Re: [PATCH 27/41] Documentation: laptops: fix spelling mistake

2016-04-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:36:53 +0100 Eric Engestrom wrote: > -laptops, being called "Toshiba HDD Protection - Shock Sensor" officialy, > +laptops, being called "Toshiba HDD Protection - Shock Sensor" officially, Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon

Re: [PATCH 29/41] Documentation: lzo: fix spelling mistakes

2016-04-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:36:55 +0100 Eric Engestrom wrote: > Documentation/lzo.txt | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon

Re: [PATCH 32/41] Documentation: pps: fix spelling mistake

2016-04-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:36:58 +0100 Eric Engestrom wrote: > Documentation/pps/pps.txt | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon

Re: [PATCH 34/41] Documentation: robust-futexes: fix spelling mistakes

2016-04-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:37:00 +0100 Eric Engestrom wrote: > Documentation/robust-futexes.txt | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon

Re: [PATCH 35/41] Documentation: scsi: fix spelling mistakes

2016-04-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:37:01 +0100 Eric Engestrom wrote: > Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas | 16 > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) Applied to the docs tree (after fixing trailing whitespace errors - the new and the old ones). jon

Re: [PATCH 39/41] Documentation: vm: fix spelling mistakes

2016-04-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:37:05 +0100 Eric Engestrom wrote: > Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon

Re: [PATCH 32/41] Documentation: pps: fix spelling mistake

2016-04-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:36:58 +0100 Eric Engestrom wrote: > Documentation/pps/pps.txt | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon

Re: [PATCH 41/41] Documentation: xillybus: fix spelling mistake

2016-04-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:37:07 +0100 Eric Engestrom wrote: > Documentation/xillybus.txt | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon

Re: [PATCH 40/41] Documentation: x86: fix spelling mistakes

2016-04-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:37:06 +0100 Eric Engestrom wrote: > Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon

Re: [PATCH 39/41] Documentation: vm: fix spelling mistakes

2016-04-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:31:43 -0600 Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:37:05 +0100 > Eric Engestrom wrote: > > > Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | 6 +++--- > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > Applied to the docs tree, thanks. Ac

Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes

2016-04-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:41:21 -0700 Kees Cook wrote: > This fixes several spelling mistakes in the Documentation/ tree, which > are caught by checkpatch.pl's spell checking. I've applied this to the docs tree, thanks. jon

Re: [PATCH] Changed the path from to the incorrect drivers/char/sysrq.c to drivers/tty/sysrq.c

2016-04-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:15:24 +0200 René Nyffenegger wrote: > You're right, the lines were wrapped at character 78. I have fixed that > and sent the patch to myself. The attached patch should work now. The patch applies, but the above text is not a proper commit message, so I still can't apply it

Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit

2016-05-05 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 4 May 2016 14:57:38 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Also, media documentation is not just one more documentation. It is > the biggest one we have, and that has more changes than any other > documentation under Documentation/DocBook: > > $ git lg --since 01/01/2015 ` ls *.tmpl|grep -

Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit

2016-05-04 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 4 May 2016 16:18:27 +0200 Daniel Vetter wrote: > > I'd really like to converge on the markup question, so that we can start > > using all the cool stuff with impunity in gpu documentations. > > Aside: If we decide this now I could send in a pull request for the > rst/sphinx kernel-doc

Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit

2016-05-04 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 04 May 2016 16:41:50 +0300 Jani Nikula wrote: > On Wed, 04 May 2016, Markus Heiser wrote: > > In reST the directive might look like: > > > > - > > Device Instance and Driver Handling > > === > > > > .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c > >:d

Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit

2016-05-04 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 4 May 2016 13:50:35 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Wed, 4 May 2016 19:13:21 +0300 > Jani Nikula escreveu: > > I think we should go for vanilla sphinx at first, to make the setup step > > as easy as possible for everyone. > > Vanilla Sphinx doesn't work, as reST markup languag

Re: [PATCH v2] doc: clarify that trace_events= takes a comma-separated list

2016-05-23 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 23 May 2016 16:54:51 -0400 Steven Rostedt wrote: > This version looks good to me. Jonathan, you want to take this patch? Sure, I'll take it. Thanks, jon

Re: [PATCH] doc: self-protection: provide initial details

2016-05-17 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 16 May 2016 19:27:28 -0700 Kees Cook wrote: > This document attempts to codify the intent around kernel self-protection > along with discussion of both existing and desired technologies, with > attention given to the rationale behind them, and the expectations of > their usage. I've appl

