Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-03 Thread Wim Coekaerts
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:17:08PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Again, that's not a technical reason. It's _a_ reason, sure. But what are > > the technical reasons for merging gfs[2], ocfs2, both or neither? clusterfilesystems are very common,

Re: 2.6.13-mm1: hangs during boot ...

2005-09-03 Thread Peter Williams
Peter Williams wrote: Brown, Len wrote: Brown, Len wrote: [ 279.662960] [] wait_for_completion+0xa4/0x110 possibly a missing interrupt? CONFIG_ACPI=y any difference if booted with "acpi=off" or "acpi=noirq"? Yes. In both cases, the system appears to boot normally but I'm

[PATCH 2.6.13] libata: use common pci remove in ahci

2005-09-03 Thread Brett Russ
Jeff, This looked prime to cut since ahci_remove_one() was a functionally identical to ata_pci_remove_one() except for the interrupt disable (have_msi) bits, which fit nicely into ahci_host_stop(). However, 1) Will it work? 2) Isn't it wrong for the IRQ disable at the chip to occur *after* free

Re: FUSE merging?

2005-09-03 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > > The main sticking point with FUSE remains the permission tricks around > > > fuse_allow_task(). AFAIK it remains the case that nobody has come up > > with > > > any better idea, so I'm inclined to merge the thing. > > > > Do you promise? > > I troll. What others think matters. But a

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-03 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > for ocfs we have tons of production customers running many terabyte > databases on a cfs. why ? because dealing with the raw disk froma number > of nodes sucks. because nfs is pretty broken for a lot of stuff, there > is no consistency across nodes when e

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13 1/2] IOCHK interface for I/O error handling/detecting (for ia64)

2005-09-03 Thread Hidetoshi Seto
Oh my, Hidetoshi Seto wrote: I'd like to merge this part into 2.6.13-rc1 even if the latter half isn't This is typo, should be 2.6.14-rc1. :-p Thanks, H.Seto - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-03 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:13:10PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > Noone's ignoring you. > > What we need to do is ensure that dynamic ticks is working properly on x86 > and > worth including before anything else. If and when we confirm this it makes > sense only then to try and merge code from th

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-03 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 17:58, Russell King wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:13:10PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Noone's ignoring you. > > > > What we need to do is ensure that dynamic ticks is working properly on > > x86 and worth including before anything else. If and when we confirm this > > it

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-03 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 06:01:08PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 17:58, Russell King wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:13:10PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > Noone's ignoring you. > > > > > > What we need to do is ensure that dynamic ticks is working properly on > > > x86 and

Re: [netfilter-core] [2.6 patch] net/netfilter/nfnetlink*: make functions static

2005-09-03 Thread Harald Welte
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 03:28:29AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch makes needlessly global functions static. Thanks for your patch. I'll merge it with my local changes (it clashes, since the "htonll" implementation was removed) and submit it via davem later today. -- - Harald Welte <[EMA

Re: 2.6.13-mm1: hangs during boot ...

2005-09-03 Thread Len Brown
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 03:18 -0400, Peter Williams wrote: > > http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm1/broken-out/git-acpi.patch > >> > I am able to confirm that the problem occurs with vanilla 2.5.13 after > I apply the above patch. Thanks. Please then tr

Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-03 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 18:06, Russell King wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 06:01:08PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 17:58, Russell King wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:13:10PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > > Noone's ignoring you. > > > > > > > > What we need to do is ensur

Re: i2c via686a.c: save at least 0.5k of space by long v[256] -> u16 v[256]

2005-09-03 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Denis, > --- linux-2.6.12.src/drivers/i2c/chips/via686a.c.orig Sun Jun 19 16:10:10 2005 > +++ linux-2.6.12.src/drivers/i2c/chips/via686a.c Tue Aug 30 00:21:39 2005 > @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static inline u8 FAN_TO_REG(long rpm, in > but the function is very linear in the useful range (0-80 d

Re: i2c via686a.c: save at least 0.5k of space by long v[256] -> u16 v[256]

