Hi Linus,
please cherrypick 35f2e577e432b28969710bc1fd4d9a4c0875f81b from
the git://computergmbh.de/linux repository from the "netfilter"
branch (or use patch below).
thanks,
Jan
==
commit 35f2e577e432b28969710bc1fd4d9a4c0875f81b
Author: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jan 2 2008 12:09, Eric Paris wrote:
>
>So in the end we are all happy with the original patch I sent?
>
No objections at least :)
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On Jan 2 2008 12:14, Stefan Richter wrote:
>There is nothing wrong with a 0/n posting per se. But whenever you
>write a 0/n posting, ask yourself:
> - Isn't the information I provide here necessary to keep around by
>somebody who takes my patch series into his quilt series or into his
>s
On Jan 1 2008 14:30, Alan Cox wrote:
>> * Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > This patch removes the EXPERIMENTAL option and all dependencies on
>> > EXPERIMENTAL since they are pointless.
>>
>> agreed. CONFIG_BROKEN has real use - but CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is pretty
>> pointless in t
On Jan 1 2008 15:46, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>index 20c4c8b..93aac19 100644
>--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
>+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
>@@ -233,10 +233,2 @@ Who: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
>-
>-What: 'time' kernel boot pa
On Jan 1 2008 10:54, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>BUT! This defeats a fix I've had in my modprobe.conf for over a year now that
>gave the LVM stuff a stable major device # of 238, and now my LVM major is
>back to whatever mood the kernel is in, in this particular bootup case to
>#253.
>
>It may now
On Dec 31 2007 18:43, Patrick Mau wrote:
>
>May I ask something that might be obvious for most of the
>development community:
>
>Modules have to be loaded in seperate pages, right ?
That seems to be the case, judging from /proc/modules always ending in 000,
meaning each module is aligned at 0x100
On Dec 31 2007 16:19, Bodo Eggert wrote:
>Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>
>> The only advantage I see is that the kernel image you have to flash
>> can be made smaller - with the disadvantage that the running kernel
>> is bigger by more than 10%.
>>
>> If you don't believe me, try it yourself:
>> Build a
On Dec 23 2007 06:13, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Another year, another update! :)
>
> The kernel hacker's guide to git has received some updates:
>
> http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html
>
It says
"""Don't forget to download tags from time to time.
git pull only downloads sha1-indexed object dat
On Dec 31 2007 00:01, Carlos Corbacho wrote:
>On Monday 24 December 2007 03:06:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> From: Alex Dubov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> Sony MemoryStick cards are used in many products manufactured by Sony. They
>> are available both as storage and as IO expansion cards. Currently
On Dec 30 2007 23:42, Jose de la Mancha wrote:
>SHORT QUESTION :
>In a Debian-controlled RAID array, is there a parameter that handles the
>timeout before a non-responding drive is dropped from the array ? Can this
>timeout become user-adjustable in a future build ?
Not sure about Debian,
but pe
On Dec 30 2007 21:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>i build a kernel with allmodconfig and didn`t get my system to boot with that.
>
>after some investigation i found that it was due to udev:
>
>udevd[1226]: init_udev_socket: error getting socket: Address family not
>supported by protocol
>
>this
On Dec 29 2007 16:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Erm... same system here -
>>
>> $ gzip -cd /proc/config.gz | grep DEBUG_INFO
>> # CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is not set
>>
>> I think you managed to snafu something during building.
>
>mhh - i have kernel-default-2.6.22.13-0.3 kernel (didn`t touch that
On Dec 29 2007 14:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> On Dec 28 2007 16:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >
>> >i have the same issue, but with 2.6.24-rc6 on a box with 512MB RAM
>> >
>> >System is openSUSE 10.3
>>
>> If you enable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO, don't be surprised.
>
>oh yes, that`s it!
