Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-08 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 23:48:56 -0400 James C. Georgas wrote: > On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 18:16 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > 2.6.23-rc5-git1 builds for me when I follow those steps... > > except for some Section mismatch warnings. > > > > OK, it worked for me also, using torvalds/linux-2.6.git.

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-09-08 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 10:42:20PM -0400, Kyle Rose wrote: > > > You are a regular reader of linux-kernel, and therefore the sk98lin > > removal can hardly be a surprise for you. If you prefer whining over > > helping to improve the kernel that's your choice... > > > In my case the issue is

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-08 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 9/8/07, James C. Georgas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 18:16 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > 2.6.23-rc5-git1 builds for me when I follow those steps... > > except for some Section mismatch warnings. > > > > OK, it worked for me also, using torvalds/linux-2.6.git. The

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Al Boldi
Al Boldi wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > I once sent a patch to make libata a submenu of scsi. > > > > Which is wrong > > > > Nakked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > The general comments about moving this stuff around and making it > > clearer what sd/sr etc are nowdays are good but hiding

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-08 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 18:16 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > 2.6.23-rc5-git1 builds for me when I follow those steps... > except for some Section mismatch warnings. > OK, it worked for me also, using torvalds/linux-2.6.git. The behaviour of the "select" directive in Kconfig appears to have changed

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 - vdso and gettimeofday issues with glibc

2007-09-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:57:50 +0200, Andi Kleen said: > vdso effectively only supports TSC and HPET (the other clock sources are not > accessible > from ring 3) Ahh.. that explains why acpi_pm clocksource doesn't trip over the problem pgpZ3U1saEbaH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-09-08 Thread Kyle Rose
> You are a regular reader of linux-kernel, and therefore the sk98lin > removal can hardly be a surprise for you. If you prefer whining over > helping to improve the kernel that's your choice... > In my case the issue is simply one of practicality: I cannot go to the data center 5 times per

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-08 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 18:16 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 18:09:04 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:51:39 -0400 James C. Georgas wrote: > > > > > If I select X86_64_ACPI_NUMA, then ACPI_NUMA is (properly) selected > > > automatically, but ACPI is not

Problem charging blackberry 8700c with berry_charge (2.6.22.6)

2007-09-08 Thread Matt LaPlante
I'm running the 2.6.22.6 kernel with the berry_charge module loaded. I connect my 8700c via USB, but the blackberry does not appear to charge. The power icon does not change, and even after staying connected for an extended period, the device does not appear to be gaining any power. The cable

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-08 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 18:09 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:51:39 -0400 James C. Georgas wrote: > > > If I select X86_64_ACPI_NUMA, then ACPI_NUMA is (properly) selected > > automatically, but ACPI is not selected automatically. This causes > > ACPI_NUMA to not be built, and

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-08 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 18:09:04 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:51:39 -0400 James C. Georgas wrote: > > > If I select X86_64_ACPI_NUMA, then ACPI_NUMA is (properly) selected > > automatically, but ACPI is not selected automatically. This causes > > ACPI_NUMA to not be built, and

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-08 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:51:39 -0400 James C. Georgas wrote: > If I select X86_64_ACPI_NUMA, then ACPI_NUMA is (properly) selected > automatically, but ACPI is not selected automatically. This causes > ACPI_NUMA to not be built, and the kernel compile fails with unresolved > symbols. exactly what

Early userspace, Linux development (Re: perhaps init/ should update the reference to "change floppy")

2007-09-08 Thread Oleg Verych
* Sat, 8 Sep 2007 08:08:06 -0400 (EDT) [] > from init/do_mounts_rd.c: > > ... [] > if (rd_prompt) > change_floppy("root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk"); > create_dev("/dev/root", ROOT_DEV); > create_dev("/dev/ram", MKDEV(RAMDISK_MAJOR, n)); >

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 - vdso and gettimeofday issues with glibc

2007-09-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:27:10 EDT, Chuck Ebbert said: > On 08/29/2007 07:15 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>> The issue: vdso and gettimeofday seem to be having a quarrel. > >> This is also open as a Fedora bug: > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=262481 > >> > > > > So it's an

