Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: gpiolib: document new interface

2013-11-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 11/18/2013 03:34:20 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Alexandre Courbot acour...@nvidia.com wrote: The first version received zero feedback, hopefully this one will get more attention. :) Not much changes, just some more proofreading and the fixes and

Re: Correct parameter size for BLKSSZGET ioctl.

2013-11-24 Thread Rob Landley
On 11/03/2013 01:43:14 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 02:07:56PM -0500, Jason Cipriani wrote: There was a bigger question hidden behind the context there that I'm still wondering about: Are these ioctl interfaces specified and documented somewhere? From what I've seen, and

Re: [PATCH v4] Add Documentation/module-signing.txt file

2013-11-27 Thread Rob Landley
On 11/20/2013 05:09:15 AM, David Howells wrote: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au wrote: ? I changed this to an Acked-by... I made a heap of restructuring and changes that James incorporated into his v4. Going in through Rusty's tree? Rob-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86, bitops: Change bitops to be native operand size

2013-11-30 Thread Rob Landley
On 11/12/2013 02:52:57 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Joe Perches j...@perches.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 12:15 +0900, Linus Torvalds wrote: Talking about ideal implementation is also singularly stupid. I just want the various arch implementations to

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/ABI: Document the non-ABI status of Kconfig and symbols

2013-11-10 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/24/2013 04:08:30 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:57:11AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: Discussion at Kernel Summit made it clear that the presence or absence of specific Kconfig

Re: [PATCH trace-cmd 4/5] Documentation: Add kernelshark.1.txt

2013-11-10 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/24/2013 02:14:33 PM, Seth Forshee wrote: Add a man page for kernelshark. Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee seth.fors...@canonical.com --- Documentation/kernelshark.1.txt | 46 + 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644

Re: [PATCH] Adding Documentation/module-signing.txt file

2013-11-11 Thread Rob Landley
On 11/05/2013 09:31:58 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: On 11/05/13 14:54, Rob Landley wrote: On 10/24/2013 07:08:33 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:35 PM, James Solner sol...@alcatel-lucent.com wrote: This patch adds the Documentation/module-signing.txt file that is missing

Re: Updating 00-INDEX in Documentation/*

2013-11-14 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/28/2013 08:05:11 AM, Henrik Austad wrote: Hi Rob, Jiri Hacking away at python shows me that of the 254 subfolders 57 has outdated 00-INDEX, either with missing files, or files that has been removed. (see list below) I'm a bit behind on my email just now. (Started a new job last

Re: Disabling in-memory write cache for x86-64 in Linux II

2013-11-19 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/30/2013 07:01:52 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: We talked about this a few months ago but I still suspect that we will have to bite the bullet and tune based on do not dirty more data than it takes N seconds to writeback using per-bdi writeback estimations. It's just not that trivial to

Re: make oldnoconfig fix?

2013-12-02 Thread Rob Landley
On 11/11/2013 12:55:37 PM, David Cohen wrote: On 11/11/2013 10:13 AM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: David, All, Hi Yann, On 2013-11-11 10:11 -0800, David Cohen spake thusly: Is there a plan to fix 'make oldnoconfig' option? I currently have need to it :) I've tracked a thread fixing 'make

Re: [PATCH] devtmpfs: Calling delete_path() only when necessary

2013-12-03 Thread Rob Landley
On 11/16/2013 02:15:23 AM, Axel Lin wrote: The deleted variable is always 1 in current code. Initialize deleted variable to be 0, so delete_path() will be called only when necessary. Signed-off-by: Axel Lin axel@ingics.com I'm not seeing this in linux-next, or a reply on the web

Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: gpiolib: document new interface

2013-12-04 Thread Rob Landley
On 11/24/2013 12:02:30 AM, Alexandre Courbot wrote: Hi Rob, On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Rob Landley r...@landley.net wrote: Linus, I hope this can be merged during the -rc cycle of 3.13, since the gpiod_ interface is going to be introduced there. It would not make much sense

