[RFC-2 PATCH 2/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Adds the ability to unclone a vfs tree. A uncloned vfs tree will not be clonnable, and hence cannot be bind/rbind to any other mountpoint. RP fs/namespace.c| 15 ++- include/linux/fs.h|1 + include/linux/mount.h | 15 +++ 3 files changed, 30 insert

[RFC-2 PATCH 0/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Enclosed 8 patches that implement shared subtree functionality as detailed in Al Viro's RFC found at http://lwn.net/Articles/119232/ I have incorporated all the comments received earlier in first round. Thanks to Miklos and Pekka for the valuable comments. Also I have optimized lots of code, esp

[RFC-2 PATCH 7/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
adds support for mount/umount propogation for autofs initiated operations, RP fs/namespace.c| 151 +- fs/pnode.c| 13 ++-- include/linux/pnode.h |3 3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-) Index: 2.6.12.work

Re: Synaptics probe problem on Acer Travelmate 3004WTMi

2005-07-18 Thread Andrey Panin
On 199, 07 18, 2005 at 07:54:16AM +0200, Thomas Sailer wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 20:38 +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > Also try the usual options ("i8042.nomux=1" and "usb-handoff"). One or > > both may make the problem disappear. > > usb-handoff did it, thanks a lot! IIRC there was a pa

[RFC-2 PATCH 8/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
code Optimization for pnode.c fs/pnode.c | 478 - 1 files changed, 224 insertions(+), 254 deletions(-) Index: 2.6.12.work1/fs/pnode.c === --- 2.6.12.work1.orig/fs/pnode.

[RFC-2 PATCH 3/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Adds the ability to bind/rbind a shared/private/slave subtree and set up propogation wherever needed. RP Signed by Ram Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) fs/namespace.c| 559 -- fs/pnode.c| 416 +- in

[RFC-2 PATCH 1/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
This patch adds the shared/private/slave support for VFS trees. Signed by Ram Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) fs/Makefile |2 fs/dcache.c |2 fs/namespace.c| 98 +++ fs/pnode.c| 158 +

[RFC-2 PATCH 4/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Adds ability to move a shared/private/slave/unclone tree to any other shared/private/slave/unclone tree. Also incorporates the same behavior for pivot_root() RP Signed by Ram Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) fs/namespace.c | 150 +++-- 1 files change

Re: PCMCIA_SOCKET unable to apply filter after Ram Upgrade

2005-07-18 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Frederic Gaus wrote: > Hi folks! > > I've recently done a RAM upgrade on my IBM Thinkpad R40 (2722). > > 1. Ram-Chip: pc2100 cl 2.5 512 MB > 2. Ram-Chip: pc2700 cl 2.5 1024 MB > > When booting with only one Chip inside, everything works perfecly. > (Never mind in which slot). But when using both

[RFC-2 PATCH 5/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Adds ability to unmount a shared/slave/unclone/private tree RP Signed by Ram Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) fs/namespace.c| 68 +- fs/pnode.c| 112 ++ include/linux/fs.h|3 + include/linux/pnode.

[RFC-2 PATCH 6/8] shared subtree

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
Adds ability to clone a namespace that has shared/private/slave/unclone subtrees in it. RP Signed by Ram Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) fs/namespace.c |9 + 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+) Index: 2.6.12.work1/fs/namespace.c ===

Re: [-mm patch] EXIT_CONNECTOR and FORK_CONNECTOR must depend on NET

2005-07-18 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 10:48:20PM +0200, Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If you select some variable, you have to ensure that the dependencies of > the select'ed variable are fulfilled. Correct, thank you. I've add Guillaume Thouvenin (author) to Cc: list. > This patch fixes the follow

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Richard J Moore
Tom Zanussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 14/07/2005 16:01:25: > The only things that are atomic are the counts of produced and > consumed buffers and these are only ever updated or read in the slow > buffer-switch path. They're atomic because if they weren't, wouldn't > it be possible for t

Re: MD sequential / parallel resync issue with DM devices

2005-07-18 Thread Michel Bouissou
Le Lundi 18 Juillet 2005 10:37, I wrote (on the evms-devel ML) : > > In kernel 2.4, MD thinks that all DM devices are "on the same physical > disk" (and issues a dummy warning about this), and it resyncs them > sequentially, which may or may not be optimal, but at least doesn't cause > any problem.