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-08 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 18:51 -0400, James C. Georgas wrote: > If I select X86_64_ACPI_NUMA, then ACPI_NUMA is (properly) selected > automatically, but ACPI is not selected automatically. This causes > ACPI_NUMA to not be built, and the kernel compile fails with unresolved > symbols. > Uh, it

Re: crash while playing bzflag

2007-09-08 Thread Alex Riesen
Alex Riesen, Sat, Sep 08, 2007 20:12:13 +0200: > Michal Piotrowski, Sat, Sep 08, 2007 01:18:10 +0200: > > Hi Alex, > > > > On 07/09/2007, Alex Riesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kernel: v2.6.23-rc5+ (b21010ed6498391c0f359f2a89c907533fe07fec) > > > > Is this a post 2.6.22 regression? >

Re: bogomips discrepancy on Intel Core2 Quad CPU

2007-09-08 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Bill Davidsen wrote on 03-09-07 16:47: 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 The

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-08 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 18:51 -0400, James C. Georgas wrote: > Steps to reproduce: > > make clean > make mrproper > make noallconfig Excuse me; that should read allnoconfig, not noallconfig. James /\V - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: USB and MMC device problems on Kernel 2.6.22

2007-09-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 9 2007 08:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have an ARM hardware board works fine with USB and MMC on kernel > 2.6.11. Now, I've just upgraded it to kernel 2.6.22. The modules > seem loaded fine, please see following list, but neither USB nor > MMC could detect devices when a USB stick or

broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-08 Thread James C. Georgas
If I select X86_64_ACPI_NUMA, then ACPI_NUMA is (properly) selected automatically, but ACPI is not selected automatically. This causes ACPI_NUMA to not be built, and the kernel compile fails with unresolved symbols. Steps to reproduce: make clean make mrproper make

Re: Linux' IEEE 1394/ FireWire subsystem TODO list

2007-09-08 Thread Natalie Protasevich
On 9/8/07, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi lists, > > I copied the ancient linux1394 project TODO list from the static page at > www.linux1394.org over to http://wiki.linux1394.org/ToDo and > substantially updated it now. I certainly missed a few important TODOs > and ideas, but

USB and MMC device problems on Kernel 2.6.22

2007-09-08 Thread development . jim
Sorry for not clear about the kernel version, let me try again: I have an ARM hardware board works fine with USB and MMC on kernel 2.6.11. Now, I've just upgraded it to kernel 2.6.22. The modules seem loaded fine, please see following list, but neither USB nor MMC could detect devices when a

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.23-rc3 USB segfaults + urb status -32

2007-09-08 Thread Alan Stern
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Lasse Kärkkäinen wrote: > Sorry about late reply. I have been extremely busy with other things. > > > Does 2.6.22 work fine? > > Not perfect, but it does not crash spontaneously. I have been running > 2.6.22-ck1 since my last email with only one crash and today I have >

Re: [NFS] [BUG] 2.6.23-rc5 kernel BUG at fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c:945

2007-09-08 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 01:56 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, > > On 07/09/2007, Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sep 7 11:42:49 p55lp2 kernel: kernel BUG at fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c:945! > > Sep 7 11:42:49 p55lp2 kernel: Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] > > Sep 7

Re: [PATCH] net: myri10ge: force select inet_lro

2007-09-08 Thread David Miller
From: Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:03:06 -0700 > Did your fix go to LKML ? I don't remember exactly. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: 2.6.23-rc3 USB segfaults + urb status -32

2007-09-08 Thread Lasse Kärkkäinen
Sorry about late reply. I have been extremely busy with other things. > Does 2.6.22 work fine? Not perfect, but it does not crash spontaneously. I have been running 2.6.22-ck1 since my last email with only one crash and today I have tortured 2.6.22.5 as badly as I can (switching

Re: Suspend and hibernation status report

2007-09-08 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 5 September 2007 01:32, Len Brown wrote: > On Friday 27 July 2007 04:57, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Thanks for writing this, Rafael. > > > * system hibernation state - state, in which the system's processors are > > off and > > its main memory is not powered, but the

