Re: stuck with 2.6.23.14 on x86_64

2008-02-14 Thread Fabio Coatti
Alle giovedì 14 febbraio 2008, Len Brown ha scritto: > > > > > > You're not supposed to have CONFIG_PM unset and CONFIG_ACPI set at the > > > same time. The oldconfig generation must have gone wrong at one point. > > > > Maybe it's not supposed to have this situation, but maybe you should tell >

[GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.25-rc1

2008-02-14 Thread Len Brown
Hi Linus, please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git release This batch... fixes two suspend regressions tidies up the recently updated cpuidle code, including adding documentation. and some other fluff. This will update the files shown below. than

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-14 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:57:16PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > We need to ask Linus to promise that he will pull the stable branch from > linux-next first in the merge window. For that to happen, I would expect > that Linus would also review and sign off (or ack) these commits to the > linux-

Re: Driver removals

2008-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:26:26PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >... > In general, if a driver works and is being used, until it *needs* > attention I see no reason to replace it. I don't agree that "it forces > people to try the new driver" is a valid reason, being unmaintained is > only a pr

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Please always CC linux-fsdevel on VFS patches! > From: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Add a new mount() flag, MS_BIND_FLAGS. > > MS_BIND_FLAGS indicates that a bind mount should take its per-mount flags > from the arguments passed to mount() rather than from the source > mountpoint. This i

Re: [RFC v2 5/5] Atmel MCI: Driver for Atmel on-chip MMC controllers

2008-02-14 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:55:54 -0700 "Dan Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, the other two possibilities are: > > 1/ Spin/sleep until a descriptor shows up Won't work since the transfer hasn't been started yet, so it will spin indefinitely. I guess we could return, send the command and

Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: export gpl (un)register_memory_notifier

2008-02-14 Thread Christoph Raisch
Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 13.02.2008 18:05:00: > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:17 +0100, Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: > > Constraints imposed by HW / FW: > > - eHEA has own MMU > > - eHEA Memory Regions (MRs) are used by the eHEA MMU to translate virtual > > addresses to absolute addres

Re: distributed module configuration [Was: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))]

2008-02-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Wednesday 13. February 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > config foo > > tristate "do you want foo?" > > depends on USB && BAR > > module > > obj-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo.o > > foo-y := file1.o file2.o > > help > > foo will allo

Re: [PATCH] Use ELF_CORE_EFLAGS for kcore ELF header flags.

2008-02-14 Thread Edgar E. Iglesias
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:40:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:34:23 +0100 > "Edgar E. Iglesias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ELF_CORE_EFLAGS is already used by the binfmt_elf coredumper to set correct > > arch specific ELF header flags on coredumps. Use it for kcore

[PATCH 1/1] Input/Touchscreen Driver: add support AD7877 touchscreen driver

2008-02-14 Thread Bryan Wu
From: Michael Hennerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [try #3] Changlog (Add feedback from Dmitry Torokhov): - Change handling of spi_sync / spi_async return value handling - Remove depreciated dev->power.power_state - Fix error return path in ad7877_probe - delete pending kernel timer - Some minor cle

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread David Newall
Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:15:37AM +1030, David Newall wrote: > >> Consider a USB-attached serial port that is set to do RTS/CTS (or >> DSR/DTR) handshaking: What stops the kernel sending more data to it when >> the remote end lowers CTS (or DTR)? >> > > The tty layer shoul

Re: KVM: Export include/linux/kvm.h only if $ARCH actually supports KVM

2008-02-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:43:49AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: Olaf Hering wrote: Currently, make headers_check barfs due to , which includes, not existing. Rather than add a zillion s, export kvm.h only if the arch actually supports it. This makes hea

Is there a "blackhole" /dev/null directory?

2008-02-14 Thread rzryyvzy
Hello Linux Kernel Hackers, /dev/null is often very useful, specially if programs force to save data in some file. But some programs like to creates different temporary file names, so /dev/null could no more work. What is with a "/dev/null"-directory? I mean a "blackhole pseudo directory"

Re: Is there a "blackhole" /dev/null directory?

