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

2005-09-05 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050904 23:38]: > On 04.09.2005 [21:26:16 +0100], Russell King wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:10:54PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > I've got a few ideas that I think might help push Con's patch coalescing > > > efforts in an arch-independen

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

2005-09-05 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:10:54PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > First of all, and maybe this is just me, I think it would be good to > make the dyn_tick_timer per-interrupt source, as opposed to each arch? Nish, may be a good idea as it may make the code more cleaner (it will remove the 'if

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

2005-09-05 Thread Jan Beulich
Stas, Petr, I know it's been a while since this was discussed and integrated into mainline, but I just now came across this, and following all of the original discussion that I was able to locate I didn't see any mention of a potential different approach to solving the problem which, as it would a

A Framework to automatically configure a Kernel

2005-09-05 Thread Ahmad Reza Cheraghi
Hi everybody For my endthesis I wrote a Framework that automatically generates a Kernel-Configuration . A Kernel-Patch, the sources and a readme are attached to this mail. For more details please read the README.txt. Comments and suggestion are welcome. Regards Ahmad Reze Cheraghi

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-09-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > > The problem appeared between 2.6.12-git3 and 2.6.12-git4. Just for reference, that's git ID's 1d345dac1f30af1cd9f3a1faa12f9f18f17f236e..2a5a68b840cbab31baab2d9b2e1e6de3b289ae1e and that's 225 commits and the diff is 55,781 lines long. It would b

Re: [DVB patch 14/54] frontend: s5h1420: fixes

2005-09-05 Thread Andrew de Quincey
On Monday 05 Sep 2005 00:56, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > On 9/4/05, Johannes Stezenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Andrew de Quincey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Misc. fixes. > > > > > --- linux-2.6.13-git4.orig/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/s5h1420.c > > 2005-09-04 22:24:24.0 +

Re: [discuss] [2.6 patch] include/asm-x86_64 "extern inline" -> "static inline"

2005-09-05 Thread Michael Matz
Hi, On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > "extern inline" doesn't make much sense. It does. It's a GCC extension which says "never ever emit an out-of-line version of this function, not even if its address is taken", i.e. it's implicitely assumed, that if there is a need for such out-of-line

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

2005-09-05 Thread Reuben Farrelly
Hi, On 5/09/2005 4:32 a.m., James Bottomley wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 01:24 +1200, Reuben Farrelly wrote: I am seeing it fill up my messages log as it is logging 1 or so messages each minute. I've emailed the SCSI maintainer James Bottomley twice about it but had no response either time.

Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Andrew Morton
David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We export our full dlm API through read/write/poll on a misc device. > inotify did that for a while, but we ended up going with a straight syscall interface. How fat is the dlm interface? ie: how many syscalls would it take? - To unsubscribe from

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Jörn Engel
On Mon, 5 September 2005 11:47:39 +0800, David Teigland wrote: > > Joern already suggested moving this out of line and into a function (as it > was before) to avoid repeating string constants. In that case the > function, file and line from BUG aren't useful. We now have this, does it > look ok?

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: 2.6.13-mm1

2005-09-05 Thread Reuben Farrelly
Hi Alan, On 3/09/2005 3:19 a.m., Alan Stern wrote: On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Reuben Farrelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm also observing some USB messages logged: Sep 2 13:26:22 tornado kernel: usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 13 Sep 2 13:26

Re: [PATCH] New: Omnikey CardMan 4040 PCMCIA Driver

2005-09-05 Thread Harald Welte
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 02:58:27PM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: > just use > return nonseekable_open(inode, filp); > > to really disable any file pointer positioning (e.g. pwrite/pread too). > > Addtionally cmx_llseek() is implement already as "no_llseek()" > by the VFS, so you delete it from

Re: kernel 2.6.13 - space not freed to kernel

2005-09-05 Thread Nix
On 2 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] murmured woefully: > The usual malloc() never resets the break address or remaps memory > because it is an expensive operation. This means that when new > data space needs to be allocated, malloc() doesn't have to get > anything from the kernel because it already ha

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread David Teigland
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:58:08AM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote: > #define gfs2_assert(sdp, assertion) do { \ > if (unlikely(!(assertion))) { \ > printk(KERN_ERR "GFS2: fsid=\n", (sdp)->sd_fsname); \ > BUG();

Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread David Teigland
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:54:08AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We export our full dlm API through read/write/poll on a misc device. > > > > inotify did that for a while, but we ended up going with a straight syscall > interface. > > How fat is

Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Andrew Morton
David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:54:08AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > We export our full dlm API through read/write/poll on a misc device. > > > > > > > inotify did that for a while, but we ended up g

Re: A Framework to automatically configure a Kernel

2005-09-05 Thread Emmanuel Fleury
Nice idea ! I really would like to have such feature. I tried a bit your stuff, unfortunately, I got this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.13-autoconf]$ make auconfig HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/auto_conf.o scripts/kconfig/auto_conf.c: In function 'auto_conf': scripts/kconfig/auto_conf.c:288: warning:

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

2005-09-05 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:32:21AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > When you have a timer which constantly increments from 0 to MAX and > wraps, and you can set the value to match to cause an interrupt, > it makes more sense to handle it the way we're doing it (which > incidentally leads to no loss of

Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Monday 05 September 2005 05:19, Andrew Morton wrote: > David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:54:08AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We export our full dlm API through read/write/poll on a misc device. > > >

[git patches] libata update

2005-09-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please pull from the 'upstream' branch of rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git to receive some libata updates, described below. This does two vaguely notable things: * converts ATAPI from compile-time to runtime option, making it easier for people to test.

Re: forbid to strace a program

2005-09-05 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 09:32 +0200, Andreas Hartmann wrote: > Chase Venters wrote: [...] > > > > Can I ask why you want to hide the database password from root? > > It's easy: for security reasons. There could always be some bugs in some > software, which makes it possible for some other user, to

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

2005-09-05 Thread David Howells
Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 comment attached

Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread David Teigland
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 02:19:48AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Four functions: > > create_lockspace() > > release_lockspace() > > lock() > > unlock() > > Neat. I'd be inclined to make them syscalls then. I don't suppose anyone > is likely t

Re: [PATCH] custom PM support for 8250

2005-09-05 Thread Grigory Tolstolytkin
Hi Russel, I tried the patch provided by Vitaly Wool. And it works correctly. And now I'm successful with the PM support for my own serial8250 driver. Are you planning to commit the Vitlaly's changes into the mainstream? I guess it'll be helpful for the other people too. What I want is to know

Re: Brand-new notebook useless with Linux...

2005-09-05 Thread Mathieu
Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait dernièrement que : > I just bought a new notebook. Here is the output from lspci using the latest > pci.ids file from sourceforge: I have got the same machine or so and it runs nicely a linux kernel. > 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host

Re: [2.6.13+swsusp2] iounmap Oops

2005-09-05 Thread Dave Airlie
> > Sep 5 08:39:21 hermes vmunix: iounmap: bad address d72f2000 > Sep 5 08:39:21 hermes vmunix: [] iounmap+0xc5/0xd0 > Sep 5 08:39:21 hermes vmunix: [] page_remove_rmap+0x3b/0x60 > Sep 5 08:39:21 hermes vmunix: [] > radeon_do_cleanup_cp+0x348/0x410 > Sep 5 08:39:21 hermes vmunix: [] radeo

Re: [PATCH] New: Omnikey CardMan 4040 PCMCIA Driver

2005-09-05 Thread Harald Welte
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 12:27:20AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 9/4/05, Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 12:12:18PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Below you can find a driver for the Omnikey CardMan 4040 PCMCIA > > > Smartcard Reader. > > > >

Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 21:33, Pavel Machek wrote: > > - read-only mount > > - "specatator" mount (like ro but no journal allocated for the mount, > > no fencing needed for failed node that was mounted as specatator) > > I'd call it "real-read-only", and yes, that's very usefull > mount. Cou

Re: [RFC][CFLART] ipmi procfs bogosity

2005-09-05 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi, On Thursday 01 September 2005 22:30, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:00:44PM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote: > > Plus the scanning function I wrote handles arbitrary leading and > > trailing space, etc. Not a big deal, but a little nicer. > > You can say from the beggining t

Re: [patch] Bring the Vaio's RA826G HDA (82801) to life ...