>
>apparent
On Dec 28 2007 22:02, dean gaudet wrote:
>
>i was trying to come up with a userland-only change in mount(8) which
>would behave like so:
>
># mount --subtree var /dev/md1 /var
> internally mount does:
> - mount /dev/md1 /tmpmnt
> - mount --bind /tmpmnt/var /var
> - umount /tmpmnt
>
># mount --
On Dec 28 2007 18:53, dean gaudet wrote:
>p.s. in retrospect i probably could have arranged it more like this:
>
> mount /dev/md1 $tmpmntpoint
> mount --bind $tmpmntpoint/var /var
> mount --bind $tmpmntpoint/home /home
> umount $tmpmntpoint
>
>except i can't easily specify that in fstab... and
[Adding jcm to Cc]
On Dec 28 2007 16:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>i have the same issue, but with 2.6.24-rc6 on a box with 512MB RAM
>
>System is openSUSE 10.3
>
>on "make modules_install" , depmod reproduceably dies with out of memory error
>when it is ~800MB VSZ and ~350MB RSS
>this happens
On Dec 28 2007 14:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>+
>+ * The initial minor number is 128 to prevent clashes with ttyS:
>+ * mknod /dev/ttyMAX0 c 4 128
>+ */
[4:128] is taken by ttyS64. Please look into Documentation/devices.txt.
>+struct max3100_port_s {
>+ struct uart_port port;
>+ stru
On Dec 28 2007 11:09, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>
>+struct mxser_cardinfo {
>+ unsigned int nports;
>+ char *name;
>+ unsigned int flags;
>+};
const char *name. Maybe name could also be put at the front
to get closer struct packing on 64-bit?
>
>+static int mxvar_baud_table[] = {
>+
On Dec 27 2007 11:11, Jan Evert van Grootheest wrote:
>>
>> The subject of the individual patches are in the email thread that is
>> attached to this announcement, so it should be quite simple to get this
>> information by just looking in your mail reader :)
>>
>> Also, it would be hard to do this
On Dec 26 2007 17:01, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> > @@ -215,7 +215,9 @@ asmlinkage int sys_vm86old(struct pt_reg
>> > ret = -EFAULT;
>> > if (tmp)
>> >goto out;
>> > - memset(&info.vm86plus, 0, (int)&info.regs32 - (int)&info.vm86plus);
>> > + memset(&info.vm86plus, 0,
>> > +
On Dec 23 2007 16:25, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>On Dec 23 2007 16:15, Al Boldi wrote:
>>> >-menuconfig USB_SUPPORT
>>> >- bool "USB support"
>>> >+config USB_SUPPORT
>>> >+ bool
>>> > depends on HAS_IOMEM
>>> >
On Dec 23 2007 16:15, Al Boldi wrote:
>> >-menuconfig USB_SUPPORT
>> >- bool "USB support"
>> >+config USB_SUPPORT
>> >+ bool
>> >depends on HAS_IOMEM
>> >default y
>> >---help---
>>
>> With this patch, is USB_SUPPORT still needed? It is not visible (anymore),
>> always is y and no
On Dec 23 2007 14:49, Al Boldi wrote:
>--- 23.a/drivers/usb/Kconfig
>+++ 23.b/drivers/usb/Kconfig
>@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
> # USB device configuration
> #
>
>-menuconfig USB_SUPPORT
>- bool "USB support"
>+config USB_SUPPORT
>+ bool
> depends on HAS_IOMEM
> default y
> ---hel
On Dec 21 2007 14:35, Greg KH wrote:
>> >> >I guess it could be, but the input for /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr is
>> >> >base 10 as well
>> >>
>> >> sysfs is autobase, i.e. echo "0xb000" >/sys/foo will Do The Right Thing.
>> >
>> >yes but if you cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr, it returns in base
On Dec 21 2007 22:16, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>Hi Jan,
>
>> >> >+config SECURITY_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
>> >> >+int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
>> >>
>> >> Hm, should not this be 'hex'?
>> >
>> >I guess it could be, but the input for /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr is
>> >b
On Dec 21 2007 16:30, Al Boldi wrote:
>
>The current USB Kconfig menu is rather cluttered and unorganized.
>
>Propose new layout as follows:
>
Yes, this has been done before in a lot of places, and attempts to
clean up more menus is always welcome.
