[RFC] SAS domain layout for Linux sysfs

2005-04-13 Thread Luben Tuikov
Hi, This is an RFC about a SAS domain layout for Linux sysfs. The idea is to represent "what is out there" and "what we see from this host adapter" in sysfs, so that a process can show a picture of the storage network. This gives a close representation of what the SAS spec describes, so that mor

[Crosspost] GNU/Linux userland?

2005-04-13 Thread Oliver Korpilla
Hello! I wondered if there is a project or setup that does allow me to build a GNU/Linux userland including kernel, build environment, basic tools with a single script just as you can in NetBSD (build.sh) or FreeBSD (make world). I do not refer to a step-by-step instruction like "Linux From Scr

Re: NULL pointe rin reiserfs

2005-04-13 Thread Alexander Gran
Am Mittwoch, 13. April 2005 15:54 schrieb Alex Zarochentsev: > please provide more information about the system (.config, h/w > configuration) and how the fs was resized. were there other error messages > in the syslog right before the crash? .config attached. H/W is a scsi-raid5 (GDT) lspci: [E

RE: FUSYN and RT

2005-04-13 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:27 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > There is a great big snag in my assumptions. It's possible for a process > to hold a fusyn lock, then block on an RT lock. In that situation you > could have a high priority user space process be scheduled then block on > the same fusyn lock

Re: [Crosspost] GNU/Linux userland?

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Walrond
On Wednesday 13 April 2005 20:40, Oliver Korpilla wrote: > Hello! > > I wondered if there is a project or setup that does allow me to build a > GNU/Linux userland including kernel, build environment, basic tools with > a single script just as you can in NetBSD (build.sh) or FreeBSD (make > world).

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for __symbol_get replacing EXPORT_SYMBOL for deprecated inter_module_get

2005-04-13 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Dave Jones wrote: 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 communicati

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

2005-04-13 Thread Jamie Lokier
> > > A nice implemention of it in FUSE could push it along a bit :) > > > > 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 pa

Re: GNU/Linux userland?

2005-04-13 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:40:31PM CEST, I got a letter where Oliver Korpilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > Hello! Hello, > I wondered if there is a project or setup that does allow me to build a > GNU/Linux userland including kernel, build environment, basic tools with > a

Adaptec 2010S i2o + x86_64 doesn't work

2005-04-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
I have a supermicro dual xeon em64t system, X6DH8-XG2 motherboard, 4 GB RAM, with an Adaptec zero raid 2010S i2o controller. In 32 bits mode it runs fine, both with the dpt_i2o driver and the generic i2o_block driver using kernel 2.6.11.6. In 64 bits mode however the dpt_i2o driver isn't supported

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for __symbol_get replacing EXPORT_SYMBOL for deprecated inter_module_get

2005-04-13 Thread Sean
On Wed, April 13, 2005 11:57 am, Richard B. Johnson said: > On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > >> 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 commu

[patch] minor syctl fix in vsyscall_init

2005-04-13 Thread Matt Tolentino
Andi, If CONFIG_SYCTL is not enabled then the x86-64 tree fails to build due to use of a symbol that is not compiled in. Don't bother compiling in the sysctl register call if not building with sysctl. matt Signed-off-by: Matt Tolentino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -urNp linux-2.6.12-rc2/arch/

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

2005-04-13 Thread Chris Wright
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 -stabl

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

2005-04-13 Thread Jamie Lokier
Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > 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

Re: [Crosspost] GNU/Linux userland?

2005-04-13 Thread Oliver Korpilla
Andrew Walrond wrote: On Wednesday 13 April 2005 20:40, Oliver Korpilla wrote: Hello! I wondered if there is a project or setup that does allow me to build a GNU/Linux userland including kernel, build environment, basic tools with a single script just as you can in NetBSD (build.sh) or FreeBSD (

2.6.12-rc2*: CD recorder problem

2005-04-13 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On the kernels above and including 2.6.12-rc2 k3b is unable to operate my IDE CD recorder. First time (after a fresh reboot) I start it, it detects the recorder properly, but then it refuses to work (it says the media is unknown). After k3b is restarted, it can't even detect the drive. The p

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Xavier Bestel wrote: 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 ne

Re: [patch 198/198] md: remove a number of misleading calls to MD_BUG

2005-04-13 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 06:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ginormous patch of sudden death and complete destruction. I would like to give you the Longest Patch on LKML Ever Award, for this 198 part monstrosity. -- Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Computer games don't affec

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

2005-04-13 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> Look up the rather large linux-kernel & linux-fsdevel thread "silent > semantic changes with reiser4" and it's followup threads, from last > year. Wow, it's 700+ messages. I got through the first 40, and already feel dizzy :) > It's already been tried. You will also find sensible ideas on wha

Re: [Crosspost] GNU/Linux userland?