Re: powerpc32 broken by ef1313deafb7

2014-01-13 Thread Rob Landley
On 01/12/14 19:09, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 18:27 -0600, Rob Landley wrote: Using the attached config, toolchain from http://landley.net/aboriginal/bin/cross-compiler-powerpc.tar.bz2 but presumably any 32 bit powerpc one should work, building ala make ARCH=powerpc

Re: Documentation needed

2014-02-17 Thread Rob Landley
There's a little at https://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/scsi/index.html and a little more at https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scsi/ Rob On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Madhusudhan Rao Sripalle madhu.sripa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I would like to know if design documents are

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-06 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/06/2013 07:08:44 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: I suppose that ARM multi-platform will never cover all ARM CPUs, but the more it covers, the easier and cheaper it will be to work with new hardware and ARM. no. no, no no and wrong. absolutely dead wrong. you're

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-07 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/06/2013 03:55:11 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Rob Landley r...@landley.net wrote: You realize that nobody except Samsung and Apple is currently making money in the smartphone space, right? ok, ok - substitute tablet or laptop or media

Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] Documentation: virtio: Add emergency write (emerg_wr) config register in virtio console.

2013-05-07 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/06/2013 07:19:50 AM, Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar wrote: Signed-off-by: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar pranavku...@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Anup Patel anup.pa...@linaro.org --- Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt |8 +++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-08 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/08/2013 03:19:23 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Rob Landley r...@landley.net wrote: whereas the EOMA initiative is at the complete opposite end of the spectrum. and products based around the EOMA standards, although there is a cost overhead

Re: [PATCH] doc: avoid strncpy in accounting tool

2013-06-08 Thread Rob Landley
() being done by exit() is ok, and that somebody's going to be modifying this string so just keeping the pointer to optarg might make ps look weird...) Acked-by: Rob Landley r...@landley.net if Andrew hasn't grabbed it already (I'm days behind on email) please send through triv

Re: Strange intermittent EIO error when writing to stdout since v3.8.0

2013-06-08 Thread Rob Landley
On 06/06/2013 06:54:17 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: Since v3.8.0 several people reported intermittent IO errors that happen during high system load while using emerge under Gentoo: ... see: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459674 (A similar issue also happens when building Firefox

[RFC] is it time to split up the MAINTAINERS file?

2013-06-10 Thread Rob Landley
Quite possibly the answer is no, but the MAINTAINERS file is approaching 10,000 lines. Getting a bit unwieldy. Most of the entries look like: ARM/SAMSUNG MOBILE MACHINE SUPPORT M: Kyungmin Park kyungmin.p...@samsung.com L: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org (moderated for

Re: [RFC] is it time to split up the MAINTAINERS file?

2013-06-11 Thread Rob Landley
On 06/11/2013 02:13:45 AM, Joe Perches wrote: On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 23:49 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: You could either have the same entry in more than one MAINTAINERS file or keep it at a higher level. (This wouldn't eliminate the top level MAINTAINERS, merely trim it down a bit.) Just

Re: [PATCH V5 27/30] Documentation: thermal: Explain the exynos thermal driver model

2013-06-11 Thread Rob Landley
On 06/11/2013 07:53:37 AM, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote: This patch updates the documentation to explain the driver model and file layout. Acked-by: Kukjin Kim kgene@samsung.com Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap amit.dan...@samsung.com --- Documentation/thermal/exynos_thermal | 43

Re: Slow swap-in with SSD

2013-06-12 Thread Rob Landley
On 06/11/2013 09:34:36 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi! Using Linux 3.10-rc5 on an ThinkPad T520 with Intel Sandybridge i5-2620M, 8 GiB RAM and Intel SSD 320. Currently I have Zcache enabled to test the effects of it but I observed similar figures on kernels without Zcache. If I let

Commit f9afbd45b0d0 broke mips r4k.

2013-06-12 Thread Rob Landley
My aboriginal linux project builds tiny linux systems to run under qemu, producing as close to the same system as possible across a bunch of different architectures. The above change broke the mips r4k build I've been running under qemu. Here's a toolchain and reproduction sequence:

Re: Commit f9afbd45b0d0 broke mips r4k.

