Re: [PATCH] network configs: disconnect network options from drivers

2005-04-04 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:30:13PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > Any comments on this new version? The new Networking menu looks unstructured. And the net/Kconfig file contains a lot of config snippets that does not belong there. So I took a stamp on it with focus on: - Move config bits to appropria

RE: 2.6.11, USB: High latency?

2005-04-04 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, kus Kusche Klaus wrote: > I asked our hardware team. The hardware has two devices which are > in use and capable of busmaster/DMA transfers: > The intel e100 ethernet controller and the intel PIIX4 USB > controller. > The IDE interface is also a busmaster, but there are only

kernel.org replaced

2005-04-04 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Hello everyone, HP has most graciously donated a pair of DL585 quad Opteron servers with 24 GB of RAM and 10 TB of disk using a pair of MSA-30 arrays for each server. The first ones of these servers was officially put in service today; the next one will be put in service next week. Each server i

Re: [patch 1/3] pnpbios eliminate bad section references

2005-04-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
maximilian attems wrote: one of the last buildcheck errors on i386, thanks Randy again for double checking. Fix pnpbios section references: make dmi_system_id pnpbios_dmi_table __initdata Error: ./drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.o .data refers to 0100 R_386_32 .init.text Error: ./drivers/pnp/pnpbios/c

Re: [RFC] : remove unreliable, unused and unmainained arch from kernel.

2005-04-04 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 08:03:16 -0500 (EST), linux-os wrote: > This must be a joke. Where's the punch line? It's called a fish in Italian and French. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benj

[patch] inotify 0.22

2005-04-04 Thread Robert Love
Below, find inotify 0.22, against 2.6.12-rc1. This release introduces a conversion in our primary locking from spinlocks to semaphores. Semaphores are a more natural fit for our code, which synchronizes with user-space, thus we clean up a bit of code with a net reduction of 63 lines. Also, I was

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it is probably stuck in some spinning "yield" loop, which was the > reason I was writing this test to begin with! It's most likely also > waiting for kjournald to do some work, and is starving it in a > schedule or yield loop never actually goi

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 04, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What if we don't want to do so? I know I personally posted a solution Then probably the extremists in Debian will manage to kill your driver, like they did with tg3 and others. This sucks, yes. -- ciao, Marco (@debian.org) signature.asc Descript

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 20:21 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved > > problem, or the ones discussing it. [...] > All i am asking is that *the copyright holders* of said fir

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ? > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/04/msg00145.html > > Can you summarize the conclusion of the thread, or what you did get from it, > please ? That

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:05:18PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 04, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What if we don't want to do so? I know I personally posted a solution > Then probably the extremists in Debian will manage to kill your driver, > like they did with tg3 and others.

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:12:48PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 20:21 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved > > > problem, or the ones discussing it.

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:05:18PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 04, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What if we don't want to do so? I know I personally posted a solution > Then probably the extremists in Debian will manage to kill your driver, > like they did with tg3 and others.

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ? > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/04/msg00145.html > > > > Can you summarize the con

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:05:18PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 04, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What if we don't want to do so? I know I personally posted a solution > Then probably the extremists in Debian will manage to kill your driver, > like they did with tg3 and others.

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved problem, or the ones discussing it. Actually, there are some legitimate problems with some of the files in the Linux source base. Last time this

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ? > > > > > > http://lists.debian.or

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Roland Dreier
Ian> I think what Greg may have meant[0] was that if it bothers Ian> you, then you should act by contacting the copyright holders Ian> privately yourself in each case that you come across and Ian> asking them if you may add a little comment etc, and then Ian> submit patches once

Re: OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 18:35 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I run into OOM problem again on 2.6.12-rc1. I run some(20) fsx tests on > > > 2.6.12-rc1 kernel(and 2.6.11-mm4) on ext3 filesystem, after abou

