[PATCH] arm: bcm2835-audio: Document the device tree node to enable bcm2835-audio driver

2018-12-12 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
This patch makes it posible to use the bcm2835-audio driver on the Raspberry. In drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/TODO Michael Zoran says that this is to be done, in fact as we noted on https://bugs.debian.org/856505 without this patch the driver is not loaded and when loaded it

uli526x link problem solved, fix not on 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-17 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! There was a problem that affected all tulip based drivers and which has been fixed in most of them, for uli526x the problem remains on 2.6.25-rc2 as the fix has not yet been applied. A discusion of this bug and the patch to fix it is at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5839 Several

uli526x link problem solved, fix not on 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-17 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! There was a problem that affected all tulip based drivers and which has been fixed in most of them, for uli526x the problem remains on 2.6.25-rc2 as the fix has not yet been applied. A discusion of this bug and the patch to fix it is at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5839 Several

Re: uli526x doesn't get link if no link when interface is set up

2008-02-11 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5839 > Excellent. I've asked kyle to push that upstream. He ACKd so it should > go in pretty soon. Still nothing on the recently released rc1 of 2.6.25, has this been pushed to Linus? Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net -- To

Re: uli526x doesn't get link if no link when interface is set up

2008-02-11 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5839 Excellent. I've asked kyle to push that upstream. He ACKd so it should go in pretty soon. Still nothing on the recently released rc1 of 2.6.25, has this been pushed to Linus? Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester - http://manty.net -- To

Re: uli526x doesn't get link if no link when interface is set up

2008-02-06 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> Is this perhaps the same problem as described here? > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5839 Seems right. > If you think it is, could you add (just cut/paste) > you email to that bug for me? Done > Could you also try the patch I attached to that bug report? > If it works for

uli526x doesn't get link if no link when interface is set up

2008-02-02 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! I've been experiencing problems with this (internal) card ever since I bought this motherboard, lately I've been doing some tests and I found out some things, maybe not enough to let us debug this, but I'll explain it just in case. The problem is that if the uli526x card is set up (ifconfig

uli526x doesn't get link if no link when interface is set up

2008-02-02 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! I've been experiencing problems with this (internal) card ever since I bought this motherboard, lately I've been doing some tests and I found out some things, maybe not enough to let us debug this, but I'll explain it just in case. The problem is that if the uli526x card is set up (ifconfig

Re: dl2k stopped working on 2.6.24

2008-02-01 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> See if the patch below takes care of all of that: Yes, the patch seems to fix the problem, I have applied it over 2.6.24 and now the machine is at 1000FD working ok. Thanks for the fix. Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: dl2k stopped working on 2.6.24

2008-02-01 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
See if the patch below takes care of all of that: Yes, the patch seems to fix the problem, I have applied it over 2.6.24 and now the machine is at 1000FD working ok. Thanks for the fix. Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester - http://manty.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: dl2k stopped working on 2.6.24

2008-01-31 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> I have today compiled dl2k from git, the version with the 2007-12-23 patches > from Al Viro: dl2k endianness fixes (.24 fodder?) Right before the Al Viro > patches. This seems to be working perfectly on my system. Ok, I've been applying Al's patches one by one, everything went fine till I

Re: dl2k stopped working on 2.6.24

2008-01-31 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
As I didn't get any ideas on what to do to help find the problem with the dl2k driver, I'm doing some tests to get to know what has broken it. I have today compiled dl2k from git, the version with the 2007-12-23 patches from Al Viro: dl2k endianness fixes (.24 fodder?) Right before the Al Viro

Re: dl2k stopped working on 2.6.24

2008-01-31 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
As I didn't get any ideas on what to do to help find the problem with the dl2k driver, I'm doing some tests to get to know what has broken it. I have today compiled dl2k from git, the version with the 2007-12-23 patches from Al Viro: dl2k endianness fixes (.24 fodder?) Right before the Al Viro

Re: dl2k stopped working on 2.6.24

2008-01-31 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
I have today compiled dl2k from git, the version with the 2007-12-23 patches from Al Viro: dl2k endianness fixes (.24 fodder?) Right before the Al Viro patches. This seems to be working perfectly on my system. Ok, I've been applying Al's patches one by one, everything went fine till I applied

Re: dl2k stopped working on 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> I've been playing with ethtools and got it to work at 100FD by setting it > manually, but if afterwards I set it to auto it again goes 1000 HD and thus > not working again. I have changed my gigabit switch for a 100Mb wrt and the dl2k sets the link right at 100FD and works much better than when