[PULL] Documentation changes for 4.7

2016-05-19 Thread Jonathan Corbet
lines at first space docproc: add support for reStructuredText format via --rst option docproc: print a comment about autogeneration for rst output Jianyu Zhan (1): Documentation/IRQ-domain.txt: Document irq_domain_create_{linear, tree} Jonathan Corbet (2): kernel-do

Re: [PATCH 0/9] kernel-doc/docproc prep work for reStructuredText

2016-05-14 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 12 May 2016 16:15:35 +0300 Jani Nikula wrote: > Jon, I was hoping we could consider nudging things forward a bit in the > kernel-doc and docproc reStructuredText front already in 4.7. I know > it's a bit close to the merge window, but this should not interfere with > anything else, and so

Re: [PATCH RESEND] net: Documentation: Fix default value tcp_limit_output_bytes

2015-11-11 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 14:58:49 +0100 Niklas Cassel wrote: > Commit c39c4c6abb89 ("tcp: double default TSQ output bytes limit") > updated default value for tcp_limit_output_bytes I left this last time because Dave usually likes to pick up networking docs patches himself. This wasn't sent to netdev,

Re: [PATCH RESEND] net: Documentation: Fix default value tcp_limit_output_bytes

2015-11-11 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:57:24 -0500 (EST) David Miller wrote: > > I left this last time because Dave usually likes to pick up networking > > docs patches himself. This wasn't sent to netdev, though, so that's > > unlikely to happen. I've gone ahead and applied it, since it seems > > clearly corr

Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/SubmittingPatches: discuss In-Reply-To

2015-11-11 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 15:21:47 -0500 Chris Metcalf wrote: > Add a paragraph suggesting best practices for when to link patches > to previous LKML messages via In-Reply-To. We're getting there, but in the middle of the discussion on the format of the patch itself seems like the wrong place. So I've

Re: [RFC] Documentation: dontdiff: remove media from dontdiff

2015-11-11 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 01:15:39 +0800 Wang YanQing wrote: > media will hide all the changes in drivers/media. > > Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing > --- > I don't know whether it is still acceptable to patch dontdiff, > so I add Linus to CC list. As long as the file is there, its contents should mak

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Clarify use of Gmail for emailing patches

2015-11-11 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 23:21:41 -0700 Eddie Kovsky wrote: > Gmail (Web GUI) > > -Does not work for sending patches. > +Gmail works fine for sending patches provided you do NOT use the web > interface > +and just use Gmail as an IMAP server with a text based email client. I actually think this se

[PULL] A few more documentation updates

2015-11-13 Thread Jonathan Corbet
The following changes since commit 6a13feb9c82803e2b815eca72fa7a9f5561d7861: Linux 4.3 (2015-11-01 16:05:25 -0800) are available in the git repository at: git://git.lwn.net/linux.git tags/4.4-additional for you to fetch changes up to 91633a6dc7cb49ae7c3d268e183ddc905e739fff: Documentatio

Re: [PATCH TRIVIAL] README: cosmetic fixes

2015-12-05 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 03:18:07 -0200 Diego Viola wrote: > Ping? So you say, but this is the first I've seen of this patch. Please send the original and I'll apply it. Thanks, jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: email-clients.txt

2015-12-06 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 01:09:39 -0500 Sanidhya Solanki wrote: > Patch included below. As an aside, thank you for the excellent work on > the books and other documentation. Thanks for the nice comments. Future praise, however, should go below the "---" marker so I don't have to edit it out of the ch

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: email-clients.txt

2015-12-06 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 10:11:04 -0800 Joe Perches wrote: > > Could it really be that nobody is using evolution?  Much nicer here would > > be to describe how it fails to work, and, ideally, come up with a fix. > > Evolution 3.12 works fine. > > The text editor for Evolution versions > 3.12 is br

Re: kernel-doc: Not stripped #define/#ifdef/#endif in enums

2015-11-20 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:27:54 +0100 conc...@web.de wrote: > I did all that but now my patches were just ignored. They arrived during the merge window and were put into my docs folder for further consideration. I've not yet started my 4.5 branch - been a bit busy, sorry - but will look at them whe

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: arm: update homepage URLs for Marvell Berlin SoCs