Re: kernel.org replaced

2005-04-04 Thread H. Peter Anvin
A few additional notes: - The IP addresses for kernel.org have changed. When the second server gets deployed next week, most of the kernel.org addresses, e.g. ftp.kernel.org, will be round-robins. The individual servers can be specified as ftp1.kernel.org and ftp2.kernel.org. - *** If you

[PATCH 1/2] cifs: whitespace cleanups for fs/cifs/smberr.h part 1

2005-04-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi Steve, moving right along with the fs/cifs/ cleanup, here's part 1 of a patch to beautify smberr.h a bit This patch is also available from http://www.linuxtux.org/~juhl/kernel_patches/fs_cifs_smberr-whitespace-1.patch Align numbers neatly and use tabs instead of spaces. Signed-off-by: Je

Re: PCI: increase the size of the pci.ids strings

2005-04-04 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 15:47:48 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > -#define PCI_NAME_SIZE96 > +#define PCI_NAME_SIZE255 > #define PCI_NAME_HALF__stringify(43) /* less than half to handle > slop */ Shouldn't PCI_NAME_HALF be changed too? To something like 109 or 113? -- Giuseppe "Oblo

Re: kernel.org replaced

2005-04-04 Thread Alessandro Suardi
On Apr 4, 2005 9:53 PM, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > HP has most graciously donated a pair of DL585 quad Opteron servers > with 24 GB of RAM and 10 TB of disk using a pair of MSA-30 arrays for > each server. The first ones of these servers was officially put in

Re: Oops in i810_audio (reply to herbert)

2005-04-04 Thread SuD (Alex)
I already tried my own version of the patch with a few printk. I can tell you that both probe functions in (ac97_codec.c:719) would report the device as modem. /* Check for an AC97 1.0 soft modem (ID1) */ codec->codec_read(codec, AC97_RESET) returned 0xd3a ... /* Check for an AC97 2.x soft mod

[PATCH 2/2] cifs: whitespace cleanups for fs/cifs/smberr.h part 2

2005-04-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
Steve, Here's the second part of the patch for smberr.h. This one break up the long comments. Applies on top of the previous one. Patch is also available from http://www.linuxtux.org/~juhl/kernel_patches/fs_cifs_smberr-whitespace-2.patch Break comment lines so they all fit on a 80 column dis

[patch] inotify 0.22 for 2.6.12-rc1-mm4

2005-04-04 Thread Robert Love
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:02 -0400, Robert Love wrote: Greetings, Mr Morton. > Below, find inotify 0.22, against 2.6.12-rc1. > > This release introduces a conversion in our primary locking from > spinlocks to semaphores. Semaphores are a more natural fit for our > code, which synchronizes with u

[PATCH 1/1] cifs: beautify fs/cifs/rfc1002pdu.h a little bit (whitespace changes only)

2005-04-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
Beautify rfc1002pdu.h a bit. Whitespace changes only. Patch also available here: http://www.linuxtux.org/~juhl/kernel_patches/fs_cifs_rfc1002pdu.patch Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4-orig/fs/cifs/rfc1002pdu.h 2005-03-02 08:38:08.0 +0100 ++

Re: kernel.org replaced

2005-04-04 Thread Brice Goglin
Alessandro Suardi a écrit : I don't know - 2.6.12-rc2 has been announced a few hours ago on http://www.kernel.org , still the patch isn't there.. It is now ! Brice - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests

2005-04-04 Thread Martin J. Bligh
>> > > I run into OOM problem again on 2.6.12-rc1. I run some(20) fsx tests on >> > > 2.6.12-rc1 kernel(and 2.6.11-mm4) on ext3 filesystem, after about 10 >> > > hours the system hit OOM, and OOM keep killing processes one by one. I >> > > could reproduce this problem very constantly on a 2 way