2005-09-03 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Denis, BTW... > Please be informed that there are lots of intNN_t's in i2c dir > tho... I couldn't find any. What were you refering to exactly? Thanks, -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mor

[PATCH 2/2] [NETFILTER] remove bogus hand-coded htonll()

2005-09-03 Thread Harald Welte
Hi Dave, please apply the appended patch. I somehow thought I had fixed this quite some time ago. Probably I lost it with some merge :( Thanks, -- - Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://netfilter.org/

[PATCH 1/2] nfnetlink: make needlessly global functions static

2005-09-03 Thread Harald Welte
Hi Dave, please apply the appended patch. Thanks, -- - Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://netfilter.org/ "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error th

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-09-03 Thread Chuck Ebbert
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Linux-kernel is a very high volume mailing list, and proper use of > email threading is *vital* to read it: you immediately get all > references to previous messages, and it makes it easy to skip threads > you're not interested in Does manually adding the repl

Re: www.linux1394.org - ???

2005-09-03 Thread Stefan Richter
Randy.Dunlap wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 23:35:14 -0500 art wrote: www.linux1394.org - is this server/project dead ? The server is known dead and being worked on or replaced. Yes, web site and source repo have been down for two weeks now but should come back eventually. Ben Collins is the o

Re: [x86_64] Exception when using powernowd.

2005-09-03 Thread David Ranson
Kyuma Ohta wrote: >>Hi, >> >>I'm using MSI K8T Neo2 (VIA K8T800 chipset) and Athlon64 3000+ >>with linux x86_64 2.6.13 kernel and Debian/sid. >> >> > > I'm using a K8T Neo2 FIR with the same processor and powernow-k8. Up with 2.6.13 since Sunday, no problems noted. Mine is a SuSE 9.1 based s

2.6.13+netconsole captures crash

2005-09-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
On 2.6.13, I have a simple script that tars the data from the root filesystem to a 400GB disk, when this started, I got the following errors and then the machine locked up: Again, 400GB/Seagate+ATA/133, someone should add to the CONFIG_OPTION that 400GB drives are NOT supported w/ the Promise

[TRIVAL] Runtime linkage fix for serial_cs

2005-09-03 Thread Takeharu KATO
Hi I found current serial_cs driver can not be loaded into the kernel. The reason of this issue is serial_cs driver uses serial8250_unregister_port function which is not exported for modules. I fixed the issue, please apply this patch. Signed-off-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -NBbur linux.orig/dr

Re: [RFC] broken installkernel.sh with CROSS_COMPILE

2005-09-03 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 13:39 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > I noticed that my cross-compilation 'make install' broke with 2.6.13 (I > don't use it horribly often). It's from this commit: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0f8e2d62fa04441cd12c

Re: [TRIVAL] Runtime linkage fix for serial_cs

2005-09-03 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 05:49:23PM +0900, Takeharu KATO wrote: > I found current serial_cs driver can not be loaded into the kernel. > The reason of this issue is serial_cs driver uses serial8250_unregister_port > function which is not exported for modules. Your kernel sources are buggy. This fun

Fwd: [Bug 5176] New: file:Documentation/jsm.txt is missing

2005-09-03 Thread Russell King
Someone may like to deal with this. Maybe the file should be placed in the Documentation/serial directory? - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 01:43:16 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Bug 5176] New: file:Documentation/jsm.txt i

Re: Linux 2.6.13

2005-09-03 Thread Henrik Persson
Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:41:03AM +0200, Henrik Persson wrote: > >>Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >>>There it is. >>> >>>The most painful part of 2.6.13 is likely to be the fact that we made x86 >>>use the generic PCI bus setup code for assigning unassigned resources. >>>That uncove

Re: 2.6.13-mm1: hangs during boot ...

2005-09-03 Thread Peter Williams
Len Brown wrote: On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 03:18 -0400, Peter Williams wrote: http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm1/broken-out/git-acpi.patch I am able to confirm that the problem occurs with vanilla 2.5.13 after I apply the above patch. Thanks. Pl

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13] IOCHK interface for I/O error handling/detecting (for ia64)

2005-09-03 Thread Hidetoshi Seto
Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Brent Casavant wrote: I am extremely concerned about the performance implications of this implementation. These changes have several deleterious effects on I/O performance. I agree. I think the iochk patches should be abandone

Re: 2.6.13-mm1: hangs during boot ...