2005-04-13 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:40:31PM +0200, Oliver Korpilla wrote: > I wondered if there is a project or setup that does allow me to build a > GNU/Linux userland including kernel, build environment, basic tools with > a single script just as you can in NetBSD (build.sh) or FreeBSD (make > world).

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

2005-04-13 Thread Jamie Lokier
Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Look up the rather large linux-kernel & linux-fsdevel thread "silent > > semantic changes with reiser4" and it's followup threads, from last > > year. > > Wow, it's 700+ messages. I got through the first 40, and already feel > dizzy :) It's easier if you skip the ones b

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

2005-04-13 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > 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

compact flash bug introduce 2.4.21

2005-04-13 Thread Lloyd Carothers
Hi all, A bug was introduced in 2.4.20. I determined this with a Barthomje, pardon my misspelling, is he still on this team, a few months back, I now have the logs of the card being inserted into the same laptop with the 2.4.20 and the 2.4.21. The problem cf cards are SimpleTech 1GB. Used with a

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

2005-04-13 Thread Jamie Lokier
Miklos Szeredi wrote: > I have a little project to imlement a "userloop" filesystem, which > works just like "mount -o loop", but you don't need root privs. This > is really simple to do with FUSE and UML. That would be a nice way to implement those rarely used old filesystems that aren't really

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

2005-04-13 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > I have a little project to imlement a "userloop" filesystem, which > > works just like "mount -o loop", but you don't need root privs. This > > is really simple to do with FUSE and UML. > > That would be a nice way to implement those rarely used old > filesystems that aren't really needed in

RE: FUSYN and RT

2005-04-13 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 08:46, Steven Rostedt wrote: > How hard would it be to use the RT mutex PI for the priority inheritance > for fusyn? I only work with the RT mutex now and haven't looked at the > fusyn. Maybe Ingo can make a separate PI system with its own API that > both the fusyn and RT mu

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

2005-04-13 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 12:40:38PM +0200, Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 se

Re: Adaptec 2010S i2o + x86_64 doesn't work

2005-04-13 Thread Markus Lidel
Hello, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: I have a supermicro dual xeon em64t system, X6DH8-XG2 motherboard, 4 GB RAM, with an Adaptec zero raid 2010S i2o controller. In 32 bits mode it runs fine, both with the dpt_i2o driver and the generic i2o_block driver using kernel 2.6.11.6. In 64 bits mode howeve

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

2005-04-13 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:01:34PM CEST, I got a letter where Daniel Barkalow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > For future reference, git is unhappy if you actually do this, because your > HEAD won't match the (empty) contents of the new directory. The easiest > thing is to cp -r yo

DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-13 Thread aeriksson
All, I've just gotten myself a new DVD burner which triggers some interesting events in the kernel. From the log: hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mercredi 13 avril 2005 à 09:48 -0700, H. Peter Anvin a écrit : > Xavier Bestel wrote: > > On a related note, maybe kernel.org should host .torrent files (and > > serve them) for the kernel git repository. That would ease the pain. > > > > /me inflicts major bodily harm on Xav. > > There is a

git mailing list (Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3)

2005-04-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:01:34PM CEST, I got a letter > where Daniel Barkalow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > > For future reference, git is unhappy if you actually do this, because your > > HEAD won't match the (empty) contents of t

Re: [patch 072/198] x86_64: Use a VMA for the 32bit vsyscall

2005-04-13 Thread Andi Kleen
> > + /* MAYWRITE to allow gdb to COW and set breakpoints */ > > + vma->vm_flags = > > VM_READ|VM_EXEC|VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYEXEC|VM_MAYEXEC|VM_MAYWRITE; > > Any reason for VM_MAYEXEC to be specified twice? did you mean something else? No reason, must have been a typo. Anyways, it is correct, jus