2005-09-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 4 Sep 2005 10:13:01 -0700 (PDT), Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > Add the subsystem PCI devid to the list (on top of 2.6.13). > > > - Davide > > > Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi Applied to ALSA tree. Thanks! Takashi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Re: [PATCH] fix some warnings in sound

2005-09-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sat, 3 Sep 2005 00:43:53 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > Some drivers don't control return values, that can fail. > > Generated in 2.6.13-mm1 kernel version. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ali5451/ali5451.c |3 ++- > cs46xx/cs46xx_lib.c |6 -- > via82xx.c

Re: [PATCH] ipw2200: Missing kmalloc check

2005-09-05 Thread Jiri Slaby
Panagiotis Issaris napsal(a): The ipw2200 driver code in current GIT contains a kmalloc() followed by a memset() without handling a possible memory allocation failure. Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c |4 1 files changed, 4 insert

Regarding the booting the linux kernel on a > PPC board.

2005-09-05 Thread vinay hegde
> Hi All, > > I am working on bringing up a PowerPC based board > with Linux 2.6 kernel (Board supoort package). > However, I am facing some problem with respect to > debugging. > > When I boot the board with the Linux kernel (BSP), > the board hangs after printing the following > information.

Re: [patch] KGDB for Real-Time Preemption systems

2005-09-05 Thread Serge Noiraud
mercredi 17 Août 2005 02:53, George Anzinger wrote/a écrit : > I have put a version of KGDB for x86 RT kernels here: > http://source.mvista.com/~ganzinger/ > > The common_kgdb_cfi_ stuff creates debug records for entry.S and > friends so that you can "bt" through them. Apply in this order: > I

Machine dies under heavy I/O or network-access ..?

2005-09-05 Thread Christiaan den Besten
Hi all ! We have recently installed two new Usenet feeders, but are having issue's keeping them alive under 'heavy' load. Both are SuperMicro based models with onboard Intel GB NICS and have a Areca 16 ports SATA-II controller. Both are Dual Xeon 2.8 with 4G ram, swap disabled. Filesystems are

Re: Bug#321442: kernel-source-2.6.8: fails to compile on powerpc (drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c)

2005-09-05 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Should be fixed in 2.6.13. On 8/16/05, Kyle Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 13, 2005, at 18:54:30, LT-P wrote: > > Le lun 08 aoû 2005 17:57:04 CEST, Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit: > >> Can you please enable BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI and see if that resolves > >> your > >> problem. If it d

Kernel 2.6.13 repeated ACPI events?

2005-09-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have a box where I keep getting this in dmesg: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5

Re: 2.6, devfs, SMP, SATA

2005-09-05 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 9/5/05, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, any guesses why with otherwise identical config options, a kernel > with SMP enabled doesn't boot up with all of the device nodes that it > should? (Both drives are on the same controller. I haven't checked to > see if any other device files ar

Re: Kernel 2.6.13 repeated ACPI events?

2005-09-05 Thread Manuel Lauss
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:54:59AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > I have a box where I keep getting this in dmesg: > > ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) > -> IRQ 5 > ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) > -> IRQ 5 > ACPI:

Re: Kernel 2.6.13 repeated ACPI events?

2005-09-05 Thread Jan De Luyck
I'm seeing repeated ACPI events too, but of the battery kind: [Mon Sep 5 15:13:52 2005] received event "battery BAT2 0080 0001" [Mon Sep 5 15:13:52 2005] completed event "battery BAT2 0080 0001" [Mon Sep 5 15:14:53 2005] received event "battery BAT1 0080 0001" [Mon Sep

netif_rx for ATM

2005-09-05 Thread manomugdha biswas
Hi, I am writing a new driver module for ATM. I want to send a packet to protocol stack using netif_rx(). For ethernet i am using netif_rx() in the following way. I have dev pointer. skbuff->dev = device; skbuff->protocol = eth_type_trans(skbuff, device); netif_rx(skbuff); It works for e

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

2005-09-05 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:30:53PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > > Thus, for x86, we would have a dyn_tick_timer structure for the PIT, > > APIC, ACPI PM-timer and the HPET. These structures could be put in > > Does the ACPI PM-timer support generating interrupts also? Same question > I have

DVD+-R[W] regression in 2.6.12/13

2005-09-05 Thread Oliver Tennert
Hello together, with my machine, an "hdparm -I /dev/dvdrecorder" leads to the output: /dev/dvdrecorder: HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error The kernel tells me: [4296893.262000] hdd: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [4296893.262000] hdd: drive_cmd: erro