Try to use 'menuconfig' objects so people can d
On Dec 21 2007 15:31, Eric Paris wrote:
>On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 00:29 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Dec 19 2007 16:59, Eric Paris wrote:
>> >
>> >+config SECURITY_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
>> >+int "Low address space to protect from user alloc
On Dec 21 2007 12:08, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> That being said, I don't think sse and mmx are available in kernel
> space, so I would have suggested doing all the grunt work in
> userspace would be better for this persons application so that he
> could use sse and mmx etc.
>
They are availa
On Dec 21 2007 19:41, Herbert Xu wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 11:10:38AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>
>> >[XFS] Initialise current offset in xfs_file_readdir correctly
>> >
>> >The reason is that it lacks a subject.
>>
>> "current of
On Dec 20 2007 18:15, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>No-period is a kernel idiom, produces perfectly readable output, I have
>never ever heard of anyone expressing the least concern over a lack of dots
>at the end of their printks and 91% of kernel code agrees.
Let's check out some real-world messages,
On Dec 21 2007 17:56, Herbert Xu wrote:
>>
>> I do not believe "opinions" are relevant here. Relevant would be cites
>> from respected style guides (Fowlers, Oxford Guide To Style et al.) to
>> show they do not need a full stop.
>>
>> I've not found one, but I am open to references.
>
>Well fro
On Dec 20 2007 23:05, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>>
>> Given the fact that I've had this problem for so long, over a variety
>> of networking hardware vendors and colo-facilities, this really sounds
>> good to me. It will be challenging for me to justify a kernel core
>> dump, but a simple patch to du
On Dec 19 2007 16:30, Greg KH wrote:
>See the example module, samples/kobject/kobject-example.c for an
>implementation of a simple kobject and attributes.
Should mention here that if simple types are enough and a callback
function is not needed, a module_param() could be used instead.
>As a kset
On Dec 19 2007 16:59, Eric Paris wrote:
>
>+config SECURITY_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
>+int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
Hm, should not this be 'hex'?
>+depends on SECURITY
>+default 0
>+help
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On Dec 19 2007 16:10, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
>> I anticipate the day removing __init causes a breakage, heh.
>> I mean, if all in-tree modules and LDD3 use it, it can't be wrong, can it?
>>
>>> plus got rid of all the code!
>>> static int32_t startup()
>>
>> I noticed that. Where's your "v
On Dec 19 2007 15:10, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
>I got rid of __init and anything else that I thought could cause the fault,
I anticipate the day removing __init causes a breakage, heh.
I mean, if all in-tree modules and LDD3 use it, it can't be wrong, can it?
>plus got rid of all the cod
On Dec 19 2007 20:25, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>On 12/18/2007 06:39 AM, ManojKwal wrote:
>> io scheduler cfq registered
>> serial_dtsp_init()
>> serial_dtsp_probe()
>> dtsp_uart.0: tts/0 at MMIO 0x2020 (irq = 2) is a ttyS
>> kobject_add failed for tts/0 (-13)
>> [] (dump_stack+0x0/0x14) from []
>> (k
On Dec 19 2007 09:47, Peters, Gordon wrote:
>Call me crazy,
For top-posting, yes. :)
> but if I have 2 NICs in a system and all the traffic is
>going through one of them and then that one NIC cable gets pulled, the
>other NIC, that half of the traffic should have been going through in
>the firs
On Dec 19 2007 12:43, James Nichols wrote:
>On 12/19/07, Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> James Nichols a écrit :
>> >> So you see outgoing SYN packets, but no SYN replies coming from the remote
>> >> peer ? (you mention ACKS, but the first packet received from the remote
>> >> peer sh
On Dec 18 2007 21:37, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> If turning off tcp_sack makes the problem go away, why dont you
> turn it off all the time ?
>
That would just be workaround. I welcome the efforts to track this;
not all users have the time to do so.
Disabling tcp_sack also disabled it kernel-wide, wh
On Dec 18 2007 13:21, James Nichols wrote:
>
>> Well you could still blame Java. I am sure that if you program was C,
>> the problem could be narrowed down much easier.
>
>I'm curious to know how this problem would be easier to narrow down if
>it were written in C.
>
It depends on the developers p
On Dec 18 2007 13:09, James Nichols wrote:
>
>> >> Well you could still blame Java. I am sure that if you program was C,
>> >> the problem could be narrowed down much easier.