2008-02-14 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 10:30 +0100, rzryyvzy wrote: > /dev/null is often very useful, specially if programs force to save data in > some file. But some programs like to creates different temporary file names, > so /dev/null could no more work. > > What is with a "/dev/null"-directory? > I mean a

Re: Is there a

2008-02-14 Thread Tom Van Looy
You can create a symlink to /dev/null and name it whatever you want? $ ln -s /dev/null tempfile $ echo blablabla > tempfile $ wc tempfile 0 tempfile >- Oorspronkelijk bericht - >Van: rzryyvzy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Verzonden: donderdag, februari 14, 2008 10:30 AM >Aan: linux-kernel

Re: Is there a "blackhole" /dev/null directory?

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
Jasper Bryant-Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This could be done fairly trivially with FUSE, and IMHO is a good use > for FUSE because since you're just throwing most data away, performance > is not a concern. Q.: how much work would fuse have to do until the user file system server could d

Re: 2.6.26-git0: IDE oops during boot

2008-02-14 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: >> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Monday 11 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Nish Aravamudan wrote: > On 2/7/08, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: udf regression: broken directory handling

2008-02-14 Thread Jan Kara
On Wed 13-02-08 23:36:05, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, 12 of February 2008, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:39:17PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > > On Mon 11-02-08 20:13:20, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:09:10PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > > > >

Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc1-git1 softlockup while bootup on powerpc

2008-02-14 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> While booting with the 2.6.25-rc1-git1 kernel on the powerbox the >> softlockup is seen, with following trace. > >> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s! [insmod:377] >> TASK = c0077cb2f0e0[377] 'insmod' THREAD: c0

Re: + elf-loader-crash-while-zero-filling-bss.patch added to -mm tree

2008-02-14 Thread Abel Bernabeu
2008/2/13, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:15:06AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Subject: Elf loader crash while zero-filling .bss > > From: "Abel Bernabeu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I've finally found a solution for the crash in load_binary_elf I >

[PATCH 2.6.24-rt1] timer:fix build warning in timer.c

2008-02-14 Thread Shi Weihua
Fix the following compile warning without CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT: kernel/timer.c:937: warning: ‘count_active_rt_tasks’ defined but not used Signed-off-by: Shi Weihua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff -urpN linux-2.6.24-rt1.orig/kernel/timer.c linux-2.6.24-rt1/kernel/timer.c --- linux-2.6.24-rt1.orig/kerne

Re: bug in checkpatch (on pointers to typedefs?)

2008-02-14 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:43:58PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Feb 10 2008 15:33, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > >Checkpatch in current mainline outputs following errors: > > > >$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -q --file ./fs/udf/misc.c > >ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxV) > >#205: FIL

Re: sysfs: duplicate filename 'card0' can not be created

2008-02-14 Thread Luciano Rocha
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:09:21PM +, Luciano Rocha wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:21:38PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > At Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:05:27 +, > > Luciano Rocha wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Is this known? I got the error while connecting usb headphones, running >

Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-14 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
Am Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:37:50AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > [Added Bart to CC] > > > Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov: > > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:26:17AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > > > Hi, > >

Re: [PATCH] Use ELF_CORE_EFLAGS for kcore ELF header flags.

2008-02-14 Thread Edgar E. Iglesias
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:36:36PM -0500, Yoshinori Sato wrote: > At Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:34:23 +0100, > Edgar E. Iglesias wrote: > > > > ELF_CORE_EFLAGS is already used by the binfmt_elf coredumper to set correct > > arch specific ELF header flags on coredumps. Use it for kcore aswell. > > This c

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
A few more review comments on details of this patch set ... = In mempolicy.h, the lines: /* * The lower MPOL_FLAG_SHIFT bits of the policy mode represent the MPOL_* * constants defined in enum mempolicy_mode. The upper bits represent * optional set_mempolicy() MPOL_F_

Re: [patch 1/2] x86: apic: Export symbols for extended interrupt LVT functions

2008-02-14 Thread Robert Richter
On 13.02.08 14:32:56, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:19:36 +0100 (CET) > "Robert Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > > arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c |2 ++ > > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > >

Re: earlier ctrl-alt-del

2008-02-14 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Nick Levinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suggestion: ctrl-alt-del should be a working command > earlier in the bootup process, so that reboots won't > take so long because we have to wait. For example, I > sometimes have to change something in BIOS and then >

