[PATCH][ISDN][resend] Guard against a potential NULL pointer dereference in old_capi_manufacturer()

2007-06-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
#402) Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c b/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c index 3ed34f7..3f9e962 100644 --- a/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c +++ b/drivers/isdn/capi

[PATCH][ISDN][resend] fix possible NULL deref on low memory condition in capidrv.c::send_message()

2007-06-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
and just return rather than bring down the whole kernel. Sure, doing this may upset some application, but that's still better than crashing the whole system. (ps. please Cc me on replies from the isdn4linux list since I'm not subscribed there) Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED

[PATCH][Documentation][resend] Add missing files and dirs to 00-INDEX in Documentation/

2007-06-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
documentation... Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/00-INDEX | 142 +--- 1 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX index f08ca95..8b05636 100644

[PATCH][XFS][resend] memory leak; allocated transaction not freed in xfs_inactive_free_eofblocks() in failure case.

2007-06-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
and xfs_itruncate_start(ip, XFS_ITRUNC_DEFINITE, 0); happens to return an error, we'll just return from the function without dealing with the memory allocated byxfs_trans_alloc() and assigned to 'tp', thus it'll be orphaned/leaked - not good. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/xfs

[PATCH][XFS][resend] fix memory leak in xfs_inactive()

2007-06-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
was introduced by this commit: http://git2.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d3cf209476b72c83907a412b6708c5e498410aa7 The patch below is From: Dave Chinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c |1 + 1 file changed, 1

[PATCH][isapnp] Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in isapnp_read_tag()

2007-06-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
, this will blow up is ever type is NULL. This is easy to fix by simply moving the NULL test to the beginning of the function. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/pnp/isapnp/core.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/00

Re: Assistance debugging a Micrel network driver

2007-06-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
ne has any idea what might be happening, I would greatly appreciate any information. You could start by publishing your complete source code. That would make it a lot more likely that people can help you spot and fix problems. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/

Re: updated sbpcd.c

2007-06-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 29/06/07, Eberhard Moenkeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Surya Prabhakar N wrote: > > Hi emoenke, >Can this patch be verified and pulled into your tree. > > thanks. > Surya. Jesper Juhl should ack it (if), and Jens Axboe would be

Re: updated sbpcd.c

2007-06-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 29/06/07, Eberhard Moenkeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Surya Prabhakar N wrote: Hi emoenke, Can this patch be verified and pulled into your tree. thanks. Surya. Jesper Juhl should ack it (if), and Jens Axboe would be the right person to pull

Re: Assistance debugging a Micrel network driver

2007-06-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
would greatly appreciate any information. You could start by publishing your complete source code. That would make it a lot more likely that people can help you spot and fix problems. -- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain

Re: [PATCH]: check_region cleanup in sbpcd.c

2007-06-25 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 12/06/07, Surya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I am sending with all the corrections, if its ok to acknowledge it? Looks good to me. Signed-off-by: Surya Prabhakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PR

Re: [patch, v2.6.22-rc6] sys_time() speedup

2007-06-25 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 26/06/07, Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > On Monday 25 June 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > the patch improves the sysbench OLTP macrobenchmark significantly: > > > > Has that any real pr

Re: [patch, v2.6.22-rc6] sys_time() speedup

2007-06-25 Thread Jesper Juhl
e for any program using the time() system call, with no real drawbacks, so why wouldn't we want to use 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://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe

Re: [patch, v2.6.22-rc6] sys_time() speedup

2007-06-25 Thread Jesper Juhl
using the time() system call, with no real drawbacks, so why wouldn't we want to use 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://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [patch, v2.6.22-rc6] sys_time() speedup

2007-06-25 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 26/06/07, Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote: On Monday 25 June 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: the patch improves the sysbench OLTP macrobenchmark significantly: Has that any real practical relevance? It seems to me that Ingo's patch

Re: [PATCH]: check_region cleanup in sbpcd.c

2007-06-25 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 12/06/07, Surya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I am sending with all the corrections, if its ok to acknowledge it? Looks good to me. Signed-off-by: Surya Prabhakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't top-post http

Re: [PATCH] Avoid potential NULL deref in scripts/genksyms/lex.l

2007-06-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 25/06/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:02:03 +0200 "Jesper Juhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > + if (!file || !e) > > > + exit(1); > > >*e = '\0'; > > >

[PATCH][ISDN] fix possible NULL deref on low memory condition in capidrv.c::send_message()

2007-06-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
, doing this may upset some application, but that's still better than crashing the whole system. (ps. please Cc me on replies from the isdn4linux list since I'm not subscribed there) Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c |5 + 1 files chan

