Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 4

2005-02-09 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 20:49:36 -0600, Tom Zanussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +static int relayfs_create_entry(const char *name, struct dentry *parent, > + int mode, struct rchan *chan, > + struct dentry **dentry) > +{ > + struct qstr

Spontaneous reboot with 2.6.10 and NFSD

2005-02-09 Thread Kim Holviala
I hit an obscure bug last night when trying to copy files from an nfs client to my nfs server. The server is a P3/800 with three IDE disks in software RAID5 running vanilla 2.6.10 and Debian Sarge. The network is local 100Mbit/s switched ethernet. The server exports a 220 gig partition which

Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 4

2005-02-09 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Tom, On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 20:49:36 -0600, Tom Zanussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +static inline struct page **alloc_page_array(int size, int *page_count) > +{ > + int n_pages; > + struct page **page_array; > + > + size = PAGE_ALIGN(size); > + n_pages = size >>

Re: How to retrieve version from kernel source (the right way)?

2005-02-09 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi. Sam Ravnborg wrote: But... what is the right way to do this? I think you are looking for: make kernelrelease [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.10 $ make kernelrelease make: *** No rule to make target `kernelrelease'. Stop. [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.10 $ cd .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] src $ cd

Re: [PATCH 9/8] lib/sort: turn off self-test

2005-02-09 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:03:44 -0800, Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a nice self-contained unit test. It's here because I ran into a > strange regparm-related bug when developing the code in userspace and > I wanted to be sure that it was easy to diagnose in the field if a > similar

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Horst von Brand
Nicolas Pitre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:06:02AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > > So you've somehow managed to trick most kernel developers into > > > granting you power over not only the BK history > > It's exactly the

Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 4

2005-02-09 Thread Tom Zanussi
Maneesh Soni writes: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 08:49:36PM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote: > [..] > > + */ > > +struct dentry *relayfs_create_file(const char *name, struct dentry > > *parent, > > + int mode, struct rchan *chan) > > +{ > > + struct dentry *dentry; >

fix watchdog link order.

2005-02-09 Thread Dave Jones
Comment says that softdog has to go last. Make it so. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.10/drivers/char/watchdog/Makefile~2005-02-10 01:48:32.0 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.10/drivers/char/watchdog/Makefile 2005-02-10 01:49:39.0 -0500 @@ -2,11 +2,6 @@

Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 4

2005-02-09 Thread Maneesh Soni
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 08:49:36PM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote: [..] > + */ > +struct dentry *relayfs_create_file(const char *name, struct dentry *parent, > +int mode, struct rchan *chan) > +{ > + struct dentry *dentry; > + int error; > + > + if

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread James Bruce
Roman, please give up on importing 100% of the history. There's no point arguing something if you already know what the other person's answer will be. Larry will not change his mind under any currently foreseeable circumstances. Yes, there is "meta-data lockin" whether anyone at BitMover

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread James Bruce
While I agree with your overall sentiment, please compare apples to apples regarding the license. You said: Larry McVoy wrote: I don't come here every month and ask for the GPL to be removed from some driver, that's essentially what you are doing and I think pretty much everyone is sick of it.

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-bk5: XFS: fcron: could not write() buf to disk: Resource temporarily unavailable

2005-02-09 Thread Nathan Scott
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:44:54PM +0300, Alexander Y. Fomichev wrote: > On Wednesday 09 February 2005 04:29, Nathan Scott wrote: > > Is that an O_SYNC write, do you know? Or a write to an inode > > with the sync flag set? > > Yes, it is O_SYNC, as i can see from fcron sources, and, no, kernel

Re: [PATCH] arp_queue: serializing unlink + kfree_skb

2005-02-09 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:23:04AM -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote: > > What happens if the operation could return a value, but the user > ignores it ? E.g. if I don't like smp_mb__*, could I just use > > atomic_inc_and_test(foo); > > instead of > > smp_mb__before_atomic_inc(); >

[PATCH] OProfile: ARM/XScale1 PMU support fix

2005-02-09 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
Richard Purdie provided a patch to fix support for XScale1 processors (this is the PMU version i never had access to initially), we weren't clearing the overflow flags after an overflow interrupt had triggered resulting in no additional interrupts occuring. Additionally i've added basic power