Re: [patch] minor syctl fix in vsyscall_init

2005-04-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:45:18AM -0700, Matt Tolentino wrote: > > Andi, > > If CONFIG_SYCTL is not enabled then the x86-64 tree > fails to build due to use of a symbol that is not > compiled in. Don't bother compiling in the sysctl > register call if not building with sysctl. Thanks. Actua

usblan for 2.6

2005-04-13 Thread Tommy Vercetti
Hello Anyone ported usblan driver for 2.6 ? Is it any compatible with usbnet ? if no, what can I use instead that is available on 2.6. cheers. -- GJ - 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

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hi Ingo. I have some programs that crash in 2.6.12-rc2-mm3. After seeing this: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0504.1/1091.html I tried to revert the sched-unlocked-context-switches.patch and indeed the problem goes away. Attached is the (crappy) test-case. If you can make it to say "

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

2005-04-13 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:01:34PM CEST, I got a letter > where Daniel Barkalow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > > For future reference, git is unhappy if you actually do this, because your > > HEAD won't match the (empty) contents of the

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

2005-04-13 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:40:05AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > The kernel does NOT have to copy data from user-space before > using it. Incorrect. It must, or the kernel code in question is by definition buggy. > In fact, user-mode pointers are valid in kernel-space > when the kernel is

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:14:21PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've just gotten myself a new DVD burner which triggers some > interesting events in the kernel. From the log: > > hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 > hdc:

RE: FUSYN and RT

2005-04-13 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:33 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 08:46, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > How hard would it be to use the RT mutex PI for the priority inheritance > > for fusyn? I only work with the RT mutex now and haven't looked at the > > fusyn. Maybe Ingo can make a sep

Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode

2005-04-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:52:55AM -0400, Ross Biro wrote: > On Apr 10, 2005 9:29 AM, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > The right way to do this would be to have sysfs knobs that allow > > to change these bits, and then let a user space tool change > > it depending on PCI-ID. If t

initrd support in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-13 Thread Nickolay
Hallo Guys! I has initrd, that nice loaded by all 2.4 kernels. But 2.6.9 kernel has some difference in loading initrd(as i discovered). This warning produced by kernel on boot: ...SKIP... Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/ram0 initrd=0x0080,32M ...SKIP... checking if image is

Re: Add pcibus_to_node

2005-04-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:16:17PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Define pcibus_to_node to be able to figure out which NUMA node contains a > given PCI device. This defines pcibus_to_node(bus) in > include/linux/topology.h and adjusts the macros for i386 and x86_64 that > already provided a way

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

2005-04-13 Thread Jamie Lokier
Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Yet, the results from stat() don't distinguish the number spaces, > > and "ls" doesn't map the numbers to names properly in the wrong > > space. > > Well you can use "ls -n". It's up to the tools to present the > information you want in the way you want it. If a tool ca

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 4/4

2005-04-13 Thread James Chapman
Ladislav Michl wrote: 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. Th

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: > I tried this today, applied my patch for BE<->LE conversions and > glibc-2.2 compatibility (attached, still requires cleaning though), > and then tried git pull. Umm, whoops. Here's an updated patch which allows me to work with a BE-

[patch] sched: fix active load balance

2005-04-13 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
Recent changes to active load balance (sched2-fix-smt-scheduling-problems.patch in -mm) is not resulting in any task movement from busiest to target_cpu. Attached patch(ontop of -mm) fixes this issue. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3/kernel/sched.c 2005-04

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-13 Thread aeriksson
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:14:21PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well it does look odd that it loads with one and not the other. Which > kernel is this with? > It's with 2.6.11.7 > Does writing CDs and DVDs actually work using ide-scsi? Does it work > using ide-cd? Dunno yet. What's

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

2005-04-13 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:03:07PM 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: > > I tried this today, applied my patch for BE<->LE conversions and > > glibc-2.2 compatibility (attached, stil

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

2005-04-13 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > > Yet, the results from stat() don't distinguish the number spaces, > > > and "ls" doesn't map the numbers to names properly in the wrong > > > space. > > > > Well you can use "ls -n". It's up to the tools to present the > > information you want in the way you want it. If a tool can't do tha

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, Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:40:05AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: The kernel does NOT have to copy data from user-space before using it. Incorrect. It must, or the kernel code in question is by definition buggy. What? Explain why a memory-mapped buffer c

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

2005-04-13 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:13:39PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:03:07PM 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: > > > I tried this today, applied my patch fo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