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

2005-09-05 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, David Howells wrote: > The comment attached to the drop-in replacement patch is wrong: Indeed it is. Good thing Andrew doesn't seem to have dropped it in ;) > | +static inline int sem_is_read_locked(struct rw_semaphore *sem) > | +{ > | + return (sem->count != 0); > | +} >

2.6.13-ck2

2005-09-05 Thread Con Kolivas
These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity. It is configurable to any workload but the default ck* patch is aimed at the desktop and ck*-server is available with more emphasis on serverspace. Apply to 2.6.13 http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-ck2/

Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-05 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 05 September 2005 10:36, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 17:20 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, is there ANY reason why this has to be done in the > > kernel? The PPPoATM module for pppd implements (via linux-atm) a > > completely userspace AT

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

2005-09-05 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, David Howells wrote: > | Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-ppc64/rwsem.h > This uses the function wrong name. And: I really shouldn't make patches like this in the morning on weekends, when I'm still sleepy. Well, here is the trivial fix... Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <[EMAI

swsusp: update documentation

2005-09-05 Thread Pavel Machek
This updates documentation a bit (mostly removing obsolete stuff), and marks swsusp as no longer experimental in config. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt --- a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt +++ b/Documen

Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-05 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 14:52 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > I'm not sure which module you're referring to, but the patch recommended by > the speedtouch people links to linux-atm, and does not require kernel ATM or > kernel pppoatm functionality, or use any kernel modules. I do notice it d

Re: real read-only [was Re: GFS, what's remaining]

2005-09-05 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:27:35AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > There's a better reason, too. I do swsusp. Then I'd like to boot with > / mounted read-only (so that I can read my config files, some > binaries, and maybe suspended image), but I absolutely may not write > to disk at this point, be

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:09:23AM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote: > Btw, I'm curious to know how useful folks find the ext3 mount options > errors=continue and errors=panic. I'm extremely likely to implement the > errors=read-only behavior as default in OCFS2 and I'm wondering whether the > other two ar

Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-05 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 05 September 2005 14:56, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 14:52 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > I'm not sure which module you're referring to, but the patch recommended > > by the speedtouch people links to linux-atm, and does not require kernel > > ATM or kernel pp

Re: 2.6.13 (was 2.6.11.11) and rsync oops (SATA or NFS related?)

2005-09-05 Thread Kalin KOZHUHAROV
Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: Hi, there. Long time no posting - didn't have kernel problems for long time :-) That is why I am still running 2.6.11.11 (2.6.12 elsewhere). Will move to 2.6.13 soon. Yesterday just bought a new SATAII drive (Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831AS

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2005-09-03T09:27:41, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh thats interesting, I never thought about putting data files (tablespaces) > in a clustered file system. Does that mean you can run supported RAC on > shared ocfs2 files and anybody is using that? That is the whole point why O

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2005-09-03T01:57:31, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only current users of dlms are cluster filesystems. There are zero users > of the userspace dlm api. That is incorrect, and you're contradicting yourself here: > What does have to be resolved is a common API for node man

Re: [PATCH] ipw2200: Missing kmalloc check

2005-09-05 Thread Takis
On 9/5/05, Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > rxq = (struct ipw_rx_queue *)kmalloc(sizeof(*rxq), GFP_KERNEL); > >+ if (unlikely(!rxq)) { > >+ IPW_ERROR("memory allocation failed\n"); > >+ return NULL; > >+ } > > memset(rxq, 0, sizeof(*rxq)); >

Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-05 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 15:18 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > Still, I don't feel this detracts from the point that client ATM DSL > device "drivers" can exist happily in userspace. Indeed they can. There's been lots of academic research into microkernels which supports your assertion. -- d

Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-05 Thread Duncan Sands
Hi Alistair, > Just out of curiosity, is there ANY reason why this has to be done in the > kernel? The PPPoATM module for pppd implements (via linux-atm) a completely > userspace ATM decoder.. if anything, now redundant ATM stack code should be > REMOVED from Linux! the main advantage of the k

