Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-27 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 11:35:22 pm Rusty Russell wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:22 -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > > On Monday 23 July 2007 9:01:48 pm Rusty Russell wrote: > > > > IOW, I'd be interested in hearing Rob and Randy's opinions on it all, > > > > please. > > > > > > So they can see wha

Re: [LINUX POETRY] Boring limeriks (was: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation)

2007-07-25 Thread Carlo Florendo
Carlo Florendo wrote: Alan Cox wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:24:17 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I thought limericks were supposed to be dirty... :) If I post limericks that are dirty Someone is bound to get shirty They'll rant and they'll rage for page after page Instead of c

Re: [LINUX POETRY] Boring limeriks (was: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation)

2007-07-25 Thread Carlo Florendo
Alan Cox wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:24:17 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I thought limericks were supposed to be dirty... :) If I post limericks that are dirty Someone is bound to get shirty They'll rant and they'll rage for page after page Instead of coding new drivers to he

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-25 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:22 -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > On Monday 23 July 2007 9:01:48 pm Rusty Russell wrote: > > > IOW, I'd be interested in hearing Rob and Randy's opinions on it all, > > > please. > > > > So they can see what we're talking about, here's an example of the > > output: > > > >

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-25 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 23 July 2007 9:01:48 pm Rusty Russell wrote: > > IOW, I'd be interested in hearing Rob and Randy's opinions on it all, > > please. > > So they can see what we're talking about, here's an example of the > output: > > http://lguest.ozlabs.org/lguest-journey.c.bz2 Er, so you read the

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-25 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 23 July 2007 10:21:13 pm Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:12:38 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:17:58 +1000 > > > > Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking > > > HOWTO. Noone ev

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-24 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 13:04 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Dear Rusty I think that we know > Your code has good things to show > But an unreliable guide > To the poetic aside > Would probably steal the show That and your (slightly dated?) mm documentation were awesome. But can we stop now? Please? Rus

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-24 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:00:28 +0100 Alan Cox wrote: > > P.S. I am currently considering a no-limericks policy for the LWN quote > > of the week. > > The LWN quote of the week > Is I think rather weak > No poems allowed > To rise from the crowd > Its future looks terribly bleak > > More seriously

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-24 Thread Alan Cox
> P.S. I am currently considering a no-limericks policy for the LWN quote > of the week. The LWN quote of the week Is I think rather weak No poems allowed To rise from the crowd Its future looks terribly bleak More seriously the documentation looks good, and it definitely wants a date/release cle

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-24 Thread Jonathan Corbet
> Items for consideration would be: > > - if this stuff is good, shouldn't other code be using it? If so, is > this new infrastructure in the correct place? > > - if, otoh, this infrastructure is _not_ suitable for other code, well, > what was wrong with it? > > - if the requirement is good

Re: Boring limeriks (was: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation)

2007-07-24 Thread Al Boldi
Andi Kleen wrote: > Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There once was a list called lkml > > Which had subscribers that were rather bored > > They lost out to the bore > > And as time passed by > > They saw the competition fly by. > > Well I guess limericks are better than random user space o

Re: Boring limeriks (was: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation)

2007-07-24 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:24:17 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought limericks were supposed to be dirty... :) If I post limericks that are dirty Someone is bound to get shirty They'll rant and they'll rage for page after page Instead of coding new drivers to help me - To unsu

Re: Boring limeriks (was: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation)

2007-07-24 Thread Andi Kleen
Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There once was a list called lkml > Which had subscribers that were rather bored > They lost out to the bore > And as time passed by > They saw the competition fly by. Well I guess limericks are better than random user space only issues (like your recent p

Re: Boring limeriks (was: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation)

2007-07-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
I thought limericks were supposed to be dirty... :) - 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://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Boring limeriks (was: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation)

2007-07-24 Thread Al Boldi
People bored wrote: > > > > There once was a virtualization coder, > > > > Whose patches kept getting older, > > > > Each time upstream would drop, > > > > His documentation would slightly rot, : : > > > There once was a man they called rusty > > > Who patches were terribly crusty > > > Though

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-24 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:28:14 +1000 Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 10:52 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > There once was a virtualization coder, > > > Whose patches kept getting older, > > > Each time upstream would drop, > > > His documentation would slightly rot,

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-24 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 10:52 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > There once was a virtualization coder, > > Whose patches kept getting older, > > Each time upstream would drop, > > His documentation would slightly rot, > > SO APPLY MY FUCKING PATCHES OR I'LL KEEP WRITING LIMERICKS. > > There once was a

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-24 Thread Alan Cox
> There once was a virtualization coder, > Whose patches kept getting older, > Each time upstream would drop, > His documentation would slightly rot, > SO APPLY MY FUCKING PATCHES OR I'LL KEEP WRITING LIMERICKS. There once was a man they called rusty Who patches were terribly crusty Though his

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-24 Thread Alan Cox
> So when you say "there's not enough poetry", next time you'll know why. > You *really* don't want want poetry. That isn't poetry. We'll be doing Finnish jokes next 8). I'm also not sure that kernel documentation in rhyme is the best idea: --- Ah look at all the laundered pages Ah

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Rusty Russell
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 20:06 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:21:13 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > > It's great that Rusty took the time to produce all of this documentation. > > Few people do that today. Thanks Randy, it was something of an experiment. We'll see if it has the desi

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:21:13 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:12:38 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:17:58 +1000 > > Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking > > > HOWTO. Noo

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/24/2007 03:18 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: PS. Nothing rhymes with Ballalaba. There once was a woman from Ballalaba who hid kernel bugs in her djellabah. When her husband found out, he objected loud, and got her expelled from the casbah! Rene. - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:12:38 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:17:58 +1000 > Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking > > HOWTO. Noone ever read it. > > > > So this time I'm trying something different,

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Rusty Russell
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 18:18 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > > Indeed, no code changes, and I feel strongly that it should go into > > 2.6.23 because it's *fun*. And (as often complained) there's not > > enough poetry in the kernel. > > There's a

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Rusty Russell
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 18:20 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:01:48 +1000 Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But writing this documentation took *weeks*, to document 5000 lines of > > code. Perhaps this effort, if merged, will inspire others, but I've > > seen little i

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:01:48 +1000 Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But I worry that you're proposing adding what appears to be new > > Documentation-related machinery and infrastructure when there's already > > increased activity in that area from other people and we might all be > >

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Rusty Russell wrote: > > Indeed, no code changes, and I feel strongly that it should go into > 2.6.23 because it's *fun*. And (as often complained) there's not > enough poetry in the kernel. There's a reason for that. There once was a lad from Braidwood W

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Rusty Russell
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 17:12 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:17:58 +1000 > Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking > > HOWTO. Noone ever read it. > > > > So this time I'm trying something different,

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:17:58 +1000 Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking > HOWTO. Noone ever read it. > > So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of > Knuthiness. Start with drivers/lguest/README. um.

[PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-20 Thread Rusty Russell
The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO. Noone ever read it. So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness. Start with drivers/lguest/README. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/lguest/extract