On 03/18/2013 11:29:42 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
First attempt at documentation for adaptive ticks.
Thoughts?
Thanx, Paul
It's really long and repetitive? And really seems like it's kconfig
help text?
The CONFIG_NO_HZ=y and CONFIG_N
On 03/18/2013 01:46:32 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
2013/3/18 Rob Landley :
> On 03/18/2013 11:29:42 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> And really seems like it's kconfig help text?
It's more exhaustive than a Kconfig help. A Kconfig help text should
have the level of detail t
On 03/19/2013 06:00:32 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2013 schrieb Daniel Phillips:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Theodore Ts'o
wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 04:20:11PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 03:27:38PM -0800, David Lang wro
On 03/19/2013 07:20:17 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:17:11PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 03/19/2013 03:28 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > The issue is that /dev/root appears in /proc/mounts if you do not
> > boot with an initramfs, but /dev/root is not a device node. In t
On 03/20/2013 07:53:42 AM, Tal Tchwella wrote:
I want to suggest adding chroot capability to all users.
I note that chroot doesn't quite do what most people think it does:
http://landley.net/notes-2011.html#02-06-2011
I've had a todo item forever to modify chroot to actually change the
pr
On 03/20/2013 11:24:54 AM, Daniel Mack wrote:
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Rob Herring
wrote:
> On 03/20/2013 09:51 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
>> The same data is now available in sysfs, so we can remove the code
>> that exports it in /proc and replace it with a symlink to the sysfs
>> versio
On 01/30/2013 03:44:32 AM, Oleg wrote:
Hello.
Where can i find an info about /proc/irq/*/affinity_hint ?
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt says nothing about it (3.2.37
kernel).
The general procedure is to look for the git commit, which may have a
good commit comment, and also gives
On 01/31/2013 05:22:09 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
On 01/31/2013 02:51 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On a system that does not use an initramfs, /dev/root was always
> listed in /proc/mounts. This breaks software which scans
/proc/mounts to
> determine which file systems are mounted since /dev/root
On 01/22/2013 06:14:53 PM, Stepan Moskovchenko wrote:
Add the %pa format specifier for printing a phys_addr_t
type and its derivative types (such as resource_size_t),
since the physical address size on some platforms can vary
based on build options, regardless of the native integer
type.
Signed-
r amd iommu.
I missed: why can we not autodetect the lack of support and DTRT?
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu
Link:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-31-git-send-email-ying...@kernel.org
Cc: Eric Biederman
Cc: Rob Landley
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
---
Documentation/kernel-param
too though.
Cc: Rob Landley
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker
I've got a script that makes html navigation pages from the 00-INDEX
files and another one that parses that to find dead links in both
directions. (Files with no 00-INDEX entry and 00-INDEX entries that
don't refer ot a
On 01/29/2013 06:38:03 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
CC: Rob Landley
CC: linux-...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka
---
Documentation/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt | 155
1 files changed, 155 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/gdb
On 04/02/2013 12:13:42 PM, Antony Pavlov wrote:
The kbuild's ld-option function is broken because
the command
$(CC) /dev/null -c -o "$$TMPO"
does not create object file!
Could you glue the doc fix to this one and submit then as one patch to
the kbuild guys, please?
Thanks,
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Attached is my quick and dirty hack to make rootfs be tmpfs when
CONFIG_TMPFS is
enabled. It can't be this easy or somebody would have done it in the
_eight_years_
since https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/31/145
Yes, it's got an #ifdef and out of place prototypes. Yes, it manually
calls a module
On 04/03/2013 07:30:08 AM, Rob Landley wrote:
Attached is my quick and dirty hack to make rootfs be tmpfs when
CONFIG_TMPFS is
enabled.
For a somewhat quantum definition of "attached".
Robdiff --git a/fs/ramfs/inode.c b/fs/ramfs/inode.c
index c24f1e1..f875bf2 100644
--- a/fs/ram
Has there been any follow-up on this? I've had this flagged to follow
replies to the thread for a while, but didn't see any.
