Re: [new] kernel-desktop 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4.desktop_1

2005-07-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:29 +0200, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: > Hi, "You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has been automatically rejected. If you think that your messages are being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Please don't cc

Re: ALSA, snd_intel8x0m and kexec() don't work together (2.6.13-rc3-git4 and 2.6.13-rc3-git3)

2005-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 15:18 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Denis Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Not happening here on 2.6.12: > > 2.6.12 didn't have kexec (unless it's a -mm kernel) > So how could you boot using kexec then? > Is kexec supposed to be transparent to all the subsystems, o

Re: Kernel cached memory

2005-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 15:25 +0200, Gábor Lénárt wrote: > Anyway, want to have 'free memory' is a thing like having dozens of cars > in your garage which don't want to be used ... > Really? I thought it was good to leave some memory free to speed up application startup, so we don't have to evict

Re: [new] kernel-desktop 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4.desktop_1

2005-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 13:41 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:29 +0200, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: > > Hi, > > I just released a new version of kernel-desktop. New features are: > > > - Realtime LSM module (Useful for jack audio server) > > 2.6

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:07 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > I will get flames for this, but my laptop boots faster and sometimes > responds faster in 2.4.27 than in 2.6.12. Sorry, but this is the fact > for me. IBM T42. Sorry dude, but there's just no way that any automated process can catch t

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 21:15 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > OK, I will, but I first of all need to learn how to tell if benchmarks > are better or worse. Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding scheduler related interactivity regressions. It certainly has confirmed what

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:31 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding > > scheduler related interactivity regressions. > > I doubt that _any_ of the re

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 19:05 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > Indeed, and the purpose of the benchmark is to quantify something rather than > leave it to subjective feeling. Fortunately if I was to quantify the current > kernel's situation I would say everything is fine. Agreed. Unfortunately everyth

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.13rc3: RLIMIT_RTPRIO broken

2005-07-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:42 +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > RLIMIT_RTPRIO is supposed to grant non privileged users the right to use > SCHED_FIFO/SCHED_RR scheduling policies with priorites bounded by the > RLIMIT_RTPRIO value via sched_setscheduler(). This is usually used by > audio users. > > U

Re: kernel 2.6 speed

2005-07-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 17:03 -0400, Florin Malita wrote: > the x86 timer interrupt > frequency has increased from 100Hz to 1KHz (it's about to be lowered > to 250Hz) This is by no means a done deal. So far no one has posted ANY evidence that dropping HZ to 250 helps (except one result on a atypica

Re: xor as a lazy comparison

2005-07-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:55 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Doesn't matter. The cycles saved for old compilers is not rational to > have obfuscated code. Where do we draw the line with this? Is x *= 2 preferable to x <<= 2 as well? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: xor as a lazy comparison

2005-07-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 12:16 -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:55 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > Doesn't matter. The cycles saved for old compilers is not rational to > > > have obfus

Re: xor as a lazy comparison

2005-07-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 20:23 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:55 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > >>Doesn't matter. The cycles saved for old compilers is not rational to > >>have obfuscated code. > > &g

Re: xor as a lazy comparison

2005-07-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 12:16 -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:55 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > Doesn't matter. The cycles saved for old compilers is not rational to > > > have obfus

Re: kernel debugging

2005-07-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 15:23 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using Red Hat sources, which has function open_kcore() hardcoded to > return -EPERM always. > > Changing this function to the way it is defined in the public sources (as > shown below) did the trick. All these Red Hat / RHEL threa

Re: [PATCH] fix (again) MAX_USER_RT_PRIO and MAX_RT_PRIO (was: MAX_USER_RT_PRIO and MAX_RT_PRIO are wrong!)

2005-07-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 16:28 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Ingo, > > I've CC you just because you are the schedule maintainer. You already > accepted this patch into your RT tree. > Please make sure to pick up this patch from Andreas Steinmetz too, otherwise the rlimits are broken: --- linux.o

RE: Variable ticks

2005-07-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 17:19 -0400, Brown, Len wrote: > >>>Question one, are there other actions to consider? > >> > >> > >> Yes. > >> Speaking for ACPI C3 state, note that DMA also > >> wakes up the CPU -- even if there was no device interrupt. > >> (aka, "the trouble with USB") > > > >Trouble?

