Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

2007-01-22 Thread Samium Gromoff
At Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:20:21 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:23:30 +0300, Samium Gromoff said: not core-dumps but core files, in the lispspeak, but anyway. the reason is trivial -- if i can write programs enjoying setuid privileges in C, i want to be able to do

Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

2007-01-22 Thread Samium Gromoff
At Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:35:46 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: the core of the problem are the cores which are customarily dumped by lisps during the environment generation (or modification) stage, and then mapped back, every time the environment is invoked. at the current step of

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.22 17:57:08 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote: On 2007.01.22 17:12:40 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote: On 2007.01.21 18:17:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Hmm, another miss, apparently.. Has anyone tried removing these lines from nv_host_intr in 2.6.20-rc5 sata_nv.c and see what that

Re: [PATCH] Remove final reference to superfluous smp_commence().

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 13:28 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Remove the last (and commented out) invocation of the obsolete smp_commence() call. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks, Acked-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control -v3

2007-01-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Subject: nfs: fix congestion control I am not sure if its too valuable since I have limited experience with NFS but it looks fine to me. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

[-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

2007-01-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:26:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.20-rc3-mm1: ... git-ieee1394.patch ... git trees ... This patch contains the following cleanups: - extern inline - static inline - fw-topology.c: make struct fw_node_create static Signed-off-by: Adrian

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On 1/15/07, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Jan 15 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: I'd be surprised if the device would not obey the 7 second timeout rule that seems to be set in stone and not allow more dirty in-drive cache than it could flush out

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-22 Thread Rik van Riel
Theodore Tso wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:45:02AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote: Definitely disagree with that. I'd like to see the conference somewhere else different this time - perhaps Czech Republic, or somewhere else more easterly and Linux active (or even Finland...) Understand that one

Re: PROBLEM: KB-KiB, MB - MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
For Fs sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone. K is Kelvin, k is kilo- See ISO 31. There is a standard for this stuff which is used worldwide and only bits of the computing industry appear incapable of following

Re: i810fb fails to load

2007-01-22 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 22.01.2007 14:42 schrieb Thomas Hellström: On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:52:36 +0100 Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With kernel 2.6.20-rc4-mm1 and all hotfixes, i810fb fails to load on my Dell Optiplex GX110. [...] Can you try the attached patch to see if that fixes the problem. Yes,

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-22 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! will be a device driver. Common causes of suspend/resume problems from the list you give below are acpi modules, bluetooth and usb. I'd also be consider pcmcia, drm and fuse possibilities. But again, go for unloading everything possible in the first instance. Actually, the reason I

[PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git mast er

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... -Original Message- From: Ralf Baechle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 8:18 AM To: Marc St-Jean Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel

[PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... Here is a serial driver patch for the PMC-Sierra MSP71xx device. There are three different fixes: 1. Fix for THRE errata 2. Fix for Busy Detect on LCR write 3. Workaround for interrupt/data concurrency issue The first fix is handled cleanly using a

[PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:23:01PM -0800, Marc St-Jean wrote: Index: linux_2_6/drivers/serial/8250.c === RCS file: linux_2_6/drivers/serial/8250.c,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.7

[PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... -Original Message- From: Sergei Shtylyov Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:05 AM To: Marc St-Jean Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master Hello. Marc

[PATCH -rt] make spin_unlock to slab_spin_unlock

2007-01-22 Thread Steven Rostedt
Ingo, I hit this bug on one of my work test machines. This bug is probably what caused my laptop to crash ever so often too, but since I don't have a serial or other debug output, my laptop never showed what was wrong. Here's the call trace: [ cut here ] kernel BUG at

Re: [RPC][PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] limit total vfs page cache

2007-01-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: It doesn't reduce the amount of memory available to the system. It just reduce the amount of memory available to the page cache. So that page cache is limited and the reserved memory can be allocated by the application. But the patch doesn't do

Re: [PATCH -rt] make spin_unlock to slab_spin_unlock

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hit this bug on one of my work test machines. This bug is probably what caused my laptop to crash ever so often too, but since I don't have a serial or other debug output, my laptop never showed what was wrong. ah, nice one! Thanks, applied,

