[PATCH try #2] Blackfin on-chip NAND Flash Controller driver

2007-09-03 Thread Bryan Wu
This is the driver for latest Blackfin on-chip nand flash controller - use nand_chip and mtd_info common nand driver interface - provide both PIO and dma operation - compiled with ezkit bf548 configuration - use hardware 1-bit ECC - tested with YAFFS2 and can mount YAFFS2 filesystem as

Re: [PATCH] Make rcutorture RNG use temporal entropy

2007-09-03 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi Paul, On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > The locking used by get_random_bytes() can conflict with the > preempt_disable() and synchronize_sched() form of RCU. This patch changes > rcutorture's RNG to gather entropy from the new cpu_clock() interface > (relying on interrupts,

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1: mips compile error

2007-09-03 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:58:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >... > > Changes since 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: > >... > > git-mips.patch > >... > > git trees > >... > > <-- snip --> > > ... > CC arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.s > In file included from

Re: kconfig/kbuild rewite (Re: What's up with CONFIG_BLK_DEV?)

2007-09-03 Thread Rob Landley
On Sunday 02 September 2007 6:51:50 am Sam Ravnborg wrote: > As for Kconfig the low hanging fruits are not in the tools but in the > structure of the Kconfig files. There are a lot that can be improved > with a decent effort but nobody has stepped up doing so. > The tools could be better too but

Re: [PATCH] linux-2.6.16.51 gzipped core dump patch

2007-09-03 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:04:37AM -0400, Pallewatta Mano-FPCD67 wrote: > This support was there in the 2.6.16.51 kernel. In fact there was no > call_usermodehelper_pipe(). So backport it, instead of creating an incompatible interface and headache when you eventually rebase to later kernel. - To

RE: [PATCH] linux-2.6.16.51 gzipped core dump patch

2007-09-03 Thread Pallewatta Mano-FPCD67
This support was there in the 2.6.16.51 kernel. In fact there was no call_usermodehelper_pipe(). Mano -Original Message- From: Al Viro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 8:27 PM To: Pallewatta Mano-FPCD67 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH]

Re: [PATCH] [ALSA] Added new pin config for first gen macbook.

2007-09-03 Thread Abhijit Bhopatkar
On 9/3/07, Ivan N. Zlatev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/3/07, Ivan N. Zlatev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/3/07, Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At Mon, 3 Sep 2007 15:55:18 +0530, > > > Abhijit Bhopatkar wrote: > > > > > > > > commit 5d5d3bc3eddf2ad97b2cb090b92580e7fed6cee1

Re: [PATCH] linux-2.6.16.51 gzipped core dump patch

2007-09-03 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:32:00PM -0400, Pallewatta Mano-FPCD67 wrote: > This patch was developed for embedded systems which had limited space > for file storage. If an external process is to compress core files you > will need to store those files somewhere first as core dump output > cannot be

Re: [PATCH] Blackfin BF54x NAND Flash Controller driver

2007-09-03 Thread Bryan Wu
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 13:57 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 9/3/07, Bryan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig > > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig > > @@ -131,6 +131,24 @@ config MTD_NAND_AU1550 > > +config MTD_NAND_BF54X > > + tristate "NAND Flash support for

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Simple Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > It's a variation of the sleeper bonus. [...] > > hm, where are its effects described in your explanation? Seems like a > key item. It has no direct effect on the correctness of the mathematical model, the time is initialized before the time is

RE: [PATCH] linux-2.6.16.51 gzipped core dump patch

2007-09-03 Thread Pallewatta Mano-FPCD67
This patch was developed for embedded systems which had limited space for file storage. If an external process is to compress core files you will need to store those files somewhere first as core dump output cannot be directly fed to the stdin of compression program. Imagine storing a 40 Meg core

Re: PATCH? fix SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED vs SIGCONT race

2007-09-03 Thread Roland McGrath
> Yes, I also thought about something like this, but tried to avoid because > it adds some complications. OTOH, this is not the fast path. I agree it's not real pleasing, and would be glad to find better ideas. > I'll try to think a bit more about this, and update the patch according > to your

Re: IP1000A network driver in Linux tree?

