Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm2/ Still doesn't build for me with my usual config (available upon request) unless I enable ACPI : ... CC arch/i386/kernel/setup.o

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Rajesh Venkatasubramanian wrote: Although directory changes are tracked using change-sets, there seems to be no easy way to answer give me the diff corresponding to the commit (change-set) object sha1. That will be really helpful to review the changes. Actually, it

Re: [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O

2005-04-08 Thread Trond Myklebust
fr den 08.04.2005 Klokka 18:39 (-0400) skreiv Benjamin LaHaise: On the aio side of things, I introduced the owner field in the mutex (as opposed to the flag in Trond's iosem) for the next patch in the series to enable something like the following api: int aio_lock_mutex(struct mutex

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Friday 08 April 2005 04:38, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:41:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: The huge number of changesets is the crucial point, there are good distributed SCM already but they are apparently not efficient enough at handling 60k changesets. We'd need

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Tupshin Harper
Roman Zippel wrote: Preserving the complete merge history does indeed make repeated merges simpler, but it builds up complex meta data, which has to be managed forever. I doubt that this is really an advantage in the long term. I expect that we were better off serializing changesets in the main

Re: [PATCH] bootmem.c clean up bad pfn convertions

2005-04-08 Thread Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:32 +0200, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: As I described in my previous email, bootmem.c does improper pfn convertions into phys addr. This simple patch fixes that. ... - bdata-node_bootmem_map = phys_to_virt(mapstart PAGE_SHIFT); - bdata-node_boot_start = (start

[PATCH] silence spinlock/rwlock uninitialized break_lock member warnings

2005-04-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi Andrew, Any chance this patch could be added to -mm (and possibly mainline)? It removes a bunch of warnings when building with gcc -W, like these: include/linux/wait.h:82: warning: missing initializer include/linux/wait.h:82: warning: (near initialization for `(anonymous).break_lock')

Re: [patch 2/8] correctly name the Shell sort

2005-04-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:52:10AM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: As per http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/shellsort.html, this should be referred to as a Shell sort. Shell-Metzner is a misnomer. Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Domen

Re: [PATCH] radeonfb: (#2) Implement proper workarounds for PLL accesses

2005-04-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
This patch adds to the fbdev interface a set_cmap callback that allow the driver to batch palette changes. This is useful for drivers like radeonfb which might require lenghtly workarounds on palette accesses, thus allowing to factor out those workarounds efficiently. This makes it

[PATCH] cosmetic fixes for example programs in Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd

2005-04-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi Andrew, I'm sending this to you directly since Eberhard Moenkeberg already indicated to me that he approves of the patch. This patch makes a few minor changes to the example programs in Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd to kill off some warnings and build failures. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl

Re: [PATCH] silence spinlock/rwlock uninitialized break_lock member warnings

2005-04-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any chance this patch could be added to -mm (and possibly mainline)? Spose I can stick it in -mm. It removes a bunch of warnings when building with gcc -W, like these: include/linux/wait.h:82: warning: missing initializer include/linux/wait.h:82:

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: We'd need a regenerated coherent copy of BKCVS to pipe into those SCM to evaluate how well they scale. Yes, that makes most sense, I believe. Especially as BKCVS does the linearization that makes other SCM's _able_ to take the data in the first

Re: [PATCH] cosmetic fixes for example programs in Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd

2005-04-08 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: Hi Andrew, I'm sending this to you directly since Eberhard Moenkeberg already indicated to me that he approves of the patch. Yes OK (I didn't say it yet, did I?), but I guess it is only cosmetic, as you already said. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg

Re: [PATCH] silence spinlock/rwlock uninitialized break_lock member warnings

2005-04-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any chance this patch could be added to -mm (and possibly mainline)? Spose I can stick it in -mm. It removes a bunch of warnings when building with gcc -W, like these: include/linux/wait.h:82: warning:

Re: [PATCH] cosmetic fixes for example programs in Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd

