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On Friday 16 November 2007 01:15:27 Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:01:43PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
On Thursday 15 November 2007 21:08:32 WANG Cong wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 01:06:08PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Hm, not good. I'll let Jeff handle this :)
Could you
On Friday 16 November 2007 09:51:08 Jeff Dike wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:15:27PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Rob, I'll queue this up for the next cycle, now that you've verified
that it was not fixed already, thanks for testing.
I wouldn't.
sparc includes swap.h in its pgtable.h. Adding
On Saturday 17 November 2007 12:53:57 Jeff Dike wrote:
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:00:22PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
I wasn't cc'd, and missed it. I'd like to test this, do you have a
link? (Or a bit more specificity than a few weeks ago?)
Here are the three patches:
http
On Sunday 18 November 2007 15:32:03 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 02:17:49PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
On Saturday 17 November 2007 12:53:57 Jeff Dike wrote:
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:00:22PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
I wasn't cc'd, and missed it. I'd like to test
On Monday 03 December 2007 22:26:28 Nick Piggin wrote:
There is one slight downside -- direct block device access and filesystem
metadata access goes through an extra copy and gets stored in RAM twice.
However, this downside is only slight, because the real buffercache of the
device is now
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 03:29:40 Nick Piggin wrote:
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:55:17AM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
On Monday 03 December 2007 22:26:28 Nick Piggin wrote:
There is one slight downside -- direct block device access and
filesystem metadata access goes through an extra copy
On Thursday 06 December 2007 04:24:20 Carsten Otte wrote:
Nick Piggin wrote:
OK, thanks for taking a look at that. It will be helpful for testing
XIP with my new ramdisk driver (did you see the patch?).
I have'nt looked at it yet. I do appreciate it, I think it might
broaden the user-base
On Thursday 06 December 2007 21:22:25 Jared Hulbert wrote:
I have'nt looked at it yet. I do appreciate it, I think it might
broaden the user-base of this feature which is up to now s390 only due
to the fact that the flash memory extensions have not been implemented
(yet?). And it
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Update kerneldoc comments in drivers/scsi/scsicam.c
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/scsi/scsicam.c | 39 ++-
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff -r a868e8217782 drivers/scsi
On Thursday 11 October 2007 4:49:28 pm David Miller wrote:
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:47:02 -0500
On Thursday 11 October 2007 10:35:20 am Adrian Bunk wrote:
Since scsi_esp_{,un}register() are EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed, these functions
(and the functions
On Thursday 18 October 2007 8:00:49 am Rogier Wolff wrote:
So... IMHO, it would be useful to implement something that pages out
chunks of memory larger than a single hardware page. This would reduce
the size of the memory management tables (*), as well as improve disk
throughput if things DO
On Thursday 18 October 2007 4:14:20 pm Sam Ravnborg wrote:
Anyway, here's a try to make it autodetect m68k-linux-gnu-gcc and
m68k-linux-gcc. Perhaps it can be generalized in kbuild, to allow
arch/*/Makefile to set a list of possible cross-compiler prefixes?
Here is my first try.
We only
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add missing section IDs to genericirq.tmpl
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl | 24
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff -r 5fbe157dd0b9 Documentation/DocBook
On Sunday 21 October 2007 6:02:40 am Rob Landley forgot to put [PATCH] in
the subject field of the message now being resent for that reason.
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add missing section IDs to genericirq.tmpl
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/DocBook
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add missing section IDs to genericirq.tmpl
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Either one more showed up in -git since I submitted this, or I missed one.
Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl | 26
1 file changed, 13
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add missing section ID to lsm.tmpl
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/DocBook/lsm.tmpl |2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -r a868e8217782 Documentation/DocBook/lsm.tmpl
--- a/Documentation/DocBook
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add section IDs to mtdnand.tmpl
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl | 58 +--
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
diff -r a868e8217782 Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add missing IDs to procfs-guide.tmpl
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Documentation/DocBook/procfs-guide.tmpl | 16
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff -r a868e8217782 Documentation/DocBook/procfs
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add section IDs to rapidio.tmpl
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Documentation/DocBook/rapidio.tmpl | 18 +-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff -r a868e8217782 Documentation/DocBook/rapidio.tmpl
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add table IDs to videobook.tmpl
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Documentation/DocBook/videobook.tmpl | 34 -
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff -r a868e8217782 Documentation/DocBook
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add chapter IDs to z8530book.tmpl
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Documentation/DocBook/z8530book.tmpl | 12 ++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -r 33c949e2f851 Documentation/DocBook/z8530book.tmpl
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 10:22:40 am Jeff Dike wrote:
I poked around a bit for a sparc cross-toolchain, didn't find one, so
I couldn't see what exactly the problem was.
Prebuilt for Ubuntu 7.04:
http://landley.net/code/firmware/downloads/cross-compiler/host-i686/cross-compiler-sparc.tar.bz2
On 10/24/2012 11:11:36 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
2012/10/24 Tekkaman Ninja tekkamanni...@gmail.com:
This is a Chinese translated version of
Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
Signed-off-by: Fu Wei tekkamanni...@gmail.com
Same as my comment on the memory.txt patch, I don't understand what
On 11/09/2012 10:28:59 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Stephen Warren
swar...@wwwdotorg.org wrote:
On 11/05/2012 01:40 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
I'm not actually opposed to it, but it needs to be done in an elegant
way. The DT data model already imposes
On Thursday 20 September 2007 12:10:50 pm Tim Bird wrote:
Andy Whitcroft wrote:
Knowing nothing about these options, from a test perspective it would
be nice if we were able to simply enable the lot so we can do normal
-mm runs and tiny -mm runs without any manual intervention?
I agree
On Thursday 20 September 2007 2:58:44 pm Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 03:38:42PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
I've been playing with an idea for a while to improve the printk()
situation, but it's a more intrusive change than I've had time to bang
on.
Right now, the first
On Thursday 20 September 2007 4:22:37 pm Jared Hulbert wrote:
I think that this idea is not worth it.
Don't use the config option then
My problem is that switching off printk is the single biggest bloat
cutter in the kernel, yet it makes the resulting system very hard to
support.
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 4:28:05 pm Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:03:09 -0700
Tim Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Recently, the CE Linux forum has been working to revive the
Linux-tiny project. At OLS, I asked for interested parties
to volunteer to become the new
On Thursday 20 September 2007 4:58:54 pm Tim Bird wrote:
Rob Landley wrote:
So instead of:
printk(KERN_NOTICE Fruit=%d\n, banana);
It would now be:
printk(KERN_NOTICE, Fruit=%d\n, banana);
Change the header from:
#define KERN_NOTICE 5
to:
#define KERN_NOTICE 5
On Thursday 20 September 2007 4:26:13 pm Indan Zupancic wrote:
On Thu, September 20, 2007 22:38, Rob Landley wrote:
I've been playing with an idea for a while to improve the printk()
situation, but it's a more intrusive change than I've had time to bang
on.
Right now, the first argument
On Thursday 20 September 2007 5:14:25 pm Joe Perches wrote:
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:58 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
Given that there are about 60,000 printks in the kernel (and that's
not counting wrappers like dprintk() and other locally-defined
functions and macros) it would be a huge task to
On Friday 21 September 2007 2:07:38 pm Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:22:45PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
Given that
a) there're plenty of printks without any KERN_* bloat,
b) there're printks that SHOULD NOT have KERN_* bloat,
Just to clarify,
On Friday 21 September 2007 9:18:40 am Gross, Mark wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Oleg Verych [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 5:58 PM
To: Gross, Mark
Cc: Rob Landley; Alexey Dobriyan; Michael Opdenacker; linux-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; CE Linux Developers List
On Friday 21 September 2007 12:45:27 pm Joe Perches wrote:
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 13:16 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What about something *really* hardcore ugly like:
#ifdef __FILE__
#undef __FILE__
#define __FILE__
#endif
(or similar preprocessor blecherousness) if you want to
On Saturday 22 September 2007 2:27:29 pm Vegard Nossum wrote:
After recent discussions on LKML and a general dissatisfaction at the
current printk() kernel-message logging interface, I've decided to
write down some of the ideas for a better system.