2005-09-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Peter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please then try the latest ACPI patch here: > > > http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/release/2.6.13/acpi-20050902-2.6.13.diff.gz > > It should apply to vanilla 2.6.13 with a reject in ia64/Kconfig > > that you can igno

Re: looking for help tracing oops

2005-09-03 Thread Jiri Slaby
Christopher Friesen napsal(a): [snip] EIP is at filp_close+0x64/0xa0 [snip] 0x1a9a : call 0x1a9b 0x1a9f : mov%edi,0x4(%esp,1) 0x1aa3 : mov%ebx,(%esp,1) [snip] End of assembler dump. It seems, that this is disassemble output of something else. The fun

Re: [x86_64] Exception when using powernowd.

2005-09-03 Thread Kyuma Ohta
Thanx David, Written by David Ranson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Sat, 03 Sep 2005 09:33:56 +0100 : Subject: Re: [x86_64] Exception when using powernowd. spam.david.trap> Kyuma Ohta wrote: spam.david.trap> spam.david.trap> spam.david.trap> >>Hi, spam.david.trap> >> spam.david.trap> >>I'm using MSI

[RFC][PATCH] SPI subsystem

2005-09-03 Thread Mark Underwood
Here is a SPI framework which tries to use the driver framework provided by the 2.6 kernel which you can play around with on any platform, even on your PC :). This patch only contains a core layer that handles un/registering of SPI adapters SPI devices and SPI drivers. It is a work in progress a

Re: Updated dynamic tick patches

2005-09-03 Thread Tony Lindgren
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:04:32PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 04:07:22PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > Srivatsa, could you try the dyntick-test.c on your system after booting > > to init=/bin/sh to make the system as idle as possible? > > Tony, > I get this

2.6.13-git3: build failure: sysctl_optmem_max

2005-09-03 Thread Russell King
While trying to build a kernel with CONFIG_SYSCTL disabled, the following error occurs: CC net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.o net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c: In function `ip_setsockopt': net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:622: error: `sysctl_optmem_max' undeclared (first use in net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:622: error: (Each und

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-03 Thread David Teigland
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:14:00AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 13:18 +0800, David Teigland wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:21:04PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > - Why GFS is better than OCFS2, or has functionality wh

Re: SysFS, module names and .name

2005-09-03 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:17:57AM +0200, iSteve wrote: Yes, I am rather interested -- could you please provide details about this method? For PCI drivers, just add the line: .owner = THIS_MODULE, to their struct pci_driver definition and you will get the symlink crea

[-mm patch] ACPI should depend on, not select PCI

2005-09-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
ACPI should depend on, not select PCI. The practical differences should be nearly zero except that it avoids the illegal configuration PCI=y, X86_VOYAGER=y. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-mm1-full/drivers/acpi/Kconfig.old 2005-09-03 06:08:37.0 +02

[-mm patch] FB_GEODE should depend on PCI

2005-09-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
Due to fbdev-geode-updates.patch, building with CONFIG_PCI=n results in the following error: <-- snip --> ... CC [M] drivers/video/geode/gx1fb_core.o drivers/video/geode/gx1fb_core.c: In function 'gx1fb_map_video_memory': drivers/video/geode/gx1fb_core.c:218: warning: implicit declaration o

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

2005-09-03 Thread Hiro Yoshioka
From: Hiro Yoshioka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll() Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:37:16 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hiro Yoshioka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- linux-2.

Re: [fuse-devel] Re: FUSE merging?

