Re: adapter, what's in a name

2008-02-20 Thread Frans Pop
Karl Dahlke wrote: > Meantime, I pulled the emails out of the headers and pasted them in. > Hope that reasonably works. Well, you're still breaking the thread by starting a new one. Guess when you're implementing reply-to-all, you should also think about implementing support for In-Reply-To: and

Re: adapter, what's in a name

2008-02-20 Thread Frans Pop
Karl Dahlke wrote: Meantime, I pulled the emails out of the headers and pasted them in. Hope that reasonably works. Well, you're still breaking the thread by starting a new one. Guess when you're implementing reply-to-all, you should also think about implementing support for In-Reply-To: and

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The "or any other emulator" is exactly where my question is directed at. > > Xen, KVM or even qemu come into my mind, but considering how loudly you > complained about a temporary breakage for VirtualBox there must be a > reason why your work on

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 February 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:38:51 -0600 Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Adrian wrote: > > > So let's fix the problem (kernel lacks functionality) > > > > That's the problem as understood by Adrian. > > > > I hear another problem as well

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 February 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The real problem is that the kernel seems to lack functionality you > require for doing some work. Not sure how you reached that conclusion. > Why does your work on the Debian Installer depend on VirtualBox and > can't be done with what the kernel

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 February 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: The real problem is that the kernel seems to lack functionality you require for doing some work. Not sure how you reached that conclusion. Why does your work on the Debian Installer depend on VirtualBox and can't be done with what the kernel

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 February 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:38:51 -0600 Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian wrote: So let's fix the problem (kernel lacks functionality) That's the problem as understood by Adrian. I hear another problem as well ... Frans

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: The or any other emulator is exactly where my question is directed at. Xen, KVM or even qemu come into my mind, but considering how loudly you complained about a temporary breakage for VirtualBox there must be a reason why your work on the

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.25-rc2 - Kernel Ooops while running dbench

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
Jeff Garzik wrote: > Two x86-64 boxes here lock up here on 2.6.25-rc2, shortly after boot. > One running Fedora 8 + X (GNOME) and one a headless file server. > configs and lspci attached. Unable to capture any splatter so far. Sounds like it may be http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/17/78. Suggest you

Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 CD/DVD burning broken

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 February 2008, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 09:46 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > This fragment is much too short to allow to judge on possible > > > reasons. There is a high probability that your problem is caused

Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 CD/DVD burning broken

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
Joerg Schilling wrote: > This fragment is much too short to allow to judge on possible reasons. > There is a high probability that your problem is caused by the cdrecord > fork called "wodim". There is also the 100% certainty that this reply was from a known troll and should just be ignored. --

Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 CD/DVD burning broken

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
Joerg Schilling wrote: This fragment is much too short to allow to judge on possible reasons. There is a high probability that your problem is caused by the cdrecord fork called wodim. There is also the 100% certainty that this reply was from a known troll and should just be ignored. -- To

Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 CD/DVD burning broken

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 February 2008, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 09:46 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: This fragment is much too short to allow to judge on possible reasons. There is a high probability that your problem is caused by the cdrecord fork called wodim

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.25-rc2 - Kernel Ooops while running dbench

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
Jeff Garzik wrote: Two x86-64 boxes here lock up here on 2.6.25-rc2, shortly after boot. One running Fedora 8 + X (GNOME) and one a headless file server. configs and lspci attached. Unable to capture any splatter so far. Sounds like it may be http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/17/78. Suggest you

Re: [REGRESSION 2.6.23] no vga console and no messages

2008-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 February 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > > For some reason I can't see and don't know how to debug, in 2.6.23 on > > > my server I don't get the vga console, but only get the dummy > >

Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
Yesterday, after spending quite a few hours over the last days on bisecting some serious regressions and finding workarounds for them, I thought I could start using 2.6.25-rc2 as the new kernel for my desktop. Unfortunately I found that I cannot because it would make my other main activity -

Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
Yesterday, after spending quite a few hours over the last days on bisecting some serious regressions and finding workarounds for them, I thought I could start using 2.6.25-rc2 as the new kernel for my desktop. Unfortunately I found that I cannot because it would make my other main activity -

Re: [REGRESSION 2.6.23] no vga console and no messages

2008-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 February 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: Daniel Barkalow wrote: For some reason I can't see and don't know how to debug, in 2.6.23 on my server I don't get the vga console, but only get the dummy console. Please check if this bug

Re: [REGRESSION 2.6.23] no vga console and no messages

2008-02-16 Thread Frans Pop
Daniel Barkalow wrote: > For some reason I can't see and don't know how to debug, in 2.6.23 on my > server I don't get the vga console, but only get the dummy console. Please check if this bug report matches the issue you are seeing: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9310 Cheers, FJP --

Re: [REGRESSION 2.6.23] no vga console and no messages

2008-02-16 Thread Frans Pop
Daniel Barkalow wrote: For some reason I can't see and don't know how to debug, in 2.6.23 on my server I don't get the vga console, but only get the dummy console. Please check if this bug report matches the issue you are seeing: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9310 Cheers, FJP --

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 15 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: > I swear someone sent this patch in before. Can you try this one below, > there seems to be an imbalance with kobject_get and _put. I did remember seeing this patch before [1] and can confirm that it does indeed fix the issue: with this patch applied

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 15 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: I swear someone sent this patch in before. Can you try this one below, there seems to be an imbalance with kobject_get and _put. I did remember seeing this patch before [1] and can confirm that it does indeed fix the issue: with this patch applied to

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > futex_lock_pi is called with an absolute timeout, which is based on > CLOCK_REALTIME. Nothing wrong with that, but the clockevents WARN_ON > might trap over a false positive, when the expiry value is less than > base->offset. This was

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: futex_lock_pi is called with an absolute timeout, which is based on CLOCK_REALTIME. Nothing wrong with that, but the clockevents WARN_ON might trap over a false positive, when the expiry value is less than base-offset. This was intentional

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > can you please apply the following patch ? I really should have > thought about that, when I fixed the above one. I still get the bug with this patch. At least I'm now certain it happens during glibc compilation and that I can reproduce it.

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > So, just on the off chance, I applied the patch below and bingo, the > > system powers off again. I doubt this will be the correct solution, but > > just in case it is, here's my signed off. A comment why the double put > > is needed would probably

[PATCH] kbuild: allow alternative hook script dir in .deb packages

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hook scripts in the default directory /etc/kernel are also executed by packages created using make-kpkg (including official Debian kernels). Allow to specify an alternative hook scripts directory by exporting the environment variable KERNELDEBHOOK

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:39:14PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Monday 11 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > > In general 2.6.25 if looking quite good on my desktop, but there's > > > one important issue: the system

[PATCH] kbuild: allow to specify a custom revision for .deb packages

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Allow to specify a custom revision for the generated .deb package by exporting the environment variable KERNELDEBREVISION. Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb index ba6b

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, you wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:45:09 +0100 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Symptom is that the system shuts down normally and completely, it just > > does not power off. > > I've been struggling with an identically-manifestin

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:40:21 +0100 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the hrtimer code is preparing an invalid ktime_t. Note that > > clockevents_program_

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 11 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > In general 2.6.25 if looking quite good on my desktop, but there's one > important issue: the system no longer powers off after shutdown. > This works fine with 2.6.24. I was wrong :-( I'd not really done any real wor under 2.6.25 yet

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 11 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: In general 2.6.25 if looking quite good on my desktop, but there's one important issue: the system no longer powers off after shutdown. This works fine with 2.6.24. I was wrong :-( I'd not really done any real wor under 2.6.25 yet, but now