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-09-08 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Saturday, 8 September 2007 17:32, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, > > On 05/08/2007, Michał sed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings > > > > I'm experiencing double disk spin down issue on my HP nx6310 laptop > > during shut down and suspend to disk. The drive is power down on "Will > > now

Re: Intel Memory Ordering White Paper

2007-09-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Nick Piggin wrote: smp_rmb() should not need to do anything because loads are done in order anyway. Both AMD and Intel have committed to this now. The important point is that they *appear* to be done in order. AFAIK, the CPUs can still do speculative and out of order loads, but throw out the

Re: [PATCH] prevent kswapd from freeing excessive amounts of lowmem

2007-09-08 Thread Rik van Riel
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! The current VM can get itself into trouble fairly easily on systems with a small ZONE_HIGHMEM, which is common on i686 computers with 1GB of memory. On one side, page_alloc() will allocate down to zone->pages_low, while on the other side, kswapd() and

[PATCH 2/2] forbid asm/bitops.h direct inclusion

2007-09-08 Thread Jiri Slaby
forbid asm/bitops.h direct inclusion Because of compile errors that may occur after bit changes if asm/bitops.h is included directly without e.g. linux/kernel.h which includes linux/bitops.h, forbid direct inclusion of asm/bitops.h. Thanks to Adrian Bunk. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL

[PATCH 1/2] remove asm/bitops.h includes

2007-09-08 Thread Jiri Slaby
remove asm/bitops.h includes including asm/bitops directly may cause compile errors. don't include it and include linux/bitops instead. next patch will deny including asm header directly. Cc: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Stefan Richter
Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:44:46 +0200 Stefan Richter wrote: >> Randy Dunlap wrote: >>> The problem with 'select' here is that it will enable BLK_DEV_SD, >>> but if SCSI is not enabled, it will not become enabled -- i.e., >>> select does not follow the dependency chain. So

Re: sysfs change of input/event devices in 2.6.23rc breaks udev

2007-09-08 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
On Saturday 08 September 2007, Anssi Hannula wrote: > Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > Anssi Hannula wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> There seem to be changes in sysfs input structure between 2.6.22 and > >> 2.6.23-rc5 which cause some breakage. > > [...] > > >> There is no longer: > >>

Re: Linux 2.6.20.19

2007-09-08 Thread Willy Tarreau
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 48daec7..6bb9f2e 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 20 -EXTRAVERSION = .18 +EXTRAVERSION = .19 NAME = Homicidal Dwarf Hamster # *DOCUMENTATION* diff --git a/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c b/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c

Linux 2.6.20.19

2007-09-08 Thread Willy Tarreau
I've just released Linux 2.6.20.19. It backports a fix present in 2.6.22 for a bug introduced in the IPv6 stack in 2.6.20, which could lead to crashes under certain circumstances. I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch between 2.6.20.18 and 2.6.20.19. The patch and

Re: sysfs change of input/event devices in 2.6.23rc breaks udev

2007-09-08 Thread Anssi Hannula
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: Anssi Hannula wrote: Hi! There seem to be changes in sysfs input structure between 2.6.22 and 2.6.23-rc5 which cause some breakage. [...] There is no longer: /sys/class/input/eventX => /sys/class/input/inputX/eventX instead there is: /sys/class/inputX/input:eventX

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Stefan Richter
Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 08:30:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Andi Kleen wrote: >>> when you've been using CONFIG_IDE before it is not completely >>> obvious you need BLK_SD for your hard disk. >> Switching to different drivers without reading the help text? >> Tough. > >

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 08:30:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > when you've been using CONFIG_IDE before it is not completely > > obvious you need BLK_SD for your hard disk. > > Switching to different drivers without reading the help text? > Tough. The individual driver

[PATCH] alpha: convert to generic sys_ptrace

2007-09-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
This patch converts alpha to the generic sys_ptrace. We use force_successful_syscall_return to avoid having to pass the pt_regs pointer down to the function. I think the removal of the assemly stub is correct, but I could only compile-test this patch, so please give it a spin before commiting :)

