Re: 2.6.22.7 autoconf.h is screwed up

2007-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
, it's not something you should be messing with. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca

Re: 2.6.22.7 autoconf.h is screwed up

2007-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: 2.6.22.7 autoconf.h is screwed up

2007-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Jaswinder Singh wrote: hello rday, On 9/24/07, Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Jaswinder Singh wrote: hello rday, In my view autoconf.h is the index of kernel you are using. By reading autoconf.h you will know what

Re: [patch 4/7] Linux Kernel Markers - Architecture Independent Code

2007-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: memset as memzero

2007-09-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
hypothetical vsprintf.h? just curious. in any case, it would seem that kernel.h could stand a good cleaning. it give the impression of just being an arbitrary dumping ground when folks can't figure out where to put something. rday -- =================

Re: memset as memzero

2007-09-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
case, it would seem that kernel.h could stand a good cleaning. it give the impression of just being an arbitrary dumping ground when folks can't figure out where to put something. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting

Re: memset as memzero

2007-09-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ht want to start there to get up to speed if you intend to invest any time in this. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http:

Re: memset as memzero

2007-09-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
SIZE in size. just an observation. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca =

Re: memset as memzero

2007-09-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: memset as memzero

2007-09-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
to speed if you intend to invest any time in this. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca

Re: + oom-move-prototypes-to-appropriate-header-file.patch added to -mm tree

2007-09-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
unifdef-y in include/linux/Kbuild. The former is > for plain headers exported to userspace as-is. The latter need > preprocessing to remove __KERNEL__, CONFIG_*, etc. AFAIK, the only preprocessing that's removed is "__KERNEL__". rday -- =

Re: + oom-move-prototypes-to-appropriate-header-file.patch added to -mm tree

2007-09-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
is __KERNEL__. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca - To unsubscribe

Re: A little coding style nugget of joy

2007-09-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
space.php3 and you wouldn't *believe* how much space you can save by getting rid of all that annoying indentation. and don't even get me *started* on those comments ... rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Tra

Re: A little coding style nugget of joy

2007-09-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
that annoying indentation. and don't even get me *started* on those comments ... rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca

[PATCH] ARM: Drop support for redundant "keepinitrd" boot-time param.

2007-09-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Given the equivalent "retain_initrd" boot-time paramater, "keepinitrd" appears to be entirely superfluous. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- since this appears to be exactly the situation as with AVR32, it's an equivalent patch. there ar

[PATCH] AVR32: Drop support for redundant "keepinitrd" boot-time parm.

2007-09-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Given the existing "retain_initrd" boot-time parameter defined in init/initramfs.c, there appears to be no need for the equivalent "keepinitrd" parameter. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- not compile-tested, so i'll leave it with haav

Re: [PATCH] Combine instrumentation menus in kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation

2007-09-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
y LTT-ng? just curious. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http:/

Re: [PATCH] Combine instrumentation menus in kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation

2007-09-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
curious. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca - To unsubscribe

[PATCH] AVR32: Drop support for redundant keepinitrd boot-time parm.

2007-09-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Given the existing retain_initrd boot-time parameter defined in init/initramfs.c, there appears to be no need for the equivalent keepinitrd parameter. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- not compile-tested, so i'll leave it with haavard to make the final call. the arm

[PATCH] ARM: Drop support for redundant keepinitrd boot-time param.

2007-09-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Given the equivalent retain_initrd boot-time paramater, keepinitrd appears to be entirely superfluous. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- since this appears to be exactly the situation as with AVR32, it's an equivalent patch. there are no other situations like

Re: kbuild update

2007-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:58:03AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > > A summary of what is planned to be submitted in next merge window for > > > kbuild. > > >

Re: kbuild update

2007-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: kbuild update

2007-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: kbuild update

2007-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:58:03AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: A summary of what is planned to be submitted in next merge window for kbuild. The shortlog below have additional details

[PATCH][RFC] Extend "memparse" to allow a NULL return pointer value.

2007-09-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[PATCH][RFC] Extend memparse to allow a NULL return pointer value.