On 01/20/2013 03:55:05 PM, Thomas Capricelli wrote:
1st problem
Since around September 2012, i have tried to compile my kernel 3.6.x
with gcc-4.7.
I can't do anything
On 01/13/2013 12:15:41 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On 01/13/13 03:44, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 01/11/2013 08:21:55 AM, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 11 2013, Minchan Kim wrote:
>> > The C standards allows the character type char to be singed or
unsinged,
>> >
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On 02/19/2013 09:05:00 AM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
Greg, can you pitch your suggestion here ? It would be great to hear
your rationale behind dropping class infrastructure, couldn't find
anything through Google and since feature-removal-schedule.txt has
been
removed (without adding it to feature-r
whole node which the kernel resides in un-hotpluggable. Then the
kernel has
enough memory to use.
Reported-by: H Peter Anvin
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen
Docs part Acked-by: Rob Landley (with minor
non-blocking snark).
@@ -1673,6 +1675,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can
also
On 02/19/2013 11:10:16 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
On 02/17/2013 03:05 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 02/15/2013 02:43:11 AM, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> With new dtc+cpp feature, we could get rid of magic numbers in dts*
>> files. This patch replaces CLK IDs.
>&g
On 02/20/2013 03:36:50 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
and while we're there, let's pause to admire how prescient I was in
refusing to merge all this into 3.8-rc1 :)
I'm on a plane, which is why I am not digging out the Dr. Who episode
"planet of the spiders", digitizing the "All praise to the great
Gonsalvez
Acked-by: Rob Landley
On the basis it's all nicely in its own subdirectory not bothering
anyone else.
That said:
+The data structure that describe a device is detailed in *note FMC
+Device::, the one that describes a driver is detailed in *note FMC
+Driver::.
What is this
On 02/21/2013 03:31:09 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Rob Landley wrote:
> (I always have the todo list of doom, but all I've been able to do
since the
> breakin is forward patches to -trivial, and sending big stuff
through that
> seems inappropriate somehow.
On 02/18/2013 11:53:14 PM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
The PHY framework provides a set of APIs for the PHY drivers to
create/destroy a PHY and APIs for the PHY users to obtain a reference
to the
PHY with or without using phandle. To obtain a reference to the PHY
without
using phandle, the
to
+stop it. Set your desired period_ns, duty_ns and polarity before
starting the
+pwm.
+
+It is recommend to set the period_ns at first and duty_ns after that.
+
Implementing a PWM driver
-
Doc part looks good to me:
Acked-by Rob Landley
diff --git a/drivers/pwm
On 02/25/2013 02:54:07 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
Hey,
Three little patches to update the Documentation/kernel-parameters and
also some of the complex x86 trampoline code.
Nothing serious, just a little cleanup.
Did I miss an attachment?
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On 02/24/2013 02:42:56 PM, Michal Marek wrote:
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 05:12:51PM -0800, r...@landley.net wrote:
> From: Rob Landley
>
> Remove perl from make headers_install by replacing a perl script
(doing
> a simple regex search and replace) with a smaller, faster, simpler,
with that. My first attempt at that script is why the posts I linked to
above have my name mangled. Working on it...)
RobFrom: Rob Landley
Replace perl header file generator with smaller/faster/simpler C version.
Hasn't changed since last submission, which was:
Message-ID: <4d35fef3
On 02/26/2013 07:36:14 PM, Kim Phillips wrote:
This updates scripts/dtc to upstream dtc commit 27cdc1b
There's an upstream for dts?
"Added license header to dtc/libfdt/fdt.h and libfdt_env.h"
from git://git.jdl.com/software/dtc.git.
That git repository has a Documentation directory with for
Before 2.6.25 building Linux never required perl. This patch series removes
the requirement from basic kernel builds (tested on i686, x86_64, arm, mips,
powerpc, sparc, sh4, and m68k). Now updated to 3.8-rc1.
Note, this removes perl from the _build_ environment, not from the _development_
environm
From: Rob Landley
Generate asm-x86/cpufeature.h with posix-2008 commands instead of perl.