[PATCH] distribute ppc64 EXPORT_SYMBOLs

2005-02-09 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi, This patch just moves aas many as possible EXPORT_SYMBOL()s from arch/ppc64/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c to where the symbols are defined. This has been compiled on pSeries, iSeries and pmac. Please apply. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

2005-02-09 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 08:12:07PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > (I understand that it's only a "proof of concept" patch, but I thought I'd > bitch anyway ;)) > > So. I'll keep the patch as-is in -mm for now. I've Cc'ed linux-acpi. > Perhaps the people there can absorb this and fix it up for

Re: [PATCH] arp_queue: serializing unlink + kfree_skb

2005-02-09 Thread Werner Almesberger
David S. Miller wrote: > This document is intended to serve as a guide to Linux port > maintainers on how to implement atomic counter and bitops operations > properly. Finally, some light is shed into one of the most arcane areas of the kernel ;-) Thanks ! > Unlike the above routines, it

Re: 2.4.x kernel BUG at filemap.c:81

2005-02-09 Thread Todd Shetter
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:47:28PM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: Running slackware 10 and 10.1, with kernels 2.4.26, 2.4.27, 2.4.28, 2.4.29 with highmem 4GB, and highmem i/o support enabled, I get a system lockup. This happens in both X and console. Happens with and

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

2005-02-09 Thread Andrew Morton
"Marcos D. Marado Torres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please add to -mm the patch in attachment, since it solves the old > acpi_power_off bug... > > ... > diff -Nru -p1 linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm1/drivers/base/power/shutdown.c > linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm1-mbn1/drivers/base/power/shutdown.c > ---

Re: Important Message

2005-02-09 Thread SGTMDOHERTY
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Re: [PATCH 9/8] lib/sort: turn off self-test

2005-02-09 Thread Werner Almesberger
Matt Mackall wrote: > It's a nice self-contained unit test. By the way, I think it would be useful if there was a more formalized frame for such unit tests, so that they could be used in automated kernel testing. To avoid false positives when grepping through the code, perhaps such tests could

Re: [0/8] orinoco driver updates

2005-02-09 Thread David Gibson
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:07:08PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > David Gibson wrote: > >I'm now not entirely clear on whether you want patches against the > >netdev bk, or against Linus bk/snapshots. > > > Please send diff'd against vanilla Linus upstream. Ok, in that case do you want me to

Re: [0/8] orinoco driver updates

2005-02-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
David Gibson wrote: I'm now not entirely clear on whether you want patches against the netdev bk, or against Linus bk/snapshots. Please send diff'd against vanilla Linus upstream. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [0/8] orinoco driver updates

2005-02-09 Thread David Gibson
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:48:31PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > David Gibson wrote: > >Following are a bunch of patches which make a few more steps towards > >the long overdue merge of the CVS orinoco driver into mainline. These > >do make behavioural changes to the driver, but they should all be

[PATCH] relayfs redux, part 4

2005-02-09 Thread Tom Zanussi
Hi, Here's the latest relayfs patch, incorporating the previous round of suggestions. Thanks to everyone who sent comments. Here's a list of the major changes: - replaced remap_page_range() and reserved bits with a nopage() handler. - buffers are now allocated/freed as part of inode

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Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-02-09 Thread William Weston
Two more of these sel_netif_lookup related BUGs were found with -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-06: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context ksoftirqd/0(2) at kernel/rt.c:1448 in_atomic():1 [0001], irqs_disabled():0 [] dump_stack+0x23/0x30 (20) [] __might_sleep+0xd8/0xf0 (36) []

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-02-09 Thread William Weston
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Running wmcube (an impractical, greedy, little CPU meter), even when > > niced, causes lots of xruns. It may be good for worst-case-scenario > > desktop load testing. > > this phenomenon is very weird. > > Firstly, make sure that all relevant threads

Re: [rfc][patch] ide: fix unneeded LBA48 taskfile registers access

2005-02-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:52:25 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, another quick question. To fix the io_32bit race problem in ide_taskfile_ioctl() (and later ide_cmd_ioctl() too), it seems simplest to mark the taskfile with something like

