Re: Wrong -dirty suffix set by setlocalversion (was: BUG in git diff-index)

2018-05-24 Thread Marc Herbert
On 24/05/2018 16:03, Mike Mason wrote: > diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion > index 71f39410691b..9da4c5e83285 100755 > --- a/scripts/setlocalversion > +++ b/scripts/setlocalversion > @@ -73,8 +73,10 @@ scm_version() > printf -- '-svn%s' "`git svn

Re: [PATCH] Remove silentoldconfig from "make help"; fix kconfig/conf's help

2018-01-26 Thread Marc Herbert
Masahiro, On 17/01/2018 20:31, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > Sorry for my late reply. I think we're even now :-) >> I'd like to keep that sentence because it's there to explain the legacy and >> confusing "--silentoldconfig" name which unfortunately still sticks out in >> the *current* conf.c inter

[PATCH v3] Remove silentoldconfig from help and docs; fix kconfig/conf's help

2018-01-26 Thread Marc Herbert
com/835632 Don't remove it from kconfig/Makefile yet not to break any (other) tool using it. On the other hand, correct and expand its description in the help of the (internal) scripts/kconfig/conf.c Signed-off-by: Marc Herbert --- v2: rewordings (Masahiro) v3: remove from Documentation/ t

[PATCH v2] Remove silentoldconfig from "make help"; fix kconfig/conf's help

2018-01-17 Thread Marc Herbert
32 On the other hand, correct and expand its description in the help of scripts/kconfig/conf.c Signed-off-by: Marc Herbert --- v2: rewordings (Masahiro) scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 5 ++--- scripts/kconfig/conf.c | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/scrip

Re: [PATCH] Remove silentoldconfig from "make help"; fix kconfig/conf's help

2018-01-12 Thread Marc Herbert
Masahiro, On 09/01/2018 23:17, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > "(oldconfig used to be more verbose)" >The historical background is git. >If people are interested in archeology, >they would be able to do it by "git log", "git blame", etc. >We are generally interested in the current

Re: [PATCH] Remove silentoldconfig from "make help"; fix kconfig/conf's help

2018-01-05 Thread Marc Herbert
On 04/01/2018 09:21, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > (+CC Michal's new address) > > 2017-12-19 10:26 GMT+09:00 Marc Herbert : >> As explained by Michal Marek at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/31/189 >> silentoldconfig has become a misnomer. It has become an internal >> inte

[PATCH] Remove silentoldconfig from "make help"; fix kconfig/conf's help

2017-12-18 Thread Marc Herbert
trying to use it as seen for instance at https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/271688 On the other hand, correct and expand its description in the help of scripts/kconfig/conf.c Signed-off-by: Marc Herbert --- scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 1 - scripts/kconfig/conf.c | 5 - 2 files ch

Wrong -dirty suffix set by setlocalversion (was: BUG in git diff-index)

2017-09-27 Thread Marc Herbert
+ linux-kbuild list which is not in the output of: ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f scripts/setlocalversion ... but seems relevant anyway. On 31/03/16 13:39, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Andy Lowry writes: > >> So I think now that the script should do "update-index --refresh" >> followed by "diff-in

Re: BUG in git diff-index

2017-09-26 Thread Marc Herbert
On 31/03/16 13:39, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Andy Lowry writes: > >> So I think now that the script should do "update-index --refresh" >> followed by "diff-index --quiet HEAD". Sound correct? > > Yes. That has always been one of the kosher ways for any script to > make sure that the files in the

Re: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups

2017-06-21 Thread Marc Herbert
On 20/06/17 17:12, Prarit Bhargava wrote: >>> Hmm ... odd that I haven't seen this. We're running a pretty wide >>> variety of systems here. Do you have a reproducer? I'd like to see >>> this occur on production HW. "Production" is where this patch was born and still lives right now: https://c