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Re: Digi Neo 8: linux-2.6.12_r2 jsm driver

2005-04-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:27:44PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote: > As an outside observer, I think he's given you plenty of reason to not > include this "hack". You, however, appear to only want to make a mess. Why do you consider it a mess, and what reason did you see? The jsm driver is an effort wh

Re: Digi Neo 8: linux-2.6.12_r2 jsm driver

2005-04-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> I think you should supply a patch that makes the in-kernel driver print a > short notice about your other driver. E.g. > > The foo driver is a stripped-down version of the bar driver. To get the > additional configuration and diagnosis infrastructure, see the > instructions on url. > N

Re: [patch 006/198] arm: add comment about max_low_pfn/max_pfn

2005-04-13 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:10:35AM +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > I told rmk about this long time ago. The kernel is a mess of DMA masks and maximum PFNs which all assume that memory always starts at zero, which I've mentioned before as well. I might see about fixing this up properly when it cau

Re: [patch] new fifo I/O elevator that really does nothing at all

2005-04-13 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Apr 12 2005, Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > Chen, Kenneth W wrote on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 5:13 PM > > Jens Axboe wrote on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 7:54 AM > > > On Tue, Mar 29 2005, Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > > > > Jens Axboe wrote on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:04 PM > > > > > No such promise was

Re: [PATCH 0/5] I8K driver facelift

2005-04-13 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 01:33:31AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Thursday 24 March 2005 02:24, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:16:24AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:38:50 MST, Frank Sorenson said: > > > > Okay, I replaced the sysfs_ops with ops of m

Re: insmod segfault in pci_find_subsys()

2005-04-13 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:15:37PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > >On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:12:05AM +0100, Toralf Lund wrote: > > > > > >>Am I seeing an issue with the PCI functions here, or is it just that I > >>fail to spot an obvious mistake in the module itself? > >> > >

TESTING: new git commits mail

2005-04-13 Thread David Woodhouse
I've set up a script to replace the old one which mailed commits to the bk-commits-head mailing list. It's fed from Linus' "kernel-test.git" repository, which isn't necessarily going to end up going into the real 2.6.12 release -- but in the absence of other information or indeed any tree which def

Re: [PATCH 6/6]suspend/resume SMP support

2005-04-13 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > Using CPU hotplug to support suspend/resume SMP. Both S3 and S4 use > > > disable/enable_nonboot_cpus API. The S4 part is based on Pavel's > > > original S4 SMP patch. > > > > I tested it on 2x PII(?) 550MHz system. Suspend went ok, resume loaded > > image from disk, but then I got > >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:07:36PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > I'd suggest making it big-endian to make sure the LE weenies don't > forget to byteswap properly. That's not a bad argument actually - especially as networking uses BE. (and git is about networking, right?) 8) -- Russell King Li

Re: [PATCH] Fix reproducible SMP crash in security/keys/key.c

2005-04-13 Thread Alexander Nyberg
tis 2005-04-12 klockan 21:58 +0300 skrev Jani Jaakkola: > SMP race handling is broken in key_user_lookup() in security/keys/key.c > (if CONFIG_KEYS is set to 'y'). This came up on our Samba servers, but is > not restricted to samba, though samba is probably the only software which > is likely to tr

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:47:05AM CEST, I got a letter where Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:07:36PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > I'd suggest making it [index] big-endian to make sure the LE weenies don't > > forget to byteswap properl

Re: [PATCH] Fix reproducible SMP crash in security/keys/key.c

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Jani Jaakkola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SMP race handling is broken in key_user_lookup() in security/keys/key.c This was fixed post-2.6.11. Can you confirm that 2.6.12-rc2 works OK? This is the patch we used. It should go into -stable if it's not already there. From: Alexander Nyberg <[E

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Petr Baudis wrote: Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:47:05AM CEST, I got a letter where Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:07:36PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: I'd suggest making it [index] big-endian to make sure the LE weenies don't forget to byteswa

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 02:06 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > However, then I would also like to suggest replacing "unsigned int" > and "unsigned short" with uint32_t and uint16_t, even though they're > consistent on all *current* Linux platforms. Agreed. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: bkbits.net is down

