Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-22 Thread Jesper Juhl
ordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Now that 2.6.19 is out, most likely not. -stable releases are made for the latest stable 2.6.x kernel, once 2.6.x+1 is out that's the one -stable patches are made for (2.6.16 is an exception).. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PR

Re: How can I create or read/write a file in linux device driver?

2007-01-12 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 12/01/07, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jan 12 2007 11:27, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 12/01/07, congwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello everyone, I want to create and read/write a file in Linux kernel or >> device driver, > > Don't r

Re: How can I create or read/write a file in linux device driver?

2007-01-12 Thread Jesper Juhl
why it's a bad idea. You can also read http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8110 -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe fr

Re: Jumping into Kernel development: About -rc kernels...

2007-01-09 Thread Jesper Juhl
s, develop features, test etc, then it is usually best to use the latest development snapshot available. An easy way to always have the tip of the tree available is to use git - see this document for more info : http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don'

Re: Gaming Interface

2007-01-09 Thread Jesper Juhl
stalled with Cedega 5.2.9 for two days now. Cedega is not a replacement for ports. And it does not encourage ports. I'm playing WoW on Slackware Linux 11 with a 2.6.18.6 kernel and wine 0.9.28 and it works just fine. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post

Re: [PATCH] include/linux/slab.h: new KFREE() macro.

2007-01-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
kfree call, and you also get to review the logic and find the flaw that lead to a double free in the first place. A double free is not something we should just sweep under the carpet and forget about, it's very likely an indication that some logic is flawed and should be fixed. This KFREE macro

Re: [PATCH] Remove a couple final references to obsolete verify_area().

2007-01-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
n be removed, unless there's something really strange i'm not seeing here. The AVR32 code went in roughly a month after I did the last verify_area() cleanup patch, so I missed these bits. The patch looks sane to me, so feel free to add Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- J

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] DAC960: kmalloc->kzalloc/Casting cleanups

2007-01-06 Thread Jesper Juhl
ed files ?. If so, I should forward it to Andrew Morton without CCing LKML again, right ? Sending the patch to LKML and Cc'ing Andrew and KJ would be my approach. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Pl

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] DAC960: kmalloc->kzalloc/Casting cleanups

2007-01-06 Thread Jesper Juhl
ed files ?. If so, I should forward it to Andrew Morton without CCing LKML again, right ? Sending the patch to LKML and Cc'ing Andrew and KJ would be my approach. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Pl

Re: open(O_DIRECT) on a tmpfs?

2007-01-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 05/01/07, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 04/01/07, Hua Zhong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I see that as a good argument _not_ to allow O_DIRECT on > > tmpfs, which inevitably impacts cache, even if O_DIRECT were > > requested. > > > &

Re: open(O_DIRECT) on a tmpfs?

2007-01-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
it's fast during testing. Why shouldn't I be able to test apps that use O_DIRECT this way? -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscr

VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day...

2006-12-28 Thread Jesper Juhl
ncern. The NFS server is running 2.6.18.1 and the webservers are running 2.6.17.8 -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger

NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP

2006-12-28 Thread Jesper Juhl
Vendor: IBM Model: SERVERAIDRev: 1.00 Type: ProcessorANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi2 Channel: 01 Id: 15 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: EXP400 S320Rev: D110 Type: ProcessorANSI SCSI revision: 03 -- Kind regards, Jesper

Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git

2006-12-22 Thread Jesper Juhl
y nice. A bit on how to revert a commit and how to rebase a branch would make it even nicer :) Thank you for a very good document, Jeff. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http

Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one (was: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3)

2006-12-20 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 20/12/06, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 12:39 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Having the assignment of "ret = 1;" inside the loop seems a little > pointless. Perhaps gcc can optimize it, but still, that assignment > really only needs t

Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one (was: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3)

2006-12-20 Thread Jesper Juhl
seems a little pointless. Perhaps gcc can optimize it, but still, that assignment really only needs to happen once outside the loop. -unlock: - pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl); + pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl); out: return ret; } -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't

[PATCH] NFS: Kill the obsolete NFS_PARANOIA

2006-12-19 Thread Jesper Juhl
Linus, This patch has been both compile and run-time tested. It has been in -mm for quite a while without problems. Trond & Andrew have both signed off on it. Please apply. Remove obsolete NFS_PARANOIA. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Mort

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2006-12-18 Thread Jesper Juhl
2006/12/14/63 ), so could we please just let this dead horse rest in peace? -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

[PATCH] VFS: turn off FL_SLEEP when calling do_vfs_lock() just in case and get rid of "VFS is out of sync with lock manager" messages

2006-12-15 Thread Jesper Juhl
h has been tested on a production webserver and works just fine. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/nfs/file.c | 11 +++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nf

Re: Will there be security updates for 2.6.17 kernels?