Re: 2.6.12-rc2 and as-iosched

2005-07-18 Thread Kenneth Parrish
Randy> Need more info. Greetings. :) CONFIG_HZ_ changes the block device elevator time-out values -- didn't see. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

RE: FC3 module sys_print how...

2005-07-18 Thread Mukund JB.
Dear Richard, I have tried your module to print message to the file in the kernel level. I am able to get it work till the initialization level. Later when I insert the card the system hangs. Please suggest me what could be the problem. Or is there a way to get all my LOG messages perfectly even

Re: 2.6.13.3 flooding my logs

2005-07-18 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2.6.13.2 didn't do this, now I'm getting (from dmesg): > > PROTO=17 127.0.0.1:53 127.0.0.1:56872 L=56 S=0x00 I=40463 F=0x4000 T=64 > ip_local_deliver: bad skb: PRE_ROUTING LOCAL_IN LOCAL_OUT POST_ROUTING > skb: pf=2 (unowned) dev=lo len=56 > PROTO=17 127.

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 (ckrm)

2005-07-18 Thread Hirokazu Takahashi
Hi, > > What, in your opinion, makes it "obviously unmergeable"? Controlling resource assignment, I think that concept is good. But the design is another matter that it seems somewhat overkilled with the current CKRM. > I suspect that the main problem is that this patch is not a mainstream > ker

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-18 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > > That's like scratching your left ear with your right hand -- broadcasting > > that external timer interrupt in the first place is more straightforward. > > If you want to exclude CPUs from the list of receivers, just use the > > logical destination m

shared subtrees implementation writeup

2005-07-18 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Thanks for the writeup, it helps to understand things a bit better. However I still don't understand a few things: > Section 1. mount: > > to begin with we have a the following mount tree > >root > / / \ \ \ >/ t1 t2 \

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS cannot open a root device

2005-07-18 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Sunday 17 July 2005 22:46, Fawad Lateef wrote: > I saw this prob when my boot device/partition in the bootloader config > was wrong or the filesystem of my root partition is not compiled as a > kernel image rather compiled as module, so plz try to solve this prob > by selecting your desired file

Re: [PATCH] signed char fixes for scripts

2005-07-18 Thread Paulo Marques
Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:14:43PM +, J.A. Magallon wrote: On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote: [...] This time I did not break anything... and they shut up gcc4 ;) Thanks. Can you please resend with proper changelog and signed-off-by. Diff should be done on top of latest -l

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-18 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: > Well.. I tried a patch to do the broadcast thing couple of months ago and > failed to convince everyone :(. I must have missed the patch -- but was the change unconditional or affecting only broken systems? And how such systems were determined

Re: Increasing virtual address space of a process, by treating virtual address's as offsets in secondary memory.

2005-07-18 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-07-18 at 10:12 +0530, vamsi krishna wrote: > I was searching a lot about work on this, and found your reply where > you say that we can increase the virtual address space by mmaping and > munmaping programatically ourself. Its something a few giant applications do with data sets and t

Re: 2.6.12 hangs on boot

2005-07-18 Thread Alexander Y. Fomichev
On Saturday 25 June 2005 02:20, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Alexander Y. Fomichev wrote: > > I've been trying to switch from 2.6.12-rc3 to 2.6.12 on Dual EM64T 2.8 > > GHz [ MoBo: Intel E7520, intel 82801 ] > > but kernel hangs on boot right after records: > > > > Booting processor