2005-04-13 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Russell King wrote: Nothing much - I don't particularly care about them. I thought someone might object to using htonl/ntohl directly. Why would they? -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [Bug] invalid mac address after rebooting (2.6.12-rc2-mm2)

2005-04-13 Thread Daniel Ritz
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 11:09, Andrew Morton wrote: > Peter Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > > >

Re: read failed EINVAL with O_DIRECT flag

2005-04-13 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:15:47 +0200 Yves Crespin wrote: | | >| 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

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

2005-04-13 Thread Roland Dreier
OK, I'm by no means an expert on this, but Libor and I looked at rmap.c a little more, and there is code: if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_RESERVED)) || ptep_clear_flush_young(vma, address, pte)) { ret = SWAP_FAIL; goto out_unmap;

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

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, I'm by no means an expert on this, but Libor and I looked at > rmap.c a little more, and there is code: > > if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_RESERVED)) || > ptep_clear_flush_young(vma, address, pte)) { > r

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:07:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's with 2.6.11.7 Probably close to the 2.6.11 kernel I run on Debian-pure64/sarge. > Dunno yet. What's the fastest way to dump a file to a (fs on) a blank > 4.7 GB DVD RW? As I said this is not my home turf so I have to read

Re: pty_chars_in_buffer NULL pointer (kernel oops)

2005-04-13 Thread Jason Baron
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > Alan, Linus, what correction to the which the above thread discusses has > > been deployed? > > This is the hacky "hide the problem" patch that is in my current tree (and > was discussed in

Re: [PATCH] ds1337 4/4

2005-04-13 Thread Ladislav Michl
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:02:53PM +0100, James Chapman wrote: > Ladislav Michl wrote: [snip] > >Patch bellow remove ds1337_do_command function and things needed by it. > >I think device should be identified by bus and address as Jean said. > >Please let me know if that fits your needs. > > I thin

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

2005-04-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 04:53:56PM +0200, Marco Colombo wrote: > > > This is different. They are not giving the source at all. The licence > > > for those object files _has_ to be different. _They_ want it to be > > > different. > > > > Sure, but in this case, the binary firmware blob is also a bi

Re: New SCM and commit list

2005-04-13 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > > I have a feeling that the kernel.org mirror system is just going to > > _love_ us using it to store temporary git trees :) > > I don't

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Stas Sergeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ingo. > > I have some programs that crash > in 2.6.12-rc2-mm3. After seeing this: > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0504.1/1091.html does the patch below fix the problem for you? (already in Andrew's tree, should be in the next -mm p

Re: [patch] sched: fix active load balance

2005-04-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Siddha, Suresh B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - for_each_domain(target_cpu, sd) { > + for_each_domain(target_cpu, sd) > if ((sd->flags & SD_LOAD_BALANCE) && > - cpu_isset(busiest_cpu, sd->span)) { > - sd = tmp; > +

Re: [patch] sched: fix active load balance

2005-04-13 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:08:28PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Siddha, Suresh B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - for_each_domain(target_cpu, sd) { > > + for_each_domain(target_cpu, sd) > > if ((sd->flags & SD_LOAD_BALANCE) && > > - cpu_isset(busiest_cpu, sd

Re: [Crosspost] GNU/Linux userland?

2005-04-13 Thread John Lenz
On 04/13/05 14:40:31, Oliver Korpilla wrote: Hello! I wondered if there is a project or setup that does allow me to build a GNU/Linux userland including kernel, build environment, basic tools with a single script just as you can in NetBSD (build.sh) or FreeBSD (make world). You might also lo

Re: [patch] mspec driver for 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:50:08AM -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote: > +config MSPEC > + tristate "Special Memory support" > + select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR should depend on IA64_GENERIC || IA64_SGI_SN2 because it's using sn2 functions like bte_copy > +#define BTE_ZERO_BLOCK(_maddr, _len) \ > + b

Re: Re: more git updates..

2005-04-13 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 06:10:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > I wasn't suggesting to use CVS. I meant that for a newly developed SCM, > > the CVS/SCCS format as storage may be more appealing than the current > > git format. > > Go wil

Further copy_from_user() discussion.