2005-04-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: Hi, On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: Hi Andrew, I'm sending this to you directly since Eberhard Moenkeberg already indicated to me that he approves of the patch. Yes OK (I didn't say it yet, did I?), but I guess it is only

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: Also note that the above algorithm really works for _any_ two commit points (apart for the two first steps, which are obviously all about finding the parent tree when you want to diff against a predecessor). Btw, if you want to try this, you

Re: PCI-Express not working/unuseable on Intel 925XE Chipset since 2.6.12-rc1[mm1-4]

2005-04-08 Thread Jacek Luczak
Bjorn Helgaas wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 21:23 +0200, Jacek Luczak wrote: Michael Thonke napisa(a): Hello Jacek, I finially got it working :-) my PCI-Express devices working now... I grabbed the last bk-snapshot from kernel.org 2.6.12-rc1-bk3 and et volia everything except the Marvell Yokon

Re: A way to smoothly overgive graphics control to an other process/program

2005-04-08 Thread Dennis Heuer
Is this technically feasible? It's technically pointless. Take a look at bootsplash, though. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bootsplash does exactly what I was complaining about. It controls only some part of the process of *booting* into the desktop without smooth transition (though it's

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Tupshin Harper wrote: A1 - A2 - A3 - B1 - B2 This results in a simpler repository, which is more scalable and which is easier for users to work with (e.g. binary bug search). The disadvantage would be it will cause more minor conflicts, when changes are

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-08, at 18:15, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: SQL Databases like SQLite aren't slow. But maybe a Berkeley Database v.4 is a better solution. Yes it sucks less for this purpose. See subversion as reference. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-07, at 09:44, Jan Hudec wrote: I have looked at most systems currently available. I would suggest following for closer look on: 1) GNU Arch/Bazaar. They use the same archive format, simple, have the concepts right. It may need some scripts or add ons. When Bazaar-NG is ready, it

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-06, at 23:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: PS. Don't bother telling me about subversion. If you must, start reading up on monotone. That seems to be the most viable alternative, but don't pester the developers so much that they don't get any work done. They are

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-08, at 19:14, Linus Torvalds wrote: You do that with an sql database, and I'll be impressed. It's possible. But what will impress you are either the price tag the DB comes with or the hardware it runs on :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

const qualifiers on function returns type

2005-04-08 Thread Benoit Boissinot
Hi, there are some function who are declared this way: include/linux/cpuset.h:21 extern const cpumask_t cpuset_cpus_allowed(const struct task_struct *p); I was wondering what means const for a function returns type. KR doesn't say anything about this and gcc-4 warns (warning: type qualifiers

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-08, at 20:14, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Ok, but if you want to search for information in such big text files it slow, because you do linear search No I don't. I don't search for _anything_. I have my own content-addressable filesystem, and

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 03:00:44AM +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote: Yes it sucks less for this purpose. See subversion as reference. Whatever solution people come up with, ideally it should be tolerant to minor amounts of corruption (so I can recover the rest of my data if need be) and it should

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-08, at 20:28, Jon Smirl wrote: On Apr 8, 2005 2:14 PM, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you replicate your database incrementally? I've given you enough clues to do it for git in probably five lines of perl. Efficient database replication is achieved by copying the

[PATCH] sound/oss/emu10k1: fix up warning: ignoring return value of `__copy_to_user'

2005-04-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
Here's an attempts at fixing these warnings sound/oss/emu10k1/cardwi.c:310: warning: ignoring return value of `__copy_to_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result sound/oss/emu10k1/cardwi.c:319: warning: ignoring return value of `__copy_to_user', declared with attribute

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Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-09, at 03:09, Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 03:00:44AM +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote: Yes it sucks less for this purpose. See subversion as reference. Whatever solution people come up with, ideally it should be tolerant to minor amounts of corruption (so I can recover the

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Tupshin Harper
Roman Zippel wrote: Please show me how you would do a binary search with arch. I don't really like the arch model, it's far too restrictive and it's jumping through hoops to get to an acceptable speed. What I expect from a SCM is that it maintains both a version index of the directory structure

Re: [PATCH] mtime attribute is not being updated on client

2005-04-08 Thread Linda Dunaphant
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:54, Linda Dunaphant wrote: Do you think it would be better for nfs_refresh_inode() to check the mtime, perform the mtime update if needed, and not set the NFS_INO_INVALID_ATTR flag if the data_unstable flag is set? This is how nfs_update_inode() handles its mtime check.

