Re: usbmon, usb core, ARM

2005-01-19 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:14:24 -0800, David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I don't like the idea of scattering knowledge all over the place that the root hub is always given address 1 ... which you didn't address yet. Yes, I have to look why you do not like using the pipe.

usbmon, usb core, ARM

2005-01-18 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Dear Russell: I have a favour to ask of you. I need the following patch to be applied to the USB core: diff -urpN -X dontdiff linux-2.6.11-rc1-bk4/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c linux-2.6.11-rc1-bk4-lem/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c --- linux-2.6.11-rc1-bk4/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c 2005-01-12 16:35:53.0

usbmon, usb core, ARM

2005-01-18 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Dear Russell: I have a favour to ask of you. I need the following patch to be applied to the USB core: diff -urpN -X dontdiff linux-2.6.11-rc1-bk4/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c linux-2.6.11-rc1-bk4-lem/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c --- linux-2.6.11-rc1-bk4/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c 2005-01-12 16:35:53.0

Re: [PATCH] Minor cleanup and export three functions

2001-07-19 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, > while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Quite so. Linus told you many times not to send patches in MIME and I happen to agree. > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII;

Re: [PATCH] Minor cleanup and export three functions

2001-07-19 Thread Pete Zaitcev
This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Quite so. Linus told you many times not to send patches in MIME and I happen to agree. Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII;

Re: Is Swapping on software RAID1 possible in linux 2.4 ?

2001-07-05 Thread Pete Zaitcev
In linux-kernel, you wrote: > Peter Zaitsev wrote: > > > > That's why I thought this problem is related to raid1 swapping I'm > > using. > > Well there is the potential problem that RAID1 has that it can't avoid allocating > memory in some occasions, for the 2nd bufferhead. ATARAID raid0 has

Re: Is Swapping on software RAID1 possible in linux 2.4 ?

2001-07-05 Thread Pete Zaitcev
In linux-kernel, you wrote: Peter Zaitsev wrote: That's why I thought this problem is related to raid1 swapping I'm using. Well there is the potential problem that RAID1 has that it can't avoid allocating memory in some occasions, for the 2nd bufferhead. ATARAID raid0 has the same

Re: [PATCH] small patch to ide-tape.c

2001-07-03 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> This patch adds a missing semicolon that is noticed only if you define > IDETAPE_DEBUG_LOG_VERBOSE: > > John Guthrie > [EMAIL PROTECTED] It makes me curious, why do you need to define IDETAPE_DEBUG_LOG_VERBOSE? I fixed some stuff with files not restoring properly with last block corrupt.

Re: USB printing == kernel lockup?

2001-07-03 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> When I do anything (print to it, query its ink levels with escputil, > etc.) with my Epson 870 while it's hooked to my computer via USB, the > whole machine locks hard. [...] > Has anyone else has seen this problem? I posted to the gimp-print and > linux-usb lists, but there was nary a

Re: USB printing == kernel lockup?

2001-07-03 Thread Pete Zaitcev
When I do anything (print to it, query its ink levels with escputil, etc.) with my Epson 870 while it's hooked to my computer via USB, the whole machine locks hard. [...] Has anyone else has seen this problem? I posted to the gimp-print and linux-usb lists, but there was nary a response. I

Re: [PATCH] small patch to ide-tape.c

2001-07-03 Thread Pete Zaitcev
This patch adds a missing semicolon that is noticed only if you define IDETAPE_DEBUG_LOG_VERBOSE: John Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] It makes me curious, why do you need to define IDETAPE_DEBUG_LOG_VERBOSE? I fixed some stuff with files not restoring properly with last block corrupt. Talking

Re: unable to read from IDE tape

2001-06-30 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> Lately, I have been having problems reading from from my HP Colorado IDE > tape drive. I can use mt to get the status of the drive and to forward the > drive to a different file. I can even use tar to write to the tape. > But whenever I try to read the tar files that I have written to tape, I

Re: unable to read from IDE tape

2001-06-30 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Lately, I have been having problems reading from from my HP Colorado IDE tape drive. I can use mt to get the status of the drive and to forward the drive to a different file. I can even use tar to write to the tape. But whenever I try to read the tar files that I have written to tape, I

