidle, dynticks compatible or no?

2007-12-07 Thread Ed Sweetman
Robert Hancock wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: System is idle now, previously it was doing something i couldn't halt at the time. I'm looking at Local timer interrupts in the Loc: section of /proc/interrupts. Across 1 second while the system is pretty much idle, i still get 300 interrupts. My HZ

Re: x86_64 dynticks not working prev: cpuidle, dynticks compatible or no?

2007-12-07 Thread Ed Sweetman
System is idle now, previously it was doing something i couldn't halt at the time. I'm looking at Local timer interrupts in the Loc: section of /proc/interrupts. Across 1 second while the system is pretty much idle, i still get 300 interrupts. My HZ variable is set to 300 in the kernel

cpuidle, dynticks compatible or no?

2007-12-06 Thread Ed Sweetman
I would think that they are compatible. I'm using 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and I dont get any output in dmesg regarding dynamic ticks being in use via the pmtmr like in old posts i've seen online. I was wondering if this output has been removed or if there is another way to determine if dynticks are

cpuidle, dynticks compatible or no?

2007-12-06 Thread Ed Sweetman
I would think that they are compatible. I'm using 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and I dont get any output in dmesg regarding dynamic ticks being in use via the pmtmr like in old posts i've seen online. I was wondering if this output has been removed or if there is another way to determine if dynticks are

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Sweetman
the previous post i keep referring you to has a patch that was mangled ...here is the non-mangled version --- ./linux-backup/arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq/Kconfig 2007-02-04 13:44:54.0 -0500 +++ ./linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm2/arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq/Kconfig 2007-05-17 18:13:07.0

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Sweetman
Joshua Hoblitt wrote: I think it's pretty clear that Dave and Daniel were both correct and that ACPI_PROCESSOR is the correct dependency for multi-socket systems. However, it's worth noting that this dependency seems to be unrelated to SMP support. Ed Sweetman has reported that his single

Re: [PATCH] powernow-k8: depend on acpi-processor for SMP systems

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Sweetman
Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:40:31PM -0400, Ed Sweetman wrote: > Here's a patch (please inline patches so they can be quoted in replies). having this as a tristate makes no sense, that code can't be modular. Also, there's a gratuitous whitespace change, and the default sho

Re: [PATCH] powernow-k8: depend on acpi-processor for SMP systems

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Sweetman
Ed Sweetman wrote: Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:13:42PM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > > Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig > > === > > --- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/c

Re: [PATCH] powernow-k8: depend on acpi-processor for SMP systems

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Sweetman
Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:13:42PM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > > Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig > > === > > --- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig > > +++

Re: [PATCH] powernow-k8: depend on acpi-processor for SMP systems

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Sweetman
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! powernow-k8 uses PSB BIOS tables to read frequency info on UP systems, but on SMP it requires the acpi-processor driver. Kconfig should be updated accordingly to avoid the issues that users are running into. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8075

Re: [PATCH] powernow-k8: depend on acpi-processor for SMP systems

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Sweetman
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! powernow-k8 uses PSB BIOS tables to read frequency info on UP systems, but on SMP it requires the acpi-processor driver. Kconfig should be updated accordingly to avoid the issues that users are running into. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8075

Re: [PATCH] powernow-k8: depend on acpi-processor for SMP systems

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Sweetman
Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:13:42PM -0400, Len Brown wrote: Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig === --- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig +++

Re: [PATCH] powernow-k8: depend on acpi-processor for SMP systems

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Sweetman
Ed Sweetman wrote: Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:13:42PM -0400, Len Brown wrote: Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig === --- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig +++ linux/arch

Re: [PATCH] powernow-k8: depend on acpi-processor for SMP systems

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Sweetman
Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:40:31PM -0400, Ed Sweetman wrote: Here's a patch (please inline patches so they can be quoted in replies). having this as a tristate makes no sense, that code can't be modular. Also, there's a gratuitous whitespace change, and the default should

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Sweetman
Joshua Hoblitt wrote: I think it's pretty clear that Dave and Daniel were both correct and that ACPI_PROCESSOR is the correct dependency for multi-socket systems. However, it's worth noting that this dependency seems to be unrelated to SMP support. Ed Sweetman has reported that his single

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Sweetman
the previous post i keep referring you to has a patch that was mangled ...here is the non-mangled version --- ./linux-backup/arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq/Kconfig 2007-02-04 13:44:54.0 -0500 +++ ./linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm2/arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq/Kconfig 2007-05-17 18:13:07.0

Re: [PATCH] powernow-k8: depend on acpi-processor for SMP systems

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Sweetman
Daniel Drake wrote: Joshua Hoblitt wrote: I don't think this is quiet right either as Ed Sweetman has reported that this issue doesn't occur on single socket/multi-core systems. Where did he write that? In an off-list mail, Ed seemed to agree with my patch. Daniel What i didn't agree

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Sweetman
Daniel Drake wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: Like i mentioned off list, the problem here is that cpu freq modules dont depend (Kconfig) on CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR, yet they do. Not really. Firstly, some of the cpufreq modules *do* depend on CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR. Secondly, the ones that don't have

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Sweetman
Joshua Hoblitt wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:04:40PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: Duane Griffin wrote: On 16/05/07, Prakash Punnoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe you want to give a hint in the p states driver help text? I think a hint is the right thing to do,

