Linux v2.6.18-rc1

Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Linus Torvalds]

Ok,
 the merge window for 2.6.18 is closed, and -rc1 is out there (git trees 
updated, the tar-ball and patches are still uploading over my pitiful DSL 
line - and as usual it may take a short while before mirroring takes 
place and distributes things across the globe).

The changes are too big for the mailing list, even just the shortlog. As 
usual, lots of stuff happened. Most architectures got updated, ACPI 
updates, networking, SCSI and sound, IDE, infiniband, input, DVB etc etc 
etc.

There's also a fair amount of basic infrastructure updates here, with 
things like the generic IRQ layer, the lockdep (oh, and priority- 
inheritance mutex support) stuff by Ingo &co, some generic 
timekeeping infrastructure ("clocksource") stuff, memory hotplug 
(and page migration) support, etc etc.

Git users should generally just select the part they are interested in, 
and do something like

	git log v2.6.17.. -- drivers/usb/ | git shortlog | less -S

to get a better and more focused view of what has changed.

Have fun,

		Linus

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Matt Keenan]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

[snip snip]
> The changes are too big for the mailing list, even just the shortlog. As 
> usual, lots of stuff happened. Most architectures got updated, ACPI 
> updates, networking, SCSI and sound, IDE, infiniband, input, DVB etc etc 
> etc.
>
>   
[snip snip]
> Git users should generally just select the part they are interested in, 
> and do something like
>
> 	git log v2.6.17.. -- drivers/usb/ | git shortlog | less -S
>
> to get a better and more focused view of what has changed.
>   
[snip snip]

Is it possible to get a URL to a shortlog on a web git somewhere? Has 
this information been posted before and I have missed it?

Matt

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Jonathan Corbet]

> Is it possible to get a URL to a shortlog on a web git somewhere? Has this
> information been posted before and I have missed it?

Dunno if there's a web git version anywhere, but I did put a copy of the
shortlog with the LWN announcement: http://lwn.net/Articles/190301/

jon

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Matt Keenan wrote:
>
> > Git users should generally just select the part they are interested in, and
> > do something like
> > 
> > 	git log v2.6.17.. -- drivers/usb/ | git shortlog | less -S
> > 
> > to get a better and more focused view of what has changed.
> >   
> [snip snip]
> 
> Is it possible to get a URL to a shortlog on a web git somewhere? Has this
> information been posted before and I have missed it?

The most recent version of "gitweb" can actually do this kind of thing for 
you on the web, but the version currently installed on kernel.org only 
does it per-file, not per directory, making it less useful.

I suspect it will get upgraded one of these days, and when it does, you 
can generate the above kind of listing without even having git installed 
by going to

	http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

and then selecting the "tree" view (it defaults to "summary" - see the top 
line that says "summary"/"shortlog"/"log"/"commit"/"commitdiff"/"tree", 
and select "tree" from there). Then you can walk down the tree, and when 
you find the file (or, eventually, directory) you are interested in, click 
on "history".

So even without git, you can get a lot of this kind of information. 
However, with just the web interface, you do lose a lot of browsing 
capability, like browsing multiple files/directories at the same time, and 
doing things like limiting the output since just a particular version.

So you could  just get git on your own, and read the docs, and play with 
it. The place to start is probably the git homepage:

	http://git.or.cz/

(also look up the Wiki there - click on "Wiki" in the header to see some 
Wiki resources that probably get updated a bit more often than the home 
page itself).

			Linus

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Alistair John Strachan]

On Thursday 06 July 2006 05:26, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok,
>  the merge window for 2.6.18 is closed, and -rc1 is out there (git trees
> updated, the tar-ball and patches are still uploading over my pitiful DSL
> line - and as usual it may take a short while before mirroring takes
> place and distributes things across the globe).
>
> The changes are too big for the mailing list, even just the shortlog. As
> usual, lots of stuff happened. Most architectures got updated, ACPI
> updates, networking, SCSI and sound, IDE, infiniband, input, DVB etc etc
> etc.

ACPI problem here. Doesn't seem to actively break anything, but the messages
look bad (HP NC6000 notebook). Haven't tried suspending. The error popped
up roughly 90 minutes after booting. Laptop has been on AC power throughout.

ACPI Error (exmutex-0248): Cannot release Mutex [C0E8], not acquired [20060623]
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.C044.C057.C0E7.C12F] (Node c1aeca40), AE_AML_MUTEX_NOT_ACQUIRED
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.C12F] (Node c1aeecfc), AE_AML_MUTEX_NOT_ACQUIRED
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.C137._BST] (Node c1aeec84), AE_AML_MUTEX_NOT_ACQUIRED
ACPI Exception (acpi_battery-0206): AE_AML_MUTEX_NOT_ACQUIRED, Evaluating _BST [20060623]

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Andrew Morton]

Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 06 July 2006 05:26, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Ok,
> >  the merge window for 2.6.18 is closed, and -rc1 is out there (git trees
> > updated, the tar-ball and patches are still uploading over my pitiful DSL
> > line - and as usual it may take a short while before mirroring takes
> > place and distributes things across the globe).
> >
> > The changes are too big for the mailing list, even just the shortlog. As
> > usual, lots of stuff happened. Most architectures got updated, ACPI
> > updates, networking, SCSI and sound, IDE, infiniband, input, DVB etc etc
> > etc.
> 
> ACPI problem here. Doesn't seem to actively break anything, but the messages
> look bad (HP NC6000 notebook). Haven't tried suspending. The error popped
> up roughly 90 minutes after booting. Laptop has been on AC power throughout.
> 
> ACPI Error (exmutex-0248): Cannot release Mutex [C0E8], not acquired [20060623]
> ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.C044.C057.C0E7.C12F] (Node c1aeca40), AE_AML_MUTEX_NOT_ACQUIRED
> ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.C12F] (Node c1aeecfc), AE_AML_MUTEX_NOT_ACQUIRED
> ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.C137._BST] (Node c1aeec84), AE_AML_MUTEX_NOT_ACQUIRED
> ACPI Exception (acpi_battery-0206): AE_AML_MUTEX_NOT_ACQUIRED, Evaluating _BST [20060623]
> 

I've queued the below for sending via Len.  Whether it is
correct/sufficient I do not know.  The comment from Alexey:

  It seems that there is an error in our code, that either releases ASL
  mutex twice, etc.  In either case the correct behavior seems to not abort
  execution.  Error seems to vanish in 2.6.17, so we should just apply this
  patch.  

is discouraging.



From:  Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@intel.com>

See http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6687
Closes: #50088

patch location:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/bcollins/ubuntu-dapper.git;a=commitdiff;h=202ddb5b6498af53e110f78edd41a217587c1ffb

Signed-off-by: Chuck Short <zulcss@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 drivers/acpi/executer/exmutex.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN drivers/acpi/executer/exmutex.c~acpi-do-not-abort-method-execution-if-asked-to-release drivers/acpi/executer/exmutex.c
--- a/drivers/acpi/executer/exmutex.c~acpi-do-not-abort-method-execution-if-asked-to-release
+++ a/drivers/acpi/executer/exmutex.c
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ acpi_ex_release_mutex(union acpi_operand
 		ACPI_ERROR((AE_INFO,
 			    "Cannot release Mutex [%4.4s], not acquired",
 			    acpi_ut_get_node_name(obj_desc->mutex.node)));
-		return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_AML_MUTEX_NOT_ACQUIRED);
+		return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_OK);
 	}
 
 	/* Sanity check -- we must have a valid thread ID */
_

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Nigel Cunningham]

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Hi.

On Thursday 06 July 2006 14:26, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok,
>  the merge window for 2.6.18 is closed, and -rc1 is out there (git trees
> updated, the tar-ball and patches are still uploading over my pitiful DSL
> line - and as usual it may take a short while before mirroring takes
> place and distributes things across the globe).

On my amd64 based laptop, I had a failures with both suspend implementations 
(swsusp and suspend2) when I had iommu debugging on. The same config worked 
fine with 2.6.17. I guess something in the delta didn't like iommu usage 
being forced on a Turion. I'm not sure how much time I'll find for further 
debugging, so I'll report it now.

Regards,

Nigel
-- 
Nigel, Michelle and Alisdair Cunningham
5 Mitchell Street
Cobden 3266
Victoria, Australia

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Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[David R]

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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok,
>  the merge window for 2.6.18 is closed, and -rc1 is out there (git trees 

Most things seem fine here with rc1, but I do see a permissions issue with my
USB scanner.

In 2.6.17

david@davidux:/dev/bus/usb/001 # l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root    100 2006-07-06 20:19 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root  root     80 2006-07-06 20:19 ../
crw-r--r-- 1 root  root 189, 0 2006-07-06 20:19 001
crw-r--r-- 1 david root 189, 1 2006-07-06 20:19 002
crw-r--r-- 1 root  root 189, 4 2006-07-06 20:19 005

but with 2.6.18

david@davidux:/dev/bus/usb/001> l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    100 2006-07-06 20:24 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root     80 2006-07-06 20:24 ../
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 189, 0 2006-07-06 20:24 001
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 189, 1 2006-07-06 20:24 002
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 189, 4 2006-07-06 20:24 005

Does something need tweaking with udev scripts maybe? This is a SuSE 10.1 system.

Cheers
David


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Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:44:11PM +0100, David R wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Ok,
> >  the merge window for 2.6.18 is closed, and -rc1 is out there (git trees 
> 
> Most things seem fine here with rc1, but I do see a permissions issue with my
> USB scanner.
> 
> In 2.6.17
> 
> david@davidux:/dev/bus/usb/001 # l
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root    100 2006-07-06 20:19 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root  root     80 2006-07-06 20:19 ../
> crw-r--r-- 1 root  root 189, 0 2006-07-06 20:19 001
> crw-r--r-- 1 david root 189, 1 2006-07-06 20:19 002
> crw-r--r-- 1 root  root 189, 4 2006-07-06 20:19 005
> 
> but with 2.6.18
> 
> david@davidux:/dev/bus/usb/001> l
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    100 2006-07-06 20:24 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root     80 2006-07-06 20:24 ../
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 189, 0 2006-07-06 20:24 001
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 189, 1 2006-07-06 20:24 002
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 189, 4 2006-07-06 20:24 005
> 
> Does something need tweaking with udev scripts maybe? This is a SuSE 10.1 system.