Re: RFC: Changes for PCI

2001-06-27 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> Well you have device drivers like the symbios scsi driver for instance that > tries to determine if it's seen a card before. It does this by looking at the > bus,dev etc numbers... Can it be done by comparing struct pci_dev pointers for equal? -- Pete - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: RFC: Changes for PCI

2001-06-27 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Well you have device drivers like the symbios scsi driver for instance that tries to determine if it's seen a card before. It does this by looking at the bus,dev etc numbers... Can it be done by comparing struct pci_dev pointers for equal? -- Pete - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Linux and system area networks

2001-06-25 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> I'd like to find out if anyone has thought about how Linux will handle > some of the new network technologies people are starting to push. > Specifically I'm talking about "System Area Networks," that is, things > like Infiniband, as well as TCP/IP offload. Infiniband is doing relatively well,

Re: Linux and system area networks

2001-06-25 Thread Pete Zaitcev
I'd like to find out if anyone has thought about how Linux will handle some of the new network technologies people are starting to push. Specifically I'm talking about System Area Networks, that is, things like Infiniband, as well as TCP/IP offload. Infiniband is doing relatively well, as

Re: Is it useful to support user level drivers

2001-06-21 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> There is no such thing as a "user mode" interrupt service routine. > There never was one, and there will never be one on any machine > that fetches instructions from memory for execution. [...] If memory does not deceive me, SunLab Spring processed interrupts in user space. I do not remember

Re: Is it useful to support user level drivers

2001-06-21 Thread Pete Zaitcev
There is no such thing as a user mode interrupt service routine. There never was one, and there will never be one on any machine that fetches instructions from memory for execution. [...] If memory does not deceive me, SunLab Spring processed interrupts in user space. I do not remember for

Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java

2001-06-20 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> Then again JavaOS was an abortion on top of Slowaris. [...] This is a false statemenet, Rob. It was an abortion, all right, but not related to Solaris in any way at all. JavaOS existed in two flavours minimum, which had very little in common. The historically first of them (Luna), was a

Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java

2001-06-20 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> This [code morphing and binary tranlation] > was set off to provide compensation for the biggest hurdle > of VLIW design - insane code size and partially huge memmory > bus bandwidth designs due to this. (Why do you think the itanim > sucks on integer performance?) First, Merced does not suck

Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java

2001-06-20 Thread Pete Zaitcev
This [code morphing and binary tranlation] was set off to provide compensation for the biggest hurdle of VLIW design - insane code size and partially huge memmory bus bandwidth designs due to this. (Why do you think the itanim sucks on integer performance?) First, Merced does not suck on

Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java

2001-06-20 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Then again JavaOS was an abortion on top of Slowaris. [...] This is a false statemenet, Rob. It was an abortion, all right, but not related to Solaris in any way at all. JavaOS existed in two flavours minimum, which had very little in common. The historically first of them (Luna), was a

Re: 2.4.5-ac7 SMP crash (hotplug race?)

2001-06-04 Thread Pete Zaitcev
>I told device to go to sleep, it reported (over serial console that I >looked at with minicom), that it turned off internal devices >(including USB client), reported it is going to sleep, and turned >serial and itself off. What does it mean "I told device to go to sleep"? What

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac7

2001-06-04 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> AC> 2.4.5-ac7 > AC> o Make USB require PCI(me) > How about people from StrongArm sa11x0 port, who have USB host controller > (in sa companion chip) but do not have PCI? > Probably there are more such embedded architectures with USB controllers, > but not

Re: 2.4.5-ac7 SMP crash (hotplug race?)

2001-06-04 Thread Pete Zaitcev
I told device to go to sleep, it reported (over serial console that I looked at with minicom), that it turned off internal devices (including USB client), reported it is going to sleep, and turned serial and itself off. What does it mean I told device to go to sleep? What device?