Re: local DDOS? Kernel panic when accessing /proc/ioports

2005-08-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 21:26 +0200, Martin Loschwitz wrote: > Ooops and ksymoops-output is attached. Also, don't use ksymoops for 2.6, it's redundant at best and at worst actually removes information. Check oops-tracing.txt, the docs have been updated. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: 2.6.12-ck5

2005-08-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 12:47 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > SCHED_ISO was dropped entirely. It broke in ck4, and there is now a > decent defacto standard for unprivileged realtime in mainline kernel > with realtime RLIMITS so I'm supporting the use of that instead. Too bad, this was a nice feature, bu

Re: DRM VIA driver on Unichrome Pro K8M800

2005-08-06 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 21:26 +0200, Joris van Rantwijk wrote: > Hello David, > > I noticed you guided the VIA DRM driver into linux-2.6.13-rc3. Are you > the right person to send questions/problems/patches about this driver? > > I am trying to get it to run on my Unichrome Pro K8M800 chipset and >

Re: DRM VIA driver on Unichrome Pro K8M800

2005-08-06 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 18:20 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 21:26 +0200, Joris van Rantwijk wrote: > > Hello David, > > > > I noticed you guided the VIA DRM driver into linux-2.6.13-rc3. Are you > > the right person to send questions/problems/patches ab

Re: [Fwd: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01]

2005-08-06 Thread Lee Revell
zOn Fri, 2005-08-05 at 12:59 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > ok, looks good - i've applied it and released the -52-14 PREEMPT_RT > patch. > Does not compile if RCU stats are enabled but torture test disabled. Lee --- linux-2.6.13-rc4/fs/proc/proc_misc.c.orig 2005-08-06 22:59:46.0 -0400

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: any update on the pcmcia bug blocking Audigy2 notebook sound card driver development

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:43 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Raymond Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I remember there's a kernel pcmcia bug preventing the development for > > the Audigy2 pcmcia notebook sound card driver. > > > > See > > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 13:36 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Erick Turnquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, I'm running an Athlon64 X2 4400+ (a dual core model) with an > > nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra on a Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI motherboard and > > getting nasty messages like these in my dmesg: > >

Wireless support

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) supported? TIA, Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at ht

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) > supported? > Wow, Google has really declined in quality. I got zero hits for "Linksys WUSB 54G linux". Then I found this page on

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 11:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and > we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a > relevant machine, please do test this. > > There are other fixes too, a number of them re

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 13:50 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > It looks like CONFIG_4KSTACKS has gone away (IOW 8K stacks are no longer > > an option). But now I get this ominous warning when I compile > > ndiswrapper:

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:39 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) > > supported? > > > > TIA, > > > > Lee > > Normally, linksys

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:31 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > On Monday 08 August 2005 03:39, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) > > > supported?

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 22:50 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > It doesn't actually say it works on Linux. Perhaps you wanted > mysticgooglepsychic.com? ;-) > > I don't think it is reasonable to expect google to know what ndiswrapper > is ... or perhaps it just has a taste filter installed? ;-) Tr

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 14:01 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Some BIOSes do not lock SMM, and you *could* turn it off at the chipset > > level. > > Doing so would be wasteful though. Both AMD and Intel CPUs need SMM code > for the deeper C* sleep states. > Wouldn't it be useful for !CONFIG_PM? Many

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 20:13 +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > I gave up on my laptop's built in Inprocomm IPN 2220 quite some time ago > (one more reason not to like Cisco). In the rare cases I do really need > wlan there is http://zd1211.sourceforge.net/ Any idea how much hardware is out there th

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 20:24 +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 20:13 +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > > > >>I gave up on my laptop's built in Inprocomm IPN 2220 quite some time ago > >>(one more reason not to like

RE: Wireless support

2005-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 12:56 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > Again, the point is that ndiswrapper is a great project, but people > uses it for the leftovers! We *shouldn't* buy leftovers or from Manuf > that don't care about Linux. If you are always speccing out new systems then of course, but in