Perhaps, that is odd.  The scanner should default to the logged in user,
right?  Please file a bug at bugzilla.novell.com and the SuSE people can
work on it there.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[David R]

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Greg KH wrote:
> right?  Please file a bug at bugzilla.novell.com and the SuSE people can

Done. I may also try to chase down any divergence in the udev/hal scripts the
weekend. Not a massive deal anyhow, I can always chown the device if I need
the scanner. It all works just fine.

Thanks
David


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Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:11:20PM +0100, David R wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > right?  Please file a bug at bugzilla.novell.com and the SuSE people can
> 
> Done. I may also try to chase down any divergence in the udev/hal scripts the
> weekend. Not a massive deal anyhow, I can always chown the device if I need
> the scanner. It all works just fine.

We had the same problem with openGL applications here at the university. Suse 10
uses a daemon called resmgr that changes the /dev files ownership to the current user
who logs in. check /etc/resmgr.conf.d/*, /etc/resmgr.conf and the docs for
resmgr on how to add yourself to the, I think is the "desktop" group in resmgr
terms, in order to change ownership.

Regards,
    Boris.

		
___________________________________________________________ 
Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 22:11 +0100, David R wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > right?  Please file a bug at bugzilla.novell.com and the SuSE people can
> 
> Done. I may also try to chase down any divergence in the udev/hal scripts the
> weekend. Not a massive deal anyhow, I can always chown the device if I need
> the scanner. It all works just fine.

It's a bug in HAL, that feeds resmgr to grand access to the local user.
It should be fixed soon.

Thanks,
Kay

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Andi Kleen]

Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> writes:

> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 22:11 +0100, David R wrote:
> > Greg KH wrote:
> > > right?  Please file a bug at bugzilla.novell.com and the SuSE people can
> > 
> > Done. I may also try to chase down any divergence in the udev/hal scripts the
> > weekend. Not a massive deal anyhow, I can always chown the device if I need
> > the scanner. It all works just fine.
> 
> It's a bug in HAL, that feeds resmgr to grand access to the local user.
> It should be fixed soon.

I hope you mean in the kernel or did user space compatibility get
broken again?

-Andi

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Andi Kleen]

Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
> 
> Perhaps, that is odd.  The scanner should default to the logged in user,
> right?  Please file a bug at bugzilla.novell.com and the SuSE people can
> work on it there.

I have a similar problem with my printer. But /dev/usblp0,
/dev/usb/lp0 don't even appear, no matter what the permissions are.

-Andi

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 04:44:08PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
> > 
> > Perhaps, that is odd.  The scanner should default to the logged in user,
> > right?  Please file a bug at bugzilla.novell.com and the SuSE people can
> > work on it there.
> 
> I have a similar problem with my printer. But /dev/usblp0,
> /dev/usb/lp0 don't even appear, no matter what the permissions are.

What version of udev are you using?  It works fine for me here with a
USB printer (that's what I tested the changes with.)

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Andi Kleen]

On Saturday 08 July 2006 18:02, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 04:44:08PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > Perhaps, that is odd.  The scanner should default to the logged in user,
> > > right?  Please file a bug at bugzilla.novell.com and the SuSE people can
> > > work on it there.
> > 
> > I have a similar problem with my printer. But /dev/usblp0,
> > /dev/usb/lp0 don't even appear, no matter what the permissions are.
> 
> What version of udev are you using?  It works fine for me here with a
> USB printer (that's what I tested the changes with.)

udev-068git20050831-9 (from SUSE 10.0 I think) 

-Andi

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:17:30AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Saturday 08 July 2006 18:02, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 04:44:08PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > Perhaps, that is odd.  The scanner should default to the logged in user,
> > > > right?  Please file a bug at bugzilla.novell.com and the SuSE people can
> > > > work on it there.
> > > 
> > > I have a similar problem with my printer. But /dev/usblp0,
> > > /dev/usb/lp0 don't even appear, no matter what the permissions are.
> > 
> > What version of udev are you using?  It works fine for me here with a
> > USB printer (that's what I tested the changes with.)
> 
> udev-068git20050831-9 (from SUSE 10.0 I think) 

That's the issue, look in Documentation/Changes for the proper version
of udev for the past few kernel versions to handle this kind of issue
(again, it was a stupid libsysfs problem, which caused us to finally
drop that piece of crud from udev...)  This has been documented as such
since last October, see commit ad7e14a55ed7648d02a4df8e460e291d80a18c98.

It was necessary to do this for the input drivers to get them to all
work properly, please see the old archives for details as to the
necessity of it.

Also, that change caused the creation of Documentation/ABI/ which
describes the rules that programs that look at sysfs class stuff, must
be able to handle a symlink there.

That older version of udev in 10.0 can't handle the symlink, but I think
that Kay had a version somewhere that was patched to handle it.  I'd
just recommend upgrading to 10.1 :)

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Hervé Fache]

Why is your prompt different? # first, then >. Could it be that your
system thought you were root in the second case? Just a stupid
thought...