2006-12-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
no updates for 2.6.17 in future: Are there already security holes in 2.6.17? probably. Could someone please give two examples? I need informations, to be able to contact the slackware team, to request a "downgrade" to 2.6.16. Ehh, you wouldn't want to do that. You'd want to en

Re: kernel compilation on windows XP using cygwin

2006-12-11 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 11/12/06, kalyan kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am not able to compile latest kernel code in cygwin environment. It fails for not ELF error always and exits. Any suggestions please? One suggestion: Don't do that. That's not a supported way to build the kernel. -- Jes

Re: [Xen-devel] Lots of "swapper: page allocation failure" and other memory related messages - 2.6.16-xen0

2006-12-11 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 11/12/06, Keir Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/12/06 12:36, "Jesper Juhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (please keep me on Cc when replying) > > I have a server running Xen that regularly spews the following. > The box seems to survive fine regardle

Re: why are some of my patches being credited to other "authors"?

2006-12-09 Thread Jesper Juhl
about using the multi-part notation. are you sure about this? I've done this several times. It's quite a common way of doing it. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http:/

Re: NFS related BUGs at shutdown - do_exit() + lock held at task exit time - 2.6.17.8

2006-12-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 08/12/06, Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 12:41 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Greetings, > > I just got a kernel crash when shutting down a webserver. Nothing made > it to the logs, but I managed to get a photo of the dump on screen : >

Re: Let's get rid of those annoying "VFS is out of sync with lock manager" messages (includes proposed patch)

2006-12-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 08/12/06, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 08/12/06, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday December 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > So I took Neils patch, made the change Trond suggested and the result is > > below. > > >

Re: Let's get rid of those annoying "VFS is out of sync with lock manager" messages (includes proposed patch)

2006-12-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
ormal use but could possibly be useful as a debugging aid. Also turn off FL_SLEEP when calling do_vfs_lock() just in case after getting -EINTR or -ERESTARTSYS. > > > Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- &

Lots of "swapper: page allocation failure" and other memory related messages - 2.6.16-xen0

2006-12-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
(please keep me on Cc when replying) I have a server running Xen that regularly spews the following. The box seems to survive fine regardless - just thought I'd let everyone know. Dec 8 12:19:26 server kernel: 0x47/0x7a Dec 8 12:19:26 server kernel: [alloc_skb_from_cache+70/243] alloc_skb_fro

Re: additional oom-killer tuneable worth submitting?

2006-12-07 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 07/12/06, Chris Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jesper Juhl wrote: >> Jesper Juhl wrote: >> > What happens in the case where the OOM killer really, really needs to >> > kill one or more processes since there is not a single drop of memory >> > avail

Re: additional oom-killer tuneable worth submitting?

2006-12-07 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 07/12/06, Chris Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jesper Juhl wrote: > What happens in the case where the OOM killer really, really needs to > kill one or more processes since there is not a single drop of memory > available, but all processes are below their configured th

Let's get rid of those annoying "VFS is out of sync with lock manager" messages (includes proposed patch)

2006-12-07 Thread Jesper Juhl
gested and the result is below. Comments? Ok to merge? Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/nfs/file.c | 11 +++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c

Re: additional oom-killer tuneable worth submitting?

2006-12-07 Thread Jesper Juhl
e where the OOM killer really, really needs to kill one or more processes since there is not a single drop of memory available, but all processes are below their configured thresholds? If a patch for the above feature was submitted, would there be any chance of getting it included? Maybe control

Re: drivers/net/chelsio/my3126.c: inconsequent NULL checking

2006-12-07 Thread Jesper Juhl
into if (!cphy) return NULL; callers need to be able to handle that ofcourse, but I haven't checked that yet. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://w

Re: [PATCH/RFC] CodingStyle updates

2006-12-07 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 07/12/06, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add some kernel coding style comments, mostly pulled from emails by Andrew Morton, Jesper Juhl, and Randy Dunlap. - add paragraph on switch/case indentation - add paragraph on multiple-assig

Re: [PATCH] A few small additions and corrections to README

2006-12-06 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Thursday 07 December 2006 01:07, Ben Nizette wrote: > Jesper Juhl wrote: [...] > > @@ -22,15 +22,17 @@ ON WHAT HARDWARE DOES IT RUN? > > > >Although originally developed first for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or > > higher), > >today Linux also runs o

[PATCH] A few small additions and corrections to README

2006-12-06 Thread Jesper Juhl
few other minor changes. Please consider for inclusion. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- README | 17 +++-- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/

[PATCH][resend] Clean up 'make help' output for documentation targets.

