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qlogic 2312 problems on 2.6.16.22, 2.6.18rc4
On Monday 14 August 2006 09:46, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: Hi, I was using QLA2312 FC card on 32-bit machine with 6GB ram without problems. Recently I've switched to opteron dual core machine also with 6GB ram and I'm having serious problem with access to FC array. When I switch back to 32-bit mac... 17 Aug 2006 05:44

question about kill PIDTYPE_TGID patch
Hello, I'm trying to compile IBM GPFS(2.3.0-15) Portability Layer with a 2.6.16 kernel (2.6.16-1.2289_FC6-xen-i686). The compiler stops with the error message below: kdump-kern.c:163: error: `PIDTYPE_TGID' undeclared (first use in this function) As I think, this is because of the PIDTYPE_TGID patch. ... 11 Aug 2006 10:29

[PATCH] eCryptfs: Graceful handling of mount error
This fixes the error path for when eCryptfs has trouble mounting. Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow(a)us.ibm.com> --- fs/ecryptfs/main.c | 40 ++++++++++++++-------------------------- 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) 75540fc7a82eedde5adc20176f58cee8596fa5d2 diff --git a/fs/ecrypt... 8 Aug 2006 15:52

NUMA futex hashing
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 09:07, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: Current futex hash scheme is not the best for NUMA. The futex hash table is an array of struct futex_hash_bucket, which is just a spinlock and a list_head -- this means multiple spinlocks on the same cacheline and on NUMA machines, on the same... 9 Aug 2006 03:01

Suspend on Dell D420
[Please Cc me on any followups] Hi, Suspend-to-RAM works fine on my new Dell Latitude D420 (with Core Duo) in 2.6.16, but it broke in 2.6.17 -- the machine suspends just fine, but when it resumes, the disk never spins up, the screen stays black and it just hangs. Bisecting shows that the following commit is wh... 17 Aug 2006 11:42

kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 01:45:59PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol(a)2ka.mipt.ru) wrote: Changes from 'take2' patchset: * split kevent_finish_user() to locked and unlocked variants * do not use KEVENT_STAT ifdefs, use inline functions instead * use array of callbacks of each type instead of each kevent ca... 13 Feb 2007 00:41

ide support for VIA 8237a southbridge
Ar Sul, 2006-07-30 am 21:09 +0200, ysgrifennodd Diego Calleja: Alan Cox added (622b20fcb8b42aa4c3c87c0a036f2ad0927b64bc) some PCI IDs for some VIA devices, including the 8237a. The driver, however, has not been changed to support the 8237a, and someone reported it through bugzilla (http://bugzilla.kernel.o... 31 Jul 2006 07:04

/dev/itimer
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 23:59 +0200, Edgar Toernig wrote: Hi, this is a simple driver which provides interval timers via file descriptors. Everytime I have to write code to do something at regular intervals I face the problem that the time routines on Unix are pretty archaic. Only a single pro... 1 Aug 2006 11:59

NMI-safe mb- and atomic-free RT RCU
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Paul E. McKenney wrote: Not for inclusion, should be viewed with great suspicion. This patch provides an NMI-safe realtime RCU. Hopefully, Mathieu can make use of synchronize_sched() instead, since I have not yet figured out a way to make this NMI-safe and still get rid of the... 28 Jul 2006 11:35