2005-09-03 Thread yoann padioleau
- number of language bindings: 7 (native: C, java, python, perl, - C#, sh, TCL) 8 now, someone just sent a private mail about bindings for the Pliant (never heard of it) language. 9 now (there is an ocaml binding, and if you dont know ocaml, shame on you). I would just like to ad

Re: 2.6.13-mm1

2005-09-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi Andrew, it seems you dropped schedule-obsolete-oss-drivers-for-removal-version-2.patch, but there's zero mentioning of this dropping in the changelog of 2.6.13-mm1. Can you explain why you did silently drop it? TIA Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly

[PATCH 2.6.13-mm1] use cached variable in sys_sched_yield()

2005-09-03 Thread Renaud Lienhart
In sys_sched_yield(), we cache current->array in the "array" variable, thus there's no need to dereference "current" again later. Signed-Off-By: Renaud Lienhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- a/kernel/sched.cSat Sep 3 14:01:38 2005 +++ b/kernel/sched.cSat Sep 3 14:02:47 2005 @@ -4058,7 +4058,7

Re: [RFC] broken installkernel.sh with CROSS_COMPILE

2005-09-03 Thread Dave Hansen
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 09:50 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Could we do something that's guaranteed to not have lots of extra > path > > elements in it, like ARCH? > > Or perhaps basename ${CROSSCOMPILE}? The only problem with that is that some people do really have a cross compiler named /usr/ppc

Re: 2.6.13-git3: build failure: sysctl_optmem_max

2005-09-03 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:27:56 +0100), Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > While trying to build a kernel with CONFIG_SYSCTL disabled, the following > error occurs: > > CC net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.o > net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c: In function `ip_setsockopt': > net

Re: i2c via686a.c: save at least 0.5k of space by long v[256] -> u16 v[256]

2005-09-03 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Saturday 03 September 2005 11:26, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Denis, > > BTW... > > > Please be informed that there are lots of intNN_t's in i2c dir > > tho... > > I couldn't find any. What were you refering to exactly? Sorry I was wrong. While kernel has ~15000 [u]intNN_t's they are all _not_

Re: 2.6.13-mm1: hangs during boot ...

2005-09-03 Thread Reuben Farrelly
Hi Peter, On 3/09/2005 4:59 a.m., Peter Williams wrote: Brown, Len wrote: [ 279.662960] [] wait_for_completion+0xa4/0x110 possibly a missing interrupt? CONFIG_ACPI=y any difference if booted with "acpi=off" or "acpi=noirq"? Yes. In both cases, the system appears to boot normally b

[2.6 patch] fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h: "extern inline" doesn't make sense

2005-09-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
"extern inline" doesn't make sense. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 20 Aug 2005 --- linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h.old2005-08-19 23:23:40.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h

[2.6 patch] lib/sort.c: small cleanups

2005-09-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following small cleanups: - make two needlessly global functions static - every file should #include the header files containing the prototypes of it's global functions Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-mm1-full/lib/sort.c.old2005-

Re: FUSE merging?

2005-09-03 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On 9/3/05, Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I agree that lots of people would like the functionality. I regret that > > although it appears that v9fs could provide it, > > I think you are wrong there. You don't appreciate all the complexity > FUSE _lacks_ by not being network tra

[PATCH] vga text console and stty cols/rows

2005-09-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Some people use 66-cells braille devices for reading the console, and hence would like to reduce the width of the screen by using: stty cols 66 However, the vga text console doesn't behave correctly: the 14 first characters of the second line are put on the right of the first line and so for

Re: 2.6.13-mm1: hangs during boot ...

2005-09-03 Thread Peter Williams
Reuben Farrelly wrote: Hi Peter, On 3/09/2005 4:59 a.m., Peter Williams wrote: Brown, Len wrote: [ 279.662960] [] wait_for_completion+0xa4/0x110 possibly a missing interrupt? CONFIG_ACPI=y any difference if booted with "acpi=off" or "acpi=noirq"? Yes. In both cases, the syst

Re: SCSI tape problems... (solved?)