JBD problems in linux 2.6.11 rc3

2005-02-09 Thread Peter Chubb
On a 12-way IA64, with ext3 filesystem on an Ramdisk, when attempting to run the disk I/O load of OSDL's aim-7 benchmark, I see an oops when the multiprogramming level reaches around 200. Turning on CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG shows: Assertion failure in __journal_file_buffer() at

Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm

2005-02-09 Thread James Morris
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: > Because a tweak is different from an IV. There can be an arbitrary > number of tweaks. For instance, EME takes 1 tweak per 512 bytes. If you > have a 4k page to encrypt, you have to process 8 tweaks of whatever > size. > Therefore, you need 3

Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm

2005-02-09 Thread Christophe Saout
Am Mittwoch, den 09.02.2005, 17:19 -0800 schrieb Andrew Morton: > > It must be > > possible to process more than 2 mappings in softirq context. > > Adding a few more fixmap slots wouldn't hurt anyone. But if you want an > arbitrarily large number of them then no, we cannot do that. > >

Re: [rfc][patch] ide: fix unneeded LBA48 taskfile registers access

2005-02-09 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:52:25 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, another quick question. > > To fix the io_32bit race problem in ide_taskfile_ioctl() (and later > ide_cmd_ioctl() too), it seems simplest to mark the taskfile with > something like ATA_TFLAG_IO_16BIT flag and

Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm

2005-02-09 Thread Andrew Morton
Fruhwirth Clemens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It must be > possible to process more than 2 mappings in softirq context. Adding a few more fixmap slots wouldn't hurt anyone. But if you want an arbitrarily large number of them then no, we cannot do that. Taking more than one sleeping kmap at

Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm

2005-02-09 Thread Fruhwirth Clemens
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 19:30 -0500, James Morris wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: > > > I can't code for the case of two. Because, first, that's the idea of > > generic in the name "generic scatterwalk", second, I need at least 3 > > scatterlists in parallel for LRW. > > Can

Re: PCI Error reporting & recovery

2005-02-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 17:22 +0900, Hidetoshi Seto wrote: > Hi, Ben. > > How kind of you to remember. Well, mailing lists archives did remember for me :) > Now I have a rewrite of the previous "clear/read_pci_errors" patch. > The new one adopts iomap infrastructure, considering generality, >

Re: [rfc][patch] ide: fix unneeded LBA48 taskfile registers access

2005-02-09 Thread Tejun Heo
Okay, another quick question. To fix the io_32bit race problem in ide_taskfile_ioctl() (and later ide_cmd_ioctl() too), it seems simplest to mark the taskfile with something like ATA_TFLAG_IO_16BIT flag and use the flag in task_in_intr(). However, ATA_TFLAG_* are used by libata, and I think

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Larry McVoy
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:14:43AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > [long explanation which is summarized as "it's hard"] > So doing the work is one thing, getting a result within my lifetime would > be nice too. I understand the complexity you are facing. This may be hard for you to believe but we

Re: [PATCH] string lib redundancy and whitespace clarity fixes

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Wright
* Jonathan Ho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Fixed some weird whitespace, solved redundancies (applies to v2.6.10). > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- lib/string.cFri Dec 24 13:35:25 2004 > +++ \documents and settings\jonathan\desktop/string.cWed Feb 09 This won't

Re: [Patch] Fix oops in alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() when page is NULL

2005-02-09 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Michael Ellerman wrote: > The generic and IA-64 versions of alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() don't > check the return value from alloc_page_vma(). This can lead to an oops > if we're OOM. This fixes my oops on PPC64, but I haven't got an IA-64 > machine/compiler handy. Patch

[PATCH] string lib redundancy and whitespace clarity fixes

2005-02-09 Thread Jonathan Ho
Fixed some weird whitespace, solved redundancies (applies to v2.6.10). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- lib/string.cFri Dec 24 13:35:25 2004 +++ \documents and settings\jonathan\desktop/string.cWed Feb 09 16:21:28 2005 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ int strnicmp(const char *s1, const

Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm

2005-02-09 Thread James Morris
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: > I can't code for the case of two. Because, first, that's the idea of > generic in the name "generic scatterwalk", second, I need at least 3 > scatterlists in parallel for LRW. Can you explain why you need a third scatterlist for the LRW tweak? My

Re: 2.6.10 devfs oops without devfs mounted at all

2005-02-09 Thread Andrew Morton
"Sergey S. Kostyliov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here is an oops I've just get on my smp system: > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 001c > printing eip: > c01afe5b > *pde = > Oops: [#1] > PREEMPT SMP > Modules linked in: ipt_REJECT

Re: [rfc][patch] ide: fix unneeded LBA48 taskfile registers access

2005-02-09 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hello Tejun, On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:01:58 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Bartlomiej. Happy new lunar year. > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > I would prefer to not teach do_rw_taskfile() about ->tf_{in,out}_flags > > (and convert all users to use helpers) - it

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: softlockup and suspend/resume [update]

2005-02-09 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 9 of February 2005 17:35, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, 8 of February 2005 12:04, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The warning is printed right after the image is restored (ie somewhere > > > around the local_irq_enable()

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: (I just sent a similiar mail in private and didn't immediately realize it didn't went to lkml, so sorry, who gets it twice.) > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:13:48PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > I think what people want here is the tree structure

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Larry McVoy
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:22:39AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > > You know, you could change all this. Instead of complaining that we > > are somehow hurting you, which virtually 100% of the readers know is > > nonsense, you could be producing an alternative answer which is better. > > Another

Re: 3TB disk hassles

2005-02-09 Thread Jan Lindheim
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:52:29 +, Neil Conway wrote: > Howdy... > > After much banging of heads on walls, I am throwing in the towel and > asking the experts ;-) ... To cut a long story short: > > Is it possible to make a 3TB disk work properly in Linux? > > Our "disk" is 12x300GB in RAID5

Re: [rfc][patch] ide: fix unneeded LBA48 taskfile registers access

2005-02-09 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Bartlomiej. Happy new lunar year. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: I would prefer to not teach do_rw_taskfile() about ->tf_{in,out}_flags (and convert all users to use helpers) - it is much simpler this way, ->flags field in ide_task_t is needed anyway (32-bit I/O flag). New lunar year

Re: 2.6.10 kprobes/jprobes panic

2005-02-09 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 21:07, Prasanna S Panchamukhi wrote: > Hi Badri, > > > Hi, > > > > I ran into this while playing with jprobes in 2.6.10. > > > > I tried to install jprobe handler on a invalid address, > > User should prevent inserting jprobes on an invalid address. Well, I was hoping

[PPC64] (resend) Functions to reserve performance monitor hardware

2005-02-09 Thread David Gibson
Andrew, here's a resend of this patch. My earlier version had a few stupid errors which should be corrected in this one. Please apply. The PPC64 interrupt code includes a hook to call when an exception from the performance monitor unit occurs. However, there's no way of reserving the hook

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Larry McVoy
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:13:48PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Are you saying that it is now OK to write scripts that would bit bang > on > the bkbits http interface to fetch patches/comments with the purpose > of > populating an alternate scm? Andreas tried that a while ago but you >

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Jon Smirl
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:31:05 +0100 (CET), Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > > Larry has said, write up a proposal for changes you want in bk. Send > > it to him for a quote. Come up with the cash and he will do the work. > > Here is a simple one:

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > Larry has said, write up a proposal for changes you want in bk. Send > it to him for a quote. Come up with the cash and he will do the work. Here is a simple one: restore the parent information in the gnupatch option as they were about a year ago

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: Larry, it's interesting how you try to distract from the main problem (which you don't mention with a single word) and instead continues to badmouth me. Let's take a look. > Short version: let's violate a license. Wrong, if I wanted to violate the

[ANNOUNCE] iproute2 050209

2005-02-09 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Small update to iproute2 which adds: * infiniband address decode * reorganize source for netem distribution files into separate directory http://developer.osdl.org/dev/iproute2/download/iproute2-2.6.10-050209.tar.gz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] PPC64 collect and export low-level cpu usage statistics

2005-02-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 15:06 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > POWER5 machines have a per-hardware-thread register which counts at a > > rate which is proportional to the percentage of cycles on which the > > cpu dispatches an instruction for this

Re: [PATCH] PPC64 collect and export low-level cpu usage statistics

2005-02-09 Thread Andrew Morton
Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > POWER5 machines have a per-hardware-thread register which counts at a > rate which is proportional to the percentage of cycles on which the > cpu dispatches an instruction for this thread (if the thread gets all > the dispatch cycles it counts at the

Re: swsusp logic error?