2013-06-16 Thread Rob Landley
On 06/13/2013 04:00:02 AM, Ralf Baechle wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:35:16PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: My aboriginal linux project builds tiny linux systems to run under qemu, producing as close to the same system as possible across a bunch of different architectures. The above change

Re: [PATCH] docbook: add futexes to kernel-locking docbook

2013-06-16 Thread Rob Landley
On 06/14/2013 02:23:36 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: From: Randy Dunlap rdun...@infradead.org Add Fast User Mutexes (futexes) to kernel-locking docbook. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap rdun...@infradead.org For what it's worth: Acked-by: Rob Landley r...@landley.net Rob-- To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: update GPIO range doc

2013-06-16 Thread Rob Landley
On 06/16/2013 05:18:29 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: From: Linus Walleij linus.wall...@linaro.org This updates the GPIO range documentation with the API changes for sparse/random/arbitrary pin-to-GPIO mappings. Acked-by: Rob Landley r...@landley.net Why isn't this part of the pinctrl series you

Re: For review: user_namespaces(7) man page

2013-04-29 Thread Rob Landley
On 04/29/2013 02:45:45 AM, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) mtk.manpa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Serge, On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Serge Hallyn serge.hal...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi, you mention that after creating a new user

Re: debugging live kernel

2013-04-29 Thread Rob Landley
On 04/29/2013 06:34:08 AM, l...@tigusoft.pl wrote: In case if my currently running kernel starts to do strange things and I suspect it might have bug or was corrupted, what steps can be taken to check for more info, other then dmesg? If you built it with kgdb, you can use that. If you have a

Re: [PATCH 1/1] kconfig: fix lists definition for C++

2013-04-29 Thread Rob Landley
On 04/29/2013 02:28:07 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: On 04/29/13 10:59, Yann E. MORIN wrote: From: Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1...@free.fr The C++ compiler is more strict in that it refuses to assign a void* to a struct list_head*. Given that the code _isn't_ C++ (because C is not a subset of C++

Re: [PATCH 1/1] kconfig: fix lists definition for C++

2013-04-29 Thread Rob Landley
On 04/29/2013 05:30:54 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: Rob, All, On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 04:54:14PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: On 04/29/2013 02:28:07 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: On 04/29/13 10:59, Yann E. MORIN wrote: From: Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1...@free.fr The C++ compiler is more strict

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: cover CONFIG_BINFMT_SCRIPT in init.txt

2013-06-06 Thread Rob Landley
On 06/03/2013 03:26:56 PM, Andreas Mohr wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 06:16:12AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: On 05/30/2013 03:33:10 PM, Andreas Mohr wrote: It's somewhat sad to see that that file remained at only one initial commit since 2010, thus thumbs up for your help! Docs

Re: [RFC 1/2] x86_64, mm: Delay initializing large portion of memory

2013-06-24 Thread Rob Landley
On 06/21/2013 11:25:33 AM, Nathan Zimmer wrote: On a 16TB system it can takes upwards of two hours to boot the system with about 60% of the time being spent initializing memory. This patch delays initializing a large portion of memory until after the system is booted. This can

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/pinctrl.txt: fix typo with with

2013-05-29 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/28/2013 04:31:48 AM, James Hogan wrote: Fix typo in communicate directly with with the pinctrl subsystem. Signed-off-by: James Hogan james.ho...@imgtec.com Cc: Linus Walleij linus.wall...@linaro.org Cc: Rob Landley r...@landley.net Acked-by: Rob Landley r...@landley.net Please send

Re: Dead URL in Documentation/acpi/dsdt-override.txt

2013-05-29 Thread Rob Landley
, I'll just copy it inline. (And cc: Arjan, who was the contact for that website...) (Sorry for the attachment, but balsa is crap and I've forgotten step twelve of sending a non-whitespace damaged inline patch through it. Something about frogs.) RobFrom: Rob Landley r...@landley.net Copy

Re: definition of sys_access function

2013-05-29 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/29/2013 03:12:57 AM, johnspaul92 wrote: Where can i find the definition of the sys_access function??? I tried checking in syscalls.h. But there i found only the declaration. Where can i find the definition so that i can understand what that function actually does. $ find linux -name

