Re: No longer able to build kernel into RPM on Fedora

2013-10-12 Thread Chris Jones
? Thanks, Shawn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Chris Jones Founder and Lea

Re: No longer able to build kernel into RPM on Fedora

2013-10-12 Thread Chris Jones
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Re: Linux source tree size difference issue

2013-05-17 Thread Chris Jones
; Thanks Roland. I figured it out in the end. Things were not as bad as they first seemed. Regards -- Chris Jones Founder and Lead Software Architect Paradise Software chrisjo...@spin.net.au -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Linux source tree size difference issue

2013-05-17 Thread Chris Jones
in the end. Things were not as bad as they first seemed. Regards -- Chris Jones Founder and Lead Software Architect Paradise Software chrisjo...@spin.net.au -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Linux source tree size difference issue

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Jones
% and is already at 525MB. I can not understand the stark difference in source and directory size. Running diff tells me both local source tree directories are exactly the same. Can anyone explain this in layman's terms? -- Chris Jones Founder and Lead Software Architect Paradise Software chrisjo

Linux source tree size difference issue

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Jones
% and is already at 525MB. I can not understand the stark difference in source and directory size. Running diff tells me both local source tree directories are exactly the same. Can anyone explain this in layman's terms? -- Chris Jones Founder and Lead Software Architect Paradise Software chrisjo

Re: Linux 3-10-rc1

2013-05-11 Thread Chris Jones
at happened. Not that all submaintainers necessarily > always send me that, but most of the merges actually do have > human-readable background information. > > It's possible that I missed something. This really was a busier merge > window than usual. Holler if so, > >

Re: Linux 3-10-rc1

2013-05-11 Thread Chris Jones
-readable background information. It's possible that I missed something. This really was a busier merge window than usual. Holler if so, Linus snip Thanks for the summary of changes. That helps. Regards Chris Jones -- -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: GnuPG

Linux 3.9 release time frame

2013-04-22 Thread Chris Jones
What is the time frame we are currently looking at for a release of kernel 3.9? Regards -- Chris Jones Founder and Lead Developer Nest Linux nestli...@outlook.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.

Linux 3.9 release time frame

2013-04-22 Thread Chris Jones
What is the time frame we are currently looking at for a release of kernel 3.9? Regards -- Chris Jones Founder and Lead Developer Nest Linux nestli...@outlook.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org

Re: Gaming and the kernel

2012-08-03 Thread Chris Jones
On 04/08/12 10:32, da...@lang.hm wrote: On Sat, 4 Aug 2012, Chris Jones wrote: On 04/08/12 08:44, Cruz Julian Bishop wrote: On 04/08/12 08:12, Chris Jones wrote: There's a lot of attention at the moment focused toward Linux and the future of gaming support on the platform. And it got me

Re: Gaming and the kernel

2012-08-03 Thread Chris Jones
On 04/08/12 08:44, Cruz Julian Bishop wrote: On 04/08/12 08:12, Chris Jones wrote: There's a lot of attention at the moment focused toward Linux and the future of gaming support on the platform. And it got me thinking, is there any particular improvements that are planned to improve

Gaming and the kernel

2012-08-03 Thread Chris Jones
There's a lot of attention at the moment focused toward Linux and the future of gaming support on the platform. And it got me thinking, is there any particular improvements that are planned to improve the kernel from better support for gaming? Regards -- Chris Jones @ kernel.devproj

Gaming and the kernel

2012-08-03 Thread Chris Jones
There's a lot of attention at the moment focused toward Linux and the future of gaming support on the platform. And it got me thinking, is there any particular improvements that are planned to improve the kernel from better support for gaming? Regards -- Chris Jones @ kernel.devproj

Re: Gaming and the kernel

2012-08-03 Thread Chris Jones
On 04/08/12 08:44, Cruz Julian Bishop wrote: On 04/08/12 08:12, Chris Jones wrote: There's a lot of attention at the moment focused toward Linux and the future of gaming support on the platform. And it got me thinking, is there any particular improvements that are planned to improve

