Re: apm(4) fixes

2010-03-04 Thread David Young
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:59:46AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote: PS: on this laptop the pfm handler are harmfull and I had to disable them: on reboot, the laptop gets stuck in BIOS, and on wakeup after a suspend/standby, the kernel is completely dead. But that's a different problem. Can you be

Re: msync(2)

2010-03-04 Thread David Holland
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:40:58PM -0500, Matthew Mondor wrote: After reading the manual page of msync(2), I have the impression that if invoked with the MS_SYNC flag, it should be safe enough not to need a further fdatasync(2)/fsync_range(2) call afterwards? That is the theory. And how

Re: config(5) break down

2010-03-04 Thread David Holland
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 01:14:50AM +0900, Masao Uebayashi wrote: Perhaps a first step would be using config(1) and files.* to generate the module makefiles instead of maintaining them by hand... cube@ said he did this part long time ago. The thing is that only fixing these tools