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:40:21 +0100 Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the hrtimer code is preparing an invalid ktime_t. Note that clockevents_program_event() actually fails when this happens - I

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, you wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:45:09 +0100 Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Symptom is that the system shuts down normally and completely, it just does not power off. I've been struggling with an identically-manifesting regression on one of my test

[PATCH] kbuild: allow to specify a custom revision for .deb packages

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
From: Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Allow to specify a custom revision for the generated .deb package by exporting the environment variable KERNELDEBREVISION. Signed-off-by: Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb index ba6bf5d..2577dec 100644

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:39:14PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 11 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: In general 2.6.25 if looking quite good on my desktop, but there's one important issue: the system no longer powers off after shutdown

[PATCH] kbuild: allow alternative hook script dir in .deb packages

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
From: Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hook scripts in the default directory /etc/kernel are also executed by packages created using make-kpkg (including official Debian kernels). Allow to specify an alternative hook scripts directory by exporting the environment variable KERNELDEBHOOKDIR so

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: So, just on the off chance, I applied the patch below and bingo, the system powers off again. I doubt this will be the correct solution, but just in case it is, here's my signed off. A comment why the double put is needed would probably be good

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: can you please apply the following patch ? I really should have thought about that, when I fixed the above one. I still get the bug with this patch. At least I'm now certain it happens during glibc compilation and that I can reproduce it.

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:39:14PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Monday 11 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > > In general 2.6.25 if looking quite good on my desktop, but there's > > > one important issue: the system

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:39:14PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 11 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: In general 2.6.25 if looking quite good on my desktop, but there's one important issue: the system no longer powers off after shutdown

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 10 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > I have no idea yet what triggers it and am unsure if I'll be able to > reproduce. I think I know at least _when_ it happens: during compilation of glibc. This was almost certainly while compiling in the normal amd64 environment: > Pid: 2

[stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
Kernel: vanilla 2.6.24 x86_64 SMP Environment: Debian unstable Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz (dual core) I've been running this kernel without problems since its release, but yesterday evening I suddenly got the following error, and this afternoon it was repeated (below). The

[stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
Kernel: vanilla 2.6.24 x86_64 SMP Environment: Debian unstable Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz (dual core) I've been running this kernel without problems since its release, but yesterday evening I suddenly got the following error, and this afternoon it was repeated (below). The

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 10 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: I have no idea yet what triggers it and am unsure if I'll be able to reproduce. I think I know at least _when_ it happens: during compilation of glibc. This was almost certainly while compiling in the normal amd64 environment: Pid: 2210, comm: ld

Re: [PATCH] x86: restore correct module name for apm

2008-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
Sam Ravnborg wrote: > The apm module were renamed to apm_32 during the merge of 32 and 64 bit > x86 which is unfortunate. > As apm is 32 bit specific we like to keep the _32 in the filename > but the module should be named apm. > > Fix this in the Makefile. > Reported by "A.E.Lawrence" <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] x86: restore correct module name for apm

2008-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
Sam Ravnborg wrote: The apm module were renamed to apm_32 during the merge of 32 and 64 bit x86 which is unfortunate. As apm is 32 bit specific we like to keep the _32 in the filename but the module should be named apm. Fix this in the Makefile. Reported by A.E.Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [REVIEW for merge] kbuild updates including silence of section mismatch check

2008-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
Sam Ravnborg wrote: > --- a/scripts/setlocalversion > +++ b/scripts/setlocalversion > @@ -45,3 +45,18 @@ if hgid=`hg id 2>/dev/null`; then > # All done with mercurial > exit > fi > + > +# Check for svn and a svn repo. > +if rev=`svn info 2>/dev/null | grep '^Revision' | awk '{print $NF}'` ; then >

Re: Incompatibility of "const" and __xxxinitdata?

2008-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
Peter Teoh wrote: > In include/linux/init.h, it is documented that all __xxxinitdata > declaration must not have constant, as show below: See: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/26/182 There's a fairly major cleanup happening at the moment as you could see from the mailing list archives for the past

Re: Incompatibility of const and __xxxinitdata?