2007-09-03 Thread Jesse Huang
Dear All: Was IC Plus IP1000A Linux Driver in kernel tree or not? Our customer is pushing us to put it into kernel. Is there anything that we should do? Thanks. Best Regards, Jesse Huang -Original Message- From: Francois Romieu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Re: [PATCH] linux-2.6.16.51 gzipped core dump patch

2007-09-03 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:49:00PM -0400, Pallewatta Mano-FPCD67 wrote: > Hi, > The attached patch is based on Jan Frey's previous patch posted in 2004 > for the Linux 2.4 kernel. It has been tested on X86 and MIPS platforms. > If the core pattern doesn't end in ".gz" it will be added to the name

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1: boot failure on HPC nx6325

2007-09-03 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 22:51 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Also it would be interesting whether the -hrt patchset on top of rc5 has > > the same problem: > > > > http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc5/patch-2.6.23-rc5-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2 > > This one boots normally. Thanks. that

Re: GPL weasels and the atheros stink

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 03 September 2007 20:23:37 David Schwartz wrote: > > Wrong - I said "You can't complain about Person A doing X when > > you let Person > > B do X without complaint". > > Yes, I can. There is no inconsistency between acting in one case and > failing to act in another. We need not act in

[PATCH] linux-2.6.16.51 gzipped core dump patch

2007-09-03 Thread Pallewatta Mano-FPCD67
Hi, The attached patch is based on Jan Frey's previous patch posted in 2004 for the Linux 2.4 kernel. It has been tested on X86 and MIPS platforms. If the core pattern doesn't end in ".gz" it will be added to the name of the core file. It's offered under GPL v2 without any warranties. If you have

RE: GPL weasels and the atheros stink

2007-09-03 Thread David Schwartz
> Wrong - I said "You can't complain about Person A doing X when > you let Person > B do X without complaint". Yes, I can. There is no inconsistency between acting in one case and failing to act in another. We need not act in every possible case where we could act to preserve our right to act in

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 03 September 2007 15:33:01 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I hate to belabor the point, but you seem to be making the mistake of > > "The license applies to the copyright holder" > > Of course not. I'll take this at face value - I might have

[PATCH 1/1] Unionfs: cache-coherency - dentries

2007-09-03 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
From: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Utility functions to check if lower dentries/inodes are newer than upper ones, and purging cached data if lower objects are newer. Also passed flag to our d_revalidate_chain, to tell it if the caller may be writing data or just reading it. [jsipek: changed

Re: [PATCH 03/32] VFS/fsstack: cpp endif comments

2007-09-03 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:39:27AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Sep 2 2007 22:20, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: > >diff --git a/include/linux/fs_stack.h b/include/linux/fs_stack.h > >index 6b52faf..28543ad 100644 > >--- a/include/linux/fs_stack.h > >+++ b/include/linux/fs_stack.h > >@@ -39,4

Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference - nfs v3

2007-09-03 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi David, On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, David CHANIAL wrote: > > Le vendredi 20 juillet 2007 15:36, Satyam Sharma a ecrit: > > Yes, you can apply the patch Neil just sent to your kernel, > > re-build, and test that. > > Hi, I have no patched the kernel as asked by Neil, but i would notice > that > with

Re: HIMEM calculation

2007-09-03 Thread Chris Snook
James C. Georgas wrote: I'm not sure I understand how the kernel calculates the amount of physical RAM it can map during the boot process. I've quoted two blocks of kernel messages below, one for a kernel with NOHIGHMEM and another for a kernel with HIGHMEM4G. If I do the math on the BIOS

Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: Add power meters to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface

2007-09-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 23:02:01 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 02 Sep 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > I guess power[1-*]_average would be OK? > > > > AFAIK, yes. It is probably not 100% in sync with the power supply class, > > though.