Re: [RPC][PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] limit total vfs page cache

2007-01-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Aubrey Li wrote: assume: min = 123pages pagecache_reserved = 200 pages if( alloc_flags ALLOC_PAGECACHE) watermark = min + pagecache_reserved ( 323 pages) else watermark = min ( 123 pages) So if request pagecache, when free pages 323 pages, reclaim

Re: PROBLEM: KB-KiB, MB - MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Tony Foiani
Jan == Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan For Fs sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use Jan k=1000 and K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem Jan gone. The one-letter abbreviations are identical to SI prefixes, except for K, which is used

[patch] HZ-free NTP

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* john stultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And here would be the follow on patch (again *untested*) for CONFIG_NO_HZ slowing the time accumulation down to once per second. thanks John - i've applied the combined patch below to -rt. It appears to work fine for me. Ingo

Re: Linux 2.6.19.2 : Oops

2007-01-22 Thread Nicolas Bareil
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since 2.6.19, I get the following Oops once a day, always with the same process, newspipe[1] which use a lot of CPU, threads and I/O. The kernel is patched by Grsecurity. The ext3 filesystem is on a software RAID device (the two disks are SATA2). I tested

[PATCH] fix umask when noACL kernel meets extN tuned for ACLs

2007-01-22 Thread Hugh Dickins
Fix insecure default behaviour reported by Tigran Aivazian: if an ext2 or ext3 or ext4 filesystem is tuned to mount with acl, but mounted by a kernel built without ACL support, then umask was ignored when creating inodes - though root or user has umask 022, touch creates files as 0666, and mkdir

Re: [PATCH 13/15] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks

2007-01-22 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [PATCH] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks * use 0x00 instead of 0x80 to disable -{ultra,mwdma,swdma}_mask * add udma_mask field to ide_pci_device_t and use it to initialize -ultra_mask in aec62xx, pdc202xx_new and pdc202xx_old drivers * fix UDMA masks

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: In general, though, I would agree that the major number should change if there is an incompatible change. Maybe when those incompatible features are enabled by default. Right now they're not. Nicolas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Carl Worth
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:20:06 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: Also, in the same spirit of giving the release an early exposure, here is the current draft of 1.5.0 release notes. Thanks, these are very good and really show how much great progress has gone into git recently. Congratulations to

Re: [PATCH 13/15] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks

2007-01-22 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [PATCH] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks * use 0x00 instead of 0x80 to disable -{ultra,mwdma,swdma}_mask * add udma_mask field to ide_pci_device_t and use it to initialize -ultra_mask in aec62xx, pdc202xx_new and pdc202xx_old drivers * fix UDMA masks

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Jakub Narebski
Junio C Hamano wrote: GIT v1.5.0 Release Notes (draft) Would they be somewhere besides todo branch of git.git repository, like the v1.5.0 tag comment (content), or the NEWS file? -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH 13/15] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:17:33 +0300 Ugh, I'm not seeing any *actual* support for MW/SW DMA in this driver... Thats long been broken. Should be correct in the libata driver Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[git patches] libata fixes

2007-01-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl |2 +- drivers/ata/libata-eh.c |4 drivers/ata/sata_mv.c |5

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread kyle
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: Hi, Yesterday I tried to increase the value of strip_cache_size to see if I can get better performance or not. I increase the value from 2048 to something like 16384. After I did that, the raid5 freeze. Any proccess read / write to it stucked at D state. I

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: Hi, Yesterday I tried to increase the value of strip_cache_size to see if I can get better performance or not. I increase the value from 2048 to something like 16384. After I did that, the raid5 freeze.