Requirements
* Backwards
On Monday 24 September 2007 10:19:16 am Joe Perches wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 11:22 +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote:
Together with the idea of not allowing multiple lines in the kprint_xxx
functions, that would go with our approach having message numbers to
identify a message.
How does
On Monday 24 September 2007 3:37:55 pm Vegard Nossum wrote:
On 9/24/07, Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 18:43 +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
Storing the format-string separately allows us to hash THAT instead of
the formatted (ie. console output) message. Since
On Monday 24 September 2007 7:10:32 pm Joe Perches wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 18:51 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
An added pass between gcc preprocessor and compiler could compact
or compress the format string without modifying the conversion
specifications so __attribute__ ((format
On Monday 24 September 2007 1:13:07 pm Adrian Bunk wrote:
The simplest solution that comes into my mind would be to create links
for the source file in the output dir before calling gcc and then give
gcc the link as input file.
The way I've been building various packages out-of-tree (including
On Thursday 27 September 2007 2:00:36 am Arnd Bergmann wrote:
#define KERN_NOTICE 5,
#define PRINTK_CONTINUED ,
#define printk(level, str, ...) \
do { \
if (sizeof(level) == 1) /* continued printk */\
actual_printk(str, __VA_ARGS__); \
else if ((level[1] - '0')
On Friday 28 September 2007 7:11:03 am Vegard Nossum wrote:
wrong. We can, however, use KBUILD_MODNAME as a default value for
KPRINT_DRIVER, like:
static const char *KPRINT_DRIVER = KBUILD_MODNAME;
which would pre-process to something like:
static const char *KPRINT_DRIVER = bcm43xx;
Which
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add a 00-INDEX file for Documentation/vm
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/vm/00-INDEX | 20
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
--- /dev/null 2007-04-23 10:59:00.0 -0500
+++ kdocs/Documentation/vm
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remove nonstandard line break from Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
This is the only instance of a newline in a 00-INDEX file description, and
it confuses my 00-INDEX index.html converter.
Documentation
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add Documentation/x86_64/00-INDEX
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
x86_64/00-INDEX | 14 ++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
--- /dev/null 2007-04-23 10:59:00.0 -0500
+++ Documentation/x86_64/00-INDEX 2007-09-28
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add Documentation/x86_64/00-INDEX
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Trying again with the right path...
x86_64/00-INDEX | 14 ++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
--- /dev/null 2007-04-23 10:59:00.0 -0500
+++ b
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Two 00-INDEX files under Documentation/w1
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/w1/00-INDEX |8
Documentation/w1/masters/00-INDEX |6 ++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
--- /dev/null 2007-04-23 10:59
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The existing Documentation/SM501.txt gives no clue what the chip is or does,
so copy the description from Kconfig help text.
cc: Ben Dooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/SM501.txt |5 +
1 file
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add missing entries to Documentation/00-INDEX
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/00-INDEX | 17 -
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -r dc28e4e17791 Documentation/00-INDEX
--- a/Documentation
On Sunday 30 September 2007 3:35:03 pm Andi Kleen wrote:
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:44:02PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add Documentation/x86_64/00-INDEX
What's the point of this file?
It's for http://kernel.org/doc/Documentation/
I have a script
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add several missing entries to Documentation/arm/00-INDEX
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/arm/00-INDEX | 22 --
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -r f4ca99897c12 Documentation/arm/00
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Update Documentation/scsi/00-INDEX to match current files.