2005-02-09 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I am trying to get swsusp working on a 2.6.10 Debian kernel > (2.6.10-1-686, custom compile, enabling only CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND > and leaving CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION empty) on this Sony Vaio Z1RSP > Centrino 1.7 Pentium M laptop... without much success. Whenever > I enter swsusp mode,

tg3 broken in bk current?

2005-02-09 Thread john stultz
Hey, I'm having problems w/ the tg3 driver on IBM x440 and x445 systems. It seems the link doesn't hold and constantly flickers on and off. Reverting this patch appears to have fixed the issue.

Re: [tpmdd-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] tpm: update tpm sysfs file ownership - updated version

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Wright
* Kylene Hall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > diff -uprN linux-2.6.10/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_atmel.c > linux-2.6.10-tpm/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_atmel.c > --- linux-2.6.10/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_atmel.c 2005-02-04 15:03:03.0 > -0600 > +++ linux-2.6.10-tpm/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_atmel.c 2005-02-09

[PATCH] PPC64 collect and export low-level cpu usage statistics

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Mackerras
POWER5 machines have a per-hardware-thread register which counts at a rate which is proportional to the percentage of cycles on which the cpu dispatches an instruction for this thread (if the thread gets all the dispatch cycles it counts at the same rate as the timebase register). This register

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2005-02-09 21:10:32 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:03:51PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > The problematic part is that this needs to be done at a quite low level, > > since POS keyboards may send quite a lot

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:39:30PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-09 20:51:43 +, Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > >On Wed, 2005-02-09 18:08:10 +, Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >wrote in

Re: How to retrieve version from kernel source (the right way)?

2005-02-09 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> But... what is the right way to do this? I think you are looking for: make kernelrelease Sam - 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

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2005-02-09 20:51:43 +, Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > >On Wed, 2005-02-09 18:08:10 +, Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >That's IMHO not brain-damaged, but pure physics:

Re: [PATCH] Update to IPMI driver to support old DMI spec

2005-02-09 Thread Corey Minyard
Bukie Mabayoje wrote: Corey Minyard wrote: BTW, I'm also working with the person who had the trouble with the I2C non-blocking driver updates, but we haven't figured it out yet. Hopefully soon. (Though that has nothing to do with this patch.) Thanks, -Corey

Re: [PATCH][I2C] Marvell mv64xxx i2c driver

2005-02-09 Thread Mark A. Greer
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Thanks, I see that you did global replacement of __devinit by __init and __devexit by __exit - it seems correct *only* if: - there can be only one i2c controller in the system - there can be only one host bridge in the system - i2c core calls ->probe only once

Re: 2.4.x kernel BUG at filemap.c:81

2005-02-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:47:28PM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: > Running slackware 10 and 10.1, with kernels 2.4.26, 2.4.27, 2.4.28, > 2.4.29 with highmem 4GB, and highmem i/o support enabled, I get a > system lockup. This happens in both X and console. Happens with and >

Re: [PATCH] Update to IPMI driver to support old DMI spec

2005-02-09 Thread Bukie Mabayoje
Corey Minyard wrote: > BTW, I'm also working with the person who had the trouble with the I2C > non-blocking driver updates, but we haven't figured it out yet. > Hopefully soon. (Though that has nothing to do with this patch.) > > Thanks, > > -Corey > >

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4 routing: multipath with cache support, 2.6.10-rc3

2005-02-09 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:42:39 +0100 Einar Lück <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We considered the routing case: in the routing case ip_route_input is called. > In this case we just select the first route in the cache which is always the > same > (we ensure that). Consequently, the routing behaviour