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> But, each time a user cats this proc file, the user is banging the > hardware. What happens when a malicious user forks off 100 processes to > continually cat this file? :) Nothing good, probably. Same story as /proc/apm, which only hits BIOS instead (and it's debateable what is better). >

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 23:57:48 -0700 (PDT) > > i2c framework is not used, I wonder why. Someone thought that > > it was too heavy perhaps? If so, I disagree. > > i2c is only in our stuff because the i2c core is not in the standard kernel > yet. As soon

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Pete Zaitcev
From: Tim Hockin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 23:57:48 -0700 (PDT) i2c framework is not used, I wonder why. Someone thought that it was too heavy perhaps? If so, I disagree. i2c is only in our stuff because the i2c core is not in the standard kernel yet. As soon as it is,

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Pete Zaitcev
But, each time a user cats this proc file, the user is banging the hardware. What happens when a malicious user forks off 100 processes to continually cat this file? :) Nothing good, probably. Same story as /proc/apm, which only hits BIOS instead (and it's debateable what is better).

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-05-31 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> Aattached is a (large, but self contained) patch for Cobalt Networks suport > for x86 systems (RaQ3, RaQ4, Qube3, RaQXTR). Please let me know if there > is anything that would prevent this from general inclusion in the next > release. Looks interesting. Seemingly literate use of spinlocks.

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-05-31 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Aattached is a (large, but self contained) patch for Cobalt Networks suport for x86 systems (RaQ3, RaQ4, Qube3, RaQXTR). Please let me know if there is anything that would prevent this from general inclusion in the next release. Looks interesting. Seemingly literate use of spinlocks.

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB oops on SMP, 2.4.5 kernel, and other problems

2001-05-27 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> From: Oleg Drokin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 14:37:24 +0400 > >>EIP; c01a3162<= > Trace; c01a42fc > Trace; c01a5f9c > Trace; c01a42e0 > Trace; c019f19f > Trace; c0118a9e > Trace; c0117e62 >

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB oops on SMP, 2.4.5 kernel, and other problems

2001-05-27 Thread Pete Zaitcev
From: Oleg Drokin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 14:37:24 +0400 EIP; c01a3162 call_policy+162/1f0 = Trace; c01a42fc usb_disconnect+fc/130 Trace; c01a5f9c hub_disconnect+1c/80 Trace; c01a42e0

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-24 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> From: "Adam J. Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:53:48 -0700 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h >[...] > I believe this infringinges the copyrights of the authors > of the code used in these drivers

Re: Patch for PM in ymfpci (against 2.4.5-pre3)

2001-05-24 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Looks ok, only a small nit: an include and 'pmdev' are left over from > the older PM implementation, and can be removed. Oops, here's a better one. -- Pete - PM support for

Patch for PM in ymfpci (against 2.4.5-pre3)

2001-05-24 Thread Pete Zaitcev
I am sorry to be a poor maintainer, people were sending me patches to enable PM support for a long time. I took most of this from Paul Stewart, fixed a buglet, and factored common parts into a function. -- Pete * PM support for suspend/resume (without pm_register, proper PCI API); * Killed some

Patch for PM in ymfpci (against 2.4.5-pre3)

2001-05-24 Thread Pete Zaitcev
I am sorry to be a poor maintainer, people were sending me patches to enable PM support for a long time. I took most of this from Paul Stewart, fixed a buglet, and factored common parts into a function. -- Pete * PM support for suspend/resume (without pm_register, proper PCI API); * Killed some

Re: Patch for PM in ymfpci (against 2.4.5-pre3)

2001-05-24 Thread Pete Zaitcev
From: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks ok, only a small nit: an include and 'pmdev' are left over from the older PM implementation, and can be removed. Oops, here's a better one. -- Pete - PM support for

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-24 Thread Pete Zaitcev
From: Adam J. Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:53:48 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h [...] I believe this infringinges the copyrights of the authors of the code used in these drivers who released

Re: Oops on booting 2.4.4

2001-05-22 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> May 23 02:46:24 localhost kernel: Process kudzu (pid: 219, > stackpage=c7845000) > May 23 02:46:24 localhost kernel: Stack: c12607e0 0400 0400 > c73aa000 c122a060 c122a05c c122a058 c88fbb20 > May 23 02:46:24 localhost kernel:03f1 03f1 c014ab80 > c73aa3f1 c7845f9c