Re: ramdisk

2007-09-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Xu Yang wrote: thanks for the reply. no , it is not decompressed. isn' t the kernel supposed to do that? As we have tried to load this filesystem on the pc, it turns out the the kernel can recognize it. concerning the root=/dev/ram0, as the default value is root=/dev/nfs, so I just modify the

HIMEM calculation

2007-09-03 Thread James C. Georgas
I'm not sure I understand how the kernel calculates the amount of physical RAM it can map during the boot process. I've quoted two blocks of kernel messages below, one for a kernel with NOHIGHMEM and another for a kernel with HIGHMEM4G. If I do the math on the BIOS provided physical RAM map,

Re: [pre-2.6.23 REGRESSION] 2.6.23-rc3-git1 crash/stuck on VIA CN700 system

2007-09-03 Thread Andi Kleen
Stefan Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > while trying to debug a hibernation/rtc_cmos alarm wakeup problem in > 2.6.22 (or later) I noticed that the latest kernel crashes (or gets > stuck sometimes) during boot after the message: > > SMP alternatives: switching to UP code > > Every kernel up

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

2007-09-03 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi, On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > > > > > on x86_64: > > drivers/watchdog/core/watchdog_dev.c:84: > > warning: format '%i' expects type 'int', but argument 5 has type 'size_t' Hmm, a warning I missed during my Sunday evening pastime. > I'll have a look at it. How about ...

[PATCH -mm 2/2] 3c59x MAINTAINERS

2007-09-03 Thread Satyam Sharma
Remove duplicate entry for the same driver. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- MAINTAINERS |6 -- 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/MAINTAINERS~fix2007-09-04 03:49:16.0 +0530 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/MAINTAINERS2007-09-04

[PATCH] Input: i8042 - add HP Pavilion DV4270ca to the MUX blacklist

2007-09-03 Thread Elvis Pranskevichus
This fixes "atkbd.c: Suprious NAK on isa0060/serio0" errors for HP Pavilion DV4270ca. Same reasons as for 9d9d50bb2efb50594abfc3941a5504b62c514ebd and 6e782584e0713ea89da151333e7fe754c8f40324. Signed-off-by: Elvis Pranskevichus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0

[PATCH -mm 1/2] 3c59x: Fix uninitialized variable bug

2007-09-03 Thread Satyam Sharma
drivers/net/3c59x.c: In function 'vortex_up': drivers/net/3c59x.c:1495: warning: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function is a genuine bug. The function returns an uninitialized value of 'err' back to the caller, which expects it to be 0 for success cases. Let's fix this by explicitly

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc5

2007-09-03 Thread Gabriel C
Alessandro Suardi wrote: > > [snip] > > This one has bitten many of us :) > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/2/219 Thx , I didn't saw that patch. Gabriel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: Hang in 2.6.23-rc5

2007-09-03 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
Here is a relevant oops for this hang. [ 7329.832382] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0025 [ 7329.934755] printing eip: [ 7329.967145] 802cb921 [ 7329.993347] *pde = [ 7330.026799] Oops: [#1] [ 7330.060246] Modules linked in: usblp

Re: kconfig/kbuild rewite (Re: What's up with CONFIG_BLK_DEV?)

2007-09-03 Thread Oleg Verych
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:51:50PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: [] > Then as now you have not yet expalined what you are trying to do. > Nevertheless I look forward for a minmal set of patches that improve > whatever you are working with. Yes, because it's LKML, that wants not-hand-waving stuff in

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc5

2007-09-03 Thread Alessandro Suardi
On 9/3/07, Gabriel C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Sunday, 2 September 2007 09:54, Prakash Punnoor wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> 2.6.23-rc5 locks up hard (Magic Syskeys won't even work) after a few > >> minutes > >> of work on x86_64. 2.6.23-rc4 was fine. I'll try