Re: 2.6.22-rc5: pdflush oops under heavy disk load

2007-06-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
cause an Oops. -- 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

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
:p usually. When it comes to getting patches into mainline, asking twice (or more) is sometimes required, and it's considered your responsability as submitter to resend a patch if noone reacts to it the first time around. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargo

[PATCH] Guard against a potential NULL pointer dereference in old_capi_manufacturer()

2007-06-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
In drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c::old_capi_manufacturer(), if the call to get_capi_ctr_by_nr(ldef.contr); in line 823 returns NULL, then we'll be dereferencing a NULL pointer in the very next line. (Found by Coverity checker as bug #402) Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [PATCH] Avoid potential NULL deref in scripts/genksyms/lex.l

2007-06-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 24/06/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:40:03 +0200 Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > strchr() returns NULL in case the string is not found and if that > happens we risk dereferencing a NULL pointer. It never hurts to > che

[PATCH] Avoid potential NULL deref in scripts/genksyms/lex.l

2007-06-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
whatever else is in that file) Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- scripts/genksyms/lex.l|2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/genksyms/lex.l b/scripts/genksyms/lex.l index 5e544a0..28edc0c 100644 --- a/scripts/genksyms/lex.l

Re: Question about fair schedulers

2007-06-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
ield prefix the command used to launch the application with 'nice' and the priority you want, save your changes and the next time you launch that app it'll get the priority you wish. Gnome and most other environments also have similar capabilities. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't to

Re: Question about fair schedulers

2007-06-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
you want, save your changes and the next time you launch that app it'll get the priority you wish. Gnome and most other environments also have similar capabilities. -- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please

[PATCH] Avoid potential NULL deref in scripts/genksyms/lex.l

2007-06-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
whatever else is in that file) Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- scripts/genksyms/lex.l|2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/genksyms/lex.l b/scripts/genksyms/lex.l index 5e544a0..28edc0c 100644 --- a/scripts/genksyms/lex.l +++ b

Re: [PATCH] Avoid potential NULL deref in scripts/genksyms/lex.l

2007-06-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 24/06/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:40:03 +0200 Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: strchr() returns NULL in case the string is not found and if that happens we risk dereferencing a NULL pointer. It never hurts to check for that condition and exit

[PATCH] Guard against a potential NULL pointer dereference in old_capi_manufacturer()

2007-06-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
In drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c::old_capi_manufacturer(), if the call to get_capi_ctr_by_nr(ldef.contr); in line 823 returns NULL, then we'll be dereferencing a NULL pointer in the very next line. (Found by Coverity checker as bug #402) Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
twice (or more) is sometimes required, and it's considered your responsability as submitter to resend a patch if noone reacts to it the first time around. -- 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: 2.6.22-rc5: pdflush oops under heavy disk load

2007-06-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
an Oops. -- 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 of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[PATCH][ISDN] fix possible NULL deref on low memory condition in capidrv.c::send_message()

2007-06-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
, doing this may upset some application, but that's still better than crashing the whole system. (ps. please Cc me on replies from the isdn4linux list since I'm not subscribed there) Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c |5 + 1 files changed, 5

Re: [PATCH] Avoid potential NULL deref in scripts/genksyms/lex.l

2007-06-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 25/06/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:02:03 +0200 Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + if (!file || !e) + exit(1); *e = '\0'; cur_filename = memcpy(xmalloc(e-file+1), file, e-file+1); cur_line = atoi(yytext+2

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Jesper Juhl
updated): http://kerneltraffic.org/ And then you have list archives like : http://lkml.org/ http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Jesper Juhl
://kerneltraffic.org/ And then you have list archives like : http://lkml.org/ http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html -- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please

Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3?

2007-06-21 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 22/06/07, Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jun 21, 2007, "Jesper Juhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21/06/07, Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] >> >> BTW, I should probably have made clear that, as usual, I was s

Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0

2007-06-21 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 22/06/07, Zoltán HUBERT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 00:29, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > You might think it's easy for me to simply "use" Linux > > and complain while you're doing the hard stuff. As it > > happens, the current developme

Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0

2007-06-21 Thread Jesper Juhl
vendors of closed-source drivers. If they want to keep their drivers closed they get to do all the hard work of tracking kernel API changes. Their choice, their problem. I don't think you'll find very many people on this list who gives a damn about the troubles of closed source driver developer

Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3?

