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| Neil Brown | Re: x86_64 panic on latest linux-2.6
Having decoded the "Code:", what is happening here is that 'dev' is
clearly not embedded inside a 'disk'.
The address of 'dev' is in RBX and is ffff81007f270010.
disk->minors is at and offset of -0x60 from 'dev' (as 'dev' is assumed
to be a structure embeded in a 'struct gendisk' - dev_to_disk uses
container_of to find the gendisk that holds the device). But 0x60 from RBX
is in a different page, and presumably that memory doesn't exist.
So the question is: how can a 'struct device' which is n...
| May 25, 7:35 pm 2008 |
| Johannes Weiner | [PATCH] Drop unneeded pgdat argument from free_area_init_nod...
free_area_init_node() gets passed in the node id as well as the node
descriptor. This is redundant as the function can trivially get the
node descriptor itself by means of NODE_DATA() and the node's id.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.d>
---
I checked all the users and NODE_DATA() seems to be usable everywhere
from where this function is called.
Compile- and runtime-tested on X86_32.
arch/alpha/mm/numa.c | 2 +-
arch/arm/mm/init.c | 2...
| May 25, 6:28 pm 2008 |
| Bob Copeland | 2.6.26-rc3 - appletouch resume "incomplete data package"
This appears to be a regression since 2.6.25. After resuming, I get:
appletouch: incomplete data package (first byte: 2, length: 4).
appletouch: incomplete data package (first byte: 2, length: 4).
appletouch: incomplete data package (first byte: 2, length: 4).
[...]
And the touchpad doesn't work. This is on a first gen MacBook. I
didn't see any changes to the driver itself in that timeframe.
Anyone have ideas, or should I try a bisect?
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| Sitsofe Wheeler | Kernel checking options
With the recent drive for more testers I'm curious about options that can be
turned on that will do more checking/verification (as opposed to just
creating more debug output).
Thus far I have come across the following that suggest that they will do
extra checks:
CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ:
Tests whether drivers can handle spurious interrupts upon registration /
unregistration.
CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP:
Detects if the kernel spends more than 10 seconds in the kernel without
giving anything else a ch...
| May 25, 3:27 pm 2008 |
| Alistair John Strachan | Re: Kernel checking options
You're missing the IOMMU test code, which is only available on x86-64 systems.
There might be some other architecture specific options you've missed.
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Cheers,
Alistair.
137/1 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, UK.
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| May 25, 5:31 pm 2008 |
| Benny Amorsen | Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few us...
Not if we don't credit any entropy. /dev/random is engineered to be
safe against getting non-random input, as long as that input isn't
credited with entropy. /dev/random is even world writable by default.
/Benny
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| May 25, 3:33 pm 2008 |
| Sven Wegener | [PATCH] x86: Remove obsolete LOCK macro from include/asm-x86...
Commit d167a518 "[PATCH] x86_64: x86_64 version of the smp alternative patch."
has left the LOCK macro in include/asm-x86_64/atomic.h, which is now
include/asm-x86/atomic_64.h. Its scope should be local to the file, other
architectures don't provide it, I couldn't find an in-tree user of it and
allyesconfig, allmodconfig and allnoconfig build fine without it, so this patch
removes it.
Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
---
include/asm-x86/atomic_64.h | 6 ------
1 ...
| May 25, 3:16 pm 2008 |
| Thomas Gleixner | Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove obsolete LOCK macro from include/asm...
Applied. Thanks,
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| May 25, 4:24 pm 2008 |
| Adrian Bunk | CONFIG_SPARC64_PAGE_SIZE_4MB build error
During a compile test I ran into the following build error caused with
CONFIG_SPARC64_PAGE_SIZE_4MB:
<-- snip -->
...
CC init/main.o
In file included from /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/include/linux/gfp.h:4,
from /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/include/linux/slab.h:12,
from /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/include/linux/percpu.h:5,
from /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/include/linux/rcupdat...
| May 25, 2:58 pm 2008 |
| Marin Mitov | Re:[PATCH -v4] x86: enable preemption in delay
Hi Steven,
look at this patch, proposed by me and Ingo few month ago.
I think it solves the problem you had fond, but unfortunately
it had been lost (not included in the mainline).
