Well... but you can be careful about the syscalls, right? Anyway, active protection is 'best effort' anyway. There's not enough time to park heads if you drop the machine without tilting it first... Well, shit happens. Even notebook with parked harddrive is not guaranteed to survive the fall. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- (english) [ message continues ]

Note that I didn't bother cleaning up the gxfb and lxfb headers wrt MSRs; that's coming in another patch (which is still in progress). From 22b8ddf47f77f01a59afb937779f4c83e9862f9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:14:57 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] x86: geode: MSR cleanup This cleans up a few MSR-using drivers in the following manner: - Ensures MSRs are all defined in asm/geode.h, rather than in misc places - Makes the namin...

Fix some missing __user tags and incorrect section tags. Convert semaphores to mutexes. Make probed_devices re-entrancy and error condition safe. Fix some backwards memcpys. Some other minor cleanups. Use kerneldoc format. [v2] __user char => char __user removed unused hwicap_command_capture Fixed a comment that didn't match the function name fixed argument with 'register' keyword. Signed-off-by: Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com> --- Grant, Since it appears...

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Hi; -rc3 still fails for this [1] config ERROR: "LGUEST_PAGES_guest_gdt_desc" [drivers/lguest/lg.ko] undefined! ERROR: "LGUEST_PAGES_host_gdt_desc" [drivers/lguest/lg.ko] undefined! ERROR: "LGUEST_PAGES_host_cr3" [drivers/lguest/lg.ko] undefined! ERROR: "LGUEST_PAGES_regs" [drivers/lguest/lg.ko] undefined! ERROR: "LGUEST_PAGES_host_idt_desc" [drivers/lguest/lg.ko] undefined! ERROR: "LGUEST_PAGES_guest_gdt" [drivers/lguest/lg.ko] undefined! ERROR: "LGUEST_PAGES_host_sp" [drivers/lguest/lg.ko] u...

This email didn't reach lkml... Hi Ingo, two more coding style patches. Compile tested, against x86/testing 4a6af5bbbd74dd812224900d3468b008d117da29 Paolo Ciarrocchi (2): x86: Coding Style fixes to arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c x86: Coding Style fixes to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c | 41 +++++++++------- 2 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-) Ciao, ...

Applies on top of the previous patch. Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> --- drivers/ide/ide-cd.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c index 3181e71..76317ab 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c @@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ int ide_cd_check_ireason(ide_drive_t *drive, int len, int ireason, int rw) /* Whoops... */ printk(KERN_ERR "%s: %s: wrong ...

In case the goal is not to only improve the checkpatch metrics but to improve the readability of the code the biggest coding style problem here was (and still is) not the indentation. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed --

Hello, I am using Debian Sid on a Toshiba A100 laptop. My CD/DVD writer functions very well on 2.6.23.16 and 2.6.24.2. I tried 2.6.25-rc2-git7, and I was very sad to notice that when I tried to write a CD, wodim started to output the following: "Warning: controller returns zero sized CD capabilities page." Since I was able to use this CD/DVD writer successfully with previous versions of Linux, I believe that this is a regression in 2.6.25-rcX series. I am willing to try patches and to do p...

For compile tests it would be nice it we had at least for each subarchitecture not covered by X86_GENERICARCH a defconfig. These are the following subarchitectures: - X86_ELAN - X86_VOYAGER - X86_NUMAQ - X86_VISWS - X86_RDC321X - X86_VSMP A defconfig is nothing special, it's enough to simply put the .config used for one machine into arch/x86/configs/ . Thanks in advance Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had...

Hola Le invito a la conferencia de hoy http://www.prosumidores.de/coaching.php?username=JavierPinon Si aún no tiene instalada la sala de conferencias hágalo desde esa página Saludos Para remover su dirección de correo http://www.autoresponder-hosting.com/autoresponder/box.php?funcml=unsub2&nl=472&am... Si quiere recibir mas detalles [ message continues ]

I recently enabled CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED just to play with it, and I noticed by default it causes a fair number of wakeups when running on battery. A quick read-through of the sources showed that this could easily be fixed by doing: echo 2000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_min_bal_int_shares Aside from mostly disabling the CPU load balancing, is this likely to cause any massive problems? Any reason why we shouldn't perhaps do this automatically when we run on battery (not necessarily as a k...

