Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-30 Thread Måns Rullgård
t some lawyers claim that at trade shows, you should not hand over > a demo device running GPLed code to any interested party, as it would be > distribution... Lawyers tend to be overly cautious at times. That said, I am not a lawyer, and may have misunderstood something. If that is the case, I apo

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-29 Thread Måns Rullgård
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:25:22PM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote: >> Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 04:22:45PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: >> >> Hello! >> >&g

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-29 Thread Måns Rullgård
e any say in the matter. The Windows drivers are (unrelated violations aside) clearly not derived from GPL code. IANAL -- Måns Rullgård [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.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: chars > 0xa0 not displayed in console since 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Måns Rullgård
persist. > > This is a know problem? Probably something to do with this commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ecb77fa96ceda9cae88015bfe3293ffe19006159 -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?

2007-10-25 Thread Måns Rullgård
last 4 years... ARM. On ARM1136 (used in the Nokia N800) a mispredicted branch takes 5-7 cycles (a correctly predicted branch takes 0-4 cycles), while a conditional load, store or arithmetic instruction always takes one cycle. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Printing numbers in parentheses is fine

2007-09-29 Thread Måns Rullgård
e submitted the patch. > You, implicitly, by acking a patch saying those parens are bad. > But not me ... I don't think this patch is merge-worthy. Would also add rules like "don't put parens around the word device" etc? There are countless silly things one could do, and

Re: Panic with XFS on RHEL5 (2.6.18-8.1.8.el5)

2007-08-18 Thread Måns Rullgård
Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Måns Rullgård wrote: >> Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>> All, >>> >>> I've got a box running RHEL5 and haven't been impressed by ext3 >>> performance on it (runn

Re: Panic with XFS on RHEL5 (2.6.18-8.1.8.el5)

2007-08-18 Thread Måns Rullgård
[] sys_fstat64+0x1e/0x23 > [] vfs_readdir+0x63/0x8d > [] filldir+0x0/0xb9 > [] sys_getdents+0x5f/0x9c > [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb > === Your Redhat kernel is probably built with 4k stacks and XFS+loop+ext3 seems to be enough to overflow it. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-07-16 Thread Måns Rullgård
ng new blocks to be allocated. I don't have dedicated testing machines, so I can't afford the time and potential data loss of testing this regularly. I have no shortage on RAM with 8k stacks, so for me the choice is quite simple. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-07-15 Thread Måns Rullgård
dirt, yet distros like Fedora and RHEL use 4K stacks > since forever, and if it gave massive problems they wouldn't do that. > On the upside, especially on very-threaded workloads, it helps > reliability and the VM a lot... I guess no Fedora users run md+lvm+xfs then. That combinat

Re: [OT] Re: Linux Kernel include files

2007-06-30 Thread Måns Rullgård
at best, and >> counter-productive in any case. > > Well, then please write this to the person who did attack me for no > reason! > > What he did is typical trollish behavior, as he tried to turn a > technical based discussion into a flame war for no reason. Ah, it's

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

2007-06-26 Thread Måns Rullgård
. I've still not, after all these years, managed to figure out what KDE (or Gnome) is supposed to be good for. I'm not missing anything from my window manager, xterm and xemacs setup. -- Måns Rullgård [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.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0

2007-06-21 Thread Måns Rullgård
.6.22-rcsomething works better for me than any kernel before it. It's certainly not only getting worse. -- Måns Rullgård [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.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [patch] sched: fix SysRq-N (normalize RT tasks)

2007-06-14 Thread Måns Rullgård
> mechanism to enumerate all tasks is to use a do_each_thread() + > while_each_thread() loop. Was this always a bug or did the meaning of for_each_process() change since this code was added? -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Re: [discuss] Dropping CONFIG_REORDER on x86-64 for 2.6.22

2007-04-20 Thread Måns Rullgård
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 20 April 2007 10:35:10 Måns Rullgård wrote: >> Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Andi Kleen wrote: >> >> Rationale: >> >> - It cannot be enabled in normal builds beca

Re: Dropping CONFIG_REORDER on x86-64 for 2.6.22

2007-04-20 Thread Måns Rullgård
SuSE; I've not heard it on any > other distro... Even with that option set, the full kernel build with my configuration finishes in one minute flat on my Gentoo box. Could it be that the linker uses enormous amounts of memory? I have 4GB so I wouldn't immediately notice. -- Måns Ru