2007-09-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [RFC PATCH] Add a 'minimal tree install' target

2007-09-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
instead? that would match fedora's "kernel-devel" naming convention. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Ped

Re: [RFC PATCH] Add a 'minimal tree install' target

2007-09-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
convention. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca

Re: stripping down the kernel-parameters.txt file

2007-09-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Rogan Dawes wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > p.s. by "basic", i mean those boot-time parms defined by either > > "__setup()" or "early_param()". which means that module writers > > should, as much as possible,

Re: stripping down the kernel-parameters.txt file

2007-09-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, David Newall wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > if the goal is to simply put all of the basic boot-time kernel parms > > along with the module-specific ones into a single file, sorted in > > alphabetical order, then i contend that this is, in fact,

Re: stripping down the kernel-parameters.txt file

2007-09-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, David Newall wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > while killing some time between compiles and ridding the > > kernel-parameters.txt file of out-of-date or incorrect cruft, it > > occurs to me that that file is borderline valueless since it > > a

Re: hci_sock.c build failure

2007-09-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
.h include/asm-parisc/compat.h include/asm-sparc64/compat.h include/asm-x86_64/compat.h include/asm-powerpc/compat.h include/net/compat.h rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training

stripping down the kernel-parameters.txt file

2007-09-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: stripping down the kernel-parameters.txt file

2007-09-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Rogan Dawes wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: p.s. by basic, i mean those boot-time parms defined by either __setup() or early_param(). which means that module writers should, as much as possible, stop using those macros to define command-line parameters

stripping down the kernel-parameters.txt file

2007-09-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: hci_sock.c build failure

2007-09-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
/compat.h include/asm-powerpc/compat.h include/net/compat.h rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca

Re: stripping down the kernel-parameters.txt file

2007-09-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, David Newall wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: while killing some time between compiles and ridding the kernel-parameters.txt file of out-of-date or incorrect cruft, it occurs to me that that file is borderline valueless since it apparently tries to document every

Re: stripping down the kernel-parameters.txt file

2007-09-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, David Newall wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: if the goal is to simply put all of the basic boot-time kernel parms along with the module-specific ones into a single file, sorted in alphabetical order, then i contend that this is, in fact, silly. Or even, messy

Re: Early userspace, Linux development (Re: perhaps init/ should update the reference to "change floppy")

2007-09-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
t userspace, do you need such kernel? == um ... all i asked was whether that code should be updated to reflect more than just floppies. i didn't foresee the can of worms here. rday --

Re: Early userspace, Linux development (Re: perhaps init/ should update the reference to change floppy)

2007-09-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: building a specific in-tree module is currently a bit broken

2007-09-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Sep 5 2007 05:42, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >that doesn't solve the problem. i should have mentioned that i > >already (unnecessarily, i suggest) ran "make modules_prepare", but > >the problem persists. > &g

Re: building a specific in-tree module is currently a bit broken

2007-09-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Sep 5 2007 11:37, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > > >Hi, > > > >[Adding K{build,config} wizards to CC] > > > >On 05/09/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> $ make d

building a specific in-tree module is currently a bit broken

2007-09-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
xes this, but i'm not conversant enough with the Makefile to want to take a shot at repairing this. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse

building a specific in-tree module is currently a bit broken

2007-09-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
this, but i'm not conversant enough with the Makefile to want to take a shot at repairing this. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca

Re: building a specific in-tree module is currently a bit broken

2007-09-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Sep 5 2007 11:37, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi, [Adding K{build,config} wizards to CC] On 05/09/07, Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ make distclean $ make defconfig $ make menuconfig (select visor.ko to be built

Re: building a specific in-tree module is currently a bit broken

2007-09-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Sep 5 2007 05:42, Robert P. J. Day wrote: that doesn't solve the problem. i should have mentioned that i already (unnecessarily, i suggest) ran make modules_prepare, but the problem persists. the issue seems to be that running that last make

Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4/af_inet.c: use ARRAY_SIZE macro from kernel.h instead

2007-09-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, rae l wrote: > On 9/2/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > denis: > > > > if you're planning on doing this ARRAY_SIZE cleanup fairly > > rigorously, here's an overview of what you're looking (based on a > > fairly dumb sca

Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4/af_inet.c: use ARRAY_SIZE macro from kernel.h instead

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
lt; sizeof(adapter->wep_keys) / sizeof(adapter->wep_keys[0]); ./drivers/net/wireless/libertas/main.c: end = sizeof(region_cfp_table)/sizeof(struct region_cfp_table); ./net/atm/proc.c: vcc->qos.aal >= sizeof(aal_name)/sizeof(aal_name[0]) ? &q