2015-11-29 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 21:22:54 -0500 Tom Hebb wrote: > If we can't find updated links, though, > perhaps we should remove them altogether. I can send another patch to do > that, provided no one has new links to the missing documents. An add-on patch to fix things up would be welcome if you get a c

Re: Accessing user-land memory without safe functions

2015-12-03 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 13:54:30 -0700 Scotty Bauer wrote: > Since I've seen this a couple times now I'm wondering if my > understanding of touching user-land memory is flawed. > > For the above example Ioctl, the proper way to get access to those fields > through the safe copy_from_user or get_user(

Re: [PATCH] DocBook: ignore .proc files

2015-09-11 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:16:08 -0700 Brian Norris wrote: > These are generated as part of 'make htmldocs'. If we don't ignore them, > then most of our generated subdirectories get treated as "untracked" by > git. Makes sense. Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list

Re: [PATCH] scripts/kernel-doc: Processing -nofunc for functions only

2015-09-11 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 14:44:14 -0300 Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula wrote: > Docproc process EXPORT_SYMBOL(f1) macro and uses -nofunc f1 to > avoid duplicated documentation in the next call. > It works for most of the cases, but there are some specific situations > where a struct has the same name of

Re: [PATCH/TRIVIAL] Documentation: lockstat: Fix typo lokcing -> locking

2015-09-11 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 16:46:38 -0700 Stephen Boyd wrote: > diff --git a/Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt > b/Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt > index 568bbbacee91..5786ad2cd5e6 100644 > --- a/Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt > +++ b/Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt > @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Beca

Re: [PULL] Documentation for 4.3

2015-09-12 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 01:59:34 -0300 Diego Viola wrote: > I really wish the commit message instead said: > > "GTK+ is an initialism" > > Can't I change the commit message any longer? No, you need to consider it set in stone at this point. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix some outdated pre-kernfs doc references

2015-09-12 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 14:34:51 +0200 ulfalizer.l...@gmail.com wrote: > sysfs-tagging.txt contains more outdated references (e.g., to various > kobj_ns_*() functions that no longer exist), but hopefully it should be in > a better shape than before. I'm new to sysfs internals in general. > > The conf

Re: [PATCH] sysfs.txt: mention that store method buffers are null-terminated

2015-09-12 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 19:06:14 +0200 ulfalizer.l...@gmail.com wrote: > Without knowing this, the use of sysfs_streq() becomes puzzling. > > The termination happens in kernfs_fop_write(). Applied to the docs tree. I moved it up a paragraph, though, since it better fits the flow of the document the

Re: [PATCH 0/6] scripts/kernel-doc: Kernel-doc improvements

2015-09-12 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 17:01:58 -0300 Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula wrote: > The following series contains: > * kernel-doc: markdown support and improvements. OK, I've spent a while looking this stuff over. I like the general idea, but I do have a couple of concerns. 1 Installing pandoc on a Fedor

Re: [PATCH 0/6] scripts/kernel-doc: Kernel-doc improvements

2015-09-13 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 12:36:07 +0200 Daniel Vetter wrote: > Personally I don't care which kind of text markup we pick and wich > converter, as long as the project looks reasonable far away from > immeninent death (way too many one-person projects on github in this > area). > > But if we have this

Re: [PATCH 1/6] scripts/kernel-doc: Replacing highlights hash by an array

2015-09-13 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 17:01:59 -0300 Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula wrote: > The "highlight" code is very sensible to the order of the hash keys, > but the order of the keys cannot be predicted. It generates > faulty DocBook entries like: > - @device_for_each_child > > Sorting the result is not

Re: [PATCH TRIVIAL] README: GTK+ is a acronym

2015-07-21 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:19:17 -0300 Diego Viola wrote: > When will my patch get merged with the Linus tree? It's in the general queue, so it will find its way in during the 4.3 merge window. Thanks, jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit

2016-02-16 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:13:29 -0800 Keith Packard wrote: > https://github.com/HolgerPeters/sphinxcontrib-docbook > > which appears to provide docbook output for sphinx, but I haven't tested > this at all. Yup, that's the one I found, the one that says "Very much work in progress". It look

Re: [PATCH RFC 09/22] block, cfq: replace CFQ with the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler

2016-02-17 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:04:29 -0500 Tejun Heo wrote: > idk, istr this coming up some months ago and there really weren't good > arguments for furthering out-of-line generated docs. I'm sure there > are people building and checking for errors but that doesn't indicate > the actual usefulness or th

Re: [PATCH RFC 09/22] block, cfq: replace CFQ with the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler

2016-02-17 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 14:45:01 -0500 Tejun Heo wrote: > I see. My impression is mostly from libata docbook which was painful > to keep in sync and didn't really seem to be that helpful to many. A > lot of that was from the template being in xml format which is painful > to read in the source form

Re: [PATCH] Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/booting.txt

2016-02-17 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:41:58 +0800 w...@redhat.com wrote: > This is a update of Chinese documentation: > Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/booting.txt Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon

Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: Chinese translation of arm64/silicon-errata.txt

2016-02-17 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:40:39 +0800 w...@redhat.com wrote: > This is a Chinese translated version of Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Documentation: Fix int/unsigned int comparison

2016-02-17 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 19:05:31 -0500 Mahesh Khanwalkar wrote: > Signed int - unsigned int comparison fixed in mpssd, prctl, ptp, and > timers in Documentation. In places where 'int argc' and 'const char > **argv' are not used, they are replaced with void All this stuff probably belongs in samples/

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/ko_KR: update maintainer information

2016-02-17 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 11:51:23 +0900 SeongJae Park wrote: > Maintainer informations of Documentation/ko_KR is outdated. This commit > update the informations to the latest ones. Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon

Re: [PATCH] Doc: ARM: Fix a typo in clksrc-change-registers.awk

2016-02-17 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:20:01 +0900 Masanari Iida wrote: > This patch fix a spelling typo found in clksrc-change-registers.awk. Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon

V4L docs and docbook

2016-02-17 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Hey, Mauro, There's been a conversation going on that I keep meaning to bring you into. In short, there's a fair amount of interest in improving our formatted kernel documentation, and, in particular, making it easier to write; I'd like to be sure that work doesn't leave media behind. Work pushe

Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit

2016-02-17 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 13:27:04 +0100 Daniel Vetter wrote: > One concern/open I have for pro/cons are the hyperlinks from kerneldoc > comments. Currently we have the postproc hack, iirc Jani's patches > generated links native when extracting the kerneldoc. What's the > solution with spinx? So I've

Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit

2016-02-18 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:24:04 +0100 Daniel Vetter wrote: > > Worth noting is that, AFAICT, in all of the proposals, including the > > original where kernel-doc produces docbook, this autoreferencing only > > works within parts processed by kernel-doc. Not in the template > > documents themselves.

Re: [RFC] A first shot at asciidoc-based formatted docs

2016-02-09 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:08:45 +0200 Jani Nikula wrote: > I'm afraid we've done some overlapping work in the mean time, but I'm > happy we've both looked at the tool chain, and can have a more > meaningful conversation now. [Adding Keith since you said you wanted to be a part of this - let us know

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: SubmittingPatches: Add note about Reviewed-by tags

2016-02-15 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:12:58 -0800 Florian Fainelli wrote: > As is now common in a lot of organization having an internal code review > process (be it through Gerritt or other tools), patches extracted from > this review process and submitted to public mailing-lists will have > pre-existing Revie

Re: [PATCH] Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/booting.txt

2016-02-16 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:10:00 + Will Deacon wrote: > Great, thanks for doing this. I guess Jon will pick it up? Will do, probably in the next day or so. Thanks, jon

Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit

2016-02-16 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:25:49 +0200 Jani Nikula wrote: > However I didn't think Sphinx could produce docbook, and a quick search > doesn't convince me otherwise. Do you have some links to back this up? Somehow I was really sure of it, but I'm not finding it now. There is an extension out there,

Re: [PATCH v2 06/11] media: marvell-ccic: use vb2_ops_wait_prepare/finish helper

2014-12-01 Thread Jonathan Corbet
d in mind. > the lock member of the queue needs > to be initalized to a mutex so that vb2 helpers > vb2_ops_wait_prepare/finish() can make use of it. This is excessive, but not worth worrying about. Thanks for redoing things. Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/email-clients.txt: add info about Claws Mail

2014-12-01 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 23:02:08 +0100 Richard Leitner wrote: > Claws Mail GUI client works when "Auto wrapping" is disabled. Interesting, I've sent an awful lot of patches with claws and I have wrapping (a useful feature) enabled. I can't see it being a problem unless you're writing the patch itsel