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/scsi/00-INDEX | 34 +++---
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -r f4ca99897c12
On Friday 28 September 2007 7:25:28 pm Rob Landley wrote:
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remove nonstandard line break from Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
This is the only instance of a newline in a 00-INDEX file description
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add Documentation/power/00-INDEX
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
All my pending 00-INDEX patches are at http://landley.net/kdocs/make/patches
Documentation/power/00-INDEX | 34 +
1 file changed, 34
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 2:10:22 am Pavel Machek wrote:
+swsusp.txt
+ - Goals, implementation, and usage of software suspend (ACPI S3)
But please delete (ACPI S3) remark. It is ACPI S4, if anything.
Pavel
I got that from
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Two 00-INDEX files under Documentation/w1
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
diff -puN /dev/null Documentation/w1/00-INDEX
--- /dev/null
On Thursday 04 October 2007 3:17:03 pm Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:04:07 +0200 Vegard Nossum wrote:
Description: This patch largely implements the kprint API as previously
posted to the LKML and described in Documentation/kprint.txt (see patch).
The main purpose of this
On Friday 05 October 2007 8:13:09 am Vegard Nossum wrote:
On 10/5/07, Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 04 October 2007 3:17:03 pm Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:04:07 +0200 Vegard Nossum wrote:
Description: This patch largely implements the kprint API
On Friday 05 October 2007 2:01:08 am Miguel Ojeda wrote:
Last I checked, the current prink() worked just fine. Why is this _not_
the dreaded infrastructure in search of a use? What exactly can we
_not_ do with the current code? What does this allow us to remove and
simplify?
I'm
On Saturday 06 October 2007 1:10:26 am Vegard Nossum wrote:
On 10/5/07, Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The original idea (selectively compile out printk() instances based on
log level to conserve space) is explicitly not addressed by this patch,
and in fact this patch might actually
On Friday 05 October 2007 6:01:10 pm Miguel Ojeda wrote:
*shrug* That doesn't mean my objections are important to anyone else,
just that I don't personally see any reason to be enthusiastic about this
patch.
Take a look to other suggested changes, maybe you like some of them
and you will
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prevent docproc from segfaulting when SRCTREE isn't set.
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
scripts/basic/docproc.c | 10 --
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -r a26a53ed1101 scripts/basic/docproc.c
--- a/scripts
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add recommended section ID tags to deviceiobook.tmpl
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Because otherwise the link #anchors in the html vary from build to build.
Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl | 10 +-
1 file changed, 5
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 8:03:15 am Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
$ man getcwd
char *getcwd(char *buf, size_t size);
As an extension to the POSIX.1 standard, Linux (libc4, libc5, glibc)
getcwd() allocates the buffer dynamically using malloc() if buf is NULL on
call.
Shouldn't srctree be
On Friday 31 August 2007 7:10:00 am Satyam Sharma wrote:
Hi Rob,
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Rob Landley wrote:
On Thursday 30 August 2007 2:04:37 pm Randy Dunlap wrote:
Please use the expected (canonical) patch format.
See Documentation/SubmittingPatches:
14) The canonical patch
On Saturday 01 September 2007 5:16:03 pm Andi Kleen wrote:
Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A lot of embedded people like to configure /proc out of the kernel for
space reasons. This would make that noticeably more painful.
I had a patch for a sysctl_name(2) for this a long time ago
On Sunday 02 September 2007 3:54:36 am H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Rob Landley wrote:
On Saturday 01 September 2007 5:16:03 pm Andi Kleen wrote:
Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A lot of embedded people like to configure /proc out of the kernel for
space reasons. This would make
On Sunday 02 September 2007 6:51:50 am Sam Ravnborg wrote:
As for Kconfig the low hanging fruits are not in the tools but in the
structure of the Kconfig files. There are a lot that can be improved
with a decent effort but nobody has stepped up doing so.