Re: [PATCH] signed char fixes for scripts

2005-07-18 Thread Paulo Marques
Paulo Marques wrote: Sam Ravnborg wrote: [...] Also this patch seems relative small compared to the others floating around to cure signed warnings in scripts/ Does this really fix all of them or only a subset of the warnings? Well, current -linus already has a patch from me to change the

Re: RT and XFS

2005-07-18 Thread Esben Nielsen
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 12:23 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > PI is always good, cause it allows the tracking of what is high > > > priority , and what is not . > > > > that's just plain wrong. PI might

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1

2005-07-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I'm getting this (on ppc32, though I don't think it matters): > > CC drivers/video/chipsfb.o > drivers/video/chipsfb.c: In function `chipsfb_pci_suspend': > drivers/video/chipsfb.c:465: error: invalid operands to binary == > drivers/video/chipsfb.c:467: error: invalid operands to

Re: [PATCH] Preserve hibenate-system-image on startup

2005-07-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > We are now investigating fast startup/shutdown using > 2.6 kernel PM functions. > > An attached patch enables kernel to preserve system image > on startup, to implement "Snapshot boot"[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Conventionally system image will be broken after startup. > > Snapshot boot use

Re: [RFC][PATCH - 1/12] NTP cleanup: Move NTP code into ntp.c

2005-07-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > This patch moves the generic NTP code from time.c and timer.c into > ntp.c. It makes most of the NTP variables static providing more > understandable interfaces like ntp_synced() and ntp_clear(). > > Since some of the newly made static variables are used in arch generic > code,

Re: [RFD] FAT robustness

2005-07-18 Thread Paulo Marques
Hiroyuki Machida wrote: [...] Q3 : I'm not sure JBD can be used for FAT improvements. Do you have any comments ? I might not be the best person to answer this, but this just seems so obvious: If you plan to let a recently hot-unplugged device to be used in another OS that doesn't un

Commands available for [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-07-18 Thread bug-wranglers+owner
Hello, There exists the following options: To unsubscribe send a mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest of this list send a mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the nomail version of this list send a mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The nomail version of a list means that you

Re: RT and XFS

2005-07-18 Thread Esben Nielsen
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:56:58AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > This reminds me of Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt . That no one > > should really be dependent on a particular kernel API doing a particular > > thing. The kernel is play dough

Re: [patch 2.6.12 (repost w/ corrected subject)] pci: restore BAR values in pci_enable_device_bars

2005-07-18 Thread Grant Grundler
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 01:46:20PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 01:29:54AM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:26:37PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > > > + /* Some devices lose PCI config header data during D3hot->D0 > > > > Can you name som

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc3-mm1] connector: fix missing dependencies in Kconfig

2005-07-18 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
Hello Andrew, This patch fixes missing dependencies in drivers/connector/Kconfig file. We have to ensure that the dependencies of the selected variable are fulfilled otherwise it can produce some undefined references during the kernel compilation. This problem was reported by Adrian Bunk. Signe

2.6.13-rc3 from today: No Toshiba ACPI module load?

2005-07-18 Thread Horst von Brand
I'm getting: # modprobe toshiba_acpi FATAL: Error inserting toshiba_acpi (/lib/modules/2.6.13-rc3/kernel/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.ko): No such device This is definitely a Toshiba M30 notebook with this. On bootup I see: ACPI: RSDP (v000 TOSHIB) @ 0x000f7a10 ACPI

Re: 2.6.12 hangs on boot

2005-07-18 Thread Andi Kleen
Can you please test if this patch fixes it? -Andi Don't compare linux processor index with APICID Fixes boot up lockups on some machines where CPU apic ids don't start with 0 Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c =

ANNOUNCE: Driver for Rocky 4782E WDT and pls help

2005-07-18 Thread Gyorgy Horvath
Hi out there, I am VERY SAD to announce a new driver for the watchdog on Rocky 4782E2V processor card. The architecture is very close to "Acquire WDT". Effectivelly one or two additional line is needed, that allow programming the timeout and properly kick the dog. Writing a byte with the number

Re: [PATCH] Re: relayfs documentation sucks?

