Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-07-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Simon Arlott wrote: > On 19/07/07 17:19, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> I think that Stefan means a patch to the kconfig source code, > >> not the the Kconfig files. Good luck. I'd still like to s

Re: [PATCH] Warn userspace about including an empty linux/tty.h.

2007-07-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:23:46 -0400 (EDT) > "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > --- > > > > what subs

Re: [PATCH] IP_VS should depend on EXPERIMENTAL ?

2007-07-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
... config TCP_CONG_HYBLA tristate "TCP-Hybla congestion control algorithm" depends on EXPERIMENTAL ... config TCP_CONG_VEGAS tristate "TCP Vegas" depends on EXPERIMENTAL ... ... etc etc ... rday -- ===

Re: [PATCH] IP_VS should depend on EXPERIMENTAL ?

2007-07-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Gabriel C wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Gabriel C wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> IP_VS has : > >> > >> .. > >> > >> tristate "IP virtual server su

Re: [PATCH] IP_VS should depend on EXPERIMENTAL ?

2007-07-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL ... it might be a better investment in time to look through the Kconfig files, and decide which entries currently marked as "EXPERIMENTAL" really *shouldn't* be, and remo

Re: [PATCH] IP_VS should depend on EXPERIMENTAL ?

2007-07-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Gabriel C wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > this has *nothing* to do with the aforementioned maturity levels. > > i understand entirely the inconsistency above. what i'm > > suggesting is that it might very well be more appropriate to *drop

Re: what does select statement mean in Kconfig file?

2007-07-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
t; Thanks > Jason Xiao it forces the selection of that option. it's sort of like a "depends on" in reverse. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario,

Re: [PATCH] Use menuconfig objects - Fusion

2007-07-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
of the menuconfig and the "if" part was implicit? and having said that, i realize that there are menuconfig examples for which the above is not strictly true, but i can't remember where i've seen them. all i remember about them is that they we're a bit confusing. rday

Re: [PATCH] Use menuconfig objects - Fusion

2007-07-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jul 21 2007 15:05, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> +menuconfig FUSION > >... > >> +if FUSION > >> > >> config FUSION_SPI > >... > >> +endif # FUSION > > > > i just *know* i

from where comes "__moddi3"?

2007-07-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
work fine, no? thanks. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page - To unsubscribe

Re: from where comes "__moddi3"?

2007-07-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 15:21 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > again, probably displaying my abject ignorance, but i wrote a > > trivial module that tries to "var % 15", and i get: > > > > WARNING: "__moddi3

Re: [PATCH] Use menuconfig objects - Fusion

2007-07-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jul 21 2007 15:15, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> >wouldn't it be philosophically cleaner if the internals of a > >> >menuconfig structure *automatically* depended on selection of the > >>

Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH 25/33] kbuild: use POSIX BRE in headers install target

2007-07-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
didnt at first ... > so yeah, extending it however we see fit should be fine > -mike just for the entertainment value: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=217840 rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting

Re: [PATCH 8/8] dm: dm-target.c Convert kmalloc + memset to kzalloc

2007-07-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
-Original Message- >From: Dmitry Monakhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jul 24, 2007 4:59 AM >To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Cc: device-mapper development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [PATCH 8/8] dm: dm-target.c Convert kmalloc + memset to kzalloc > >Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <[EM

[PATCH] Remove valueless definition of hard-selected RAMFS option.

2007-08-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
you're mounting the disk cache as a filesystem. Because of this, ramfs is not an optional component removable via menuconfig, since there would be negligible space savings." it seems pointless to leave this as a Kconfig entry. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

[PATCH] Add documentation to some preprocessor directives in init/*.c.

2007-08-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Add some documentation to potentially confusing preprocessor directives in some source files in the init/ directory to show their proper association and nesting. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- not all of them, just those that are sufficiently distant from

[PATCH] Remove final traces of long-deprecated "ramdisk" kernel parm.

2007-08-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Since the "ramdisk" kernel parameter has been officially deprecated since at least 2.6.18, might as well finally get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- compile tested with "make defconfig" under i386. did i miss any eq

ok to kill "ether=" kernel parm?

2007-08-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
given that "ether=" has been officially obsolete since 2.6.18 (replaced by "netdev="), is there any reason to keep it around? or can it be blasted? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, T

Re: ok to kill "ether=" kernel parm?