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: any update on the pcmcia bug blocking Audigy2 notebook sound card driver development

2005-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
[added James to cc:] On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:40 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:43, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Raymond Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I remember there's a kernel pcmcia bug preventing the development for > > > the Audigy2 p

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940U2W "Data Parity Error Dectected" messages

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 17:19 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > I recently installed a SCSI tape drive and Adaptec AHA-2940U2W SCSI > controller into my server to run backups. > > Since then, the driver issues these warnings on a semi-regular basis > while the drive is busy: > > Aug 9 17:00:26 anu ke

Re: VGER news

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 17:12 +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > We did system switchover last weekend, and nobody reacted trulu > adversely.Probably nobody noticed it either. :-) It's definitely faster. Lately I have had a few replies to list messages where the reply hit LKML several minutes befo

Re: Soft lockup in e100 driver ?

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 16:36 +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > Running very recent Fedora Core Development kernel I can following > soft-oops.. ( 2.6.12-1.1455_FC5smp ) > > > e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex > BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! Could this be a false positive

Re: oops in VMWARE vmnet, on 2.6.12.x

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 17:44 +0200, Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz wrote: > I know that in general no one here is interested in vmware affairs, but in > hope that VMware folks are reading this list too, here's the oops: > It's the newest vmware5 for linux from vmware.com > > ksymoops 2.4.9 on i686 2.6.

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal (version 2)

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that > support the same hardware) for removal. > > Scheduling the via82cxxx driver for removal was ACK'ed by Jeff Garzik. > Someone on linux-audio-user just pointed out that the

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal (version 2)

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 19:49 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I'd deprecate them without moving them. > OK, I think that will still be slightly confusing becuase it comes before Sound in the kernel config, but maybe the deprecated part will make people think twice. I think we should at least label the

Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5)

2005-08-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 19:13 -0700, john stultz wrote: > All, > Here's the next rev in my rework of the current timekeeping subsystem. > No major changes, only some cleanups and further splitting the larger > patches into smaller ones. Last I heard this made gettimeofday() 20% slower on x86.

Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5)

2005-08-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 19:39 -0700, john stultz wrote: > Ah, I've got a patch on my laptop that takes that down to ~2% or less. > I didn't include it in this patch set but I'll work to get it > integrated before the next release. Sorry about that. > > If you have any suggestions for further perform

Re: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

2005-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 09:09 +0200, Gábor Lénárt wrote: > I want to buy a new system including > motherboard with some Athlon64 CPU. I was told that nforce4 chipset is > the "right" choice. However I'm using *only* Linux Who told you that? Some Windows user? It's common knowledge that Nvidia is

Re: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

2005-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 17:17 +0200, Michael Thonke wrote: > *frustrated* Hey I don't like it any more than you do. But Nvidia is an IP company and they act like one. Most of us would probably do the exact same thing in their position, AKA whatever the lawyers tell them ;-) Lee - To unsubscribe

Re: [RFC,PATCH] Use RCU to protect tasklist for unicast signals

2005-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 11:56 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > For the record, some shortcomings of this patch: > > > > o Needs lots more testing on more architectures. > > > > o Needs performance and stress testing. > > > > o Needs testing in Ingo's PREEMPT_RT environment. > > cool patch! I h

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 09:52 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > they are much less likely to participate in any kind of reverse > engineering effort, even if it's just testing a new driver. I think anyone launching a reverse engineering effort should announce the project to LKML! When I set out to add

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.53-01, High Resolution Timers & RCU-tasklist features

2005-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 13:00 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > i have released the -53-01 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be > downloaded from: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ > > there are two new features in this release, which justified the jump > from .52 to .53: > > - the

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 12:59 +1000, roucaries bastien wrote: > They post on this list 1 year and a half ago no answer. > I guess everyone on LKML has day jobs now, no one has time for fun stuff like reverse engineering drivers anymore... :-( Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.53-01, High Resolution Timers & RCU-tasklist features