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 20:20 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Basically that's it and I hope that explains the basic math a bit easier. :-) > It helps a tiny bit .. However, I appreciate that you took the time to write this .. Thanks you. Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH 2/5] Use macros instead of TASK_ flags

2007-09-03 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 10:46:51PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Abstracting away direct uses of TASK_ flags allows us to change the > definitions of the task flags more easily. > > Also restructure do_wait() a little > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- >

[PATCH] 9p: attach-per-user

2007-09-03 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
The 9P2000 protocol requires the authentication and permission checks to be done in the file server. For that reason every user that accesses the file server tree has to authenticate and attach to the server separately. Multiple users can share the same connection to the server. Currently v9fs

Re: [PATCH] i386 and x86_64: randomize brk()

2007-09-03 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > > > +/* overriden by architectures supporting brk randomization */ > > > +void __weak arch_randomize_brk(struct mm_struct *mm) { } > I was actually suggesting in my last email: > unsigned long randomize_brk(unsigned long brk) > therefore arch

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1: boot failure on HPC nx6325

2007-09-03 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 3 September 2007 10:36, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 22:39 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Saturday, 1 September 2007 06:58, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > - dynticks-for-x86_64 has returned > > > > It fails to boot on my HPC nx6325 (hangs very early, before any

[PATCH -mm] ipc namespace: remove config ipc ns fix

2007-09-03 Thread Cedric Le Goater
Finish the work : kill all #ifdef CONFIG_IPC_NS. Thanks Robert ! C. Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Eric Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ipc/ipc_sysctl.c |4 1 file changed, 4

Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc4: known regressions

2007-09-03 Thread Thomas Meyer
Takashi Iwai schrieb: > At Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:42:56 +0300, > Ivan N. Zlatev wrote: > > ... but without the hardware :-< > > IMO, this is actually no real regression. In the earlier verison, you > didn't have controls for multiple outputs, thus the mixer control was > named as Master. Now you

Re: [Lguest] [RFC] 9p Virtualization Transports

2007-09-03 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On 9/1/07, Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:52 -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > > The lguest and kvm transports are functional, but we are still working out > > remaining bugs and need to spend some time focusing on performance issues. > > I wanted to send out

Re: [PATCH] Fix preemptible lazy mode bug

2007-09-03 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 14:09 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Zachary Amsden wrote: > > Do you agree it is better to be safe than sorry in this case? The > > kind of bugs introduced by getting this wrong are really hard to find, > > and I would rather err on the side of an extra increment and

Re: [PATCH] Make rcutorture RNG use temporal entropy

2007-09-03 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:29:04AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 06:15:54PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 02:40:37PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > Yes. Using a hash function rather than a trivial LFSR is preferable. > > > But pulling the guts

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Simple Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-03 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > My next question then is about this code of yours in the wakeup path: > > > > +static void > > +enqueue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se) > > +{ > > + kclock_t

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Simple Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > My next question then is about this code of yours in the wakeup path: > > +static void > +enqueue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se) > +{ > + kclock_t min_time; > + > + verify_queue(cfs_rq, cfs_rq->curr != se,

Re: libata not working for sis5533

2007-09-03 Thread Patrizio Bassi
Jan Engelhardt ha scritto: > On Sep 2 2007 11:40, Alan Cox wrote: > >>> i've been out for a week, but found no notice, did i lost any email or >>> no activity on this issue? >>> >> I tagged it onto the obscure IDE report pile. It doesn't contain any >> really useful information and its

Re: [-mm PATCH] Memory controller improve user interface (v3)

2007-09-03 Thread Balbir Singh
Paul Menage wrote: > On 9/2/07, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> - s += sprintf(s, "%lu\n", *val); >> + if (read_strategy) >> + s += read_strategy(*val, s); >> + else >> + s += sprintf(s, "%lu\n", *val); > > This would be better as %llu >

Re: [-mm PATCH] Memory controller improve user interface (v3)