2007-08-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > given that "ether=" has been officially obsolete since 2.6.18 > > (replaced by "netdev="), is there any reason to keep it around? > > or can it be blasted? > > That sound

Re: ok to kill "ether=" kernel parm?

2007-08-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > >> Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >>> given that "ether=" has been officially obsolete since 2.6.18 > >>> (replaced by &

[PATCH] Add a "rounddown_pow_of_two" routine to log2.h.

2007-08-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
To go along with the existing "roundup_pow_of_two" routine, add one for rounding down since that operation appears to crop up on a regular basis in the source tree. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- some brief tests indicate that these routines return th

Re: ok to kill "ether=" kernel parm?

2007-08-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
intk.time". coming soonish. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca - To un

[PATCH] Documentation: Remove remaining useless reference to acpi_fake_ecdt.

2007-08-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
>From commit cd8c93a4e04dce8f00d1ef3a476aac8bd65ae40b: "Similar functionality was turned on by acpi_fake_ecdt=1 command line before. Now it is on all the time." Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/D

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
other day submitted a patch to remove that backward compatibility, and the m68k portion of it has already been acked by geert uytterhoeven. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kerne

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > The old "ramdisk=" h

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:41:27 -0700 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Rob Landley wrote: > > > On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > >> >

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Rob Landley wrote: > On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > The old "ramdisk=" has been changed to > > > "ramdisk_size="

[PATCH] H8/300: Fix misnamed "CONFIG_BLKDEV_RESERVE_ADDRESS" Kconfig variable.

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- if i read correctly an email i just got from Yoshinori Sato, he wanted me to post this to the main list. it seems an obvious enough error that it can probably be pushed to the main tree fairly soon, unless i've messed someth

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ust 2006 > What: CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING > When: June 2006 > What: eepro100 network driver > When: January 2007 some of that has already been discussed and postponed slightly, like the eepro100 stuff: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118827478527526&w=2 but some of the rest

[PATCH][RFC] Starting point for deprecating "ether=" boot time option.

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
"Satan begins ice skating to work\n"); + printk(KERN_NOTICE "Use 'netdev=' instead\n"); + return netdev_boot_setup(str); +} + +__setup("ether=", ether_boot_setup); /** * eth_header - create the Ethernet header -- ==

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:05:57 +0100 Simon Arlott wrote: > > > On 19/07/07 17:19, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > >> I think that Stefan means a patch to the kconfig source code,

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm sure i'm going to get shouted down here, but i really disagree > > with "BROKEN" being considered a "maturity level". IMHO, things > > like EXPERIMENTAL, DEPRECATED and

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
a reason for this -- any feature should have exactly *one* value for any attribute. that is, in terms of maturity, a feature could be EXPERIMENTAL *or* DEPRECATED *or* OBSOLETE. it ***can't*** be more than one, as in both DEPRECATED *and* OBSOLETE. to allow that flexibility is to descend in

maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
th-grinding maturity level of BROKEN :-). but other than that, it looked good, although i'll have to go back later and look more closely. but i hope i've flogged this thoroughly to the point where people can see what i'm driving at. once you see (as in simon's patch) how to add

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
thank you for making my point for me. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca =

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > ... > > attributes would have two critical and non-negotiable properties: > > > > 1) they would be entirely orthogonal to one another, and > > 2) they can be assigned at most one of a pre-defined

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Mitchell Erblich wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > > > at the risk of driving everyone here totally bonkers, i'm going to > > take one last shot at explaining what i was thinking of when i first > > proposed this whole &quo

Re: [PATCH -mm] add-a-rounddown_pow_of_two-routine-to-log2h.patch fix

2007-08-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
\ > __rounddown_pow_of_two(n) \ > ) > > - oh, crap ... how did that happen? sorry. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulti

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Aug 31 2007 21:33, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > >perhaps. all i'm begging for is that these attributes be defined > >cleanly and clearly, and following those two conditions i suggested > >earlier: > > &

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:38:34PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > it's a natural progression and, at any point, a feature cannot > > possibly have more than one maturity value. it would be as absurd > > as saying that someon

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Aug 31 2007 18:02, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> it may be that some people had a different understanding of what was > >> meant by "maturity" than i did. what *i* meant by th

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > *attributes* would be orthogonal to one another -- the values > > *within* an attribute would be mutually exclusive. > > Ah, right. great, we got that cleared up. onward. > In the context of kernel

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > you take advantage of that? you'd have to add a new > > structure to "make config" along the following lines: > > > > Along with maturity-untagged features, what other maturity

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > given the possible interpretations of EXPERIMENTAL that i hadn't > > considered until now, maybe it really *does* make sense to tag > > something as both EXPERIMENTAL and, say, DEPRECATED (does it?)