2008-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
Peter Teoh wrote: In include/linux/init.h, it is documented that all __xxxinitdata declaration must not have constant, as show below: See: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/26/182 There's a fairly major cleanup happening at the moment as you could see from the mailing list archives for the past week

Re: [REVIEW for merge] kbuild updates including silence of section mismatch check

2008-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
Sam Ravnborg wrote: --- a/scripts/setlocalversion +++ b/scripts/setlocalversion @@ -45,3 +45,18 @@ if hgid=`hg id 2/dev/null`; then # All done with mercurial exit fi + +# Check for svn and a svn repo. +if rev=`svn info 2/dev/null | grep '^Revision' | awk '{print $NF}'` ; then +

Re: Typo in net/netfilter/xt_iprange.c (git tree)

2008-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
Forward to netdev list. --- Forwarded message (begin) Subject: Typo in net/netfilter/xt_iprange.c (git tree) From: Jiri Moravec <...> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:50:15 +0100 Function iprange_mt4 belong to IPv4 family - AF_INET. Right? .name = "iprange", .revision

Re: Typo in net/netfilter/xt_iprange.c (git tree)

2008-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
Forward to netdev list. --- Forwarded message (begin) Subject: Typo in net/netfilter/xt_iprange.c (git tree) From: Jiri Moravec ... Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:50:15 +0100 Function iprange_mt4 belong to IPv4 family - AF_INET. Right? .name = iprange, .revision =

Re: Mostly revert "e1000/e1000e: Move PCI-Express device IDs over to e1000e"

2008-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
Adrian Bunk wrote: >> Jeff, Auke, would something like this be acceptable? It makes it very >> obvious in the driver table which entries are for the PCIE versions that >> would be handled by the E1000E driver if it is enabled.. > > I don't like it: > We should aim at having exactly one driver for

Re: Mostly revert e1000/e1000e: Move PCI-Express device IDs over to e1000e

2008-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
Adrian Bunk wrote: Jeff, Auke, would something like this be acceptable? It makes it very obvious in the driver table which entries are for the PCIE versions that would be handled by the E1000E driver if it is enabled.. I don't like it: We should aim at having exactly one driver for one

Re: [PATCH 1/2] dm-band: The I/O bandwidth controller: Source code patch

2008-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Frans Pop wrote: > The help should probably be a bit more verbose as this does not tell > anybody much who has not already read the documentation. > > Maybe something like: > > This device-mapper target allows to define how the > available bandwith of a storage device shoul

[PATCH] Use on-board instead of built-in in config options

2008-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 26 January 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Saturday 26 January 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jan 26 2008 21:31, Frans Pop wrote: > > >> config BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC > > >> - bool "Builtin PowerMac IDE support" > >

Re: [PATCH 1/2] dm-band: The I/O bandwidth controller: Source code patch

2008-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Frans Pop wrote: The help should probably be a bit more verbose as this does not tell anybody much who has not already read the documentation. Maybe something like: snip This device-mapper target allows to define how the available bandwith of a storage device should be shared between

Re: From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (linux.* mail to news gateway)

2008-01-26 Thread Frans Pop
> config BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC > - bool "Builtin PowerMac IDE support" > + tristate "Builtin PowerMac IDE support" This does not seem to make sense: if the option is now tristate, it is no longer "Builtin", so probably s/Builtin // in the description. Cheers, FJP -- To unsubscribe from

Re: From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] (linux.* mail to news gateway)

2008-01-26 Thread Frans Pop
config BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC - bool Builtin PowerMac IDE support + tristate Builtin PowerMac IDE support This does not seem to make sense: if the option is now tristate, it is no longer Builtin, so probably s/Builtin // in the description. Cheers, FJP -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [PATCH] [NET]: Remove PowerPC code from fec.c