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/20/343
It is against the kernel at the moment the message was sent.
I think it could be applied to the current kernel too.
Best regards
Marin Mitov
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| May 25, 2:08 pm 2008 |
| Thomas Gleixner | Re:[PATCH -v4] x86: enable preemption in delay
Yep, and it might be simply because the mail thread ended with:
And there was no response. I just checked my x86 quilt archives and it
simply went into the "wait for update" category and got dropped
unfortunately.
Thanks,
tglx
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| May 25, 6:21 pm 2008 |
| Steven Rostedt | Re:[PATCH -v4] x86: enable preemption in delay
Hi Marin,
That patch looks basically like what I did. But mine has less code and is
a bit simpler ;-)
Thanks,
-- Steve
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| May 25, 3:30 pm 2008 |
| Marin Mitov | May 25, 3:58 pm 2008 | |
| Adrian Bunk | [2.6 patch] MIPS SEAD compile fix
This patch fixes the following compile error caused by
commit 39b8d5254246ac56342b72f812255c8f7a74dca9
([MIPS] Add support for MIPS CMP platform.):
<-- snip -->
...
CC arch/mips/mips-boards/generic/time.o
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/arch/mips/mips-boards/generic/time.c:63: error: 'ledbitmask' defined but not used
make[2]: *** [arch/mips/mips-boards/generic/time.o] Error 1
<-- snip -->
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <...
| May 25, 2:03 pm 2008 |
| Andre Pietsch | RE: Limit SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps-
SOLVED
On Seagate drives it is possible to limit the link speed by setting a
jumper on the drive! It now starts at 1.5 Gbps and runs stable from the
start.
Thanks everybody for your support!
Regards,
Andre Pietsch
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| May 25, 2:03 pm 2008 |
| Tom Spink | [RFC PATCH 0/2] On-demand Filesystem Initialisation
This (short) patch series is another RFC for the patch that introduces on-demand
filesystem initialisation. In addition to the original infrastructure
implementation (with clean-ups), it changes XFS to use this new infrastructure.
I wrote a toy filesystem (testfs) to simulate scheduling/allocation delays and
to torture the mount/unmount cycles. I didn't manage to deadlock the system
in my tests. XFS also works as expected aswell, in that the global threads
are not created until an XFS filesyste...
| May 25, 1:48 pm 2008 |
| Tom Spink | [RFC PATCH 1/2] vfs: Introduce on-demand filesystem initiali...
This patch adds on-demand filesystem initialisation capabilities to the VFS,
whereby an init routine will be executed on first use of a particular
filesystem type. Also, an exit routine will be executed when the last
superblock of a filesystem type is deactivated.
This is useful for filesystems that share global resources between all
instances of the filesystem, but only need those resources when there are
any users of the filesystem. This lets the filesystem initialise those
resources (kernel th...
| May 25, 1:48 pm 2008 |
| Tom Spink | [RFC PATCH 2/2] xfs: Make XFS use the new file system init i...
This patch makes XFS use the file system type specific init and exit
callbacks, so that XFS only initialises when it's used for the first
time.
This is useful for when XFS is compiled into the kernel, but never
actually used as it stops XFS from creating global threads, until
they are needed.
Signed-off-by: Tom Spink <tspink@gmail.com>
---
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/...
| May 25, 1:48 pm 2008 |
| Sitsofe Wheeler | Re: question about splice performance
<posted & mailed>
Are vmlinux and /tmp both RAM filesystems? If not you may want to try
using /dev/shm to rule out disk speed...
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Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/
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| May 25, 1:22 pm 2008 |
| Mikael Pettersson | sky2 oops in 2.6.26-rc3
Shortly after booting 2.6.26-rc3 on my ASUS P5B-E Plus
today, the kernel oopsed in sky2_mac_intr, leaving the
system totally dead. I had to copy the oops manually:
Call trace:
sky2_hw_error
sky2_poll
run_rebalance_domains
net_rx_action
__do_softirq
smp_apic_timer_interrupt
mwait_idle
apic_timer_interrupt
mwait_idle
mwait_idle
cpu_idle
EIP: sky2_mac_intr+0x32
lspci -vvxxx on the sky2 chip shows:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown de...
| May 25, 1:27 pm 2008 |
| Stephen Hemminger | Re: sky2 oops in 2.6.26-rc3
On Sun, 25 May 2008 19:27:29 +0200 (MEST)
sky2_hw_error prints information in log so dmesg output would be helpful.