2005-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 23:07 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > Very nice to see this going in (via) the RT patch. > Also, does not compile for me with ACPI PM timer selected: CC arch/i386/kernel/timers/hrtimer_pm.o In file included from include/asm/hrtime.h:220, from i

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal (version 2)

2005-08-12 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 19:49 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:13:51PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that > > > support the

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.53-01, High Resolution Timers & RCU-tasklist features

2005-08-12 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 12:28 +1200, Ryan Brown wrote: > is there a patch available for -rc6? > Not yet. Whatever you see here: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/ is the latest version. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:35 -0700, Stephen Pollei wrote: > Thats great for the perl6 people. > http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S03.html says they are going > to be using « and » as operators... Is Larry smoking crack? That's one of the worst ideas I've heard in a long time. There's no e

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 19:49 +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 02:42:52PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:35 -0700, Stephen Pollei wrote: > > > Thats great for the perl6 people. > > > http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 19:49 +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 02:42:52PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:35 -0700, Stephen Pollei wrote: > > > Thats great for the perl6 people. > > > http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 21:19 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > And those of us who are Mac OS X oriented have patched our console and > X keycodes to match the mac way of generating symbols: > > Alt-\= « > Alt-Shift-\ = » > Alt-Shift-+ = ± > My point exactly, it's idiotic for Perl6 to use th

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 13:13 -0700, Stephen Pollei wrote: > Seems like lots of Europeans might want a bigger > charset, not to mention Asians, Hindus, and whomever else. For strings, of course. But there's no need for UTF-8 operators. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: Preemptive patch for 2.4.25

2005-08-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 13:25 +1000, Dmytro Bablinyuk wrote: > I hope this is the right place to ask. My apologise if it's wrong. > I have found 2.4.25-low-latency.patch.gz for the 2.4.25 kernel but I > couldn't find preemptible patch for this version of kernel. > I found preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.23-p

Re: HDAPS, Need to park the head for real

2005-08-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 09:25 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > We are currently almost there with hdaps. We are thinking how we should > make things and have made most of the decesions. We still need help from > anyone that might know about this. Please, if you can think of anything, >

Re: [PATCH] input-driver-yealink-P1K-usb-phone

2005-08-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 16:21 +0200, Henk wrote: > - audio playbackvia generic usb audio diver > - audio record via generic usb audio diver There is no such thing. Do you mean the obsolete OSS usb-audio driver, or snd-usb-audio? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: [PATCH] input-driver-yealink-P1K-usb-phone

2005-08-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 19:53 +0200, Henk wrote: > Ehm, I did not know there was still an OSS usb driver. Thankfully it's going away real soon. It failed to depend on OSS, didn't have decent help text, and doesn't live under Sound so lots of people got them confused. Most ALSA based distros failed

Re: [rfc][patch] API for timer hooks

2005-08-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 00:21 +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote: > 1. It needs the higher interrupt frequency. > Since there seem to be no API to change > the timer frequency at runtime, the driver > does this itself. Now I have googled out > the thread Wow, your driver implements bass and treble controls

Re: [rfc][patch] API for timer hooks

2005-08-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 20:21 +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote: > perhaps allowing a single higher frequency, or allowing just any > frequency, is pretty much the same task, and doesn't > look achievable within the currently existing > timer API anyway Lots of things aren't doable with the current timer AP

Re: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent!

2005-04-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 09:24 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:15:30PM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote: > > When I wrote schwanz3(*) for fun, I noticed /proc/cpuinfo > > varies very much on different architectures. > > > > Is it possible to make it look more identical (as fa

Re: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent!