2006-12-06 Thread Jesper Juhl
s- HTML installmandocs - install man pages generated by mandocs mandocs - man pages pdfdocs - PDF psdocs - Postscript xmldocs - XML DocBook Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECT

vmscan.c:196: bad pmd (kernel 2.4.25)

2006-12-06 Thread Jesper Juhl
d pmd 364001e3. vmscan.c:196: bad pmd 368001e3. vmscan.c:196: bad pmd 36c001e3. vmscan.c:196: bad pmd 370001e3. vmscan.c:196: bad pmd 374001e3. vmscan.c:196: bad pmd 378001e3. vmscan.c:196: bad pmd 37c001e3. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html

Re: [PATCH 7/12] IPMI: add poll delay

2006-12-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
at panic time. Without this change, if something goes wrong in the BMC the driver will never time out the operation since it doesn't see time being driven forward. So this makes sure the driver sees time advancing as it should. Hmm, I wonder if this could explain why some of my IBM

[PATCH] Be a bit defensive in quirk_nvidia_ck804() so we don't risk dereferencing a NULL pdev.

2006-12-01 Thread Jesper Juhl
pci_get_slot() may return NULL if nothing was found. quirk_nvidia_ck804() does not check the value returned from pci_get_slot(), so it may end up causing a NULL pointer deref. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/pci/quirks.c |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 inse

Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

2006-12-01 Thread Jesper Juhl
files as people to contact. So it's nice when the email addresses are up to date. In my opinion the addresses should be working ones or not present at all (or at the very least there should be a note that the email address is outdated). -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-p

Re: Core file size?

2006-12-01 Thread Jesper Juhl
g/wiki/Core_dump -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body o

Re: XFS internal error xfs_trans_cancel at line 1138 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c (kernel 2.6.18.1)

2006-11-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 30/11/06, David Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:17:25AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 29/11/06, David Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 04:49:00PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > >> Filesystem "dm-1&qu

Re: XFS internal error xfs_trans_cancel at line 1138 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c (kernel 2.6.18.1)

2006-11-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 29/11/06, David Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 04:49:00PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Hi, > > One of my NFS servers just gave me a nasty surprise that I think it is > relevant to tell you about: Thanks, Jesper. > Filesystem "

Re: [PATCH] Don't compare unsigned variable for <0 in sys_prctl()

2006-11-28 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 29/11/06, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > I would venture that "-Wshadow" is another one of those. I'd agree, except for the fact that gcc does a horribly _bad_ job of -Wshadow, making it (again) totally u

Re: [PATCH] Don't compare unsigned variable for <0 in sys_prctl()

2006-11-28 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 29/11/06, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > Friends don't let friends use "-W". > > Hehe, ok, I'll stop cleaning this stuff up then. > Nice little hobby out the window there ;) You might wa

Re: [PATCH] Don't compare unsigned variable for <0 in sys_prctl()

2006-11-28 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 28/11/06, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > In kernel/sys.c::sys_prctl() the argument named 'arg2' is very clearly > of type 'unsigned long', and when compiling with "gcc -W" gcc also warns :

[PATCH] Don't compare unsigned variable for <0 in sys_prctl()

2006-11-28 Thread Jesper Juhl
t of "arg2 < 0". For those of us who compile their kernels with "-W" this gets rid of an annoying warning. For the rest of you it saves a few bytes of source code ;-) Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index

Re: [PATCH] REPORTING-BUGS: request .config file

2006-11-28 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 28/11/06, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add kernel .config file to REPORTING-BUGS. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Given how often people ask for the config, it makes good sense to have that in the documen

XFS internal error xfs_trans_cancel at line 1138 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c (kernel 2.6.18.1)

2006-11-28 Thread Jesper Juhl
pported with external log device XFS mounting filesystem dm-1 Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: dm-1 The server in question is running kernel 2.6.18.1 -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails

Re: Reserving a fixed physical address page of RAM.