But it means the hardware is sick (like bad DMA), so there isn't much
you can do. If possible, see if either the vendor sk98lin driver or windows
works on this hardware.
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| May 25, 2:56 pm 2008 |
| Mirco Tischler | [BUG: 2.6.26-rc3] ERROR: "____ilog2_NaN" undefined
--=-q084NtujDyspPsA3C3Qn
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi
I've got this compilation error on current mainline (x86_64):
<snip>
Root device is (8, 5)
Setup is 12236 bytes (padded to 12288 bytes).
System is 2497 kB
CRC d12efd40
Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#27)
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 222 modules
ERROR: "____ilog2_NaN" [drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko] undefined!
make[1]: *** [__modpost] Fehler 1
make: *** [modules] Feh...
| May 25, 1:13 pm 2008 |
| Adrian Bunk | Re: [BUG: 2.6.26-rc3] ERROR: "____ilog2_NaN" undefined
Works for me with your .config.
You are using an unmodified 2.6.26-rc3 kernel?
If yes, please:
- send the output of "bash ./scripts/ver_linux" and
Thanks
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
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| May 25, 2:11 pm 2008 |
| Mirco Tischler | Re: [BUG: 2.6.26-rc3] ERROR: "____ilog2_NaN" undefined
=EF=BB=BF$ ./scripts/ver_linux
=EF=BB=BFIf some fields are empty or look unusual you may have an old versi=
on.
Compare to the current minimal requirements in Documentation/Changes.
Linux mtlp 2.6.26-rc3-experimental #18 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 22 21:17:47
CEST 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Gnu C 4.3.0-4ubuntu1)
Gnu make 3.81
binutils 2.18.50.20080509
util-linux 2.14-rc2
mount support
module-init-tools 3.3-pre11
e2fsprogs ...
| May 25, 3:03 pm 2008 |
| Adrian Bunk | Re: [BUG: 2.6.26-rc3] ERROR: "____ilog2_NaN" undefined
I'd have said your gcc has a bug regarding __builtin_constant_p(),
but I can't reproduce it on i386 with the compiler you are using.
You are using exactly this compiler for compiling your kernel?
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
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| May 25, 4:18 pm 2008 |
| Mirco Tischler | Re: [BUG: 2.6.26-rc3] ERROR: "____ilog2_NaN" undefined
I tried several versions now (4.1, 4.3. 4.4pre) and all showed the
error. I'm using ccache, maybe this has something to do with it? (Though
I doubt it)
I have another config that builds properly. Actually I just changed some
options to the config posted before. If nobody shouts "trivial" I could
try to filter out the guilty option if there is any. But I possibly
Thanks
Mirco
| May 25, 4:57 pm 2008 |
| Adrian Bunk | Re: [BUG: 2.6.26-rc3] ERROR: "____ilog2_NaN" undefined
If ccache would always select a completely broken compiler that would
explain it...
(But it's unlikely.)
Can you try building without ccache?
Can you also try downloading the kernel sources as a tarball from
I noticed (but I currently only have a 32bit userspace, and for this
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.
...
| May 25, 5:03 pm 2008 |
| Mirco Tischler | Re: [BUG: 2.6.26-rc3] ERROR: "____ilog2_NaN" undefined
Doesn't help, as expected. Man, I just realised what a great piece of
Why should I? A fresh checkout of the mainline git-tree in combination with=
Thanks
Mirco
| May 25, 5:49 pm 2008 |
| Adrian Bunk | mips: CONF_CM_DEFAULT build error
Commit 351336929ccf222ae38ff0cb7a8dd5fd5c6236a0
([MIPS] Allow setting of the cache attribute at run time.)
causes the following build error with pnx8550-jbs_defconfig
and pnx8550-stb810_defconfig:
<-- snip -->
...