Re: A way to smoothly overgive graphics control to an other process/program

2005-04-08 Thread Måns Rullgård
ault-resistent). This way, the image > loaded by the bootloader could be held on display up to the graphical > login, and even as the > desktop background, without any visible effect. > > Is this technically feasible? It's technically pointless. Take a look at bootsplash, thou

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread Måns Rullgård
ding "software" and "free". > This whole thread and gotten truly bizarre. Surprised? -- Måns Rullgård [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

Re: [RFD] 'nice' attribute for executable files

2005-04-01 Thread Måns Rullgård
ute, > accessible only for root, and if hacker has root permissions, > existence of nice attribute is meaningless. You forgot something: this idea of yours needs to be implemented, tested, and debugged. Those things take time, and effort, and are still of very little value. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAI

Re: [RFD] 'nice' attribute for executable files

2005-04-01 Thread Måns Rullgård
Wiktor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Måns Rullgård wrote: >> So you are proposing the addition of a per-file attribute, with >> restricted access, and potentially dangerous effects if set >> incorrectly. This, combined with the fact that is unlikely to receive >>

Re: [RFC] : remove unreliable, unused and unmainained arch from kernel.

2005-04-01 Thread Måns Rullgård
"Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, [iso-8859-1] Måns Rullgård wrote: > >> linux-os <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> [PATCH snipped] >>> >>> Cruel joke. Now 80 percent of the Intel clones

Re: [RFC] : remove unreliable, unused and unmainained arch from kernel.

2005-04-01 Thread Måns Rullgård
gt; Without i386 support, you don't have any embedded systems. You > need to use the garbage Motorola CPUs and the proprietary > operating systems in embedded stuff. In front me at the moment are two embedded devices, one PPC based, the other MIPS, both running Linux. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAI

Re: [RFD] 'nice' attribute for executable files

2005-03-31 Thread Måns Rullgård
lished with >> a simple wrapper, only for the shell. > > Even better: Write a C wrapper for each affected program that just renices > it as needed. The OP was too lazy to do this. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-

Re: [RFD] 'nice' attribute for executable files

2005-03-30 Thread Måns Rullgård
Wiktor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Måns Rullgård wrote: >> >> You could wrap /lib/ld-linux.so, and get all dynamically linked >> programs done in one sweep. >> > That's mad idea - Sure, but it's possible. > keep similar things in one place! sta

Re: [RFD] 'nice' attribute for executable files

2005-03-30 Thread Måns Rullgård
Wiktor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Måns Rullgård wrote: >> It can be done entirely in userspace, if you want it. Just hack your >> shell to examine some extended attribute of your choice, and adjust >> the nice value before executing files. Then arrange to h

Re: [RFD] 'nice' attribute for executable files

2005-03-30 Thread Måns Rullgård
un with a negative nice value. This can be easily accomplished with a simple wrapper, only for the shell. -- Måns Rullgård [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

Re: [PATCH] embarassing typo

2005-03-29 Thread Måns Rullgård
Vicente Feito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 29 March 2005 09:58 pm, you wrote: >> Måns Rullgård wrote: >> > "Ronald S. Bultje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>--- linux-2.6.5/drivers/media/video/zr36050.c.old 16 Sep 2004 22:53:27

Re: [PATCH] embarassing typo

2005-03-29 Thread Måns Rullgård
Michael Tokarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Måns Rullgård wrote: >> "Ronald S. Bultje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>--- linux-2.6.5/drivers/media/video/zr36050.c.old16 Sep 2004 22:53:27 >>>- 1.2 >>>+++ linux

Re: [PATCH] embarassing typo

2005-03-29 Thread Måns Rullgård
essary at all? I can't see that it should make a difference. Am I missing something subtle? -- Måns Rullgård [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.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: forkbombing Linux distributions

2005-03-23 Thread Måns Rullgård
complete halt from a fork bomb. -- Måns Rullgård [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.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]

2005-03-03 Thread Måns Rullgård
eb links don't have mime types. The HTTP headers from that page say content-type is text/html, so where's the problem? -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mor

Re: Multichannel audio ?

2005-02-28 Thread Måns Rullgård
nt speakers. >> Off topic. Please switch to ALSA (OSS is deprecated) then ask this >> question on the ALSA lists. > > What "the ALSA list" is that? Go to http://alsa-project.org/mailing-lists.php and pick one that seems appropriate. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To

Re: How to examine physical address content in Linux

2005-01-22 Thread Måns Rullgård
Be careful though, even reading certain addresses will crash your computer. If you want the virtual to physical mapping for your process, there is no simple way. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

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