2005-07-18 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 21:45 +0200, bert hubert wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 10:43:40AM -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote: > > > It is racey - in this mode, there's nothing to keep the kernel from > > writing as much as it wants before the user side has a chance to read > > any of it. The only way this

Re: Volatile vs Non-Volatile Spin Locks on SMP.

2005-07-18 Thread Joe Seigh
Joe Seigh wrote: For synchronization you need memory barriers in most cases and the only way to get these is using assembler since there are no C or gcc intrinsics for these yet. For inline assembler, the convention seems to be to use the volatile attribute, which I take as meaning no code movem

[patch] I-pipe 2.6.12-v0.9-02

2005-07-18 Thread Philippe Gerum
The interrupt pipeline patch v0.9-02 has been released, fixing a latency spot and a bug in the deferred printk() mechanism. A split version of the patch for x86, ppc32 and ia64 is available here: http://download.gna.org/adeos/patches/v2.6/ipipe/split/ Patch sequence to build a Linux 2.6.12 tr

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 10:52 -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote: > > > > > > - overwrite mode can be implemented via the buffer switch callback > > > > > > The buffer switch callback is already where this is handled, unless > > > you're thinking of something else - one of the first checks in the > >

Re: 2.6.12-rc2 and as-iosched

2005-07-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jul 18 2005, Kenneth Parrish wrote: > Randy> Need more info. > > Greetings. :) > CONFIG_HZ_ changes the block device elevator time-out values -- didn't see. I cannot reproduce here with cfq and HZ == 250, the jiffies <-> msec conversions are working fine. Please provide a proper

[PATCH] Add missing tvaudio try_to_freeze.

2005-07-18 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. The .c gives Gerd Knorr as the maintainer of this file, but no email address. The MAINTAINERS file doesn't have his name or make it clear who owns the file. I haven't therefore been able to cc the maintainer. Tvaudio lacks a refrigerator call. This patch fixes that. Regards, Nigel Signed-o

[PATCH] Convert refrigerator() to try_to_freeze()

2005-07-18 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. This patch removes the few remaining direct invocations of the refrigerator in 2.6.13-rc3. In drivers/media/video/msp3400.c, it also shifts the call to after the remove_wait_queue; this seems to be the more appropriate place. Regards, Nigel Signed-off by: Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH] try_to_freeze call fixes.

2005-07-18 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi all. Here are fixes for four try_to_freeze calls that are still (incorrectly) using a parameter after the recent try_to_freeze() changes. Regards, Nigel Signed-Off by: Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mips/kernel/irixsig.c |2 +- mips/kernel/signal32.c |2 +- sh/kernel/signal.

LZF Cryptoapi support.

2005-07-18 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi again. Here's another resend, this time adding an lzf cryptoapi module. LZF is a very fast compressor which typically achieves approximately 50% compression on a suspend image. The original author (Marc Alexander Lehmann) donated it to Suspend2. I have converted it to cryptoapi with a recent s

[PATCH] Fix cryptoapi deflate not handling PAGE_SIZE chunks.

2005-07-18 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi Herbert. Here's a resend of a patch I'm using in Suspend2's new cryptoapi support, which is needed for us to successfully compress pages using deflate. It's along the lines of the existing fix in the decompression code. Regards, Nigel diff -ruNp 190-cryptoapi-deflate.patch-old/crypto/deflate

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > I'm actually very much against this. Looking at a point of view from the > logdev device. Having a callback to know to continue at every buffer > switch would just be slowing down something that is expected to be very > fast. What exactly would be

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1

2005-07-18 Thread Joseph Fannin
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 09:32:49PM -0400, wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:36:53AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ > > > +suspend-update-documentation.patch > > +swsusp-fix-printks-and-cleanups.pat