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix formatting to make 's' happy

2014-11-24 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:54:17 +0200 (EET) Tero Roponen wrote: > From: Maisa Roponen > > "That letter [the last s] is sad because all the others > have those things [=] below them and it does not." > > This patch fixes the tragedy so all the letters can > be happy again. > > Signed-off-by: Mais

Re: [PATCH] cgroups: Documentation: fix wrong cgroupfs paths

2014-11-24 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 01:39:19 +0900 SeongJae Park wrote: > 6) Attach that task to the new cgroup by writing its PID to the > -/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/tasks file for that cgroup. > +/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset tasks file for that cgroup. That one looks like it was correct before the change...?

Re: [PATCH] kselftest: Move the docs to the Documentation dir

2014-11-24 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:56:53 -0700 Shuah Khan wrote: > Thanks for doing this. Looks good to me. I think you missed > Documentation maintainer. Adding linux-doc and Jon Corbet to > the thread with my ack to take this through Documentation tree. Thanks for the heads-up. I've applied it to the doc

Re: [PATCH] kbuild: remove old information in headers_install.txt document

2014-12-02 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:28:53 +0900 Masahiro Yamada wrote: > diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt > b/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt > index 951eb9f..0d8fe5e 100644 > --- a/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt > +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt > @@ -2

Re: [patch] CodingStyle: add some more error handling guidelines

2014-12-02 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 10:09:02 +0100 (CET) Julia Lawall wrote: > kmalloc actually takes two arguments. Perhaps it would be better to show > something that looks like a valid call. Agreed; I took the liberty of sticking in a GFP_KERNEL as I applied the patch with Julia's ack. Thanks, jon -- To un

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/email-clients.txt: add info about Claws Mail

2014-12-02 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 08:10:48 +0100 Richard Leitner wrote: > Should I change the patch to something like: > > To insert a patch use Message->Insert File (CTRL+i) or an external > editor. > If the inserted patch has to be edited in the Claws composition window > Auto wrapping in Configuration->Pref

Re: Minimal effort/low overhead file descriptor duplication over Posix.1b s

2014-12-02 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 15:35:17 +1100 Alex Dubov wrote: > int sendfd(pid_t pid, int sig, int fd) > > Given a target process pid, the sendfd() syscall will create a duplicate > file descriptor in a target task's (referred by pid) file table pointing to > the file references by descriptor fd. The

Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/email-clients.txt: add info about Claws Mail

2014-12-02 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 17:44:36 +0100 Richard Leitner wrote: > Claws Mail GUI client works. > The client is available at http://www.claws-mail.org > > Signed-off-by: Richard Leitner Applied, thanks. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: memory-barriers: Fix typo in the first example

2014-12-02 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:19:26 +0530 Srikanth Thokala wrote: > Hi, > > Kindly review the patch. To me it looks right. Something like this, though, needs an ack from Paul (cc'd) before I can be really confident. Paul...? jon > Thanks > Srikanth > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Srikanth T

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: memory-barriers: Fix typo in the first example

2014-12-02 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:50:06 -0800 "Paul E. McKenney" wrote: > I am guessing that this patch is against an old version of this file > (there have been two patches applied to this example in the last six > months). I believe that the current version is correct, in other words, > that Alexey Dobriy

Re: [PATCH 2/2] cgroups: Documentation: fix trivial typos and wrong paragraph numberings

2014-12-03 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 20:53:45 +0900 SeongJae Park wrote: > Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt | 6 +++--- > Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 8 > 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) I applied patch 1 to my docs tree, but this one doesn't apply. Which kernel did you base

Re: [PATCH] kbuild: update headers_install.txt document

2014-12-03 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 15:45:41 +0900 Masahiro Yamada wrote: > The arch header directories "include/asm-*" were moved long ago. > Now we should check the existence of arch/*/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild > to see if an architecture supports the headers installation. > (Actually, "um" is the only architect

Re: [PATCH 2/2] cgroups: Documentation: fix trivial typos and wrong paragraph numberings

2014-12-03 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 00:36:09 +0900 (KST) SeongJae Park wrote: > I based it on latest linux-next tree. > > Looks like I should based it on linux-docs tree. I will do for my later > patches for documentations. > > Below is the patch 2 based on linux-docs tree. Thanks, but the best thing to do mi