The tools could be better too but if
On Thursday 19 July 2007 4:16:17 am Cornelia Huck wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:39:53 -0400,
Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nope. If you recurse down under /sys/class following symlinks, you go
into an endless loop bouncing off of /sys/devices and getting pointed
back. If you
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 7:40:20 pm Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:39:53PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
PICK ONE! JUST #*%(#% PICK ONE! HHH!
I don't care where it is. Just put it somewhere I can find it, and keep
it there. All this gratuitous moving stuff
On Friday 20 July 2007 4:09:36 am Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 09:54:01AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:01 -0700,
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't insist on it, mknod insists on it. You cannot mknod a dev
node without specifying block or
On Friday 20 July 2007 8:52:11 pm Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:21:39PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
Always look at the parent devices themselves for determining device
context properties.
For determining?
What was the original language of this document?
Ok, that's just
On Friday 20 July 2007 3:00:01 am Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 01:14:27AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
Is there anything in /sys/class/block that _isn't_ in /sys/block?
No.
Does if you want to use it, but /sys/block will still be there NOT
mean, as I assumed at the time, that I
On Saturday 21 July 2007 8:14:41 am Bodo Eggert wrote:
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:21:39PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
I'm not trying to document /sys/devices. I'm trying to document
hotplug, populating /dev, and things like firmware loading that fall out
On Friday 20 July 2007 8:43:49 pm Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:21:39PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
Ok, back up. /sys/devices does not contain all the information necessary
to populate /dev, because it hasn't got things like
ramdisks, /dev/zero, /dev/console which
On Monday 23 July 2007 9:01:48 pm Rusty Russell wrote:
IOW, I'd be interested in hearing Rob and Randy's opinions on it all,
please.
So they can see what we're talking about, here's an example of the
output:
http://lguest.ozlabs.org/lguest-journey.c.bz2
Er, so you read the readme,
On Monday 23 July 2007 10:21:13 pm Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:12:38 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:17:58 +1000
Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking
HOWTO. Noone ever read it.
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 2:38:18 am Greg KH wrote:
In other words: Grasping sysfs is not a feasible task? If this is true,
how can anybody reliably use sysfs?
Huh, I never stated that at all. If you wish to fully document sysfs
and how it works, then great, do that. But that was not the
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 11:35:22 pm Rusty Russell wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:22 -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
On Monday 23 July 2007 9:01:48 pm Rusty Russell wrote:
IOW, I'd be interested in hearing Rob and Randy's opinions on it all,
please.
So they can see what we're talking
CONFIG_BLOCK disables the block layer.
CONFIG_BLK_DEV disables the block devices.
Is there _ever_ a time you want the block layer but no block devices?
(I ask because this is the first time I've had to add a symbol to my User Mode
Linux miniconfig since 2.6.12, and I can't figure out what the
On Friday 24 August 2007 1:46:16 pm Jeff Dike wrote:
[ This looks non-urgent to me ]
Without linux/pagemap.h, asm-generic/tlb.h is missing declarations of
page_cache_release and release_pages.
It may be non-urgent to you, but it still broke my build. :)
Acked-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED
On Friday 24 August 2007 7:20:27 pm Andrew Morton wrote:
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:46:16 -0400
Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ This looks non-urgent to me ]
Without linux/pagemap.h, asm-generic/tlb.h is missing declarations of
page_cache_release and release_pages.
Signed-off-by:
On Friday 24 August 2007 3:36:54 pm Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Aug 24 2007 22:34, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Aug 24 2007 15:17, Rob Landley wrote:
CONFIG_BLOCK disables the block layer.
CONFIG_BLK_DEV disables the block devices.
menuconfig BLK_DEV
bool Block devices
depends
On Friday 24 August 2007 5:46:51 pm Jeff Dike wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:51:41PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
It may be non-urgent to you, but it still broke my build. :)
Acked-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Heh, it doesn't seem like -stable material to me, but if there aren't
any
On Tuesday 28 August 2007 8:31:45 pm H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Umm, no way we're ever going to remove a syscall like this.