2005-04-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Toon van der Pas wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 05:19:34PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > > > On 2005-04-12, at 04:17, Larry McVoy wrote whatever... > > > Excuse me, but: who gives a damn shit? > > > > Lots of people do; those who

Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

2005-04-13 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > There are uses for both. For example today I was updating the tar ball > > which is used to create the var file system for a new chroot. I certainly > > want to see corretly setup owner/permissions when I look into that tar > > ball using a FUSE fs... > > If I'm updating a var filesystem

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

2005-04-13 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, David Schwartz wrote: > > > > The EULA is irrelevant in germany and in many parts of the USA. > > > > Really? I was under the impression EULA's were routinely > > > upheld in the USA. > > > If you have any references for that, I'd love to hear them. > > > http://www.freibr

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:59 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > Theoretically, you are never supposed to share your index if you work > in fully git environment. Maybe -- if we are prepared to propagate the BK myth that network bandwidth and disk space are free. Meanwhile, in the real world, it'd be re

EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for __symbol_get replacing EXPORT_SYMBOL for deprecated inter_module_get

2005-04-13 Thread Yuri Vilmanis
I believe that, in general, new functions which replace deprecated functions which were exported as EXPORT_SYMBOL, should also be exported as EXPORT_SYMBOL, not as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. The reason I say this is because deprecation of old functions breaks old modules and drivers that use them, and

Re: Re: more git updates..

2005-04-13 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 04:45:07PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > At the rate of 9M for every 198 changeset checkins, that means I'll have > > to download 2.7G _uncompressible_ (i.e. already compressed with a bad > > per-file ratio due the too-small

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:57:58PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > here goes git-pasky-0.3, my set of patches and scripts upon > Linus' git, aimed at human usability and to an extent a SCM-like usage. I tried this today, applied my patch for BE<->LE conversions and glibc-2.2 compatibility (attached,

Re: [PATCH] Fix reproducible SMP crash in security/keys/key.c

2005-04-13 Thread David Howells
Jani Jaakkola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SMP race handling is broken in key_user_lookup() in security/keys/key.c > (if CONFIG_KEYS is set to 'y'). A patch very much like the one you proposed is already resident in the latest -rc kernels. Thanks anyway:-) David - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:35:21AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:57:58PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > > here goes git-pasky-0.3, my set of patches and scripts upon > > Linus' git, aimed at human usability and to an extent a SCM-like usage. > > I tried this today, applied

Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:25:04AM CEST, I got a letter where David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:59 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > > Theoretically, you are never supposed to share your index if you work > > in fully git environment. > > Maybe -

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-13 Thread Helge Hafting
John M Collins wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 14:08 -0700, Chris Wright wrote: * John M Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks to everyone for the pointers on this one I've rebuilt the kernels and we'll see what happens. BTW, I'd recommend updating to 2.6.11.7 so that you're protect

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:35:21AM CEST, I got a letter where Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:57:58PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > > here goes git-pasky-0.3, my set of patches and scripts upon > > Linus' git, aimed at human usability and to

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:38:52AM CEST, I got a letter where Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:35:21AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:57:58PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > here goes git-pasky-0.3, my set of patc

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for __symbol_get replacing EXPORT_SYMBOL for deprecated inter_module_get

2005-04-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:55 +0930, Yuri Vilmanis wrote: > I believe that, in general, new functions which replace deprecated functions > which were exported as EXPORT_SYMBOL, should also be exported as > EXPORT_SYMBOL, not as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. The reason I say this is because > deprecation of o

Re: Disc driver is module, software suspend fails

2005-04-13 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! On Ne 10-04-05 16:14:52, Jim Carter wrote: > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > > You do not want to mount journaling filesystems; they tend to write to > > disks even during read-only mounts... But doing it from initrd should > > be okay. ext2 and init=/bin/bash should do the trick,

NULL pointe rin reiserfs

2005-04-13 Thread Alexander Gran
Hi, after resizing a reiserfs partition, the next cvs process produced: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address printing eip: c0192701 *pde = Oops: [#1] PREEMPT Modules linked in: usbserial md5 ipv6 sk98lin CPU:0 EIP:0060:[]Not tainte

Re: Re: more git updates..