>> >
>> >That may very well be true, but I can't rewrite the whole 500K line
>> >application in C at this point. Plus, it'
On Dec 18 2007 11:45, James Nichols wrote:
>
>> Well you could still blame Java. I am sure that if you program was C,
>> the problem could be narrowed down much easier.
>
>That may very well be true, but I can't rewrite the whole 500K line
>application in C at this point. Plus, it's a web app whi
On Dec 18 2007 10:34, James Nichols wrote:
>
>It's very challenging for me to upgrade the kernel as this is a
>production system and I need to run on whatever the latest RedHat
>supports for support contract reasons. I probably could do it if
>there are specific fixes that there is reason to beli
On Dec 19 2007 01:38, David Chinner wrote:
>>
>> In https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345338 it is
>> claimed that resetting the quota flags in the mounting sequence
>> rw,ro,rw is a bug, but I would say this is not the case,
>
>You mounted without quotas in the middle step, thereby inv
Hi,
In https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345338 it is claimed that
resetting the quota flags in the mounting sequence rw,ro,rw is a bug, but I
would say this is not the case, as quota is metadata, and the log is replayed
in ro mode even for other filesystems. Yet, it is still not nice,
On Dec 18 2007 15:10, wit wrote:
>
>1. What is the d_alloc_root used for? Actually, the question should
>be: why we have to call d_alloc_root.
>I think the root already has its dentry,
It does not.
>why we have to allocate another while we mounting a file
>system?
>
>2. Why we call d_alloc_root
On Dec 17 2007 15:33, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Could this live in scripts/ too? (And use CodingStyle?)
>
> Why should it live in scripts/ rather than where it is used? scripts/ is used
> either for global scripts or scripts which are used manually. Other scripts
> are
> not centralized there.
>
On Dec 17 2007 13:53, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>index 000..fd46b3d
>--- /dev/null
>+++ b/kernel/timeconst.pl
Could this live in scripts/ too? (And use CodingStyle?)
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On Dec 16 2007 20:18, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> Why tax other people with a warning/hang etc. in printk when the
>> problem is very unlikely on their systems?
>
>I think there is sense in it if you do it subtly differently.
>
> printk(".. if this hangs do ... \r");
> edd_stuff();
> pr
On Dec 16 2007 18:50, Paul Mundt wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 12:21:21AM +, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>> +/* GD Rom registers */
>> +#define GDROM_BASE_REG 0xA05F7000
>> +#define GDROM_ALTSTATUS_REG GDROM_BASE_REG + 0x18
>> +#define GDROM_DATA_REG GDROM_BASE_REG + 0x80
>> +#define GDROM_ERROR
On Dec 14 2007 15:39, James Nichols wrote:
>
>However, after approximately 38 hours of operation, all outbound
>connection attempts get stuck in the SYN_SENT state. It happens
>instantaneously, where I go from the baseline of about 60-80 sockets
>in SYN_SENT to a count of 200 (corresponding to th
On Dec 17 2007 14:43, David Miller wrote:
>> On Dec 13 2007 15:38, Joe Perches wrote:
>> >+static inline bool ipv4_is_private_10(__be32 addr)
>> >+{
>> >+ return (addr & htonl(0xff00)) == htonl(0x0a00);
>> >+}
>>
>> What are these functions needed for, even? There does not seem to be
>>
On Dec 15 2007 17:46, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> My understanding is that the linux starts in real mode, and uses the
>> BIOS for such things as reading the very first image.
>
>Not always. We may enter from 32bit in some cases, and we may also not
>have a PC BIOS in the first place.
Computers with
On Dec 14 2007 14:13, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> ?? Just initialize bogomips to 6GHz equivalent... and we are fine
>> until 6GHz cpus come out.
>
> How long will that take to boot on a 386?
>
Load it up in bochs and have look at the wallclock. I think that is a
good estimate when you have no rea
On Dec 13 2007 15:38, Joe Perches wrote:
>
>Change IPV4 specific macros LOOPBACK MULTICAST LOCAL_MCAST BADCLASS and ZERONET
>macros to inline functions ipv4_is_(__be32 addr)
>
>Adds type safety and arguably some readability.