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Steve Cousins wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr /proc/stripe_cache_size. Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Steve Cousins wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr /proc/stripe_cache_size. Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread kyle
Justin Piszcz wrote: Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr /proc/stripe_cache_size. Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the 'wrong' time and it works. Not sure where the bug

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread kyle
Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr /proc/stripe_cache_size. Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the 'wrong' time and it works. Not sure where the bug lies, but yeah I've

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Steve Cousins
Justin Piszcz wrote: Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr /proc/stripe_cache_size. Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the 'wrong' time and it works. Not sure where the bug

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Liang Yang
Do we need to consider the chunk size when we adjust the value of Striped_Cache_Szie for the MD-RAID5 array? Liang - Original Message - From: Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sent: Monday, January

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-22 Thread Pavel Machek
On Sun 2007-01-21 14:27:34, Justin Piszcz wrote: Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to invoke the OOM killer and kill all of my processes? Doing this on a single disk 2.6.19.2 is OK, no issues. However, this happens every time! Anything to try? Any other

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: On Sun 2007-01-21 14:27:34, Justin Piszcz wrote: Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to invoke the OOM killer and kill all of my processes? Doing this on a single disk 2.6.19.2 is OK, no issues. However, this

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
Thanks for your comments; the attached probably needs proofreading. The changes in response to the remainder of your comments are quite straightforward and I do not think needs proofreading, so I'll incorporate them and push the result out in 'todo'. diff --git a/v1.5.0.txt b/v1.5.0.txt index

Re: reiserfs4 primary contact

2007-01-22 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Monday 22 January 2007 18:48, Timothy Webster wrote: I am curious, who is coordinating reiserfs4 bug fixes, testing and kernel integration work at this point? I would like to help out with auto testing the reiserfs4 builds. Thanks Who is coordinating this work? All

Re: [patch] HZ-free NTP

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks John - i've applied the combined patch below to -rt. It appears to work fine for me. updated patch below. (previous one was a delta in timex.h) Ingo From: John Stultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [patch] HZ-free NTP

[patch] mtrr: fix size_or_mask and size_and_mask

2007-01-22 Thread Andreas Herrmann
mtrr: fix size_or_mask and size_and_mask This fixes two bugs in /proc/mtrr interface: o If physical address size crosses the 44 bit boundary size_or_mask is evaluated wrong. o size_and_mask limits width of physical base address for an MTRR to be less than 44 bits. Signed-off-by: Andreas

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

2007-01-22 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:26:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.20-rc3-mm1: ... git-ieee1394.patch ... git trees ... This patch contains the following cleanups: - extern inline - static inline I guess that's fine, I do like how extern inline will

ATA - pata_mpiix.c support for 82371AB chipsets?

2007-01-22 Thread John Stoffel
Hi Alan Jeff, I've finally got the new ATA drivers setup and working for my main data disks, which is great. But I'm also trying to get my CDRW/DVDROM drive on the MPIIX (82371AB) chipset working. I'm running 2.6.20-rc5 currently on a Debian system, using the pata_mpiix as a module. The rest

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:30:39 +0100 Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would like to come with a suggestion I have been wondering about for a while, why not add the config-flag, used in Kconfig/Makefile in the MAINTAINERS-file? I find that the most practical way to find out who really

Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:15:22 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following kernel components register a tunable structure and call the auto-tuning routine: . file system . shared memory (per namespace) . semaphore (per namespace) . message queues (per namespace) This is the part of

Re: where to maintain userspace daemon for line discipline

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:36:14 +0100 Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The recent discussion on LKML convinced me that a line discipline is the correct way to layer a driver over a serial interface. This means, however, that I'll need a (trivial) userspace daemon which will hold the

Re: LEDS: S3C24XX generate name if none given

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:42:21 + Ben Dooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 01:44:28PM +, Richard Purdie wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 12:26 +, Ben Dooks wrote: Generate a name if none is passed to the S3C24XX GPIO LED driver. Wouldn't it be better to fix the

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:23:26 + Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:31:51PM +0100, Tomas Carnecky wrote: Russell King wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: -static char command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; +static char

Re: Data corruption with raid5/dm-crypt/lvm/reiserfs on 2.6.19.2

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:11:58 +0100 noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm experiencing data corruption in the following setup: 1. mdadm --create /dev/md0 -n3 -lraid5 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdc1 /dev/hde1 2. cryptsetup -c aes-cbc-essiva:sha256 luksFormat /dev/md0 mykey 3. cryptsetup -d mykey