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Zanussi
Hareesh Nagarajan writes: > Tom Zanussi wrote: > > Roman Zippel writes: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Tom Zanussi wrote: > > > > > > > The netlink control channel seems to work very well, but I can > > > > certainly change the examples to use something different. Could

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 16:16 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > I'm actually very much against this. Looking at a point of view from the > > logdev device. Having a callback to know to continue at every buffer > > switch would just be slowing down

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Roman Zippel wrote: > The point is to design a simple and flexible relayfs layer, which means > not every possible function has to be done in the relayfs layer, as long > it's flexible enough to build additional functionality on top of it (for > which it can again provide some library functions

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Zanussi
Steven Rostedt writes: > On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 10:52 -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote: > > > > > > > > > - overwrite mode can be implemented via the buffer switch callback > > > > > > > > The buffer switch callback is already where this is handled, unless > > > > you're thinking of somethin

RE: how to be a kernel developer ?

2005-07-18 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> Hi > > I want to join the Kernel community and help in developing Linux > kernel, I'm good in C,Perl and not that good in C++ > > is there any How-To page in how to help or how to join ? since I want > to start in basic things I can tell you one thing for sure. And that is that you will need t

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Disk tests should be at a fixed rate, not all you can do. That's NOT realistic. Not true; what you suggest is another thing to check entirely, and that would be a valid benchmark too. What I'm

Avoiding BIGMEM support programatically.

2005-07-18 Thread vamsi krishna
Hello All, I have a program working fine on a 2.6.xx-smp kernel, and the program crashes on the same version kernel with bigmem i.e (2.6.xxx-bigmem). I also found that for a same executable on bigmem kernel the virtual address's of '&_start' and '&_etext', seem to vary in every new run. Is there

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > What exactly would be slowed down? > > It would just move around some code and even avoid the overwrite mode > > check. > > Yes, you're adding a jump to another function via a function pointer, > that would kill the cache line of execution, to

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > I guess I just don't get the point here. Why cut something away if many > users will need it. If it's that popular that you're ready to provide a > library function to do it, then why not just leave it to boot? One of the > goals of relayfs is to a

Re: [PATCH] no more need to check for NULL before calls to crypto_free_tfm

2005-07-18 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:32:27AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > --- linux-2.6.13-rc3-orig/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c 2005-06-17 > 21:48:29.0 +0200 > +++ linux-2.6.13-rc3/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c 2005-07-16 > 23:35:55.0 +0200 > @@ -227,14 +227,14 @@ cryptoloop_ioctl(stru

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-18 Thread K.R. Foley
Karsten Wiese wrote: Am Samstag, 16. Juli 2005 19:15 schrieb Ingo Molnar: * Karsten Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have I corrected the other path of ioapic early initialization, which had lacked virtual-address setup before ioapic_data[ioapic] was to be filled in -51-28? Please test atta

Re: 2.6.12-rc2 and as-iosched

2005-07-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jul 18 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18 2005, Kenneth Parrish wrote: > > Randy> Need more info. > > > > Greetings. :) > > CONFIG_HZ_ changes the block device elevator time-out values -- didn't see. > > I cannot reproduce here with cfq and HZ == 250, the jiffies <-> msec >

Re: [patch] I-pipe 2.6.12-v0.9-02

2005-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 18 July 2005 09:41, Philippe Gerum wrote: >The interrupt pipeline patch v0.9-02 has been released, fixing a > latency spot and a bug in the deferred printk() mechanism. > >A split version of the patch for x86, ppc32 and ia64 is available > here: http://download.gna.org/adeos/patches/v2.6/

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Zanussi
Roman Zippel writes: > Hi, > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > > > I guess I just don't get the point here. Why cut something away if many > > users will need it. If it's that popular that you're ready to provide a > > library function to do it, then why not just leave it to b

Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH 2/4]delayed allocation for ext3

