Re: testcases, was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate

2007-07-11 Thread Michael Kerrisk
> Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:41:19AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > >>I'd support an ununofficial rule that submitters of new syscalls also > >> raise a patch against LTP, come to that... > > > > > > s/ununofficial//, please. And extend this to every new kernel

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate

2007-07-11 Thread Andi Kleen
> I'd support an ununofficial rule that submitters of new syscalls also raise > a patch against LTP, come to that... And a patch for the manpages. Definitely in favor. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] M

Re: testcases, was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate

2007-07-11 Thread Nick Piggin
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:41:19AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: I'd support an ununofficial rule that submitters of new syscalls also raise a patch against LTP, come to that... s/ununofficial//, please. And extend this to every new kernel interface that's not bound t

testcases, was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate

2007-07-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:41:19AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > I'd support an ununofficial rule that submitters of new syscalls also raise > a patch against LTP, come to that... s/ununofficial//, please. And extend this to every new kernel interface that's not bound to a specific piece of hardw

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate

2007-07-10 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:20:47AM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:45:03AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:22:13AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:07:37 +0200 Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > We reserv

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:05:31 +0200 Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alternatively I can push them directly to Linus along with other ext4 > > patches. We can drop the s390 patch if Martin or Heiko wants to wire > > it up themselves. > > Yes, please drop the s390 patch. In general it

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate

2007-07-10 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:05:31PM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: > > Alternatively I can push them directly to Linus along with other ext4 > > patches. We can drop the s390 patch if Martin or Heiko wants to wire > > it up themselves. > > Yes, please drop the s390 patch. In general it seems to be b

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate

2007-07-10 Thread Mark Fasheh
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:45:03AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:22:13AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:07:37 +0200 Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We reserved a different syscall number than the one that is used right now > > > in t

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate

2007-07-10 Thread Heiko Carstens
> Alternatively I can push them directly to Linus along with other ext4 > patches. We can drop the s390 patch if Martin or Heiko wants to wire > it up themselves. Yes, please drop the s390 patch. In general it seems to be better if only one architecture gets a syscall wired up initially and let o

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:45:03 -0400 Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:22:13AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:07:37 +0200 Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We reserved a different syscall number than the one that is used right

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate

2007-07-10 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:22:13AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:07:37 +0200 Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We reserved a different syscall number than the one that is used right now > > in the patch. Please drop this patch... Martin or I will wire up the sysca

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:07:37 +0200 Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > fallocate-implementation-on-i86-x86_64-and-powerpc.patch > > Still broken: arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S wants compat_sys_fallocate instead > of sys_fallocate. Also compat_sys_fallocate probably should be moved to > f

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate

2007-07-10 Thread Heiko Carstens
> fallocate-implementation-on-i86-x86_64-and-powerpc.patch Still broken: arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S wants compat_sys_fallocate instead of sys_fallocate. Also compat_sys_fallocate probably should be moved to fs/compat.c. > fallocate-on-s390.patch We reserved a different syscall number than the