Re: Please pull 'upstream-davem' branch of wireless-2.6 (for 2.6.24)

2007-09-22 Thread David Miller
From: "John W. Linville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:54:57 -0400 > Another round of miscellaneous driver and stack fixes intended for > 2.6.24... > > The tree is based on the latest net-2.6.24 as of this morning. > I've included a 'master-davem' branch in my tree as a reference

Re: bind and O_NONBLOCK

2007-09-22 Thread David Miller
From: Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:11:01 -0700 > There was no public mail. I asked RH engineering for proposals for > changes to the POSIX spec and Alan replied. Please do not discuss such proposals only privately, especially when the ramifications affect the enti

Re: incorrect cksum with tcp/udp on lo with 2.6.20/2.6.21/2.6.22

2007-09-22 Thread Herbert Xu
Krzysztof Oledzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems that after some not very recent changes udp and tcp packes > carring data send by a loopback have incorrect cksum: This correct. The loopback interfaces has the no checksum flag set so we only provide a partial checksum on output (i.e.,

Re: [PATCH: 2.6.13-15-SMP 3/3] network: concurrently run softirqnetwork code on SMP

2007-09-22 Thread john ye
Dear Jamal, Sorry, I sent to you all a not-good-formatted mail. Thanks for instructions and corrections from you all. I have thought that packet re-ordering for upper TCP protocol will become more intensive and this will make the network even slower. I do randomly select a CPU to dispatch the s

Please pull 'upstream-davem' branch of wireless-2.6 (for 2.6.24)

2007-09-22 Thread John W. Linville
Jeff & Dave, Another round of miscellaneous driver and stack fixes intended for 2.6.24... The tree is based on the latest net-2.6.24 as of this morning. I've included a 'master-davem' branch in my tree as a reference in case net-2.6.24 gets rebased again in the meantime. Thanks! John --- The

Re: bind and O_NONBLOCK

2007-09-22 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 01:35:56PM -0400, Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 08:14:15PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > of operations. There are four ways where bind can fail: > > > > 1. unsufficient rights - nothing can help here > > 2. there is no memory - async bin

Re: bind and O_NONBLOCK

2007-09-22 Thread Alan Cox
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 08:14:15PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > of operations. There are four ways where bind can fail: > > 1. unsufficient rights - nothing can help here > 2. there is no memory - async binding can not help here too, since it > some memory just has to be allocated to sav

Re: bind and O_NONBLOCK

2007-09-22 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 10:11:01AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > Could you point to the original Alan's proposal, I only found short note > > (as in you original mail) at opengroup.org and failed to correctly > > googlify it in the web. > > There w

Re: bind and O_NONBLOCK

2007-09-22 Thread Ulrich Drepper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > Could you point to the original Alan's proposal, I only found short note > (as in you original mail) at opengroup.org and failed to correctly > googlify it in the web. There was no public mail. I asked RH engineering for pro

Re: bind and O_NONBLOCK

2007-09-22 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 09:21:06AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > So, did I understand you correctly, that you want to introduce network > > AIO here? (for example on behalf of work queue or something else?) > > See Alan's mail. All this was his pr

Please pull 'fixes-jgarzik' branch of wireless-2.6 (for 2.6.23)

2007-09-22 Thread John W. Linville
Jeff, One of these is a fairly obvious one-liner (COMPATIBLE_IOCTL). The other is a bit more complicated, but fixes a problem created by a patch already in 2.6.23 (reported this week by Yoshifuji). Please pull this for 2.6.23 if at all possible. Thanks! John --- Individual patches are here:

Re: bind and O_NONBLOCK

2007-09-22 Thread Ulrich Drepper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > So, did I understand you correctly, that you want to introduce network > AIO here? (for example on behalf of work queue or something else?) See Alan's mail. All this was his proposal, I just got it accepted upstream. The pr

Re: bind and O_NONBLOCK

2007-09-22 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Hi Ulrich. On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 10:59:53PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Some time back Alan asked about adding O_NONBLOCK support to bind in the > POSIX spec. I brought this up and the following text will be in the > next revision of the POSIX spec: > >

Please pull 'fixes-davem' branch of wireless-2.6 (for 2.6.23)

2007-09-22 Thread John W. Linville
Dave, These are a few more minor fixes that I would like to have in 2.6.23 if at all possible. Thanks! John --- Individual patches are available here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/fixes-davem/ --- The following changes since commit 81cfe79b9c5

Re: ?^?H?G Re: ?^?H?G Re: [linux-usb-devel] Please pull 'ssb-drivers' branch of wireless-2.6 -- aln.

