Re: Scheduling tasklets from process context...

2005-04-05 Thread Kenneth Aafløy
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 04:50, you wrote: > Since tasklets are typically used for bottom half processing, is it > acceptable/recommended that they be scheduled from a process context > (say an ioctl handler)? > > Should one try to minimize such scheduling and try to do things in process >

Re: Coding style: mixed-case

2005-04-05 Thread Kenneth Aafløy
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 04:09, Matt Mackall wrote: > While there may be reasons why mixed case is suboptimal, the real > reason is that it's hard to keep track of which style is used where. > It's annoying and error-prone to have to remember the naming format > for everything in addition to its

Coding style: mixed-case

2005-04-05 Thread Kenneth Aafløy
Hi, while reading Documentation/CodingStyle for the nth time, I realized that I had read some conflicting coding style in some patch posted to the linux-kernel mailing-list; in include/linux/page-flags.h, there is a lot of defines that are apparently frowned upon: HOWEVER, while mixed-case names

Coding style: mixed-case

2005-04-05 Thread Kenneth Aafløy
Hi, while reading Documentation/CodingStyle for the nth time, I realized that I had read some conflicting coding style in some patch posted to the linux-kernel mailing-list; in include/linux/page-flags.h, there is a lot of defines that are apparently frowned upon: HOWEVER, while mixed-case names

Re: Coding style: mixed-case

2005-04-05 Thread Kenneth Aafløy
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 04:09, Matt Mackall wrote: While there may be reasons why mixed case is suboptimal, the real reason is that it's hard to keep track of which style is used where. It's annoying and error-prone to have to remember the naming format for everything in addition to its

Re: Scheduling tasklets from process context...

2005-04-05 Thread Kenneth Aafløy
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 04:50, you wrote: Since tasklets are typically used for bottom half processing, is it acceptable/recommended that they be scheduled from a process context (say an ioctl handler)? Should one try to minimize such scheduling and try to do things in process context

Re: linux dvb alps_tdlb7 removed

2005-03-11 Thread Kenneth Aafløy
On Friday 11 March 2005 13:58, Juri Haberland wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > With version 2.6.10 the driver for the tuner frontend from ALPS TDLB7 > > was removed. > > > > Why do you think that this is a dead file? > > While I'm happy with the work you do for dvb on

Re: linux dvb alps_tdlb7 removed

2005-03-11 Thread Kenneth Aafløy
On Friday 11 March 2005 13:58, Juri Haberland wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: With version 2.6.10 the driver for the tuner frontend from ALPS TDLB7 was removed. Why do you think that this is a dead file? While I'm happy with the work you do for dvb on Linux, and I want