Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-16 Thread Larry McVoy
cussion on a > classical music performance stage. They usually > have about ten or twenty suspended microphones over > the stage. Then, you'd just need to mix the audio. As one of the guys who was passing the mike around, I am a fan of the directional mike. If you have eve

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-16 Thread Larry McVoy
n in the audience said or need to go to a > "hand raising/acknowledgement" to create a pause > during which the microphone could be redirected. Yeah, but that is still way way way faster than walking across the room to hand someone a mike. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at

Re: ANNOUNCE New Open Source X server

2001-04-18 Thread Larry McVoy
.\" Take this out and a Unix Demon will dog your steps from now until .\" the time_t's wrap around. .sp You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-18 Thread Larry McVoy
x27;s the set of ideas. I'm ashamed to admit that I don't really know how close kiobufs are to this. I am interested in hearing what you all think, but especially what the people think who have been playing around with kiobufs and sendfile. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-22 Thread Larry McVoy
p working when the comment becomes incorrect. It's incredibly frustrating to read a comment, believe you understand what is going on, only to find out that the comment and the code no longer match. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To u

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-22 Thread Larry McVoy
ther words, the prefix implies the structure name. Early versions of the C compiler had all structure fields (I mean _all_) in one name space so this wasn't style, it was required. I must say that it makes code more readable. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Darkstar Development Project

2000-09-11 Thread Larry McVoy
0maxresident)k === linuxppc_2_2 === Nothing to pull. 0.02user 0.05system 0:01.20elapsed 5%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k === linuxppc_2_3 === Nothing to pull. 0.09user 0.01system 0:01.60elapsed 6%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k -- --- Larry McVoy[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Darkstar Development Project

2000-09-11 Thread Larry McVoy
ernel, which means you update and then update again, timing the second update to get some idea of the system's best case throughput, are: CVS: 139.5 seconds BK:1.6 seconds The BK tree is the 2.3 kernel tree maintained by FSMlabs. -- --- Larry McVoy[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Darkstar Development Project

2000-09-11 Thread Larry McVoy
. You can get the old release at the same port number as the web server (the BK server serves up HTTP and the BK protocol). We put each release on that port as we release it. If you need more current access, you need to talk to us, we'll give you an ssh account if it is the right thing t

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Darkstar Development Project

2000-09-11 Thread Larry McVoy
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 02:08:42PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:55:01PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > Err, "faster"? The following is the moral equiv of 4 kernel updates > > > which had nothing to do using BitKeeper instead of CVS

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Darkstar Development Project

2000-09-11 Thread Larry McVoy
know that 4 files were updated 2 were moved, and 5 were created, then I move those *portions* of those files across the wire. Other than the initial repository create (aka cvs checkout), BK *never* moves an entire file across the wire. Never means never and includes the process of deciding what to do

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Darkstar Development Project

2000-09-11 Thread Larry McVoy
aven't modified the files. We don't use it because of NFS screwing up timestamps. I suppose we could enable it on a per repository basis so that if you knew you were running NTP or some other thing to keep your time stamps right, then we could diff as fast as we can stat.

Re: Bitkeeper vs. CVS update times (was Darkstar Development Project)

2000-09-11 Thread Larry McVoy
d that it isn't faster and we're working on it, and will keep working on it until it can't be any faster. It's fast enough when you can imagine the best way to solve a problem, count up the number of disk accesses required for that solution, count up BK's disk accesses,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Darkstar Development Project

2000-09-11 Thread Larry McVoy
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 12:24:26AM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Larry McVoy wrote: > > We have a hack in BK for this, at least I think we do, where we can look at > > the time stamps to notice that you haven't modified the files. We don't > > use it because of

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Darkstar Development Project

2000-09-11 Thread Larry McVoy
odes. CVS is lighter weight in that respect, it just needs the 120MB for the checked out files and some mem for inodes. But the difference in price is reasonable and if we have to buy memory for the kernel developers, we'll do it once we can afford to do it. It's _really_ nice to me

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Darkstar Development Project

2000-09-11 Thread Larry McVoy
Note: trimmed the 390 list, they don't care according to Alan.. On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 12:21:16AM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Larry McVoy wrote: > > That's a benefit [for BK] of having changesets, I only need to compare > > the ChangeSet file to know that 4 files were

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Darkstar Development Project