Re: dl2k stopped working on 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
I've been playing with ethtools and got it to work at 100FD by setting it manually, but if afterwards I set it to auto it again goes 1000 HD and thus not working again. I have changed my gigabit switch for a 100Mb wrt and the dl2k sets the link right at 100FD and works much better than when

dl2k stopped working on 2.6.24

2008-01-25 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! I have just updated my server to 2.6.24 and the dl2k driver has stopped working. The problem seems to be when autoselecting the media, the driver says that the card is set as "Auto 1000 Mbps, Half duplex" instead of the usual "Auto 1000 Mbps, Full duplex", I have tried setting "options dl2k

dl2k stopped working on 2.6.24

2008-01-25 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! I have just updated my server to 2.6.24 and the dl2k driver has stopped working. The problem seems to be when autoselecting the media, the driver says that the card is set as Auto 1000 Mbps, Half duplex instead of the usual Auto 1000 Mbps, Full duplex, I have tried setting options dl2k

Re: [PATCH] (repost) Fix SMP poweroff hangs

2007-10-01 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> There was a bug in 2.6.23-rc8 that caused this to happen. > > It's been fixed in the later -git kernels > (commits 2f3f22269bdf702311342c5d106dfdd7347d1c3e, > 853298bc03ef65e3eb392f5d61265605214ee8fb). You are right, I have downloaded current head of git and seems to work ok. Sorry for the

Re: 32-bit Athlon X2 won't poweroff (was: Fix SMP poweroff hangs)

2007-10-01 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> So for this to work, I believe that either ACPI or APM has to have been > configured into the kernel (and the modules loaded). Your kernel .config > from earlier shows ACPI built-in to the kernel core, so it should be > present. Yes, and it is indeed, the acpid is running and it detects my

Re: 32-bit Athlon X2 won't poweroff (was: Fix SMP poweroff hangs)

2007-10-01 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
So for this to work, I believe that either ACPI or APM has to have been configured into the kernel (and the modules loaded). Your kernel .config from earlier shows ACPI built-in to the kernel core, so it should be present. Yes, and it is indeed, the acpid is running and it detects my power

Re: [PATCH] (repost) Fix SMP poweroff hangs

2007-10-01 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
There was a bug in 2.6.23-rc8 that caused this to happen. It's been fixed in the later -git kernels (commits 2f3f22269bdf702311342c5d106dfdd7347d1c3e, 853298bc03ef65e3eb392f5d61265605214ee8fb). You are right, I have downloaded current head of git and seems to work ok. Sorry for the lost

Re: [PATCH] (repost) Fix SMP poweroff hangs

2007-09-30 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
I booted into single mode, then umounted all unneeded stuff and put / to ro, stopped all unused raids, ... then did... >/sbin/halt -f -p > > The machine *should* poweroff. Nope, it didn't and what was curious was that I was left at the bash prompt :-? > If not, then do the whole thing again

Re: [PATCH] (repost) Fix SMP poweroff hangs

2007-09-30 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> I'd say your problem is more of a distro issue, > in that the method you are using to shutdown > is not actually requesting "poweroff". > That last mess above ("System halted.") comes from kernel_halt(), > rather than the expected message ("Power down.") from kernel_power_off(). > So, try

Re: [PATCH] (repost) Fix SMP poweroff hangs

2007-09-30 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Doesn't fix for me! I have an Athlon x2 running on a Asus A8N-E mobo which has an NForce 4 chipset, I thought this patch would fix poweroff for me too, but it doesn't. I'm seing this on 2.6.23-rc8 with and without your patch, here is what I get on the console: Shutdown: hdd Shutdown: hda System

Re: [PATCH] (repost) Fix SMP poweroff hangs

2007-09-30 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Doesn't fix for me! I have an Athlon x2 running on a Asus A8N-E mobo which has an NForce 4 chipset, I thought this patch would fix poweroff for me too, but it doesn't. I'm seing this on 2.6.23-rc8 with and without your patch, here is what I get on the console: Shutdown: hdd Shutdown: hda System

Re: [PATCH] (repost) Fix SMP poweroff hangs

2007-09-30 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
I'd say your problem is more of a distro issue, in that the method you are using to shutdown is not actually requesting poweroff. That last mess above (System halted.) comes from kernel_halt(), rather than the expected message (Power down.) from kernel_power_off(). So, try using the