On 7/6/06, David R <david@unsolicited.net> wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Ok,
> >  the merge window for 2.6.18 is closed, and -rc1 is out there (git trees
>
> Most things seem fine here with rc1, but I do see a permissions issue with my
> USB scanner.
>
> In 2.6.17
>
> david@davidux:/dev/bus/usb/001 # l
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root    100 2006-07-06 20:19 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root  root     80 2006-07-06 20:19 ../
> crw-r--r-- 1 root  root 189, 0 2006-07-06 20:19 001
> crw-r--r-- 1 david root 189, 1 2006-07-06 20:19 002
> crw-r--r-- 1 root  root 189, 4 2006-07-06 20:19 005
>
> but with 2.6.18
>
> david@davidux:/dev/bus/usb/001> l
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    100 2006-07-06 20:24 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root     80 2006-07-06 20:24 ../
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 189, 0 2006-07-06 20:24 001
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 189, 1 2006-07-06 20:24 002
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 189, 4 2006-07-06 20:24 005
>
> Does something need tweaking with udev scripts maybe? This is a SuSE 10.1 system.
>
> Cheers
> David
>
>
>
>


-- 
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Steve Fox]

We've got a ppc64 machine that won't boot with this due to an IDE error.

[snip]
Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed
 running (1:2) /init autobench_args: ABAT:1152213829

creating device nodes .hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt

-- 

Steve Fox
IBM Linux Technology Center

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:41 -0500, Steve Fox wrote:
> We've got a ppc64 machine that won't boot with this due to an IDE error.

What machine precisely ?

> [snip]
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed
>  running (1:2) /init autobench_args: ABAT:1152213829
> 
> creating device nodes .hda: lost interrupt
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: lost interrupt
> 

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Will Schmidt]

On Sun, 2006-09-07 at 20:34 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:41 -0500, Steve Fox wrote:
> > We've got a ppc64 machine that won't boot with this due to an IDE error.
> 
> What machine precisely ?

I see a slightly more verbose version on a JS20 blade. 

hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
hda: DMA interrupt recovery
hda: lost interrupt



> 
> > [snip]
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed
> >  running (1:2) /init autobench_args: ABAT:1152213829
> > 
> > creating device nodes .hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > 
> 
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Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Alan Cox]

Ar Llu, 2006-07-10 am 08:21 -0500, ysgrifennodd Will Schmidt:
> On Sun, 2006-09-07 at 20:34 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:41 -0500, Steve Fox wrote:
> > > We've got a ppc64 machine that won't boot with this due to an IDE error.
> > 
> > What machine precisely ?
> 
> I see a slightly more verbose version on a JS20 blade. 
> 
> hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
> hda: DMA interrupt recovery
> hda: lost interrupt

That in repeat generally means the IRQ logic on the platform has been
broken. If we don't get interrupts we don't work very well.

Also check if booting with "nodma" set on the relevant ide interface
makes a difference. Just to be sure. If it does then submit patches to
fix the bug.

Alan

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

> That in repeat generally means the IRQ logic on the platform has been
> broken. If we don't get interrupts we don't work very well.
> 
> Also check if booting with "nodma" set on the relevant ide interface
> makes a difference. Just to be sure. If it does then submit patches to
> fix the bug.

it's most certainly an irq problem as I just rewrote the irq logic of
powerpc :) There have been some issues and I've just sent some new
patches fixing them, let's see if that's enough. I'll give a js20 a try
today at work.

Ben.

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Steve Fox]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 07:17 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> it's most certainly an irq problem as I just rewrote the irq logic of
> powerpc :) There have been some issues and I've just sent some new
> patches fixing them, let's see if that's enough. I'll give a js20 a try
> today at work.

FWIW, I tried applying the 3 non-Apple-specific patches posted on 7/10
but this didn't help.

-- 

Steve Fox
IBM Linux Technology Center

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 08:21 -0500, Will Schmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-07 at 20:34 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:41 -0500, Steve Fox wrote:
> > > We've got a ppc64 machine that won't boot with this due to an IDE error.
> > 
> > What machine precisely ?
> 
> I see a slightly more verbose version on a JS20 blade. 

Can you try with the new patches I posted yesterday ?

Ben.

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Steve Fox]

On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 20:34 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:41 -0500, Steve Fox wrote:
> > We've got a ppc64 machine that won't boot with this due to an IDE error.
> 
> What machine precisely ?

It's called bl5-6 in ABAT and lists itself as a 970 (8842-P1Z).

Also, booting with ide=nodma, as Alan suggested to Will, did not help.

> > [snip]
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed
> >  running (1:2) /init autobench_args: ABAT:1152213829
> > 
> > creating device nodes .hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > 
> 
-- 

Steve Fox
IBM Linux Technology Center

Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Steve Fox]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:38:02 -0500, Steve Fox wrote:

> Also, booting with ide=nodma, as Alan suggested to Will, did not help.

I'm not sure if it was due to using the nodma parameter or not, but I did
get a few more details during this boot. No idea if they're useful or not.