2008-01-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 25 January 2008, Jochen Friedrich wrote: > > Jochen Friedrich wrote: > >> +++ b/drivers/net/fec.c > >> @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ > >> * > >> * Bug fixes and cleanup by Philippe De Muyter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >> * Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Macq Electronique SA. > >> + * > >> + * This driver

Re: [PATCH] [NET]: Remove PowerPC code from fec.c

2008-01-25 Thread Frans Pop
Jochen Friedrich wrote: > +++ b/drivers/net/fec.c > @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ > * > * Bug fixes and cleanup by Philippe De Muyter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > * Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Macq Electronique SA. > + * > + * This driver is now only used on ColdFire processors. Remove conditional > + * Powerpc

Re: [PATCH] [NET]: Remove PowerPC code from fec.c

2008-01-25 Thread Frans Pop
Jochen Friedrich wrote: +++ b/drivers/net/fec.c @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ * * Bug fixes and cleanup by Philippe De Muyter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Macq Electronique SA. + * + * This driver is now only used on ColdFire processors. Remove conditional + * Powerpc code.

Re: [PATCH] [NET]: Remove PowerPC code from fec.c

2008-01-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 25 January 2008, Jochen Friedrich wrote: Jochen Friedrich wrote: +++ b/drivers/net/fec.c @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ * * Bug fixes and cleanup by Philippe De Muyter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Macq Electronique SA. + * + * This driver is now only used on

Re: [PATCH 1/2] dm-band: The I/O bandwidth controller: Source code patch

2008-01-23 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, I'm not qualified to comment on the code, but here are some suggestions on config option and comments. Cheers, FJP Ryo Tsuruta wrote: > +config DM_BAND > + tristate "I/O band width control " s/band width/bandwidth/ (it seems to be used correctly elsewhere, but you may want to

Re: [PATCH 1/2] dm-band: The I/O bandwidth controller: Source code patch

2008-01-23 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, I'm not qualified to comment on the code, but here are some suggestions on config option and comments. Cheers, FJP Ryo Tsuruta wrote: +config DM_BAND + tristate I/O band width control s/band width/bandwidth/ (it seems to be used correctly elsewhere, but you may want to double-check)

Re: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE

2008-01-20 Thread Frans Pop
Andi Kleen wrote: > My workstation running 2.6.24-rc8 just hung during shutdown with an > endless (or rather I didn't wait more than a few minutes) loop of > > unregister_netdev: waiting for ppp-device to become free. Usage count = 1 Same as http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/20/27? See also follow-up

Re: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE

2008-01-20 Thread Frans Pop
Andi Kleen wrote: My workstation running 2.6.24-rc8 just hung during shutdown with an endless (or rather I didn't wait more than a few minutes) loop of unregister_netdev: waiting for ppp-device to become free. Usage count = 1 Same as http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/20/27? See also follow-up to

Re: pnpacpi : exceeded the max number of IO resources

2008-01-19 Thread Frans Pop
Dave Young wrote: > I noticed the port number changed to 40 in 2.6.24-rc8, but it's not > enough for me still. Same here, though the extreme noise has gone. >From /proc/ioports and dmesg it looks like I'm short by either 1, or 3 :-( Cheers, FJP -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: pnpacpi : exceeded the max number of IO resources

2008-01-19 Thread Frans Pop
Dave Young wrote: I noticed the port number changed to 40 in 2.6.24-rc8, but it's not enough for me still. Same here, though the extreme noise has gone. From /proc/ioports and dmesg it looks like I'm short by either 1, or 3 :-( Cheers, FJP -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 17 January 2008, David Miller wrote: > From: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > We spent Wednesday trying to reproduce (without the patch) these issues > > without much luck, and have applied the patch cleanly and will continue > > testing it. Given the simplicity of the

Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86: Reduce memory and intra-node effects with large count NR_CPUs V3