Re: USB / PCMCIA not working/panic on AVERATEC 3500

2005-02-09 Thread Dominik Brodowski
Hi, > Socket status: 0720 This looks strange. Socket status 0720 can't really be true -- I assume there is a problem with the resource allocation. Can you send me /proc/iomem /proc/ioport please? Thanks, Dominik - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] [SERIAL] add TP560 data/fax/modem support

2005-02-09 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 07:25 -0500, linux-os wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 15:12 -0500, linux-os wrote: > >> I thought somebody promised to add a pci_route_irq(dev) or some > >> such so that the device didn't have to be enabled before > >> the IRQ

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Paulo Marques
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-09 18:08:10 +, Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] Touch screens doing this are severely brain-damaged. And yes, I've come across a few of them, but not lately. That's IMHO not brain-damaged, but pure physics:

Re: 2.4.x kernel BUG at filemap.c:81

2005-02-09 Thread Todd Shetter
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:30:05AM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:15:03AM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: Running slackware 10 and 10.1, with kernels 2.4.26, 2.4.27, 2.4.28, 2.4.29 with highmem 4GB, and highmem i/o

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4 routing: multipath with cache support, 2.6.10-rc3

2005-02-09 Thread Einar Lück
David S. Miller wrote: This was brought up before. It's the case where the system is acting as a router, you have to consider that case and not just the one where the local system is where the connections are originating from. Your trick only works because of how routes are cached per-socket.

Re: [tpmdd-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] tpm: update tpm sysfs file ownership - updated version

2005-02-09 Thread Kylene Hall
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:05:42PM -0600, Kylene Hall wrote: > > @@ -539,9 +551,8 @@ void tpm_remove_hardware(struct device * > > dev_set_drvdata(dev, NULL); > > misc_deregister(>vendor->miscdev); > > > > - device_remove_file(dev, _attr_pubek); > >

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4 routing: multipath with cache support, 2.6.10-rc3

2005-02-09 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:23:57 +0100 Einar Lück <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We do not want per-flow multipathing. We want per connection > multipathing with fast route lookups (that's why we have all routes in > the cache). That is exactly what we implemented. Our tests prove that > a connection

Re: [patch, BK] clean up and unify asm-*/resource.h files

2005-02-09 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 19:02:19 +0100 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > New patch below. ... > this patch does the final consolidation of asm-*/resource.h file, > without changing any of the rlimit definitions on any architecture. I'm fine with this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: latest version of /proc fs documentation

2005-02-09 Thread Randy.Dunlap
pranay pramod345678 wrote: Hi, i tried for the latest versionof the /proc fs document supposed to be available online at http://skaro.nightcrawler.com/~bb/Docs/Proc but couldn't get it. can i get some help in this regard ? > Hi, Try

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4 routing: multipath with cache support, 2.6.10-rc3

2005-02-09 Thread Einar Lück
David S. Miller wrote: So essentially you want per-flow multipathing. Except that you're implementation is over-optimizing it to the point where it's only per-flow for your specific case where the connections are short lived and high rate. This hurts long lasting connections. So I'm pretty much

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:17:48PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > You know, you could change all this. Instead of complaining that we > > > are somehow hurting you, which virtually 100% of the readers know is

[BUG] in copy_siginfo_to_user32 on ppc64 (and others?) in 2.6.9/2.6.10

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Friesen
I found a bug which has since been fixed, but I'm hoping to save others the problems that I had tracking it down. It was fairly confusing--the information in the siginfo_t struct was different based on whether I used a signal handler in the regular way, or blocked the signal and retrieved the

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:03:51PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > > It's even worse. Most keyboards don't separate the real keys from > > > magnetic stripe reader events, and just simulate key presses for MSR > > > data. They expect the software to be in a state where it is waiting for >

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?