2005-07-18 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jul 17, 2005 10:40 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > @@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ struct ext3_inode { > #define EXT3_MOUNT_BARRIER 0x2 /* Use block barriers */ > #define EXT3_MOUNT_NOBH 0x4 /* No bufferheads */ > #define EXT3_MOUNT_QUOTA 0x8 /* Some q

Re: ANNOUNCE: Driver for Rocky 4782E WDT and pls help

2005-07-18 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-07-18 at 15:08 -0700, Gyorgy Horvath wrote: >- Half of the RAM were stolen from Linux. > (mem= kernel parameter) > This range was requeset_mem_region-ed, then > ioremap-ped for bus mastering DMA transfer. > Actually 30 M is used. Did you make sure none of t

Re: VIA KT400 + Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = IRQ trouble

2005-07-18 Thread Alan Stern
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Michel Bouissou wrote: > I'm afraid I won't have time for this today. It's already more than 11 PM > here > and I'm leaving early tomorrow for travel... I will be travelling this week also. That's okay, there's no hurry. > But AFAIR, when I performed previous tests, I had

2.6.12.3/2.6.13-rc3 BUG REPORT - x86_64 with hyperthreading

2005-07-18 Thread Maxim Kozover
Hi! I tried 2.6.12.3/2.6.13-rc3 compiled for x86_64 on Supermicro dual Xeon with hyperthreading enabled and the kernel gets stuck when trying to initialize the second CPU. CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 1024K using mwait in idle threads. CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU

Re: how to be a kernel developer ?

2005-07-18 Thread Andrew Ruder
Alejandro Bonilla wrote: This exact question is made at least every 15 days. Did you google? You will need to make that your Home Page. And after that, make your first google search kernelnewbies. - Andrew Ruder - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

2.6.12.3 ompilation errors with linux1394.org rev.1315

2005-07-18 Thread art
2.6.12.3 ompilation errors with linux1394.org rev.1315 []$ make && make modules .. LD drivers/ieee1394/built-in.o CC [M] drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.o drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c: In function ‘hpsbpkt_thread’: drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c:1035: error: too few argum

Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.12-git

2005-07-18 Thread Richard Gooch
Greg KH writes: > I do care about this, please don't think that. But here's my reasoning > for why it needs to go: [...] > - original developer of devfs has publicly stated udev is a > replacement. Well, that's news to me! > - policy in the kernel. Like sysfs :-) > -

Re: shared subtrees implementation writeup

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Pai
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 04:06, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Thanks for the writeup, it helps to understand things a bit better. > However I still don't understand a few things: > > > > Section 1. mount: > > > > to begin with we have a the following mount tree > > > > root > >

Re: [PATCH 8/8] pci and yenta: pcibios_bus_to_resource

2005-07-18 Thread Grant Grundler
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:21:38AM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > In yenta_socket, we default to using the resource setting of the CardBus > bridge. However, this is a PCI-bus-centric view of resources and thus > needs to be converted to generic resources first. Therefore, add a call > to pcibio

Re: Fix missing refrigerator invocation in jffs2.

2005-07-18 Thread Jörn Engel
On Mon, 18 July 2005 14:14:53 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Here's a patch to fix a missing refrigerator call in jffs2. ^ You should shorten the description by one letter, roughly. ;) > > Signed-off by: Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.12-git

2005-07-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>Greg KH writes: >> I do care about this, please don't think that. But here's my reasoning >> for why it needs to go: >[...] >> - original developer of devfs has publicly stated udev is a >>replacement. > >Well, that's news to me! What is more news to me: ( http://www.kernel.or

Re: 2.6.13rc3: crypto horribly broken on all 64bit archs

2005-07-18 Thread David S. Miller
From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:45:54 +1000 > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 02:20:21PM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > > > > The compiler first does ~((a)-1)) and then expands the unsigned int to > > unsigned long for the & operation. So we end up with only the lower 32

[swsusp] swsusp process freezing: remove smp races

2005-07-18 Thread Pavel Machek
From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The current suspend code modifies thread->flags from outside the context of the thread. This creates a SMP race. This patch fixes that by introducing a TIF_FREEZE flag in thread_info. (This is not the end of the races in the suspend code since TIF_FREE

NAPI (aka RX Polling) for natsemi?