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile |4 +-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mkcapflags.pl | 48
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mkcapflags.sh | 41
From: Rob Landley
Remove perl from make headers_install by replacing a perl script (doing
a simple regex search and replace) with a smaller, faster, simpler,
POSIX-2008 shell script implementation. The new shell script is a single
for loop calling sed and piping its output through unifdef to
From: Rob Landley
Replace perl header file generator with smaller/faster/simpler C version.
Hasn't changed in several years, see:
Message-ID: <4d35fef3.4070...@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use sed instead of perl to generate
x86/kernel/cpu/capflags.c.
Note, the version I
On 02/27/2013 03:51:55 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:57:52 -0800 (PST)
Rob Landley wrote:
> Before 2.6.25 building Linux never required perl. This patch series
removes
> the requirement from basic kernel builds (tested on i686, x86_64,
arm, mips,
> powerpc, s
On 02/27/2013 03:51:55 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:57:52 -0800 (PST)
Rob Landley wrote:
> Before 2.6.25 building Linux never required perl. This patch series
removes
> the requirement from basic kernel builds (tested on i686, x86_64,
arm, mips,
> powerpc, s
On 02/18/2013 09:57:36 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On 02/18/13 01:39, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>
>> It seems there are about 80 new, but undocumented addtions at
>> the top level Documentation directory. This fixes up the top
>> level 00-INDEX by adding new ent
On 02/19/2013 08:53:14 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
On 13-02-18 10:57 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 02/18/13 01:39, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>>
>>> It seems there are about 80 new, but undocumented addtions at
>>> the top level Documentation directory. This fi
On 08/27/2012 08:02 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 05:15:06AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
>> On 08/26/2012 11:06 AM, liang xie wrote:
>>> This is a Chinese translated version of Documentation/basic_profiling.txt
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Liang Xie
On 08/28/2012 09:41 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 01:32:15PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> Since the debugfs is mostly only used by root, make the default mount
>> mode 0700. Most system owners do not need a more permissive value,
>> but they can choose to weaken the restrictions
On 08/28/2012 11:09 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 05:55:45PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
>> I've always been a bit confused by the debugfs design, which seems a
>> giant compost heap like /proc where we find a specific styrofoam cup
>> useful and t
dangerous art. I think Linux interrupts should be changed to default
> to non-probing but that's subject of this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To both patches: I can confirm that applying these two fixes to
On 10/24/2012 11:11:36 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> 2012/10/24 Tekkaman Ninja :
> > This is a Chinese translated version of
> > Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Fu Wei
>
> Same as my comment on the memory.txt patch, I don't understand what
> it
> says, so you need to keep i
Please revert commit bdc807871d58285737d50dc6163d0feb72cb0dc2 because it's
based on a false assumption:
> At Ralf Baechle's suggestion, this version uses a Perl script to
> compute the necessary constants. We already have dependencies on Perl for
> kernel compiles.
You do NOT need perl to b
From: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Remove perl dependency introduced in 2.6.25-rc1, by shipping kernel/timeconst.h
with all the "canned" values so perl is only used to regenerate it if that
file is deleted.
Removed the special case "canned" logic from the perl scrip
7; is not a directory
>>>>
>>>> Ignore errors from that copy to make this possible again.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
>>>> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
>>>> ---
>>>> I complained about this a long time ago
On 08/22/2013 04:49:31 PM, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
The sample missed the moving of the header files into the events
subdirectory.
I've also extended it based on the existing headers, and mentioned
the tiny
but important role of CREATE_TRACE_POINTS.
Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss
---
Documentation/t
Landley
Looks like documentation to me:
Acked-by: Rob Landley
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On 10/02/2013 11:10:37 AM, Kevin Mulvey wrote:
change kerneli to kernel as well as kerneli.org to kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kevin Mulvey
There's a bug number for this?
Acked, queued. (Although I'm not sure the value of pointing to
www.kernel.org for this.)