Re: A Framework to automatically configure a Kernel

2005-09-05 Thread Ahmad Reza Cheraghi
--- Emmanuel Fleury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Ahmad Reza Cheraghi wrote: > > > > I install right now a gcc 4.0 debian-packege on my > > system and it still works. But I attached another > > patch(I thik I did a mistake in the patch;-)). > > Might be as well ! :) > > But, I'll give

promisc mode question

2005-09-05 Thread Catalin Toda
hi, I appreciate what you guys are doing here, congratulations for your work. My question is: in promiscous mode for an ethernet card, why linux kernel is not accepting frames (packets ) that have other mac address diffrent from one that is on the card ( or set with ifconfig ). Accepting meani

Re: [PATCH 1/2] amd76x_pm: C2 powersaving for AMD K7

2005-09-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > +NOTE: Currently there's a bug somewhere where the reading the > + P_LVL2 for the first time causes the system to sleep instead of > + idling. This means that you need to hit the power button once to > + wake the system after loading the module for the first time after > +

Re: [PATCH 2/2] amd76x_pm: C2 powersaving for AMD K7

2005-09-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > This patch adds some experimental features to amd76x_pm, namely C3, NTH > and POS support. These features are not enabled by default and are > intended for kernel hackers only. > Could those wait until ready? -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms

who sets boot_params[].screen_info.orig_video_isVGA?

2005-09-05 Thread gl
Hi all, I am trying to get intelfb running on a system with a 855GM onboard chip, and the driver exits at intelfbdrv.c::intelfb_pci_register() (2.6.13, line 814: if (FIXED_MODE(dinfo) && ORIG_VIDEO_ISVGA != VIDEO_TYPE_VLFB) { ERR_MSG("Video mode must be programmed at b

Re: [ATMSAR] Request for review - update #1

2005-09-05 Thread Duncan Sands
Hi Alistair, > > The instalation is currently (with firmware loader instead of modem_run) > > very simple: USE="atm" emerge ppp, download firmware and place it in > > /lib/firmware, compile the kernel with speedtch support. > > Compared to "place the firmware in /lib/firmware" on many other distr

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-05 Thread Horst von Brand
Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:47:03AM -0400, Sean wrote: [...] > > But the real crux of the argument here is not whether or not people should > > ever use binary-only drivers, it's whether the open source kernel > > developers should spend any time worrying

Re: who sets boot_params[].screen_info.orig_video_isVGA?

2005-09-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to get intelfb running on a system with a 855GM onboard chip, > and the driver exits at intelfbdrv.c::intelfb_pci_register() (2.6.13, line > 814: > > if (FIXED_MODE(dinfo) && ORIG_VIDEO_ISVGA != VIDEO_TYPE_VLFB) { >

Re: [PATCH] ISA DMA suspend for i386

2005-09-05 Thread Pierre Ossman
Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Where is CONFIG_PM? > > Jeff I'm not sure you're receiving my mails, but I'll give it a try anyway. It would also seem that my MTA is choking on your MX entries. I'll look into that once I get home. CONFIG_PM is missing because of consistency with i8259.c, on which th

kernel BUG at net/ipv4/tcp.c:775! with 2.6.13-git5

2005-09-05 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi I'm getting the following BUG report with 2.6.13-git5:- [ cut here ] kernel BUG at net/ipv4/tcp.c:775! invalid operand: [#5] PREEMPT Modules linked in: raw ipv6 snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_devic e snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_

Re: [PATCH 1/2] amd76x_pm: C2 powersaving for AMD K7

2005-09-05 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050905 17:59]: > Hi! > > > > +NOTE: Currently there's a bug somewhere where the reading the > > + P_LVL2 for the first time causes the system to sleep instead of > > + idling. This means that you need to hit the power button once to > > + wake t

Re: [PATCHSET] 2.6.13-git3-bird1

2005-09-05 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:58:48AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While way overdue, "fixes and sparse annotations" tree is finally > going public. This version is basically a starting point - there will be > much more stuff to merge. > Current patchset is on ftp.linux.org.uk/p

Re: who sets boot_params[].screen_info.orig_video_isVGA?