[PATCH] make mempool_destroy resilient against NULL pointers.

2005-04-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
General rule (as I understand it) is that functions that free resources should handle being passed NULL pointers - mempool_destroy() will currently explode if passed a NULL pointer, the patch below makes it safe to pass it NULL. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- mempool.c |

Re: [PATCH] make mempool_destroy resilient against NULL pointers.

2005-04-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: General rule (as I understand it) is that functions that free resources should handle being passed NULL pointers - mempool_destroy() will currently explode if passed a NULL pointer, the patch below makes it safe to pass it NULL. The best response to

Re: [PATCH] make mempool_destroy resilient against NULL pointers.

2005-04-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: General rule (as I understand it) is that functions that free resources should handle being passed NULL pointers - mempool_destroy() will currently explode if passed a NULL pointer, the patch below makes

Re: [PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2

2005-04-08 Thread Herbert Xu
Magnus Damm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Say a kernel shipped with your favourite distribution crashes your machine during boot-up - wouldn't it be nice to be able to just disable the problematic module from the kernel command line instead of Perhaps your favourite distribution could build that

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 01:28:47AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm2/ Still doesn't build for me with my usual config (available upon request) unless I enable

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Marcin Dalecki wrote: On 2005-04-08, at 20:28, Jon Smirl wrote: On Apr 8, 2005 2:14 PM, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you replicate your database incrementally? I've given you enough clues to do it for git in probably five lines of perl. Efficient

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 01:28:47AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm2/ Still doesn't build for me with my usual

Re: IDE CMD 64x PCI driver (BUG REPORT; CMD 648 DMA INITIALIZATION)

2005-04-08 Thread Rob Gubler
Quick follow up: I decided to disable the DMA controller as a near term solution. This works but it is not optimal for obvious reasons. I believe that the chipset initialization for utilizing the DMA controller is incorrectly setup, for the particular model I am using (CMD 648). I don't know

Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

2005-04-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Jörn Engel wrote: On Tue, 5 April 2005 22:01:49 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Roland Dreier wrote: or simply if (!(ptr = kcalloc(n, size, ...))) goto out; and save an additional line of screen realestate

Re: no need to check for NULL before calling kfree() -fs/ext2/

2005-04-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Paul Jackson wrote: Pekka wrote: (4) The cleanups Jesper and others are doing are to remove the _redundant_ NULL checks (i.e. it is now checked twice). Even such obvious changes as removing redundant checks

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:12:49PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: really designed for something like a offline http grabber, in that you can just grab files purely by filename (and verify that you got them right by running sha1sum on the resulting local copy). So think wget. I'm not entirely

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:12:49PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: really designed for something like a offline http grabber, in that you can just grab files purely by filename (and verify that you got them right by running sha1sum on the resulting local

Re: const qualifiers on function returns type

2005-04-08 Thread Bodo Eggert
Benoit Boissinot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: extern const cpumask_t cpuset_cpus_allowed(const struct task_struct *p); I was wondering what means const for a function returns type. KR doesn't say anything about this and gcc-4 warns (warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type) It

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:38:30PM -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote: For the immediate future, all we need is something than can _losslessly_ capture the new metadata that's being generated. That buys time to bring one of the promising open source candidates up to full speed. Agreed. - To

Re: Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Petr Baudis
Hello, Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:50:21PM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a partial solution. It does depend on a modified version of cat-file that behaves like cat. I found

