Re: 3Com NIC

2008-01-10 Thread Paul Rolland
0 sun4u aic7xxx > 19: 1 584788 sun4u ohci_hcd:usb2 > 20: 0 0 sun4u ohci_hcd:usb3 > 21: 1467 sun4u ehci_hcd:usb1 > 22: 0 0 sun4u PSYCHO_PCIERR > 24: 27308743

Re: Module for simulating network default

2008-01-06 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:42:07 -0800 (PST) David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:37:04 +0100 > > > I remember reading some time ago about a network driver to "simulate" > &g

Module for simulating network default

2008-01-06 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, I remember reading some time ago about a network driver to "simulate" network default, for example packet loss... Unfortunately, I can't find the post, neither in my mailbox nor in archives... Does anyone has an URL that you could send me ? Regards, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix problems due to use of "outb" to port 80 on some AMD64x2 laptops, etc.

2007-12-15 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:29:55 + Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:13:46 -0800 > "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Pavel Machek wrote: > > > On Fri 2007-12-14 10:02:57, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > How long will that take to boot on a 386? >

Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops

2007-12-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:28:56 +0100 Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11-12-07 15:15, Rene Herman wrote: > > > On 11-12-07 14:32, Paul Rolland wrote: > > > This might be a bit more constant, I suppose. This serialises with cpuid. > Don't se

Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops

2007-12-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:16:01 +0100 Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11-12-07 13:08, David Newall wrote: > > > Rene Herman wrote: > (*) some local testing shows it to be almost exactly that for both out and > in on my own PC -- a little over. If anyone cares, see attached litt

Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops

2007-12-10 Thread Paul Rolland
d writing the value back ? inb al,0x80 outb 0x80,al I've been wondering since the beginning of this thread if the problem is not just the value we put to port 0x80, not writing to the port... Just my 0.02 Eur... Paul -- Paul RollandE-Mail : rol(at)witbe.net

Re: constant_tsc and TSC unstable

2007-11-29 Thread Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン)
Hello, On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:29:49 -0800 "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TSCs on Core 2 Duo are supposed to be in sync unless CPU supports deep idle > states like C2, C3. Can you send the full /proc/cpuinfo and full dmesg. > Sure I can... [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# cat /proc/

Re: [2.6.22.5] irq X: nobody cared but X is successfully used by libata

2007-10-21 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:23:15 +0900 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 26/08/07, Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My machine (an ASUS P5W-DH-Deluxe, Core2, 4Go RAM, 3 SATA and 2IDE) is > >> reporting a : > >> irq 23: nobody

Re: [2.6.22.5] irq X: nobody cared but X is successfully used by libata

2007-10-19 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi Tejun, On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:23:15 +0900 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 26/08/07, Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My machine (an ASUS P5W-DH-Deluxe, Core2, 4Go RAM, 3 SATA and 2IDE) is > >> reporting a : > >> irq 23

Re: 2.6.23-rc7 - _random_ IRQ23 : nobody cared

2007-09-27 Thread Paul Rolland
; What chipset ? 965gm ? 975x Paul -- Paul RollandE-Mail : rol(at)witbe.net Witbe.net SATel. +33 (0)1 47 67 77 77 Les Collines de l'Arche Fax. +33 (0)1 47 67 77 99 F-92057 Paris La Defense

Re: 2.6.23-rc7 - _random_ IRQ23 : nobody cared

2007-09-27 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:04:11 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me guess... this is a T61 or X61 ? Bad luck ;) This is an Asus P5W-DH Deluxe motherboard, with a Core2 6400 CPU, a bunch of disk (2 IDE, 3 SATA, 1 CDRW and 1 DVDRW-DL), and a damned Olitec PCI V92

Re: 2.6.23-rc7 - _random_ IRQ23 : nobody cared

2007-09-26 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi Tejun, On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:55:22 +0900 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Rolland wrote: > > Hi David, > > > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:56:59 +0930 > > David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Paul Rolland "(

Re: 2.6.23-rc7 - _random_ IRQ23 : nobody cared

2007-09-25 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi David, On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:56:59 +0930 David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Rolland "(???) wrote: > > Hell, IRQ 23 is shared between libata and my modem !!! > > > > Tried using the modem? When no problem is reported, both the libata par