CC arch/mips/nxp/pnx8550/stb810/board_setup.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/arch/mips/nxp/pnx8550/stb810/board_setup.c: In function 'board_setup':
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/arch/mips/nxp/pnx8550/stb810/board_setup.c:42: error: 'PAGE_CACHABLE_D...
| May 25, 1:07 pm 2008 |
| Adrian Bunk | [2.6 patch] sparc64: global_reg_snapshot is not for userspace
global_reg_snapshot shouldn't be visible in our userspace headers.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
---
include/asm-sparc64/ptrace.h | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
bcd3ca7553a2f3e416db385fd976ef5b862b1370 diff --git a/include/asm-sparc64/ptrace.h b/include/asm-sparc64/ptrace.h
index d8a56cd..b163da7 100644
--- a/include/asm-sparc64/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/asm-sparc64/ptrace.h
@@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ struct sparc_trapf {
#define TRACEREG32_SZ...
| May 25, 12:58 pm 2008 |
| Takashi Iwai | [GIT PULL] ALSA fixes for 2.6.26-rc3
Hi Linus,
please pull another ALSA updates for 2.6.26-rc3 from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git for-linus
This includes a few trivial fixes for HD-audio and one fix for
snd-pcsp.
Thanks!
Takashi
===
Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1):
[ALSA] hda - Fix capture mute Widget for stac9250/9251
Stas Sergeev (1):
[ALSA] snd-pcsp - fix pcsp_treble_info() to honour an item number
Takashi Iwai (2):
[ALSA] hda - Fix noise on VT1708 codec
...
| May 25, 12:49 pm 2008 |
| Adrian Bunk | mips/kernel/traps.c build error
Commit 39b8d5254246ac56342b72f812255c8f7a74dca9
([MIPS] Add support for MIPS CMP platform.)
causes the following build error:
<-- snip -->
...
CC arch/mips/kernel/traps.o
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c: In function 'show_raw_backtrace':
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c:92: error: cast from pointer to integer of different size
make[2]: *** [arch/mips/kernel/traps.o] Error 1
...
| May 25, 12:43 pm 2008 |
| Davi Leal | I am a volunteer
Hi,
I would like to carry out some easy task, as realize a clean up replacing the
use of one old function for another new one.
I do not have any problem with C, Git, etc.
Please, let me know what I can do.
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| May 25, 12:12 pm 2008 |
| Adrian Bunk | Re: I am a volunteer
The easiest and very valuable task is testing the kernel as described at
http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelTesters
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
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| May 25, 12:37 pm 2008 |
| Davi Leal | Re: I am a volunteer
I am more motivated to do development than testing.
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| May 25, 2:23 pm 2008 |
| Willy Tarreau | Re: I am a volunteer
And who do you think will test your dev then ?
Testing very quickly involves development because you will notice bugs
first, then missing chunks of code to handle special conditions, and by
this time you will feel much better with kernel internals and will have
no problem starting on more complex tasks.
Also, we're wondering what motivates newcomers to directly dive into
development instead of testing. Would you please explain a bit about
your motivations ? It would help distribute more interes...
| May 25, 3:47 pm 2008 |
| Davi Leal | Re: I am a volunteer
I just note I am already running 2.6.25.4 build by hand, etc. Has 2.6.25.4
In my case I am not looking for credit but for learning. I can only spend one
hour each day to this subject. Tasks which would require a deadline would be
a problem for me.
To start, I would like somebody point me to something easy to do, taking into
account such time constraints.
Something that would require the installation of Xen to be able to reproduce
and debug a specific bug via Xen serial port would be co...
| May 25, 4:44 pm 2008 |
| Willy Tarreau | Re: I am a volunteer
This is precisely one of our big problems right now. Software is almost
only tested by authors, which means that we accumulate a lot of bugs due
to lack of precise knowledge in every area. Locking bugs and lack of
Rafael Wysocki regularly sends a compiled list of known regressions. A
lot of them require specific hardware to trigger a driver bug, but there
are others with reproducers (and BTW you might also have some of the
required hardware).
Arjan van de Ven has posted a list of the top 10 oop...
| May 25, 5:00 pm 2008 |
| Tom Spink | Re: I am a volunteer
http://kernelnewbies.org/
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Tom Spink
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| May 25, 12:14 pm 2008 |
| Bart Van Assche | Re: I am a volunteer
The above URL points to a page with a.o. a link to the kernel janitors
to do list, which might be what you are looking for:
http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/Todo.