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > > People just don't care about how mature an option is if they need > > a driver/feature. *No-one* is going to come across options and > > think "Oh, the driver for my network car

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:41:06AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > this whole attribute thing is not adding anything breathtaking new, > > it's simply taking the example set by EXPERIMENTAL and generalizing > > it and m

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 06:44:06AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > while (1) { > > > > printf("%*s%s ", indent - 1, "", menu->prompt->text); > > > >

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
to change your opinion. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crash

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
} > > if (sym->name) > > printf("(%s) ", sym->name); > > type = sym_get_type(sym); for now, simon, why not just reduce this to supporting only DEPREC

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > given the possible interpretations of EXPERIMENTAL that i hadn't > > considered until now, maybe it really *does* make sense to tag > > something as both EXPERIMENTAL and, say, DEPRECATED (does it?)

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > you take advantage of that? you'd have to add a new > > structure to "make config" along the following lines: > > > > Along with maturity-untagged features, what other maturi

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > *attributes* would be orthogonal to one another -- the values > > *within* an attribute would be mutually exclusive. > > Ah, right. great, we got that cleared up. onward. > In the context of kernel

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Aug 31 2007 18:02, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> it may be that some people had a different understanding of what was > >> meant by "maturity" than i did. what *i* meant by th

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:38:34PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > it's a natural progression and, at any point, a feature cannot > > possibly have more than one maturity value. it would be as absurd > > as saying that s

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Aug 31 2007 21:33, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > >perhaps. all i'm begging for is that these attributes be defined > >cleanly and clearly, and following those two conditions i suggested > >earlier: > > > &

Re: [PATCH -mm] add-a-rounddown_pow_of_two-routine-to-log2h.patch fix

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
\ > __rounddown_pow_of_two(n) \ > ) > > - oh, crap ... how did that happen? sorry. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulti

Re: [PATCH -mm] add-a-rounddown_pow_of_two-routine-to-log2h.patch fix

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Aug 31 2007 21:33, Robert P. J. Day wrote: perhaps. all i'm begging for is that these attributes be defined cleanly and clearly, and following those two conditions i suggested earlier: 1) all attributes are orthogonal to one another

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Dave Jones wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:38:34PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: it's a natural progression and, at any point, a feature cannot possibly have more than one maturity value. it would be as absurd as saying that someone was a teenager

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Aug 31 2007 18:02, Jeff Garzik wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: it may be that some people had a different understanding of what was meant by maturity than i did. what *i* meant by that attribute is a feature's current position in the normal

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: *attributes* would be orthogonal to one another -- the values *within* an attribute would be mutually exclusive. Ah, right. great, we got that cleared up. onward. In the context of kernel features, experimental doesn't

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: you take advantage of that? you'd have to add a new structure to make config along the following lines: Along with maturity-untagged features, what other maturity levels would you like to see and be able to select

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: given the possible interpretations of EXPERIMENTAL that i hadn't considered until now, maybe it really *does* make sense to tag something as both EXPERIMENTAL and, say, DEPRECATED (does it?). In theory maybe

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
opinion. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 06:44:06AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: while (1) { printf(%*s%s , indent - 1, , menu-prompt-text); + switch (sym-maturity) { + case M_EXPERIMENTAL

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Dave Jones wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:41:06AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: this whole attribute thing is not adding anything breathtaking new, it's simply taking the example set by EXPERIMENTAL and generalizing it and making it more convenient

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Dave Jones wrote: People just don't care about how mature an option is if they need a driver/feature. *No-one* is going to come across options and think Oh, the driver for my network card isn't stable. Guess I'll

Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4/af_inet.c: use ARRAY_SIZE macro from kernel.h instead

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Mitchell Erblich wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > > > at the risk of driving everyone here totally bonkers, i'm going to > > take one last shot at explaining what i was thinking of when i first > > proposed this whole "mat

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > ... > > attributes would have two critical and non-negotiable properties: > > > > 1) they would be entirely orthogonal to one another, and > > 2) they can be assigned at most one