>
>Changes since last submission:
>
>Removed ipv4_addr_octets function
>U
On Dec 12 2007 16:46, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:19:39 +0900 minchan Kim wrote:
>
>> I have a question about lkml spam filter.
>> I don't know why mail can't pass spam filter in lkml.
>> Sorry but this is a test mail.
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>See http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html#taboo
>
>+config AZ_FS
>+ tristate "AZFS filesystem support"
>+ default m
I do not think it should default to anything.
>+#define AZFS_SUPERBLOCK_FLAGS MS_NOEXEC | \
>+ MS_SYNCHRONOUS | \
>+ MS_DIRSYNC | \
>+
On Dec 16 2007 23:37, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>On Dec 16 2007 23:25, Harald Dunkel wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Is there a way to replace the system beep by something more
>> melodic?
>>
>> I remember some 10 years ago there was a patch for the kernel
&g
On Dec 16 2007 23:25, Harald Dunkel wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Is there a way to replace the system beep by something more
> melodic?
>
> I remember some 10 years ago there was a patch for the kernel
> to call an external "beep daemon" playing an audio file instead
> (no kidding). But it never worke
On Aug 24 2007 10:52, Jens Axboe wrote:
>Subject: [PATCH][RFC] dynamic pipe resizing
>
>Hi,
>
>Dabbling around with splice a bit, I added some code to change the size
>of a pipe. Currently it's hardcoded as 16 pages, with this patch you can
>shrink (if you wanted) or grow (the likely scenario) if
On Dec 14 2007 15:15, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>Hello.
>
>Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I don't think that this is a change from the recent past.
>
>Oh, it is my mistake.
>
>I found that choosing CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m makes
>impossible to pass an initrd image since
>populate_rootfs() in ini
On Dec 14 2007 17:11, Gosney, JeremiX wrote:
>Subject: ARP Bug?
>
>We've noticed the 2.6-based Linux systems in our test lab are
>experiencing some "ARP flux"-like symptoms.
>
>The systems reply with eth0's hardware address to all ARP requests,
If you have the same subnet on multiple interfaces
On Dec 13 2007 10:06, Erez Zadok wrote:
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jan Engelhardt writes:
>>
>> On Dec 9 2007 21:41, Erez Zadok wrote:
>> >
>> >Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >---
>> > Documentation/filesyst
On Dec 13 2007 00:54, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
>Transmeta TM5800 CPU with nominal frequency 933 MHz, but it has a
>hardware(!) 'ondemand' governor over the range of frequencies that
>the user allowed scaling over, irrespective of the software governor.
>(That is, if the C
On Dec 12 2007 00:31, Rene Herman wrote:
>
> Would some people on x86 (both 32 and 64) be kind enough to compile and run
> the
> attached program? This is about testing how long I/O port access to port 0x80
> takes. It measures in CPU cycles so CPU speed is crucial in reporting.
>
Transmeta TM58
On Dec 9 2007 21:41, Erez Zadok wrote:
>
>Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>---
> Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX |2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
This is not CVS, you are allowed to have multiple files in a changeset :-)
Perhaps fold 1-7.
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On Dec 7 2007 07:30, Nix wrote:
>On 6 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt verbalised:
>> On Dec 5 2007 19:29, Nix wrote:
>>>> On Dec 1 2007 06:19, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> RAID1, 0.90.03 superblocks (in order to be compatible with LILO, if
>&g
On Dec 5 2007 19:29, Nix wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 1 2007 06:19, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>
>>> RAID1, 0.90.03 superblocks (in order to be compatible with LILO, if
>>> you use 1.x superblocks with LILO you can't boot)
>>
>> Says who? (Don't use LILO ;-)
>
>Well, your kernels must be on a 0.90-superblocked
On Dec 5 2007 03:36, Gabriele Gorla wrote:
>@@ -392,6 +392,8 @@ typedef struct TAG_TW_Passthru
>unsigned char padding[12];
> } TW_Passthru;
>
>+#pragma pack()
>+
> typedef struct TAG_TW_Device_Extension {
>u32 base_addr;
>unsigned long
>*alignment_virtu
On Dec 4 2007 21:04, Jay Cliburn wrote:
>
>This piece of the top-level Makefile in current git causes an
>out-of-tree driver Makefile to fail.