Bart.
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| May 25, 12:20 pm 2008 |
| Davi Leal | Re: I am a volunteer
From the above link I have picked the below task. If that is already done I
will pick another easy one. Any correction, suggestion, etc. is welcome:
* Code that depends on LINUX_VERSION_CODE & KERNEL_VERSION < 2.6 can be
* deleted in most cases. (Mostly/all? done)
Against what git repository should I do the check,
linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git ?
P.S.: I have subscribed to kernel-janitors, etc.
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| May 25, 12:44 pm 2008 |
| Davi Leal | Re: I was a volunteer
The above task seems already done in git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git . Maybe you
could remove it from http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/Todo/ApiChanges
The below one seems to be done too:
* Replace (un)register_ioctl32_conversion with ioctl_compat
P.S.: I am going to postpound my contribution due to others tasks are complex
for me now.
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| May 25, 3:27 pm 2008 |
| Francis Moreau | question about splice performance
Hi,
I did a really basic benchmark and was suprise about the results.
$ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
$ time splice-cp vmlinux /tmp/vmlinux
real 0m10.158s
user 0m0.002s
sys 0m0.401s
$ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
$ time cp vmlinux /tmp/vmlinux
real 0m10.590s
user 0m0.017s
sys 0m0.459s
I was expecting splice-cp case to be faster.
Could someone enlight me ?
Thanks
--
Francis
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| May 25, 11:12 am 2008 |
| Jeff Garzik | Re: question about splice performance
If you drop caches you are not measuring splice speed.
Use ramfs for your tests (guarantees data is in cache) instead.
Jeff
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| May 25, 4:47 pm 2008 |
| Jan Engelhardt | Re: question about splice performance
Slow disk outweighs memory copying overhead. And 300 MB is quickly
transferred in idle systems.
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| May 25, 11:40 am 2008 |
| Pekka Paalanen | Re: Fwd: [PATCH] kmemcheck: SMP support
On Fri, 23 May 2008 16:19:43 +0200
Yes, thanks. My opinion is that mmiotrace can live well enough with
runtime-disabling extra cpus when tracing starts. Multi-cpu effects to
hardware access are not really in the focus but seeing the access in
the first place. I'd rather wait to see if the per-cpu page table
feature starts to evolve.
I quickly read through your code and tried to come up with race
scenarios, but failed. Ok, one question which might be far fetched:
is there a window for things to g...
| May 25, 10:30 am 2008 |
| Evgeniy Polyakov | POHMELFS high performance network filesystem. Cache coherenc...
Hi.
I'm pleased to announce POHMEL high performance network filesystem.
POHMELFS stands for Parallel Optimized Host Message Exchange Layered File System.
Development status can be tracked in filesystem section [1].
This is a high performance network filesystem with local coherent cache of data
and metadata. Its main goal is distributed parallel processing of data.
This release brings following features:
* Full transaction support for all operations (object creation/removal,
data reading an...
| May 25, 9:40 am 2008 |
| Jeff Garzik | Re: POHMELFS high performance network filesystem. Cache cohe...
Is the server available via git?
http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/archive/pohmelfs/server/ does not include
history information, etc.
Jeff
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| May 25, 3:55 pm 2008 |
| Evgeniy Polyakov | Re: POHMELFS high performance network filesystem. Cache cohe...
Hi.
I've just cloned a git tree for the server, but do not expect intersting
stuff there, usually I make big commits which incorporate lots of stuff
in one go.
http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/archive/pohmelfs/server/fserver.git/
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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| May 25, 4:21 pm 2008 |
| Qinghuang Feng | [PATCH]scsi: check the return value of device_create_file() ...
This patch adds code to check the return value of device_create_file() called from powertecscsi_probe() in powertec.c
Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <s3c24xx@gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/arm/powertec.c b/drivers/scsi/arm/powertec.c
index d9a546d..d695a6d 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/arm/powertec.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/arm/powertec.c
@@ -361,7 +361,9 @@ powertecscsi_probe(struct expansion_card
ecard_setirq(ec, &powertecscsi_ops, info);
- device_create_file(&ec->dev...
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