Re: [PATCH net-next 04/11] wimax: fix duplicate initializer warning

2020-10-27 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
> supported by the old Intel 2400m (used in Sandy Bridge laptops > and earlier), which is the only driver using the kernel's wimax > stack. > > Inaky, do you have any additional information about possible > users? If we are sure there are none, then I'd suggest removing &

Re: [PATCH v2] wimax/i2400m: fix a memory leak bug

2019-08-18 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
This driver should be orphaned. While I can’t certainly say nobody is using it, the HW has not been sold for years and it hasn’t been brought to current LK standards. If your assesment is the code shall not be used, it’s then another argument towards disconnecting it. > On Aug 18, 2019, at

Re: [PATCH] wimax/i2400m: Remove VLAIS

2017-10-25 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
> On Oct 25, 2017, at 10:39, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 17:12 +, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: >>> On Tue, 2017-10-24 at 21:00 +, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: >>>>> ping any comments on this? >>>> >>>> None fr

RE: [PATCH] wimax/i2400m: Remove VLAIS

2017-10-25 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
>On Tue, 2017-10-24 at 21:00 +, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: >> > ping any comments on this? >> >> None from me; I don't have access to this HW anymore, so I can't >> validate if the change would work or not. > I still have a 5350 around somewhere, I

RE: [PATCH] wimax/i2400m: Remove VLAIS

2017-10-24 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
> ping > any comments on this? None from me; I don't have access to this HW anymore, so I can't validate if the change would work or not.

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: wi...@linuxwimax.org is subscribers-only

2014-03-11 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
n Mar 11, 2014, at 14:53, "Joe Perches" wrote: > The archive of the mailing list looks as if it's been > dead for years. > > https://lists.linuxwimax.org/pipermail/wimax/ > > Inaky, is this still alive at all? > > If not, I suggest orphaning both WIMAX ST

RE: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: wi...@linuxwimax.org is subscribers-only

2013-09-26 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
> From: Joe Perches [mailto:j...@perches.com] > > On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 18:11 +, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: > > > From: Joe Perches [mailto:j...@perches.com] > > > > > > > > The W: link is dead. > > > > > > > > Given wimax

RE: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: wi...@linuxwimax.org is subscribers-only

2013-09-26 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
> > userspace parts. > > I wouldn't be surprised to learn of other distributions doing the same. > > Inaky? > Are you doing any work on this at all? > Should this be deleted? I do minimal maintenance, which in the last two years has been close to zero. I do get,

RE: [PATCH 20/25] wimax/i2400m: fix i2400m->wake_tx_skb handling

2012-12-22 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
> From: Tejun Heo [mailto:hte...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tejun Heo 0m: fix i2400m->wake_tx_skb handling > ... > > Only compile tested. I don't have access to hardware to test this--might want to contact Dan Williams, as he has been more actively using it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

RE: [GIT PULL] Disintegrate UAPI for wimax

2012-10-10 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
is no separate wimax tree anymore, it is in pure maintenance mode. BTW: thanks for tackling the UAPI issue Acked-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo inf

Re: [-mm patch] USB: make dev_attr_authorized_default static

2007-07-31 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
On Sunday 29 July 2007 07:58, Adrian Bunk wrote: > -DEVICE_ATTR(authorized_default, 0644, > - usb_host_authorized_default_show, > - usb_host_authorized_default_store); > +static DEVICE_ATTR(authorized_default, 0644, > > + usb_host_authorized_default_show, Ack, patchse

RE: [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix plist.h comments

2007-04-11 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
>From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Make kernel-doc comments match macro names. >Correct parameter names in a few places. >Remove '#' from beginning of kernel-doc comment macro names. >Remove extra (erroneous) blank lines in kernel-doc. > > ... >

Re: [patch 0/2] semaphores: add down_interruptible_timeout() and asm-generic/semaphore.h

2007-03-02 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 12:45, Ingo Oeser wrote: > Hi Inaky, > > On Tuesday, 27. February 2007, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote: > > On Monday 26 February 2007 18:18, Alan wrote: > > > > Yeah, I need semaphore. This is a hw register that says when the hw > > >

Re: [patch 0/2] semaphores: add down_interruptible_timeout() and asm-generic/semaphore.h

2007-02-26 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
On Monday 26 February 2007 18:18, Alan wrote: > > Yeah, I need semaphore. This is a hw register that says when the hw > > is ready to accept a new command. Code that wants to send commands has > > to down the semaphore and then send it. When hw is ready to get a new > > command, it sends and IRQ an