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide:
Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
AMD8111: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:04.1 AMD8111: chipset revision
3 AMD8111: 0000:00:04.1 (rev 03) UDMA133 controller AMD8111: 100% native
mode on irq 17
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x7c00-0x7c07, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1:
    BM-DMA at 0x7c08-0x7c0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: TOSHIBA MK4019GAXB, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x7400-0x7407,0x6c02 on
irq 17 hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB), CHS=65535/16/63 hda: lost interrupt hda:
cache flushes supported
 hda:<4>hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
 hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 <<4>hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
 hda5<4>hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt


-- 

Steve Fox
IBM Linux Technology Center

lost cpufreq (Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1)

[Tomasz Torcz]

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On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:26:35PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Ok,
>  the merge window for 2.6.18 is closed, and -rc1 is out there

  ... and cpufreq-nforce2.ko fails to work. Module can't be loaded:
FATAL: Error inserting cpufreq_nforce2
(/lib/modules/2.6.18-rc1/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.ko):
Device or resource busy

  Here's relevant difference between dmesg of 2.6.17 and 2.6.18-rc1:

@@ -244,7 +240,6 @@
 lp: driver loaded but no devices found
 cpufreq: Detected nForce2 chipset revision C1
 cpufreq: FSB changing is maybe unstable and can lead to crashes and data loss.
-cpufreq: FSB currently at 165 MHz, FID 10.5
 usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
 usbcore: registered new driver hub

 Motherboard is Abit, NF7,NF7-V (nVidia-nForce2), Version: 2.X,1.0,
 (according to dmidecode).


  Also alsactl restore didn't restore PCM volume and mute state. Some
mixer elements changed name? Module is snd_intel8x0, chip is integrated
in above mentioned motherboard.

-- 
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zdzichu@irc.-nie.spam-.pl    in the afternoon and evening." - Alan Cox


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Re: lost cpufreq (Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1)

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 07:52:39PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
 > On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:26:35PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > > 
 > > Ok,
 > >  the merge window for 2.6.18 is closed, and -rc1 is out there
 > 
 >   ... and cpufreq-nforce2.ko fails to work. Module can't be loaded:
 > FATAL: Error inserting cpufreq_nforce2
 > (/lib/modules/2.6.18-rc1/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.ko):
 > Device or resource busy
 > 
 >   Here's relevant difference between dmesg of 2.6.17 and 2.6.18-rc1:
 > 
 > @@ -244,7 +240,6 @@
 >  lp: driver loaded but no devices found
 >  cpufreq: Detected nForce2 chipset revision C1
 >  cpufreq: FSB changing is maybe unstable and can lead to crashes and data loss.
 > -cpufreq: FSB currently at 165 MHz, FID 10.5
 >  usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
 >  usbcore: registered new driver hub

Does it work again if you apply this patch with -R ?

		Dave

 
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.c
index f275e0d..0d49d73 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.c
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static int nforce2_calc_pll(unsigned int
 
 	/* Try to calculate multiplier and divider up to 4 times */
 	while (((mul == 0) || (div == 0)) && (tried <= 3)) {
-		for (xdiv = 1; xdiv <= 0x80; xdiv++)
+		for (xdiv = 2; xdiv <= 0x80; xdiv++)
 			for (xmul = 1; xmul <= 0xfe; xmul++)
 				if (nforce2_calc_fsb(NFORCE2_PLL(xmul, xdiv)) ==
 				    fsb + tried) {


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Re: lost cpufreq (Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1)

[Tomasz Torcz]

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On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 03:07:39PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 07:52:39PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
>  > On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:26:35PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > Ok,
>  > >  the merge window for 2.6.18 is closed, and -rc1 is out there
>  > 
>  >   ... and cpufreq-nforce2.ko fails to work. Module can't be loaded:
>  > FATAL: Error inserting cpufreq_nforce2
>  > (/lib/modules/2.6.18-rc1/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.ko):
>  > Device or resource busy
>  > 
>  >   Here's relevant difference between dmesg of 2.6.17 and 2.6.18-rc1:
>  > 
>  > @@ -244,7 +240,6 @@
>  >  lp: driver loaded but no devices found
>  >  cpufreq: Detected nForce2 chipset revision C1
>  >  cpufreq: FSB changing is maybe unstable and can lead to crashes and data loss.
>  > -cpufreq: FSB currently at 165 MHz, FID 10.5
>  >  usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
>  >  usbcore: registered new driver hub
> 
> Does it work again if you apply this patch with -R ?

  No.

> 
>  
> diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.c
> index f275e0d..0d49d73 100644
> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.c
> +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.c
> @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static int nforce2_calc_pll(unsigned int
>  
>  	/* Try to calculate multiplier and divider up to 4 times */
>  	while (((mul == 0) || (div == 0)) && (tried <= 3)) {
> -		for (xdiv = 1; xdiv <= 0x80; xdiv++)
> +		for (xdiv = 2; xdiv <= 0x80; xdiv++)
>  			for (xmul = 1; xmul <= 0xfe; xmul++)
>  				if (nforce2_calc_fsb(NFORCE2_PLL(xmul, xdiv)) ==
>  				    fsb + tried) {
> 
> 
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Re: lost cpufreq (Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1)

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:27:06PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
 > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 03:07:39PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 07:52:39PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
 > >  > On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:26:35PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Ok,
 > >  > >  the merge window for 2.6.18 is closed, and -rc1 is out there
 > >  > 
 > >  >   ... and cpufreq-nforce2.ko fails to work. Module can't be loaded:
 > >  > FATAL: Error inserting cpufreq_nforce2
 > >  > (/lib/modules/2.6.18-rc1/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/cpufreq-nforce2.ko):
 > >  > Device or resource busy
 > >  > 
 > >  >   Here's relevant difference between dmesg of 2.6.17 and 2.6.18-rc1:
 > >  > 
 > >  > @@ -244,7 +240,6 @@
 > >  >  lp: driver loaded but no devices found
 > >  >  cpufreq: Detected nForce2 chipset revision C1
 > >  >  cpufreq: FSB changing is maybe unstable and can lead to crashes and data loss.
 > >  > -cpufreq: FSB currently at 165 MHz, FID 10.5
 > >  >  usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
 > >  >  usbcore: registered new driver hub
 > > 
 > > Does it work again if you apply this patch with -R ?
 > 
 >   No.