2000-09-11 Thread Larry McVoy
ion it will be slower. But I'm very happy to do it if the lxr guy (sorry, I've forgotten your name, I apologize) is willing. Send me private mail, it shouldn't take very long at all to get you set up. -- --- Larry McVoy[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bitmover.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Darkstar Development Project

2000-09-11 Thread Larry McVoy
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:44:52PM -0400, James Lewis Nance wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 03:45:18PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > the 120MB for the checked out files and some mem for inodes. But the > > difference in price is reasonable and if we have to buy memory

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Darkstar Development Project

2000-09-11 Thread Larry McVoy
e, but many can make a lot. BK takes advantage of that and does the hard work when you do hard work, not every time you update. It's just a different design, no offense is intended against CVS, we have all used and learned from CVS. But just because CVS is useful doesn't m

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-17 Thread Larry McVoy
d anything else; and in general, you shouldn't either. You should *know* why you got to a particular place, if you don't know that then how can you fix the bug? So I'm gonna side with Linus on this one, if you make it hard now, it will be easier later. It also increases the qualit

Re: FreeBSD's new zero-copy networking

2000-09-18 Thread Larry McVoy
ewing up the transfer. > Best to use aio_write etc. so you know when the transfer > is done, so you can reuse the buffer. > > They've gotten 960 megabits/sec out of a gigabit Ethernet card > with this. Not stable yet. Didn't daveme get the same speed using

Re: FreeBSD's new zero-copy networking

2000-09-18 Thread Larry McVoy
ad a little about them at ftp.bitmover.com://pub/splice.ps, that's where they came from. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: LMbench 2.4.0-test10pre-SMP vs. 2.2.18pre-SMP

2000-10-24 Thread Larry McVoy
arefully designed timing harness which makes sure that other system activity doesn't affect the results. So two runs at the same time will very likely give the same results as two sequential runs. If this isn't true, someone tell me. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.co

Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

2000-10-31 Thread Larry McVoy
M 22M 0 2.0K00 0 0 0 14K 28K 16K 2.9K 1 65 34 It works out to an average of 10.4MB/sec per client or 41.6MB/sec on the server on a PCI/32 @ 33Mhz bus. Same Ghz server. Note the idle cycles, bandwidth is a lot easier than latency. Hope this is useful to someone. -- --- La

Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

2000-10-31 Thread Larry McVoy
r and I'll publicly apologize for ever doubting your statements. On the other hand, if the answers to that are not all "yes", then how about you do a little truth in advertising with your postings? Without it, they are misleading to the point of being purposefully deceptive.

Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

2000-10-31 Thread Larry McVoy
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:38:00PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Larry McVoy wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:15:37PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > The quality of the networking code in Linux is quite excellent. There's > > > some scaling problems rel

Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

2000-10-31 Thread Larry McVoy
tworking operating system, it should be the work of a few minutes to download LMbench, compile it, and come back with the lat_tcp performance numbers which "kicks Linux's but". Please do so. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To uns

Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

2000-10-31 Thread Larry McVoy
the math. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-08 Thread Larry McVoy
n't big iron and never will be, so something approximating 99% of the effort should be going towards the common platforms, not the uncommon ones. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-14 Thread Larry McVoy
anyone does this, I'll be pissed as hell because I wanted to do it, but happy that it's getting done. If you look at lmbench, it's basically designed to measure all the crud that you would need to make this sort of thing go fast. So I've been thinking about this for a

Re: [Korbit-cvs] Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-14 Thread Larry McVoy
ial, start with this as a guide: /* * tcp_xact.c - simple TCP transaction latency test * * Three programs in one - * server usage: tcp_xact -s * client usage: tcp_xact hostname * shutdown: tcp_xact -hostname * * Copyright (c) 1994 Larry McVoy. Distributed under the FSF GP

Re: Is there a Linux trademark issue with sun?

2000-12-15 Thread Larry McVoy
er (all the Sun old timers call him Scooter, I dunno where it came from, I wasn't enough of an old timer). And, yeah, he does a lot of marketing. But in many respects, he's the perfect CEO. He's always out in public, pushing the message, and he tends to leave the day to day stuff to th

fs corruption in 2.4.0-test11?