Thanks,
Rob
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On 10/02/2013 01:22:22 PM, Jussi Kivilinna wrote:
On 02.10.2013 21:12, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 10/02/2013 11:10:37 AM, Kevin Mulvey wrote:
>> change kerneli to kernel as well as kerneli.org to kernel.org
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Mulvey
>
> There's a bug nu
On 10/02/2013 01:34:30 PM, Kevin Mulvey wrote:
sorry, for possible repost but I think my last email got blocked due
to html. It read:
do you want me to make another patch that does not touch the url?
It looks like the crypto directory has been merged since forever, so
the old website is irr
On 10/04/2013 05:41:25 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
This patchset is an attempt to address two problems:
1) Not all modifications to the filesystems happen through the vfs and
since the vfs can not cope with a mount point being unlinked or
renamed filesystems whose modifications that do no
On 10/04/2013 07:03:23 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Linus Torvalds writes:
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Eric W. Biederman
wrote:
>>
>> After thinking about it removing the restrictions on mount points
>> appears safe, because it is just plain dumb to have a mount point
>> in a director
On 10/05/2013 06:17:55 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
>
> A todo item I've had _forever_ is fixing chroot() to not be broken
so that
> you can trivially break out of a chroot via:
What drugs are you on?
Enough caffeine to cou
On 10/05/2013 06:19:15 PM, Al Viro wrote:
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 06:07:42PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> A todo item I've had _forever_ is fixing chroot() to not be broken
> so that you can trivially break out of a chroot via:
>
> chdir("/");
> mkdir("
On 10/05/2013 06:22:15 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
>
> So learn this pattern: every time you use chroot, add a simple
>
> chdir("/");
>
> immediately after the chroot call.
.. btw, also make sure that you close all non-essential file
descrip
On 10/05/2013 06:24:51 PM, Al Viro wrote:
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 04:17:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> >
> > A todo item I've had _forever_ is fixing chroot() to not be
broken so that
> > you can trivially
On 09/26/2013 01:06:41 PM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:34 PM, J. Bruce Fields
wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:58:05AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Zach Brown
wrote:
>> >> A client-side copy will be slower, but I guess it does hav
On 10/06/2013 02:01:52 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 23:27 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 11:51:48AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 11:43 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > Kernel maintainers reject new instances of the GPL boilerplat
On 07/08/2013 03:06:15 AM, l...@serverphorums.com wrote:
Hi,
Today, I need to cross compile Bluez for arm with uclibc library into
Buildroot environment.
However, I meet some dependencies between bluez-utils package and MMU
deactivation due to dBus.
Do you know a way to use Bluez with ucli
On 07/07/2013 04:27:54 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
And dammit, I'd expect the VFS people to be
cc'd on changes to the VFS layer functions. I wasn't, Al wasn't.
Um, does that mean I should have cc'd you on the initmpfs patch series
back before the merge window opened?
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hy
On 07/08/2013 06:08:41 PM, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 06:00:05PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 07/05/2013 06:32:59 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> >Like in Vim.
> >
> >Cc: Michal Marek
> >Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra
> >---
> &
On 07/09/2013 12:32:56 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
>
> Um, does that mean I should have cc'd you on the initmpfs patch
series
> back before the merge window opened?
So I personally don't tend to care about that kind o
t at runtime, passes
checkpatch.pl version. Still applies to a git pull from 3 minutes ago
(two patches have offsets, but no fuzz).
Thanks,
RobFrom: Rob Landley
Subject: [PATCH 0/5] initmpfs: use tmpfs instead of ramfs for rootfs
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Viro
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Andr
On 07/09/2013 03:22:31 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
linux-...@vger.kernel.org was replaced by net...@oss.sgi.com was
replaced
by net...@vger.kernel.org.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
Confirmed http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html does not mention
linux-net anymore.
Acked-by: Rob
On 07/09/2013 05:25:53 AM, David Howells wrote:
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> The #include added to include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
causes
> the uClibc build to go:
>
> In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:4,
> from include/linux/netlink.h:4,
> from incl
On 07/10/2013 10:15:15 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
Hi,
After Michal's (somewhat positive) response to the first iteration,
here's the second iteration fixing the reserved-letters problem.