Re: OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew Morton
"Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > I run into OOM problem again on 2.6.12-rc1. I run some(20) fsx tests on > >> > > 2.6.12-rc1 kernel(and 2.6.11-mm4) on ext3 filesystem, after about 10 > >> > > hours the system hit OOM, and OOM keep killing processes one by one. I > >> > > c

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Apr 4, 2005 12:07 PM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >>>On Apr 4, 2005 11:10 AM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A while back there was quite a discussion on this issue and then specifically "i8042 timing issues". I refer y

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-04 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:00 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So it is probably stuck in some spinning "yield" loop, which was the > > reason I was writing this test to begin with! It's most likely also > > waiting for kjournald to do some work, and i

Re: Use of C99 int types

2005-04-04 Thread Renate Meijer
On Apr 4, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Dag Arne Osvik wrote: Renate Meijer wrote: On Apr 4, 2005, at 12:08 AM, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Apr 03, 2005, at 16:25, Kenneth Johansson wrote: But is this not exactly what Dag Arne Osvik was trying to do ?? uint_fast32_t means that we want at least 32 bits but it's OK

Re: kernel.org replaced

2005-04-04 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Alessandro Suardi wrote: I don't know - 2.6.12-rc2 has been announced a few hours ago on http://www.kernel.org , still the patch isn't there.. it will be hard to saturate links that way ;) Fixed. It was uploaded while I was still in the process of getting the upload system set up, and it appare

fix AGP code to work again with non-PCI AGP bridges

2005-04-04 Thread David Mosberger
Dave, As mentioned earlier, the current check_bridge_mode() code assumes that AGP bridges are PCI devices. This isn't always true. Definitely not for HP zx1 chipset and the same seems to be the case for SGI's AGP bridge. The patch below fixes the problem by picking up the AGP_MODE_3_0 bit from

Re: [PATCH] network configs: disconnect network options from drivers

2005-04-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Hi Sam- Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:30:13PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: Any comments on this new version? The new Networking menu looks unstructured. And the net/Kconfig file contains a lot of config snippets that does not belong there. So I took a stamp on it with focus on: - Mov

Re: crypting filesystems

2005-04-04 Thread Wiktor
Hi, I'm using the following method and it seems to be working fine (involving crypto-loop): i have normal ext3 /boot partition, where i store kernel image & initrd. after lilo boots the kernel, initrd sets up /dev/loop0 to be crypto-loop/blowfish for /dev/hda1 (losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/hda1 -e

Re: [patch] inotify 0.22

2005-04-04 Thread Dale Blount
> inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly > its inability to scale and its terrible user interface: > > * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory > that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many > open files

Re: Use of C99 int types

2005-04-04 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:30:52PM +0200, Renate Meijer wrote: > When used improperly. The #define Al Viro objected to, is > objectionable. It's highly > misleading, as Mr. Viro pointed out. I fail to see where he made > comments on stdint.h > as such. Comments on stdint.h are very simple: ...

[PATCH 1/4] cifs: cleanup asn1.c - functions

2005-04-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
Clean up function definitions to match previously agreed on style (return type on same line as function name, parameters on same line if <80 chars, remaining parameters on subsequent lines indented one tab). Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4-orig/fs/cifs/asn

[PATCH 2/4] cifs: cleanup asn1.c - kfree

2005-04-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
Remove redundant NULL pointer check before calling kfree(). Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4/fs/cifs/asn1.c.with_patch1 2005-04-04 22:25:50.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4/fs/cifs/asn1.c 2005-04-04 22:33:34.0 +0200 @@ -540,7 +540,6 @@

[PATCH 3/4] cifs: cleanup asn1.c - spacing and long lines

2005-04-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
Clean up trailing whitespace, spacing in if statements etc and break long lines. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4/fs/cifs/asn1.c.with_patch2 2005-04-04 22:34:03.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4/fs/cifs/asn1.c 2005-04-04 22:48:15.0 +0200

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:58:30PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion abou

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:55:55PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > >>Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved > >>problem, or the ones discussing it. > > > > > >Actually, there are so