2005-04-13 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:30:52AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > And my entire 2.6.12-rc2 BK tree, unchecked out, is about 220MB, which > is more dense than CVS. Yep, this is why I mentioned SCCS format too, I didn't know it was even smaller, but I expected a similar density from SCCS. > Note: I'm

Re: [patch 6/9] blk: unplug later

2005-04-13 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Apr 13 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > >Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>get_request_wait needn't unplug the device immediately. > > > > > >Probably. But what if the get_request(q, rw, GFP_NOIO); did > >some sleeping? > > > > It can't sleep unless it return

Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 11:42 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > It's fine to share the objects database. If you want to share the > directory cache, you are doing something wrong, though. What do you > need it for? I want to _not_ care which machine I happen to be on when I use git repositories which live

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:46:19AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > I'll bet at the top of this you have a mktemp error. Indeed, thanks. -- Russell King Linux kernel2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: Why system call need to copy the date from the userspace before using it

2005-04-13 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2005-04-13 12:21:41 +0800, Tomko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > While i am reading the source code of the linux system call , i find > that the system call need to call copy_from_user() to copy the data from > user space to kernel space before using it . Why n

Re: ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies

2005-04-13 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 00:27, Mingming Cao wrote: > > I wonder if there's not a simple solution for this --- mark the window > > as "provisional", and if any other task tries to allocate in the space > > immediately following such a window, it needs to block until that window > > is released.

Re: [2.4] "Fix" introduced in 2.4.27pre2 for bluetooth hci_usb race causes kernel hang

2005-04-13 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 09 April, 2005 - Marcel Holtmann sent me these 1,6K bytes: > Hi Tomas, > > > I have noticed a problem with a race condition fix introduced in > > 2.4.27-pre2 that causes the kernel to hang when disconnecting a > > Bluetooth USB dongle or doing 'hciconfig hci0 down'. No message is > > printed,

Re: [2.6 patch] sound/oss/rme96xx.c: fix two check after use

2005-04-13 Thread Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 04:17:42AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> This patch fixes two check after use found by the Coverity checker. > > Bullshit. ->private_data is set by rme96xx_open() to guaranteed non-NULL > and never changed elsewhere. Same comment about

mmap + dma_alloc_coherent

2005-04-13 Thread Rolf Offermanns
Hi, I would like to mmap a kernel buffer, allocated with pci_alloc_consistent() for DMA, to userspace and came up with the following. Since there seem to be some (unresolved) issues (see below) with this and I would like to do the RightThing(TM), I would appreciate your comments about my stuff. A

Re: Why system call need to copy the date from the userspace before using it

2005-04-13 Thread Tomko
hi , Thank you for your reply, can i ask some more question? Inside the system call , the kernel often copy the data by calling copy_from_user() rather than just using strcpy(), is it because the memory mapping in kenel space is different from user space? for example , now user program want to

[OT] Re[2]: bkbits.net is down

2005-04-13 Thread Maciej Soltysiak
Hi Geert, you wrote on 13 Apr 2005: > I don't think so: both `c' and `t' are (different) ASCII-transcripts of the > actual non-ASCII character that should have been there. Yes, UTF-8 to US-ASCII > is lossy and imprecise ;-) There is now UTF there :-) Both Marcin and Martin are the same name, the

Re: bkbits.net is down

2005-04-13 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Geert. >>I mean: who makes a spelling error in his own first name? ;-) > > I don't think so: both `c' and `t' are (different) ASCII-transcripts of the > actual non-ASCII character that should have been there. Yes, UTF-8 to US-ASCII > is lossy and

Re: Re: more git updates..

2005-04-13 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 06:10:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Go wild. I did mine in six days, and you've been whining about other > peoples SCM's for three years. Even if I spend 6 days doing git, you'd never have thrown away BK in exchange for git. > In other words - go and _do_ something

Re: insmod segfault in pci_find_subsys()

2005-04-13 Thread Toralf Lund
Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:15:37PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:12:05AM +0100, Toralf Lund wrote: Am I seeing an issue with the PCI functions here, or is it just that I fail to spot an obvious mistake in the module itself?