Re: [PATCH] (repost) Fix SMP poweroff hangs

2007-09-30 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
I booted into single mode, then umounted all unneeded stuff and put / to ro, stopped all unused raids, ... then did... /sbin/halt -f -p The machine *should* poweroff. Nope, it didn't and what was curious was that I was left at the bash prompt :-? If not, then do the whole thing again

Re: vga text console not working on 2.6.23-rc8

2007-09-29 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> Please send me your .config as well as /etc/grub.conf and the output of > /proc/cmdline. I suppose you mean my grub's menu.lst, after looking at it I've done some more tests and identified the posible cause. This would be my grub menu.lst: default 0 fallback 2 timeout 2 color

Re: vga text console not working on 2.6.23-rc8

2007-09-29 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Please send me your .config as well as /etc/grub.conf and the output of /proc/cmdline. I suppose you mean my grub's menu.lst, after looking at it I've done some more tests and identified the posible cause. This would be my grub menu.lst: default 0 fallback 2 timeout 2 color

vga text console not working on 2.6.23-rc8

2007-09-28 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! I have just compiled a 2.6.23-rc8 using the config from my 2.6.22 as a basis and I came out with a not working (almost black) vga text console. This is what I'm getting on my logs: Console: colour dummy device 80x25 console [tty0] enabled Instead of the old: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25

vga text console not working on 2.6.23-rc8

2007-09-28 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! I have just compiled a 2.6.23-rc8 using the config from my 2.6.22 as a basis and I came out with a not working (almost black) vga text console. This is what I'm getting on my logs: Console: colour dummy device 80x25 console [tty0] enabled Instead of the old: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25

[ALSA] 2.6.21 loading of module snd_ymfpci takes 2 minutes

2007-04-26 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
I have just upgraded from 2.6.20 to 2.6.21, when I rebooted I thought the computer had halted after loading snd_ymfpci, but what happens is that it takes 2 minutes (120 seconds mesured with time) for the driver to load, but then works as expected. After making a diff between the 2.6.20 and 2.6.21

[ALSA] 2.6.21 loading of module snd_ymfpci takes 2 minutes

2007-04-26 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
I have just upgraded from 2.6.20 to 2.6.21, when I rebooted I thought the computer had halted after loading snd_ymfpci, but what happens is that it takes 2 minutes (120 seconds mesured with time) for the driver to load, but then works as expected. After making a diff between the 2.6.20 and 2.6.21

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-22 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> > As you can see I now can see the symbolic links perfectly and they work as > > expected. > > > > In fact, this patch is working so well that it poses a security risk, as now > > the devices on my /mnt/dev directory are not only seen as devices (like they > > were seen on 2.4.33) but they also

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-22 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi again! I tried to replicate the problem at home during the weekend with my laptop, but I couldn't get it to show links with previous kernels, so I guess I had something different on my samba server or similar, I'm at the real machines now so I have done the real tests and they look promising.

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-22 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi again! I tried to replicate the problem at home during the weekend with my laptop, but I couldn't get it to show links with previous kernels, so I guess I had something different on my samba server or similar, I'm at the real machines now so I have done the real tests and they look promising.

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-22 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
As you can see I now can see the symbolic links perfectly and they work as expected. In fact, this patch is working so well that it poses a security risk, as now the devices on my /mnt/dev directory are not only seen as devices (like they were seen on 2.4.33) but they also work (which

problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-17 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! I have discovered a problem with the changes applied to smbfs in 2.4.34 and in the security backports like last Debian's 2.4 kernel update these changes seem to be made to solve CVE-2006-5871 and they have broken symbolic links and changed the way that special files (like devices) are seen.

problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-17 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! I have discovered a problem with the changes applied to smbfs in 2.4.34 and in the security backports like last Debian's 2.4 kernel update these changes seem to be made to solve CVE-2006-5871 and they have broken symbolic links and changed the way that special files (like devices) are seen.