Re: [patch] inotify 0.22

2005-04-04 Thread Robert Love
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:50 -0400, Dale Blount wrote: Hi, Dale. > Will inotify watch directories recursively? A quick browse through the > source doesn't look like it, but I very well could be wrong. Last I > checked, dnotify did not either. I am looking for a way to synchronize > files in as-

Re: [2.6 patch] unexport idle_cpu

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

[PATCH 4/4] cifs: cleanup asn1.c - comments

2005-04-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
Comment beautification. Make them match previously established style. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4/fs/cifs/asn1.c.with_patch3 2005-04-04 22:48:45.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4/fs/cifs/asn1.c 2005-04-04 22:52:09.0 +0200 @@ -67,9 +

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Apr 4, 2005 3:35 PM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for loading the modules i8042, atkbd and psmouse (in that order): > black void of death. > Hmm.. remind me, if you boot with usb-handoff does it switch the i8042 into active multiplexing mode (you get 4 AUX serio ports)? -- D

[PATCH] add Big Endian variants of ioread/iowrite

2005-04-04 Thread James Bottomley
In the new io infrastructure, all of our operators are expecting the underlying device to be little endian (because the PCI bus, their main consumer, is LE). However, there are a fair few devices and busses in the world that are actually Big Endian. There's even evidence that some of these BE bus

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > actually, what priorities do the yielding tasks have? sched_yield() does > > not guarantee that the CPU will be given up, of if a highest-prio > > SCHED_FIFO task is in a yield() loop it will livelock the system. > > What scares me is the code in

[PATCH 0/4] cifs: cleanup asn1.c

2005-04-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi Steve, More fs/cifs/ cleanups for you. This time for asn1.c Same stuff as all the previous ones; split into parts that do just one thing (or a few very closely related), follows the style(s) established in the previous patches. Patches will be send inline in mails with descriptions shortly

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread James Bottomley
OK, I sent the patch off to Andrew. To complete the original problem, the attached is the patch that uses it in the parisc lasi driver (although, actually, it sets up 53c700 to work everywhere including BE on a LE system). I changed some of the flags around to reflect the fact that we now have ge

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:55:55PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved problem, or the ones discussing it. Actually, there are some legi

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Nope, i am aiming to clarify this issue with regard to the debian kernel, so > that we may be clear with ourselves, and actually ship something which is not > of dubious legal standing, and that we could get sued over for GPL violati

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-04 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:47 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Currently my fix is in yield to lower the priority of the task calling > > yield and raise it after the schedule. This is NOT a proper fix. It's > > just a hack so I can get by it and test other parts. > > yeah, yield() is a quite RT-in

Re: [PATCH] create a kstrdup library function

2005-04-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains a small bug: <-- snip --> ... WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.12-rc1-mm4/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.ko needs unknown symbol kstrdup WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.12-rc1-mm4/kernel/net/ipv6/ipv6.ko needs unknown symbol kstrdup WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.12-rc1-mm4/kernel/drivers/parport

Re: Use of C99 int types

2005-04-04 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Al Viro wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:30:52PM +0200, Renate Meijer wrote: When used improperly. The #define Al Viro objected to, is objectionable. It's highly misleading, as Mr. Viro pointed out. I fail to see where he made comments on stdint.h as such. Comments on stdint.h

[PATCH] no need to cast pointer to (void *) when passing it to kfree()

2005-04-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
kfree() takes a void pointer argument, no need to cast. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4-orig/mm/nommu.c2005-03-31 21:20:08.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4/mm/nommu.c 2005-04-04 23:25:23.0 +0200 @@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ static void

Re: [RFC,PATCH 2/4] Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacement

2005-04-04 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:26:50AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Sünndag 03 April 2005 20:50, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > I couldn't find any way to suppress the "deprecated" warning that is > > generated by the "&sym" in the last line of the __EXPORT_SYMBOL() > > macro.  Anyone know a way of do