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-09-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:44:20PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >... > That was with 2.6.22.5 (or so), dropped back to an old kernel with sk98lin, > previously had uptimes in three digit days. Up for a week or so now. There is a real long-term advantage of removing drivers like sk98lin because

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:52:35 +0200 Bodo Eggert wrote: > BTW2: I think that menu needs very much reordering. "Block devices" should > be renamed to "Other block devices", AGP support should belong into graphics > support, and many other things I don't even know need to be pushed around. > Even

Linux 2.4.36-pre1

2007-09-08 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi, I've just released Linux 2.4.36-pre1. It's basically the same as 2.4.35.2, with an add-on I'd like people to experiment with : In private discussions, Solar Designer proposed to restrict the ability to map the NULL address to CAP_RAW_IO capable processes only. The idea behind this was to

cpuset trouble after hibernate

2007-09-08 Thread Nicolas Capit
Hello, This is my situation: - I mounted the pseudo cpuset filesystem into /dev/cpuset - I created a cpuset named oar with my 2 cpus cat /dev/cpuset/oar/cpus 0-1 - Then I hibernate my computer with 'echo -n "disk" >/sys/power/state' - After reboot: cat /dev/cpuset/oar/cpus 0 Why did

Re: sysfs change of input/event devices in 2.6.23rc breaks udev

2007-09-08 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
Anssi Hannula wrote: > Hi! > > There seem to be changes in sysfs input structure between 2.6.22 and > 2.6.23-rc5 which cause some breakage. > I'm running 2.6.23-rc5 in up-to-date cooker. > With 2.6.22: > >> # LC_ALL=C ls -l /sys/class/input/input4 >> total 0 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root0

Re: limiting to UDMA/33 instead of UDMA/100 - pata_pdc202xx_old (also XFS error)?

2007-09-08 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:47:02 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> res 51/84:00:3f:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) > >> res 51/84:00:3f:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) > >> res 51/84:00:21:9d:fc/00:00:00:00:00/e6 Emask 0x10

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Stefan Richter
Andi Kleen wrote: > when you've been using CONFIG_IDE before it is not completely > obvious you need BLK_SD for your hard disk. Switching to different drivers without reading the help text? Tough. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--= -=--- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Stefan Richter
Bodo Eggert wrote: > The real problem is hiding devices attached to some controlers between > one kind of the controllers. This has been correct whern they were bus- > specific, but since they are now shared by three busses, they should get > their own menu called "(S)ATA/USB/SCSI attached

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Andi Kleen
> I'd say that someone needs to use a vendor kernel, or at least > begin with a vendor .config file... Vendor kernels tend to compile forever and require initrds. For just testing a kernel quickly compiling only a few drivers in is much more convenient. Also when you've been using CONFIG_IDE

Re: crash while playing bzflag

2007-09-08 Thread Alex Riesen
Michal Piotrowski, Sat, Sep 08, 2007 01:18:10 +0200: > Hi Alex, > > On 07/09/2007, Alex Riesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kernel: v2.6.23-rc5+ (b21010ed6498391c0f359f2a89c907533fe07fec) > > Is this a post 2.6.22 regression? > Can't say yet. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: crash while playing bzflag

2007-09-08 Thread Alex Riesen
Chuck Ebbert, Sat, Sep 08, 2007 01:14:01 +0200: > On 09/07/2007 03:56 PM, Alex Riesen wrote: > > Kernel: v2.6.23-rc5+ (b21010ed6498391c0f359f2a89c907533fe07fec) > > Ubuntu Feisty, Radeon R200 (9200) dual head, MergedFB, BZFlag in > > OpenGL mode, frozen. That'll teach me playing games at home... >

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-09-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
James Corey wrote: --- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:01:30 -0600 Rob Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:57:01PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: The only known outstanding problems on 2.62.22.6 of sky2 are: * problems with fibre PHY

Re: easy alsa patches for the stable kernel?

2007-09-08 Thread Stefan Richter
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 08.09.2007 01:38, Takashi Iwai wrote: [backports to -stable] >> Linux will suck really if one breaks so-called stable thing easily >> without actually testing. For stable stuff, "it should be good" isn't >> enough. It must be: "it IS good." This applies (or should

What's in libata-dev.git?