2008-01-16 Thread Frans Pop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >8472457 Total 30486950 +259% 30342823 +258% Hmmm. The table for previous versions looked a lot more impressive. now:8472457 Total+22014493 +259% +21870366 +258% V2 :7172678 Total+23314404 +325% -147590 -2%

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, David Miller wrote: > Ok, here is the patch I'll propose to fix this. The goal is to make > it as simple as possible without regressing the thing we were trying > to fix. Looks good to me. Tested with -rc8. Cheers, FJP -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, David Miller wrote: Ok, here is the patch I'll propose to fix this. The goal is to make it as simple as possible without regressing the thing we were trying to fix. Looks good to me. Tested with -rc8. Cheers, FJP -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86: Reduce memory and intra-node effects with large count NR_CPUs V3

2008-01-16 Thread Frans Pop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8472457 Total 30486950 +259% 30342823 +258% Hmmm. The table for previous versions looked a lot more impressive. now:8472457 Total+22014493 +259% +21870366 +258% V2 :7172678 Total+23314404 +325% -147590 -2%

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 15 January 2008, David Miller wrote: > From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang > > Does this make the problem go away? Yes, it very much looks like that solves it. I ran with the patch for 6 hours or

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 15 January 2008, David Miller wrote: From: Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang Does this make the problem go away? Yes, it very much looks like that solves it. I ran with the patch for 6 hours or so without any errors. I

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-14 Thread Frans Pop
Wow. That's fast! :-) On Tuesday 15 January 2008, David Miller wrote: > From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang > > Does this make the problem go away? I'm compiling a kernel with the patch now. Will let

[REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-14 Thread Frans Pop
After compiling v2.6.24-rc7-163-g1a1b285 (x86_64) yesterday I suddenly see this error repeatedly: kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang kernel: Tx Queue <0> kernel: TDH kernel: TDT kernel: next_to_use

[REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-14 Thread Frans Pop
After compiling v2.6.24-rc7-163-g1a1b285 (x86_64) yesterday I suddenly see this error repeatedly: kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang kernel: Tx Queue 0 kernel: TDH a kernel: TDT a kernel: next_to_use a

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

2008-01-14 Thread Frans Pop
Wow. That's fast! :-) On Tuesday 15 January 2008, David Miller wrote: From: Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang Does this make the problem go away? I'm compiling a kernel with the patch now. Will let you know the result. May take

Re: > 100% CPU usage

2008-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
James Kosin wrote: > Anyone remember the patch / patches done for the 2.6 series that related > to top reporting > 100% CPU usage? Do you mean these perhaps? - 73a2bcb0edb9ffb0b007b3546b430e2c6e415eee - 9301899be75b464ef097f0b5af7af6d9bd8f68a7 Cheers, FJP -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: 100% CPU usage

2008-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
James Kosin wrote: Anyone remember the patch / patches done for the 2.6 series that related to top reporting 100% CPU usage? Do you mean these perhaps? - 73a2bcb0edb9ffb0b007b3546b430e2c6e415eee - 9301899be75b464ef097f0b5af7af6d9bd8f68a7 Cheers, FJP -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: pnpacpi : exceeded the max number of IO resources

2008-01-09 Thread Frans Pop
Len Brown wrote: >> > Well, yes, the warning is actually new as well. Previously your kernel >> > just silently ignored 8 more mem resources than it does now it seems. >> > >> > Given that people are hitting these limits, it might make sense to just >> > do away with the warning for 2.6.24 again

Re: pnpacpi : exceeded the max number of IO resources

2008-01-09 Thread Frans Pop
Len Brown wrote: Well, yes, the warning is actually new as well. Previously your kernel just silently ignored 8 more mem resources than it does now it seems. Given that people are hitting these limits, it might make sense to just do away with the warning for 2.6.24 again while waiting