2006-11-28 Thread Jesper Juhl
not use the 'memmap=' kernel option to reserve the specific area you need? (See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt for details) -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http

[PATCH] Clean up "make help" output for documentation targets

2006-11-27 Thread Jesper Juhl
s- HTML installmandocs - install man pages generated by mandocs mandocs - man pages pdfdocs - PDF psdocs - Postscript xmldocs - XML DocBook Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 1

Re: [PATCH] potential NULL pointer deref in net/key/af_key.c

2006-11-27 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 27/11/06, David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:44:07 +0100 > In net/key/af_key.c::pfkey_send_policy_notify() there's a check at the > beginning of the function : > > if (xp && xp->

Re: [PATCH] IDE: typo in ide-io.c leads to faulty assignment

2006-11-27 Thread Jesper Juhl
two lines : - args->handler = task_no_data_intr; + args->handler = &task_no_data_intr; do the same thing. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.co

Re: kernel: Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently

2006-11-27 Thread Jesper Juhl
) is hidden behind transparent bridge #02 (-#04) (try 'pci=assign-busses') Oct 7 18:25:00 laverne kernel: Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently And what are the results when you use "pci=assign-busses" as your kernel asks you to do ? -- Jesper Juhl <

Re: [NFS] 2.6.17.8 - do_vfs_lock: VFS is out of sync with lock manager!

2006-11-27 Thread Jesper Juhl
Any chance we could get the patch below (or something similar) pushed into 2.6.19? On 21/11/06, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 21/08/06, Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 13:34 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > > Looking in fs/nfs/file

IPv4: ip_options_compile() how can we avoid blowing up on a NULL skb???

2006-11-16 Thread Jesper Juhl
in the else part : optptr = opt->is_data ? opt->__data : (unsigned char*)&(skb->nh.iph[1]); So if 'skb' is NULL, the only route I see that doesn't cause a NULL pointer deref is if (opt != NULL) and at the same time (opt->is_data != NULL) . Is that gu

Re: [PATCH][RFC][resend] potential NULL pointer deref in XFS on failed mount

2006-11-16 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 16/11/06, David Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:18:26PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > (got no reply on this when I originally send it on 20061031, so resending > now that a bit of time has passed. The patch still applies cleanly to > Linus'

Re: [PATCH][RFC][resend] potential NULL pointer deref in XFS on failed mount

2006-11-16 Thread Jesper Juhl
v_targp, 1); xfs_free_buftarg(mp->m_ddev_targp, 0); } -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: How to go about debuging a system lockup?

2006-11-16 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 16/11/06, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 09:49:06PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: ... > - You could also try kdb (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/) or kgdb > (http://kgdb.linsyssoft.com/). That might help you pinpoint the > failure. Can I ru

[PATCH][RFC][resend] potential NULL pointer deref in XFS on failed mount

2006-11-16 Thread Jesper Juhl
subsequent return if it is NULL) the two will never both be NULL when we hit the error0 label from the two lines cited above. Comments welcome (please keep me on Cc: on replies). Here's a proposed patch to fix this by testing 'btp' against NULL in xfs_free_buftarg(). Signe

Re: How to go about debuging a system lockup?

2006-11-16 Thread Jesper Juhl
ns, should help you pinpoint the commit causing the breakage. Hope some of that helps :) -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from

the Month of Kernel Bugs (MoKB) archive

2006-11-16 Thread Jesper Juhl
o the attention of a wider audience in case he lists some new/unknown bugs that we ought to fix. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscrib

Re: [PATCH] rmmod notifier chain

2005-09-09 Thread Jesper Juhl
many other peoples patches. Positive feedback does happen. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: How to plan a kernel update ?

2005-09-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
xample, and Slackware 10.1 is completely 2.6 kernel ready, so on a Slackware 10.1 box there's no hassle at all, I just drop in a 2.6 kernel in place of the 2.4 one it installs by default and everything is good - all tools are already ready to cope. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: 2.6.13-mm1

2005-09-06 Thread Jesper Juhl
ng like that would be just fine for the patches that have been sent on to Linus. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: kbuild & C++

2005-09-06 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 9/7/05, Esben Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > On 9/6/05, Budde, Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > for one of our customers I have to port a Windows driver to > > >

Re: kbuild & C++

2005-09-06 Thread Jesper Juhl
tested with 2.6.11) of kbuild seems to be incomplete / > not working. > That would be because the kernel is written in *C* (and some asm), *not* C++. There /is/ no C++ support. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/t