2005-09-03 Thread Robert Valentan
Hi! I think, I have found the problem with SCSI-Tapes (Error 8). I have detect, that the sgraidmon is testing all sg-devices, and if the inquiry-command fails (timeout) it sends a bus- reset-command (ioctl) as "recovery"-operation ! After stopping the sgraidmon I have no more problems with th

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13] libata: Marvell SATA support (PIO mode)

2005-09-03 Thread Tyler
Brett Russ wrote: Some (non-functional) cleanup modifications since the version 0.10 driver I sent out 2005-08-30. Also adding signed-off-by for Jeff's upstream push. This is my libata compatible low level driver for the Marvell SATA family. Currently it successfully runs in PIO mode on a 608

[PATCH 2.6] hwmon: via686a: save 0.5k by long v[256] -> s16 v[256]

2005-09-03 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Greg, all, > This patch doesn't apply on top of my stack, first because the > hardware monitoring drivers have been moved to drivers/hwmon, second > because the via686a driver had indentation cleanups since 2.6.12. > > Could you please provide this patch against 2.6.13-mm1? On Denis' request,

[2.6.13] ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command

2005-09-03 Thread Jan De Luyck
Hello List, I'm seeing trouble with a firewire HDD enclosure. precious:/sys/bus/ieee1394/devices/0001a35154d5# cat vendor* 0x0001a3 337 COMBO GENESYS LOGIC, INC. precious:/sys/bus/ieee1394/devices/0001a35154d5# cat guid* 0x0001a35154d5 0x0001a3 GENESYS LOGIC, INC. When plugging it

Re: FUSE merging?

2005-09-03 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> While FUSE doesn't handle it directly, doesn't it have to punt it to > its network file systems, how to the sshfs and what not handle this > sort of mapping? Sshfs handles it by not handling it. In this case it is neither possible, nor needed to be able to correctly map the id space. Yes, it m

Re: [RFC] broken installkernel.sh with CROSS_COMPILE

2005-09-03 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 05:31 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 09:50 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > Could we do something that's guaranteed to not have lots of extra > > path > > > elements in it, like ARCH? > > > > Or perhaps basename ${CROSSCOMPILE}? > > The only problem with t

Re: [2.6 patch] feature-removal-schedule.txt: remove {,un}register_serial entry

2005-09-03 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 01:14:59AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > If the feature is removed, there's no need to keep the entry in > feature-removal-schedule.txt. Thanks Adrian, applied. -- Russell King Linux kernel2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core

Re: [PATCH 03/11] memory hotplug prep: __section_nr helper

2005-09-03 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Friday 02 September 2005 23:56, Dave Hansen wrote: > > A little helper that we use in the hotplug code. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > memhotplug-dave/include/linux/mmzone.h | 25 + > 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+) > > diff -puN inc

Re: [RFC] Splitting out kernel<=>userspace ABI headers

2005-09-03 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Erik Andersen wrote: That is certainly not what I was proposing. Why are you bringing sys/stat.h into this? The contents of sys/stat.h are entirely up to SUSv3 and the C library to worry about. Nobody has proposed mucking with that. I dunno about your C library, but mine doesn't include linu

Re: FUSE merging?

2005-09-03 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On 9/3/05, Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While FUSE doesn't handle it directly, doesn't it have to punt it to > > its network file systems, how to the sshfs and what not handle this > > sort of mapping? > > Sshfs handles it by not handling it. In this case it is neither > possible

Re: [RFC] Splitting out kernel<=>userspace ABI headers

2005-09-03 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Erik Andersen wrote: That is certainly not what I was proposing. Why are you bringing sys/stat.h into this? The contents of sys/stat.h are entirely up to SUSv3 and the C library to worry about. Nobody has proposed mucking with that. I dunno about your C library, but mine doesn't include linu

Re: [RFC] Splitting out kernel<=>userspace ABI headers

2005-09-03 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Saturday 03 September 2005 08:55, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Sep 3, 2005, at 00:28:59, Erik Andersen wrote: > >> Absolutely not. This would be a POSIX namespace violation; they > >> *must* use double-underscore types. > > > > I assume you are worried about the stuff under asm that ends up > > bei

[PATCH][1/2] fix for -mm add-sem_is_read-write_locked.patch

2005-09-03 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi Andrew, Here is an incremental fix to the add-sem_is_read-write_locked patch in -mm. Also attached is a full version of that file, which can just be dropped into place - I've verified that none of the patches in your stack get rejects. The reason for this change is that a lock that's held for

Re: FUSE merging?