Re: Oops on booting 2.4.4

2001-05-22 Thread Pete Zaitcev
May 23 02:46:24 localhost kernel: Process kudzu (pid: 219, stackpage=c7845000) May 23 02:46:24 localhost kernel: Stack: c12607e0 0400 0400 c73aa000 c122a060 c122a05c c122a058 c88fbb20 May 23 02:46:24 localhost kernel:03f1 03f1 c014ab80 c73aa3f1 c7845f9c

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-19 Thread Pete Zaitcev
>[about Aunt Tullie] > Because, for example, a kernel compile can be a part of the standard > install now, and you will end up with a kernel built specifically for > your machine that doesn't print 50 initialization failed messages on boot. >[...] > And you can also now run a kernel built for

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-19 Thread Pete Zaitcev
[about Aunt Tullie] Because, for example, a kernel compile can be a part of the standard install now, and you will end up with a kernel built specifically for your machine that doesn't print 50 initialization failed messages on boot. [...] And you can also now run a kernel built for your

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-18 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> > As for the language CML2 is written in, surely C would work just as well as > > Python if the config-ruleset file is in a known format. GCC is required > > for the kernel to build, I don't see why anything else should be required > > simply to configure it. > > Menuconfig is fairly popular,

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-18 Thread Pete Zaitcev
As for the language CML2 is written in, surely C would work just as well as Python if the config-ruleset file is in a known format. GCC is required for the kernel to build, I don't see why anything else should be required simply to configure it. Menuconfig is fairly popular, and

Re: pci_pool_free from IRQ

2001-05-10 Thread Pete Zaitcev
How about this (with documentation fixes by David-B): diff -ur -X dontdiff linux-2.4.4/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt linux-2.4.4-niph/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt --- linux-2.4.4/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt Thu Apr 19 08:38:48 2001 +++ linux-2.4.4-niph/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt

Re: pci_pool_free from IRQ

2001-05-10 Thread Pete Zaitcev
How about this (with documentation fixes by David-B): diff -ur -X dontdiff linux-2.4.4/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt linux-2.4.4-niph/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt --- linux-2.4.4/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt Thu Apr 19 08:38:48 2001 +++ linux-2.4.4-niph/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt

Re: pci_pool_free from IRQ

2001-05-09 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> From: "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 17:52:45 -0700 (PDT) > Ummm... What Alan's saying is: > > 1) Whatever driver is trying to shut down from IRQ context >is broken must be fixed. pci_pool is fine. > > 2) The Documentation/ files which suggest that such

Re: oops

2001-05-09 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> May 9 10:05:11 localhost kernel: EIP:0010:[call_policy+427/608] I saw it before, but was unable to track it down. What is your kernel version? -- Pete - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: USB Problem with reenabling hub

2001-05-09 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> switching it back on, a problem occurs with reenabling the ports on > that USB hub. The kernel output follows. > Comments anyone? Next time, post your /proc/version. There were similar things recently (missing urb->dev reinitialization in usb_hub_reset). -- Pete - To unsubscribe from this

Re: USB Problem with reenabling hub

2001-05-09 Thread Pete Zaitcev
switching it back on, a problem occurs with reenabling the ports on that USB hub. The kernel output follows. Comments anyone? Next time, post your /proc/version. There were similar things recently (missing urb-dev reinitialization in usb_hub_reset). -- Pete - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: oops

2001-05-09 Thread Pete Zaitcev
May 9 10:05:11 localhost kernel: EIP:0010:[call_policy+427/608] I saw it before, but was unable to track it down. What is your kernel version? -- Pete - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: pci_pool_free from IRQ

2001-05-09 Thread Pete Zaitcev
From: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 17:52:45 -0700 (PDT) Ummm... What Alan's saying is: 1) Whatever driver is trying to shut down from IRQ context is broken must be fixed. pci_pool is fine. 2) The Documentation/ files which suggest that such device