Re: 2.6.23-rc6 : crash with RTL8187 USB

2007-09-22 Thread Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン)
=patch+cfg80211+initialisation This is not present in 2.6.23-rc7 ! :((( Paul -- Paul RollandE-Mail : rol(at)witbe.net Witbe.net SATel. +33 (0)1 47 67 77 77 Les Collines de l'Arche Fax. +33 (0)1 47 67 77 99 F-92

Re: 2.6.23-rc6 : crash with RTL8187 USB

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi Rob, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:21:39 -0400 "Rob Hussey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/15/07, ポール・ロラン Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > I had this problem as well. It has to do with mac80211, cfg80211 and > the rate control alg

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
e. Mine is different but at least, we are at least two > to have the crash. Well, I have it when compiling rtl8187 inside the kernel, but I still have to try it as a module, to confirm we are facing the same bug... Please allow me some time for that, I'll post an updat

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Stefan, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:25:39 +0200 Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Rolland wrote: > > getting too much of "No help text available" > > usually results in people no more reading the help text. > > I assert that a Kconf

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
"make menuconfig" user, let me say that I agree. Of course, I'm used to rebuild kernel, but sometimes, some options are not clear, and the help text is searched for. But, getting too much of "No help text available" usually results in people no more reading the help text. W

Re: [2.6.22.5] irq X: nobody cared but X is successfully used by libata

2007-09-09 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Tejun, On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:23:20 +0900 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Rolland wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My machine (an ASUS P5W-DH-Deluxe, Core2, 4Go RAM, 3 SATA and 2IDE) is > > reporting a : > > irq 23: nobody cared (try booting

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-25 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:28:09 -0400 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:30:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > <6>Linux agpgart interface v0.102 > > > +<6>rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 > > > +<4>rtc_cmos: probe of 00:03 faile

Strange problem with Device Mapper

2007-04-26 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, I've a machine that has been installed with Intel Soft Raid on top of 2 SATA disks. I'm trying to have this work as a RAID-1 array. Bios configuration has been done, using 128K chunk, and the kernel (2.6.20.7) sees perfectly /dev/mapper/isw__RAID1 But, I'm facing two problems : 1

RE: Why is /dev on a different filesystem ? [Kernel 2.6.20.3]

2007-03-21 Thread Paul Rolland
> Might want to 'cat /proc/mounts', and ponder the fact that a > filesystem > can be mounted and not listed in /etc/mtab, and then see if > your system > has 'udev' installed and enabled. Damn ! You're right : cat /proc/mounts | grep dev none /dev tmpfs rw 0 0 and no, I don't have any udev runn

Why is /dev on a different filesystem ? [Kernel 2.6.20.3]

2007-03-21 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, I was trying to backup a machine using tar and the --one-file-system option and I was getting an archive without /dev, but tar was spitting : /dev: file is on a different filesystem; not dumped So, I had a look at the code in tar, and the comparison is done on the stat.st_dev field... I t

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Rolland
> Oh... that's just weird. It seems you'll have to continue > boot with the > timeouts for the time being. Sorry about that. Would you agree to a patch to add a kernel boot parameter to skip some ata ports ? I found some archives refering to some "ataX=noprobe", but it seems to have no effect,

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Rolland
Doh ! Got that : ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23 ahci :00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 4 ports 3 Gbps 0xf impl SATA mode ahci :00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq led clo pio slum part ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xc208e900 ctl 0x b

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi, > This is NCQ protocol violation on the drive's side shown on some early > drives. No need to worry too much about it. The drive will just get > blacklisted for NCQ and should work fine. > Thx. Also, remember one of the problem I have, with ata2 going to timeout because this port of the I

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > Yeap, more than three HSM violations in ten minutes. That's the > criteria for turning off NCQ. Good to see it working. It look like a > lot because libata reports all active commands (can't help as on HSM > failure, there's no way to determine which caused it) and the SCSI > prints re

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > Can you put the harddisk under high load and see what happens? How > often do those errors occur? Care to post full dmesg? I started again a stock 2.6.21-rc4, and ran that : while (/bin/true); do tar jxf linux-2.6.19.1.tar.bz2; rm -rf linux-2.6.19.1; echo -n "."; done After seve

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > The kernel says that NCQ is turned off due to excessive > errors. If your > HSM violation is intermittent, it might not trigger tho. I've just grep'ed thru all my messages, and I can't find anything stating that NCQ is being turned off... Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
> If you leave it alone, does libata turn off NCQ and boot continues? boot continues, but I can't tell anything about libata turning of NCQ... I've had a bunch of them at some while while compiling some kernel, so it was quite some time after booting. Is there a message I can check for that would