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
t; + } > > if (sym->name) > > printf("(%s) ", sym->name); > > type = sym_get_type(sym); for now, simon, why not just reduce this to support

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
part is going to change your opinion. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca =

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 06:44:06AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > while (1) { > > > > printf("%*s%s ", indent - 1, "", menu->prompt->text); > > > >

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:41:06AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > this whole attribute thing is not adding anything breathtaking new, > > it's simply taking the example set by EXPERIMENTAL and generalizing > > it and

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > > People just don't care about how mature an option is if they need > > a driver/feature. *No-one* is going to come across options and > > think "Oh, the driver for my networ

Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4/af_inet.c: use ARRAY_SIZE macro from kernel.h instead

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
reless/libertas/fw.c: for (i = 0; i < sizeof(adapter->wep_keys) / sizeof(adapter->wep_keys[0]); ./drivers/net/wireless/libertas/main.c: end = sizeof(region_cfp_table)/sizeof(struct region_cfp_table); ./net/atm/proc.c: vcc->qos.aal >= sizeof(aal_name)/

Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4/af_inet.c: use ARRAY_SIZE macro from kernel.h instead

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, rae l wrote: > On 9/2/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > denis: > > > > if you're planning on doing this ARRAY_SIZE cleanup fairly > > rigorously, here's an overview of what you're looking (based on a > >

building a specific in-tree module is currently a bit broken

2007-09-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
s first fixes this, but i'm not conversant enough with the Makefile to want to take a shot at repairing this. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA htt

Re: building a specific in-tree module is currently a bit broken

2007-09-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Sep 5 2007 11:37, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > > >Hi, > > > >[Adding K{build,config} wizards to CC] > > > >On 05/09/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> $ make d

Re: building a specific in-tree module is currently a bit broken

2007-09-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Sep 5 2007 05:42, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >that doesn't solve the problem. i should have mentioned that i > >already (unnecessarily, i suggest) ran "make modules_prepare", but > >the problem persists. &g

Re: why are some atomic_t's not volatile, while most are?

2007-08-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
operations will, in fact, be atomic. For example, > posted today: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/8/122 i'm sure that, when this is all done, i'll finally have an answer to my original question, "why are some atomic_t's not volatile, while most are?" i'm almost scared to ask any more questions. :-)

Re: why are some atomic_t's not volatile, while most are?

2007-08-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Chris Snook wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm almost scared to ask any more questions. :-) > > > > rday > > Momentarily I'll be posting a patchset that makes all atomic_t and > atomic64_t declarations non-volatile, and cast

Re: why are some atomic_t's not volatile, while most are?

2007-08-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Chris Snook wrote: > > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i'm almost scared to ask any more questions. :-) > > > > > > rday > > > > Momentarily I'll be posting a patc

Re: [PATCH] arm26: remove duplicate include of linux/module.h

2007-07-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
irely? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: [PATCH] - Add "def_bool" Kconfig format documentation

2007-08-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
also def_boolean and def_tristate. while the parser recognizes "def_boolean", it's not used anywhere in the tree. perhaps it can simply be dropped in favour of def_bool. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consul

Re: [KJ-resend]replacing kmalloc with kzalloc in drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c

2007-08-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
at change is not precisely equivalent, it now clears more than the original code. as long as that's not a problem. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?titl

Re: [KJ] replacing kmalloc with kzalloc in io_apic.c

2007-08-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
from my days submitting numerous patches of this type, i can recall that in cases like the above, it's a judgment call -- use kzalloc to get the zeroing, or use kcalloc to get the array-flavoured behaviour. what a shame you can't have both at the same time. rday -- =

Re: [KJ] replacing kmalloc with kzalloc in drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c

2007-08-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
superfluous casts when calling one of those memory allocation routines. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ==

Re: [KJ] replacing kmalloc with kzalloc in io_apic.c

2007-08-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
; what a shame you can't have both at the same time. > > kcalloc() zeros memory just like standard calloc() in userspace. > > As says: > > * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero. oops. quite right, my bad. rday -- =====

