Kernel Traffic #313 For 5 Jun 2005 By Zack Brown Table Of Contents * Standard Format * Text Format * XML Source * Mailing List Stats For This Week * Threads Covered 1. 16 May 2005 - 24 May 2005 (27 posts) Linux 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 Released 2. 20 May 2005 - 24 May 2005 (4 posts) sdparm Version 0.92 Released 3. 23 May 2005 (1 post) dmraid Version 1.0.0.rc8 Released 4. 24 May 2005 (1 post) Linux 2.4.31-rc1 Released 5. 26 May 2005 (2 posts) New Sub-Architecture Under arch/ cris Mailing List Stats For This Week We looked at 1382 posts in 8MB. See the Full Statistics. There were 582 different contributors. 212 posted more than once. 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Linux 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 Released 16 May 2005 - 24 May 2005 (27 posts) Archive Link: "2.6.12-rc4-mm2" Topics: Digital Video Broadcasting, Kernel Release Announcement People: Andrew Morton Andrew Morton announced Linux 2.6.12-rc4-mm2, saying: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc4/ 2.6.12-rc4-mm2/ * davem has set up a mm-commits mailing list so people can review things which are added to or removed from the -mm tree. Do echo subscribe mm-commits | mail majordomo@vger.kernel.org * x86_64 architecture update from Andi. * Everything up to and including `spurious-interrupt-fix.patch' is planned for 2.6.12 merging. Plus a few other things in there. * Another DVB subsystem update 2. sdparm Version 0.92 Released 20 May 2005 - 24 May 2005 (4 posts) Archive Link: "[ANNOUNCE] sdparm 0.92" Topics: Compression, Disks: IDE, Disks: SCSI People: Douglas Gilbert, Mogens Valentin Douglas Gilbert said: sdparm is a command line utility designed to get and set SCSI disk parameters (cf hdparm for ATA disks). More generally it gets and sets mode page information on SCSI devices or devices that use a SCSI command set (e.g. CD/DVD drives (any transport) and SCSI tape drives). It also can list VPD pages including the device identification page. For more information and downloads (tarball, rpm and deb packages) see: http:// www.torque.net/sg/sdparm.html There are now more than 150 parameters accessed by sdparm. Thanks to Kai Makisara for interface and sanity checking suggestions. ChangeLog for sdparm-0.92 [20050520] * add data compression and device configuration mode pages (ssc3) * add timeout + protect plus write parameters mode pages (mmc5) * add XOR control mode page (sbc2) * add SES management mode page (ses2) * discriminate mode pages based on device's peripheral device type * disallow set/clear acronyms whose pdt doesn't match current device * with option "-ll" decode more of INQUIRY standard response * improve error checking when getting non-existent fields * use double fetch technique when fetching mode pages * add RBC device parameters mode page (rbc) * add '--flexible' option for mode sense 6/10 response mixup * '--inquiry -all' now outputs supported VPD pages page Mogens Valentin replied, "Nice! Just got it and tried on an external usb disk. One feature I could use, probably others as well: Could you add the ability to spin down/up a scsi disk? I'd really like this for exteral (usb) disks. Doesn't seem it can; if I missed it, I'm sorry.." Douglas replied, "It is hard to know where to stop with sdparm ;-) At the moment I am adding transport (protocol) specific mode page support. So currently sdparm specializes in mode pages (for all SCSI command sets) and INQUIRY information (including the device identification VPD page)." 3. dmraid Version 1.0.0.rc8 Released 23 May 2005 (1 post) Archive Link: "*** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0.rc8 ***" Topics: Disk Arrays: RAID People: Heinz Mauelshagen Heinz Mauelshagen said: dmraid 1.0.0.rc8 is available at http://people.redhat.com:/heinzm/sw/dmraid/ in source tarball, source rpm and i386 rpm (with shared and static dietlibc binary). This release fixes a stripe size bug in NVidia and avoids using the Silicon Image incarnation number for RAID name creation (should avoid some sets not grouping properly). It adds an '--ignorelocking' in order to allow dmraid to run in early boot where no read/write access to /var is given. dmraid (Device-Mapper RAID tool) discovers, [de]activates and displays properties of software RAID sets (i.e. ATARAID) and contained DOS partitions using the device-mapper runtime of the 2.6 kernel. The following ATARAID types are supported on Linux 2.6: Highpoint HPT37X Highpoint HPT45X Intel Software RAID LSI Logic MegaRAID NVidia NForce Promise FastTrack Silicon Image Medley VIA Software RAID Please provide insight to support those metadata formats completely. 4. Linux 2.4.31-rc1 Released 24 May 2005 (1 post) Archive Link: "Linux 2.4.31-rc1" People: Marcelo Tosatti Marcelo Tosatti announced Linux 2.4.31-rc1, saying, "It contains a small number of simple scattered fixes and a tg3 update." 5. New Sub-Architecture Under arch/cris 26 May 2005 (2 posts) Archive Link: "[RFC] Introducing a new sub-architecture" Topics: SMP People: Mikael Starvik, Andrew Morton Mikael Starvik said: I'm about to submit a new sub-architecture under arch/cris and I would like to get your input on how this is best done. I can see at least 3 alternatives: 1. All the patches goes to LKML. Lots of boring patches that most people doesn't care about. 2. Send drivers to the driver subsystems maintainers for review and then a big .tgz to Andrew. 3. Send the .tgz directly to Andrew without reviews from the driver guys. I leaning towards option 2, comments? Except from the new sub-architecture there will also be patches to the generic cris parts to add support for e.g. SMP and to convert to the new IRQ framework. Andrew Morton replied that option 2 sounded best to him. 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