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
, > > + /* NCQ is broken */ > > + { "Maxtor 6L250S0", NULL, > ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ }, > > > > /* Devices with NCQ limits */ > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > NAK - but add the f

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
}, /* Devices with NCQ limits */ Signed-off-by: Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> With this applied, my machine has stopped all those painful messages. dmesg now says : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/Kernels# dmesg | grep LBA ata1.00: 490234752 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (not used) ata2.00

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
oaded... I seem to remember this could be NCQ-related, and my disk should have been blacklisted, but is this already in 2.6.21-rc4 ? Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex-AS2917 Network administrator and Peering Coordinator -- Please no HTML, I'm not a browser - Pas d

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
> > PS : I'd like to try 2.6.21-rc3, but it seems that this is > breaking my > > config : disk naming is no more the same, and I end up with a panic > > Warning: unable to open an initial console > > though i've been compiling with the same .config I was > using for 2.6.21-rc2 > > Gaah. Can you

RE: RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for ... 2.6.18.8 kernel

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Vincent, > patched kernel. Now it looks more like 5 seconds faster! > Wow.. nice work CK! > > 2.6.18.8 vanilla kernel: > [ 48.185716] libata version 2.00 loaded. > [ 49.838513] scsi0 : sata_nv > > > 2.6.18.8-rsdl-0.30: > [ 43.144312] libata version 2.00 loaded. > [ 45.820504]

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > > That sounds a quite expensive solution ;) > > You should be able to just move the drive attached at ata1 to ata2. > Please report whether that works. I'll try to find an unused disk... As I said, these ports are part of Asus EZRaid solution, and i'd prefer this piece of code not to tr

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > It involves a long timeout, so it's bothersome. This is caused by > Silicon Image 4726/3726 storage processor (SATA Port Multiplier with > extra features) attached to one of the ICH ports. Yes, I think this is the part Asus is using for it's EZ-Raid feature on this motherboard, and they

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > Ok, so that's just a message irritation, not actually bothersome > otherwise? It is somewhat painful, because delays involved are quite long, and it is not possible to explain the machine to "ignore" the port, and skip to the next one... > > The second problem is a Jmicron363 control

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > > Nope... I tried several patches from Tejun, and also some > that Jeff posted > > to linux-ide, but no luck. The only way to have this DVD-RW > working is to > > use irqpoll on the command line... > > So it has *never* worked? That's what I'm trying to see - you had a > "before" and

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Just one point that may be interesting, as it seems that this is IRQ related : at the beginning of the dmesg, it seems that IRQ16 is used for sky2/Yukon , but when reading /proc/interrupts, it has been remapped to IRQ 505... Could this also affect libata ? Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > It seems like IRQ is not getting through. The first IRQ > driven command is failing for you. H > Extract is : > ata7: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00019c00 ctl 0x00019882 bmdma > 0x00019400 irq 16 > ata8: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00019800 ctl 0x00

RE: 2.6.21-rc2 : Oops in rtc_cmos...

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > > Yes, it does, so it's a Good One (tm), > > And points out that $SUBJECT is misleading; the root cause of > the oops isn't rtc_cmos. Workaround, don't enable the legacy > driver for this hardware. Well, sorry for that, but my point was that without enabling CONFIG_DRV_RTC_CMOS and onl

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Rolland
action 0x2 frozen ata7.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 36 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata7: soft resetting port ata7.00: configured for UDMA/44 ata7: EH complete Hope this helps... Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2

RE: 2.6.21-rc2 : Oops in rtc_cmos...

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Adrian, > does the patch in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/23/184 fix your problem? Yes, it does, so it's a Good One (tm), but I don't understand what's going on then... My dmesg says, related to rtc : ... rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 pnp: Device 00:03 does not suppor

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > Your drive has some issues with NCQ and is scheduled to be blacklisted > such that it isn't enabled. libata used to ignore the > condition but now > considers it NCQ protocol violation and fails all pending commands. OK, do you need an hdparm report to fully identify the disk ? > lib

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > 1. Has it ever worked with the previous kernels? I can't tell, this machine is new, and it never booted something that was not a 2.6.20 or 2.6.21. > 2. If you connect a harddisk to pata_jmicron, does it work? > > 3. Does applying the attached patch fix your problem? Will do these two

2.6.21-rc2 : Oops in rtc_cmos...