Someone saying they keep accidentally killing processes in "top" is a
positive response?
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On 09/11/2013 04:17:23 PM, Eric Wong wrote:
Zach Brown wrote:
> Towards the end of that thread Eric Wong asked why we didn't just
> extend splice. I immediately replied with some dumb dismissive
> answer. Once I sat down and looked at it, though, it does make a
> lot of sense. So good job, Er
On 08/30/2013 09:35:18 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
Hi,
over the last months I've reviewed lot's of Linux based products,
mostly networking related
devices like firewalls, WiFi access points, DSL routers, IPMI, etc...
The vast majority of them had proprietary kernel modules loaded.
I'm not
On 08/30/2013 09:00:35 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
The web site associated with the score architecture in MAINTAINERS
is non-functional and available for sale. The last Ack from one
of the maintainers was in December 2012. The main maintainer's last
commit was in 2011. The last maintainer pull reque
On 09/03/2013 07:34:28 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
Many kernel-doc return description sections headers
use variants of the "Return:" section prefix.
(some or maybe even most of these aren't in
kernel-doc sections, but many are)
$ git grep -E -i "^\s*\*\s*return[s]?:"| \
cut -f2- -d":" | awk '{pri
On 09/05/2013 07:26:22 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
Fix some typos in
Documentation/IRQ-domain.txt/email-clients.txt/io-mapping.txt
Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu
---
Documentation/IRQ-domain.txt|4 ++--
Documentation/email-clients.txt |2 +-
Documentation/io-mapping.txt|2 +-
3 files
On 09/05/2013 03:07:37 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
I am not sure how to call this kernel option but we need something
like
that. I see drivers and the kernel spawning processes on the nohz
cores.
The name kthread is not really catching the purpose.
Can't you just use the CPU affinity of PI
On 09/11/2013 07:39:19 PM, Regid Ichira wrote:
Applied to the tip of linux.git,
VERSION = 3 PATCHLEVEL = 11 SUBLEVEL = 0
Signed-off-by: Regid Ichira
---
README | 4
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/README b/README
index a24ec89..f10c16f 100644
--- a/READM
o push it upstream circa 2006 and I've
just maintained it locally ever since...
Acked-by: Rob Landley
I'll sit on this for a bit to see if the kbulid guys apply it first,
and if not forward it through the trivial tree.
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On 10/07/2013 09:14:10 PM, Phillip Lougher wrote:
The decompressor interface and code was written from
the point of view of single-threaded operation. In doing
so it mixed a lot of single-threaded implementation specific
aspects into the decompressor code and elsewhere which makes it
difficult t
On 10/08/2013 03:03:03 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 06:42:44PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> Oh, attached is a dumb "zapchroot" script I've been using for years
to
> unlink all mount points under a given directory, taking advantage
of the
> fact that m
On 08/27/2013 05:34:22 AM, larmbr wrote:
The memory-barriers document may has a error in Section TRANSITIVITY.
For transitivity, see a example below, given that
* CPU 2's load from X follows CPU 1's store to X, and
CPU 2's load from Y preceds CPU 3's store to Y.
I'd prefer somebody with a b
On 09/25/2013 10:52:44 AM, Måns Rullgård wrote:
Rob Landley writes:
> On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> I'd strongly suggest you make your binutils compatible with newer
>> instruction syntax instead of making the kernel more complex.
>
> Meaning I
On 09/25/2013 11:13:17 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > I'd strongly suggest you make your binutils compatible with newer
> > instruction syntax instead of making the kernel more complex
On 09/25/2013 03:49:07 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote:
Russell King - ARM Linux writes:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:23:06AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
>> On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>> It could be as simple as making gas accept an extra argument for
>>>
On 09/15/2013 11:08:35 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
Predates git, does anyone remember the rationale?
Depends which git: http://landley.net/kdocs/fullhist/ :)
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On 09/16/2013 05:08:11 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
So it's been two weeks, and the merge window for 3.12 is now closed.