Patch to make ymfpci legacy address 16 bits

2001-05-08 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Hi: I found that every time I run a 2.4 on my laptop, APM locks up the machine. Apparently, legacy YMF code enabled decoding of 10 bits of I/O address. A call to APM BIOS touched that and somehow the system locked up. If Pavel Roskin, Daisuke Nagano or someone else do not mind, I want this in

pci_pool_free from IRQ

2001-05-08 Thread Pete Zaitcev
David, Russel King complained that you might be calling pci_consistent_free from an interrupt, which is unsafe on ARM. Why don't you remove this part from pci_pool_free(): + else if (!is_page_busy (pool->blocks_per_page, page->bitmap)) + pool_free_page (pool, page); In that

pci_pool_free from IRQ

2001-05-08 Thread Pete Zaitcev
David, Russel King complained that you might be calling pci_consistent_free from an interrupt, which is unsafe on ARM. Why don't you remove this part from pci_pool_free(): + else if (!is_page_busy (pool-blocks_per_page, page-bitmap)) + pool_free_page (pool, page); In that

Patch to make ymfpci legacy address 16 bits

2001-05-08 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Hi: I found that every time I run a 2.4 on my laptop, APM locks up the machine. Apparently, legacy YMF code enabled decoding of 10 bits of I/O address. A call to APM BIOS touched that and somehow the system locked up. If Pavel Roskin, Daisuke Nagano or someone else do not mind, I want this in

Re: Patch for ymfpci in 2.4.4

2001-05-05 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Due to a pilot error, my ymfpci update would not compile (forgot to submit .h change). Here is the missing part: --- linux-2.4.4/drivers/sound/ymfpci.h Fri Jan 26 23:31:16 2001 +++ linux-2.4.4-niph/drivers/sound/ymfpci.h Fri May 4 11:07:17 2001 @@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ #define PCIR_LEGCTRL

Re: Patch for ymfpci in 2.4.4

2001-05-05 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Due to a pilot error, my ymfpci update would not compile (forgot to submit .h change). Here is the missing part: --- linux-2.4.4/drivers/sound/ymfpci.h Fri Jan 26 23:31:16 2001 +++ linux-2.4.4-niph/drivers/sound/ymfpci.h Fri May 4 11:07:17 2001 @@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ #define PCIR_LEGCTRL

Patch for ymfpci in 2.4.4

2001-05-04 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Hello: Here are updates from ALSA. The interrupt acknowledge has a potential bug report for it in RH bugzilla. Power-up fix I include "just because", Alan bounced it to me from sound-hackers; Also Jeff Garzik asked for it. I wanted to include it with full PM support, but perhaps not. -- Pete

Patch for shared interrupts in PCI IDE

2001-05-04 Thread Pete Zaitcev
One of our customers has a Fujitsu laptop, poor thing... It shares IRQ10 between Eepro, additional IDE for CD-ROM (CMD646), and USB controllers. I talked this over with DaveM briefly, and if I understood him right, something like the attached patch may be in order. Anyone cares to comment? Thank

Patch for shared interrupts in PCI IDE

2001-05-04 Thread Pete Zaitcev
One of our customers has a Fujitsu laptop, poor thing... It shares IRQ10 between Eepro, additional IDE for CD-ROM (CMD646), and USB controllers. I talked this over with DaveM briefly, and if I understood him right, something like the attached patch may be in order. Anyone cares to comment? Thank

Patch for ymfpci in 2.4.4

2001-05-04 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Hello: Here are updates from ALSA. The interrupt acknowledge has a potential bug report for it in RH bugzilla. Power-up fix I include just because, Alan bounced it to me from sound-hackers; Also Jeff Garzik asked for it. I wanted to include it with full PM support, but perhaps not. -- Pete ---

Re: Build problems 2.4.4 on SPARC

2001-05-02 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> While trying to compile the 2.4.4 kernel on a SPARC-20, I encounter the > following error. > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/mm' > make all_targets > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/mm' > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/include -Wall

Re: Build problems 2.4.4 on SPARC

2001-05-02 Thread Pete Zaitcev
While trying to compile the 2.4.4 kernel on a SPARC-20, I encounter the following error. make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/mm' make all_targets make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/mm' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes

Atrocious icache/dcache in 2.4.2

2001-04-27 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Hello: My box here slows down dramatically after a while, and starts behaving as if it has very little memory, e.g. programs page each other out. It turns out that out of 40MB total, about 35MB is used for dcache and icache, and system basically runs in 5MB of RAM. When I tried to discuss it

Re: usb-uhci.c problems in latest kernels?

