Re: [PATCH 15/16] pramfs: test module

2010-10-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 01:24:04PM +0100, Kieran Bingham wrote: > >@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ > >+/* > >+ * FILE NAME fs/pramfs/namei.c > FILE NAME != namei.c Yes, that's why you should never do such filename comments which are not only utterly prone to be out of data, but also 100% useless. -- To unsubscr

Re: [PATCH] module: Use binary search in lookup_symbol()

2011-05-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 04:33:07PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > That said, I can answer Greg's question. This is to speed up > the symbol resolution on module loading. The last numbers I > saw showed a reduction of about 15-20% for the module load > time, for large-ish modules. Of course this is hig

Re: [PATCH] UBI: new module ubiblk: block layer on top of UBI

2011-07-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> TODO: > * the modules keeps a table of the devices which length is the maximum number >of UBI volumes. It should make use of a linked list. A linked list isn't very nice either. Try using idr, which gives you both an allocator for the minor number space, and a way to look up the structure

Re: Subject: [PATCH 01/16] Squashfs: inode operations

2008-10-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:14:26PM -0400, David P. Quigley wrote: > I looked at where filesystems such as ext3 store these and it seems to > be in include/linux. I'm assuming this is because usespace utilities > like fsck need them. It seems wrong for userspace tools to have their > own private cop

Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.

2009-01-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:26:37AM +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > On Friday 02 of January 2009, Rob Landley wrote: > > Before 2.6.25 (specifically git bdc807871d58285737d50dc6163d0feb72cb0dc2 ) > > building a Linux kernel never required perl to be installed on the build > > system. (Various

Re: [ltt-dev] [PATCH] nfs: add support for splice writes

2009-04-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:17:23PM +0530, Suresh Jayaraman wrote: > +static ssize_t nfs_file_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, > + struct file *filp, loff_t *ppos, > + size_t count, unsigned int flags) > +{ > + struct de