2000-12-20 Thread Larry McVoy
case over and over if that would help find it. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://w

2.4-test5 mkisofs corruption

2000-12-25 Thread Larry McVoy
: Matrox Matrox G200 AGP (rev 1). -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: high load & poor interactivity on fast thread creation

2000-12-27 Thread Larry McVoy
u share: > What is shared is not a programming design decision but an OS performance > decision. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux

Re: Proposal: Linux Kernel Patch Management System

2000-09-14 Thread Larry McVoy
>Isn't this "new" patch maintenance system much like bitkeeper? > > Heh. I'm surprised Larry hasn't jumped into this discussion by now. Hi, here I am. I hadn't resubscribed to the list after it switched from rutgers. Sheesh, I leave you guys alone for five minutes and you go off and r

Re: Proposal: Linux Kernel Patch Management System

2000-09-14 Thread Larry McVoy
> > that bitkeeper has. The problem with bitkeeper is that it's **so** > > different from CVS that it takes time to learn --- I spent a day getting > > my head wrapped around it, and I still wouldn't call myself an expert; > > Another problem is that bitkeeper has not been through a security aud

Re: Proposal: Linux Kernel Patch Management System

2000-09-14 Thread Larry McVoy
ositories require neither money or the logging (and you can make multiple people appear as one)? Do you know that we routinely grant waivers to people who have legit needs for !openlogging but no money? -- --- Larry McVoy[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bitmover.com/lm -

Re: Proposal: Linux Kernel Patch Management System

2000-09-14 Thread Larry McVoy
direct result of your (and other's) feedback. If you are going to make strong statements about it in a public forum where your word carries substantial weight, isn't it reasonable to ask that you are up to date? -- --- Larry McVoy[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bit

Re: Why does everyone hate gcc 2.95?

2000-10-03 Thread Larry McVoy
to fork gcc? Can you say STUPID?), and you start to understand why the first thing I do is remove all that garbage and put back a reasonable compiler. I'm not impressed. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: CVS for kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Larry McVoy
ll do it. If it's 3 people, hey, kick Dave to make the CVS tree work... -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: CVS for kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Larry McVoy
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 01:25:55PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:21:31 -0700, > Larry McVoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >If there is any amount of interest in this, I think we have a hack where > >we can repeatedly import a CVS repository and

Re: New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Larry McVoy
with your opinion. My opinion used to be the opposite and the traces moved me to this opinion. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Larry McVoy
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:21:00AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:23:30AM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > Well, I know quite well what this can bring us - with precise profiling > > > we c

Re: New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Larry McVoy
As someone pointed out, the URLs I sent are wrong, they are http://www.bitmover.com/disks/bw.gif http://www.bitmover.com/disks/seek.gif I forgot the disks part. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this

bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-01 Thread Larry McVoy
Folks, since bug tracking is the next thing we are attacking here at BitMover, I have a great deal of interest in the bug tracking discussion which happened last night at the summit. We already have a prototyped bug tracking system which we are integrating into BitKeeper, but as usual, it isn't g

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-23 Thread Larry McVoy
s" represents a class of related functions. They all tend to take a point to an instance of that "class". So then you can read the code and see the "classes" in the names. And, this way, I can piss off both the anti underscore and the anti mixed case people a

bkbits.net is down

2005-04-11 Thread Larry McVoy
Seems to have crashed, we don't know the cause yet. Is there anyone who is dependent on this tonight? If so I'll drive down and fix it (yeah, very lame of us, we moved it to a different rack which was too far away from our remote power so I can't power cycle it remotely. Our bad.) Let me know,

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread Larry McVoy
aka interface), replace it with completely different code, and get substantially the same behaviour. A device driver is a good example. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread Larry McVoy
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:30:20PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:30:38AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > By running the software covered by this license, you agree to > > become my personal slave and you will be obligated to bring > > m

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread Larry McVoy
it's about putting unenforceable things into contracts. It's also about the concept of boundaries - if you think that that concept is not a legal one then why aren't all programs which are run on top of a GPLed kernel then GPLed? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at b

Re: [patch]: ide dma timeout retry in pio

2001-05-28 Thread Larry McVoy
n't seem to get fixed. We seem to get lots of chip sets almost working and then move on to the next one. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body o

2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-12 Thread Larry McVoy
Folks, I believe I have a reproducible test case which corrupts data in 2.4.5. We do nightly, weekly, and monthly backups by copying our entire /home partition on the company file server: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 1.9G 1.7G 123M 93% / /dev/hd

double entries in /proc/dri?

2001-06-12 Thread Larry McVoy
This is cute: $ ls -li /proc ... 4106 -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dma 4347 dr-xr-xr-x3 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dri 4347 dr-xr-xr-x3 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dri 4121 dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Jun 12 1

Re: BKCVS broken ?