[PATCH] Possible fix for git

2005-04-13 Thread Peter Hagervall
I noticed earlier today that I ran out of file descriptors when doing a 'git commit'. As far as I can see the following patch ought to take care of the problem. Signed-off-by: Peter Hagervall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- read-cache.c +++ read-cache.c2005-04-13 12:51:52.0 +0200 @@

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Petr Baudis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh, and the other thing is: > > > > $ git pull > > > > GNU Interactive Tools 4.3.20 (armv4l-rmk-linux-gnu), 20:02:38 Mar 7 2001 > > GIT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the > > terms of the GNU General Public License

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 4/4

2005-04-13 Thread Ladislav Michl
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 07:10:55PM +0100, James Chapman wrote: [snip] > It is used by the Radstone ppc7d platform, arch/ppc/radstone_ppc7d.c > but wasn't added until very recently (2.6.12-rc2 I think). > > To be honest, I meant to remove the 'id' thing before submitting the > driver. There's no ne

Re: Why system call need to copy the date from the userspace before using it

2005-04-13 Thread Catalin Marinas
Tomko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Inside the system call , the kernel often copy the data by calling > copy_from_user() rather than just using strcpy(), is it because the > memory mapping in kenel space is different from user space? No, it is because this function checks whether the access to the

Re: insmod segfault in pci_find_subsys()

2005-04-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> Yes. You are right. I actually mentioned this on a different thread: I > eventually found out that the kernel was compiled with -mregparam=3, and > the module was not. This option seems to have been added to the default > config and/or Red Hat's build setup sometime before the current kernel

Re: mmap + dma_alloc_coherent

2005-04-13 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 12:43:47PM +0200, Rolf Offermanns wrote: > I would like to mmap a kernel buffer, allocated with pci_alloc_consistent() > for DMA, to userspace and came up with the following. Since there seem to be > some (unresolved) issues (see below) with this and I would like to do the >

[PATCH] ppc64: improve g5 sound headphone mute

2005-04-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hi ! This patch fixes a couple more issues with the management of the GPIOs dealing with headphone and line out mute on the G5. It should fix the remaining problems of people not getting any sound out of the headphone jack. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-w

Re: [PATCH] create a kstrdup library function

2005-04-13 Thread Paulo Marques
Paulo Marques wrote: Hi, This patch creates a new kstrdup library function and changes the "local" implementations in several places to use this function. Arkadiusz Miskiewicz reported that this breaks compilation under PPC. Apparently, PPC builds a bootloader that links against lib.a but doesn't

Re: 2.6.11 acpi battery state readout as source of keyboard/touchpad troubles

2005-04-13 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > In traceing the source of my sporadic synaptics touchpad troubles > > psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1 > psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1 > psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1 > psmouse.c: TouchPad

Re: Why system call need to copy the date from the userspace before using it

2005-04-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 12:21 +0800, Tomko wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to linux , hope someone can help me. > While i am reading the source code of the linux system call , i find > that the system call need to call copy_from_user() to copy the data from > user space to kernel space before using

Re: insmod segfault in pci_find_subsys()

2005-04-13 Thread Toralf Lund
Arjan van de Ven wrote: Yes. You are right. I actually mentioned this on a different thread: I eventually found out that the kernel was compiled with -mregparam=3, and the module was not. This option seems to have been added to the default config and/or Red Hat's build setup sometime before the

Re: mmap + dma_alloc_coherent

2005-04-13 Thread Rolf Offermanns
On Wednesday 13 April 2005 13:19, Russell King wrote: > This has come up before. ARM implements dma_mmap_*() to allow this > to happen, but it never got propagated to the other architectures. I know, this is why I referenced the other LKML threads. What keeps these functions from being propagated