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Brian Gerst
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:12:49PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: really designed for something like a offline http grabber, in that you can just grab files purely by filename (and verify that you got them right by running sha1sum on the resulting local copy). So think

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:08:58PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: It's my understanding that the files don't change. Only new ones are created for each revision. I said diff between the trees, not diff between files ;). When you fetch the new changes with rsync, it'll compress better and in turn

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc1-mm4] fork_connector: add a fork connector

2005-04-08 Thread Jay Lan
With the patch you provide to me, i did not see the bugcheck at cn_queue_wrapper() at the console. Unmatched sequence number messages still happened. We expect to lose packets under system stressed situation, but i still observed duplicate messages, which concerned me. Unmatched seq. Rcvd=79477,

Re: PCI-Express not working/unuseable on Intel 925XE Chipset since 2.6.12-rc1[mm1-4]

2005-04-08 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
Version from syskonnect site require only changing usage of pci_dev-slot_name to pci_name(pci_dev) in skge.c and skethtool.c. After that everything should work fine. So I think there is no need to post my path here but if you really whant I may do this. Whole path agains 2.6.12-rc2 take about

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Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Walter Landry
Linus Torvalds wrote: Which is why I'd love to hear from people who have actually used various SCM's with the kernel. There's bound to be people who have already tried. At the end of my Codecon talk, there is a performance comparison of a number of different distributed SCM's with the kernel.

Re: 'BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled' when umounting NFS volume

2005-04-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I submitted a fix for this a while ago, I think .. interruptible_sleep_on()'s are broken .. sleep_on() is a fundamentally broken interface, it only works on UP - but there it _does_ rely on the behavior your patch removes. (i.e. disabled interrupts

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easy softball jiffies quest(ion)

2005-04-08 Thread philip dahlquist
hi, i'm on a quest to get access to jiffies in user space so i can write a simple stepper motor driver program. i co-opted the #includes list from alessandro rubini's jit.c file from linux device drivers to write jfi.c. this is it:

Re: [patch] sched: unlocked context-switches

2005-04-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Luck, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tested on x86, and all other arches should work as well, but if an architecture has irqs-off assumptions in its switch_to() logic it might break. (I havent found any but there may such assumptions.) The ia64_switch_to() code includes a section that

HELP:porting linux PXA audio driver to RTLinux(RTLinux core driver)

2005-04-08 Thread nobin matthew
Dear Friends, I am trying to port Linux PXA audio driver to RTLinux. I am using pxa-ac7.c and pxa-audio.c and eliminated sound_core.c, and i will register two device /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp to RTLinux kernel. The real need is, i wants to generate a sin wave using audio

Re: HELP:porting linux PXA audio driver to RTLinux(RTLinux core driver)

2005-04-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 21:03 -0700, nobin matthew wrote: Dear Friends, I am trying to port Linux PXA audio driver to RTLinux. I am using pxa-ac7.c and pxa-audio.c and eliminated sound_core.c, and i will register two device /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp to RTLinux kernel.

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: I'm not entirely convinced wget is going to be an efficient way to synchronize and fetch your tree I don't think it's efficient per se, but I think it's important that people can just pass the files along. Ie it's a huge benefit if any everyday

Re: easy softball jiffies quest(ion)

2005-04-08 Thread Vadim Lobanov
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, philip dahlquist wrote: hi, Hello, i'm on a quest to get access to jiffies in user space so i can write a simple stepper motor driver program. i co-opted the #includes list from alessandro rubini's jit.c file from linux device drivers to write jfi.c. Now, I might be

where the agpcard driver creats its device

2005-04-08 Thread karthik
Hi, Can anybody tell me where the agpdrivers for the corresponding cards creats its device (ie like hard disks and floppy disks devices r there is /dev likewise) in 2.6 kernel. also where the framebuffer device located in 2.6 kernels, also can we opne it and send ioctls to read or

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