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
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:
> >
> >
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
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
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
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
> 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
> 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
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,
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
> 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
> 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
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
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
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.
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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,
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
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
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
> >
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
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,
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.
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