Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-08, at 18:15, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: SQL Databases like SQLite aren't slow. But maybe a Berkeley Database v.4 is a better solution. Yes it sucks less for this purpose. See subversion as reference. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-07, at 09:44, Jan Hudec wrote: I have looked at most systems currently available. I would suggest following for closer look on: 1) GNU Arch/Bazaar. They use the same archive format, simple, have the concepts right. It may need some scripts or add ons. When Bazaar-NG is ready, it wi

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-06, at 23:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: PS. Don't bother telling me about subversion. If you must, start reading up on "monotone". That seems to be the most viable alternative, but don't pester the developers so much that they don't get any work done. They are alr

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-08, at 19:14, Linus Torvalds wrote: You do that with an sql database, and I'll be impressed. It's possible. But what will impress you are either the price tag the DB comes with or the hardware it runs on :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-08, at 20:14, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Ok, but if you want to search for information in such big text files it slow, because you do linear search No I don't. I don't search for _anything_. I have my own content-addressable filesystem, and

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-08, at 20:28, Jon Smirl wrote: On Apr 8, 2005 2:14 PM, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do you replicate your database incrementally? I've given you enough clues to do it for "git" in probably five lines of perl. Efficient database replication is achieved by copying t

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-09, at 03:09, Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 03:00:44AM +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote: Yes it sucks less for this purpose. See subversion as reference. Whatever solution people come up with, ideally it should be tolerant to minor amounts of corruption (so I can recover the

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-09 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-09, at 17:42, Paul Jackson wrote: Marcin wrote: But what will impress you are either the price tag the DB comes with or the hardware it runs on :-) The payroll for the staffing to care and feed for these babies is often impressive as well. Please don't forget the bill from the electric p

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-10 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-11, at 04:26, Miles Bader wrote: Marcin Dalecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Better don't waste your time with looking at Arch. Stick with patches you maintain by hand combined with some scripts containing a list of apply commands and you should be still more productive then

Re: bkbits.net is down

2005-04-12 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-04-12, at 04:17, Larry McVoy wrote whatever... Excuse me, but: who gives a damn shit? - 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 FA

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-02-14, at 16:40, Larry McVoy wrote: So how would you suggest that we resolve it? The protection we need is that people don't get to - use BK - stop using BK so they can go work on another system - start using BK again - stop using BK so they can go work on another system

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-02-14, at 17:00, Larry McVoy wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:03:45AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: Can you see Ford Motors telling someone that you can't go work for GM if you drive a Ford? You paid for the Ford. Suppose Ford offered to give you the car but said if you take it then you ca

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-02-14, at 18:49, Larry McVoy wrote: r it we'd be happy to negotiate a standard click-wrap style license as part of the deal. Everyone would like that much better it seems. Are you volunteering to pay? I'm not since I'm not using and I don't intend to use BK. Oh BTW. the main reason for me

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-02-14, at 19:17, Matthew Jacob wrote: I mean- you're certainly free to impose whatever license you want, and others are free to be happy or unhappy with that. I'm just trying to figure out what you're actually trying to accomplish here. He is simply plain dishonest about his intentions. And

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-02-14, at 19:56, Larry McVoy wrote: All we are trying to do is 1. Provide the open source community with a useful tool. 2. Prevent that from turning into the open source community creating a clone of our tool. Now that's pathetic! You recognize that point 2. is precisely t

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-26 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-03-26, at 16:19, Arjan van de Ven wrote: ` hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC BadCRC is 99% sure a cabling issue; either a bad/overheated cable or a cable used at too high a speed for the cable. No. It is more lik

Re: [PATCH] no need to check for NULL before calling kfree() -fs/ext2/

2005-03-26 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-03-27, at 00:21, linux-os wrote: Always, always, a call will be more expensive than a branch on condition. It's impossible to be otherwise. A call requires that the return address be written to memory (the stack), using register indirection (the stack-pointer). Needless to say that there ar

Re: [PATCH] no need to check for NULL before calling kfree() -fs/ext2/

2005-03-26 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-03-27, at 04:00, Horst von Brand wrote: Needless to say that there are enough architectures out there, which don't even have something like an explicit call as separate assembler instruction... The mechanism exists somehow. Most RISC architectures are claiming a huge register set advantage

Re: Mac mini sound woes

2005-03-29 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-03-29, at 05:36, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 09:42 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: It seems that Apple's driver has an in-kernel framework for doing volume control, mixing, and other horrors right in the kernel, in temporary buffers, just before they get DMA'ed (gack !) I

Re: Mac mini sound woes

2005-03-29 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-03-29, at 10:18, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Well, we are claiming _and_ obviously proposing a solution ;) I beg to differ. 1. Where do you have true "real-time" under linux? Kernel or user space? That's bullshit. Wait a moment... you don't need "true" real time for the mixing/volume pro

Re: Mac mini sound woes

2005-03-29 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-03-29, at 12:22, Takashi Iwai wrote: ALSA provides the "driver" feature in user-space because it's more flexible, more efficient and safer than doing in kernel. It's transparent from apps perspective. It really doesn't matter whether it's in kernel or user space. Yes because it's that won

Re: Mac mini sound woes

2005-03-29 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-03-30, at 00:13, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 11:22 +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote: No. You didn't get it. I'm taking the view that mixing sound is simply a task you would typically love to make a DSP firmware do. However providing a DSP for sound processing at 44kHZ o

Re: Mac mini sound woes

2005-03-29 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-03-30, at 01:39, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 17:25 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: Lee Revell wrote: This is the exact line of reasoning that led to Winmodems. My main issue with winmodems is not so much the software offload, but rather that the vendors don't release ful

Re: kbuild: Implicit dependence on the C compiler

2005-01-18 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-01-19, at 04:35, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Matt Mackall wrote: I would argue that "name of gcc has changed" is possibly a condition that does more harm than good. It is just as frequently used to have wrappers, like distcc, as it is to have different versions. Disagree. I switch compilers all