2001-04-14 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1876 This is a known problem, here is the discussion that I initiated on linux-usb-devel: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=9860950851=2=1 The right fix is to comment that printout out. In fact, that is what I commited for Red Hat 7.1 release.

Re: usb-uhci.c problems in latest kernels?

2001-04-14 Thread Pete Zaitcev
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1876 This is a known problem, here is the discussion that I initiated on linux-usb-devel: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=9860950851w=2r=1 The right fix is to comment that printout out. In fact, that is what I commited for Red Hat 7.1 release.

sk->state_chage is not called for listening sockets

2001-04-13 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Hello: Suppose for a moment, that I have an in-kernel daemon, listening on a TCP socket, and that the said daemon is interested to know when connection becomes established. To that end it puts something into sk->state_change. However, when connection is established, state_chenge is not called

sk-state_chage is not called for listening sockets

2001-04-13 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Hello: Suppose for a moment, that I have an in-kernel daemon, listening on a TCP socket, and that the said daemon is interested to know when connection becomes established. To that end it puts something into sk-state_change. However, when connection is established, state_chenge is not called (in

Re: oops in uhci.c running 2.4.2-ac28

2001-04-02 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 03:35:03 +0200 (CEST) > From: Ketil Froyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > While running kernel 2.4.2-ac28, I switched on spinlock debugging and > verbose BUG() reporting (I always use sysrq). Anyway, while running this I > got an oops after about 2

Re: oops in uhci.c running 2.4.2-ac28

2001-04-02 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 03:35:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Ketil Froyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] While running kernel 2.4.2-ac28, I switched on spinlock debugging and verbose BUG() reporting (I always use sysrq). Anyway, while running this I got an oops after about 2 or 3

Possible patch for Dell keyboard lockup

2001-03-28 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Hello, All: I have a situation where a Dell laptop would loose its keyboard after resume (thanks to Ben LaHaise for diagnosing this probelm). BIOS enables touchpad when resumed and if a user touches touchpad, "hardware" delivers IRQ 12 and will not deliver IRQ 1 until we process the mouse event.

Possible patch for Dell keyboard lockup

2001-03-28 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Hello, All: I have a situation where a Dell laptop would loose its keyboard after resume (thanks to Ben LaHaise for diagnosing this probelm). BIOS enables touchpad when resumed and if a user touches touchpad, "hardware" delivers IRQ 12 and will not deliver IRQ 1 until we process the mouse event.

Please review patchlet for ov511 (2.4.2-ac19)

2001-03-22 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Here is the deal: we have a guy here with a webcam and the following scenario: 1. ov511 disconnects, everything dies/releases/closes fine, 2. webcam soft starts polling open/sleep/open/sleep/... 3. ov511_probe works and reaches ov511_configure, calls video_register_device(). 4. Webcam

Some strange patch to drivers/input/keybdev.c

2001-03-22 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Some guy sent me the attached patch. He says it allows him to use 2 additional keys on the 106 key USB keyboard. I never saw a 106 key keyboard before, USB or not. Does anyone understand what is going on? Vojtech? -- Pete --- drivers/input/keybdev.c.orig Sat Sep 2 19:01:55 2000 +++

Please review patchlet for ov511 (2.4.2-ac19)

2001-03-22 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Here is the deal: we have a guy here with a webcam and the following scenario: 1. ov511 disconnects, everything dies/releases/closes fine, 2. webcam soft starts polling open/sleep/open/sleep/... 3. ov511_probe works and reaches ov511_configure, calls video_register_device(). 4. Webcam

Re: USB Mouse Problem in 2.4 Kernels - 2.2.18 Works Fine

2001-03-19 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> From: Andree Leidenfrost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 18 Mar 2001 22:50:32 +1100 > > > > I am experiencing problems with a USB mouse: The machine boots, X > > > starts, I log on, e