Re: clock runs at double speed on x86_64 system w/ATI RS200 chipset

2005-04-04 Thread Christopher Allen Wing
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > In principle ACPI shouldn't be needed, but in its absence the > BIOS must provide an MP table and the x86-64 kernel must still > have code to parse it -- otherwise I/O APIC mode won't work. > I don't know if that's the case or not. Thanks. What I m

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:23:08PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:58:30PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +020

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:05:03PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:23:08PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:58:30PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:55:27PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Nope, i am aiming to clarify this issue with regard to the debian kernel, so > > that we may be clear with ourselves, and actually ship something which is > > not

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:47:36PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >Yep, but in the meantime, let's clearly mark said firmware as > >not-covered-by-the-GPL. In the acenic case it seems to be even easier, as > >the > >firmware is in a separate acenic_firmware.h file, and it just ne

Re: Use of C99 int types

2005-04-04 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Apr 04, 2005, at 17:25, Richard B. Johnson wrote: I don't find stdint.h in the kernel source (up to 2.6.11). Is this going to be a new addition? Uhh, no. stdint.h is part of glibc, not the kernel. It would be very helpful to start using the uint(8,16,32,64)_t types because they are self-evident

Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/rcupdate.c: make the exports EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

2005-04-04 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:18:24AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 22:02 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > These need to be put back. Moving them to GPL -- but in a measured > > manner, as I proposed on this list some months ago -- is fine. Changing > > these particular

[PATCH 1/1] cifs: cifsfs.h whitespace cleanups

2005-04-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
Patch also available here: http://www.linuxtux.org/~juhl/kernel_patches/fs_cifs_cifsfs_h-whitespace.patch Misc minor whitespace cleanups. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4-orig/fs/cifs/cifsfs.h 2005-03-31 21:19:59.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm

Re: [PATCH] no need to cast pointer to (void *) when passing it to kfree()

2005-04-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > kfree() takes a void pointer argument, no need to cast. > I'm an idiot, vm_start is an unsigned long, of course it needs to be cast.. D'OH! Don't apply that patch... Don't know what I was thinking. -- Jesper - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Apr 4, 2005 3:35 PM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>As for loading the modules i8042, atkbd and psmouse (in that order): >>black void of death. >> > Hmm.. remind me, if you boot with usb-handoff does it switch the i8042 > into active multiplexing mode (you ge

Re: [patch 3/3] efi eliminate bad section references

2005-04-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
(adding Matt Domsch to cc:) maximilian attems wrote: Randy please double check especially this one. there may be a better solution. Fix efi section references: remove __initdata for struct efi efi_phys and struct efi_memory_map memmap 'memmap' can be used after init, so remove __initdata from it

Re: kernel.org replaced

2005-04-04 Thread Fao, Sean
H. Peter Anvin wrote: HP has most graciously donated a pair of DL585 quad Opteron servers with 24 GB of RAM and 10 TB of disk using a pair of MSA-30 arrays for each server. If you don't mind me asking, what all does this server do/host? Just curious, -- Sean - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: [PATCH] network configs: disconnect network options from drivers

2005-04-04 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> >- Move submenu to the top > >- Rename top menu to "Networking" and located it just before > > "File systems" > > I still prefer Networking to come before Device Drivers FWIW. > Just makes some kind of hierarchical sense to me. Moved up as suggested. > I propose that the new file net/atm/Kcon

Accessing performance counters for a processor in a multi-processor environment

2005-04-04 Thread Abhinkar, Sameer
Hi there, I'm a newbie in Linux kernel development and hopefully my question has some quick solution.. I'm trying to access performance counters on a dual Xeon processor machine (both processors are 32-bit and HT enabled). Since each processor (logical/physical) has their own performance counter,

Re: [PATCH] meminfo: add Cached underflow check

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Martin Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Working on some code lately I've been getting huge values > for "Cached". The cause is that get_page_cache_size() is an > approximate value, and for a sufficiently small returned value > of get_page_cache_size() the value underflows. OK.. I think I'd p

[PATCH] crypto: don't check for NULL before kfree(), it's redundant.