>
>101 ifdef O
>102 ifeq ("$(origin O)", "command line")
>103 KBUILD_OUTPUT := $(O)
>104 endif
>105 endif
Should not it just use the usual boilerp
On Dec 4 2007 19:43, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
>@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_WAFER_WDT) += wafer5823wdt.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_I6300ESB_WDT) += i6300esb.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_ITCO_WDT) += iTCO_wdt.o iTCO_vendor_support.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_IT8712F_WDT) += it8712f_wdt.o
>+CFLAGS_hpwdt.o += -O
>+obj-$(CONFIG_HP_WA
On Dec 3 2007 11:58, Erez Zadok wrote:
>
>What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
>When: August 2006
>
>One feature (removal of sys_sysctl) is listed for September 2010: are we
>really able to predict the future with this much accuracy?
>
>When, if at all, will those future/overdue features be
On Dec 3 2007 15:47, Stefan Richter wrote:
>Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Dec 3 2007 12:04, Peter Stahlir wrote:
>>>I suggest setting up cgit for kernel.org
>>>cgit is a fast web interface for git.
>>>It is located at http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/
>>>I tr
On Nov 29 2007 19:54, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> >
>> > Anyway, I don't think compiling bc is hard on anything which has a C
>> > compiler.
>>
>> alternative is to just also ship the precomputed values ;-)
>>
>
> Oh, come on... it's not like bc is some obscure thing. It'
On Dec 3 2007 12:04, Peter Stahlir wrote:
>
>I suggest setting up cgit for kernel.org
>cgit is a fast web interface for git.
>It is located at
>
>http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/
>
>I tried it at
>
>http://cgit.freedesktop.org/
>
>and it feels much snappier than gitweb.
>
cgit looks so bare.
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On Dec 2 2007 22:56, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>
>> We probably want to hear related usages as well - what *besides*
>> A/V would be interested? Indexing services?
>
Indexing services would probably benefit much more from a
recursive-aware inotify, though that has its own sort of problems to
solve fir
On Dec 1 2007 07:12, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Dec 1 2007 06:19, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>
>> > RAID1, 0.90.03 superblocks (in order to be compatible with LILO, if
>> > you use 1.x superblocks with LILO you can't
On Dec 1 2007 06:26, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> I ran the following:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde
>
> (as it is always a very good idea to do this with any new disk)
Why would you care about what's on the disk? fdisk, mkfs and
the day-to-
On Dec 1 2007 06:19, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> RAID1, 0.90.03 superblocks (in order to be compatible with LILO, if
> you use 1.x superblocks with LILO you can't boot)
Says who? (Don't use LILO ;-)
>, and then:
>
> /dev/sda1+sdb1 <-> /dev/md0 <-> swap
> /dev/sda2+sdb2 <-> /dev/md1 <-> /boot (ext3)
On Nov 30 2007 10:04, Joe Perches wrote:
>
>There are many private logging definitions that could be
>consolidated in generic way. Things like:
>
> #define MY_PRINTK(fmt, arg) print(PFX fmt, ##arg)
>
>cheers, Joe
While you are at that, PFX should probably be KBUILD_MODNAME,
for simplicity.
On Nov 30 2007 11:20, Xavier Bestel wrote:
>On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 19:09 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>> > > Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development?
>> >
>> > Why not C# instead ?
>>
>> Why not Haskell nor Erlang instead ? :-D
>
>I heard of a bash compiler. That would enable
error out, but (incorrectly) forgets to release the L3 conntrack module.
Same for xt_CONNSECMARK.
Fix is to move the call to acquire the L3 module after the basic
constraint checks.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
net/netfilter/xt_CONNMARK.c| 10 +-
net/netfi
On Nov 29 2007 13:02, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> @@ -140,13 +140,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(hex_dump_to_buffer);
>> * Example output using %DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS and 4-byte mode:
>> * 88089af0: 73727170 77767574 7b7a7978 7f7e7d7c pqrstuvwxyz{|}~.