2007-09-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
The following is the current contents of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git (recently rebased) The 'upstream' branch is what I will push upstream for 2.6.24, once the merge window opens. I also have a pile in my inbox I need to go over, while I was away at

What's in netdev-2.6.git?

2007-09-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
The following is the current contents of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git (recently rebased) The 'upstream' branch is what I will push upstream for 2.6.24, once the merge window opens. I also have a pile in my inbox I need to go over, while I was away at

Linux 2.4.35.2

2007-09-08 Thread Willy Tarreau
I've just released Linux 2.4.35.2. The removal of -fno-unit-at-a-time in 2.4.35.1 in order to fix build with gcc-4.2 uncovered nasty optimization issues in the current code under gcc-4.x. This option not only prevents gcc from reordering sections, it also prevents it from doing a better

sysfs change of input/event devices in 2.6.23rc breaks udev

2007-09-08 Thread Anssi Hannula
Hi! There seem to be changes in sysfs input structure between 2.6.22 and 2.6.23-rc5 which cause some breakage. With 2.6.22: # LC_ALL=C ls -l /sys/class/input/input4 total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root0 Sep 8 12:51 capabilities/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root0 Sep 8 19:48 device ->

Re: [2.6.22.5] irq X: nobody cared but X is successfully used by libata

2007-09-08 Thread Tejun Heo
Paul Rolland wrote: > Hello, > > My machine (an ASUS P5W-DH-Deluxe, Core2, 4Go RAM, 3 SATA and 2IDE) is > reporting a : > irq 23: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) > together with a Call Trace, but : > - irqpoll is present on the command line, > - the irq is reported to be

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc4][reRESEND] ahci: RAID mode SATA patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-09-08 Thread Tejun Heo
Jeff Garzik wrote: > Gaston, Jason D wrote: >> At this time, I don't have any way to test those particular DeviceID's >> and I know that the AHCI mode DeviceID works by using the class code >> support. So, I would like to just leave them at they are, if that is >> ok. > > > Fine by me...

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:50:08AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 08 Sep 2007 18:07:00 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > > This has also bitten me one or two times. A reasonable way would > > be to just select SD automatically for !EMBEDDED > > I'd say that someone needs to use a vendor kernel, or at

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Bodo Eggert
Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >> > I once sent a patch to make libata a submenu of scsi. >> >> Which is wrong >> >> Nakked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> The general comments about moving this stuff around and making it clearer >> what sd/sr etc are nowdays are

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:44:46 +0200 Stefan Richter wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: > > Stefan Richter wrote: > >> I am not a friend of 'select', but maybe the following actually helps. > ... > > The problem with 'select' here is that it will enable BLK_DEV_SD, > > but if SCSI is not enabled, it will

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Randy Dunlap
On 08 Sep 2007 18:07:00 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly > > give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller > > while no 'scsi-disk' support

Re: 2.6.22.6 pata_via cable detect

2007-09-08 Thread Alan Cox
> Did you get any off-list feedback on this? I can move a burner back to > the VIA to test, but having another controller I took the easy way out > and recabled the device. It's production, so I have to test off hours. There are a couple of fixes just been submitted which may account for this

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Stefan Richter
Randy Dunlap wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> I am not a friend of 'select', but maybe the following actually helps. ... > The problem with 'select' here is that it will enable BLK_DEV_SD, > but if SCSI is not enabled, it will not become enabled -- i.e., > select does not follow the dependency

In search of 10gbps cards/shootout in Linux?

2007-09-08 Thread Justin Piszcz
There are various agencies/educational institutions doing testing but was curious if anyone has 'found' a 10 gigabit card shootout measuring the performance between 10 gigabit cards on the 2.6 kernel? Most of the benchmarks are from the vendors themselves Intel/etc-- was wondering if there

Re: 2.6.22.6 pata_via cable detect

2007-09-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Howard Chu wrote: Still have a slight glitch here. I have 2 hard drives on the primary channel, detected correctly as 80-wire and UDMA100. I have a DVD burner on the secondary channel, detected incorrectly as 40-wire. (It's sitting by itself on an 80-wire cable.) This is on an Asus A8V-Deluxe.

Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions v2

2007-09-08 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 13:11 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi all, > > Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc5. > > Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. > http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions > FS > > Subject : umount triggers a warning in jfs and

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 compile error for ppc 32

2007-09-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > If so, the finger points at this: > > > > static __inline__ void __clear_bit_unlock(int nr, volatile unsigned long > > *addr) { > > __asm__ __volatile__(LWSYNC_ON_SMP ::: "memory"); > > __clear_bit(nr, addr); > > } > > > > which was added by Nick's powerpc-lock-bitops.patch. I am

Re: [4/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions v2

2007-09-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Subject : resume from ram much slower > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/10/275 > Last known good : 2.6.23-rc1 ? > Submitter : Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Caused-By : ? > Handled-By : Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Status

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Randy Dunlap
Stefan Richter wrote: (added Cc linux-ide) Folkert van Heusden wrote: A popup makes some sense, but I don't know if menuconfig knows how to do popup warnings... and it needs to be done for all *configs, not just menuconfig. Maybe add a new type? How about comment "Note: 'SCSI disk support'

Re: [PATCH] prevent kswapd from freeing excessive amounts of lowmem

2007-09-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > The current VM can get itself into trouble fairly easily > on systems > with a small ZONE_HIGHMEM, which is common on i686 > computers with > 1GB of memory. > > On one side, page_alloc() will allocate down to > zone->pages_low, > while on the other side, kswapd() and balance_pgdat() >

Re: [PATCH] net: myri10ge: force select inet_lro

2007-09-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 01:22 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:26:25 -0700 > > > This driver uses the inet_lro facilities , but it doesn't force it > > to be enabled .. Someone would have to know to enable inet_lro if > > they select

Re: [PATCH] Scheduler Profiling - Use Immediate Values

2007-09-08 Thread Andi Kleen
Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - profile_hit(SCHED_PROFILING, __builtin_return_address(0)); > + immediate_if (_profiling) I must say I really dislike immediate_if(). You complained earlier that something breaks coloring, but adding such macros will definitely break a

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 8 2007 17:03, Al Boldi wrote: >Alan Cox wrote: >> > I once sent a patch to make libata a submenu of scsi. >> >> Which is wrong >> >> Nakked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> The general comments about moving this stuff around and making it clearer >> what sd/sr etc are nowdays are

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Andi Kleen
Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly > give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller > while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected? This has also bitten me one or two times. A

PROBLEM: Network sky2 Module

2007-09-08 Thread Werner Meurer
[1.] One line summary of the problem: hw csum failure appears in syslog [2.] Full description of the problem/report: hw csum failure appears in syslog and sometimes, under heavy network utilization, with NFS-Daemon the Network Device totally fails. Then no Network Access is possible.

Re: [PATCH 1/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux

2007-09-08 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 21:07, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:47:00PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 September 2007 14:43, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > These patches fix section names and add > > > CONFIG_DISCARD_UNUSED_SECTIONS. It is not enabled > > >

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Al Boldi
Alan Cox wrote: > > I once sent a patch to make libata a submenu of scsi. > > Which is wrong > > Nakked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The general comments about moving this stuff around and making it clearer > what sd/sr etc are nowdays are good but hiding libata under SCSI will > cause

Re: Intel Memory Ordering White Paper

2007-09-08 Thread Alan Cox
> AMD processors guarantee loads are ordered and stores are ordered > (with exceptions of non-temporal, and non-wb policy). > > As for the others that do out of order stores, are any of them SMP? IDT winchip isn't, Geode isn't - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Device problems on Kernel 22

2007-09-08 Thread development . jim
Hi, I have an ARM hardware board works fine with USB and MMC in kernel 11. Now, I've just upgraded it to kernel 22. The modules seem loaded fine, please see following list, but both usb and mmc modules failed to detect the USB stick or SD card when it was plugged in (I enabled module debug,