Re: pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of IO resources: 24

2008-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
(Mail below was sent to me privately, forwarding to the lists.) On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 00:48 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > (Adding the kernel list back. Any reason you did not send the reply > there?) > > Sorry for the late reply: Christmas, New Year, the flue, etc. > Thank

Re: pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of IO resources: 24

2008-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
(Mail below was sent to me privately, forwarding to the lists.) On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 00:48 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: (Adding the kernel list back. Any reason you did not send the reply there?) Sorry for the late reply: Christmas, New Year, the flue, etc. Thank you for caring this problem

Re: pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of IO resources: 24

2008-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
(Adding the kernel list back. Any reason you did not send the reply there?) Sorry for the late reply: Christmas, New Year, the flue, etc. On Friday 28 December 2007, Zhao Yakui wrote: > On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 06:12 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > During boot with v2.6.24-rc6-125-g5356

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc5: 'sysctl table check failed' when turning on printer

2008-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Short of two programs coming in and simultaneously trying to claim > the parallel port and there being not exclusion in ppdev.c I don't > have a clue what could cause the reported error. That could well be the root cause as the full log shows:

Re: pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of IO resources: 24

2008-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
(Adding the kernel list back. Any reason you did not send the reply there?) Sorry for the late reply: Christmas, New Year, the flue, etc. On Friday 28 December 2007, Zhao Yakui wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 06:12 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: During boot with v2.6.24-rc6-125-g5356f66 on my Toshiba

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc5: 'sysctl table check failed' when turning on printer

2008-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Short of two programs coming in and simultaneously trying to claim the parallel port and there being not exclusion in ppdev.c I don't have a clue what could cause the reported error. That could well be the root cause as the full log shows:

[BUG] 2.6.24-rc5: 'sysctl table check failed' when turning on printer

2008-01-05 Thread Frans Pop
(Resending as there were no replies on my first post mid December; issue is still there with -rc6.) This is the first time I've seen this error. Last time I used the printer was with 2.6.24-rc3 and that time this error did not occur. The error occurs when I start a print job, not when I turn the

[BUG] 2.6.24-rc5: 'sysctl table check failed' when turning on printer

2008-01-05 Thread Frans Pop
(Resending as there were no replies on my first post mid December; issue is still there with -rc6.) This is the first time I've seen this error. Last time I used the printer was with 2.6.24-rc3 and that time this error did not occur. The error occurs when I start a print job, not when I turn the

Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages

2007-12-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > The kernel printk messages are sentences. I'm afraid that I completely and utterly disagree. Kernel messages are _not_ sentences. The vast majority is not well-formed and does not contain any of the elements that are required for a proper

Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages

2007-12-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Alan Cox wrote: The kernel printk messages are sentences. I'm afraid that I completely and utterly disagree. Kernel messages are _not_ sentences. The vast majority is not well-formed and does not contain any of the elements that are required for a proper sentence.

Re: [PATCH] finish processor.h integration

2007-12-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > On Dec 18, 2007 6:54 PM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > > > What's left in processor_32.h and processor_64.h cannot be cleanly > > > integrated. However,

Re: [PATCH] finish processor.h integration

2007-12-18 Thread Frans Pop
Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > What's left in processor_32.h and processor_64.h cannot be cleanly > integrated. However, it's just a couple of definitions. They are moved > to processor.h around ifdefs, and the original files are deleted. Note > that there's much less headers included in the

Re: [PATCH] finish processor.h integration

2007-12-18 Thread Frans Pop
Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: What's left in processor_32.h and processor_64.h cannot be cleanly integrated. However, it's just a couple of definitions. They are moved to processor.h around ifdefs, and the original files are deleted. Note that there's much less headers included in the final

Re: [PATCH] finish processor.h integration

2007-12-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: On Dec 18, 2007 6:54 PM, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: What's left in processor_32.h and processor_64.h cannot be cleanly integrated. However, it's just a couple of definitions

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