Re: [PATCH 06/12] media: marvell-ccic: use vb2_ops_wait_prepare/finish helper

2014-11-18 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 11:23:35 + "Lad, Prabhakar" wrote: > drivers/media/platform/marvell-ccic/mcam-core.c | 29 > + > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) So I'm not convinced that this patch improves things; it moves a tiny bit of code into another file

Re: [PATCH 06/12] media: marvell-ccic: use vb2_ops_wait_prepare/finish helper

2014-11-18 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:23:04 + Prabhakar Lad wrote: > Sorry there is no movement of code to other file. And I dont see any > reason why anybody reading will go haywire its a standard v4l2 thing. Whatever, I said I wouldn't stand in the way. > The subject explains it all, If you still want

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Become the docs maintainer

2014-10-17 Thread Jonathan Corbet
It seems it's my turn to be the documentation maintainer for a bit. My plan is to work to ensure that docs patches don't fall through the cracks; I assume most changes will continue to flow through subsystem-specific trees. Acked-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- M

Re: [PATCH] DocBook: fix media build error

2014-10-20 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 19:39:17 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > Fix media DocBook build errors by making the orderedlist balanced. That definitely makes things work better. Will send upward if need be. Thanks, jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] Documentation: dt-bindings: Explain order in patch series

2014-10-20 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:25:52 +0100 Mark Rutland wrote: > Following the discussion around [1], this makes sense to me, so: > > Acked-by: Mark Rutland Applied to my shiny new docs tree in case nobody else grabs it. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

Re: [GIT PULL] doc for 3.18 merge window

2014-10-08 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 00:22:15 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina wrote: > I took this over (hopefully temporarily) from Randy who was not willing > to maintain it any longer. If you like, perhaps I can take that on for a bit? There is some light at the end of the tunnel here, and I should be able to do som

Re: [PATCH trivial] DMA-API: Spelling s/This/Think/

2015-05-22 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 22 May 2015 17:59:53 +0530 Vinod Koul wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven > Looks good to me, but the question si which tree does this go thru.. I'll take it through the docs tree. Thanks, jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [PATCH trivial] gpiolib: Grammar s/an negative/a negative/

2015-05-22 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 21 May 2015 14:07:50 +0200 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > -It will return an IRQ number, or an negative errno code if the mapping can't > be > +It will return an IRQ number, or a negative errno code if the mapping can't > be Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon -- To unsubscribe from th

Re: [PATCH] Docs: SubmittingPatches: Clarify convention for git commit references

2015-05-22 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 21 May 2015 10:59:54 -0500 Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > Clarify the convention for commit references in changelogs so it matches > what checkpatch suggests; see d311cd44545f ("checkpatch: add test for > commit id formatting style in commit log"). > > I chose a different example to make the (""

Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/arch: Add kernel feature descriptions and arch support status under Documentation/features/

2015-05-22 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 14 May 2015 12:35:44 +0200 Ingo Molnar wrote: > Updated patch attached. This seems to have slowed down a bit; I've taken the liberty of pulling it into the docs tree. It can be replaced, though, should you decide to completely rework the format again...:) Thanks, jon -- To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] stable: Update documentation to clarify preferred procedure

2015-05-22 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 13 May 2015 22:01:07 +0200 Christoffer Dall wrote: > Clearly specify that option 1 is strongly preferred so that developers > understand that option 2 or 3 should only be used when absolutely > required. Applied to the docs tree. I tweaked the changelog a bit, though, since "option 1" m

Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/arch: Add kernel feature descriptions and arch support status under Documentation/features/

2015-05-24 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sat, 23 May 2015 10:07:05 +0200 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > This seems to have slowed down a bit; I've taken the liberty of > > pulling it into the docs tree. [...] > > Please don't, I've got a different structure for it, so that the Git > log becomes a lot more usable. I'll post it after the

Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Clarify requirements for patches directed toward stable

2015-05-14 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 14 May 2015 00:06:48 + Luke Dashjr wrote: > I misunderstood this section as simply asking me to add an email Cc, and > was unaware of the existence of Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. > Hopefully this clarification will help save maintainers and new/rare > submitters time in the

Re: [PATCHv2] SubmittingPatches: Clarify requirements for patches directed toward stable

