Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-10-01 Thread Martin Dalecki
Alan Cox wrote: > > > > They released a supported ex-Cygnus people approved compiler. > > > > Which still makes it an broken, experimental, unreleased and unofficial > > compiler, with all the consequences I said. > > And didnt you write something called pgcc once. And then there isn't anything

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-10-01 Thread Martin Dalecki
Marc Lehmann wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:07:49PM +0100, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you don't like this, I suggest you send mail complaining to RedHat. > > > Customer complaints are going to be the only way that RH is going to be > > > influenced not to play games like

Re: Linux kernel modules development in C++

2000-09-28 Thread Martin Dalecki
Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 01:45:40AM +0200, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > Some arguments why not to use it in the kernel : > > > > - C++ gives overhead. With something like a kernel that's unwanted. > > You pay for what you use, no less no more. C++ compilers don'

Re: [PATCH] abuse of macros in swab.h

2000-09-19 Thread Martin Dalecki
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:22:50AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Better would be to use statement blocks like > > #define bla(x) ({ __u32 tmp__ = (x); ; tmp__; }) > > Agreed. Not agreed. In this case older version of GCC will have almost exactly the same provlems

Re: [PATCH] abuse of macros in swab.h

2000-09-19 Thread Martin Dalecki
Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:13:31PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > > Nice spotting, but bad fix, IMO. swab...() stuff is a perfect example of > > the dangerous use of macros. BTW, 2.4 has the same problem. > > inlines usually generate worse code than macros (the gcc manual l

Re: Proc fs limit workaround?

2000-09-14 Thread Martin Dalecki
Ricky Beam wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Nick Pollitt wrote: > ... > >And second, why is the 4K limit there in the first place? > > Primarily because it was never designed for 90% of the crap that's in there > now. I have long hated the BS required to get more than 4k worth of stuff > out of

Re: Getting past the 16-bit dev_t limitation.

2000-09-14 Thread Martin Dalecki
"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:John Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Anyway, one of the things I was hoping to find out by going to > > linux-kernel was if there was anything other than devfs in the offing: > > such

Re: elevator code

2000-09-13 Thread Martin Dalecki
Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 04:29:18PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > About B) I can' believe you seriously want to duplicate the merging code > > in each lowlevel driver given most of them could share the same code (as > > they're doing in linux). > > I guess it would just

Re: elevator code

2000-09-13 Thread Martin Dalecki
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Martin Dalecki wrote: > > >"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > > >> lessons learned in live customer accounts. In NetWare, requests are > >> merged at A) the boundry between the File Cache and the I/O sub

Re: elevator code

2000-09-12 Thread Martin Dalecki
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > Martin, > > I'm glad you are not still mad at me. :-) I hope this info was > helpful. Yes it was in fact this one of the more interresting posts in this thread. Thanks for the excellent reading. (However much of it sounded very familiar... maybe they learned the sam

Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2

2000-09-12 Thread Martin Dalecki
Hans Reiser wrote: > > I really think Rik has it right here. In particular, an MP3 player needs to be able >to say, I have > X milliseconds of buffer so make my worst case latency X milliseconds. The number >of requests is > the wrong metric, because the time required per request depends on d

Re: elevator code

2000-09-12 Thread Martin Dalecki
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > lessons learned in live customer accounts. In NetWare, requests are > merged at A) the boundry between the File Cache and the I/O subsystem, > and B) in the drivers themselves and NOT THE ELEVATOR. Yes that's the proper place to do this. The generic elevator on a *sin

Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2

2000-09-12 Thread Martin Dalecki
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Martin Dalecki wrote: > > >First of all: In the case of the mp3 player and such there is already a > >fine > >proper way to give it better chances on getting it's job done smooth - > >RT kernel sceduler pri

Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2

2000-09-12 Thread Martin Dalecki
Chris Evans wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > I really think Rik has it right here. In particular, an MP3 player > > needs to be able to say, I have X milliseconds of buffer so make my > > worst case latency X milliseconds. The number of requests is the > > wrong metric,

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-11 Thread Martin Dalecki
Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: > The analogy to typing hex codes or toggling code at the console is > also apt. Unix ascended over Multix in no small part because of C, > which drew sneers from the trad programmer of the day. Personally, I > tend to debug intuitively based on my knowledge of code,

Re: [RFC] Wine speedup through kernel module

2000-09-07 Thread Martin Dalecki
Simon Richter wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Martin Dalecki wrote: > > > > I've done an implementation of some of the Win32 "system calls" in a kernel > > > module in an attempt to speed up Wine. > > > 1. Linux is UNIX not NT... (in terms of

Re: [RFC] Wine speedup through kernel module

2000-09-07 Thread Martin Dalecki
David Howells wrote: > > I've done an implementation of some of the Win32 "system calls" in a kernel > module in an attempt to speed up Wine. Please by no way don't include this patch into the official tree. It's insane due to the following: 1. Linux is UNIX not NT... (in terms of API) 2. WINE

Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM

2000-09-06 Thread Martin Dalecki
Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Martin Dalecki wrote: > > > > > So may I just suggest to repleace the usage of cpp at all with something > > more > > suitable for the task at hand and with a much more regular/stringent > > syntax > >

Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM

2000-09-06 Thread Martin Dalecki
Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: > > > We could use some more infrastructure here. > > > > (1) A 'make randomconfig' tool that generates a random configuration. > > > > (2) Make the architecture a configuration variable (!) > > > > (3) A collection

Re: Remarks about sigtestsetmask()

2000-09-06 Thread Martin Dalecki
Alan Cox wrote: > > > 1. This function is only used in the poorly maintained ftape driver. > >The usage there isn't appriopriate for modern kernels. > > The ftape driver isnt exactly poorly maintained. Its just not integrated into > 2.3/2.4. Ftape 4.0 is still elsewhere This is wrong, since

Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM

2000-09-05 Thread Martin Dalecki
Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Martin Dalecki wrote: > > > Easy - the same way you do for cross compilation. Basically just: > > > > export CC=g++ --some-magic-long-option-i-dont-remember; make > > ... and you still have only a subset of t

Remarks about sigtestsetmask()

2000-09-05 Thread Martin Dalecki
1. This function is only used in the poorly maintained ftape driver. The usage there isn't appriopriate for modern kernels. 2. This function acts only on the sig set of the current process, so the first parameter should be just a porinter to current, instead of currgen->sigset. So it s

Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM

2000-09-05 Thread Martin Dalecki
Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Martin Dalecki wrote: > > > There is some facility allowing to implement this kind of things > > in the C++ part of the most recent EGCS version which makes implementing > > such things "relatively" easy - ba

Re: kernel debugging

2000-09-05 Thread Martin Dalecki
Elmer Joandi wrote: > > > understanding the > > > underlying principles and the code. > > Speaking about that, I have been long time dreaming > about following strict standard template for linux kernel functions: > (macroplay intended) > -- > INLINE(context,level,for_speed,

Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM

2000-09-05 Thread Martin Dalecki
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > > > What would be acceptable is something that understands C, and that can be > > > used to follow these things. Like "tags". > > > > I don't like hungarian notation too, but tags is out of question, > > unfortunate

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-05 Thread Martin Dalecki
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > Your arguments are personal, not technical. [...] > > > > no, my arguments are technical, but are simply focused towards the > > conceptual (horizontal) development of Linux, not the vertica

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-05 Thread Martin Dalecki
Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > My point was basically that omitting useful debugging tools makes it > > not any less likely that people use the (A) strategy (easy fix instead > > of real understanding). For some people it is so painfull to work with > > raw du

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