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Sweetman
Joshua Hoblitt wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:04:40PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: Duane Griffin wrote: On 16/05/07, Prakash Punnoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you want to give a hint in the p states driver help text? I think a hint is the right thing to do, but

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Sweetman
Daniel Drake wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: Like i mentioned off list, the problem here is that cpu freq modules dont depend (Kconfig) on CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR, yet they do. Not really. Firstly, some of the cpufreq modules *do* depend on CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR. Secondly, the ones that don't have

Re: [PATCH] powernow-k8: depend on acpi-processor for SMP systems

2007-05-16 Thread Ed Sweetman
Daniel Drake wrote: Joshua Hoblitt wrote: I don't think this is quiet right either as Ed Sweetman has reported that this issue doesn't occur on single socket/multi-core systems. Where did he write that? In an off-list mail, Ed seemed to agree with my patch. Daniel What i didn't agree

Re: S.M.A.R.T no longer available in 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 with libata

2007-01-04 Thread Ed Sweetman
Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Thursday 04 January 2007 01:50, Ed Sweetman wrote: Not sure what went on between 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 in libata land but SMART is no longer available on my hdds. I'm assuming this is not the intended behavior. In case this is chipset specific

Re: S.M.A.R.T no longer available in 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 with libata

2007-01-04 Thread Ed Sweetman
Mark Lord wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: Not sure what went on between 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 in libata land but SMART is no longer available on my hdds. It's working for me with 2.6.20-rc3, ata_piix libata driver. -ml Well, not in the sata_nv libata driver. The only change I make

Re: S.M.A.R.T no longer available in 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 with libata

2007-01-04 Thread Ed Sweetman
Mark Lord wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: Not sure what went on between 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 in libata land but SMART is no longer available on my hdds. It's working for me with 2.6.20-rc3, ata_piix libata driver. -ml Well, not in the sata_nv libata driver. The only change I make

Re: S.M.A.R.T no longer available in 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 with libata

2007-01-04 Thread Ed Sweetman
Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Thursday 04 January 2007 01:50, Ed Sweetman wrote: Not sure what went on between 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 in libata land but SMART is no longer available on my hdds. I'm assuming this is not the intended behavior. In case this is chipset specific

S.M.A.R.T no longer available in 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 with libata

2007-01-03 Thread Ed Sweetman
Not sure what went on between 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 in libata land but SMART is no longer available on my hdds. I'm assuming this is not the intended behavior. In case this is chipset specific, IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3) I'm using

S.M.A.R.T no longer available in 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 with libata

2007-01-03 Thread Ed Sweetman
Not sure what went on between 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 in libata land but SMART is no longer available on my hdds. I'm assuming this is not the intended behavior. In case this is chipset specific, IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3) I'm using

Re: [PATCH] ata/kconfig: Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

2006-12-06 Thread Ed Sweetman
Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:46:54 -0500 Ed Sweetman wrote: -ETOOMANYWORDS && -ENOPATCH, so here is one to consider. Help text can also be added. This is similar to what USB storage already does. I provided a patch a couple weeks ago when I brought this topic up

Re: [PATCH] ata/kconfig: Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

2006-12-06 Thread Ed Sweetman
Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:46:54 -0500 Ed Sweetman wrote: -ETOOMANYWORDS -ENOPATCH, so here is one to consider. Help text can also be added. supply text This is similar to what USB storage already does. I provided a patch a couple weeks ago when I brought this topic up

Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

2006-12-05 Thread Ed Sweetman
Robert Hancock wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: What's not a legitimate configuration is libata drivers, no low level scsi drivers, no ide drivers and no sd,sr,sg drivers. Yet, that is the configuration the kernel currently gives you. How is that more correct than any of the 3 solutions I have

Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

2006-12-05 Thread Ed Sweetman
Robert Hancock wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Bernard Pidoux wrote: I am asking why need to compile the following modules while I do not have any SCSI device ? libata uses SCSI to provide a lot of infrastructure that it would otherwise have to recreate. Also, using SCSI

Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

2006-12-05 Thread Ed Sweetman
Robert Hancock wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Bernard Pidoux wrote: I am asking why need to compile the following modules while I do not have any SCSI device ? libata uses SCSI to provide a lot of infrastructure that it would otherwise have to recreate. Also, using SCSI

Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

2006-12-05 Thread Ed Sweetman
Robert Hancock wrote: Ed Sweetman wrote: What's not a legitimate configuration is libata drivers, no low level scsi drivers, no ide drivers and no sd,sr,sg drivers. Yet, that is the configuration the kernel currently gives you. How is that more correct than any of the 3 solutions I have

Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

2006-12-04 Thread Ed Sweetman
Jeff Garzik wrote: Bernard Pidoux wrote: I am asking why need to compile the following modules while I do not have any SCSI device ? libata uses SCSI to provide a lot of infrastructure that it would otherwise have to recreate. Also, using SCSI meant that it automatically worked in existing

Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

2006-12-04 Thread Ed Sweetman
Jeff Garzik wrote: Bernard Pidoux wrote: I am asking why need to compile the following modules while I do not have any SCSI device ? libata uses SCSI to provide a lot of infrastructure that it would otherwise have to recreate. Also, using SCSI meant that it automatically worked in existing