2015-05-14 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 14 May 2015 18:58:01 + Luke Dashjr wrote: > I misunderstood this section as simply asking me to add an email Cc, and > was unaware of the existence of Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. > Hopefully this clarification will help save maintainers and new/rare > submitters time in the

Re: [PATCH] Doc: Fix description of nomce in kernel-parameters.txt

2015-05-15 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sat, 16 May 2015 02:16:43 +0900 Masanari Iida wrote: > Description of nomce tells opposite. > > Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida Looks good, applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vg

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: blackfin: gptimers-example: Use new switch macro SAMPLE_IRQ_TIMER instead of IRQ_TIMER5

2015-05-07 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sun, 5 Apr 2015 12:25:44 +0800 Chen Gang wrote: > Not all blackfin machines support IRQ_TIMER5, but all machines support > IRQ_TIMER2. So add a switch macro for them. OK, I've (finally) applied this to the docs tree. Thanks, jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l

Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation usb serial: fixed how to provide vendor and product id

2015-05-07 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:03:10 +0200 Johan Hovold wrote: > > Really? I believe you should be able to do > > > > usbserial.vendor=vid usbserial.product=pid > > > > on the command line if usbserial is built-in. Not that I recommend doing > > that. But it should work. > > You're right, the com

Re: [PATCH RESEND] firmware: Update information in linux.git about adding firmware

2015-05-07 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 18:05:10 +0200 Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > Could you take this patch? Applied to the docs tree. Thanks for calling my attention to it; it wasn't addressed to me and I would have missed it otherwise. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Re: [PATCH v2] kasan: Show gcc version requirements in Kconfig and Documentation

2015-05-07 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:10:57 +0300 Andrey Ryabinin wrote: > From: Joe Perches > > The documentation shows a need for gcc > 4.9.2, but it's > really >=. The Kconfig entries don't show require versions > so add them. Correct a latter/later typo too. > Also mention that gcc 5 required to catch o

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/CodingStyle: fix example macro parenthesis imbalance

2015-05-07 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 06:35:01 +0300 Baruch Siach wrote: > -)} > +}) Makes sense. Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon -- 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/

Re: [PATCH] Docs: proc: fix kernel version

2015-05-07 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 02:58:50 + "Chen, Hanxiao" wrote: > When we posted it, we thought it's for in 3.20. > Now it comes to mainline from mm tree, it's 4.1 now. > So I think we need a surplus patch for it. So be it...applied to the docs tree. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin

Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: kasan: fix a typo

2015-05-07 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 07:47:02 +0800 Wang Long wrote: > This patch just fix a typo (s/witch/which) Actually, it fixes two of them now :) Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.ker

Re: [PATCH v2] docs: add VmPMD description in proc

2015-05-07 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 03:44:17 -0400 Chen Hanxiao wrote: > commit dc6c9a35b66b ("mm: account pmd page tables to the process") > add VmPMD in /proc/PID/status. > This patch add a description in proc.txt for it. Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/magic-number: Remove SCI_MAGIC

2015-05-07 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 4 May 2015 19:39:50 +0200 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > The SCI_MAGIC define was removed in commit f8e53553f452dcbf ("serial: > sh-sci: Kill off more unused defines."). > Its last user was the old drivers/char sh-sci driver, which was removed > in 2004. Dunno...do we really want to rush i

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: tracing: fix grammar

2015-05-04 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 4 May 2015 15:03:52 -0400 Steven Rostedt wrote: > Is someone else going to take this in their tree? I'll take it in the docs tree. jon -- 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

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/scsi: Documentation about scsi_cmnd lifecycle

2015-05-13 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 12 May 2015 14:33:46 -0700 Rajat Jain wrote: > Add documentation to describe the various scenarios that the scsi_cmnd > may go through in its life time in the mid level driver - aborts, > failures, retries, error handling etc. The documentation has lots of > details including examples. S

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: header

2015-02-25 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:43:17 +0100 Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > +For other authors see the commit history. > + > +For general info and disclaimer, please look in README. It generally seems fine, but the above text could just as reasonably be put into every file in the tree. How about if we just

Re: [PATCH] Documentation:Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt

2015-03-26 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:46:14 +0800 Fu Wei wrote: > Sorry, I didn't notice that you are the DOCUMENTATION Maintainers now. > I just checked the MAINTAINERS file. > will cc to you for all the documentation patch. The MAINTAINERS entry actually explicitly excludes the translation directories; it l

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