Re: [PATCH 00/14] Pramfs: Persistent and protected ram filesystem

2009-06-13 Thread Daniel Walker
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 15:20 +0200, Marco wrote: Are there any pending patents on this code? NO, there aren't patents pending on this code. MontaVista had a pending patent application but now it has abandoned this way. Daniel Walker can confirm that. Confirmed , there are no patents

Re: PRAMFS with XIP support

2008-10-09 Thread Daniel Walker
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 09:05 +0200, Marco Stornelli wrote: Thanks Tim and Daniel. Daniel the first thing to do to submit the patches is check them to verify that they are compliant to the kernel standard, if you'd like to help you are welcome. Since the feature was already submitted once (or

Re: PRAMFS with XIP support

2008-10-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:25 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: Marco Stornelli wrote: Hi Mike, I am not the PRAMFS mantainer, and I think he is in charge to do that (right?), I sent an email to Steve Longerbeam and to MontaVista support, but I haven't received any response. However, if you think

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.27-rc4-git3: make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 01:18 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: Hi Andrew, You asked me to maintain it and resubmit when merge frenzy is over. Here is the update against current Linus tree (which is 2.6.27-rc4-git3), rolled up into one patch. Do you have the patches that actually use

Re: [PATCH 03/10] AXFS: axfs.h

2008-08-21 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 22:45 -0700, Jared Hulbert wrote: +#define AXFS_GET_BYTETABLE_VAL(desc,index) \ + axfs_bytetable_stitch(((struct axfs_region_desc)(desc)).table_byte_depth,\ + (u8 *)((struct axfs_region_desc)(desc)).virt_addr, index) + +#define AXFS_GET_NODE_TYPE(sbi,node_index) \ +

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 19:20 -0700, David VomLehn wrote: Allow diversion of characters generated through printk so that they can be logged separately. The printk_time variables is made externally visible so that functions processing the diverted characters can parse off the time added if

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 12:05 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Daniel Walker wrote: Another note, usually when submitting new interfaces like this you should also submit the code that uses the interface .. In your case you might not be able to do

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 14:09 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: you said usually people submit new interfaces, not it is usually not accepted without at least one user. Well, usually people do submit the users, and if they don't it's usually not accepted.. I invite you to give some of the plenty

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 16:13 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: same sort of things as the point of David's code. early/crash scenarios for people to safely extract portions of the kernel log buffer for transmission/storage elsewhere. as was explained in the original thread behind the commit. How