2005-04-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
Checking a pointer for NULL before calling kfree() on it is redundant. This patch removes such checks from crypto/ Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -up linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4-orig/crypto/cipher.c linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4/crypto/cipher.c --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4-orig/crypto/cipher.

Re: [patch 2/3] hd eliminate bad section references

2005-04-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
maximilian attems wrote: Fix hd section references: make parse_hd_setup() __init Error: ./drivers/ide/legacy/hd.o .text refers to 0943 R_386_PC32 .init.text Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-bk5/drivers/ide/legacy/hd.c.orig 2005-04-04 18:39:04.0 +

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 5/6]clean cpu state after hotremove CPU

2005-04-04 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:33, Nathan Lynch wrote: > > Yes, exactly. Someone who understand do_exit please help clean up the > > code. I'd like to remove the idle thread, since the smpboot code will > > create a new idle thread. > > I'd say fix the smpboot code so that it doesn't create new idl

Re: [patch] inotify 0.22

2005-04-04 Thread John McCutchan
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:50 -0400, Dale Blount wrote: > Will inotify watch directories recursively? A quick browse through the > source doesn't look like it, but I very well could be wrong. Last I > checked, dnotify did not either. I am looking for a way to synchronize > files in as-real-as-poss

[PATCH 2.4] PCI 1/2 update pci.ids

2005-04-04 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Marcelo, Found the size of pci.ids strings (MAX_NAME_SIZE) needed increasing to accommodate latest pci.ids snapshot, compile failed at 140, succeeded at 150, so I went 160. This patch is required for the update to latest pci.ids snapshot patch 2/2. Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTE

[PATCH 2.4] PCI 2/2 update pci.ids (0/2)

2005-04-04 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Marcelo, This patch updates pci.ids to latest snapshot, requires patch 1/2 to compile. gzip'd due to size. Compile and run tested. Sign-off-by: Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROT

Re: [RFC] spinlock_t & rwlock_t break_lock member initialization (patch seeking comments included)

2005-04-04 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > > On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > > I've now been running kernels (both PREEMPT, SMP, both and without both) > > > with the patch below applied for a few days and I see no ill effects. I'm

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:24:05PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > It assuredly can't hurt to add a few lines of comments to tg3.c, and since it > is probably (well, 1/3 chance here) you who added said firmware to the tg3.c > file, i guess you are even well placed to at least exclude it from being > GP

[PATCH][RFC][4/4] IB: userspace verbs Kconfig/Makefile changes

2005-04-04 Thread Roland Dreier
Hook userspace verbs up to Kconfig and Makefile. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/Kconfig2005-04-04 14:58:53.397756926 -0700 +++ linux-export/drivers/infiniband/Kconfig 2005-04-04 15:01:08.716332258 -0700 @@ -7,6 +7,14 @@

[PATCH][RFC][1/4] IB: core changes for userspace verbs

2005-04-04 Thread Roland Dreier
Add new structs and struct members required by userspace verbs to IB core. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c 2005-01-11 09:35:27.046388000 -0800 +++ linux-export/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c2005-04-04 14:50:59.579

[PATCH][RFC][2/4] IB: userspace verbs main module

2005-04-04 Thread Roland Dreier
Add device-independent userspace verbs support (ib_uverbs module). Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.0 + +++ linux-export/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs.h 2005-04-04 14:55:10.496227053 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,124 @@ +/* + * Copyright

Re: [PATCH] meminfo: add Cached underflow check

2005-04-04 Thread Martin Hicks
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:10:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Martin Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Working on some code lately I've been getting huge values > > for "Cached". The cause is that get_page_cache_size() is an > > approximate value, and for a sufficiently small returned v