[PATCH] wrong firmware location in IPW2100 Kconfig entry (Was: IPW2100 Kconfig)

2005-09-06 Thread Jesper Juhl
send the "patch" to? Or can someone simply change that? > Firmware should go into /lib/firmware, not /etc/firmware. Found by Alejandro Bonilla. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 del

Re: nfs4 client bug

2005-09-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
ole will let you put the console on a different box over the network. console on line printer will let you have a permanent record of the console output on paper. See Documentation/serial-console.txt Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt the help entry for "config LP_CONSOLE" (in dri

Re: [PATCH] Omnikey Cardman 4000 driver

2005-09-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 9/6/05, Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > [snip] > > Please consider mergin mainline, thanks. > [snip] Wouldn't it be better to first merge it in -mm and get some wider testing before pushing for mainline? -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [PATCH] Omnikey Cardman 4000 driver

2005-09-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
ments for your previous driver as well as the cleanup patch I just posted for that one. A lot of those issues apply to your new driver as well - care to clean that up? -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain tex

Re: [PATCH] Omnikey Cardman 4040 driver

2005-09-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Monday 05 September 2005 22:05, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Monday 05 September 2005 21:54, Harald Welte wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've now incorporated all the suggested changes (thanks once again on > > the many comments received). The resulting driver ha

Re: [PATCH] Omnikey Cardman 4040 driver

2005-09-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
;," etc). Removed some pointless casts. Hope this is useful to you (applies on top of the version you just posted). /Jesper Juhl --- drivers/char/pcmcia/cm4040_cs.c.orig2005-09-05 21:39:05.0 +0200 +++ drivers/char/pcmcia/cm4040_cs.c 2005-09-05 22:01:19.0 +0200 @

Re: (alpha) process_reloc_for_got confuses r_offset and r_addend

2005-09-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
lease cc me on replies. thanks) Why not post the patch you made for review as well? -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: igmp problem

2005-09-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
ly cares about it any more. You should probably also talk to the netdev people (CC'ed). -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe fro

Re: kernel 2.6.13 hangs / freezes with nvidia kernel module on switch to virtual console (also 2.6.12)

2005-09-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
from nvidia.com > Reproduce the problem without a binary only kernel module. Or in this case, complain to nvidia. It's impossible for kernel developers to debug a problem involving a closed source module. The authors of that module will have to do the fixing. -- Jesper Juhl <[EM

Re: 2.6.11.11 and rsync oops (SATA related?)

2005-09-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
ses (see the shortened .dmesg file). Run the > ksymoops and got some output (see .ksymoops.bz2). > It seems you forgot to include the data. Nothing inline in the email, nor any attachments. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon

[PATCH] disable_local_APIC() is only available when CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC is defined

2005-09-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
_shootdown_cpus': arch/i386/kernel/crash.c:195: warning: implicit declaration of function `disable_local_APIC' There may be a better fix, but the below seems to do the trick. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-mm1-orig/arch/i386/kernel/crash.c 2005-

Re: [PATCH] disable_local_APIC() is only available when CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC is defined

2005-09-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 9/5/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > `disable_local_APIC' is only available when CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC is defined : > > arch/i386/kernel/crash.c: In function `crash_nmi_callback': > arch/i386/kernel/crash.c:153: warning: implicit declaration of

Re: quiet-non-x86-option-rom-warnings.patch added to -mm tree

2005-09-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
ing in aty128fb and radeonfb about the PCI ROM > content. Macs work just find without that signature. > [...] If everything is fine, then why not just remove the printk() entirely instead of just changing the level to KERN_DEBUG ? -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post

Re: Potential IPSec DoS/Kernel Panic with 2.6.13

2005-09-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 9/5/05, Matt LaPlante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-kernel- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jesper Juhl > > Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 2:49 PM > > To: Matt LaPlante > >

Re: [PATCH] New: Omnikey CardMan 4040 PCMCIA Driver

2005-09-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 9/4/05, Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/4/05, Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 12:12:18PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > >

Re: 2.6.13-mm1

2005-09-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 9/4/05, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm wondering if it would be too much trouble to have a mm-drops list > > similar to the mm-commits list. > > Well I was sending drop messages to mm-c