Re: USB Mouse Problem in 2.4 Kernels - 2.2.18 Works Fine

2001-03-19 Thread Pete Zaitcev
From: Andree Leidenfrost [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pete Zaitcev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 18 Mar 2001 22:50:32 +1100 I am experiencing problems with a USB mouse: The machine boots, X starts, I log on, everything works as expected. When I restart X or just change

Re: USB Mouse Problem in 2.4 Kernels - 2.2.18 Works Fine

2001-03-17 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> From: Andree Leidenfrost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > I am experiencing problems with a USB mouse: The machine boots, X > starts, I log on, everything works as expected. When I restart X or just > change to an alpha terminal and back to x the mouse does not work any > more. [...] > Hardware is an

Re: USB Mouse Problem in 2.4 Kernels - 2.2.18 Works Fine

2001-03-17 Thread Pete Zaitcev
From: Andree Leidenfrost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I am experiencing problems with a USB mouse: The machine boots, X starts, I log on, everything works as expected. When I restart X or just change to an alpha terminal and back to x the mouse does not work any more. [...] Hardware is an ASUS

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-14 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:28:14 -0500 > From: Doug Ledford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A bug report I was charged with fixing (qla2x00 driver doesn't see all luns or > sees multiple identical luns in different scenarios) was not a bug in the > qla2x00 driver. [...] > The bug is that we were

Fix to khubd oops, hellooo?

2001-03-13 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Is my fix to khubd going anywhere? Randy, David? I have an actual, reproducible bug that I need to close. Here's my message to linux-usb-devel with explanations: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-devel=98411157628404=2 -- Pete diff -ur -X ../dontdiff linux-2.4.2-ac12/drivers/usb/hub.c

Fix to khubd oops, hellooo?

2001-03-13 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Is my fix to khubd going anywhere? Randy, David? I have an actual, reproducible bug that I need to close. Here's my message to linux-usb-devel with explanations: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-develm=98411157628404w=2 -- Pete diff -ur -X ../dontdiff

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch [RFC: API]

2001-03-09 Thread Pete Zaitcev
size, poisoning > and so on). And yet when Pete Zaitcev described what that > mapping code actually involved, you didn't object. So you've > succeeded in confusing me. Care to unconfuse? I did not propose an API or library which would be equal amond equals with first rate citizens of pci

Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch [RFC: API]

2001-03-09 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:29:22 -0800 > From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > extern void * > > > pci_pool_dma_to_cpu (struct pci_pool *pool, dma_addr_t handle); > > > > Do lots of drivers need the reverse mapping? It wasn't on my todo list > > yet. > > Some hardware (like OHCI)

Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch [RFC: API]

2001-03-09 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:29:22 -0800 From: David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] extern void * pci_pool_dma_to_cpu (struct pci_pool *pool, dma_addr_t handle); Do lots of drivers need the reverse mapping? It wasn't on my todo list yet. Some hardware (like OHCI) talks to drivers

Q. about oops backtrace

2001-03-07 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Hello: I was investigating an oops and the trace looked like this: >>EIP; c01c54a9<= Trace; c01c3654 Trace; c01c0f0f Trace; c015e7e2 Trace; c01155a6 Trace; c01272a9 Trace; c0127414 Trace; c0136a2d Trace; c012722e Trace; c0127290 Trace; c0127414 Trace; c014cdec Trace; c0143f80

Q. about oops backtrace

2001-03-07 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Hello: I was investigating an oops and the trace looked like this: EIP; c01c54a9 lvm_do_remove_proc_entry_of_vg+9/c0 = Trace; c01c3654 lvm_do_vg_rename+84/250 Trace; c01c0f0f lvm_chr_ioctl+30f/6d0 Trace; c015e7e2 ext2_getblk+72/e0 Trace; c01155a6 do_page_fault+166/440 Trace; c01272a9