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: cover CONFIG_BINFMT_SCRIPT in init.txt

2013-06-03 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/30/2013 03:33:10 PM, Andreas Mohr wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 01:24:15PM -0600, Kris Rusocki wrote: From: Kris Rusocki kszy...@braxis.org Now that binfmt_script is configurable, explain yet another possible cause of boot failure (a script w/CONFIG_BINFMT_SCRIPT != y). Nice catch,

Re: [PATCH 6/6] add documentation on proc.txt

2013-04-22 Thread Rob Landley
On 04/22/2013 03:45:06 AM, Minchan Kim wrote: This patch adds documentation about new reclaim field in proc.txt Cc: Rob Landley r...@landley.net Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim minc...@kernel.org --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 24 1 file changed, 24 insertions

Re: [HELP] Documentation on CPU:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cache/indexX/shared_cpu_map

2013-04-24 Thread Rob Landley
On 04/23/2013 08:07:44 AM, Ren Zhen wrote: Hi all: Can anybody help me to understand the usage of 'shared_cpu_map' in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cache/indexX/. when I execute the cmd--'#cat shared_cpu_map', it retures '05'. And my computer use Ubuntu12.04,Intel core i3 CPU. I

Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] add documentation on proc.txt

2013-04-24 Thread Rob Landley
On 04/23/2013 08:41:04 PM, Minchan Kim wrote: This patch adds stuff about new reclaim field in proc.txt Cc: Rob Landley r...@landley.net Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim minc...@kernel.org --- Rob, I didn't add your Acked-by because interface was slight changed. I hope you give Acke-by after review

Re: [patch] Documentation: allow multiple return statements per function

2013-05-16 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/15/2013 12:20:21 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote: A surprising number of newbies interpret this section to mean that only one return statement is allowed per function. Part of the problem is that the one return statement per function rule is an actual style guideline that people are used to

3.10-rc1: commit ccdfcc398594 broke uClibc build.

2013-05-17 Thread Rob Landley
The #include linux/kernel.h added to include/uapi/linux/netlink.h causes the uClibc build to go: In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:4, from include/linux/netlink.h:4, from include/linux/rtnetlink.h:5, from

Re: [PATCH] memcg: update TODO list in Documentation

2013-05-17 Thread Rob Landley
is getting closer Summary Acked-by: Rob Landley r...@landley.net If the memcg guys don't grab this, please send to triv...@kernel.org. Rob-- 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

Re: new mount is broken w/regard to devnames in /etc/fstab

2013-05-20 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/19/2013 12:01:18 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: 1) How is one supposed to get the real root device? It's not /dev/root -- and on my system /dev/root doesn't even exist. There was a thread on this a couple months ago: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/20/315 You can get the major/minor of a

Re: Would like to form a pool of Linux copyright holders for faster GPL enforcement against Anthrax Kernels

2013-05-21 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/18/2013 01:27:21 PM, luke.leighton wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Eric Appleman erapple...@gmail.com wrote: Would anyone be interested in forming such a pool? count me in. Last I checked, I have 1 long-time poster of this list on board. Would anyone else like to join?

Re: new mount is broken w/regard to devnames in /etc/fstab

2013-05-22 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/20/2013 03:52:29 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Rob Landley wrote: On 05/19/2013 12:01:18 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: 1) How is one supposed to get the real root device? It's not /dev/root -- and on my system /dev/root doesn't even exist. There was a thread on this a couple months ago

Re: Linux 3.10-rc2

2013-05-22 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/20/2013 04:54:53 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: So it's been just over a week, and -rc2 is out. For being an -rc2, it's not unreasonably sized, but I did take a few pulls that I wouldn't have taken later in the rc series. So it's not exactly small either. We've got arch updates (PPC, MIPS,

Re: [PATCH 03/07] Documentation patch of ams AS3722 PMIC against linux_3.8.8

2013-05-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/23/2013 07:07:37 AM, Florian Lobmaier wrote: From: Florian Lobmaier florian.lobma...@ams.com Added multi-function device driver support for ams AS3722 PMIC Includes modules gpio, regulator, rtc, and watchdog Signed-off-by: Florian Lobmaier florian.lobma...@ams.com This seems like