2005-04-13 Thread Vadim Lobanov
Hi, Interested by the recent discussions concerning the copy_from_user() function, I browsed the 2.6.11.7 kernel source, and came up with a few questions. 1. Is there any particular reason why __copy_from_user_ll() is currently EXPORT_SYMBOL()ed for i386? At least none of the in-tree modules curr

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-13 Thread aeriksson
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:07:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > growisofs -Z /dev/hdc -J -R /path/to/dir/with/less/than/4.5GB/of/files > > That should do it. To do scsi I suspect it would be /dev/sg0 or > /dev/scd0. I haven't actually tried burning in scsi emulation mode with > these driv

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

2005-04-13 Thread Marcel Holtmann
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, the kernel just doesn't respond anymore. > > > > > > Seen

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

2005-04-13 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:59:28PM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > 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

[PATCH] PC300 pci_enable_device fix

2005-04-13 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
Call pci_enable_device() before looking at IRQ and resources. The driver requires this fix or the "pci=routeirq" workaround on 2.6.10 and later kernels. Reported and tested by Artur Lipowski. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = drivers/net/wan/pc300_drv.c 1.24 vs edited =

weird X problem - priority inversion?

2005-04-13 Thread Lee Revell
I am having a problem with the RT preempt kernels where xscreensaver will cause the X server to consume excessive CPU, starving other processes. This should not happen as xscreensaver runs at the highest nice value. It seems that there's some kind of priority inversion happening between the high

Re: [OSS] Add CXT48 to modem black list in ac97

2005-04-13 Thread SuD (Alex)
Herbert Xu wrote: BTW Alex, if you have the time please determine whether ALSA works properly on your machine. Yes, alsa works, it's what i'm using now. About how alsa detects the hardware, i have been reading some sources and didn't get the whole point, but some facts: - In intel8x0.c: In sn

Re: [PATCH] PC300 pci_enable_device fix

2005-04-13 Thread Ashok Raj
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:31:43PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > >Call pci_enable_device() before looking at IRQ and resources. >The driver requires this fix or the "pci=routeirq" workaround >on 2.6.10 and later kernels. the failure cases dont seem to worry about pci_disable_device()

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

2005-04-13 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Herbert Xu wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:59:28PM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > >>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 >

Re: [Bug] invalid mac address after rebooting (2.6.12-rc2-mm2)

2005-04-13 Thread Peter Baumann
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:24:04PM +0200, Daniel Ritz wrote: > On Tuesday 12 April 2005 11:09, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Peter Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:52:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Peter Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH] Maintainers list update: linux-net -> netdev

2005-04-13 Thread George Anzinger
Horms wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:14:56PM -0700, George Anzinger wrote: Horms wrote: Use netdev as the mailing list contact instead of the mostly dead linux-net list. ~ PHRAM MTD DRIVER @@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ POSIX CLOCKS and TIMERS P: George Anzinger M: george@mvista.com -L: lin

Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode

2005-04-13 Thread Ross Biro
On 13 Apr 2005 20:37:25 +0200, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > \> > > You're argument that no one can make sense of such options is totally off > > base. Once you are having a problem, it's pretty easy to see if it's related > > I dont think it is in any way help to put suche highly obscur

Re: [patch] sched: fix active load balance

2005-04-13 Thread Nick Piggin
Siddha, Suresh B wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:08:28PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Siddha, Suresh B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - for_each_domain(target_cpu, sd) { + for_each_domain(target_cpu, sd) if ((sd->flags & SD_LOAD_BALANCE) && - cpu_isse

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

2005-04-13 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:02:48 +0100 Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 cas

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

2005-04-13 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:29:36AM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > > > Why is that? In the case of swap over dmcrypt, swsusp never reads/writes > > the disk directly. All operations are done through dmcrypt. > > > > The user has to enter a password before the system can be resumed. > > Think o

[PATCH][TRIVIAL][DOCUMENTATION] - Version clarification - support status of 3com OfficeConnect card

2005-04-13 Thread Daniel Andersen
Version 2 of the 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 is not supported by the prism54 project. To stop confusion, the kernel documentation should state so as 3com made a good job hiding the version difference. Daniel Andersen -- --- linux/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig.orig2005-04-

Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode

2005-04-13 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:00:06PM -0400, Ross Biro wrote: > > If you take a look at quirks.c and DMI options you will see we have quite > > a lot > > of workarounds for various hardware bug. Just imagine there were > > CONFIG options for all of this. It would be a big mess! > > The confi

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

2005-04-13 Thread Pavel Machek
On Ät 14-04-05 09:10:44, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:29:36AM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > > > > > Why is that? In the case of swap over dmcrypt, swsusp never reads/writes > > > the disk directly. All operations are done through dmcrypt. > > > > > > The user has to enter a

CDR read problems with 2.6.11?