The git trees have been updated, the tar-balls and patches should be
out too, and here's my "short mergelog" for the merge window: it's
kind of like "git shortlog", except it nam
On 09/23/2013 02:36:57 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
Removed obsolte parameters from boot-options.txt.
Verified by grepping around in arch/x86/.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger
Acked-by: Rob Landley
And added it as patch #33 to my documentation todo heap. Now the merge
window's w
On 09/23/2013 02:41:10 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:33:53 +0530 (IST) P J P
wrote:
> Make menuconfig allows one to choose compression format of an
> initial ramdisk image. But this choice does not result in duly
> compressed initial ramdisk image. Because - $ make install -
On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that
requires binutils 2.22.
Um, my toolchain is using the last gplv2 snapshot of binutils out of
git, which is just past 2.17 and can build armv7 (but not armv8).
Binutils 2.12->2.22 is
On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that
requires binutils 2.22.
I'm sorry, it occurs to me I should have been more explicit:
HH! KILL IT WITH
FIRE!!!
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On 09/24/2013 07:11:38 AM, Måns Rullgård wrote:
Rob Landley writes:
> On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that
>> requires binutils 2.22.
>
> Um, my toolchain is using the last gplv2 snapshot of
On 09/24/2013 04:48:00 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 04:23:48PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> What value is there in requiring the new toolchain? From what I
could
> see of the commits it was micro-optimizations around memory
barriers.
>
> *shrug*
On 09/24/2013 01:36:56 PM, Thomas Meyer wrote:
Hi,
Is there such a thing?
In the kernel's vfs layer? No, although some filesystems (ala btrfs) do
things like that with snapshots.
In userspace? Breaking hardlinks when updating a file is fairly normal,
that's why they distinguish between "
On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 09/24/2013 04:48:00 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > Now, if you feel strongly about this, we _could_ introduce a
> > CONFIG_OLD_BINUTILS and give everyone their cake - but it will
On 09/24/2013 02:41:54 PM, P J P wrote:
Hello Andrew,
Thank you so much for reviewing these patches.
+-- On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Andrew Morton wrote --+
| It's a bit confusing whether all this appiles to initrd, to
initramfs
| or to both. Can you please clarify all this and be sure that it's
On 12/04/2012 12:17:25 AM, Woody Wu wrote:
Hi, list
I am not sure this has something with kernel.
It doesn't.
But the system I just
generated cannot be reached from ping. It can ping outside, but if I
ping it from outside, I just get "Destination Host Unreachable".
Some distributions' def
On 12/07/2012 08:37:11 AM, Cristian Stoica wrote:
Signed-off-by: Cristian Stoica
Acked-by: Rob Landley
---
Documentation/HOWTO |2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO
index 59c080f..a9f288f 100644
--- a
On 12/07/2012 01:32:18 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Serge Hallyn
wrote:
> Quoting Andy Lutomirski (l...@amacapital.net):
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski
>> ---
>> Documentation/security/capabilities.txt | 161
>> 1 file chang
On 12/07/2012 07:27:25 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 12/07/2012 01:32:18 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Serge Hallyn
>> wrote:
>> > Quoting Andy Lutomirski (l...@amacapital.n
On 11/09/2012 10:28:59 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Stephen Warren
wrote:
> On 11/05/2012 01:40 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
I'm not actually opposed to it, but it needs to be done in an elegant
way. The DT data model already imposes more of a conceptual le
On 12/25/2012 01:38:09 AM, bbi5291 wrote:
When the init process is created on system startup, does it have any
open file descriptors? If so, where do they point?
Last I checked, it worked like this:
If there's a /dev/console in initramfs, stdin, stdout, and stderr will
point to that. If you
On 12/27/2012 02:09:33 PM, Shaun Ruffell wrote:
Hi Rob,
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 04:25:10PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> Although the README and Documentation/Changes both say the kernel
> builds with gcc 3.2, this is no loner the case. In reality the new
> 3.7 kernel no longer bui
security: remove dummy module
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer
Acked-by: Rob Landley
Could you send it through triv...@kernel.org please?
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