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel Higgins
hi all, is there such a thing anywhere as a working patch to enable NAPI in the natsemi driver? or is someone working on one? so far i have found two non-working patches, which i tried to get to work without success. one locks up the kernel, the other says "interrupt while polling". any help with

Re: 2.6.13-rc3 from today: No Toshiba ACPI module load?

2005-07-18 Thread Dumitru Ciobarcianu
În data de Sî, 16-07-2005 la 22:56 -0400, Horst von Brand a scris: > I'm getting: > # modprobe toshiba_acpi > FATAL: Error inserting toshiba_acpi > (/lib/modules/2.6.13-rc3/kernel/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.ko): No such device > > This is definitely a Toshiba M30 notebook with this. > Anything els

Linux 2.6.11.5 on R3912 problems

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Underwood
Hi, I have now been trying to get Linux 2.6.11.5 (built with gcc 3.3.3 and binutils 2.15.91.0.2) up and running on my Helio PDA, a MIPS R3912 based ASSP (the emulator to be exact) and have been stuck at the last step for a while now :-(. The kernel runs up fine, the problem starts when init is s

Re: [PATCH] MMC host class

2005-07-18 Thread Pierre Ossman
Russell King wrote: >On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:21:43PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote: > > >>Russell King wrote: >> >> >>>Also note that since we have a class_dev, the mmc_host 'dev' field can >>>be removed. However, we'll probably have to update the host drivers >>>to do this, so it should be

Re: [PATCH] MMC host class

2005-07-18 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:21:43PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote: > Russell King wrote: > >Also note that since we have a class_dev, the mmc_host 'dev' field can > >be removed. However, we'll probably have to update the host drivers > >to do this, so it should be a separate patch. > > I believe ther

Fw: Oops in hidinput_hid_event

2005-07-18 Thread Pete Zaitcev
I think this patch is rather obvious, so maybe I should ask Andrew to apply it to -mm for now, to get some testing. Would that help to verify it for acceptance? -- Pete Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:00:23 -0700 From: Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: [Fastboot] [RFC/PATCH 1/17][kexec-tools-1.101] vmlinux parameter segment stomping fix

2005-07-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
My apologies for taking so long to look at these patches. I agree there is an issue here, but large parts of this we need to address kernel side. If the parameter buffer is allocated after the kernel there is no guarantee that it will be addressable from the kernels early page table so this fix

RT-V0.7.51-31 vs ntpd, 1 to nothin so far

2005-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
Hi Ingo; I just built 51-31, mode 4, and although I spent an hour putting in debug printouts in /etc/init.d/ntpd, I couldn't make it work, and the /var/log/ntpd.log is being flooded with "bad file descriptor" messages. So I'm back on 51-30 in mode 3 for the time being so tvtime works. -- Ch

Re: [patch 2.6] remove PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_VGA handling from setup-bus.c

2005-07-18 Thread Grant Grundler
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:53:27PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 03:53:44PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > > The setup-bus code doesn't work correctly for configurations > > with more than one display adapter in the same PCI domain. > > This stuff actually is a leftover of a

Re: Why is 2.6.12.2 less stable on my laptop than 2.6.10?

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Gross
On Friday 15 July 2005 16:14, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Mark Gross wrote: > > What would be wrong in expecting the folks making the driver changes > > have some story on how they are validating there changes don't break > > existing working hardware? I could probly be accomplished

[patch] QLA2xxx FW_LOADER Kconfig issue results in undefined symbols

2005-07-18 Thread Erik Jacobson
I hit a small problem (first observed in 2.6.13-rc3-mm1) that resulted in my kernels no longer building because of undefined references to request_firmware and release_firmware. After a little research, I found that the QLA stuff requires CONFIG_FW_LOADER. I was using the sn2_defconfig as a star

Re: Avoiding BIGMEM support programatically.