2007-06-21 Thread Jesper Juhl
g from a @redhat.com email addr. -- 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

Re: [PATCH] bracing the loop in kernel/softirq.c

2007-06-21 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 21/06/07, Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Jesper Juhl - Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:01:44PM +0200] | From: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Cc: LKML | Subject: Re: [PATCH] bracing the loop in kernel/softirq.c | Date: Wed,

Re: [PATCH] bracing the loop in kernel/softirq.c

2007-06-21 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 21/06/07, Cyrill Gorcunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Jesper Juhl - Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:01:44PM +0200] | From: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: Cyrill Gorcunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Cc: LKML linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org | Subject: Re: [PATCH] bracing the loop in kernel/softirq.c | Date

Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3?

2007-06-21 Thread Jesper Juhl
a @redhat.com email addr. -- 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 of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0

2007-06-21 Thread Jesper Juhl
you'll find very many people on this list who gives a damn about the troubles of closed source driver developers. [snip] -- 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

Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0

2007-06-21 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 22/06/07, Zoltán HUBERT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 00:29, Jesper Juhl wrote: You might think it's easy for me to simply use Linux and complain while you're doing the hard stuff. As it happens, the current development/stable model makes our life as users more

Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3?

2007-06-21 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 22/06/07, Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 21, 2007, Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/06/07, Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] BTW, I should probably have made clear that, as usual, I was speaking my own mind, not speaking on behalf of FSFLA or Red

Re: scripts/checkpatch.pl refers to non-existent Documentation/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt

2007-06-20 Thread Jesper Juhl
thing to do here is, since I assume we do ultimately want something of the sort in Documentation... That document is in the -mm kernel currently. As soon as it hits mainline from there checkpatch.pl will be right :-) -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/

Re: [PATCH] bracing the loop in kernel/softirq.c

2007-06-20 Thread Jesper Juhl
ssarily use braces where a single statement will do. if (condition) action(); " -- 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 th

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

2007-06-20 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 18/06/07, Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jun 17, 2007, "Jesper Juhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17/06/07, Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] >> Serious, what's so hard to understand about: >> no tivoizati

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

2007-06-20 Thread Jesper Juhl
ans *we* lose bigtime. -- 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: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-20 Thread Jesper Juhl
to different software (which also has its costs), but it's unreasonable to claim that I'm advocating for vendors to move to ROM. I am fairly confident that if too much software switches to GPLv3 we'll see a lot of businesses move to BSD or proprietary software. That means *we* lose bigtime. -- Jesper

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

2007-06-20 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 18/06/07, Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 17, 2007, Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/06/07, Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Serious, what's so hard to understand about: no tivoization = more users able to tinker their formerly-tivoized

Re: [PATCH] bracing the loop in kernel/softirq.c

2007-06-20 Thread Jesper Juhl
braces where a single statement will do. if (condition) action(); -- 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: scripts/checkpatch.pl refers to non-existent Documentation/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt

2007-06-20 Thread Jesper Juhl
is, since I assume we do ultimately want something of the sort in Documentation... That document is in the -mm kernel currently. As soon as it hits mainline from there checkpatch.pl will be right :-) -- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html

Re: [PATCH] clarify the GPL version of contributions by Jesper Juhl in CREDITS

2007-06-19 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 18/06/07, Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:33:02AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Just to make things clear in the light of recent discussions. > Stuff I contribute to the Linux kernel are licensed under the terms of the > GPL version 2. > >

Re: [PATCH] clarify the GPL version of contributions by Jesper Juhl in CREDITS

2007-06-19 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 18/06/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:33:02AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: Just to make things clear in the light of recent discussions. Stuff I contribute to the Linux kernel are licensed under the terms of the GPL version 2. +D: All contributions

Re: Machine Check Exception: 0...04

2007-06-17 Thread Jesper Juhl
tinue > > An MCE is an error reported by the hardware. It is most likely not a software problem, not much kernel people can do about it. Google for "parsemce.c" to find a program that'll decode most MCE's for you. You may also want to contact your hardware vendor to get an exact exp

[PATCH] clarify the GPL version of contributions by Jesper Juhl in CREDITS

2007-06-17 Thread Jesper Juhl
Just to make things clear in the light of recent discussions. Stuff I contribute to the Linux kernel are licensed under the terms of the GPL version 2. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- CREDITS |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 del

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

2007-06-17 Thread Jesper Juhl
company into the arms of some proprietary vendor. -- 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

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

2007-06-17 Thread Jesper Juhl
proprietary vendor. -- 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 of a message to [EMAIL

[PATCH] clarify the GPL version of contributions by Jesper Juhl in CREDITS

2007-06-17 Thread Jesper Juhl
Just to make things clear in the light of recent discussions. Stuff I contribute to the Linux kernel are licensed under the terms of the GPL version 2. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- CREDITS |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions

Re: Machine Check Exception: 0...04

2007-06-17 Thread Jesper Juhl
people can do about it. Google for parsemce.c to find a program that'll decode most MCE's for you. You may also want to contact your hardware vendor to get an exact explanation for the error. -- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain

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

2007-06-16 Thread Jesper Juhl
ardware and fix problems for the user. The user loses. -- 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: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Jesper Juhl
for the user. The user loses. -- 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 of a message

Re: [-mm patch] #if 0 mm/backing-dev.c:congestion_wait_interruptible()

2007-06-15 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 13/06/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 02:40:06PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 12/06/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> congestion_wait_interruptible() is no longer used. >> > Remind me again why it is that we add al

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

2007-06-15 Thread Jesper Juhl
e, then only the author has any rights, you can't just then move in and assign an arbitrary license. But I think you would find it very hard to argue that files contributed to the Linux kernel without an explicit license notice does not fall under the terms set forth in the COPYING document. -- Jes

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

2007-06-15 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 15/06/07, Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Le Ven 15 juin 2007 12:53, Jesper Juhl a écrit : > On 15/06/07, Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > by your argument, the user has some "right to modify the >> software", on >

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

2007-06-15 Thread Jesper Juhl
nk its unfair, but that's all irrelevant. Fact is, the hardware manufacturer is in its full right to lock you out of their hardware, as long as they have supplied you with the source code to the GPLv2 software that is running on the hardware - whether or not you can actually use that source cod

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

2007-06-15 Thread Jesper Juhl
th the same rights to modify it and distribute it. And no, the right to modify your copy of the source does not also mean you *have to* be able to install it on the hardware it was originally designed for - it only means you have the right to modify it and redistribute it. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL

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

2007-06-15 Thread Jesper Juhl
d say that the GPL gives you a right to obtain source code for modifications, but it doesn't say anything about being able to run a compiled version of that source on any specific hardware. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.ht

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

2007-06-15 Thread Jesper Juhl
you a right to obtain source code for modifications, but it doesn't say anything about being able to run a compiled version of that source on any specific hardware. -- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please

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

2007-06-15 Thread Jesper Juhl
it and distribute it. And no, the right to modify your copy of the source does not also mean you *have to* be able to install it on the hardware it was originally designed for - it only means you have the right to modify it and redistribute it. -- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't top-post

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

2007-06-15 Thread Jesper Juhl
out of their hardware, as long as they have supplied you with the source code to the GPLv2 software that is running on the hardware - whether or not you can actually use that source code for anything meaningful without their hardware is not their problem. -- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't top

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

2007-06-15 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 15/06/07, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Ven 15 juin 2007 12:53, Jesper Juhl a écrit : On 15/06/07, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: by your argument, the user has some right to modify the software, on that piece of hardware it bought which had free software

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

2007-06-15 Thread Jesper Juhl
an arbitrary license. But I think you would find it very hard to argue that files contributed to the Linux kernel without an explicit license notice does not fall under the terms set forth in the COPYING document. -- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top

Re: [-mm patch] #if 0 mm/backing-dev.c:congestion_wait_interruptible()

2007-06-15 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 13/06/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 02:40:06PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: On 12/06/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: congestion_wait_interruptible() is no longer used. Remind me again why it is that we add all these #if 0 blocks instead

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

2007-06-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
quite valid reasons in my opinion. -- 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-ke

Re: Random X lockup

2007-06-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
who will be able to help you with problems involving their closed driver. -- 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 l

Re: Random X lockup

2007-06-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
to help you with problems involving their closed driver. -- 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

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

2007-06-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
valid reasons in my opinion. -- 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 of a message

Re: [PATCH] fix memory leak in UBI scanning unit

2007-06-12 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 10/05/07, Artem Bityutskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 00:26 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > In drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c::paranoid_check_si() there's a memory leak. > If the call > err = ubi_io_is_bad(ubi, pnum); > returns <0, then we'll return with

Re: [-mm patch] #if 0 mm/backing-dev.c:congestion_wait_interruptible()

2007-06-12 Thread Jesper Juhl
later time, seems like pointless churn to me. If the code needs to go, let's just get rid of it in one go instead of two. -- 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

Re: [-mm patch] #if 0 mm/backing-dev.c:congestion_wait_interruptible()

2007-06-12 Thread Jesper Juhl
time, seems like pointless churn to me. If the code needs to go, let's just get rid of it in one go instead of two. -- 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