2007-09-03 Thread Balbir Singh
Paul Menage wrote: > On 9/2/07, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> - s += sprintf(s, "%lu\n", *val); >> + if (read_strategy) >> + s += read_strategy(*val, s); >> + else >> + s += sprintf(s, "%lu\n", *val); > > This would be better as %llu >

Re: bug in 2.6.22.6, net/sunrpc/svcsock.c

2007-09-03 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi Wolfgang, On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Wolfgang Walter wrote: > > in 2.6.22.6, net/sunrpc/svcsock.c > > random characters are printed by svc_tcp_accept: > > lockd: last TCP connect from > [...] > > --- linux-2.6.22.6/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c 2007-08-27 18:10:14.0 > +0200 > +++

Re: [RFC 1/2] JBD: slab management support for large block(>8k)

2007-09-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:31:49PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > So you'd be fine with replacing the allocs with > > get_free_pages(GFP_xxx, get_order(size)) ? Yes. And rip out all that code related to setting up the slabs. I plan to add WARN_ONs to bio_add_page and friends to detect

Re: [RFC 1/2] JBD: slab management support for large block(>8k)

2007-09-03 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > How about getting rid of the slabs there and use kmalloc? Kmalloc in mm > > (and therfore hopefully 2.6.24) will convert kmallocs > PAGE_SIZE to page > > allocator calls. Not sure what to do about the 1k and 2k requests though. > > The problem

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-03 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I hate to belabor the point, but you seem to be making the mistake of "The > license applies to the copyright holder" Of course not. > The person holding the copyright has all the legal standing to revoke a > license grant at any time. Based on?

Re: [patch 5/5] x86: Set PCI config space size to extended for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread Martin Mares
Hi! > it's so very unfortunate the PCI standard has no feature bit to indicate > the presence of ECS. > > FWIW in my testing on a range of machines spanning 7 or 8 years i could > read config space reg 256... and get 0x when the device didn't > support ECS, and get valid data when the

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Simple Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-03 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > If this basic model is correct, we can look further. > > The basic model is correct insofar I use an absolute time instead of a > relative time, but it's not the essence of my math, so I don't quite >

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

2007-09-03 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
Hi Randy, > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc4/2.6.23-rc4-mm1/ > > > > Changes since 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: > > > > git-watchdog.patch > > > on x86_64: > drivers/watchdog/core/watchdog_dev.c:84: warning: format '%i' expects type > 'int', but argument 5 has

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Simple Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > If this basic model is correct, we can look further. The basic model is correct insofar I use an absolute time instead of a relative time, but it's not the essence of my math, so I don't quite understand the point of this exercise. bye, Roman - To

Re: [Lguest] [RFC] 9p Virtualization Transports

2007-09-03 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:52 -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > The lguest and kvm transports are functional, but we are still working out > remaining bugs and need to spend some time focusing on performance issues. > I wanted to send out this "preview" patch set to the community to solicit >

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 03 September 2007 14:26:29 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The fact > > remains that the person making a work available under *ANY* form of > > copyright > > license has the right to revoke said grant of license to anyone. > > Not after the

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Simple Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-03 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > Roman, as an addendum to my review, please find below a prototype patch > > i've just written that implements RSRFS (Really Simple Really Fair > > Scheduler) ontop of CFS. It is intended to

Re: [PATCH 3/4] ide: make ide_rate_filter() also respect PIO and SW/MW DMA mode masks (take 2)

2007-09-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Sunday 02 September 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Make ide_rate_filter() also respect PIO/SWDMA/MWDMA mode masks. While at it, Hm, this seems to be already dealt with by:

Re: [PATCH 2/4] hpt366: MWDMA filter for SATA cards

2007-09-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Sunday 02 September 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Hello, I wrote: > > The patch was 4/4 of course. :-< > Probably I was too esctatic about the code. ;-) > > > The Marvell bridge chips used on HighPoint SATA cards do not seem to support > > the MWDMA modes (at least that caould be