Did you send email to Jasper Spaans? (jasper at vs19.net) --- ~Randy --

File is now error free, only a few WARNING: line over 80 characters are left. Compile tested. Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> --- drivers/ide/pci/it8213.c | 9 ++++----- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/ide/pci/it8213.c b/drivers/ide/pci/it8213.c index a5ba7e8..5b5b0cc 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/pci/it8213.c +++ b/drivers/ide/pci/it8213.c @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ static void it8213_set_pio_mode(ide_drive_t *drive, const u8 ...

Add wrappers for getting and putting a unit. Remove some line breaks. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> --- drivers/firewire/fw-device.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++---------- drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) Index: linux/drivers/firewire/fw-device.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/firewire/fw-device.h +++ linux/drivers/firewire/fw-device.h @@ -64,...

"modprobe firewire-ohci; sleep .1; modprobe -r firewire-ohci" used to result in crashes like this: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff8807b455 IP: [<ffffffff8807b455>] PGD 203067 PUD 207063 PMD 7c170067 PTE 0 Oops: 0010 [1] PREEMPT SMP CPU 0 Modules linked in: i915 drm cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table applesmc input_polldev led_class coretemp hwmon eeprom snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss butto...

The bus management workqueue job was in danger to dereference NULL pointers. Also, after having temporarily lifted card->lock, a few node pointers and a device pointer may have become invalid. Add NULL pointer checks and get the necessary references. Also, move card->local_node out of fw_card_bm_work's sight during shutdown of the card. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> --- drivers/firewire/fw-card.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------- drivers/fi...

In theory not, in practice it works around some problems in early allocations where the other users assume page alignment. At some point it needs to be cleaned up properly. -Andi --

It's 1024 bytes below, but yes, the EBDA starts there. Then the first two bytes of the EBDA contain the value 0x0001, which means that its size is Correct. I thought it was new code, but looking more closely, the behaviour has indeed not changed recently (note to self: git log -p somefile.c does Not really: ebda_addr is just a local variable. If the system needs to find the start of the EBDA, it will just have to look at the 16 bit value The patch is exactly trying to do that. The code t...

Does the following patch help? [ It makes ireason handling for REQ_TYPE_ATA_PC requests be the same as for other request types so "ireason == 1" quirk is used if needed. ] --- drivers/ide/ide-cd.c | 24 ++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c =================================================================== --- a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c @@ -670,8 +670,8 @@ static void cdrom_buffer_sectors (i...

Hi Pekka. n is default so no need to be explicit. If you prefer being explcit then use: Sam --

i think so - nice detective work and nice fix! I've picked up your patch into x86.git#testing (until Rusty picks it up), you can track it the following way: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/x86.git/README it has other lguest fixes as well - could you double-check that x86.git#testing works fine for you as-is? (i've just updated the git tree so it includes your fix as well) Ingo --

--- /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.24/drivers/hwmon/hdaps.c 2008-02-08 02:20:38.000000000 +0100 +++ /tmp/hdaps.c 2008-02-24 16:42:52.000000000 +0100 @@ -527,6 +527,7 @@ HDAPS_DMI_MATCH_INVERT("LENOVO", "ThinkPad X60"), HDAPS_DMI_MATCH_NORMAL("IBM", "ThinkPad Z60m"), HDAPS_DMI_MATCH_NORMAL("IBM", "ThinkPad T61P"), + HDAPS_DMI_MATCH_INVERT("LENOVO", "ThinkPad R61i"), HDAPS_DMI_MATCH_NORMAL("IBM", "ThinkPad R61"), HDAPS_DMI_MATCH_NORMAL("IBM", "ThinkPad...

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:12:41 -0500 (EST) NAK - not until a replacement driver supporting the hardware is merged. Alan --

The maple bus driver that went into the kernel mainline in September 2007 contained some bugs which were revealed by the update of the kobj code for the current release series. Unfortunately those bugs also helped ensure maple devices were properly detected. This patch (against the current git) now ensures that devices are properly detected again. (A previous attempt to fix this by delaying initialisation only partially fixed this - as became apparent when the bus was fully loaded) Signed-off-by: Adri...