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5 1/1] MM: enhance Linux swap subsystem

2007-01-22 Thread Al Boldi
yunfeng zhang wrote: My patch is based on my new idea to Linux swap subsystem, you can find more in Documentation/vm_pps.txt which isn't only patch illustration but also file changelog. In brief, SwapDaemon should scan and reclaim pages on UserSpace::vmalist other than current

Re: [PATCH -rt] whitespace cleanup for 2.6.20-rc5-rt7

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Noah Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fixes trailing whitespace and spaces before tab indents in 2.6.20-rc5-rt7 as reported with: git-apply --whitespace=error-all thanks. Did you do the patch manually, or do you have a script for that perhaps? Ingo - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH query] arm: i.MX/MX1 clock event source

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Pavel Pisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Thomas, Sascha and Ingo please can you find some time to review next patch arm: i.MX/MX1 clock event source which has been sent to you and to the ALKML at 2007-01-13. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/29510/focus=29533

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:56:50AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:23:26 + Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:31:51PM +0100, Tomas Carnecky wrote: Russell King wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote:

[GIT PATCH] PCI fixes for 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Greg KH
Here is a PCI quirk and two docmuentation updates for 2.6.20-rc5 Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6.git/ The full patches will be sent to the linux-pci mailing list, if anyone wants to see it thanks, greg k-h Documentation/pci.txt| 702

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

2007-01-22 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:41:29PM -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:26:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.20-rc3-mm1: ... git-ieee1394.patch ... git trees ... This patch contains the following cleanups: -

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

2007-01-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:41:29PM -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:26:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.20-rc3-mm1: ... git-ieee1394.patch ... git trees ... This patch contains the following cleanups: - extern

OT: snow tux

2007-01-22 Thread David Nicol
http://www.cymor.com/gallery/SnowPenguin/aah - 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-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Hello Andrew, Can I do anything more in order to be closer to merge? Some general comments... or should I CC other people etc... I submitted this several times but got almost no architecture to ACK. I just don't know how we can progress with this issue... All we wanted is to break the 256 limit

RE: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git mast er

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing to linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... Original Message Subject: RE: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:11:04 -0800 From: Marc St-Jean To: Sergei Shtylyov CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux-serial@vger.kernel.org

Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git mast er

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing to linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... Original Message Subject:Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git mast er Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:23:56 -0800 From: Sergei Shtylyov Organization: MontaVista Software Inc. To: Marc St-Jean CC:

Re: OT: snow tux

2007-01-22 Thread lkml
I have to ask why the yellow snow appears to have run, bad aim? On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:21:54PM -0600, David Nicol wrote: http://www.cymor.com/gallery/SnowPenguin/aah - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PROBLEM: KB-KiB, MB - MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:58:42PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: For Fs sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone. And for 10^6 vs 2^20? kegs perhaps? :) Hmm, Mega - Megs, Kilo - Kils? -- Len Sorensen - To

Re: PROBLEM: KB-KiB, MB - MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:36:19PM +, Alan wrote: K is Kelvin, k is kilo- K is a unit is Kelvin, k/K as a prefix is kilo. See ISO 31. There is a standard for this stuff which is used worldwide and only bits of the computing industry appear incapable of following it. -- Len Sorensen - To

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:31:48 +0200 Alon Bar-Lev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Andrew, Can I do anything more in order to be closer to merge? Avoid top-posting? ;) Some general comments... or should I CC other people etc... I submitted this several times but got almost no architecture to

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

2007-01-22 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the following cleanups: - extern inline - static inline - fw-topology.c: make struct fw_node_create static Committed to linux1394-2.6.git. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= =-==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

[patch 2.6.20-rc5] rm pointless dmaengine exports

2007-01-22 Thread David Brownell
This removes several pointless exports from drivers/dma/dmaengine.c; the dma_async_memcpy_*() functions are inlined by linux/dmaengine.h so those exports are inappropriate. It also moves the existing EXPORT_SYMBOL declarations next to their functions, so it's now trivial to confirm one-to-one

Re: OT: snow tux

2007-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 January 2007 15:21, David Nicol wrote: http://www.cymor.com/gallery/SnowPenguin/aah Cute, somebody obviously has time on their hands. I take it the colors are water colors? :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: ATA - pata_mpiix.c support for 82371AB chipsets?