Re: [GIT PULL -mm] Unionfs/fsstack/eCryptfs updates/cleanups/fixes

2007-09-03 Thread Erez Zadok
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Al Boldi writes: > Erez Zadok wrote: > > Al, we have back-ports of the latest Unionfs to 2.6.{22,21,20,19,18,9}, > > all in http://unionfs.filesystems.org/. Before we release any change, we > > test it on all back-ports as well as the latest -rc/-mm code base

Re: [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink

2007-09-03 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 19:48:46 +0200 Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon 03-09-07 10:12:34, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:43:36 +0200 Jan Kara wrote: > > > > > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) > > > > Mutt knows how to send patches inline vs. attachments... :( >

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Simple Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Roman, as an addendum to my review, please find below a prototype patch > i've just written that implements RSRFS (Really Simple Really Fair > Scheduler) ontop of CFS. It is intended to demonstrate the essence of > the math you have presented via

Ath5k panic fix

2007-09-03 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Ath5k panics on ath_open() because sc->pdev is never set, fixed. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_base.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_base.c @@ -2295,6 +2295,7 @@ static int __devinit ath_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, hw->max_rssi

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc5

2007-09-03 Thread Gabriel C
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Sunday, 2 September 2007 09:54, Prakash Punnoor wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 2.6.23-rc5 locks up hard (Magic Syskeys won't even work) after a few minutes >> of work on x86_64. 2.6.23-rc4 was fine. I'll try git-bisect to find out what >> is causing trouble. Yes, I am using

Re: New x86-Setup code breaks HVM-XEN boot

2007-09-03 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi, On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:49:26AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > > >Note the the xm console command terminates on its own, i.e. the guest > >machine seems to halt and not hang somewhere. > > > >I could verify that the real mode code up to the assembly code in >

Re: [GIT PULL -mm] Unionfs/fsstack/eCryptfs updates/cleanups/fixes

2007-09-03 Thread Al Boldi
Erez Zadok wrote: > Al, we have back-ports of the latest Unionfs to 2.6.{22,21,20,19,18,9}, > all in http://unionfs.filesystems.org/. Before we release any change, we > test it on all back-ports as well as the latest -rc/-mm code base (takes > over 24 hours straight to get through all of our

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-03 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The fact > remains that the person making a work available under *ANY* form of > copyright > license has the right to revoke said grant of license to anyone. Not after the licence has been given and accepted (and there might be restrictions),

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Daniel Walker wrote: > For instance if there are three tasks in the system. Call them A,B, and > C. > > then > > time equals "time of A" + "time of B" + "time of C" Ok, let's take a simple example. :) If we have three task A, B, C, each with a weight of 1, 2, 3, so

Re: [patch 5/5] x86: Set PCI config space size to extended for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread Robert Richter
On 03.09.07 09:48:15, dean gaudet wrote: > it's so very unfortunate the PCI standard has no feature bit to indicate > the presence of ECS. Right. Not nice. > FWIW in my testing on a range of machines spanning 7 or 8 years i could > read config space reg 256... and get 0x when the

Re: GPL weasels and the atheros stink

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 03 September 2007 13:18:35 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Then go yell at Mr. Floeter. The code is dual-licensed and he put > > BSD-License > > only code in it. Because that's the *EXACT* *SAME* thing you're talking > > about. > > Actually it is

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 03 September 2007 05:48:00 David Schwartz wrote: > > Mr. Floeter *CAN* request that his code be removed from said fork > > - his code > > is solely licensed (AFAICT and IIRC) under the BSD/ISC license > > and was only > > covered by the dual-license because it was integrated into a work

Re: [PATCH] Blackfin BF54x NAND Flash Controller driver

2007-09-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 9/3/07, Clemens Koller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bryan Wu schrieb: > > This is the driver for latest Blackfin BF54x nand flash controller > > > > - use nand_chip and mtd_info common nand driver interface > > - provide both PIO and dma operation > > - compiled with ezkit bf548

Re: libata not working for sis5533

2007-09-03 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 2 2007 11:40, Alan Cox wrote: > >> i've been out for a week, but found no notice, did i lost any email or >> no activity on this issue? > >I tagged it onto the obscure IDE report pile. It doesn't contain any >really useful information and its probably not an IDE layer bug as of >itself.