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thomas Gleixner (1): > x86: EFI: fix use of unitialized variable and the cache logic Your honor, I would like to register a differing opinion... I submitted that fix originally in a different form, but it got finally stripped down to this. However

Re: cris/arch-v10/lib/memset.c compile error

2008-02-14 Thread Jesper Nilsson
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:57:03PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Trying to compile a cris defconfig with an svn gcc (that will become > gcc 4.3) fails with the following error: Ah, yes. Cast doesn't return an lvalue. I've also seen this (as a warning) when running with sparse with the 3.2.1 gcc. I'

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
Paul, responding (incorrectly) to David: > > So, for example, if the task is bound by mems 1-3, and it asks for > > MPOL_INTERLEAVE over 2-4, then initially the mempolicy is only effected > > over node 3 and if it's later expanded to mems 1-8, then the mempolicy is > > effected over nodes 3-5, r

Re: 2.6.26-git0: IDE oops during boot

2008-02-14 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > >> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> On Monday 11 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrot

2.6.25-rc1 regression - IBM ACPI backlight

2008-02-14 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
Hello, as of 2.6.25-rc1, there is no more /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video1 which controlled LVDS backlight on Lenovo ThinkPad T61. There is still acpi_video0 which seems to have sane values but echo N > brightness has no effect at all. thinkpad_acpi module reports that ACPI controlled backlight i

Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash

2008-02-14 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On Wed, Feb 13 2008 at 19:36 +0200, James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> --- >> From: Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [PATCH] gdth: bugfix for the at-exit problems >> >> gdth_exit would first remove all cards then stop the timer >> and would not sync with the timer function.

Re: gfs2_fh_to_parent() array overflow

2008-02-14 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 23:31 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:11:21AM +, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 23:00 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:26:26PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > The Coverity checke

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
David wrote: > So let's say, like my first example from the previous email, that you have > MPOL_INTERLEAVE | MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES over nodes 3-4 and your cpuset's > mems is only nodes 5-7. This would interleave over no nodes. Correct? Given what I said yesterday, that would be a correct conc

Re: Regression in latest sched-git

2008-02-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Hi Dhaval, How does this patch (on top of todays sched-devel.git) work for you? It keeps my laptop nice and spiffy when I run let i=0; while [ $i -lt 100 ]; do let i+=1; while :; do :; done & done under a third user (nobody). This generates huge latencies for the nobody user (up to 1.6s) but r

Re: vmsplice exploits, stack protector and Makefiles

2008-02-14 Thread pageexec
On 14 Feb 2008 at 8:30, Ingo Molnar wrote: > --- linux-x86.q.orig/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c > +++ linux-x86.q/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c > @@ -166,6 +166,15 @@ static inline void play_dead(void) > void cpu_idle(void) > { > current_thread_info()->status |= TS_POLLING; > + > +#ifdef CON

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > futex_lock_pi is called with an absolute timeout, which is based on > CLOCK_REALTIME. Nothing wrong with that, but the clockevents WARN_ON > might trap over a false positive, when the expiry value is less than > base->offset. This was intention

Re: [PATCHv3 1/3] x86: use ELF format in compressed images.

2008-02-14 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 20:54 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the > opportunity to extract the ELF file. Right, Xen currently can't boot bzImage (it needs the ELF image) so you still can't use the same kernel image on Xen as bare-met

Re: Question on timekeeping subsystem

2008-02-14 Thread Francis Moreau
Hello Roman, On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > These mails should help to understand, what this code does: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/4/61 > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/3/205 > Indeed ! They look interesting after a quick look but I haven't time

2.6.24.2 won't compile UML

2008-02-14 Thread Ph. Marek
Hello Jeff, hello everybody else, I'm trying to compile an UML binary from 2.6.24. make ARCH=um O=... bzImage gives make -C linux-2.6.24.2/ O=output_path/build ARCH=um bzImage make[1]: Entering directory `output_path/linux-2.6.24.2' GEN output_path/build/Makefile scripts/kconf

"mount: could not find filesystem" - aacraid? (was: Re: 2.6.26-git0: IDE oops during boot)

2008-02-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Thursday 14 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > >> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> On Monday 11 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > Nish Aravamudan