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
00:07.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE [8086:7111] (rev 01) This isn't an MPIIX, Use the ata_piix driver - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: OT: snow tux

2007-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 January 2007 15:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to ask why the yellow snow appears to have run, bad aim? Chuckle. Reminds me of a joke that's centuries old. Seems farmer Brown was giving farmer Jones (who had a son) hell because his daughters name Becky was written in the

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-22 21:44]: Some general comments... or should I CC other people etc... I submitted this several times but got almost no architecture to ACK. I just don't know how we can progress with this issue... All we wanted is to break the 256 limit in

Re: Bug in drivers/md/md.c ?

2007-01-22 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday January 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm getting md: bug in file drivers/md/md.c, line 1652 (see below) after writing data to a md-device using dd. Is it really a bug or am I just using mdadm in the wrong way? I'm unsure about the --assume-clean flag when creating the raid5

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 1/22/07, Bernhard Walle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I refreshed the patches from Alon against 2.6.20-rc4-mm1. Or was I totally wrong? I don't know what is Avoid top-posting? ;) I hope it is a good thing... :) I will look at it again and submit it as requested. Thank you, Alon Bar-Lev. - To

Re: SATA hotplug from the user side ?

2007-01-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: - For SIL3114 and SIL3124 you don't have to run any commands at all. It should notice when you yank the cable, or plug in a new device. All you have to do is to stop using the devices before unplugging, e.g. unmount partitions on the disk or remove

mixer hw loosing its settings during suspend

2007-01-22 Thread Klaus Vink Slott
Hi I was discussing yesterday with Danny on his blok http://dkukawka.blogspot.com/2006/11/kpowersave-config-tutorial.html about how to restore sound on my old laptop. He told me that I should drop you a note as my problem in reality should be handled by the kernel. Short story is that I

Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
There are three different fixes: 1. Fix for THRE errata That should be handled anyway. The current code actually spots this and uses a backup timer for dodgy UARTS 2. Fix for Busy Detect on LCR write 3. Workaround for interrupt/data concurrency issue case UPIO_MEM: +#ifdef

Re: PROBLEM: KB-KiB, MB - MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:36:19PM +, Alan wrote: K is Kelvin, k is kilo- K is a unit is Kelvin, k/K as a prefix is kilo. See ISO 31. There is a standard for this stuff which is used worldwide and only bits of the computing industry appear

Re: PROBLEM: KB-KiB, MB - MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 22 2007 15:43, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:58:42PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: For Fs sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone. And for 10^6 vs 2^20? My harddisk is a 251 gB

Re: OT: snow tux

2007-01-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 22 2007 15:47, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 22 January 2007 15:21, David Nicol wrote: http://www.cymor.com/gallery/SnowPenguin/aah Cute, somebody obviously has time on their hands. I take it the colors are water colors? :) Hm watercolor painting should have sufficed (I think - never

[PATCH] Change incorrect CONFIG_INPUT_ATIXL to CONFIG_MOUSE_ATIXL.

2007-01-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Change the apparently incorrect check for CONFIG_INPUT_ATIXL in a source file to be consistent with the kernel config option CONFIG_MOUSE_ATIXL. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- this *looks* like a bug. diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/inport.c

Re: [PATCH -rt] whitespace cleanup for 2.6.20-rc5-rt7

2007-01-22 Thread noah
No script. Does trailing whitespace and spaces before tab indents seem to cover all the whitespace problem scenarios? -noah On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:58:36PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Noah Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fixes trailing whitespace and spaces before tab indents in

Re: Data corruption with raid5/dm-crypt/lvm/reiserfs on 2.6.19.2

2007-01-22 Thread Christophe Saout
Am Montag, den 22.01.2007, 11:56 -0800 schrieb Andrew Morton: There has been a long history of similar problems when raid and dm-crypt are used together. I thought a couple of months ago that we were hot on the trail of a fix, but I don't think we ever got there. Perhaps Christophe can