2007-03-04 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, My machine is Oopsing at boot time, and ends up in a panic when I have : CONFIG_RTC_DRV_CMOS=y in my .config Here is a transcript of the Oops - no serial console at the moment - I made my best to copy without a mistake ! rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 Unable to hand

RE: [PATCH] libata: Cable detection fixes

2007-03-03 Thread Paul Rolland
ices, retrying in 5 secs ata9.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) ata9.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) ata9.00: disabled scsi9 : pata_jmicron But it seems Alan's patch doesn't touch the jmicron code, so this may explain why it doesn't help... Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-03 Thread Paul Rolland
ect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA This last part was not present when booting stock 2.6.21-rc1 Any other info you may need, please ask. Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex-AS2917 Network a

RE: Using dm-crypt for encrypting files

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > - encrypts new files depending on their filename, and generally What about renaming a file ??? Regards, Paul - 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-

RE: [SKY2] Does anyone have this driver working?

2007-02-22 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > > I was wondering if any of you ever got the sky2 driver working > > there are many people who are successfully using this card. I have : ACPI: PCI Interrupt :04:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :04:00.0 to 64 sky2 :04:00.0: v1.1

RE: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-22 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > The first one got some debate as if it was legal to have a slave > without a master and all and the last thing I saw written on this > email that we (that is, the linux developers and the maintainers, I > dont code anything other than 'Hello world' and even that might > segfault) should s

RE: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Paul Rolland
ck to date... Mind sharing your .config so that I can check if I missed something obvious ? Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex-AS2917 Network administrator and Peering Coordinator -- Please no HTML, I'm not a browser - Pas d'HTML, je ne suis pas un navigateur "Som

RE: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-12 Thread Paul Rolland
news, Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex-AS2917 Network administrator and Peering Coordinator -- Please no HTML, I'm not a browser - Pas d'HTML, je ne suis pas un navigateur "Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it" "I worry

RE: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-12 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Tejun, > You have a Maxtor connected to that port, right? That's caused by Waoh, you are using crystal ball ? :) You are right, this is a Maxtor disk, 250 MB. If you want more details about this disk, I can send you a complete details. > firmware bug. Future kernels will consider that c

RE: 2.6.20/2.6.20-rc7 : ethX renumbered

2007-02-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Thanks Benoit, that was it ! Removing the entry in the iftab file stopped the renaming of the interface ! Regards, Paul - 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-

RE: [PATCH] keep track of network interface renaming

2007-02-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Excellent Olaf ! Yes, I got a "eth0 renamed to eth2". > Unfortunately, this patch was not applied to mainline last year. > Maybe this year. Seconded, you have my vote for this ! Regards, Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

RE: 2.6.20/2.6.20-rc7 : ethX renumbered

2007-02-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Benoit, > usually distro enable persistent interface naming with udev, check > /etc/iftab and see if you have something like > /etc/udev/something-iftab.rules Found this : # This file assigns persistent names to network interfaces. # See iftab(5) for syntax. eth0 mac 00:11:d8:a9:c0:c2 arp

2.6.20/2.6.20-rc7 : ethX renumbered

2007-02-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, I'm facing something quite strange... When booting one of these kernels (it's a new machine, I've not been running older kernels), the boot message says : ACPI: PCI Interrupt :04:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 sky2 v1.10 addr 0xff8fc000 irq 19 Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2 sky2 eth0:

RE: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-11 Thread Paul Rolland
> > This looks like the problems that hopefully the patches > from Tejun and > > from Mark Lord cured (the delay after reset and the task file clear) > > Any chance I can find this patch(es) and try them ? > > > > Also, I've seen a : > > > > > > ata1: Spurious SDB FIS during NCQ issue=0x0 SAct

RE: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-10 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > This looks like the problems that hopefully the patches from Tejun and > from Mark Lord cured (the delay after reset and the task file clear) Any chance I can find this patch(es) and try them ? > > Also, I've seen a : > > > > ata1: Spurious SDB FIS during NCQ issue=0x0 SAct=0x7ff8001f

RE: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-10 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi Alan, > You have the old driver 0n 0x1F0 > > > > PCI: Device :02:00.0 not available because of resource > collisions > > ahci: probe of :02:00.0 failed with error -22 > > ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 > > ata: 0x1F0 IDE port busy > > And the ne

RE: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-10 Thread Paul Rolland
> I've been trying this, but I ended with the ICH7 not detecting anymore > my IDE disks... > Should try again, maybe I missed something. Done a new built, and I now have : Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with i