Re: Oops in pwc v4l driver

2007-09-08 Thread Alex Smith
On 03/09/2007, Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > On 02/09/07, Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I found an old Philips Askey VC010 webcam and attempted to get it > > working on Linux (latest git, x86_64). > > Is this a regression? Does 2.6.22 work

Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions v2

2007-09-08 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:11:13PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > USB > > > > Subject : 2.6.23-rc1: USB hard disk broken > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/25/62 > > Last known good : ? > > Submitter : Tino Keitel <[EMAIL

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-08 Thread Alan Cox
> I once sent a patch to make libata a submenu of scsi. Which is wrong Nakked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The general comments about moving this stuff around and making it clearer what sd/sr etc are nowdays are good but hiding libata under SCSI will cause even more confusion than it cures

Re: Platform device id

2007-09-08 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 03:35:59PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Greg, all, > > While platform_device.id is a u32, platform_device_add() handles "-1" as > a special id value. This has potential for confusion and bugs. One such > bug was reported to me by David Brownell: > >

Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions v2

2007-09-08 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:11:13PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > USB > > Subject : 2.6.23-rc1: USB hard disk broken > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/25/62 > Last known good : ? > Submitter : Tino Keitel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Caused-By : ? > Handled-By :

Re: [4/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions v2

2007-09-08 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Michal. > Kconfig/Kbuild > > Subject : building a specific in-tree module is currently a bit broken > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/5/40 > Last known good : ? > Submitter : Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Caused-By : ? > Handled-By : Sam

Re: Intel Memory Ordering White Paper

2007-09-08 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > dean gaudet wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > > I've also heard that string operations do not follow the normal ordering, > > > but > > > that's just with respect to individual loads/stores in the one operation, > > > I > > >

Re: [patch 6/6] Linux Kernel Markers - Port SPU to markers

2007-09-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:07:39PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Andrew, any chance to get this into -mm ASAP so we can have it in > 2.6.24? > > Just in case anyone wonders what this is usefulfor I've ported my > hacking spu tracing code to it, and if markers get in I'd push a cleaned > up

Re: Intel Memory Ordering White Paper

2007-09-08 Thread Petr Vandrovec
dean gaudet wrote: On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: I've also heard that string operations do not follow the normal ordering, but that's just with respect to individual loads/stores in the one operation, I hope? And they will still follow ordering rules WRT surrounding loads and stores?

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

2007-09-08 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Once I quothed: Make ide_rate_filter() also respect PIO/SWDMA/MWDMA mode masks. While at it, make the udma_filter() method calls take precedence over using the mode masks. This one not looking to pretty -- I've geve some thought on how to beautify all these switch fallthoughs but haven't

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

2007-09-08 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello, I wrote: Sergei Shtylyov wrote: The patch was 4/4 of course. :-< Probably I was too esctatic about the code. ;-) Or rarher me. :-) The Marvell bridge chips used on HighPoint SATA cards do not seem to support the MWDMA modes (at least that caould be seen in their so-called

Re: Intel Memory Ordering White Paper

2007-09-08 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > I've also heard that string operations do not follow the normal ordering, but > that's just with respect to individual loads/stores in the one operation, I > hope? And they will still follow ordering rules WRT surrounding loads and > stores? see section

Re: [2/2] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions with patches v2

2007-09-08 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc5 with patches available. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007 Adrian Bunk

Re: [4/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions v2

2007-09-08 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc5. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007 Adrian Bunk10 Linus Torvalds

[1/2] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions with patches v2

2007-09-08 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc5 with patches available. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007 Adrian Bunk

Re: [3/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions v2

2007-09-08 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc5. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007 Adrian Bunk10 Linus Torvalds

Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions v2

2007-09-08 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc5. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007 Adrian Bunk10 Linus Torvalds

[1/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions v2

2007-09-08 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc5. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions List of Aces NameRegressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007 Adrian Bunk10 Linus Torvalds

Re: Intel Memory Ordering White Paper

2007-09-08 Thread Nick Piggin
On Saturday 08 September 2007 20:29, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:26:50 -0700 > > Jesse Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FYI, we just released a new white paper describing memory ordering for > > Intel processors: > > http://developer.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/index.htm

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