Re: [patch 0/2] semaphores: add down_interruptible_timeout() and asm-generic/semaphore.h

2007-02-26 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
recovery actions (like resetting it, for sake of being polite). I use this in the WHCI Ultra Wide Band radio controller code (coming soon to a hw store near you). Cristoph, I still wonder how the hell you do it to spot every message that comes into lkml -- I bet you have a cluster of employees

[patch 2/2] semaphores: all arches use include/asm-generic/semaphore.h

2007-02-26 Thread inaky
As suggested by Arjan van de Ven, introduced a generic semaphore.h for all that arches (previous patch in series). Make all arches include that generic file. Warning: not compile tested in all arches Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/asm-alpha/semap

[patch 1/2] semaphores: Add down_interruptible_timeout()

2007-02-26 Thread inaky
into asm-generic/semaphore.h to lay the egg for a saner sharing of semaphore code between arches. This patch also introduces that witn the down_interruptible_timeout() decl and the next adds the inclusion to all the arches' semaphore.h [note: haven't been able to compile test all of

[patch 0/2] semaphores: add down_interruptible_timeout() and asm-generic/semaphore.h

2007-02-26 Thread inaky
Introduce down_interruptible_timeout() using timers to make the waiter stop waiting by simulating a signal (see first patch for more details). As well introduce asm-generic/semaphore.h and make other architectures use it too. -- Inaky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

RE: RFC/patch: down_timeout_interruptible()

2007-02-25 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
arrives after the signal and after down_interruptible returns, nothing in theory. There is a window where the timer could still execute before it is deleted and it would look like a timeout [which theoretically could be right too]. Maybe the result < 0 && data.result < 0 check should

RE: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

2005-09-01 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
>From: Roman Zippel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: > >> Hmm, I cannot think of more ways to specify a timeout than how >> long I want to wait (relative) or until when (absolute) and which >> is the reference clock. And t

RE: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

2005-08-31 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
>From: Roman Zippel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: > >> I cannot produce (top of my head) any other POSIX API calls that >> allow you to specify another clock source, but they are there, >> somewhere. If I am to introduce

RE: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

2005-08-31 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
>From: Roman Zippel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: > >> Usefulness: (see the rationale in the patch), but in a nutshell; >> most POSIX timeout specs have to be absolute in CLOCK_REALTIME >> (eg: pthread_mutex_timed_lock()

RE: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

2005-08-31 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
>From: Christopher Friesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: > >>>I can get the first sleep. Suppose I oversleep by X nanoseconds. I >>>wake, and get an opaque timeout back. How do I ask for the new wake >>>time to be "endtime + I

RE: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

2005-08-31 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
oo, so... >How do I do that with this API? > >I can get the first sleep. Suppose I oversleep by X nanoseconds. I >wake, and get an opaque timeout back. How do I ask for the new wake >time to be "endtime + INTERVAL"? endtime.ts += INTERVAL [we all know opaque is relative

RE: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

2005-08-31 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
>From: Roman Zippel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: > >> +flags = tp->clock_id & TIMEOUT_FLAGS_MASK; >> +clock_id = tp->clock_id & TIMEOUT_CLOCK_MASK; >> + >> +result = -EINVAL; >> +

FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

2005-08-31 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
rly termination-n-restart (such as end time drift) are to be avoided. Joe "Money can buy bandwidth, but latency is forever" -- John Mashey Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.6.12-rc4-jak/include/linux/time.h|6 + 2.6.12-rc4-jak/include/linux/timeou

RE: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

2005-08-22 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
Hi John >From: john stultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 18:52 -0700, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote: >> The main user of this new inteface is to allow system calls to get >> time specified in an absolute form (as most of POSIX states) and thus >> avoid ex

FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

2005-07-28 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
v/null include/linux/timeout.h --- /dev/null 2004-06-24 14:04:38.0 -0400 +++ 2.6.12-rc4-jak/include/linux/timeout.h 2005-05-18 13:53:14.212416002 -0400 @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +/* + * Extended timeout specification + * + * (C) 2002-2005 Intel Corp + * Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc3-V0.7.46-01

2005-04-22 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
43ms 11 maximum cycle time: 1.173ms 12 maximum cycle time: 0.008ms 13 maximum cycle time: 0.008ms ... -- Inaky - 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: ia64 git pull

2005-04-21 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
FC, BTW.) Ouch, true--rule out %... > Still, why would you escape it? My shell will not take # as a > comment start if it is immediately after an alphanumeric character. Well, you just taught me something about bash I didn't know.... /me goes back to his hole with some more knowledg