Re: [PATCH 7/8] Do not recompute msgmni anymore if explicitely set by user

2008-02-14 Thread Nadia Derbey
Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:15:00 +0100 Nadia Derbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:32:31 +0100 Nadia Derbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: it builds fine, modulo some changes in ipv4 and ipv6 (see attached patch - didn't find it in the

Re: "mount: could not find filesystem" - aacraid? (was: Re: 2.6.26-git0: IDE oops during boot)

2008-02-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > > >> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > >>> Hi, > >

[PATCH] Fix direct mapping correctly in ioremap

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
Fix direct mapping correctly in ioremap [This fixes the general ioremap bug I mentioned earlier. It was fortunately easier to fix that I thought first.] set_memory_*/cpa is not currently able to resolve ioremap addresses to their direct mapping aliases. However uncached ioremap still needs to f

[PATCH] gdth: bugfix for the at-exit problems

2008-02-14 Thread Boaz Harrosh
This is a bugfix for the 2.6.24.x stable releases. gdth_exit would first remove all cards then stop the timer and would not sync with the timer function. This caused a crash in gdth_timer() when module was unloaded. So del_timer_sync the timer before we delete the cards. also the reboot notifier

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:02:11 -0800 Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:15:37AM +1030, David Newall wrote: > > Consider a USB-attached serial port that is set to do RTS/CTS (or > > DSR/DTR) handshaking: What stops the kernel sending more data to it when > > the remote en

Re: [BUG] Problem with recording on hda-intel (sata_sil or hda-intel bug) - HP nx6325

2008-02-14 Thread Grzegorz Chwesewicz
Thursday 14 of February 2008 03:57:39 Bill Davidsen napisał(a): > Grzegorz Chwesewicz wrote: > > Hi. > > Problem description: > > > > I have a problem with recording on HP nx6325 notebook (hda-intel with > > AD1981HD codec). Playback works fine, but after 5-10 min. of recording > > microphone s

latest git pull (96b5a46..e760e71) kbuild failure

2008-02-14 Thread Mike Galbraith
With CONFIG_MARKERS set, modpost griped about unknown option -- K. -Mike -- 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

Re: [PATCH] x86: EFI runtime code mapping enhancement

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
> For EFI runtime service in virtual mode, using direct mapping is mainly > for kexec, where EFI runtime memory area need to be mapped at same > virtual address across kexec. I see. I didn't consider this aspect. > - Use direct mapping of kernel, clean NX bit from kernel page table > temporaril

Re: [PATCH 05/11] ata: replace macro with static inline in libata.h

2008-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:14:18 -0800 Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Avoid a metric ton of sparse warnings like: > drivers/ata/pata_ali.c:176:14: warning: symbol '__x' shadows an earlier one > drivers/ata/pata_ali.c:176:14: originally declared here NAK that appears to be a sparse bug.

Re: [PATCH 11/11] ata: fix sparse warnings in pata_legacy.c

2008-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:14:32 -0800 Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's use ld for legacy_data instead of shadowing these static > int variables. NAK - I purposefully used names that indicate what device the private data is being used for in order to make it clear. Changing qdi and

Re: sysfs: duplicate filename 'card0' can not be created

2008-02-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:05:44 +, Luciano Rocha wrote: > > [1 ] > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:09:21PM +, Luciano Rocha wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:21:38PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > At Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:05:27 +, > > > Luciano Rocha wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > >

Re: Is there a

2008-02-14 Thread Mika Lawando
Tom Van Looy schrieb: You can create a symlink to /dev/null and name it whatever you want? $ ln -s /dev/null tempfile $ echo blablabla > tempfile $ wc tempfile 0 tempfile The problem is, what do you do if the filename would be: tempfile. where is replaced by the unix timestamp. I mean how

Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:37:50AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > [Added Bart to CC] > > > Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov: > > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:26:17AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > > > Hi, > > >

Re: Is there a "blackhole" /dev/null directory?

2008-02-14 Thread Mika Lawando
Jasper Bryant-Greene schrieb: On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 10:30 +0100, rzryyvzy wrote: /dev/null is often very useful, specially if programs force to save data in some file. But some programs like to creates different temporary file names, so /dev/null could no more work. What is with a "/dev/nu

Re: [discuss] pci_get_device_reverse(), why does Calgary need this?