Re: 2.6.13-mm1

2005-09-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
uld it be to set your end up to automatically send a mail to the same people who got the original mm-commits mail + send it to a central mm-drops list that those of us who care about this could subscribe to? As far as I'm concerned the mails wouldn't even need to contain a reason (a

Re: Potential IPSec DoS/Kernel Panic with 2.6.13

2005-09-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
ent record of the console output on paper. See Documentation/serial-console.txt Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt the help entry for "config LP_CONSOLE" (in drivers/char/Kconfig) -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/ht

Re: [PATCH] New: Omnikey CardMan 4040 PCMCIA Driver

2005-09-03 Thread Jesper Juhl
used for indentation. Not going to point out any more of these. + cmx_poll_timer.function = &cmx_do_poll; shouldn't this be cmx_poll_timer.function = cmx_do_poll; ??? + int i; + DEBUG(3, "-> reader_detach(link=%p\n", link); please have a blank line betwe

Re: [Q] how to use syslogd to debug kernel ?

2005-09-02 Thread Jesper Juhl
n the kernel crashes there's no guarantee that messages will reach syslog. Actually there's no guarantee of anything - the kernel is dead. If you want to capture Oops messages in a more reliable fashion, then use a serial console, netconsole or console on line-printer. -- Jesper Juhl

Re: mail list broken?

2005-09-02 Thread Jesper Juhl
lp is appreciated. > See http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - there's a test address listed you can try. IIRC you can also send a mail to majordomo and ask if you are still subscribed. Also try vgers mxverify tool : http://vger.kernel.org/mxverify.html Hope that's useful. --

Re: Possible BUG in IPv4 TCP window handling, all recent 2.4.x/2.6.x kernels

2005-09-01 Thread Jesper Juhl
nd include an URL in the email - compress the file(s) and attach the compressed files to the email -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] crypto_free_tfm callers no longer need to check for NULL

2005-09-01 Thread Jesper Juhl
it them out by hand. > No problem, I actually saw those (an unfortunate biproduct of a script I used to diff the individual files) and told myself that I should remember to remove them before sending the final patch, but obviously I forgot. > Thanks again. > You are most welcome. --

Re: Possible BUG in IPv4 TCP window handling, all recent 2.4.x/2.6.x kernels

2005-09-01 Thread Jesper Juhl
the post. Want me to farward you a copy off list ? -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

Resend: [PATCH] crypto_free_tfm callers no longer need to check for NULL

2005-09-01 Thread Jesper Juhl
NULL Date: Wednesday 31 August 2005 22:20 From: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrew morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, J. Bruce Fields <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit

2005-08-31 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 9/1/05, Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:12:00AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > b) add a new boot option telling the kernel the name of some file in > > initrd or similar from which to load additional options. > > a file in

Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit

2005-08-31 Thread Jesper Juhl
ble to process options from it, but if it's doable somehow it would be a really neat thing. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscr

Resend: [PATCH] remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(strtok) from frv_ksyms.c

2005-08-31 Thread Jesper Juhl
PORT_SYMBOL(strtok) from frv_ksyms.c Date: Monday 29 August 2005 17:35 From: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "linux-kernel" Hi Andrew, I hessitated a bit before sending this patch to you since it is untested. This is due to the fact that I

Re: 2.6.13 and the IRQs

2005-08-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
It seems you forgot to include the output. full dmesg output and also a diff -u of lspci -vvx output from 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 would most likely be useful. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails onl

Re: Telecom Clock driver for MPCBL0010 ATCA compute blade.

2005-08-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/31/05, Mark Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 14:19, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > On 8/30/05, Mark Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:31, Mark Gross wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 3

Re: [PATCH] crypto_free_tfm callers do not need to check for NULL

2005-08-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/30/05, Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 22:45 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > Since the patch to add a NULL short-circuit to crypto_free_tfm() went in, > > there's no longer any need for callers of that function to check for NULL.

Re: Telecom Clock driver for MPCBL0010 ATCA compute blade.

2005-08-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
this is not supposed to be there, then just remove it. If it needs to be added later, then submit a patch later to add it. Some people may disagree with me here, but that's my oppinion. + out3: labels belong at column 0 (zero). -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't to

[PATCH] crypto_free_tfm callers do not need to check for NULL

2005-08-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
ainline and not -mm, so this patch is against 2.6.13. Feedback, ACK, NACK, etc welcome. Sorry about the large Cc list, but I wanted to include everyone involved with the code I change. Please keep me on Cc. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ./drivers/net/wireless/ai

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