Re: ia64 git pull

2005-04-21 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
l refer to your testing branch in that repository. Can we use something other than #? we'll have to scape it all the time in the shell (or at least also allow some other char, something without special meta-character meaning in the shell, like %). -- Inaky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: FUSYN and RT

2005-04-15 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
>>>>> Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 18:53 -0700, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote: >> >>>>> Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> I see--would the following fit your view? >> > I

Re: FUSYN and RT

2005-04-15 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
>>>>> Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 18:20 -0700, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote: >> Back to my example before: in fusyn, a user space lock is a kernel >> space lock with a wrapper, that provides all that is necessary for >

Re: FUSYN and RT

2005-04-15 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
>>>>> Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 16:37 -0700, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote: > I have to agree with Inaky too. Fundamentally, PI is the same for > the system regardless of if the locks are user or kernel. I still > don

Re: FUSYN and RT

2005-04-15 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
multiple owners (read locks need to have them), the procedure is mostly the same. However, this not being POSIX, nobody (yet) has asked for it. -- Inaky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More major

Booting from USB with initrd

2005-04-15 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
t; sdb: Write Protect is off > sdb: asuming driver cache: write-through If this is the model of your disk, the USB device has been detected properly, or at least it shows up. Are the contents encrypted you said? Can you post a more complete log? -- Inaky - To unsubscribe from this list: se

RE: FUSYN and RT

2005-04-12 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
ple of mutexes. So that's why I chose to put it in the task struct, it becomes O(1) at the expense (granted) of having to calc a min each time we compute the dynamic priority. But these are implementation details > ... >will never hit the RT-level. So assuming the RT-lock based code

RE: FUSYN and RT

2005-04-12 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
>From: Daniel Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 15:26, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: > >> You should not need any of this if your user space mutexes are a >> wrapper over the kernel space ones. The kernel handles everything >> the same and there is

RE: FUSYN and RT

2005-04-12 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
x can safely save the owner >priority with out a Fusyn jumping in and changing it and the other way >around.. You should not need any of this if your user space mutexes are a wrapper over the kernel space ones. The kernel handles everything the same and there is no need to take care of any speci

RE: FUSYN and RT

2005-04-12 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
be built on top of that. And exposing to user space is the toughest task (unless you don't care about the fast-path). -- Inaky - 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: FUSYN and RT

2005-04-12 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
detection system will work >properly (in theory). So that would mean to create a restriction (which is implicit now, anyway): "a system call cannot return holding an rt-mutex" right? -- Inaky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

RE: FUSYN and RT

2005-04-12 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
ean with them they will cause an error, but should not have undesired consequences in the kernel. But BUGS in the code will be as unclear as in RT mutexes. >it is is bad maintainance to have to maintain two seperate systems. The >best way ought to be to try to only have one PI system. The k

RE: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-11 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
he futexes]. The deadlock stuff gets hairier, but it's not such a big of a deal when you have your data structures setup. It takes time, though. >> Of course, selling it to the lkml is another story. > >I would think that pushing as much of this into userspace would >mak

RE: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-11 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
>From: Bill Huey (hui) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:31:41PM -0700, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: >> If you are exposing the kernel locks to userspace to implement >> mutexes (eg POSIX mutexes), deadlock checking is a feature you want >> to hav

RE: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-11 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
>From: Bill Huey (hui) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:57:37AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >> * Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Let me re-phrase then: it is a must have only on PI, to make sure you >&g

RE: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-11 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
>From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >* Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Let me re-phrase then: it is a must have only on PI, to make sure you >> don't have a loop when doing it. Maybe is a consequence of the >> algorithm I

RE: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-11 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
>From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >* Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >OTOH, deadlock detection is another issue. It's quite expensive and i'm >> >not sure we want to make it a runtime thing. But for fusyn's dea

RE: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-11 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
27;m >not sure we want to make it a runtime thing. But for fusyn's deadlock >detection and safe teardown on owner-exit is a must-have i suspect? Not really. Deadlock check is needed on PI, so it can be done at the same time (you have to walk the chain anyway). In any other case, i

RE: [PATCH] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-08 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
ncept--it doesn't even implement the async interface. It kind of works, but is not all that solid [last time I tried the JVMs locked up]. -- Inaky - 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] Priority Lists for the RT mutex

2005-04-08 Thread Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
le upstream than the former >> 100-queues approach. > > Inaky was telling me that 100 queues approach is two years old. > >The biggest problem is that fusyn has it's own PI system .. So it's not >clear if that will work with the RT mutex,. I was thinking the PI s