2005-09-05 Thread gl
Thanks for the reply, Matthew. On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Matthew Garrett wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to get intelfb running on a system with a 855GM onboard chip, and the driver exits at intelfbdrv.c::intelfb_pci_register() (2.6.13, line 814: if (FIXED_MO

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Monday 05 September 2005 10:14, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2005-09-03T01:57:31, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only current users of dlms are cluster filesystems. There are zero > > users of the userspace dlm api. > > That is incorrect... Application users Lars, sorry i

igmp problem

2005-09-05 Thread felix-linuxkernel
Hi! I wrote a few multicast tools, which use these multicast groups: 225.109.99.112 ff02::6d63:7030 224.110.99.112 ff02::6e63:7030 I have a Cisco in the middle, and both boxes are in different VLANs. The Cisco is sending out igmp queries. The kernel never answers, even after subscribing

Re: who sets boot_params[].screen_info.orig_video_isVGA?

2005-09-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do I get it right, that, say, if I tell grub to load a kernel and specify > "vga=xxx" on the kernel command line, grub will interpret it, issue some > VESA BIOS calls and fill in the screen_info struct? If so, the card often > supports several mode

kernel 2.6.13 hangs / freezes with nvidia kernel module on switch to virtual console (also 2.6.12)

2005-09-05 Thread hanasaki
kernel 2.6.13 hangs / freezes with nvidia kernel module on switch to virtual console Running Debian testing and stable and built the kernel with the attached config. Then the NVidia installer was run. Everything boots and runs fine. X and Gnome come up and run. Switching to a Virtual Console l

Re: [PATCHSET] 2.6.13-git3-bird1

2005-09-05 Thread viro
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 07:55:22PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:58:48AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > While way overdue, "fixes and sparse annotations" tree is finally > > going public. This version is basically a starting point - there will be > > much

Re: [PATCH 2/2] amd76x_pm: C2 powersaving for AMD K7

2005-09-05 Thread Joerg Sommrey
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:51:45PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > This patch adds some experimental features to amd76x_pm, namely C3, NTH > > and POS support. These features are not enabled by default and are > > intended for kernel hackers only. > > > > Could those wait until ready? Th

Re: kernel 2.6.13 hangs / freezes with nvidia kernel module on switch to virtual console (also 2.6.12)

2005-09-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 9/5/05, hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kernel 2.6.13 hangs / freezes with nvidia > kernel module on switch to virtual console > > Running Debian testing and stable and built the kernel with the attached > config. Then the NVidia installer was run. Everything boots and runs > fine. X a

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Monday 05 September 2005 10:49, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Monday 05 September 2005 10:14, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > > On 2005-09-03T01:57:31, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The only current users of dlms are cluster filesystems. There are zero > > > users of the userspace

Re: linux-2.6.13-mm1 fails to build

2005-09-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-09-05 at 14:17 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to build linux-2.6.13-mm1 with the attached configuration, and > it failed with: > > drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c: In function `rx_data_softint': > drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c:1433: error: structure has no

Re: DVD+-R[W] regression in 2.6.12/13

2005-09-05 Thread Mark Lord
Oh, you *should* be able to get the results you are looking for (hdparm -I) by trying it this way: hdparm --Istdin http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: DVD+-R[W] regression in 2.6.12/13

2005-09-05 Thread Mark Lord
Oliver Tennert wrote: "hdparm -I /dev/dvdrecorder" leads to the output: /dev/dvdrecorder: HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error The kernel tells me: [4296893.262000] hdd: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [4296893.262000] hdd: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { Abor

Re: nfs4 client bug

2005-09-05 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
[Bret Towe] > i encountered the following error while using nfs4 > ive hit this error i think twice now not sure what causes it yet tho > this time the only io related items going on was emerge sync running > in the background (which shouldnt of touched nfs at all) and xmms > playing some music >

Re: igmp problem

2005-09-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 9/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I wrote a few multicast tools, which use these multicast groups: > > 225.109.99.112 > ff02::6d63:7030 > 224.110.99.112 > ff02::6e63:7030 > > I have a Cisco in the middle, and both boxes are in different VLANs. > The Cisco

Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-09-05 at 02:19 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > create_lockspace() > > release_lockspace() > > lock() > > unlock() > > Neat. I'd be inclined to make them syscalls then. I don't suppose anyone > is likely to object if we reserve those slots. If the locks are not file descript