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
t for me. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca - To unsubscribe from

maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ugh i'll have to go back later and look more closely. but i hope i've flogged this thoroughly to the point where people can see what i'm driving at. once you see (as in simon's patch) how to add the first attribute, it's trivial to simply duplicate that code to add as many more as you want. rday -

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
- any feature should have exactly *one* value for any attribute. that is, in terms of maturity, a feature could be EXPERIMENTAL *or* DEPRECATED *or* OBSOLETE. it ***can't*** be more than one, as in both DEPRECATED *and* OBSOLETE. to allow that flexibility is to descend into absurdity. rday -- =

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm sure i'm going to get shouted down here, but i really disagree > > with "BROKEN" being considered a "maturity level". IMHO, things > > like EXPERIMENTAL, DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:05:57 +0100 Simon Arlott wrote: > > > On 19/07/07 17:19, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > >> I think that Stefan means a patch to the kconfig source code,

[PATCH][RFC] Starting point for deprecating "ether=" boot time option.

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
"Satan begins ice skating to work\n"); + printk(KERN_NOTICE "Use 'netdev=' instead\n"); + return netdev_boot_setup(str); +} + +__setup("ether=", ether_boot_setup); /** * eth_header - create the Ethernet header -- ==================

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
hat: CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING > When: June 2006 > What: eepro100 network driver > When: January 2007 some of that has already been discussed and postponed slightly, like the eepro100 stuff: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel=118827478527526=2 but some of the rest is definitely overdue. rday

[PATCH] H8/300: Fix misnamed "CONFIG_BLKDEV_RESERVE_ADDRESS" Kconfig variable.

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- if i read correctly an email i just got from Yoshinori Sato, he wanted me to post this to the main list. it seems an obvious enough error that it can probably be pushed to the main tree fairly soon, unless i've messed something u

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Rob Landley wrote: > On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > The old "ramdisk=" has been changed to > > > "ramdisk_size="

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
been discussed and postponed slightly, like the eepro100 stuff: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=118827478527526w=2 but some of the rest is definitely overdue. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training

[PATCH][RFC] Starting point for deprecating ether= boot time option.

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
to work\n); + printk(KERN_NOTICE Use 'netdev=value' instead\n); + return netdev_boot_setup(str); +} + +__setup(ether=, ether_boot_setup); /** * eth_header - create the Ethernet header -- Robert P. J. Day Linux

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:05:57 +0100 Simon Arlott wrote: On 19/07/07 17:19, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: I think that Stefan means a patch to the kconfig source code, not the the Kconfig files. Good luck

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: i'm sure i'm going to get shouted down here, but i really disagree with BROKEN being considered a maturity level. IMHO, things like EXPERIMENTAL, DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE represent maturity levels, for what i think

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
could be EXPERIMENTAL *or* DEPRECATED *or* OBSOLETE. it ***can't*** be more than one, as in both DEPRECATED *and* OBSOLETE. to allow that flexibility is to descend into absurdity. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting

maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
(as in simon's patch) how to add the first attribute, it's trivial to simply duplicate that code to add as many more as you want. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... attributes would have two critical and non-negotiable properties: 1) they would be entirely orthogonal to one another, and 2) they can be assigned at most one of a pre-defined set of values If they are fully

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Mitchell Erblich wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: at the risk of driving everyone here totally bonkers, i'm going to take one last shot at explaining what i was thinking of when i first proposed this whole maturity level thing. and, just so you know, the major

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Rob Landley wrote: On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: ... The old ramdisk=ram_size has been changed to ramdisk_size=ram_size to make it clearer. The original ramdisk=ram_size has been kept

[PATCH] H8/300: Fix misnamed CONFIG_BLKDEV_RESERVE_ADDRESS Kconfig variable.

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- if i read correctly an email i just got from Yoshinori Sato, he wanted me to post this to the main list. it seems an obvious enough error that it can probably be pushed to the main tree fairly soon, unless i've messed something up here

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:41:27 -0700 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Rob Landley wrote: > > > On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > >> >

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > The old "ramdisk=&q

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
the other day submitted a patch to remove that backward compatibility, and the m68k portion of it has already been acked by geert uytterhoeven. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kerne

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
to remove that backward compatibility, and the m68k portion of it has already been acked by geert uytterhoeven. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Rob Landley wrote: On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: ... The old ramdisk=ram_size has been changed to ramdisk_size=ram_size to make it clearer. The original

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