Re: ebtables problems on 2.6.19.1 *and* 2.6.16.36

2006-12-26 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Sorry for not replying before but I could not do any tests before today as I didn't have access to any of the machines. > Bingo! Yes, I can confirm that your patch solves the problem, at least on my test cases. Thanks for your help! Regards... -- Santiago García Mantiñán - To unsubscribe from

Re: ebtables problems on 2.6.19.1 *and* 2.6.16.36

2006-12-26 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Sorry for not replying before but I could not do any tests before today as I didn't have access to any of the machines. Bingo! Yes, I can confirm that your patch solves the problem, at least on my test cases. Thanks for your help! Regards... -- Santiago García Mantiñán - To unsubscribe from

ebtables problems on 2.6.19.1

2006-12-18 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! When trying to upgrade a machine from 2.6.18 to 2.6.19.1 I found that it crashed when loading the ebtables rules on startup. This is an example of the crash I get: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e081e004 printing eip:

ebtables problems on 2.6.19.1

2006-12-18 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! When trying to upgrade a machine from 2.6.18 to 2.6.19.1 I found that it crashed when loading the ebtables rules on startup. This is an example of the crash I get: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e081e004 printing eip:

Re: kernel BUG at inode.c:654!

2001-05-28 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> Lovely... It's one of the long lists and these asserts (lines 650 and 654) > are exactly what would happen if it was corrupted at some place. OTOH, it > may be for real - i.e. real inodes in wrong state getting on the list, rather > than corrupted pointer. You were right, corrupted pointer.

Re: kernel BUG at inode.c:654!

2001-05-28 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Lovely... It's one of the long lists and these asserts (lines 650 and 654) are exactly what would happen if it was corrupted at some place. OTOH, it may be for real - i.e. real inodes in wrong state getting on the list, rather than corrupted pointer. You were right, corrupted pointer. It

kernel BUG at inode.c:654!

2001-05-26 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! That's what my server, wich is running 2.4.5, was shouting when I pluged in my laptop at the console (ttyS0), all I could do was copy the output I was seeing on minicom to a file, after rebooting I saw that the kernel had left some of the logging on kern.log, so I'm attaching a file with

kernel BUG at inode.c:654!

2001-05-26 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! That's what my server, wich is running 2.4.5, was shouting when I pluged in my laptop at the console (ttyS0), all I could do was copy the output I was seeing on minicom to a file, after rebooting I saw that the kernel had left some of the logging on kern.log, so I'm attaching a file with

Re: 8139too on 2.2.19 doesn't close file descriptors

2001-05-18 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> No, that's OK. I realised about this when I inserted up_and_exit on 2.2 and still it did the same :-) > Try putting an > exit_files(current); > at the start of rtl8139_thread() Yes, this seems to solve the problem, thanks! Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net - To

Re: 8139too on 2.2.19 doesn't close file descriptors

2001-05-18 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
No, that's OK. I realised about this when I inserted up_and_exit on 2.2 and still it did the same :-) Try putting an exit_files(current); at the start of rtl8139_thread() Yes, this seems to solve the problem, thanks! Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester - http://manty.net - To

8139too on 2.2.19 doesn't close file descriptors

2001-05-17 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! I was tracking down a problem with Debian installation freezing when doing the ifconfig of the 8139too driver on 2.2.19 kernel, and found that this was caused by 8139too for 2.2.19 not closing it's file descriptors. The original code by Jeff for the 2.4 series is ok, and searching for the

8139too on 2.2.19 doesn't close file descriptors

2001-05-17 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! I was tracking down a problem with Debian installation freezing when doing the ifconfig of the 8139too driver on 2.2.19 kernel, and found that this was caused by 8139too for 2.2.19 not closing it's file descriptors. The original code by Jeff for the 2.4 series is ok, and searching for the

Re: Problems with Wake on LAN

2001-03-26 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> Are you using Becker's ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/diag/ether-wake.c ? Yes. > Did you turn on the enable_wol module option? Note that might be a new > option in the 2.4.3-preXX series... Well, it is indeed a 2.4.3-pre feature, as I had looked for it on 2.4.2, it was not there, but it is at

Re: Problems with Wake on LAN

2001-03-26 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Are you using Becker's ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/diag/ether-wake.c ? Yes. Did you turn on the enable_wol module option? Note that might be a new option in the 2.4.3-preXX series... Well, it is indeed a 2.4.3-pre feature, as I had looked for it on 2.4.2, it was not there, but it is at least

why volatile on vgacon.c?

2000-11-29 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! I used to be able to run my 12 ethernet ports pentium based bridge without vga card, but with tty1, tty2, ... still working, as the kernel used to recognice a kind of a cga card on my machine even though there was none. But the kernel could write to the memory were the card was supposed to

why volatile on vgacon.c?

2000-11-29 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! I used to be able to run my 12 ethernet ports pentium based bridge without vga card, but with tty1, tty2, ... still working, as the kernel used to recognice a kind of a cga card on my machine even though there was none. But the kernel could write to the memory were the card was supposed to