Re: i810fb fails to load

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Airlie
Don't know. But I bet someone on the Cc does... Tilman, Thanks for reporting. Can you try the attached patch to see if that fixes the problem. Hi Thomas, This also fixes X starting on old i810/5 hardware, I had noticed it broken but hadn't had time to investigate it, this patch fixes

Re: [PATCH -rt] whitespace cleanup for 2.6.20-rc5-rt7

2007-01-22 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 22/01/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Noah Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fixes trailing whitespace and spaces before tab indents in 2.6.20-rc5-rt7 as reported with: git-apply --whitespace=error-all thanks. Did you do the patch manually, or do you have a script for that

Re: [PATCH] update MMConfig patches w/915 support

2007-01-22 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:28 am, Olivier Galibert wrote: But won't the bridge register value control what actually gets decoded? If so, it sounds like this BIOS is buggy wrt mmconfig mapping in general; good thing I'm not using any PCIe devices I guess... Yeah. I've checked the

Re: [PATCH -mm] uts namespace : remove CONFIG_UTS_NS

2007-01-22 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:27:34AM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Cedric Le Goater ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): CONFIG_UTS_NS has very little value as it only deactivates the unshare of the uts namespace and does not improve performance. Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] SPI: alternative fix for spi_busnum_to_master

2007-01-22 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 21 January 2007 6:25 pm, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: Here is a revised version. The children list of spi_master_class contains only spi_master class so we can just compare bus_num member instead of class_id string. Looks just a bit iffy ... though, thanks for helping to finally sort this

ls, df hang and sshd takes long time to accept connection (Kernel 2.6.19)

2007-01-22 Thread Steven Truong
Hi, all. I have a Centos 4.4 box and compiled the vanila kernel 2.6.19 for a HPC environment. Somehow, whenever I did df /home it would just hang and my user try to ls his home directory and the terminal hang. The /home is lvm raid 1 on a 3 ware (3w-) card (6 drives total, 2 HDs raid 1 for

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-18 16:23]: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:31:51PM +0100, Tomas Carnecky wrote: Russell King wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: -static char command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; +static char __initdata

2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-22 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Is there going to be another 2.6.18-stable release? - 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-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH -mm] ipc namespace : remove CONFIG_IPC_NS

2007-01-22 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:17:49AM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Cedric Le Goater ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): CONFIG_IPC_NS has very little value as it only deactivates the unshare of the ipc namespace and does not improve performance. Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PROBLEM: KB-KiB, MB - MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Tony Foiani wrote: Jan == Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan For Fs sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use Jan k=1000 and K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem Jan gone. The one-letter abbreviations are identical to SI

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:14:00PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: * Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-18 16:23]: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:31:51PM +0100, Tomas Carnecky wrote: Russell King wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: -static char

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-22 23:27]: which reflects precisely what I've been saying concerning the addition of __initdata. 100 % correct, thanks. Regards, Bernhard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[GIT PATCH] USB fixes for 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Greg KH
Here are some USB fixes for 2.6.20-rc5 They include a small number of fixes for some USB bugs, and some new device ids, all of the details are below. I've also disabled the USB multithreaded probe option, as it broke a number of people's machines. Most of them have been in the -mm releases, but

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [GIT PATCH] USB fixes for 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Greg, They include a small number of fixes for some USB bugs, and some new device ids, all of the details are below. I've also disabled the USB multithreaded probe option, as it broke a number of people's machines. what about the two pending patches to make device_move() working as

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [GIT PATCH] USB fixes for 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:15:04PM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote: Hi Greg, They include a small number of fixes for some USB bugs, and some new device ids, all of the details are below. I've also disabled the USB multithreaded probe option, as it broke a number of people's machines.

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [GIT PATCH] USB fixes for 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Greg, They include a small number of fixes for some USB bugs, and some new device ids, all of the details are below. I've also disabled the USB multithreaded probe option, as it broke a number of people's machines. what about the two pending patches to make device_move() working

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