Re: [PATCH] kconfig: update kconfig-language text

2007-08-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
t; directive: ./drivers/telephony/Kconfig:depends ISA || PCI ./drivers/leds/Kconfig: depends LEDS_CLASS && ARCH_H1940 ./drivers/input/misc/Kconfig: depends EXPERIMENTAL ./arch/blackfin/Kconfig: depends BFIN_DMA_5XX ./arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig: depends PPC_IBM_CELL_BLAD

Re: [PATCH] kconfig: update kconfig-language text

2007-08-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > and, as i've suggested before, it would also be cleaner to > > remove the redundant "requires" and almost redundant "depends" from > > Kconfig files, and standardize exclusively

Re: [uml-devel] User Mode Linux still doesn't build in 2.6.23-final.

2007-10-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
onfig ARCH=um' to generate .config, my tree > is 2.6.23-git16 (Al, is this OK?). that looks like a cut-and-paste error since the file include/asm-um/arch/ptrace-abi.h opens with: = #ifndef _ASM_X86_PTRACE_ABI_H #define _ASM_X86_PTRACE_ABI_H #ifdef __i386__ #define EBX 0 #define

Re: [uml-devel] User Mode Linux still doesn't build in 2.6.23-final.

2007-10-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
t; > $ make mrproper ... if you wanted to be *really* anal retentive, you might want to run "make distclean" instead but, from what i've seen so far, i don't think that would change what you're seeing. rday -- ==

is CONFIG_APUS sufficiently deceased to be removed?

2007-10-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
be nullified as well, yes? no? arch/m68k/amiga/chipram.c:#ifndef CONFIG_APUS_FAST_EXCEPT rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoyi

Re: is CONFIG_APUS sufficiently deceased to be removed?

2007-10-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
f they wish. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca - To unsubscr

Re: [GIT PATCH] Fix asm-avr32/dma-mapping.h breakage

2007-10-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
is this one of those cases where the asm versions of scatterlist.h should have a warning/error that they should not be included directly, and to include linux/scatterlist.h instead? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcou

Re: [GIT PATCH] Fix asm-avr32/dma-mapping.h breakage

2007-10-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:21:20PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 24 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > i was just about to ask -- is this one of those cases where the > > > asm versions of scatterlist.h shoul

CONFIG variables: defined but unused

2007-10-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
P16_MSS and AEDSP16_SBPRO appear to be typoes, but they're part of OSS which is going away so who cares? * ALPHA_EV7 appears to be unused ... and on and on, and i'm not even out of the A's yet. i suspect the script will finish by this evening sometime. rday -- ===

Re: what is the rationale for "TAINT_USER"?

2007-10-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i can see what the theoretical purpose for it is here: > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/6656 > > but it's not clear how it can possibly be set from userland given > that: > > $ grep -r TAINT_USER * > includ

what is the rationale for "TAINT_USER"?

2007-10-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
tainted & TAINT_USER ? 'U' : ' ', $ am i missing something screamingly obvious? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ont

Re: what is the rationale for "TAINT_USER"?

2007-10-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2007.10.12 08:04:20 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i can see what the theoretical purpose for it is here: > > > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/6656 > > > > but it's not clear how it can

dead(?) CONFIG variables under drivers/ directory

2007-11-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
as of this morning, broken down by subdirectory: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Dead_CONFIG_variables rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

[PATCH] ARM: Remove reference to non-existent MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS.

2007-11-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
The CONFIG variable MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS was deleted in commit ba7cc09c9c9e29a57045dc5bbf843ac1cfad3283. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/collie_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/collie_defconfig index 970c8c7..4264e27 100644 --- a/ar

[PATCH] BLACKFIN: Typo: "CONFIG_RTC_BFIN_MODULE" -> "CONFIG_RTC_DRV_BFIN_MODULE"

2007-11-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- i'm *reasonably* confident that this is a typo that should be fixed. diff --git a/arch/blackfin/mach-bf533/boards/H8606.c b/arch/blackfin/mach-bf533/boards/H8606.c index b941550..7d33096 100644 --- a/arch/blackfin/mach-b

Updated (online) list of dead(?) CONFIG variables

2007-11-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
broken down under both arch/ and drivers/ by subdirectory: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Dead_CONFIG_variables rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo

duplicated include files

2007-11-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: duplicated include files

2007-11-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 12:31:38 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > given the recent patches to remove duplicated #include preprocessor > > directives in source files, let it be known that there are a number of