2008-02-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How does the patch below look? I didn't want to remove the whole config > > option, as there is more to the logic than just the "reverse order" > > stuff there. > > I think you miss Documentation - it

Re: [PATCH] ide-floppy: merge callbacks

2008-02-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:04:23PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > commit d1f1f84f413ab00cb2fec48170d022fcd900e214 > > > Author: Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > D

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> To make it clear: Even aside from the buffer in 2.6's pl2303.c, there's > a race: An in-flight write URB can fill all hardware buffers, making > unsafe what previously appeared to be a safe write. I think it's > essential to delay submission of the URB on a stop-transmit condition. Hardware flo

Re: vmsplice exploits, stack protector and Makefiles

2008-02-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 13 2008 17:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 13 Feb 2008 at 8:29, Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> Is it signed-off-by: pageexec ? > >no it isn't, on purpose as i won't give out my real name that the >DCO requires. But could still add "Brought-to-attention-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" or something like t

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Russell, On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:14:05 + Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:57:16PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > We need to ask Linus to promise that he will pull the stable branch from > > linux-next first in the merge window. For that to happen, I

Re: 2.6.25-rc1 regression - IBM ACPI backlight

2008-02-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > as of 2.6.25-rc1, there is no more /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video1 which > controlled LVDS backlight on Lenovo ThinkPad T61. There is still acpi_video0 > which seems to have sane values but echo N > brightness has no effect at all. > > thinkpad_acpi m

Re: strange SysRq problem

2008-02-14 Thread Arnd Hannemann
Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > I'm suffering from a strange SysRq problem: > > syslog shows haphazardly "SysRq : HELP" lines, while I definitely didn't > triggered them, neither via (PS/2) keyboard, nor via /proc/sysrq-trigger. > This is accompanied with stalls of about 15-60 secs. Any chance that

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
I had taken a vow of silence on this one, but couldn't resist one more round. David wrote: > My preference (both mode and flags stored in the same member of struct > mempolicy): > >Advantages: > > - completely consistent with the userspace API of passing modes > and flags toge

[RFC] bitmap relative operator for mempolicy extensions

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
From: Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Beware - never tested, never booted.] The following adds one more bitmap operator, with the usual cpumask and nodemask wrappers. This operator computes one bitmap relative to another. If the n-th bit in the origin mask is set, then the m-th bit of the des

[PATCH] libata: Register for dock events when the drive is inside a dock station

2008-02-14 Thread Holger Macht
If a device/bay is inside a docking station, we need to register for dock events additionally to bay events. If a dock event occurs, the dock driver will call the appropriate handler (ata_acpi_ap_notify() or ata_acpi_dev_notify()) for us. Signed-off-by: Holger Macht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff -

Re: [PATCH] libata: Forcing PIO0 mode on reset must not freeze system

2008-02-14 Thread Holger Macht
On Mon 11. Feb - 22:11:32, Tejun Heo wrote: > Holger Macht wrote: > >> It should be called via ata_acpi_{ap|dev}_notify() callbacks installed > >> via acpi_install_notify_handler(). Can you add dump_stack() in the > >> function and verify that it actually is being called? It could be that > >> th

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rt1] timer:fix build warning in timer.c

2008-02-14 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Shi Weihua wrote: > Fix the following compile warning without CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT: > kernel/timer.c:937: warning: ‘count_active_rt_tasks’ defined but not used > > Signed-off-by: Shi Weihua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks, applied. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/cpuset.c: make 3 functions static

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
Adrian wrote: > This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static: > - cpuset_test_cpumask() > - cpuset_change_cpumask() > - cpuset_do_move_task() Thanks. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- I won't rest till it's the best ... P

Re: [PATCH] libata: Register for dock events when the drive is inside a dock station

2008-02-14 Thread Holger Macht
On Thu 14. Feb - 13:40:48, Holger Macht wrote: > If a device/bay is inside a docking station, we need to register for dock > events additionally to bay events. If a dock event occurs, the dock driver > will call the appropriate handler (ata_acpi_ap_notify() or > ata_acpi_dev_notify()) for us. > >

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:30 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > And this is where we usually conclude, that a new userspace mount API > is long overdue. So for starters, how about a new syscall for bind > mounts: > > int mount_bind(const char *src, const char *dst, unsigned flags, >u

Re: pci_get_device_reverse(), why does Calgary need this?