Re: Gaming and the kernel

2012-08-03 Thread Chris Jones
On 04/08/12 10:32, da...@lang.hm wrote: On Sat, 4 Aug 2012, Chris Jones wrote: On 04/08/12 08:44, Cruz Julian Bishop wrote: On 04/08/12 08:12, Chris Jones wrote: There's a lot of attention at the moment focused toward Linux and the future of gaming support on the platform. And it got me

Re: [BUG] NTFS code doesn't sanitize folder names sufficiently

2012-07-26 Thread Chris Jones
and intended function. I would put this down to user error rather than a bug. Anyone with knowledge of operating systems and file system structuring should know that / or \ are illegal characters for creating a directories. Whether it be on Windows or Linux. Regards -- Chris

Re: [BUG] NTFS code doesn't sanitize folder names sufficiently

2012-07-26 Thread Chris Jones
and intended function. I would put this down to user error rather than a bug. Anyone with knowledge of operating systems and file system structuring should know that / or \ are illegal characters for creating a directories. Whether it be on Windows or Linux. Regards -- Chris

Re: Andre Hedrick (anhedric) has died

2012-07-20 Thread Chris Jones
That's very sad news Tate. And I'm very sorry for the loss. You have not only lost a friend, but we've all lost a fellow Linux developer and hacker. And that's very sad to hear. My thoughts to everyone in Andre's circle. Regards -- Chris Jones @ kernel.devproj...@gmail.com

Re: Andre Hedrick (anhedric) has died

2012-07-20 Thread Chris Jones
That's very sad news Tate. And I'm very sorry for the loss. You have not only lost a friend, but we've all lost a fellow Linux developer and hacker. And that's very sad to hear. My thoughts to everyone in Andre's circle. Regards -- Chris Jones @ kernel.devproj...@gmail.com

btrfs_inode.h and Oracle

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Jones
Just checking out some btrfs stuff and notices the copyright notes in btfrs_inode.h belong to Oracle. I had no idea that btrfs had anything to do with Oracle. What's the link with Oracle? Regards -- Chris Jones @ kernel.devproj...@gmail.com also on oracle.kernel...@gmail.com

btrfs_inode.h and Oracle

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Jones
Just checking out some btrfs stuff and notices the copyright notes in btfrs_inode.h belong to Oracle. I had no idea that btrfs had anything to do with Oracle. What's the link with Oracle? Regards -- Chris Jones @ kernel.devproj...@gmail.com also on oracle.kernel...@gmail.com

Re: problem mounting root under 2.4.0

2001-01-16 Thread Chris Jones
Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] I suspect the problem is related to loading the aic7xxx.o module, but the relevant messages have scrolled off the top of the screen. I tried setting the VGA mode to extended to give me 50 lines of output, but even though "lilo -q

problem mounting root under 2.4.0

2001-01-16 Thread Chris Jones
I'm unable to boot a 2.4.0 kernel on a system that's been running 2.2.18. It fails early in boot with the following messages: request-module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to

problem mounting root under 2.4.0

2001-01-16 Thread Chris Jones
I'm unable to boot a 2.4.0 kernel on a system that's been running 2.2.18. It fails early in boot with the following messages: request-module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to

Re: problem mounting root under 2.4.0

2001-01-16 Thread Chris Jones
Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I suspect the problem is related to loading the aic7xxx.o module, but the relevant messages have scrolled off the top of the screen. I tried setting the VGA mode to extended to give me 50 lines of output, but even though "lilo -q -v&q

Re: * 4 converted to << 2 for networking code

2001-01-10 Thread Chris Jones
Mike Harrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] My feeling is that it shouldn't matter if you use <<2 or *4 even if the compiler optimises - one would hope that the compiler would optimise to the fastest in both directions. I agree this should be left to the compiler. The programmer

Re: * 4 converted to 2 for networking code

2001-01-10 Thread Chris Jones
Mike Harrold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] My feeling is that it shouldn't matter if you use 2 or *4 even if the compiler optimises - one would hope that the compiler would optimise to the fastest in both directions. I agree this should be left to the compiler. The programmer should