Re: [PATCH] Blackfin BF54x NAND Flash Controller driver

2007-09-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 9/3/07, Bryan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig > @@ -131,6 +131,24 @@ config MTD_NAND_AU1550 > +config MTD_NAND_BF54X > + tristate "NAND Flash support for Blackfin BF54X SoC DSP" i'd just describe it as "Blackfin on-chip

mutex vs cache coherency protocol(for multiprocessor )

2007-09-03 Thread Xu Yang
Hello everyone, Just got a rough question in my head. don't know whether anyone interested . mutex vs cache coherency protocol(for multiprocessor) both of these two can be used to protect shared resource in the memory. are both of them necessary? for example: in a multiprocessor system, if

Re: GPL weasels and the atheros stink

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
(As noted before - I am surround all-caps text with *'s to indicate vocal stress, not volume) On Monday 03 September 2007 05:47:59 David Schwartz wrote: > Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > > Your entire argument is based on the false assumption that > > > these licenses > > > are compatible. They are

Re: [PATCH 01/32] VFS: export release_open_intent symbol

2007-09-03 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:59:15PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: > > > > diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c > > index a83160a..b2b7c8e 100644 > > --- a/fs/namei.c > > +++ b/fs/namei.c > > @@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ void release_open_intent(struct

Re: [PATCH] i386 and x86_64: randomize brk()

2007-09-03 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
Hi, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > [snip] > > +/* overriden by architectures supporting brk randomization */ > > +void __weak arch_randomize_brk(struct mm_struct *mm) { } I was actually suggesting in my last email: unsigned long randomize_brk(unsigned long brk) therefore arch specific code

Re: [PATCH] Blackfin BF54x NAND Flash Controller driver

2007-09-03 Thread Bryan Wu
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 17:46 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 15:25 +0800, Bryan Wu wrote: > > + if (hardware_ecc) { > > + if (plat->page_size == NFC_PG_SIZE_256) { > > + chip->ecc.bytes = 3; > > + chip->ecc.size =

Re: [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink

2007-09-03 Thread Jan Kara
On Mon 03-09-07 10:12:34, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:43:36 +0200 Jan Kara wrote: > > > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) > > Mutt knows how to send patches inline vs. attachments... :( Hmm, I thought Andrew either does not mind or prefers attachments. If it isn't the case,

Re: GPL weasels and the atheros stink

2007-09-03 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then go yell at Mr. Floeter. The code is dual-licensed and he put > BSD-License > only code in it. Because that's the *EXACT* *SAME* thing you're talking > about. Actually it is not. Dual BSD/GPL licence essentially means BSD, because rights given

Re: [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink

2007-09-03 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:43:36 +0200 Jan Kara wrote: > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Mutt knows how to send patches inline vs. attachments... :( Anyway, on to the patch. Thanks for adding the new doc file. +This command is used to send a notification about any of the above mentioned

bug in 2.6.22.6, net/sunrpc/svcsock.c

2007-09-03 Thread Wolfgang Walter
Hello, in 2.6.22.6, net/sunrpc/svcsock.c random characters are printed by svc_tcp_accept: lockd: last TCP connect from because buf is used unitialized: printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s: last TCP connect from %s\n", serv->sv_name, buf); Probably it should be

Re: ramdisk

2007-09-03 Thread Xu Yang
thanks for the reply. no , it is not decompressed. isn' t the kernel supposed to do that? As we have tried to load this filesystem on the pc, it turns out the the kernel can recognize it. concerning the root=/dev/ram0, as the default value is root=/dev/nfs, so I just modify the nfs to ram0. is