2005-09-03 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > Yes, it may confuse the user. It may even confuse the kernel for > > sticky directories(*). But basically it just works, and is very > > simple. > > > > In principal, Plan 9 file servers handle permission checking > server-side, so we could likewise punt -- but it seemed a good idea to > ha

[PATCH][2/2] fix for -mm swaptoken-tuning.patch

2005-09-03 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi Andrew, Here is the change to rmap.c that goes together with the previous patch, as well as a new version of swaptoken-tuning.patch that you can just copy into place. Quilt is great. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.13/mm/rmap.c ==

Re: [PATCH 2/2] support for mmc chip select in wbsd

2005-09-03 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:15:04PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote: > Use the chip select ios in the wbsd driver. Applied, 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 "unsubscri

[PATCH][3/2] also fix rwsem-spinlock.h

2005-09-03 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi Andrew, I forgot to also update rwsem-spinlock.h. Here is the equivalent change for that file. These patches simplify the code and should not have much, if any, difference on the behaviour of the system, compared with the patches currently in -mm. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [PATCH 1/2] ios for mmc chip select

2005-09-03 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:13:42PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote: > Adds a new ios for setting the chip select pin on MMC cards. Needed on > SD controllers which use this pin for other things and therefore cannot > have it pulled high at all times. Applied, thanks. -- Russell King Linux kernel

RE: 2.6.13-mm1: hangs during boot ...

2005-09-03 Thread Brown, Len
>> > Please then try the latest ACPI patch here: >> > >http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches >/release/2.6.13/acpi-20050902-2.6.13.diff.gz >> > It should apply to vanilla 2.6.13 with a reject in ia64/Kconfig >> > that you can ignore. >> > >> > If this works, then we

Re: [TRIVAL] Runtime linkage fix for serial_cs

2005-09-03 Thread Takeharu KATO
Hi You need to find out why your tree doesn't export serial8250_unregister_port(). Mis-merged patch maybe? Thank you for your response. I'll check our kernel again. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More m

Re: aoe fails on sparc64

2005-09-03 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 9/1/05, Ed L Cashin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The aoe driver looks OK, but it turns out there's a byte swapping bug > in the vblade that could be related if he's running the vblade on a > big endian host (even though he said it was an x86 host), but I > haven't heard back from the original p

Re: Linux 2.6.13

2005-09-03 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:57:27AM +0200, Ricardo Galli wrote: > 2.6.13 does not boot in my PPC (iBook, 500 MHz), it hangs just at the very > begining and the machines is automatically rebooted after a couple of > minutes. I've filed a bug at kernel bugzilla so your report won't be lost. See htt

sym53c8xx_2 scsi parity error

2005-09-03 Thread Lars Ziegler
Hi, two weeks ago I just installed an Dawicontrol DC2976 UW SCSI controller an an HP C7438 DAT streamer in my pc. I'm running a SuSE 9.3 Prof distribution with Kernel 2.6.13. when taking backups to my dat no error occurs. but when i try to rebackup data from streamer to my hd i always get scsi

Genesys USB 2.0 enclosures

2005-09-03 Thread Jan De Luyck
Hello lists, (a mail for the archives) I've posted in the past about problems with these enclosures - increasing the delay seems to fix it, albeit temporarily. The further you go in using the disk in such an enclosure, the higher the udelay() had to be - atleast that's what I'm seeing here (I'

[PATCH 1/3] 2.6.13: cpuset + build_sched_domains() fix

2005-09-03 Thread hawkes
Fix part 1: A contribution from Ingo Molnar to pull the arch-specific ia64 build_sched_domains() (et al) routines into kernel/sched.c to form a unified set of build and destroy routines. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux/arc

[PATCH 0/3] 2.6.13: cpuset + build_sched_domains() fix

2005-09-03 Thread hawkes
Dinakar Guniguntala's "dynamic sched domains" functionality was been merged into 2.6.13-rcN, although it was disabled at the last minute in the final 2.6.13 because it triggers a fatal bug for NUMA systems with more than one CPU per node. Conceptually, when a user/sysadmin declares a cpu-exclusive