2005-04-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 22:00 +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote: > Can you tell me which ones? > Multimedia apps like JACK and mplayer that use the TSC for high res timing need to know the CPU speed, and /proc/cpuinfo is the fast way to get it. Why don't you create sysfs entries instead? It would be

Re: linux with disabled interrupts

2005-04-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 18:05 +, Francesco Oppedisano wrote: > Hi, > i'd like to know how much time does linux kernel run with disabled > interrupts. So i would like to remap the instructions capable of > disabling interrupt to other ones which count how much this time is... > Does already exist

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 11:36 -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > as for other details it's trivial to lock the daemon in memory and run > it at nice -4 to get a head start on parking even when at 100% cpu and > under memory load. > Negative nice values are not the correct solution when dealing with RT con

RE: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 06:29 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > .Alejandro > (removing some people so they don't get triplicated emails) Please don't trim cc: lists! We *want* the duplicate emails, so that one goes in the Inbox and one in the LKML folder. See the list archives for more reasons why

Re: ASUS K8N-DL Beta BIOS

2005-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 16:54 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Gwe, 2005-07-01 at 20:42, Sean Bruno wrote: > > This is pretty much the reaction that I am getting from calling ASUS > > tech support. They have told me on several occasions that they will > > "call me back" and never do. > > Ditto with pro

Re: realtime-preempt-2.6.12-final-V0.7.51-01 compile error and more problems

2005-07-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 18:13 -0700, William Weston wrote: > Audio without xruns is an RT requirement, IMHO ;-} > This isn't even an opinion, it's a fact. If you are capturing data and your audio handling thread does not get scheduled in (periods_per_buffer - 1) * period_time time units, you lose

RE: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-06 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:02 -0400, Piszcz, Justin wrote: > You probably aren't going to get any help with this until you reproduce > the problem without the vm* binary-only drivers. > Also without nvidia. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:44 -0400, Michael Krufky wrote: > bttv is now maintained by Mauro Carvalho Chehab > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, as part of the video4linux project. I am > forwarding this to Mauro and the video4linux list. Linux and Kernel > Video Where's the MAINTAINERS patch? Lee - To un

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:38 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 19:27 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 07 2005, Clemens Koller wrote: > > > Well, sure, it's not a notebook HDD, but maybe it's possible > > > to give headpark a more generic way to get the heads parked? > > > >

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 14:59 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:28:47AM -0700, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > ^^ > > It's been over two weeks and nobody has complained about anything. Wrong, I complained loud

Re: 2.6.12.2 -- time passes faster; related to the acpi_register_gsi() call

2005-07-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 15:03 -0700, Phil Oester wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:25:08PM +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > > fre 2005-07-08 klockan 23:12 +0200 skrev Rudo Thomas: > > > Hello, guys. > > > > > > Time started to pass faster with 2.6.12.2 (actually, it was 2.6.12-ck3 > > > which is b

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 16:29 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: "Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:14:59 -0700 > > > I'm not saying there isn't data supporting higher HZ ... I just haven't > > seen it published. I get the feeling what people really want is high-res

Re: linux-2.6.12-RT-V0.7.51-18: RT task yield()-ing!

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 16:29 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > [] emu10k1_audio_release+0x114/0x210 [emu10k1] (40) Kind of OT, but any particular reason you're using this old OSS driver? It's likely to be deprecated soon, and the ALSA driver is much more actively maintained... Lee - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 19:08 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 14:59 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > WHAT? > > > > > > The previous value here i386 is 1000 --- so why is the default 250. > > > > Because 1000 is too high. > >

Re: linux-2.6.12-RT-V0.7.51-18: RT task yield()-ing!

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 20:22 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > I once made a patch so that the front and back channels were inverted > but I lost it somewhere. And since I'm a lazy ass I kept using the OSS > driver. It's not as if I actually use my sblive for anything else but > the occasional mp3. But

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 20:31 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > why? Because the minimum poll/select timeout is now 4ms rather than 1ms. An app that has a soft RT constraint somewhere in the middle that worked on 2.6.12 will break on 2.6.13. > it's a config option. Some distros ship 100 already, ot

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 20:39 +0200, Diego Calleja wrote: > El Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:16:31 -0400, > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > I still think you're absolutely insane to change the default in the > > middle of a stable kernel series. People WILL co

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 14:41 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > Yes, that's called "progress" so no one complained. Going back is > called a "regression". People don't like those as much. Sorry for the tone of this message, I really sound like a jerk. Anyway, I&

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 12:12 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This is not a userspace visible thing really with few exceptions, and > > > well people can select the one they want, right? > > > > Then wh