That's puzzling, as the only other changes to cpufreq-nforce are completely cosmetic
(whitespace and the like).

		Dave

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Re: lost cpufreq (Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1)

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 7 Jul 2006 19:52:39 +0200,
Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> 
>   Also alsactl restore didn't restore PCM volume and mute state. Some
> mixer elements changed name? Module is snd_intel8x0, chip is integrated
> in above mentioned motherboard.

Hm, I don't remember any relevant changes.
Could you compare the mixer states from "alsactl -f somefile store"
with old and new kernels?


Takashi

[patchset 0/3 -2.6.18-rc1] pc8736x_gpio: fix re-modprobe errors

[Jim Cromie]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok,
>  the merge window for 2.6.18 is closed, and -rc1 is out there (git trees 
>   


The new pc8736x_gpio driver has at least 1 bug, which manifests when
module is rmmod'd then re-modprobe'd.  This 3 part patchset addresses it 
as follows:

1 - add constant defines - preparatory patch

- adds #define CONSTs  for max-pin,  gpio-addr-range (for reserving region)
- fix wrong max-pin check in gpio_open()
- add 'Winbond' to module description:  NSC sold the product, Winbond 
has us / lm-sensors

        pc-const-decl      - define several symbolic constants
        pc-open-const    - use reduced max-pin to what hardware supports
        pc-req-region-const        - can wait, but why
        pc-mod-desc-add-winbond    -

since this is just preparatory work, it still exhibits the bug:

soekris:~# rmmod pc8736x_gpio
soekris:~# modprobe pc8736x_gpio
[  498.970735] kobject_add failed for pc8736x_gpio.0 with -EEXIST, don't 
try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
[  498.985568]  [<c0102fbf>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x54/0xfd
[  498.991398]  [<c0103fba>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
[  498.996629]  [<c0103fd4>] dump_stack+0x17/0x1b
[  499.001759]  [<c01d1c6a>] kobject_add+0x17d/0x19c
[  499.014898]  [<c0203362>] device_add+0x7a/0x2cc
[  499.029917]  [<c020616d>] platform_device_add+0xdc/0x10c
[  499.045902]  [<c8820028>] pc8736x_gpio_init+0x28/0x258 [pc8736x_gpio]
[  499.053212]  [<c012a67a>] sys_init_module+0x1381/0x1463
[  499.061327]  [<c0102657>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
FATAL: Error inserting pc8736x_gpio 
(/lib/modules/2.6.18-rc1-jimc-sk/kernel/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.ko): 
No such device


2 - pc-init-fix-undo-region-rollup

this patch fixes module-init-func by repairing usage of 
platform_device_del/put in module-exit-func,
ie it imitates Ingo's 'mishaps' patch, which fixed the 
module-init-func's undo handling.
Also fixes lack of release_region to undo the earlier registration.

Also included:
- add include <linux/cdev.h> - needed by next patches
and cuz theyre within the diff-context-window:
- remove include <linux/config.h>      everyone's doing it
- copyright updates - current date is 'wrong'

the patch fixes the above bug, reducing it to a different one; (which is 
fixed by 3rd patch)

soekris:~# rmmod pc8736x_gpio
soekris:~# modprobe pc8736x_gpio
[  283.618997] platform pc8736x_gpio.0: NatSemi pc8736x GPIO Driver 
Initializing
[  283.626534] platform pc8736x_gpio.0: GPIO ioport 6600 reserved
[  283.633319] platform pc8736x_gpio.0: register-chrdev failed: -16
FATAL: Error inserting pc8736x_gpio 
(/lib/modules/2.6.18-rc1-jimc-sk/kernel/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.ko): 
Device or resource busy


3 - pc-init-fix-chrdev-region-rollup

- Switch from register_chrdev() to   (register|alloc)_chrdev_region().

- use a cdev.   This was intended for original patchset, but was overlooked.
We use a single cdev for all pins (minor device-numbers), as gleaned 
from cs5535_gpio,
and in contrast to whats currently done in scx200_gpio (which I'll fix soon)

By some reasoning, this patch should have been combined with patch 2; 
the fixes
are to the same 2 mod-init/exit functions, and both touch cdevs, 
regions, etc.
Despite this, I separated them (incompletely).  I'll combine them if 
thats better..


Given that this is a brand new driver, can I assume a bit more latitude to
clean up and normalize the code ?     For example, s/DEVNAME/DRVNAME/
would improve consistency with other drivers.  The scx200_gpio driver 
could also
stand some improvements; a single cdev, and same DRVNAME normalization.