Re: Why system call need to copy the date from the userspace before using it

2005-04-13 Thread Hacksaw
>>Why not use it directly >Some of these reasons are: It seems like you gave reason why userland pointers shouldn't be trusted, not why userland data should be copied into kernel land. All the problems you mentioned would have to be solved by the kernel regardless of copying the data around. U

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-13 Thread Herbert Xu
Andreas Steinmetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here comes the next incarnation, this time against 2.6.12rc2. > Unfortunately only compile tested as 2.6.12rc2 happily oopses away > (vanilla from kernel.org, oops already sent to lkml). > > Please let me know if you want any further changes. What

Re: Why system call need to copy the date from the userspace before using it

2005-04-13 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Hacksaw wrote: Why not use it directly Some of these reasons are: It seems like you gave reason why userland pointers shouldn't be trusted, not why userland data should be copied into kernel land. All the problems you mentioned would have to be solved by the kernel regardless

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mercredi 13 avril 2005 Ã 10:25 +0100, David Woodhouse a Ãcrit : > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:59 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > > Theoretically, you are never supposed to share your index if you work > > in fully git environment. > > Maybe -- if we are prepared to propagate the BK myth that network

Re: Garbage on serial console after serial driver loads

2005-04-13 Thread Paul Slootman
Phil Oester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 03:10:05PM +, Russell King wrote: >> Doesn't matter. The problem is that dwmw2's NS16550A patch (from ages >> ago) changes the prescaler setting for this device so we can use the >> higher speed baud rates. This means any progra

Kdump Testing

2005-04-13 Thread Nagesh Sharyathi
Hi, I have completed sanity test of kdump and here is the result for that, But it is still needs to be tested on real testing environment (Under File System stress, LTP etc) Software: - 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 - kexec-tools-1.101 - Five kdump user space patches [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linu

Re: 2.6.11 acpi battery state readout as source of keyboard/touchpad troubles

2005-04-13 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Pavel Machek wrote: > CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG enabled by chance? > Pavel # CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is not set -- Andreas Steinmetz SPAMmers use [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

2005-04-13 Thread Jan Hudec
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 21:08:25 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > There was a thread a few months ago where file-as-directory was > > discussed extensively, after Namesys implemented it. That's where the > > conversation on detachable mount points originated AFAIR. It will > > probably happen at

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:47:46AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > You're not. Complain to nvidia - using both email and snailmail. > If everybody with such problems did that, chances are they see > the light someday. Oh, and complain to the guy handing out > nvidia cards like confetti, state your p

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-13 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Herbert Xu wrote: > What's wrong with using swap over dmcrypt + initramfs? People have > already used that to do encrypted swsusp. Nothing. The problem is the fact that after resume there is then unencrypted(*) data on disk that should never have been there, e.g. dm-crypt keys, ssh keys, ... This

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:32:59PM +0100, John M Collins wrote: > I'll do that - trouble is round where I am they dish out Nvidia cards > like confetti, I've got them in the machine I use most and another 2 and > you have to do all that gyrating with running the script to FTP down and > build the s

Re: Why not GNU Arch instead of BitKeeper?

2005-04-13 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:36:35PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Asfand Yar Qazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm surprised nobody considered GNU Arch > > (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/) to replace BitKeeper - it was > > probably started in direct response to the Linux Kernel using a >

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-13 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2005-04-13T08:59:21, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is becoming harder and harder to find supported cards it seems. > Finding a card with decent 2D drivers for X can still be done, but 3D is > just not really an option it seems. Even 2D seems to be a problem on > many cards i

Re: read failed EINVAL with O_DIRECT flag

2005-04-13 Thread Yves Crespin
>| How can I obtains an buffer alignement from a "user program" ? > >I actually left that as an exercise (after I did it at home >last night). Did you read the hint (below)? Well ... either with malloc() and alignement or posix_memalign(), read() still failed! My read buffer is in user space, so i

Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

2005-04-13 Thread Jan Hudec
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:14:10 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > There are uses for both. For example today I was updating the tar ball > > > which is used to create the var file system for a new chroot. I > > > certainly > > > want to see corretly setup owner/permissions when I look into t

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-13 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Here comes the next incarnation, this time against 2.6.12rc2. > Unfortunately only compile tested as 2.6.12rc2 happily oopses away > (vanilla from kernel.org, oops already sent to lkml). > > Please let me know if you want any further changes. Applied (it is *not* going to make it into 2.6.