[PATCH 3/3] 2.6.13: cpuset + build_sched_domains() fix

2005-09-03 Thread hawkes
Fix part 3: Undo the #ifdef disabling hack that was put into 2.6.13 to disable dynamic sched domains. Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux/kernel/cpuset.c === --- linux.orig/kernel/cpuset.c 2005-08-28 16:41:01

[PATCH 2/3] 2.6.13: cpuset + build_sched_domains() fix

2005-09-03 Thread hawkes
Fix part 2: My fix to the 2.6.13 problem: dynamically allocate sched_group_nodes[] and sched_group_allnodes[] for each invocation of build_sched_domains(), rather than use global arrays for these structures, taking care to remember kmalloc() addresses so that arch_destroy_sched_domains() can prope

Re: [RFC] Splitting out kernel<=>userspace ABI headers

2005-09-03 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Sep 3, 2005, at 11:36:22, Denis Vlasenko wrote: Is this an exercise in academia? Userspace app which defines uint32_t to anything different than 'typedef ' deserves the punishment, and one which does have such typedef instead of #include stdint.h will not notice. That's not the issue. Say I

Re: [RFC] Splitting out kernel<=>userspace ABI headers

2005-09-03 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Saturday 03 September 2005 19:33, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Sep 3, 2005, at 11:36:22, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > Is this an exercise in academia? Userspace app which defines > > uint32_t to anything different than 'typedef ' > > deserves the punishment, and one which does have such typedef > > ins

Re: [RFC] Splitting out kernel<=>userspace ABI headers

2005-09-03 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Sep 3, 2005, at 11:19:17, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Thus, an ABIzed or whatever it's called might export "struct __kabi_stat" and "struct __kabi_stat64" with the expectation that the caller would "#define __kabi_stat64 stat" if that is the version they want. A typedef isn't good enough for

Re: [x86_64] Exception when using powernowd.

2005-09-03 Thread David Ranson
Kyuma Ohta wrote: >When upgrade X 6.8.2-4 to 6.8.2-5(or after),this issue has often happend. >I'm using nVidia Geforce 5200 as Display adapter,but this issue >has happend bot Debian's driver and nVidia's driver. > > Hmmm. I use a low end Radeon 7000 in mine, so our configurations diverge. I'm us

Re: [PATCH 2/2] [NETFILTER] remove bogus hand-coded htonll()

2005-09-03 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:43:15AM +0200, Harald Welte wrote: > htonll() is nothing else than cpu_to_be64(), so we'd rather call the > latter. Actually, the htonll() implementation does not seem to be doing what cpu_to_be64() is doing.. However, I would assume this is a bug in htonll() and this c

2.6.13-mm1 login fails (RE: 2.6.13-mm1: hangs during boot ...)

2005-09-03 Thread Brown, Len
>As for the inability to log in, this bug may be relevant, >given I also had >that problem: > >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166422 > >There are fixes in the pipeline for util-linux audit >interaction in Fedora as >well. I know because I reported those too ;) > >> afte

Re: 2.6.13-mm1: hangs during boot ...

2005-09-03 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 23:51 +1000, Peter Williams wrote: > > Are you seeing this "Device not ready" message appear over and over, or > > just the once? > > Just the once. OK, I finally have a theory about this. It's the everything goes via bios code. Previously there were several levels at wh

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13] lockless pagecache 2/7

2005-09-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2005-09-03 at 11:40 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > We'll see how things go. I'm fairly sure that for my usage it will > be a win even if it is costly. It is replacing an atomic_inc_return, > and a read_lock/read_unlock pair. Make sure you bench both AMD and Intel - I'd expect it to be a big l

gcc coredump with 2.6.12+ kernels

2005-09-03 Thread Johnny Stenback
Hey all, I just attempted to upgrade my kernel to 2.6.13. The kernel appears to boot and run just fine, but when I try to build any larger projects like Mozilla or the Linux kernel I constantly get segfaults from gcc. All other apps *seem* to work fine. I remember seeing this with 2.6.12 too