Whats the right way to mark this as (NEW/EXPERIMENTAL) ?
Is either appropriate for a reworked / existing driver (scx200_gpio)

cc'g  AKPM since (I think) he pushed this driver to mainline.

thanks
Jim Cromie

Re: [patchset 1/3 -2.6.18-rc1] pc8736x_gpio: fix re-modprobe errors - define and use constants

[Jim Cromie]

1 - add constant defines - preparatory patch

- adds #define CONSTs  for max-pin,  gpio-addr-range (for reserving region)
- fix wrong max-pin check in gpio_open()
- add 'Winbond' to module description.  NSC sold the product, Winbond 
has supported us / lm-sensors

Signed-off-by:  Jim Cromie  <jim.cromie@gmail.com>

$ diffstat fxd1/pc-const-rollup
 pc8736x_gpio.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


diff -ruNp -X dontdiff -X exclude-diffs x4h-0/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c x4h-1/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c
--- x4h-0/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c	2006-07-06 13:19:16.000000000 -0600
+++ x4h-1/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c	2006-07-07 16:59:14.000000000 -0600
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 #define DEVNAME "pc8736x_gpio"
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>");
-MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NatSemi PC-8736x GPIO Pin Driver");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NatSemi/Winbond PC-8736x GPIO Pin Driver");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 
 static int major;		/* default to dynamic major */
@@ -38,14 +38,14 @@ static u8 pc8736x_gpio_shadow[4];
 
 #define SIO_BASE1       0x2E	/* 1st command-reg to check */
 #define SIO_BASE2       0x4E	/* alt command-reg to check */
-#define SIO_BASE_OFFSET 0x20
 
 #define SIO_SID		0x20	/* SuperI/O ID Register */
 #define SIO_SID_VALUE	0xe9	/* Expected value in SuperI/O ID Register */
 
 #define SIO_CF1		0x21	/* chip config, bit0 is chip enable */
 
-#define PC8736X_GPIO_SIZE	16
+#define PC8736X_GPIO_RANGE	16 /* ioaddr range */
+#define PC8736X_GPIO_CT		32 /* minors matching 4 8 bit ports */
 
 #define SIO_UNIT_SEL	0x7	/* unit select reg */
 #define SIO_UNIT_ACT	0x30	/* unit enable */
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ static int pc8736x_gpio_open(struct inod
 
 	dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "open %d\n", m);
 
-	if (m > 63)
+	if (m >= PC8736X_GPIO_CT)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	return nonseekable_open(inode, file);
 }
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ static int __init pc8736x_gpio_init(void
 	pc8736x_gpio_base = (superio_inb(SIO_BASE_HADDR) << 8
 			     | superio_inb(SIO_BASE_LADDR));
 
-	if (!request_region(pc8736x_gpio_base, 16, DEVNAME)) {
+	if (!request_region(pc8736x_gpio_base, PC8736X_GPIO_RANGE, DEVNAME)) {
 		rc = -ENODEV;
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "GPIO ioport %x busy\n",
 			pc8736x_gpio_base);

Re: [patchset 2/3 -2.6.18-rc1] pc8736x_gpio: fix re-modprobe errors - undo region reservation

[Jim Cromie]

2 - pc-init-fix-undo-region-rollup

this patch fixes module-init-func by repairing usage of 
platform_device_del/put in module-exit-func.
IOW, it imitates Ingo's 'mishaps' patch, which fixed the 
module-init-func's undo handling.
Also fixes lack of release_region to undo the earlier registration.

Also starts to 'use a cdev' which was originally intended (its present 
in scx200_gpio).
Code compiles and runs, exhibits a lesser error than previously. 
(re-register-chrdev fails)

Since I had to add "include <linux/cdev.h>", I went ahead and made 2
tweaks that fell into diff-context-window:
- remove include <linux/config.h>      everyone's doing it
- copyright updates - current date is 'wrong'

Signed-off-by:  Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>

---

$ diffstat fxd1/pc-init-fix-undo-region-rollup
 pc8736x_gpio.c |   19 +++++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
[jimc@harpo gpio-stuff]$

---

diff -ruNp -X dontdiff -X exclude-diffs x4h-1/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c x4h-2/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c
--- x4h-1/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c	2006-07-07 16:59:14.000000000 -0600
+++ x4h-2/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c	2006-07-07 17:02:17.000000000 -0600
@@ -3,18 +3,18 @@
    National Semiconductor PC8736x GPIO driver.  Allows a user space
    process to play with the GPIO pins.
 
-   Copyright (c) 2005 Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
+   Copyright (c) 2005,2006 Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
 
    adapted from linux/drivers/char/scx200_gpio.c
    Copyright (c) 2001,2002 Christer Weinigel <wingel@nano-system.com>,
 */
 
-#include <linux/config.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/cdev.h>
 #include <linux/io.h>
 #include <linux/ioport.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
@@ -255,6 +255,8 @@ static void __init pc8736x_init_shadow(v
 
 }
 
+static struct cdev pc8736x_gpio_cdev;
+
 static int __init pc8736x_gpio_init(void)
 {
 	int rc = 0;
@@ -308,7 +310,7 @@ static int __init pc8736x_gpio_init(void
 	rc = register_chrdev(major, DEVNAME, &pc8736x_gpio_fops);
 	if (rc < 0) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "register-chrdev failed: %d\n", rc);
-		goto undo_platform_dev_add;
+		goto undo_request_region;
 	}
 	if (!major) {
 		major = rc;
@@ -318,6 +320,8 @@ static int __init pc8736x_gpio_init(void
 	pc8736x_init_shadow();
 	return 0;
 
