Re: [RFC] Union Mount: Readdir approaches

2007-09-07 Thread Matt Keenan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Bharata, > I am developing a linux stackable/unification filesystem too. > > Bharata B Rao: > >> Questions >> - >> > ::: > >> First of all, should we even expect a sane lseek(2) on union mounted >> directories ? If not, will the Approach 2,

Re: sending raw packets via PPP

2007-08-07 Thread Matt Keenan
Kevin K wrote: > > On Aug 6, 2007, at 6:30 PM, James Carlson wrote: > >> Kevin K writes: >>> Is it possible to send raw packets via ppp under Linux? >>> >>> More specifically, in 2.4 series kernels such as RH's 2.4.21-47 kernel? >>> >>> I've trying to modify the DHCP 3.0.1 code provided with RH 3 s

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

2007-06-14 Thread Matt Keenan
Michael Poole wrote: > Matt Keenan writes: > > >> Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> >>> Err, no. Software, per legal definitions in Brazil, US and elsewhere, >>> require some physical support. That's the hard disk in the TiVO DVR, >>>

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

2007-06-14 Thread Matt Keenan
Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 13, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> >>> So, TiVo includes a copy of Linux in its DVR. >>> > > >> Stop right there. >> > > >> You seem to make the mistake to think that s

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: 4Gb ram not showing up

2007-06-09 Thread Matt Keenan
Andrew Lyon wrote: > On 6/7/07, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Andrew Lyon wrote: >> > >> > Could this also cause a system to be unstable? my abit athlon64 at >> > work will not run x64 with more than 1gb ram, and i have a colo server >> > with supermicro & 2 x dual core xeons that wi

[PATCH] CIFS should honour umask

2007-06-06 Thread Matt Keenan
d then mmap(fd,PROT_READ) => EFAULT). I am going to give this patch a more thorough test tomorrow with ltp. Comments, corrections, et al are welcome. Matt -- Matt Keenan OpCode Solutions Signed-off-by: Matt Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- diff -urN linux-2.6.22-rc4/fs/cifs/dir.c lin

Re: Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately?

2007-06-03 Thread Matt Keenan
Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > >>> I feel, having a silent/transparent workaround is not a good idea. >>> With that >> >> If enough RAM is chopped off users will notice. They tend to complain >> when they miss RAM. I don't like panic very much because for many >

Re: [PATCH -mm] 1/2: MMCONFIG: validate against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-05-30 Thread Matt Keenan
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 29 May 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: This path adds validation of the MMCONFIG table against the ACPI reserved motherboard resources. Please fix the formatting of your code. [snip snip] Same goes for this thing: + if((pci_probe &

Re: [NFS] [PATCH] NFSD: fix uninitialized variable

2007-05-29 Thread Matt Keenan
young dave wrote: Hi, Given what you said above, I don't see gcc, on its best day, will ever know enough to validate that that variable is indeed always initialized. So I would vote for silencing it on those grounds. I agree too. How about this one: diff -dur linux/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c linux.

Re: Sched - graphic smoothness under load - cfs-v13 sd-0.48

2007-05-21 Thread Matt Keenan
Bill Davidsen wrote: Ray Lee wrote: On 5/19/07, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I generated a table of results from the latest glitch1 script, using an HTML postprocessor I not *quite* ready to foist on the word. In any case it has some numbers for frames per second, fairness of the

Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and 1GB RAM

2007-04-30 Thread Matt Keenan
William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:26:42 +0100 "Bradley Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Basically, all I want to know is whether or not enabling CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G for a laptop that has exactly 1GB of RAM will result in any performance degradation. On Mon, Apr 30,

Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev

2007-03-28 Thread Matt Keenan
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On 3/27/07, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> >> And why did the mouse numbers all get rearranged in 2.6.20, e.g. >> mouse1 became mouse2 for many people? > > Input devices are not guaranteed to be stable. > So people with z-axis mice need

Re: copy_one_pte()

2007-03-15 Thread Matt Keenan
Andrew Morton wrote: (cc restored. Please always do reply-to-all). On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:35:07 + Matt Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:15:25PM +0100, Zoltan Menyhart wrote: I had a look at copy_one_pte(). I

Re: copy_one_pte()

2007-03-14 Thread Matt Keenan
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:15:25PM +0100, Zoltan Menyhart wrote: I had a look at copy_one_pte(). I cannot see any ioproc_update_page() call, not even for the COW pages. Is it intentional? There is no such thing as ioproc_update_page in any mainline tree. You mu

[OT] Software patent petition to Tony Blair (UK)

2007-01-17 Thread Matt Keenan
Sorry for the spam, but this petition has a time limit on it. It is a petition only for UK citizens and UK residents to the PM. The PM has actually acted on some of these petitions in the past, whether he will move on this one is another matter. If you feel that software patents are bad and you

Re: [DRIVER] Where is the PSX Gamepad Driver in 2.6.13-rc3?

2005-09-09 Thread Matt Keenan
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On 9/8/05, Eric Piel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 09/08/2005 04:38 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote/a écrit: On 9/8/05, Christoph Litters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have an adapter usb to psx i have tried it with 2.6.9 and it works perfectly with the ke