Re: [pre-2.6.23 REGRESSION] 2.6.23-rc3-git1 crash/stuck on VIA CN700 system

2007-09-03 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:59:58 +0300 Stefan Becker wrote: > Hi, > > > Stefan Becker wrote: > >> > >> while trying to debug a hibernation/rtc_cmos alarm wakeup problem in > >> 2.6.22 (or later) I noticed that the latest kernel crashes (or gets > >> stuck sometimes) during boot after the message:

Re: [patch 5/5] x86: Set PCI config space size to extended for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread dean gaudet
it's so very unfortunate the PCI standard has no feature bit to indicate the presence of ECS. FWIW in my testing on a range of machines spanning 7 or 8 years i could read config space reg 256... and get 0x when the device didn't support ECS, and get valid data when the device did

Re: [PATCH] Blackfin BF54x NAND Flash Controller driver

2007-09-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 15:25 +0800, Bryan Wu wrote: > + if (hardware_ecc) { > + if (plat->page_size == NFC_PG_SIZE_256) { > + chip->ecc.bytes = 3; > + chip->ecc.size = 256; > + } else if (mtd->writesize ==

Re: [PATCH -mm][resend] softlockup-improve-debug-output.patch fix

2007-09-03 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:07:06 +0530, Satyam Sharma said: > > > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > > > --- kernel/softlockup.c~fix 2007-09-02 04:23:49.0 +0530 > > +++ kernel/softlockup.c 2007-09-02 04:34:45.0 +0530 > ^^ > > Ick, I botched a trivial patch,

Re: Mounts and namespaces

2007-09-03 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 06:23:18PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Hi, > > > what happens to mounts when the namespace they exist in, exits? > In my concrete case: > > ./newns /bin/bash > # clone(CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_VM) > # and exec to given

Mounts and namespaces

2007-09-03 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, what happens to mounts when the namespace they exist in, exits? In my concrete case: ./newns /bin/bash # clone(CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_VM) # and exec to given program mount /dev/loop0 /mnt exit Still mounted and unreachable

Re: [GIT PULL -mm] Unionfs/fsstack/eCryptfs updates/cleanups/fixes

2007-09-03 Thread Erez Zadok
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Al Boldi writes: > Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: > > The following is a series of patches related to Unionfs, which include > > three small VFS/fsstack patches and one eCryptfs patch; the rest are > > Unionfs patches. The patches here represent several months of work

Re: [PATCH 01/32] VFS: export release_open_intent symbol

2007-09-03 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: > > diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c > index a83160a..b2b7c8e 100644 > --- a/fs/namei.c > +++ b/fs/namei.c > @@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ void release_open_intent(struct nameidata *nd) > else > fput(nd->intent.open.file); > } >

Re: GPL weasels and the atheros stink

2007-09-03 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:03:07 +0200, Marc Espie said: > Look at the situation: Reyk Floeter writes some code, puts it > under a dual licence, and goes on vacation. > > While he's away, some other people (Jiri, for starters) tweak the > copyright and licence on the file he's mostly written.

Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: Add power meters to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface

2007-09-03 Thread Jean Delvare
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 23:02:01 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 02 Sep 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: > > I guess power[1-*]_average would be OK? > > AFAIK, yes. It is probably not 100% in sync with the power supply class, > though. Is the power supply class creating sysfs files? I

Re: [patches] [patch 3/5] x86: Add PCI extended config space access for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread Andreas Herrmann
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:33:19AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 11:17:18 +0200 > "Andreas Herrmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > \> > > Do you see any other issues besides the naming of the bit? > > I wonder if we should key this off a PCI ID of the chipset rather than >

Re: bogomips discrepancy on Intel Core2 Quad CPU

2007-09-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Bauke Jan Douma wrote: $> uname -a Linux skyscraper 2.6.22.5 #7 SMP PREEMPT Sun Sep 2 12:12:25 CEST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux $> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep bogomips bogomips: 4813.46 bogomips: 4810.91 bogomips: 4810.91 bogomips: 10583.94

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