2008-02-14 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PATCH] ide: mark "ide=reverse" option as obsolete - it is valid only if "Probe IDE PCI devices in the PCI bus order (DEPRECATED)" config option is used - Greg needs to remove pci_get_device_reverse() for PCI core changes Cc:

[PATCH] Fix left over EFI cache mapping problems

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
Fix left over EFI cache mapping problems [History: this was originally part of a larger patch that got partially added earlier. This patch fixes the left-over bugs and also fixes another bug I noticed while revising this] cpa/set_memory_* does not properly support ioremap or fixmap (efi_ioremap o

Re: [PATCH] markers: Fix build for MODULES=n.

2008-02-14 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Paul Mundt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > CC kernel/marker.o > kernel/marker.c: In function 'marker_update_probes': > kernel/marker.c:627: error: too few arguments to function > 'module_update_markers' > make[1]: *** [kernel/marker.o] Error 1 > make: *** [kernel] Error 2 > > module_update_

Re: [PATCH] samples: build fix

2008-02-14 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Roland McGrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > The samples/ subdirectory contains only modules. > But the only make run done there is in commands for vmlinux. > I can't see why this was ever done in this nonstandard fashion. > As things stand, the modules don't get built by 'make modules'. > > I

Re: 2.6.24.2 won't compile UML

2008-02-14 Thread Ph. Marek
Hello everybody, On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008, Ph. Marek wrote: > I'm trying to compile an UML binary from 2.6.24. > > make ARCH=um O=... bzImage > > gives > > make -C linux-2.6.24.2/ O=output_path/build ARCH=um bzImage > make[1]: Entering directory `output_path/linux-2.6.24.2' > GEN

Re: Semaphores with timeouts

2008-02-14 Thread Ricardo J. Rodríguez
Hi Alan, > It's certainly possible to add one but the first question would be "why > do you need it - what sort of API are you trying to build" > The protocol works in adhoc wireless mode, so when I send a packet, I've to wait a while before I send it again, like TCP timeout retransmistions work

linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi all, I have created the first cut of the linux-next tree at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git. Things to know about this tree: It has two branches - master and stable. Stable is currently just Linus' tree and will never rebase. Master will rebase on an almost

Re: [PATCH] spufs support multiple probes markers

2008-02-14 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Christoph Hellwig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 06:56:50PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > Update spufs to the new linux kernel markers API, which supports connecting > > more than one probe to a single marker. > > Compiles and works for me. But saying I like the odd

Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-14 Thread Boris Petkov
On 2/14/08, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:37:50AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > > > [Added Bart to CC] > > > > > Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov: > > > > On Tue,

[GIT PATCH] HID updates for 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-14 Thread Jiri Kosina
Linus, could you please pull from 'for-linus' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git for-linus to receive fixes for HID layer. There is one important fix for hid <-> input mapping processing. The rest are just addidions of new device ids that came after t

MMC core debugfs support (was Re: [RFC v2 5/5] Atmel MCI: Driver for Atmel on-chip MMC controllers)

2008-02-14 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
[removing lots of people from Cc] On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:30:51 +0100 Pierre Ossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +static int req_dbg_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) > > +{ > > And this should go into the core. I've started working on this, but I've run into a problem: The mmc co

Re: nmi_watchdog on x86_64

2008-02-14 Thread Jike Song
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:12 AM, Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just found my on hand ck804, and mcp55 based AMD servers: > nmi_watchdog=1 doesn't work > but nmi_watchdog=2 does work > > =1, it say: IOAPIC 8259A virtual wire mode... > > Did nmi_watchdog=1 work on any other amd64 platf

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rt1] SMC91x: Use special_lock when CONFIG_PREEMPT_[HARD|SOFT]IRQS

2008-02-14 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Kevin Hilman wrote: > The smc_special_locks should also be used when either softIRQs or hard > IRQs are preempted which may lead to the same problems as under SMP. > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > dr

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > The tree consists of subsystem git and quilt trees. Currently, the > quilt trees are integrated by importing them into appropriately based > git branches and then merging those branches. Now, would it be possible to have somewhere listed the URL