Re: [PATCH 1/8] Documentation: Adding The Perfect Patch by Andrew Morton

2013-05-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/23/2013 07:49:53 AM, Ben Minerds wrote: Adding Andrews advice on patch submission and subdirectory for further patch documentstion. You've seen Documentation/SubmittingPatches right? Signed-off-by: Ben Minerds puzzled...@gmail.com --- .../patches/The-Perfect-Patch.txt

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Documentation: Adding Linux Kernel Patch Submission Format

2013-05-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/23/2013 07:49:54 AM, Ben Minerds wrote: Adding Linux Kernel Patch Submission Format reference to remove external dependancy. Signed-off-by: Ben Minerds puzzled...@gmail.com --- .../patches/Patch-Submission-Format.txt| 89 ++ ... +For more details,

Re: [PATCH 5/8] Documentation: Replacing reference to broken submission format URL

2013-05-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/23/2013 07:49:57 AM, Ben Minerds wrote: Replacing refs to broken URL with internal documentation reference, and a little whitespace shuffle to keep it under 80 chars wide. Signed-off-by: Ben Minerds puzzled...@gmail.com --- Documentation/HOWTO | 10 +-

Re: [PATCH 6/8] Documentation: Updating a broken link in the perfect patch

2013-05-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/23/2013 07:49:58 AM, Ben Minerds wrote: The link to Andrews patches were out of date. Replacing with new links. Also slightly reformatted to allow easier selection of links. Signed-off-by: Ben Minerds puzzled...@gmail.com ---

Re: [PATCH] build some drivers only when compile-testing

2013-05-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/23/2013 09:01:40 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 19:23 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:18:46AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: Some drivers can be built on more platforms than they run on. This causes users and distributors packaging burden when

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kdump: Remove TODO in this document

2013-05-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/23/2013 03:30:15 AM, Zhang Yanfei wrote: We have already had the relocatable kernel, so just remove the TODO in the kdump document. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei zhangyan...@cn.fujitsu.com Acked-by: Rob Landley r...@landley.net Please forward to triv...@kernel.org Rob-- To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] Documentation/devices.txt: Mark /dev/oldmem obsolete

2013-05-28 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/26/2013 08:54:19 PM, Zhang Yanfei wrote: 于 2013年05月27日 09:46, HATAYAMA Daisuke 写道: (2013/05/26 15:36), Zhang Yanfei wrote: From: Zhang Yanfei zhangyan...@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei zhangyan...@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: Dave Jones da...@redhat.com ---

Re: [PATCH] Raise the maximum number of usb-serial devices to 256

2013-05-28 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/27/2013 04:30:12 AM, Tobias Winter wrote: Raise the maximum number of usb-serial devices to 256, which is the actual limit supported by the codebase. Signed-off-by: Jakob-Tobias Winter tob...@linuxdingsda.de Tested-by: Jakob-Tobias Winter tob...@linuxdingsda.de ---

Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] Documentation/devices.txt: Mark /dev/oldmem obsolete

2013-05-28 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/28/2013 01:25:25 AM, Zhang Yanfei wrote: On 05/28/2013 02:17 PM, Rob Landley wrote: On 05/26/2013 08:54:19 PM, Zhang Yanfei wrote: 于 2013年05月27日 09:46, HATAYAMA Daisuke 写道: (2013/05/26 15:36), Zhang Yanfei wrote: From: Zhang Yanfei zhangyan...@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Zhang

Re: [PATCH] 9p: trace: use %*ph to dump buffer

2013-05-28 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/28/2013 03:49:52 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote: On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 16:01 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: Additionally change cast from long to unsigned long to follow specificator. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com --- include/trace/events/9p.h | 28

Re: Transcend's one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time

2013-10-27 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/15/2013 01:42:56 AM, Rogelio Serrano wrote: On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Pavel Machek pa...@ucw.cz wrote: You have a piece of code under the GPL and the majority of the copyright holders say they will not enforce it. Thats virtually public domain code. Thats why i stopped contributing

Re: [PATCH] Squashfs: Refactor decompressor interface and code

2013-10-10 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/07/2013 09:14:10 PM, Phillip Lougher wrote: The decompressor interface and code was written from the point of view of single-threaded operation. In doing so it mixed a lot of single-threaded implementation specific aspects into the decompressor code and elsewhere which makes it difficult

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] vfs: Detach mounts on unlink.