Patch for ymfpci and xmms

2001-02-08 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Courtesy of Manish Singh, little bit extended (I hope I did not break it too badly). Supposedly it fixes bad skipping with xmms. -- Pete diff -ur -X dontdiff linux-2.4.1/drivers/sound/ymfpci.c linux-2.4.1-p3/drivers/sound/ymfpci.c --- linux-2.4.1/drivers/sound/ymfpci.c Fri Jan 26 23:31:16

Patch for ymfpci and xmms

2001-02-08 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Courtesy of Manish Singh, little bit extended (I hope I did not break it too badly). Supposedly it fixes bad skipping with xmms. -- Pete diff -ur -X dontdiff linux-2.4.1/drivers/sound/ymfpci.c linux-2.4.1-p3/drivers/sound/ymfpci.c --- linux-2.4.1/drivers/sound/ymfpci.c Fri Jan 26 23:31:16

Re: Ymfpci 724

2001-01-30 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> From: Simon Cahuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Date: Tue Jan 30 2001 - 14:22:26 EST > > I have a ymfpci sound chip on my motherboard. I'm using ymfpci module. > Under Q3A I get this: > sound inilializations: > Sorry but your soundcard can't do this Probably an mmap-ed sound problem or some

Re: Ymfpci 724

2001-01-30 Thread Pete Zaitcev
From: Simon Cahuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Date: Tue Jan 30 2001 - 14:22:26 EST I have a ymfpci sound chip on my motherboard. I'm using ymfpci module. Under Q3A I get this: sound inilializations: Sorry but your soundcard can't do this Probably an mmap-ed sound problem or some ioctl is

Maxwell strikes the heart (ECN: Clearing the air)

2001-01-29 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> From: Gregory Maxwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Date: Sun Jan 28 2001 - 14:42:04 EST > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:29:52PM +, James Sutherland wrote: > > > There is nothing silly with the decision, davem is simply a modern day > > > internet hero. > > > > No. If it were something

Maxwell strikes the heart (ECN: Clearing the air)

2001-01-29 Thread Pete Zaitcev
From: Gregory Maxwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Date: Sun Jan 28 2001 - 14:42:04 EST On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:29:52PM +, James Sutherland wrote: There is nothing silly with the decision, davem is simply a modern day internet hero. No. If it were something essential, perhaps,

Patch to run IrDA with no modules in 2.4.x

2001-01-28 Thread Pete Zaitcev
A minor problem here - module_init(irda_proto_init) got bracketed by #ifdef MODULE and became ineffective if compiled without modules. -- Pete diff -ur -X dontdiff linux-2.4.1-pre11/net/irda/af_irda.c linux-2.4.1-pre11-p3/net/irda/af_irda.c --- linux-2.4.1-pre11/net/irda/af_irda.cSat

Patch to run IrDA with no modules in 2.4.x

2001-01-28 Thread Pete Zaitcev
A minor problem here - module_init(irda_proto_init) got bracketed by #ifdef MODULE and became ineffective if compiled without modules. -- Pete diff -ur -X dontdiff linux-2.4.1-pre11/net/irda/af_irda.c linux-2.4.1-pre11-p3/net/irda/af_irda.c --- linux-2.4.1-pre11/net/irda/af_irda.cSat

patchlet for cs46xx

2001-01-25 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Sorry for the nitpicking, bust since 2.4 is now "stable"... -- Pete diff -ur -X dontdiff linux-2.4.0-ac9/drivers/sound/cs46xx.c linux-2.4.0-ac9-p3/drivers/sound/cs46xx.c --- linux-2.4.0-ac9/drivers/sound/cs46xx.c Sun Jan 14 15:27:58 2001 +++ linux-2.4.0-ac9-p3/drivers/sound/cs46xx.c Wed

patchlet for cs46xx

2001-01-25 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Sorry for the nitpicking, bust since 2.4 is now "stable"... -- Pete diff -ur -X dontdiff linux-2.4.0-ac9/drivers/sound/cs46xx.c linux-2.4.0-ac9-p3/drivers/sound/cs46xx.c --- linux-2.4.0-ac9/drivers/sound/cs46xx.c Sun Jan 14 15:27:58 2001 +++ linux-2.4.0-ac9-p3/drivers/sound/cs46xx.c Wed

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