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:06:46PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2005-04-13T08:59:21, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It is becoming harder and harder to find supported cards it seems. > > Finding a card with decent 2D drivers for X can still be done, but 3D is > > just n

Re: insmod segfault in pci_find_subsys()

2005-04-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 01:49:10PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: > > > > > Yes. As I've (also) already said elsewhere, I knew that, really. The > current build setup fails to do this partly for historical reasons, > partly because the driver also supports different OSes. (And is still > expected to

[SCM saga] An alternative to git

2005-04-13 Thread Eli
[I sent this from my gmail account last night, but it did not appear to make it to the list, so I'm re-sending. Sorry if you get this twice.] Linus, Background: --- The SCM problem is something I've been toying with for a while now on my own because I wanted a distributed SCM tool, but

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for __symbol_get replacing EXPORT_SYMBOL for deprecated inter_module_get

2005-04-13 Thread Dave Airlie
> The case in point for me is ATI's binary openGL accelerated drivers (fglrx) - > these used inter_module_get() to communicate with the agp gart module, for > obvious reasons - this AGP communication is essential to the functionality of > the driver. No, I don't like ATI only having closed-source d

Re: OOM problems with 2.6.11-rc4

2005-04-13 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:12:18AM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Well, that's certainly an interesting question. The filesystem is IBM's > JFS. If you tell me that's part of the problem, I'm not likely to > disagree. 8^) It would be nice if you could reproduce with ext3 or reiserfs (if with ex

Re: NULL pointe rin reiserfs

2005-04-13 Thread Alex Zarochentsev
hello, On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 12:17:15PM +0200, Alexander Gran wrote: > Hi, > > after resizing a reiserfs partition, the next cvs process produced: please provide more information about the system (.config, h/w configuration) and how the fs was resized. were there other error messages in the

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-13 Thread John M Collins
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 09:23 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Graphics card companies don't realize they are hardware companies not > software companies and that it is hardware they make their money from? > Oh and they have too many lawyers? > > It seems to me that 2D graphics are a done deal, wit

[PATCH] add EOWNERDEAD and ENOTRECOVERABLE version 2

2005-04-13 Thread Joe Korty
Add EOWNERDEAD and ENOTRECOVERABLE to all architectures. This is to support the upcoming patches for robust mutexes. We normally don't reserve parts of the name/number space for external patches, but robust mutexes are sufficiently popular and important to justify it in this case. Signed-off-by:

[PATCH 2.6.12-rc2-mm3] serial: update NEC VR4100 series serial support

2005-04-13 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
I had fixed Russell's comment. On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:23:08 +0100 Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:20:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > +static inline const char *siu_type_name(struct uart_port *port) > > +{ > > + switch (port->type) { > > + case POR

RE: Digi Neo 8: linux-2.6.12_r2 jsm driver

2005-04-13 Thread Kilau, Scott
Hi Christoph, everyone, > While Scott wrote most of the original code that ended up in the jsm driver > he's certainly not the maintainer in any sense. Christoph, au contraire. You might want to check with Wendy again, on who the maintainer of the JSM driver code will be. =) At any rate, I have

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-13 Thread Eric Rannaud
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 09:02 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > modprobe nvidia || m-a -t prepare nvidia && m-a -t build nvidia && m-a -t > install nvidia && modprobe nvidia Something along the lines of: modprobe nvidia || sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run -s -f --no-network && modprobe nvidia

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc3 md/ext3 problems (ext3 gurus : please check)

2005-04-13 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 11:01, Hifumi Hisashi wrote: > I have measured the bh refcount before the buffer_uptodate() for a few days. > I found out that the bh refcount sometimes reached to 0 . > So, I think following modifications are effective. > > diff -Nru 2.4.30-rc3/fs/jbd/commit.c 2.4.30-r