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 13:30 -0700, randy_dunlap wrote: > | Then the owners of such machines can use HZ=250 and leave the default > | alone. Why should everyone have to bear the cost? > > indeed, why should everyone have to have 1000 timer interrupts per second? So why waste everyone's time with

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc3] i386: clean up user_mode macros

2005-07-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 20:20 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > And I > would also assume that you prefer x *= 2 over x <<= 1 (also since the > first person to show this example used x <<= 2. Right Lee? :-) Let us never speak of that again. These aren't the droids you're looking for. Lee - To unsubs

Re: mlock oops

2005-07-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 04:43 +0200, Benoit Dejean wrote: > Hi, > i'm using Debian SID kernel-image-2.6.11-powerpc [1] (which is not > tainted). I've unfortunately started sysutils [2] memtest as user (no caps, no > sticky bit). > > /usr/sbin/memtest all > As expected, a few minutes later, my

Re: ZyXEL Kernel /BusyBox GPL violation?

2005-07-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 23:21 -0400, Mace Moneta wrote: > The response seems meaningless; does this constitute a violation of > GPL? > If so what, if any, action needs to be taken? It sounds like they think you are asking for their userspace source code, or that support rep does not know the differe

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.13rc3: RLIMIT_RTPRIO broken

2005-07-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:06 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > i'd not put it into stable just yet - the fact that it has not been > tested in 2.6.12 _at all_ up until very recently means there's little > QA feedback. Yes, it's simple, but it also triggers something we never > did before. 2.6.13 ought to

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-07-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 17:08 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that > support the same hardware) for removal. How many non-obsolete OSS drivers were there? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-07-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 11:57 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 17:08 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > >>This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that > >>support the same hardware) for removal. > &

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-07-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 11:48 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > NAK for i810_audio: ALSA doesn't have all the PCI IDs (which must be > verified -- you cannot just add the PCI IDs for some hardware) Some of them might be in snd-hda-intel in addition to snd-intel8x0. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list:

RE: kernel optimization

2005-07-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 06:53 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > Gettimeofday loops using gcc-3.2.2 on 2.4.31 and 2.6.12. > > Also, 2.4 is faster than 2.6! All this proves is that gettimeofday() is faster on 2.4 than 2.6. Hardly surprising. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

Re: 2.6.12 sound problem

2005-07-26 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 19:35 -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: > Additional info I don't see any interrupts in /proc/interrupts for the > Allegro which is on int 5. > I just tried the same laptop with knoppix and a 2.4.27 kernel and sound > works great and I do > see interrupts for Allegro on int 5. So t

RE: Variable ticks

2005-07-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 02:13 -0600, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > What about audio? If there is a sound server running then you're going > > to have a constant stream of interrupts and DMA activity from the sound > > card even if the machine is idle and there aren't any sounds playing. > > Doesn't a

Re: Obsolete files in 2.6 tree

2005-07-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 00:40 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > sound/oss/skeleton.c > > Reference for writing drivers But we're not taking new OSS drivers, right? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: 2.6.12: no sound on SPDIF with emu10k1

2005-07-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 21:46 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > Hi! > > I cannot get my SB Live! 5.1's SPDIF (digital) output to work with > kernel > 2.6.12. I have not changed my mixer configuration and it is > still working when I boot 2.6.11.12 or earlier. I am using FC4 with > alsa-lib-1.0.9rf-2

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-07-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 01:38 +0200, Zoran Dzelajlija wrote: > The OSS maestro driver works better on my old Armada E500 laptop. I tried > ALSA after switching to 2.6, but the computer hung with 2.6.8.1 or 2.6.10 if > I touched the volume buttons. Please test a newer ALSA version, like the one in 2

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable

2005-07-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 18:00 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > Don't you break sched_find_first_bit() , seems it's dependent on a > 140-bit bitmap . And doesn't POSIX specify 100 RT priority levels? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a messag

Re: 2.6.12: no sound on SPDIF with emu10k1

2005-07-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 03:21 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:44 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 21:46 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > > > I cannot get my SB Live! 5.1's SPDIF (digital) output to work with > > > kernel

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