2007-09-22 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 10:28:23PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Greg, > It should be the right name now, apologize for the typo., anyway, > glad to get the response from u. > I think the usbserial crash, or the printk crash is a small bug, > likely interrupt handling, but

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-22 Thread Michael Buesch
On Saturday 22 September 2007, Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > > On Saturday 22 September 2007 11:48:00 Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > > > A real high-quality driver will require Johannes' proposed > > > mac80211 driver interface changes to be merged and TX > > > confirmations handled in

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-22 Thread Ulrich Kunitz
Michael Buesch wrote: > On Saturday 22 September 2007 11:48:00 Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > > A real high-quality driver will require Johannes' proposed > > mac80211 driver interface changes to be merged and TX > > confirmations handled in a way, that the semantics can really be > > supported by the dri

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-22 Thread Michael Buesch
On Saturday 22 September 2007 11:48:00 Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > A real high-quality driver will require Johannes' proposed > mac80211 driver interface changes to be merged and TX > confirmations handled in a way, that the semantics can really be > supported by the driver. (Michael Buesh's patch is ta

Re: Distributed storage. Security attributes and ducumentation update.

2007-09-22 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Hi Pavel. On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 06:22:30PM +, Pavel Machek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm pleased to announce third release of the distributed storage > > subsystem, which allows to form a storage on top of remote and local > > nodes, which in turn can be exported to another storage as

Re: [PATCH 3/7] CAN: Add raw protocol

2007-09-22 Thread Patrick McHardy
Urs Thuermann wrote: > Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>+config CAN_RAW_USER >>>+bool "Allow non-root users to access Raw CAN Protocol sockets" >> >> >>If you plan to remove this option, it should happen before merging >>since it affects userspace visible behaviour. > > > We

Re: [PATCH 2/7] CAN: Add PF_CAN core module

2007-09-22 Thread Patrick McHardy
Urs Thuermann wrote: > Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>You drop the module reference again when leaving this function. >>So sock->ops might contain a stale pointer if the module is >>unloaded after this. You need to either keep the module reference >>while the socket is alive or

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-22 Thread Ulrich Kunitz
Sorry for joining the discussion so late, but I have a day job requires sometimes all of my time. John W. Linville wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:08:16PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > > > I would like to this until 2.6.25 until I have had time to clear up some > > final issues and do more t

[PATCH -mm] iseries_veth: Kill unused variable

2007-09-22 Thread Satyam Sharma
drivers/net/iseries_veth.c: In function 'veth_transmit_to_many': drivers/net/iseries_veth.c:1174: warning: unused variable 'port' Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/iseries_veth.c |1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff -ruNp a/drivers/net/iseries_veth.c b/d

[PATCH -mm] mv643xx_eth: Remove redundant multiple initialization

2007-09-22 Thread Satyam Sharma
Of ethtool_ops->get_stats_count and ethtool_ops->get_ethtool_stats. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c |2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff -ruNp a/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c b/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c --- a/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c 2007-

[PATCH -mm] pasemi_mac: Build fix after recent netdev stats changes

2007-09-22 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > BTW ppc64_defconfig didn't quite like 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 either ... > IIRC I got build failures in: > drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c [PATCH -mm] pasemi_mac: Build fix after recent netdev stats changes Unbreak the following: drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c: In fu

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: Build failures on ppc64_defconfig

2007-09-22 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > BTW ppc64_defconfig didn't quite like 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 either ... > IIRC I got build failures in: > drivers/net/spider_net.c Fixing the above showed up another problem in another file of the same driver (drivers/net/spider_net_ethtool.c) [PATCH -mm