+undo_request_region:
+	release_region(pc8736x_gpio_base, PC8736X_GPIO_RANGE);
 undo_platform_dev_add:
 	platform_device_del(pdev);
 undo_platform_dev_alloc:
@@ -328,11 +332,14 @@ undo_platform_dev_alloc:
 
 static void __exit pc8736x_gpio_cleanup(void)
 {
-	dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, " cleanup\n");
+	dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "cleanup\n");
 
-	release_region(pc8736x_gpio_base, 16);
+	cdev_del(&pc8736x_gpio_cdev);
+	unregister_chrdev_region(MKDEV(major,0), PC8736X_GPIO_CT);
+	release_region(pc8736x_gpio_base, PC8736X_GPIO_RANGE);
 
-	unregister_chrdev(major, DEVNAME);
+	platform_device_del(pdev);
+	platform_device_put(pdev);
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(pc8736x_access);

Re: [patchset 3/3 -2.6.18-rc1] pc8736x_gpio: fix re-modprobe errors - fix/finish cdev-init

[Jim Cromie]

3 - pc-init-fix-chrdev-region-rollup

- Switch from register_chrdev() to   (register|alloc)_chrdev_region().

- use a cdev.   This was intended for original patchset, but was 
overlooked.
We use a single cdev for all pins (minor device-numbers), as gleaned 
from cs5535_gpio,
and in contrast to whats currently done in scx200_gpio (which I'll fix 
soon)

Signed-off-by:  Jim Cromie  <jim.cromie@gmail.com>


$ diffstat pc-init-fix-chrdev-region-rollup
 pc8736x_gpio.c |   15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

---

diff -ruNp -X dontdiff -X exclude-diffs x4k-2/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c x4k-3/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c
--- x4k-2/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c	2006-07-07 20:09:38.000000000 -0600
+++ x4k-3/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c	2006-07-07 20:12:05.000000000 -0600
@@ -260,6 +260,7 @@ static struct cdev pc8736x_gpio_cdev;
 static int __init pc8736x_gpio_init(void)
 {
 	int rc = 0;
+	dev_t devid;
 
 	pdev = platform_device_alloc(DEVNAME, 0);
 	if (!pdev)
@@ -307,7 +308,14 @@ static int __init pc8736x_gpio_init(void
 	}
 	dev_info(&pdev->dev, "GPIO ioport %x reserved\n", pc8736x_gpio_base);
 
-	rc = register_chrdev(major, DEVNAME, &pc8736x_gpio_fops);
+	if (major) {
+		devid = MKDEV(major, 0);
+		rc = register_chrdev_region(devid, PC8736X_GPIO_CT, DEVNAME);
+	} else {
+		rc = alloc_chrdev_region(&devid, 0, PC8736X_GPIO_CT, DEVNAME);
+		major = MAJOR(devid);
+	}
+
 	if (rc < 0) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "register-chrdev failed: %d\n", rc);
 		goto undo_request_region;
@@ -318,6 +326,11 @@ static int __init pc8736x_gpio_init(void
 	}
 
 	pc8736x_init_shadow();
+
+	/* ignore minor errs, and succeed */
+	cdev_init(&pc8736x_gpio_cdev, &pc8736x_gpio_fops);
+	cdev_add(&pc8736x_gpio_cdev, devid, PC8736X_GPIO_CT);
+
 	return 0;
 
 undo_request_region:

RE: Linux v2.6.18-rc1

[Moore, Robert]

I've tracked this down, it's a bug and I believe I have it fixed. It's
related to "serialized" control methods which are rather rare in
comparison to non-serialized methods.

Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-acpi-
> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Alistair John Strachan
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 5:35 AM
> To: Linus Torvalds
> Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List; linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org; Brown, Len
> Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1
> 
> On Thursday 06 July 2006 05:26, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Ok,
> >  the merge window for 2.6.18 is closed, and -rc1 is out there (git
trees
> > updated, the tar-ball and patches are still uploading over my
pitiful
> DSL
> > line - and as usual it may take a short while before mirroring takes
> > place and distributes things across the globe).
> >
> > The changes are too big for the mailing list, even just the
shortlog. As
> > usual, lots of stuff happened. Most architectures got updated, ACPI
> > updates, networking, SCSI and sound, IDE, infiniband, input, DVB etc
etc
> > etc.
> 
> ACPI problem here. Doesn't seem to actively break anything, but the
> messages
> look bad (HP NC6000 notebook). Haven't tried suspending. The error
popped
> up roughly 90 minutes after booting. Laptop has been on AC power
> throughout.
> 
> ACPI Error (exmutex-0248): Cannot release Mutex [C0E8], not acquired
> [20060623]
> ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed
> [\_SB_.C044.C057.C0E7.C12F] (Node c1aeca40), AE_AML_MUTEX_NOT_ACQUIRED
> ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.C12F]
> (Node c1aeecfc), AE_AML_MUTEX_NOT_ACQUIRED
> ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed
[\_SB_.C137._BST]
> (Node c1aeec84), AE_AML_MUTEX_NOT_ACQUIRED
> ACPI Exception (acpi_battery-0206): AE_AML_MUTEX_NOT_ACQUIRED,
Evaluating
> _BST [20060623]
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> Alistair.
> 
> Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
> 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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