2013-10-10 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/08/2013 03:03:03 AM, Karel Zak wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 06:42:44PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: Oh, attached is a dumb zapchroot script I've been using for years to unlink all mount points under a given directory, taking advantage of the fact that mount points are appended

Re: high-speed disk I/O is CPU-bound?

2013-05-12 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/10/2013 09:04:44 AM, David Oostdyk wrote: Hello, I have a few relatively high-end systems with hardware RAIDs which are being used for recording systems, and I'm trying to get a better understanding of contiguous write performance. ... The question is, is it possible that high-speed

Re: [PATCH] hibernate: Correct documentation

2013-05-14 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/13/2013 07:00:03 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: From: Borislav Petkov b...@suse.de Correct the meaning of PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE in the docs, as per Rafael. Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki r...@sisk.pl Cc: Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130512162717.ga6...@pd.tnic

Re: Acceptance of proprietary kernel modules

2013-09-04 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/30/2013 09:35:18 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: Hi, over the last months I've reviewed lot's of Linux based products, mostly networking related devices like firewalls, WiFi access points, DSL routers, IPMI, etc... The vast majority of them had proprietary kernel modules loaded. I'm not

Re: [PATCH] Remove support for score architecture

2013-09-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/30/2013 09:00:35 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: The web site associated with the score architecture in MAINTAINERS is non-functional and available for sale. The last Ack from one of the maintainers was in December 2012. The main maintainer's last commit was in 2011. The last maintainer pull

Re: [PATCH] kernel-doc: Update script to find more Return: sections

2013-09-08 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/03/2013 07:34:28 PM, Joe Perches wrote: Many kernel-doc return description sections headers use variants of the Return: section prefix. (some or maybe even most of these aren't in kernel-doc sections, but many are) $ git grep -E -i ^\s*\*\s*return[s]?:| \ cut -f2- -d: | awk '{print $1

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/memory-barriers: fix a error that mistakes a CPU notion in Section Transitivity

2013-08-30 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/27/2013 05:34:22 AM, larmbr wrote: The memory-barriers document may has a error in Section TRANSITIVITY. For transitivity, see a example below, given that * CPU 2's load from X follows CPU 1's store to X, and CPU 2's load from Y preceds CPU 3's store to Y. I'd prefer somebody with a

Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: Allow j/k to move down/up the menu

2013-07-07 Thread Rob Landley
On 07/05/2013 06:32:59 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: Like in Vim. Cc: Michal Marek mma...@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com --- Unsure why nobody has done this yet. While you're at it, why don't you add the ws up and down bindings from World of Warcraft?

Re: Bluez with uclibc

2013-07-08 Thread Rob Landley
On 07/08/2013 03:06:15 AM, l...@serverphorums.com wrote: Hi, Today, I need to cross compile Bluez for arm with uclibc library into Buildroot environment. However, I meet some dependencies between bluez-utils package and MMU deactivation due to dBus. Do you know a way to use Bluez with

Re: [GIT] Networking

2013-07-08 Thread Rob Landley
On 07/07/2013 04:27:54 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: And dammit, I'd expect the VFS people to be cc'd on changes to the VFS layer functions. I wasn't, Al wasn't. Um, does that mean I should have cc'd you on the initmpfs patch series back before the merge window opened?

Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: Allow j/k to move down/up the menu

2013-07-09 Thread Rob Landley
On 07/08/2013 06:08:41 PM, Sören Brinkmann wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 06:00:05PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: On 07/05/2013 06:32:59 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: Like in Vim. Cc: Michal Marek mma...@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com --- Unsure why nobody

Re: Why does test_bit() take a volatile addr?