2005-07-18 Thread Fawad Lateef
On 7/18/05, vamsi krishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a program working fine on a 2.6.xx-smp kernel, and the program > crashes on the same version kernel with bigmem i.e (2.6.xxx-bigmem). > What is your program ??? what it is doing ??? Can u explain ?? or send some code po

[RFC][UPDATE PATCH 2/4] human-time soft-timer core changes

2005-07-18 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 14.07.2005 [13:40:11 -0700], Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > From: Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Description: The core revision to the soft-timer subsystem to divorce it > from the timer interrupt in software, i.e. jiffies. Instead, use > getnstimeofday() (via do_monotonic_clock()) a

Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH 2/4]delayed allocation for ext3

2005-07-18 Thread Mingming Cao
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 19:47 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jul 17, 2005 10:40 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > > @@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ struct ext3_inode { > > #define EXT3_MOUNT_BARRIER 0x2 /* Use block barriers */ > > #define EXT3_MOUNT_NOBH0x4 /* No bufferheads

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc1 05/10] IOCHK interface for I/O error handling/detecting

2005-07-18 Thread Grant Grundler
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:11:42PM +0900, Hidetoshi Seto wrote: > [This is 5 of 10 patches, "iochk-05-check_bridge.patch"] ... > It means that A or B hits a bus error, but there is no data > which one actually hits the error. So, C should notify the > error to both of A and B, and clear the H

Promise TX4200 support?

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I recieved an email from someone claiming to be stuck with Linux 2.4, due to relying on a Promise TX4200 disk controller (using the fdsata driver from promise's website, which is 2.4-only): :01:09.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 3519 (rev 02)

Re: Promise TX4200 support?

2005-07-18 Thread Martin Povolný
Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > I recieved an email from someone claiming to be stuck with Linux 2.4, > due to relying on a Promise TX4200 disk controller (using the fdsata > driver from promise's website, which is 2.4-only): > > :01:09.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown >

Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.12-git

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 06:12, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > What is more news to me: > ( http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ ) > Q: Why was devfs marked OBSOLETE if udev is not finished yet? > A: To quote Al Viro (Linux VFS kernel maintainer): > ==> - the devfs main

Re: Promise TX4200 support?

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Martin, Martin Povolný wrote: We are succesfully running patched sata_promise with 3 disks in a raid5/raid1 setup. (Patched against ubuntu linux-image 2.6.11-1-686 package.) Could you please either send in your patch, or tell me which board_ setting (2037x/20319/20619) the device ID table

Re: [patch] QLA2xxx FW_LOADER Kconfig issue results in undefined symbols

2005-07-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 02:23:57PM -0500, Erik Jacobson wrote: > I hit a small problem (first observed in 2.6.13-rc3-mm1) that resulted in > my kernels no longer building because of undefined references to > request_firmware and release_firmware. > > After a little research, I found that the QLA

drivers/w1/w1_int.c compile error with NET=n

2005-07-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
I'm seeing the following compile error in 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 (but it doesn't seem to be specific to -mm) with CONFIG_NET=n: <-- snip --> ... LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o: In function `w1_alloc_dev': w1_int.c:(.text+0x65d81f): undefined reference to `netlink_kernel_create' w1_int.c:(.

Re: [PATCH] no more need to check for NULL before calls to crypto_free_tfm

2005-07-18 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 7/18/05, Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:32:27AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > --- linux-2.6.13-rc3-orig/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c 2005-06-17 > > 21:48:29.0 +0200 > > +++ linux-2.6.13-rc3/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c 2005-07-16 > > 23:35:55.

[shorty: Re: 2.6.12 debian powerpc kernels and ppc64 ...]

2005-07-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
The first try to send the message below didn't work. Hoping it does now ... :) Regards Wolfgang - Forwarded message from Wolfgang Pfeiifer - To: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subje

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