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, David Woodhouse wrote: > > I'd even like to see support for using multiple branches checked out of > the same .git/ repository. David, we already can. The objects are _designed_ to be shared. However, that is the ".git/objects" subdirectory. Not the per-view stuff. For ea

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

2005-04-13 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:28:59PM -0700, Sean Kellogg wrote: > Failure to have a click-through license means that there is no acceptance, > which is a fundamental part of contract law. No acceptance, no > contract, no exceptions. False. For example, you can indicate acceptance of the GPL by ex

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:26:28AM -0500, Eric Rannaud wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 09:02 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > modprobe nvidia || m-a -t prepare nvidia && m-a -t build nvidia && m-a -t > > install nvidia && modprobe nvidia > > Something along the lines of: > modprobe nvidia || sh

Re: Re: more git updates..

2005-04-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: > > And my entire 2.6.12-rc2 BK tree, unchecked out, is about 220MB, which > is more dense than CVS. > > BK is also a lot better than CVS. So _your_ point is? Hey, anybody who wants to argue that BK is getter than GIT won't be getting any counter-argu

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-13 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Pavel Machek wrote: > Applied (it is *not* going to make it into 2.6.12, and not sure about > 2.6.13, but it is in my local tree now. You had Kconfig and docs > changes, too, can you retransmit them? > Pavel No changes to config and doc

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 07:38 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > David, we already can. The objects are _designed_ to be shared. > > However, that is the ".git/objects" subdirectory. Not the per-view stuff. > For each _view_ you do need to have view-specific data, and the view index > very much is tha

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > I've already noticed GNU interactive tools (googling for git), but > > it's Linus' choice of name. Alternative suggestions welcomed. What > > about 'gt'? ;-) > > 'gt' or 'gi' both sound fine - 'gi' being a bit faster to type ;-). > (Even 'get

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

2005-04-13 Thread Marco Colombo
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 20:45 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 06:14:17PM +0200, Marco Colombo wrote: > > No one will ever do that. If you are distributing the software I released > > under GPL, be sure I _will_ sue you if you break the licence. What do you > > want from me? A prom

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for __symbol_get replacing EXPORT_SYMBOL for deprecated inter_module_get

2005-04-13 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 06:55:00PM +0930, Yuri Vilmanis wrote: > The case in point for me is ATI's binary openGL accelerated drivers (fglrx) > - > these used inter_module_get() to communicate with the agp gart module, for > obvious reasons - this AGP communication is essential to the functi

Re: [2.6 patch] sound/oss/rme96xx.c: fix two check after use

2005-04-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 12:40:38PM +0200, Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If there are checks, they should be there for a purpose, emphasis here is on _should_ > and any sane reader will asume these checks to be nescensary. That's a bad assumptions when you're deadling with drivers or s

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > In other words, that index file simply _cannot_ be shared. Don't even > > think about it. Only madness will ensue. > > If I use git in my home directory I cannot _help_ but share it. > Sometimes I'm using it from a BE box, sometimes from a LE bo

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2-mm3] serial: update NEC VR4100 series serial support

2005-04-13 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:18:27PM +0900, Yoichi Yuasa wrote: > static struct uart_ops early_uart_ops = { > - .set_termios= early_set_termios, > + .set_termios= siu_set_termios, > }; In this case, you don't need the early_uart_ops here - the standard ones will do just as well. (

Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

2005-04-13 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > Aren't there some assumptions in VFS that currently make this > > impossible? > > I believe it's OK with VFS, but applications would be confused to death. > Well, there really is one issue -- dentries have exactly one parent, so > what do you do when opening a file with hardlinks as a director

adaptec aacraid drivers

2005-04-13 Thread michele armano
Dear kernel mantainer, we experienced problems while booting with the new kernel 2.4.30 correctly downloaded from www.kernel.org. We failed in the attempt of using the built-in driver to gain control of our Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 21610SA adapter. After correct kernel loading, the system halte

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-13 Thread Chris Friesen
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Graphics card companies don't realize they are hardware companies not software companies and that it is hardware they make their money from? Oh and they have too many lawyers? This has been mentioned before, but I'll say it again. Nvidia has intellectual property from *other

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