RE: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-10 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > There is something connected, I believe what's actually there on this > board on that port is the SiI4723 chip which is connected to > two other > SATA ports. For whatever reason it gets detected as a drive, > and it also > seems to be not responding until we do a few resets.. That'

RE: AHCI - remove probing of ata2 + Jmicron JMB363 ATA mode failing

2007-02-10 Thread Paul Rolland
atrix Storage Jmicron JMB363 Serial Ata controller supports : - 1 x External Sata 3.0 Gb/s (SATA-on-the-Go) - 1 x Internel Sata 3.0 Gb/s - 1 x Internel DMA 100/66/33 connector for two devices Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex-AS2917 Network administrator and Peering Coordinator

AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-10 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, I'm using an Asus P5W DH motherboard, with an Intel ICH7 controler, and a Jmicron JMB363. On the Intel, I've connected an IDE HDD and a CD-RW, no problem. On the SATA side, i've connected 3 SATA disks, but at boot time, the kernel detects 4 ports, and goes on timeout on ata2 : ... ahci 0

RE: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick

2007-02-04 Thread Paul Rolland
> So what (legally) happens when someone does > MODULE_IS_UNDER_GPL_LICENSE(2), (~0) or (-1)? Does the judge > get confused? > Then better use strings and an appropriate check. Please let me not believe it's not possible to have a compilation test on that that would issue a #error if param is not

RE: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick

2007-02-02 Thread Paul Rolland
> MODULE_IS_UNDER_GPL_LICENSE("yes\0 but only this .c file"); > MODULE_IS_UNDER_GPL_LICENSE(0) (integer, not string). Paul - 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/major

RE: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick

2007-02-02 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > will be written to the object file will be "license=GPL\0for > nothing\0". > When this is interpreted back again in the kernel module > loader, it is > read as "license=GPL", having circumvented the loading mechanism and > having wrongfully access to GPL symbols. According to Alexey

Re: [2.4.31] - USB device numbering in /proc/bus/usb

2005-08-23 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Sergey, > Yes. Addresses for USB devices are assigned dynamically. If you > disconnect the modem from USB and connect it again, its address will > change. The problem I've is that nothing changed on the machine except that I did a reboot. Nothing (USB device) added, nothing removed, so w

[2.4.31] - USB device numbering in /proc/bus/usb

2005-08-23 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, I've just rebooted a machine, and the eagle ADSL modem I was using, presented as /proc/bus/usb/002/005 in now presented as /proc/bus/usb/002/003 (same bus, but device ID changed from 5 to 3). Is this an expected behavior, when running a 2.4.31 kernel ? I would have been expecting some mor

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > "IRQ & hd" run: > Measurements | Vanilla | preempt_rt| ipipe > ---+-++- > fork | 101us | 94us (-7%) | 103us (+2%) > open/close | 2.9us | 2.9us (~) | 3.0us (+3%) > execve | 366

Re: "Spy'ing" characters sent thru serial port ?

2005-07-06 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi Jeff, > I don't have any software answers, but it sounds like the modem is an > external type connected by RS232 cable to a serial port. RS-232 is > pretty simple at the hardware level and you should be able to create > a "Y" cable that "sniffs" the transmit from the computer to modem > li

"Spy'ing" characters sent thru serial port ?

2005-07-06 Thread Paul Rolland
with Linux 2.4.27 (I know 2.4.31 is out, but nothing related to that is present in the Changelog) Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex-AS2917 Network administrator and Peering Coordinator -- Please no HTML, I'm not a browser - Pas d'HTML, je ne suis pas un navigateur "S

Spy'ing characters sent to serial port.

2005-07-06 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, We have a machine connected to a modem using the serial port, and from time to time, the modem complains the machine sent him a full 2K buffer (in fact, 2047 bytes) which were already sent. We've been investigating at the application level, using strace to monitor what is sent to the seri

Re: YABM (Yet another benchmark)

2005-04-01 Thread Paul Rolland
> This is _not_ serious a benchmark! It's just a counter! A _real_ > benchmark would test threads, memory management, the > schedule, . . . I > guess on a NetBSD or Windows machine with the same Hardware you would > get the same result. We are April, 1st ;-) Paul - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Free Linux-like kernel sources for x86-64

2005-04-01 Thread Paul Rolland
Reminds me of something, but can't find what... Gee... Is it really that old ? Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex-AS2917 Network administrator and Peering Coordinator -- Please no HTML, I'm not a browser - Pas d'HTML, je ne suis pas un navigateur "Some people dream