2013-09-22 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/15/2013 11:08:35 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: Predates git, does anyone remember the rationale? Depends which git: http://landley.net/kdocs/fullhist/ :) Rob-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Re: Linux 3.12-rc1

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/16/2013 05:08:11 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: So it's been two weeks, and the merge window for 3.12 is now closed. The git trees have been updated, the tar-balls and patches should be out too, and here's my short mergelog for the merge window: it's kind of like git shortlog, except it names

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Update x86_64/boot-options.txt

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/23/2013 02:36:57 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote: Removed obsolte parameters from boot-options.txt. Verified by grepping around in arch/x86/. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger rich...@nod.at Acked-by: Rob Landley r...@landley.net And added it as patch #33 to my documentation todo heap

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix NULL pointer dereference while loading initramfs

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/23/2013 02:41:10 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:33:53 +0530 (IST) P J P ppan...@redhat.com wrote: Make menuconfig allows one to choose compression format of an initial ramdisk image. But this choice does not result in duly compressed initial ramdisk image. Because -

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that requires binutils 2.22. Um, my toolchain is using the last gplv2 snapshot of binutils out of git, which is just past 2.17 and can build armv7 (but not armv8). Binutils 2.12-2.22 is

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that requires binutils 2.22. I'm sorry, it occurs to me I should have been more explicit: HH! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! Rob-- To

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-24 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 07:11:38 AM, Måns Rullgård wrote: Rob Landley r...@landley.net writes: On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that requires binutils 2.22. Um, my toolchain is using the last gplv2 snapshot of binutils out

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-24 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 04:48:00 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 04:23:48PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: What value is there in requiring the new toolchain? From what I could see of the commits it was micro-optimizations around memory barriers. *shrug* I can revert

Re: Copy on write hard links?

2013-09-25 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 01:36:56 PM, Thomas Meyer wrote: Hi, Is there such a thing? In the kernel's vfs layer? No, although some filesystems (ala btrfs) do things like that with snapshots. In userspace? Breaking hardlinks when updating a file is fairly normal, that's why they distinguish between

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-25 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Rob Landley wrote: On 09/24/2013 04:48:00 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: Now, if you feel strongly about this, we _could_ introduce a CONFIG_OLD_BINUTILS and give everyone their cake - but it will be fragile

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Export initial ramdisk compression config

2013-09-25 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 02:41:54 PM, P J P wrote: Hello Andrew, Thank you so much for reviewing these patches. +-- On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Andrew Morton wrote --+ | It's a bit confusing whether all this appiles to initrd, to initramfs | or to both. Can you please clarify all this and be sure that

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-26 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/25/2013 10:52:44 AM, Måns Rullgård wrote: Rob Landley r...@landley.net writes: On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: I'd strongly suggest you make your binutils compatible with newer instruction syntax instead of making the kernel more complex. Meaning I play whack-a-mole

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-26 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/25/2013 11:13:17 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Rob Landley wrote: On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: I'd strongly suggest you make your binutils compatible with newer instruction syntax instead of making the kernel more complex. Meaning I play whack

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-26 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/25/2013 03:49:07 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote: Russell King - ARM Linux li...@arm.linux.org.uk writes: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:23:06AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: It could be as simple as making gas accept an extra argument for instructions

Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

2013-07-21 Thread Rob Landley
On 07/15/2013 04:09:53 PM, Joe Perches wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 16:56 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: It may not be efficient for maintainers, but as maintainers we should spend a bit more time on stable releases. The MAINTAINERS file specifies a difference between a section that's

Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

2013-07-21 Thread Rob Landley
On 07/15/2013 09:01:56 PM, Joe Perches wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 11:54 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:50:52 -0700 Joe Perches j...@perches.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 09:42 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: Being polite without being nice is quite possible. It even has

Re: KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

2013-07-21 Thread Rob Landley
On 07/15/2013 02:27:56 PM, James Bottomley wrote: Before the 3.10.1-stable review thread degenerated into a disagreement about habits of politeness, there were some solid points being made which, I think, bear consideration and which may now be lost. The problem, as Jiří Kosina put is