Re: List of possible duplicated include files in include/

2007-11-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
r files from my script output. i can tweak the script and add this to the web page as well. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http:/

Re: List of possible duplicated include files in include/

2007-11-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Marco Costalba wrote: > On 11/4/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Marco Costalba wrote: > > > > > Here the number of false positives is overhelming, but perhaps > > > there are also _real_ du

Re: duplicated include files

2007-11-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > BTW: "make includecheck" already does the same... oh ... well, then, let's just ignore the last few postings, shall we? :-P rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consul

Re: duplicated include files

2007-11-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
version control systems such as subversion, SCCS, CVS, mercurial, etc. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca - To unsubscribe from

Re: duplicated include files

2007-11-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > actually, one wonders if there's any value in keeping any references > > to other version control systems such as subversion, SCCS, CVS, > > mercurial, etc. > > What do you mean by "

Re: [PATCH 1/6] ARM: fix memset size error

2007-11-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
er, no? now, i'm guessing the logic is correct but i figured it's worth noting what the code *used* to do. unless i'm misreading something horribly. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Trainin

Re: [PATCH] CRIS: Remove MTD_AMSTD and MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS

2007-11-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
NFIG_MTD_CFI_AMDSTD=y > -CONFIG_MTD_AMDSTD=y > +# CONFIG_MTD_AMDSTD is not set why are you keeping this around? > -CONFIG_MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS=y > -CONFIG_MTD_AMDSTD=y > +# CONFIG_MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS is not set > +# CONFIG_MTD_AMDSTD is not set same here. rday -- ==

[PATCH] Remove unused header file linux/fd1772.h.

2007-11-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Given that no one seems to be including this header file, remove it. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/include/linux/fd1772.h b/include/linux/fd1772.h deleted file mode 100644 index 871d6e4..000 --- a/include/linux/fd1772.h +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8

the value in exporting unused header files?

2007-11-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
file for the Sangoma AF_WANPIPE Socket $ in other words, a header file that is not included by any other file in the tree is still being exported to user space. is that normal? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting

a list of non-existent but included include/linux header files

2007-11-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
: include/linux/usb_sl811.h === arch/blackfin/mach-bf527/boards/ezkit.c:#include -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http:/

non-existent CONFIG variables referenced from Makefiles

2007-11-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: a list of non-existent but included include/linux header files

2007-11-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
vers/ide/pci/delkin_cb.c:#include drivers/firmware/dmi-id.c:#include drivers/spi/spi.c:#include drivers/misc/fujitsu-laptop.c:#include drivers/misc/asus-laptop.c:#include drivers/misc/msi-laptop.c:#include rday -- ================ Rober

[PATCH] MIPS: Delete now-unreferenced i2c-yosemite.h header file.

2007-11-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Given that the corresponding source file i2c-yosemite.c file was removed in commit daa4a68f901c4d6491baa1a01f5c869a553c3f6c, and that no one else includes this file, it seems safe to delete it. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/arch/mips/pmc-sierra/yo

[PATCH] Add the macro to test if "exactly_one_bit_set" to log2.h.

2007-11-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
While this macro is defined in terms of "is_power_of_2" and is therefore functionally equivalent, the visual semantics are sometimes more appropriate for what is actually being tested. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/include/linux/log2.h

Re: [PATCH] Add the macro to test if "exactly_one_bit_set" to log2.h.

2007-11-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06 2007 at 18:38 +0200, "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > While this macro is defined in terms of "is_power_of_2" and is > > therefore functionally equivalent, the visual semantics

all of the aforementioned kernel cleanup script output in one place

2007-11-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
enjoy. http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Kernel_cleanup rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca

"dead" CONFIG variables under the include/ directory

2007-11-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
BUFFER_DEBUG COBALT_MICRO_SERVER HARD_PPS HAS_COMPAT_EPOLL_EVENT IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED SA1100_CT6001 sound SND_CS46XX_DEBUG_GPIO USE_VXLOADER rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and

Re: [PATCH] Add the macro to test if "exactly_one_bit_set" to log2.h.

2007-11-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:38:52 -0500 (EST) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > While this macro is defined in terms of "is_power_of_2" and is > > therefore functionally

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In compiling: > CC [M] net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_TTL.o > LD [M] drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.o > CC [M] drivers/usb/gadget/net2280.o > CC [M] net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.o > drivers/usb/gadget/net2280.c: In function 'net2280_probe': > d

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