[patch] inotify for 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

2005-02-04 Thread Robert Love
. In response to hch request. - Merge Mike's fix for the unmount race Viro spotted. - dget_parent optimization - SPARC64 configure entry - Cleanup, bug fixes, etc. Please, apply. Best, Robert Love inotify, an awesome file change notific

[patch] generic notification layer

2005-01-31 Thread Robert Love
emove a bit of code from fs/, which is nice. Compile tested, but not yet booted. Find an interdiff below, so you can get an idea of the interfaces, at least. If this is really an issue for you, I think that this should be a step in the right direction. Best, Robert Love Signed-

Re: [-mm patch] inotify.c: make code static

2005-01-31 Thread Robert Love
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 13:42 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch makes needlessly global code static. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks. I applied this to my inotify tree. Robert Love - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: system calls

2005-01-29 Thread Robert Love
nted in the kernel as sys_read(). It, for example, can be found in fs/read_write.c. Hope this helps. Robert Love - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel

Re: [ANNOUNCE] inotify 0.18

2005-01-26 Thread Robert Love
the next patch. Thanks, Robert Love - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[patch] inotify for 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-20 Thread Robert Love
, particularly with locking, are still on my TODO. Best, Robert Love inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly its inability to scale and its terrible user interface: * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory that you

Re: 2.6.10-mm1 hang

2005-01-19 Thread Robert Love
Since the lock is local, it is somewhat odd that the other three lock up. Robert Love - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html P

Re: OOM: A Success Report

2001-07-07 Thread Robert Love
On 08 Jul 2001 00:40:51 +, José Luis Domingo López wrote: > > Another interesting thing I noted is the fact (as shown by Robert Love's > message) that oom_kill() seems to kill processes without taking into > account whether the selected process is a full application or just one > of more "thr

OOM: A Success Report

2001-07-07 Thread Robert Love
i thought it would be nice to finally hear something good about the OOM killer. i am testing Evolution (Ximian's GNOME emailer/groupware app), and the latest Evolution cvs-snapshot went crazy when trying to copy a mail folder. my load averaged spiked, swap filled, and then i ran out of memory.

Re: failed kernel 2.4.2 build after applying the patch ac28

2001-06-26 Thread Robert Love
On 26 Jun 2001 15:35:09 -0600, MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1) wrote: > I tried to build the 2.4.2 kernel after applying patch ac28 > (patch-2.4.2-ac28) and it failed :-(( > > When it failed it gave the following message : > > *** Install db development libraries > > I thought kernel build should b

RE: Maintainers master list?

2001-06-26 Thread Robert Love
On 26 Jun 2001 16:03:05 -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Holzrichter, Bruce wrote: > > > respect Eric, and all the developers work. How about starting > > with a simple MAINTAINERS file maintainer? Someone to actively > > follow project developers and contact info? > > That's

Re: [Emu10k1-devel] Re: Buggy emu10k1 drivers.

2001-06-17 Thread Robert Love
On 17 Jun 2001 17:25:11 -0700, Daniel Bertrand wrote: > On 17 Jun 2001, Robert Love wrote: > > if the driver in the kernel is that old, could we try merging a newer > > release? is there any reason why it has not been done yet? > > A patch was submitted to Alan in Apri

Re: [Emu10k1-devel] Re: Buggy emu10k1 drivers.

2001-06-17 Thread Robert Love
On 17 Jun 2001 15:17:41 -0700, Daniel Bertrand wrote: > Can you give the CVS driver a try? Snapshots are available here: > http://opensource.creative.com/snapshot.html > > The driver in the kernel is based on a CVS snapshot from last summer, the > problem may be fixed in CVS. Also, the CVS driver

Re: obsolete code must die

2001-06-13 Thread Robert Love
On 13 Jun 2001 19:22:38 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Daniel wrote: > > > ISA bus, MCA bus, EISA bus > > PCI is the defacto standard. Get rid of CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ISAPNP, > > CONFIG_ISAPNP, etc > > This I strongly disagree with. > > There are alot of ISA cards still in use. (I h

Re: double entries in /proc/dri?

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Love
On 12 Jun 2001 18:56:03 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > >4106 -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dma >4347 dr-xr-xr-x3 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dri >4347 dr-xr-xr-x3 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dri >4121 dr-xr-xr-x2 root r

Re: Getting A Patch Into The Kernel

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Love
Hi, this is the correct forum. You can submit the patch here. Merely paste the patch output inline into your email, and make your subject "[PATCH] 2.4.5 FastTrak RAID Whatever Fix" and explain in the email. Note your code must become GPL licensed. I would suggest making the patch against the l

Re: Is Kernel2.2 is SMP versioned by default?

2001-06-08 Thread Robert Love
On 08 Jun 2001 07:58:48 -0700, jalaja devi wrote: > Hi, > Could anyone plz tell me whether the kernel - 2.2.14 > is SMP or NON-SMP by default? > To make it SMP versioned, Do I need to add some flags > in the kernel header files and re-compile to kernel? i actually think it may be SMP (for whateve

Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-06 Thread Robert Love
On 06 Jun 2001 15:27:57 -0700, android wrote: > >I sincerely hope you're joking. > > I realize that assembly is platform-specific. Being that I use the IA32 class > machine, that's what I would write for. Others who use other platforms could > do the deed for their native language. no, look at th

Re: USB mouse problem

2001-06-02 Thread Robert Love
On 02 Jun 2001 21:22:46 -0400, Hayden A. James wrote: > This is a followup to my last e-mail, here is some information about my > mouse/usb setup from dmesg. is the mouse jerky on the console (using the mouse via GPM)? i ask because i wager the bug is not a kernel bug but perhaps something wrong

Re: Intellimouse in 2.4.5-ac7

2001-06-02 Thread Robert Love
On 03 Jun 2001 03:34:14 +0300, mythos wrote: > Using kernel 2.4.5-ac7 my intelli is not working at all. > The kernel doesn't report that it has found it.My config is the same > with the previous kernel I used 2.4.5-ac2. can you test it with ac6? ac7 incorpates an incredibly simple patch to fix po

Re: symlink_prefix

2001-06-02 Thread Robert Love
On 03 Jun 2001 01:54:43 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This evening I needed to work on a filesystem of a non-Linux OS, > full of absolute symlinks. After mounting the fs on /mnt, each > symlink pointing to /foo/bar in that filesystem should be > regarded as pointing to /mnt/foo/bar. > > Since

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