Re: [RFC] bitmap relative operator for mempolicy extensions

2008-02-14 Thread KOSAKI Motohiro
Hi Paul, > The following adds one more bitmap operator, with the usual > cpumask and nodemask wrappers. This operator computes one > bitmap relative to another. If the n-th bit in the origin > mask is set, then the m-th bit of the destination mask will > be set, where m is the position of t

Re: 2.6.24.2 won't compile UML

2008-02-14 Thread Gabriel C
Ph. Marek wrote: > Hello everybody, Hi, > > On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008, Ph. Marek wrote: >> I'm trying to compile an UML binary from 2.6.24. >> >> make ARCH=um O=... bzImage >> >> gives >> >> make -C linux-2.6.24.2/ O=output_path/build ARCH=um bzImage >> make[1]: Entering directory `o

Re: 2.6.24.2 won't compile UML

2008-02-14 Thread Ph. Marek
Sorry about the noise ... Going to another machine with a recent gcc, and re-applying the config file seems to work, I now got a image. Just have to get it working now ... Gabriel: I just got it working. That was a plain 2.6.24.2 untar - but the "make ARCH=um bzImage" seems to make a mess. T

Re: 2.6.24.2 won't compile UML

2008-02-14 Thread Jeff Dike
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:13:09PM +0100, Ph. Marek wrote: > make -C linux-2.6.24.2/ O=output_path/build ARCH=um bzImage > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `bzImage'. Stop. This seems pretty clear, no? bzImage is a x86-ism. Just leave it off, and you'll get linux and vmlinux.

Re: strange SysRq problem

2008-02-14 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
Am Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 schrieb Arnd Hannemann: > Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > I'm suffering from a strange SysRq problem: > > > > syslog shows haphazardly "SysRq : HELP" lines, while I definitely > > didn't triggered them, neither via (PS/2) keyboard, nor via > > /proc/sysrq-trigger. This

Re: [PATCH 6/8] IPMI: Update driver version

2008-02-14 Thread Corey Minyard
Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:30:48 -0600 Corey Minyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Enough bug fixes and changes that we need a new driver version. Are none of them serious enough to warrant a 2.6.24.x backport? No, nothing really terribly urgent. Just minor stuff.

Re: [PATCH] markers: Fix build for MODULES=n.

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Mundt
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 08:32:44AM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > * Paul Mundt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > CC kernel/marker.o > > kernel/marker.c: In function 'marker_update_probes': > > kernel/marker.c:627: error: too few arguments to function > > 'module_update_markers' > > make[1]:

[PATCH] call gpio_cansleep only after gpio_request succeeded

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
If you have GPIO_LIB gpio_cansleep oopses on an invalid gpio. So better gpio_request your pin first. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Raphael Assenat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Hello, I currently st

Re: 2.6.24.2 won't compile UML

2008-02-14 Thread Ph. Marek
On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:13:09PM +0100, Ph. Marek wrote: > > make -C linux-2.6.24.2/ O=output_path/build ARCH=um bzImage > > > > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `bzImage'. Stop. > > This seems pretty clear, no? > > bzImage is a x86-ism.

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:06:28 +0100 (CET) Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > The tree consists of subsystem git and quilt trees. Currently, the > > quilt trees are integrated by importing them into appropriately based > > git branches an

linux-next: quilt series

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi all, To make my life easier, can I ask that the series file for any quilt trees in the linux-next tree have a comment at the top to identify their base (either a SHA1 or some other ref in Linus' tree). Like this: # BASE Also, if you only want a subset of the series file included, you can

Re: "gdth: update deprecated pci_find_device" is incorrect

2008-02-14 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 02/14/2008 03:44 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote: Hi, commit 99109301d103fbf0de43fc5a580a406c12a501e0 in jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6.git is incorrect. You don't decrement pci refcount on exit. Also you do not so on fail paths... I wonder why these mistakes happen every second time somebody tries to do such

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 14 of February 2008, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, > > I have created the first cut of the linux-next tree at > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git. > > Things to know about this tree: > > It has two branches - master and stable. Stable is currently

Re: [SCSI] gdth: update deprecated pci_find_device

2008-02-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 23:43 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > Gitweb: > > http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=99109301d103fbf0de43fc5a580a406c12a501e0 > > Commit: 99109301d103fbf0de43fc5a580a406c12a501e0 > > Parent

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