2005-02-09 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:10:18PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: It's asking for a lot of unwritable zeroed space. See this: LOAD 0x00 0x08048000 0x08048000 0xb7354 0x1b7354 R E 0x1000 LOAD 0x0b7354 0x08200354 0x08200354

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2005-02-09 19:54:04 +, Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >We could have a library that would do that and link applications against > >it. It could also handle things like tap-n-drag, etc, something we > >certainly don't want in the kernel. > > I

2.6.11-rcX / 2.6.10-ac9 kernel do not more boot SATA disk on amd64

2005-02-09 Thread Marcus Hartig
Hello, I can not more boot any kernel >=2.6.11-rcX also >=2.6.10-ac9 and latest bk6. But I have here Alan Cox 2.6.10-ac8 and Cons 2.6.10-ck5 running and booting fine without any problems. But now all kernel versions after that failed (with the same config tried) with: mount: error 6 mounting

Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: VM accounting bugfix (2.6.11-rc3-bk5)

2005-02-09 Thread Mark F. Haigh
Chris Wright wrote: You missed one subtle point. That failure case actually unaccts 0 pages (note the use of charge). Not the nicest, but I believe correct. Right. I did miss that. Thanks for the explanations, Chris and Hugh, I appreciate it. Mark F. Haigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2005-02-09 20:18:17 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I would say that a tool to recover the touch screen into a "usable" > > state, by talking directly to the serial port, and "calibrating" it to > > max possible / min possible values

Re: [rfc] keytables - the new keycode->keysym mapping

2005-02-09 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 06:19:21PM +0100, Jirka Bohac wrote: > There are presently two ways around this, neither of them good enough > 1) assigning one of the other modifier keysyms to the CapsLock key >-- the LED will not work True. > But by adding two modifiers to almost every keyboard

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4 routing: multipath with cache support, 2.6.10-rc3

2005-02-09 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:28:49 +0100 Einar Lück <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The scenarios we have in mind are setups in which a set of collaborating > servers steadly establish connections among each other with a very high rate. > This high rate requirement drove us to consider the inclusion of

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2005-02-09 18:08:10 +, Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>Additionally, there are two other things that need to be addressed (and > >>I'm willing to actually write code for this, but need input from other > >>parties, too:) > >> > >>-

High Interrupt load crashes SMP Athlon MPs

2005-02-09 Thread Eric Bambach
Hello, After doing much research I have come to the conclusion that the kernel might be at fault (in conjuction with the mobo) for hard-locking my box. Please read below to see if you can help me. I am coming to wits end with this MSI K7D Master-L board. I have narrowed it down to find that

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Paulo Marques
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 06:08:10PM +, Paulo Marques wrote: [...] Touchscreens are one class of devices where the serial attachment is not dying. Very true. [...] We could parse a definition "string", like this:

latest version of /proc fs documentation

2005-02-09 Thread pranay pramod345678
Hi, i tried for the latest versionof the /proc fs document supposed to be available online at http://skaro.nightcrawler.com/~bb/Docs/Proc but couldn't get it. can i get some help in this regard ? thanks. -pranay = Pranay Pramod Army Institute of Technology Dighi Hills Pune-15

Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: VM accounting bugfix (2.6.11-rc3-bk5)

2005-02-09 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Chris Wright wrote: > * Hugh Dickins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > dup_mmap's charge starts out at 0 and gets added to each time around > > the loop through vmas; if security_vm_enough_memory fails at any point > > in that loop, we need to vm_unacct_memory the charge already

Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

2005-02-09 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:41:10AM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > All I want to do is integrate the common IRQ threading code. To do that > I need things , from Russell, like per descriptor locks .. And I need > things , from Ingo, like pulling out the IRQ threading code.. I've said why

Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: VM accounting bugfix (2.6.11-rc3-bk5)

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Wright
* Hugh Dickins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > dup_mmap's charge starts out at 0 and gets added to each time around > the loop through vmas; if security_vm_enough_memory fails at any point > in that loop, we need to vm_unacct_memory the charge already accumulated. If that's the requirement, then

Re: [RFC/RFT] [patch] Elo serial touchscreen driver

2005-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 06:08:10PM +, Paulo Marques wrote: > >>>I want serious support for ALL touchscreens in Linux. > > I'm glad to hear it. I was just pointing out the "serial" part, because, > unlike USB and other interfaces, a serial port can not say "what" is > attached to it, so we

Re: [patch, BK] clean up and unify asm-*/resource.h files

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Wright
* Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > this patch does the final consolidation of asm-*/resource.h file, > > > without changing any of the rlimit definitions on any architecture. > > > Primarily

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