[Xen-devel] Patch added to scsi: scsi: xen-scsifront: Remove code that zeroes driver-private command data

2017-06-15 Thread James Bottomley
scsi.git;a=commit;h=f7de50da1479156d76c0dd3c29234a44bc4845f0 This patch is scheduled to be pushed when the merge window opens for 4.13 James Bottomley P.S. If you find this email unwanted, set up a procmail rule junking on the header: X-Git-Tree: SCSI _

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 08/29] drivers, md: convert mddev.active from atomic_t to refcount_t

2017-03-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 12:29 +, Reshetova, Elena wrote: > > Elena Reshetova writes: > > > > > refcount_t type and corresponding API should be > > > used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as > > > a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental > > > refcounter overflows that m

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v3 00/13] linux: generalize sections, ranges and linker tables

2016-08-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 21:51 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Aug 9, 2016 7:09 PM, "James Bottomley" < > james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 15:24 +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > > > > table developmen

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v3 00/13] linux: generalize sections, ranges and linker tables

2016-08-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2016-08-15 at 21:15 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > This is the module tag ... it says what licence the module is > > under, not the licence for the module combined with the kernel, > > which is always GPLv2 because the stricter licence rules. > > Because if I build a BSD licensed module agai

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v3 00/13] linux: generalize sections, ranges and linker tables

2016-08-09 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 15:24 +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > > table development go under copyleft-next, Rusty recently asked for > > code to go in prior to the license tag being added denoting this > > license as GPL-compatible [3] -- I had noted in the patch > > submission which annotated c

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table

2016-03-01 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2016-02-29 at 10:12 +, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 05:45 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > This ports built-in firmware to use linker tables, > > this replaces the custom section solution with a > > generic solution. > > > > This also demos the use of the .rodata (

Re: [Xen-devel] RIP MTRR - status update for upcoming v4.2

2015-06-12 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 16:15 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Jun 12, 2015 12:59 AM, "Jan Beulich" wrote: > > > > >>> On 12.06.15 at 01:23, wrote: > > > There are two usages on MTRRs: > > > 1) MTRR entries set by firmware > > > 2) MTRR entries set by OS drivers > > > > > > We can obsolete 2),

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [SCSI] libsas: Kconfig: Enable SATA compatibility by default

2015-05-06 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2015-05-01 at 15:36 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > SATA controllers support SATA disks. The kernel should be able to > drive these, by default. It should not silently (apart from a > debugging-only printk) ignore them. To be honest, this is a bit pointless: no distribution takes the kernel