2005-04-13 Thread Bradley Reed
I am running 2.6.11 with -ac4 and realtime-preempt-2.6.11-final-V0.7.40-00 patches. Up to now, no complaints, great job everyone. Today I burnt two data backup CDs onto CD-R (I used k3b if it matters) and the burn went 100% fine. No errors, I can read the disks on other computers or on this one if

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

2005-04-13 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:24:31AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > The ssh keys are *encrypted* in the swap when dmcrypt is used. > > When the swap runs over dmcrypt all writes including those from > > swsusp are encrypted. > > Andreas is right. They are encrypted in swap, but they should not be

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-13 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now if you can assume that blobs never change and are never deleted, > you can simply append them all onto a log, and then index them with a > separate file containing an htree of (sha1, offset, length) or the > like. That mean a problem with rsync, thou

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 4/10] tg3: use TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS instead of multi-way if's

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Replace a number of three-way if statements checking for 5705, 5750, and 5752 to reference the equivalent TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS flag instead. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tg3.c | 16 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) --- bcm

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 9/10] tg3: check TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS flag to set TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS flag

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Use check of TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS in tg3_get_invariants to set TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS flag. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tg3.c |9 - 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- bcm5752-support/drivers/net/tg3.c.orig 2005-04-08 18:13:24.

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 0/10] add bcm5752 support plus some cleanup to tg3

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Add support to tg3 for bcm5752 hardware. Also clean-up a lot of multi-way if statements and replace them with checks of flags representing classes of tg3 hardware. Patches to follow... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PRO

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 2/10] tg3: add bcm5752 to tg3_pci_tbl

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Add hard-coded definition of bcm5752 PCI ID to tg3_pci_tbl. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Next patch will change entry to use pci_ids.h-based definition. drivers/net/tg3.c |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+) --- bcm5752-support/drivers/net/tg3.c.orig 2005-

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 5/10] tg3: define TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS flag

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Define TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS flag and set it in tg3_get_invariants for ASIC_REV_5750 or ASIC_REV_5752. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tg3.c |4 drivers/net/tg3.h |1 + 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+) --- bcm5752-support/drivers/net/tg3.c.orig

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

2005-04-13 Thread Pavel Machek
On Ät 14-04-05 09:39:04, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:24:31AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > The ssh keys are *encrypted* in the swap when dmcrypt is used. > > > When the swap runs over dmcrypt all writes including those from > > > swsusp are encrypted. > > > > Andreas is r

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 10/10] tg3: add support for bcm5752 rev a1

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Replace existing ASIC_REV_5752 definition with ASIC_REV_5752_A0, and add definition for ASIC_REV_5752_A1. Then, add ASIC_REV_5752_A1 to check for setting TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS in tg3_get_invariants. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tg3.c |3 ++- drivers/net/tg

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 3/10] tg3: add bcm5752 entry to pci_ids.h

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Add proper entry for bcm5752 PCI ID to pci_ids.h, and use it in tg3. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- I did this separately in case patches like this (i.e. new PCI IDs) need to come from more "official" sources. drivers/net/tg3.c |2 +- include/linux/pci_ids.h |

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 8/10] tg3: use TG3_FLG2_57{05,50}_PLUS flags in tg3_get_invariants

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Rewrite checks in tg3_get_invariants to use TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS and TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS flags. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tg3.c |7 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- bcm5752-support/drivers/net/tg3.c.orig 2005-04-08 18:1

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 7/10] tg3: more use of TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS flag

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Rewrite of a couple of troublesome multi-way if statements to use TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS flag. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tg3.c | 12 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- bcm5752-support/drivers/net/tg3.c.orig 2005-04-08 1

Re: CDR read problems with 2.6.11?

2005-04-13 Thread Bernd Schubert
[...] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~[1009]# mount /mnt/cdrom > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, >missing codepage or other error >In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try >dmesg | tail or so > [...] > The drive is a NEC DVD+RW ND

[patch 2.6.12-rc2 1/10] tg3: add basic bcm5752 support

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Linville
Track-down all references to ASIC_REV_5750 and mirror them with references to the newly defined ASIC_REV_5752. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tg3.c | 63 -- 1 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 21 deletions(

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