Re: [PATCH 0/7] Minor Alpha updates for 3.11

2013-07-22 Thread Rob Landley
On 07/16/2013 07:03:47 PM, Michael Cree wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 06:35:07PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: On 07/16/2013 12:04:33 PM, Richard Henderson wrote: Here's a set of minor updates for arch/alpha that should not be controversial. I also note that I had to do this to get busybox

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/Changes: phase out Changes file that hasn't changed

2013-07-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 07/23/2013 05:57:15 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 01:12:55AM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: Looking at the bigger picture, the need for this file has simply passed. It was trying to detail required versions of userspace packages, in order to cater to hand-crafted

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update references to v2.6.x in development-process

2013-07-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 07/17/2013 08:34:08 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote: On 13-07-16 01:33 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:34:44 -0400 Paul Gortmaker paul.gortma...@windriver.com wrote: The last mainline release of a v2.6.x kernel was back in May 2011. Here we update references to be 3.x based,

Building sh4 without CONFIG_EXPERT.

2014-05-11 Thread Rob Landley
I got sh4 to work under QEMU years ago as part of my aboriginal linux project, which builds the smallest Linux system capable of rebuilding itself natively from source code. (You can download and run the system images from http://landley.net/aboriginal/bin if you're curious.) One of the goals of

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] init: fix race between rootfs mount and firmware loading

2014-06-15 Thread Rob Landley
On 06/15/14 06:06, Roman Pen wrote: The thing is that built-in modules are being inited before rootfs mount. Some of the modules can request firmware loading using async 'request_firmware_nowait' call just while inition, so we can catch this kind of race: rootfs does not exist yet, but we are

Re: [PATCH] Documentation cleanup, update 00-INDEX files in Documentation/

2014-02-01 Thread Rob Landley
On 01/31/14 16:24, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:24:11 -0600 Rob Landley r...@landley.net wrote: On 01/29/14 18:27, Henrik Austad wrote: Some of the 00-INDEX files are somewhat outdated and some folders does not contain 00-INDEX at all. Only outdated (with the notably exception

Re: [PATCH resend 1/2] Documentation: move all DMA documentations into Documentaion/dma

2014-01-18 Thread Rob Landley
...@drzeus.cx Cc: Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com If the DMA guys merge this before I do, I note that it needs a 00-INDEX file for the new directory. (Otherwise I can add that when I forward it.) Acked-by: Rob Landley r...@landley.net Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH resend 1/2] Documentation: move all DMA documentations into Documentaion/dma

2014-01-18 Thread Rob Landley
On 01/16/14 09:59, Vinod Koul wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 06:50:04PM +0800, hongbo.zh...@freescale.com wrote: From: Hongbo Zhang hongbo.zh...@freescale.com Since there are already seven DMA documentations under the top Documentation/, it is better to create one dedicated directory for them.

Re: powerpc32 broken by ef1313deafb7

2014-01-18 Thread Rob Landley
On 01/12/14 19:09, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Your attached config has ... CONFIG_X86_64=y CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_INSTRUCTION_DECODER=y CONFIG_OUTPUT_FORMAT=elf64-x86-64 CONFIG_ARCH_DEFCONFIG=arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig So it's probably not what you wanted :-) No, it wasn't. I

Re: ping [PATCH v3] WAN: Adding support for Lantiq PEF2256 E1 chipset (FALC56)

2014-01-19 Thread Rob Landley
On 01/19/14 13:34, Joe Perches wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 19:07 +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote: Pinging this watch as we got no feedback since 22 Nov, although we have taken into account reviews from v1 and v2. The patch adds WAN support for Lantiq FALC56 - PEF2256 E1 Chipset. ... +static

Re: [PATCH] use initmpfs even if there's root= cmdline

2013-12-18 Thread Rob Landley
On 12/12/13 20:38, Dave Young wrote: On 12/12/13 at 05:25pm, Dave Young wrote: Current code use ramfs instead of tmpfs for stub when root= defined. But for real use case with initramfs, usually there's like cmdline like root=UUID=$UUID the root dev is the real device. For that case we have

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