>> */
>> +
>> +#define HEX_LINE_SIZE 200
>> +
>>
On Nov 29 2007 12:04, Kyle McMartin wrote:
>
>For example, if you had 4GB of virtual memory, picture it as an
>array of bytes,
> u8 memory[4096 * (1024 * 1024)];/* 4G bytes */
uint8_t memory[4096UL * 1024 * 1024];
>Aligned accesses would be accessing this array in this manner,
>
On Nov 29 2007 08:47, Greg KH wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:36:12AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:07 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>> > The easiest way is as Al described above, just have the userspace
>> > program that wrote the file to disk, check it then.
>>
>> But the
On Nov 29 2007 11:27, Jon Masters wrote:
>
>They (virus protection folks) generally think they want to intercept
>various system calls, such as open() and block until they have performed
>a scan operation on the file. I explained the mmap issue [...]
If open and close was everything, then that wo
On Nov 28 2007 16:38, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>> And if we are talking about the situation when files are written to
>> in controlled way (i.e. we are not concerned with malware running on
>> the box in question and just want to stop it from passing through
>> mailsewer, etc.), then there's no damn nee
On Nov 28 2007 18:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>Talpa is modular itself being composed of a set of kernel modules of which
>not all are loaded simultaneously. Where possible LSM can be used and _no_
>messing with syscall table will take place. Unfortunately where another
>LSM user is present
On Nov 29 2007 01:05, J.A. Magallón wrote:
>
>Since begin of the ages the build of the nvidia driver says things like
>this:
>
Explicitly adding -Wpointer-arith to ones own Makefile is like
admitting the code might be problematic. :->
I think sizeof(void *) == 1 is taken as granted as sizeof(in
On Nov 27 2007 23:33, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>
>It didn't work too well. The first result was one of maximal
>embarrassment: I produced a patch that didn't even compile when
>applied to the official tree. This shouldn't happen with git, right?
>Well, it did. So now I'm back to keeping a virgin kern
On Nov 26 2007 11:13, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> >>>Only on current machines. You'd break building kernel RPMs on older
>> >>>systems that don't have rpmbuild installed.
>> >>
>> >> Those old machines probably do not even run a distro-fabricated
>> >> gcc that would compile a git head kernel.
>> >
On Nov 26 2007 10:53, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>>>Only on current machines. You'd break building kernel RPMs on older
>>>systems that don't have rpmbuild installed.
>>
>> Those old machines probably do not even run a distro-fabricated gcc that
>> would compile a git head kernel.
>
>well, in a nut
On Nov 26 2007 06:58, Ray Lee wrote:
>On Nov 26, 2007 12:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> on current systems, "rpm" no longer has build capability and will
>> fail thusly:
>>
>> rpm --target i386 -ta ../kernel-2.6.24rc3g2ffbb837dirty.tar.gz
>> --target: unknown option
>>
>>
On Nov 23 2007 11:47, Joe Perches wrote:
>On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 19:16 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> static inline bool xfs_inode_clean(const struct xfs_inode *ip)
>> {
>> if (ip->i_itemp == NULL)
>> return true;
>> if (!(ip->i_item
On Nov 23 2007 18:02, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
>> +STATIC_INLINE int xfs_inode_clean(xfs_inode_t *ip)
>> +{
>> +return (((ip->i_itemp == NULL) ||
>> +!(ip->i_itemp->ili_format.ilf_fields & XFS_ILOG_ALL)) &&
>> +(ip->i_update_core == 0));
>> +}
>
>Can we please get rid
On Nov 23 2007 00:15, Daniel Drake wrote:
>
>What's the definition of an unaligned access?
>=
>
>Unaligned memory accesses occur when you try to read N bytes of data starting
>from an address that is not evenly divisible by N (i.e. addr % N != 0).
>For e
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:47:54 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>But quite frankly, I refuse to even care about anything past that. If
>you have 12G (or heaven forbid, even more) in your machine, and you
>can't be bothered to just upgrade to a 64-bit CPU, then quite frankly,
>*I* personally ca
Hi,
I've got some semi-embedded device here, a plain consumer-grade x86 with
a VIA Nehemiah/Eden C7. After a while it just locks up, but neither is
that deterministic nor does it give out kernel messages. CPU Frequency
Scaling (which has been known to be a problem with this CPU) is already
di
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