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

2005-09-05 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 05.09.2005 [13:08:20 +1000], Con Kolivas wrote: > On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 06:37 am, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > On 04.09.2005 [21:26:16 +0100], Russell King wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:10:54PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > > I've got a few ideas that I think might help push C

re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-09-04 at 07:51 -0700, Alex Davis wrote: > I'm not asking you to debug crashes. I'm simply requesting that the > kernel stack size situation remain as it is: with 8K as the default > and 4K configurable. How about the relevant question - why hasn't someone fixed ndiswrapper yet - its

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-09-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2005-09-03 at 23:26 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Loading a non-GPL (tagged) module leads in tainting the kernel (which > basically > is a flag for developers to be alerted while debugging), is that right? Correct, although some administrators find it useful too > Non GPL Modules are a

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

2005-09-05 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 05.09.2005 [09:00:28 +0100], Russell King wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:19:28PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > > > Despite that, the timers as implemented on the hardware are not > > > suitable for dyntick use - attempting to use them, you lose long > > > term precision of the timer in

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-09-04 at 09:30 -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > MS stuff. We know that 4K stacks hurt the above. Do we really want to break > working > configs just to enforce 4K stacks? How does it hurt to make 4K the default > and > allow 8K? What _might_ make sense is to make 8K a reason to tain

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

2005-09-05 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 05.09.2005 [09:58:59 +0300], Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050904 23:38]: > > On 04.09.2005 [21:26:16 +0100], Russell King wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:10:54PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > > I've got a few ideas that I think might help pu

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13] lockless pagecache 2/7

2005-09-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-09-04 at 11:01 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > I would be surprised if it was a big loss... but I'm assuming > a locked cmpxchg isn't outlandishly expensive. Basically: > >read_lock_irqsave(cacheline1); >atomic_inc_return(cacheline2); >read_unlock_irqrestore(cacheline1); > >

Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.13-rc7 (WORKS) (2.6.13, DRQ/System CRASH)

2005-09-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-09-05 at 09:26 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > After DMA timeout driver reverted back to PIO, > ide-taskfile.c also holds PIO code besides IDE Taskfile Access. On SMP after a DMA timeout it will potentially freeze. There are some paths in that code which lead to double lock

Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2005-09-03 at 21:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Actually I think it's rather sick. Taking O_NONBLOCK and making it a > lock-manager trylock because they're kinda-sorta-similar-sounding? Spare > me. O_NONBLOCK means "open this file in nonblocking mode", not "attempt to > acquire a clust

Re: DVD+-R[W] regression in 2.6.12/13

2005-09-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-09-05 at 12:24 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > I'm not sure why the "failed: Input/output error" (-EIO) result is > being returned from the ATA layer in this case. Driver bug, most likely. Because the command failed an error was reported back instead of success status/info. Alan - To uns

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

2005-09-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Kyle Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Didn't you mean "#define stat __kabi_stat64"? Also, I can see that > would pose other issues as well say my app does "struct stat stat;" > Any error messages would refer to a variab

[PATCH] Omnikey Cardman 4040 driver

2005-09-05 Thread Harald Welte
Hi! I've now incorporated all the suggested changes (thanks once again on the many comments received). The resulting driver has been tested and works fine. Please consider applying the driver to the mainline tree, thanks.

Re: [PATCH] New: Omnikey CardMan 4040 PCMCIA Driver

2005-09-05 Thread Harald Welte
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:27:00PM -0500, Chase Venters wrote: > > Below you can find a driver for the Omnikey CardMan 4040 PCMCIA > > Smartcard Reader. > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't these #defines be a problem > with > the new HZ flexibility: > > #define CCID_DRIVER_B

Re: DVD+-R[W] regression in 2.6.12/13

2005-09-05 Thread Mark Lord
Alan Cox wrote: On Llu, 2005-09-05 at 12:24 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: I'm not sure why the "failed: Input/output error" (-EIO) result is being returned from the ATA layer in this case. Driver bug, most likely. Because the command failed an error was reported back instead of success status/info

[PATCHSET] 2.6.13-git5-bird1

2005-09-05 Thread viro
> > [allmodconfig + CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=n] x [alpha, i386, parisc, ppc, ppc64, > > s390, sh, sh64, sparc, sparc64, x86_64] > > > > -git5 is compiling right now. > > -git5 has additional breakage: > * s390 crypto is b0rken; removal of workqueue that doesn't exist > * ppc44x missed s/u3/p

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