Re: [PATCH] fix memory leak in UBI scanning unit

2007-06-12 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 10/05/07, Artem Bityutskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 00:26 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: In drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c::paranoid_check_si() there's a memory leak. If the call err = ubi_io_is_bad(ubi, pnum); returns 0, then we'll return with out freeing (and thus leak

Re: [PATCH]: complete cleanup of check_region

2007-06-11 Thread Jesper Juhl
viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com Please tell your mail client not to include crap like that when sending to public mailing lists. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/

Re: [PATCH]: complete cleanup of check_region

2007-06-11 Thread Jesper Juhl
damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com Please tell your mail client not to include crap like that when sending to public mailing lists. -- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please

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

2007-06-10 Thread Jesper Juhl
t premature since GPL v3 has not even arrived in its final form 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://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

[PATCH] Remove unneeded test of 'task' in dump_trace()

2007-06-10 Thread Jesper Juhl
Remove unneeded test of task != NULL from arch/i386/kernel/traps.c::dump_trace() At the start of the function we have this test: if (!task) task = current; so further down there's no need to test 'task'. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arc

Re: [RFD] Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese

2007-06-10 Thread Jesper Juhl
te project to generate translations and keep them updated according to what's in the tree. Perhaps we could get the kernel.org people to create an official space for that and then place a pointer to that site in Documentation/ somewhere. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post h

Re: [RFD] Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese

2007-06-10 Thread Jesper Juhl
updated according to what's in the tree. Perhaps we could get the kernel.org people to create an official space for that and then place a pointer to that site in Documentation/ somewhere. -- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain

[PATCH] Remove unneeded test of 'task' in dump_trace()

2007-06-10 Thread Jesper Juhl
Remove unneeded test of task != NULL from arch/i386/kernel/traps.c::dump_trace() At the start of the function we have this test: if (!task) task = current; so further down there's no need to test 'task'. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/i386

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

2007-06-10 Thread Jesper Juhl
form 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://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Rules on how to use sysfs in userspace programs

2007-06-09 Thread Jesper Juhl
s on how to access the". information. It is planned to merge all three classification-directories into one place at /sys/subsystem/, following the current layout of the bus-directories. All buses and classes, including the converted block-subsystemm, will show up there. The device

Re: Rules on how to use sysfs in userspace programs

2007-06-09 Thread Jesper Juhl
-directories. All buses and classes, including the converted block-subsystemm, will show up there. The devices of a subsystem will create a symlink in the devices directory at /sys/subsystem/name/devices/. [snip] -- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon

Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03

2007-06-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
UTF-8 Unicode C program text ./sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c: UTF-8 Unicode C program text -- 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

Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03

2007-06-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
text ./sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c: UTF-8 Unicode C program text -- 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

Some ATARI config option confusion

2007-06-07 Thread Jesper Juhl
'KEYBOARD_ATARI' refers to undefined symbol 'ATARI_KBD_CORE' drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig:182:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'MOUSE_ATARI' refers to undefined symbol 'ATARI_KBD_CORE' ... -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plai

Re: [PATCH] intel-rng: Undo mess made by an 80 column extremist

2007-06-07 Thread Jesper Juhl
is maximized it is very close to a 80x25 window (actually it is 82x31 with a size 18 font). Nice and readable, if I make the font any smaller to fit more cols/rows then the text gets too small and my eyes hurt. Reading kernel code formatted for 80cols fits perfectly for me. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03

2007-06-07 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 07/06/07, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jun 6 2007 11:05, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > - Source files should be 7bit ASCII Nah. Think of MODULE_AUTHOR("J. Ørsted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"); That's true. I wrote that comment shortly after reading http:

Re: [PATCH] Add missing files and dirs to 00-INDEX in Documentation/

2007-06-07 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 06/06/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:20:32 +0200 Jesper Juhl wrote: > > This patch adds descriptions for a number of missing files and directories > to the Documentation/00-INDEX file. > People really should learn to keep this file up-t

Re: [PATCH] Add missing files and dirs to 00-INDEX in Documentation/

2007-06-07 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 06/06/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:20:32 +0200 Jesper Juhl wrote: > > This patch adds descriptions for a number of missing files and directories > to the Documentation/00-INDEX file. > People really should learn to keep this file up-t

Re: [PATCH]: complete cleanup of check_region

2007-06-07 Thread Jesper Juhl
ROTECTED]> in drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c the message string should be changed too. Acked-by: Eberhard Moenkeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Huh? I don't understand how you can ACK that patch. Are my comments here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/7/102 completely out in left field? -- Jesper Juhl <[E

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