2005-03-17 Thread Larry McVoy
Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /bk-cvsexport/src/UPDATE Read from remote host master.kernel.org: Connection timed out On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:45:22PM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > The current bkcvs export is broken, several recent changesets are > missing from it. -- --- Larry M

Re: BKCVS broken ?

2005-03-17 Thread Larry McVoy
wamping us. Don't worry about the license, it's a joke. BSD license OK with everyone? -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: BKCVS broken ?

2005-03-17 Thread Larry McVoy
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:50:40PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote: > On Thu Mar 17, 2005 at 04:10:53PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > I got swamped, I'll look at this after dinner. But you might take a look > > at this: http://www.bitkeeper.com/press/2005-03-17.html which is

Re: BKCVS broken ?

2005-03-18 Thread Larry McVoy
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:00:49AM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:38:53PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > Hey, it's open source, I'm hoping that people will take that code and > > evolve it do whatever they need. We're willing to do what

Re: BKCVS broken ?

2005-03-19 Thread Larry McVoy
It should be fixed now, I'm running a full tree compare to validate that. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Larry McVoy
Sigh. Roman, I started to write a reply but in reading over the thread I realized you are just grinding your ax and have nothing new to say. Sorry, go bother someone else, I'm busy. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Larry McVoy
o create a competing system. That skates you right up agains the license restrictions but those restrictions are simply not a problem for people who are just trying to get their job done. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Larry McVoy
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:43:44PM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 03:38:41PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 08:38:48PM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > > > > Nope: he digs the bk-commit mailing list archives. > > > >

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Larry McVoy
ce, I can't help that, but it is technically challenging, far more so than most people realize and that makes it fun. If we get a new hire from the kernel list I'll stick the changeset markers into the CVS tree so you can group the patches, I can see where that might be helpful f

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Larry McVoy
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:17:30PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > I think you are dreaming. You've gone from wanting enough information > > to supposedly debug your source tree to being explicit about wanting

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Larry McVoy
Roman. All I need is a cooperating third party who is willing to give me your code under a different (albeit invalid) license. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Larry McVoy
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:47:49AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > Nice, Roman. All I need is a cooperating third party who is willing to > > give me your code under a different (albeit invalid) license. > > S

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Larry McVoy
rying to tell us to change our license. The point you missed was that that's the same as me telling you to change the GPL for my benefit. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ke

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Larry McVoy
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:17:48PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: > > You know, you could change all this. Instead of complaining that we > > are somehow hurting you, which virtually 100% of the readers know is > > nonsense, you

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Larry McVoy
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:13:48PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Are you saying that it is now OK to write scripts that would bit bang > on > the bkbits http interface to fetch patches/comments with the purpose > of > populating an alternate scm? Andreas tried that a while ago but you > threatened

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Larry McVoy
e a board that would promptly fire me if I did. OK, that's it for me, I have to go work on slides for a talk so have the big fun, I'm signing off on this thread. Cheers, -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Larry McVoy
, while hard, have some very satisfying mathematical qualities and that's really fun coming from the kernel background where things are far less deterministic. You can actually write proofs about how things work for a change. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-10 Thread Larry McVoy
;s true, we don't. What you aren't admitting is that we have done a lot of good for your community, we continue to provide the tools, the support, the infrastructure, and we do it in spite of it not being a very good business decision. If we get no credit in your mind for all of

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Larry McVoy
we'll shut it down. On the other hand, if you can't achieve that consensus then perhaps you might consider broadening your definition of "help" to include something other than "more GPLed source". -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com htt

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Larry McVoy
t possible to create a useful tree. You are also right that figuring out the merges is a pain. So what? We never said that we'd figure out how to do all this well and then teach you how to do it well. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Larry McVoy
to help you. > If you have consensus that it isn't helping then we'll shut it down. > > On the other hand, if you can't achieve that consensus then perhaps you > might consider broadening your definition of "help" to include something > other than "

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Larry McVoy
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:56:02AM -0800, none given wrote: > On Fri, February 11, 2005 11:18 am, Larry McVoy said: > >The mails have started flowing in saying "I don't agree with Alexandre > >and please don't pull the plug" so a point of clarification. We ha

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Larry McVoy
em you wouldn't care, you already have the CVS tree, it has 96% of the deltas that the BK tree has. 96%. So you are trying to tell us all that you need the last 4% of the deltas so you can create a *different* system than BK? Come on, gimme a break already, you aren't fooling anyone. -- ---

[BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-13 Thread Larry McVoy
d here, we really like kernel hackers, but if you don't want to that's cool too). -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL P

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:08:20AM -0500, Jeff Sipek wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:08:58PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:08:02 -0800, Larry McVoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > is to clarify the non-compete stuff. We

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
nd the obligations of those terms. That payment may be unacceptable to you, which is your choice. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
a blanket do-not-reverse-engineer no matter who you are. We tried to be specific so that we were restricting the tiny subset of the world that wants to hack SCM, not everyone else. Because that's different than standard language we get screamed at. What you aren't figuring out

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
ssell Miller wrote: > It is certainly Larry's choice to license his software any way he chooses. > > It is my choice whether or not to use it. Yup, it is. Always has been even for the kernel because of our hard work to make sure of that. We respect your choices, please respect ours. --

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
peated outrage over the restrictions isn't any more fun for me than it is for you. Any answer, however, has to take our issues into consideration as well as yours. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: se

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
-company.com, not my-workstation.my-company.com). http://www.bitkeeper.com/domains.html is a listing of the domains which have used bk-3.2.3 in the last 4 months. It's slightly less than the claimed 2,200 because we looked only at the bk-3.2.3 usage. -- --- Larry McVoy

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
00 of these a day for more than a year. It's around one per minute. We either fix the license or leave it as is, we're not able to do side agreements with everyone that asks. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from thi

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
e could care less, they just want checkin/checkout. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http:

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
s valuable I can look into putting it up on bkbits.net. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
we'd certainly be willing to flip to your way on a case by case basis. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More major

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
ecides to go elsewhere, we are stuck. So don't do the > crippled version if it hurts Linus. > > -- Steve > -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

Re: kernel CVS troubles with cvsps

2005-01-26 Thread Larry McVoy
ed that it is simpler > > to write a shell script to generate the diffs rather than modifying > > cvsps). > > Thanks for the confirmation. To me this hour difference looks like a bug > in bkcvs. It would be nice to get it fixed so we don't have to > workaround i

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-03 Thread Larry McVoy
hine to run it on. (Larry: is > it a matter of memory or of CPU or both? If nothing else we should > have the old kernel.org server, dual P3/1133 with 6 GB RAM, coming > free soon.) > > Please let me know if there is something that should be put on > kernel.org; we can hos

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-03 Thread Larry McVoy
> As Peter said, once every 6 hours is fine. Or even more often, what > the heck, as I said in a previous post I don't think an incremental > export is that much costly. It could be done at the same time as > the -bkX patches... I'll see what I can do. > Speaking from the out-BK point of view, wh

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-03 Thread Larry McVoy
ion, it was a choice that I made because I wanted to help Linus. And it worked. That ought to have some value in your eyes. Maybe enough to respect our terms. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-04 Thread Larry McVoy
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:01:27PM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:28:54PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > > CVS BitKeeper [*] > > > > Deltas 235,956 280,212 > > > > > > Indee

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-04 Thread Larry McVoy
when we do this we'll reexport the 2.4 and 2.5 histories from scratch so you get the info going backwards in time. So, do you think you can sign up the usual suspects to being happy with this answer? And do you mind spelling out exactly what it is that you think is being offered so there

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-04 Thread Larry McVoy
it belonged you could split the coarse commit into the sub patches which happened on the collapsed branch. You wouldn't get 100% of the information but you'd have 96% of it in a way that could be used for debugging, which is what I suspect you are after. If that's not good en

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-05 Thread Larry McVoy
; and we could generate the missing branches based on them. Does that mean you don't need anything from us? -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-06 Thread Larry McVoy
ble that you find yourself at something of a disadvantage because of that choice. And the disadvantage is very slight as has been shown. You can argue all you want about the amount of disadvantage but it is your choice that has placed you in that position. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bi

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-06 Thread Larry McVoy
lp. What is that you say? It's hard? It's way harder if we don't give you a roadmap? Well gosh darn, that must really suck for you. I'm really sorry that you can't figure it out without our help but that's sort of the whole point, isn't it? -- --- Larry McVoy

Re: BKCVS still updated?

2005-02-25 Thread Larry McVoy
> He should be back now, maybe he can tell us more about what happened ? We had a nameserver problem and the machine dedicated to this didn't get updated with a new resolve.conf. It's fixed now and updating, probably be there in an hour. -- --- Larry McVoylm at

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