Re: [dm-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 11/12] documentation: Add IPE Documentation

2020-04-14 Thread Jonathan Corbet
to pick, but nothing really substantive to complain about, so: Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet [...] > +IPE is a Linux Security Module, which allows for a configurable policy I'd drop the comma (I told you these were nits!) [...] > +IPE Policy > +~~ > + > +IPE policy is de

Re: [dm-devel] [wi...@infradead.org: Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm: Add memalloc_nowait]

2020-07-01 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 05:13:16 +0100 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > -It turned out though that above approach has led to > > > -abuses when the restricted gfp mask is used "just in case" without a > > > -deeper consideration which leads to problems because an excessive use > > > -of GFP_NOFS/GFP_NOIO c

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 00/13] Documentation/admin-guide: eliminate duplicated words

2020-07-05 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 20:20:07 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > Remove duplicated words from Documentation/admin-guide/ files. > > > Cc: Jonathan Corbet > Cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org > Cc: cgro...@vger.kernel.org > Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com > Cc: Mauro Carvalh

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: LVM

2020-07-05 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 12:31:38 +0200 "Alexander A. Klimov" wrote: > Rationale: > Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM > as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate. > > Deterministic algorithm: > For each file: > If not .svg: > For each line: > If doesn't

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 10/57] docs: device-mapper: convert it to ReST format

2019-04-16 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 09:28:52 -0400 Mike Snitzer wrote: > Can you help me understand why this is the direction text based > Documenation is taking in the Linux kernel? All I see is markup, and > escaping of characters, that is a chore to administer over time. This is a discussion that was mostly

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 10/57] docs: device-mapper: convert it to ReST format

2019-04-16 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:48:59 -0400 Mike Snitzer wrote: > Think the last piece I'm missing is: how does one edit a .rst document > without having to know to sprinkle syntactic sugar around? Does emacs > have a ReST mode? If not what client interface are people using to > properly change these do

Re: [dm-devel] Avoiding merge conflicts while adding new docs - Was: Re: [PATCH 00/57] Convert files to ReST

2019-04-19 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 09:42:23 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > After thinking a little bit and doing some tests, I think a good solution > would be to add ":orphan:" markup to the new .rst files that were not > added yet into the main body (e. g. something like the enclosed example). Interest

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v2 56/79] docs: Documentation/*.txt: rename all ReST files to *.rst

2019-04-23 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:11:58 +0200 Peter Zijlstra wrote: > When writing, I now have to be bothered about this format crap over just > trying to write a coherent document. Just write text, it'll all work out in the end :) > Look at crap like this: > > "The memory allocations via :c:func:`kmallo

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v2 56/79] docs: Documentation/*.txt: rename all ReST files to *.rst

2019-04-23 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:01:32 +0200 Peter Zijlstra wrote: > But yes, I have 0 motivation to learn or abide by rst. It simply doesn't > give me anything in return. There is no upside, only worse text files :/ So I believe it gives even you one thing in return: documentation that is more accessible

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v2 56/79] docs: Documentation/*.txt: rename all ReST files to *.rst

2019-04-24 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 17:19:44 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Anyway, one of the things that occurred to me is that maybe > some scripting work or a ReST extension could do something to parse > "Documentation/foo" as :doc:`Documentation/foo` without needing to > explicitly use any ReST speci

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v2 56/79] docs: Documentation/*.txt: rename all ReST files to *.rst

2019-04-24 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 23:38:16 +0200 Borislav Petkov wrote: > But exactly this - *having* to do rst formatting would mean a lot of > getting used to and people writing something which is not necessarily > correct rst and someone else fixing up after them. Remember that most of our docs are 99% RST

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/dm-init: fix multi device example

2019-06-07 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 15:27:19 -0300 Helen Koike wrote: > The example in the docs regarding multiple device-mappers is invalid (it > has a wrong number of arguments), it's a left over from previous > versions of the patch. > Replace the example with an valid and tested one. > > Signed-off-by: Hele

Re: [PATCH v2] dm dust: convert documentation to ReST

2019-10-10 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 13:24:49 -0400 Bryan Gurney wrote: > Convert the dm-dust documentation to ReST formatting, using literal > blocks for all of the shell command, shell output, and log output > examples. > > Add dm-dust to index.rst. > > Additionally, fix an annotation in the "querying for spe

Re: [dm-devel] docs: device-mapper: Add dm-clone to documentation index

2019-11-26 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:16:13 -0500 Mike Snitzer wrote: > I already staged this for 5.5 here: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=dm-5.5&id=484e0d2b11e1fdd0d17702b282eb2ed56148385f > > But I don't plan to send to Linus for a week or 2... > > If

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] [linux-next] Doc: dm raid: Fix typo in dm-raid.txt

2016-10-21 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:17:10 +0900 Masanari Iida wrote: > This patch fix spelling typos in Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt. Applied to the docs tree, thanks. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] Documentation: device-mapper: cache.txt: Fix typos

2017-03-19 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 03:04:24 +0530 sayli karnik wrote: > The patch fixes a spelling error (hexidecimal->hexadecimal). FYI, normal changelog style favors an imperative mood and avoiding terms like "this patch". So I changed the above to: Fix a spelling error (hexidecimal->hexadecimal)

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature

2018-10-12 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 11:31:31 +0300 Nikolay Borisov wrote: > Commit ef548c551e72 ("dm flakey: introduce "error_writes" feature") > added the ability to dm flakey to error out writes in contrast to > silently dropping it with 'drop_writes'. Unfortunately this feature > is not currently documented a

Re: [PATCH 0/9] Documentation: correct lots of spelling errors (series 2)

2023-02-02 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Randy Dunlap writes: > Maintainers of specific kernel subsystems are only Cc-ed on their > respective patches, not the entire series. [if all goes well] > > These patches are based on linux-next-20230127. So I've applied a bunch of these > [PATCH 1/9] Documentation: admin-guide: correct spelli

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 0/9] Documentation: correct lots of spelling errors (series 2)

2023-02-02 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Bart Van Assche writes: > On 2/2/23 10:33, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On 2/2/23 10:09, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >>> Randy Dunlap writes: >>>> [PATCH 6/9] Documentation: scsi/ChangeLog*: correct spelling >>>> [PATCH 7/9] Documentation: scsi: correct spe

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v3 3/4] Document dm-integrity default values.

2023-06-05 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Bagas Sanjaya writes: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2023 at 12:06:03PM -0700, Russell Harmon wrote: >> Specifically: >> interleave_sectors = 32768 >> buffer_sectors = 128 >> block_size = 512 >> journal_watermark = 50 >> commit_time = 1 > > Your patch description duplicates the diff content belo