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Bug] invalid mac address after rebooting (kernel 2.6.11.5)]

2005-04-04 Thread Daniel Ritz
On Sunday 03 April 2005 16:02, Daniel Drake wrote: > Peter Baumann wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:52:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > >>Peter Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>>I'm hitting an annoying bug in kernel 2.6.11.5 > >>> > >>>Every time I _reboot_ (warmstart)

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-04 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:47 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > Currently my fix is in yield to lower the priority of the task calling > > > yield and raise it after the schedule. This is NOT a proper fix. It's > > > just a hack so I can get by it and

[PATCH][RFC][3/4] IB: userspace verbs mthca changes

2005-04-04 Thread Roland Dreier
Add Mellanox HCA-specific userspace verbs support to mthca. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c2005-04-04 14:57:12.228756073 -0700 +++ linux-export/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c 2005-04-04 14:58:12.364679525

[PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

2005-04-04 Thread Roland Dreier
Here is an initial implementation of InfiniBand userspace verbs. I plan to commit this code to the OpenIB repository shortly, and submit it for inclusion during the 2.6.13 cycle, so I am posting it early for comments. This code, in conjunction with the libibverbs and libmthca userspace libraries

Adding a field to ext2_dir_entry_2

2005-04-04 Thread Vineet Joglekar
Hi All, I working with linux kernel 2.4.28. I want to add 1 more field to ext2_dir_entry_2 - the new version of directory entry for ext2fs. I did add the __u32 field to the struct ext2_dir_entry_2 defined in ext2_fs.h I also modified the EXT2_DIR_REC_LEN macro to: (((name_len) + 12 +

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-04 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:51 -0600, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > I'm sure a lot of the yield() users could be converted to > schedule_timeout(), some of the users i saw were for low memory conditions > where we want other tasks to make progress and complete so that we a bit > more free memory. > I

Re: security issue: hard disk lock

2005-04-04 Thread Chris Friesen
Horst von Brand wrote: Doing it in initrd should be plenty of time, no need to involve the kernel. Not everyone uses an initrd. Chris - 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.or

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-04 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:32:52 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: [...] > > > Summary of changes from v2.6.12-rc1 to v2.6.12-rc2 > == > [...] > > Andres Salomon: > o Possible AMD8111e free irq issue > o Possible VIA-Rhine free irq issue Those tw

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Apr 4, 2005 4:51 PM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Apr 4, 2005 3:35 PM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>As for loading the modules i8042, atkbd and psmouse (in that order): > >>black void of death. > >> > > Hmm.. remind me, if you boot with u

Re: [PATCH] create a kstrdup library function

2005-04-04 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:44:17 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > > Hi, > > This patch creates a new kstrdup library function and changes the > "local" implementations in several places to use this function. > > This is just a cleanup to allow reusing the strdup code, and to prevent > bugs in future

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-04 Thread Esben Nielsen
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:47 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > Currently my fix is in yield to lower the priority of the task calling > > > yield and raise it after the schedule. This is NOT a proper fix. It's > > > just a hack so I can get by it and

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-04 Thread Esben Nielsen
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:47 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > Currently my fix is in yield to lower the priority of the task calling > > > > yield and raise it after the schedule. This is NOT a pro

Re: [patch 2/3] hd eliminate bad section references

2005-04-04 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > >-static int parse_hd_setup (char *line) { > >+static int __init parse_hd_setup (char *line) { .. > This one is fairly interesting and needs some resolution by someone > who knows thanks a lot for your quick and profund feedback. > On the surface,

Re: [PATCH] network configs: disconnect network options from drivers

2005-04-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Sam Ravnborg wrote: - Move submenu to the top - Rename top menu to "Networking" and located it just before "File systems" I still prefer Networking to come before Device Drivers FWIW. Just makes some kind of hierarchical sense to me. Moved up as suggested. I propose that the new file net/atm/Kcon

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