Re: [PATCH 01/17] pramfs: documentation

2011-01-10 Thread Pavel Machek
On 07/01/2011 22:59, Tony Luck wrote: On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com wrote: constraint). About the errors: pramfs does not maintain file data in the page caches for normal file I/O, so no writeback, the read/write operation are done with

Re: [PATCH 01/17] pramfs: documentation

2011-01-10 Thread Marco Stornelli
2011/1/10 Pavel Machek pa...@ucw.cz: On 07/01/2011 22:59, Tony Luck wrote: On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Marco Stornelli marco.storne...@gmail.com wrote: constraint). About the errors: pramfs does not maintain file data in the page caches for normal file I/O, so no writeback, the

[PATCH] Move an assert under DEBUG_KERNEL. (attempt 2)

2011-01-10 Thread Rob Landley
On 01/06/2011 05:41 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: Probably a worthwhile thing to do, IMO. If there's some net-specific CONFIG_DEBUG_ setting then that wold be a better thing to use. However the patch was a) wordwrapped, b) space-stuffed and c) not cc'ed to the networking list. So its prospects

Re: [PATCH] Move an assert under DEBUG_KERNEL. (attempt 2)

2011-01-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:35:33 -0600 Rob Landley wrote: On 01/06/2011 05:41 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: Probably a worthwhile thing to do, IMO. If there's some net-specific CONFIG_DEBUG_ setting then that wold be a better thing to use. However the patch was a) wordwrapped, b) space-stuffed

Re: [PATCH] Move an assert under DEBUG_KERNEL. (attempt 2)

2011-01-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:35:33 -0600 Rob Landley wrote: On 01/06/2011 05:41 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: Probably a worthwhile thing to do, IMO. If there's some net-specific CONFIG_DEBUG_ setting then that wold be a better thing to use. However the patch was a) wordwrapped, b) space-stuffed

RE: [PATCH 01/17] pramfs: documentation

2011-01-10 Thread Luck, Tony
You'd be better running ext2 over special block device, it is quite simple. Marco, You might want to spend some more time answering this question (it is a particularly good one). What are the reasons to use pramfs, rather than a ext2 over a mem-block driver. You covered some in your part 0

Re: [PATCH 01/17] pramfs: documentation

2011-01-10 Thread Marco Stornelli
Il 10/01/2011 18:35, Luck, Tony ha scritto: You'd be better running ext2 over special block device, it is quite simple. Marco, You might want to spend some more time answering this question (it is a particularly good one). What are the reasons to use pramfs, rather than a ext2 over a