If someone besides me cares about more then rhetoric I will be happy
to reconsider and several
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index two unindexed documentation files.
--- linux-2.6.23-rc4/Documentation/arm/00-INDEX 2007-08-27 20:32:35.0
-0500
+++ linux-new/Documentation/arm/00-INDEX2007-08-30 14:27:15.0
-0500
@@ -20,3 +20,7 @@
- description
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ecryptfs.txt moved into Documentation/filesystems, so move the 00-INDEX entry.
--- linux-2.6.23-rc4/Documentation/00-INDEX 2007-08-27 20:32:35.0
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+++ linux-new/Documentation/00-INDEX2007-08-30 14:43:15.0 -0500
@@ -134,8
On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:34:02 pm Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:32:11PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
(If sysctlfs wasn't part of proc, that would be less of an issue, but we
need union mounts for that...)
Not at all. all sysctls are under /proc/sys/
Ah, right. Good
On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:20:55 pm Randy Dunlap wrote:
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
initrd/initramfs/ramdisk docs:
- fix typos/spellos/grammar
- clarify RAM disk config location
- correct cpio option
Cc: Bryan O'Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc
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 around for compatibility reasons,
but it may be
On Thursday 30 August 2007 2:04:37 pm Randy Dunlap wrote:
Please use the expected (canonical) patch format.
See Documentation/SubmittingPatches:
14) The canonical patch format
from Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ecryptfs.txt moved
On Sunday 12 August 2007 4:47:17 pm Stefan Richter wrote:
Rob Landley wrote:
On Sunday 12 August 2007 3:17:38 pm Stefan Richter wrote:
- it's a little bit faster to create these headers than to add them
to 00-INDEX: Just move the existing title to the top.
...
What variant
On Saturday 04 August 2007 3:04:33 pm Stefan Richter wrote:
Rob Landley wrote:
Documentation is merely one resource among many, and
to link _out_ you need HTML.
Do you suggest HTML files in linux/Documentation?
I've thought about it, but right now Documentation is text. Converting all
On Saturday 04 August 2007 3:05:25 pm Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 02:07:18PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
From: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some documentation for make headers_install.
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Earlier discussion was at http
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a python script to convert 00-INDEX files into index.html files, and a
second script to show 404 errors in the result as well as files/directories
nothing links to. (It's not very useful yet, but in case you're wondering
http://kernel.org/doc
On Sunday 12 August 2007 12:34:30 pm Stefan Richter wrote:
Jesper Juhl wrote:
On 12/08/07, Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't it with 00-INDEX just like with the Last Updated: footers in
documentation texts?
That is certainly a risk, yes. But it shouldn't be hard to write a
On Saturday 11 August 2007 4:33:34 pm Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:42:35 -0500 Rob Landley wrote:
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a python script to convert 00-INDEX files into index.html files,
and a second script to show 404 errors in the result as well
On Sunday 12 August 2007 7:48:37 am Stefan Richter wrote:
Isn't it with 00-INDEX just like with the Last Updated: footers in
documentation texts?
They are metadata which will be almost always out of date.
If nothing is using them, they'll bit-rot, yes. Way of the world. But I've
found a
On Sunday 12 August 2007 12:10:56 pm Jesper Juhl wrote:
Isn't it with 00-INDEX just like with the Last Updated: footers in
documentation texts?
That is certainly a risk, yes. But it shouldn't be hard to write a
small script to check if the 00-INDEX files are up-to-date, that will
make it
On Saturday 11 August 2007 5:45:02 pm Jesper Juhl wrote:
So please do the ACK/NACK/Merge dance with these patches and
let me know if more are wanted or not. :-)
Acked-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just tried 'em: they worked for me. :)
Thanks,
Rob
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