Re: [-mm patch] FB_GEODE should depend on PCI

2005-09-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2005-09-03 at 14:01 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Due to fbdev-geode-updates.patch, building with CONFIG_PCI=n results in > the following error: All the Geodes have PCI or internal PCI emulation so that change makes sense. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13] libata: Marvell SATA support (PIO mode)

2005-09-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tyler wrote: Brett Russ wrote: Some (non-functional) cleanup modifications since the version 0.10 driver I sent out 2005-08-30. Also adding signed-off-by for Jeff's upstream push. This is my libata compatible low level driver for the Marvell SATA family. Currently it successfully runs in PIO

Re: Hotswap support for libata

2005-09-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2005-09-03 at 02:38 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > controllers myself. Many controllers don't have an explicit hotplug > interrupt, but rather we must examine the PhyRdy bit in the standard > SError register for details. If the bit's state changes in any way > (including two or more state

Re: [PATCH 1/2] pci: Block config access during BIST (resend)

2005-09-03 Thread Brian King
Grant Grundler wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:11:30AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: Think about it. Taking the lock ensures that we don't do the assignment (dev->block_ucfg_access = 1) while any other cpu has the pci_lock. In other words, the reason for taking the lock is so that we wait un

Re: gcc coredump with 2.6.12+ kernels

2005-09-03 Thread Alexander Nyberg
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:25:37AM -0700 Johnny Stenback wrote: > Hey all, > > I just attempted to upgrade my kernel to 2.6.13. The kernel appears to > boot and run just fine, but when I try to build any larger projects like > Mozilla or the Linux kernel I constantly get segfaults from gcc. All

Re: 2.6.13-mm1 login fails

2005-09-03 Thread David S. Miller
From: "Brown, Len" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:58:15 -0400 > CONFIG_AUDIT=y indeed did the trick. > > When will I be able to delete CONFIG_AUDIT from my kernel again? It's a regression we accidently added to the netlink socket family, we will fix it. But please use the workarou

Re: Request for review

2005-09-03 Thread Jiri Slaby
Giampaolo Tomassoni napsal(a): Dears, I wrote a first release of a SAR helper module for Linux 2.6.x. It is conceptually similar to the Duncan Sands' usb_atm module, but it is not constrained to usb devices and is a bit different from it in its implementation details. It seems to me that sc

It's Urgent !!

2005-09-03 Thread shashank kharche
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com--- Begin Message --- Sir, Can u tell me wat is difference between block device dri

Re: 2.6.13: Crash in Yenta initialization

2005-09-03 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:45:08AM +0200, Andreas Koch wrote: > crucial part seem to be the different bridge initialization sections: Indeed. > 2.6.12-rc6 + Ivan's patches: ... > PCI: Bus 7, cardbus bridge: :06:09.0 > IO window: 6000-6fff > IO window:

Re: It's Urgent !!

2005-09-03 Thread Willy Tarreau
With such a subject, you'll certainly feed most people's spam traps. And with such a fuzzy question, I don't think you'll ever get a useful response. It's like asking what is the difference between sunny days and rainy days... You'd better look for some litterature if your question is related to k

Re: [PATCH 2/2] [NETFILTER] remove bogus hand-coded htonll()

2005-09-03 Thread Harald Welte
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:54:25AM -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:43:15AM +0200, Harald Welte wrote: > > > htonll() is nothing else than cpu_to_be64(), so we'd rather call the > > latter. > > Actually, the htonll() implementation does not seem to be doing what > cpu_to_b

Re: Request for review

2005-09-03 Thread Patrizio Bassi
Giampaolo Tomassoni ha scritto: Dears, I wrote a first release of a SAR helper module for Linux 2.6.x. It is conceptually similar to the Duncan Sands' usb_atm module, but it is not constrained to usb devices and is a bit different from it in its implementation details. It seems to me that sc

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.13: Filesystem capabilities 0.16

2005-09-03 Thread Olaf Dietsche
Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1 Sep 2005, Olaf Dietsche murmured woefully: >> This patch implements filesystem capabilities. It allows to run >> privileged executables without the need for suid root. > > Is there some reason why this doesn't keep its capability data in > xattrs? When I sta

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