Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes

2007-04-12 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Egmont Koblinger wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 05:52:49PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > > > Well, it often doesn't end there, other users may report these as bugs and > > want to get them fixed, so we have to look ahead a little for possible

Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency

2007-03-07 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tuesday 06 March 2007 10:29, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > PAGE_SIZE should not be available at all. Please use getpagesize() > instead. While I agree, NBPG is a bit of a problem, although it's only needed for aout coredumps AFAICT, but still needed to compile e.g. gdb. bye, Roman - To un

Re: [PATCH] fix dependency generation

2007-03-31 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > The problem is that tristate symbol represent three values. > =n => CONFIG_SYMBOL is undefined > =y => CONFIG_SYMBOL is defined > =m => COMFIG_SYMBOL_MODULE is defined > > The function split_config does not take into account the > different values a

[PATCH] Allow arch to initialize arch field of the module structure

2007-04-30 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, This will later allow an arch to add module specific information via linker generated tables instead of poking directly in the module object structure. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/mod

[PATCH 1/2] wrap access to thread_info

2007-04-30 Thread Roman Zippel
Recently a few direct accesses to the thread_info in the task structure snuck back, so this wraps them with the appropriate wrapper. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This only leaves blackfin in -mm which I'll fix separately (depending on how quickly Andrew is w

[PATCH 2/2] rename thread_info to stack

2007-04-30 Thread Roman Zippel
This finally renames the thread_info field in task structure to stack, so that the assumptions about this field are gone and archs have more freedom about placing the thread_info structure. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/h8300/kernel/asm-offsets.c |2 +-

Re: [patch 00/33] m68k patches for 2.6.22

2007-05-02 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tuesday 01 May 2007 22:49, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Btw, is there any chance you could update m68k to use the generic > irq code? The only architectures that don't have a conversion > in progress are m68k, m68knommu and arm26 I haven't looked seriously into it since it was pretty much

Re: [PATCH 2/2] rename thread_info to stack

2007-05-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 2 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2007 02:10:34 +0200 (CEST) Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > This finally renames the thread_info field in task structure to stack, > > so that the assumptions about this field are gone and

Re: [patch 04/33] m68k: Atari keyboard and mouse support.

2007-05-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 3 May 2007, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > + for (i = 1; i < 0x72; i++) { > > > + atakbd_keycode[i] = i; > > > + set_bit(atakbd_keycode[i], atakbd_dev->keybit); > > > > It looks like this driver is not using standard input event codes. Actually it does

Re: [patch 04/33] m68k: Atari keyboard and mouse support.

2007-05-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 3 May 2007, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > I explained already at a earlier occasion, why this "generic" keycode > > thing is broken by design, which makes connecting multiple keyboards with > > different mappings impossible. > > > > No, I don't think so. Your points were: > > 1) You d

Re: [patch 04/33] m68k: Atari keyboard and mouse support.

2007-05-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 3 May 2007, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > I never said that. Many keyboard _types_ need a separate key mapping. > > Localization is a completely different problem (and could be solved via > > separate localization tables). > > Most of it can be solved in userspace and we wouldn't have to

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-07 Thread Roman Zippel
========= --- /dev/null +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_norm.c @@ -0,0 +1,841 @@ +/* + * Completely Fair Scheduling (CFS) Class (SCHED_NORMAL/SCHED_BATCH) + * + * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * + * Interactivity

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-10 Thread Roman Zippel
=== --- /dev/null +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_norm.c @@ -0,0 +1,870 @@ +/* + * Completely Fair Scheduling (CFS) Class (SCHED_NORMAL/SCHED_BATCH) + * + * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * + * Interactivity improvements

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-11 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: > I still see the fairtest2 sleeper startup anomaly. Sometimes it starts > up normally, others the sleeper is a delayed. Seems to require idle > time to trigger worst case startup delay. > > 14854 root 20 0 1568 468 384 R 52 0.0 0:0

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-11 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, Hi, Out of curiousity: will I ever get answers to my questions? bye, Roman - 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 FAQ at http:/

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-12 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > fresh back from the Kernel Summit, Peter Zijlstra and me are pleased to > announce the latest iteration of the CFS scheduler development tree. Our > main focus has been on simplifications and performance - and as part of > that we've also picked up

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > There's a good reason > > I put that much effort into maintaining a good, but still cheap average, > > it's needed for a good task placement. > > While I agree that having this average is nice, your particular > implementation has the problem

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Out of curiousity: will I ever get answers to my questions? > > the last few weeks/months have been pretty hectic - i get more than 50 > non-list emails a day so i could easily have missed some. Well, let's just take the recent "Really Simple Rea

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread Roman Zippel
27;s, and use >that as the key into the tree. > >the idea to use absolute virtual time as the basic metric of >scheduling has been first raised by William Lee Irwin, advanced by >Tong Li and first prototyped by Roman Zippel in the "Really Fair >Schedule

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-14 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > The rest of the math is indeed different - it's simply missing. What > > is there is IMO not really adequate. I guess you will see the > > differences, once you test a bit more with different nice levels. > > Roman, i disagree strongly. I did tes

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-14 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 18:50 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > > > I never claimed to understand every detail of CFS, I can _guess_ what > > _might_ have been intended, but from that it's impossible to know for > > c

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-14 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > I have read the announcement from Ingo and after reading it I concluded > that it was good to see that Ingo had taken in consideration the feedback > from you and improved the schduler based on this. > And when I read that he removed a lot of stuff I

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-14 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Aug 10th, I was disappointed to see that you still had not provided > the critical information that Ingo had been asking to you for 9 days > (cfs-sched-debug output). Your motivations in this work started to > become a bit fuzzy to me, since peop

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-14 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > This is ridiculous, I asked you multiple times to explain to me some > > of the differences relative to CFS as response to the splitup > > requests. Not once did you react, you didn't even ask what I'd like > > to know specifically. > > Roman,

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-14 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > There is actually a very simple reason for that, the actual patch is > > not my primary focus, > > > for someone who's not focused on patches/code, you make quite a bit of > noise when someone does turn your discussion into smaller patches

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc4] qconf ("make xconfig") Search Dialog Enhancement (rev8)

2007-09-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Shlomi Fish wrote: > This patch adds an option to use either substring match, regular expression > match, or keywords search in the "make xconfig" Edit->Find dialog. > > It also allows searching on the "help" field of the menus as well as > the "name" of the symbol. >

Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

2007-09-16 Thread Roman Zippel
something like this, but initially I wanted to keep it simple. It's a compromise between overloading the user interface with information and keeping it simple. That's the only concern I have with it, but if everyone else likes I don't mind either. :) > Signed-off-by: Matěj Laitl &

Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

2007-09-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > But can you take a look at distingushing between non-selectable options > due to dependency issues and seleted-by symbols. Do you have an example in mind? If a symbol is not changable, but still visible, a select is usually involved. bye, Roman -

Re: [PATCH] tristate choices with mixed tristate and boolean values

2007-09-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Jan Beulich wrote: > --- linux-2.6.23-rc5/scripts/kconfig/menu.c 2007-09-07 16:48:23.0 > +0200 > +++ 2.6.23-rc5-tristate-choices/scripts/kconfig/menu.c2007-09-03 > 10:29:41.0 +0200 > @@ -235,16 +235,23 @@ void menu_finalize(struct menu *parent)

Re: [PATCH v3] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

2007-09-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Matej Laitl wrote: > +tristate sym_get_minimal_value(struct symbol *sym) > +{ > + return sym->rev_dep.tri; > +} > + > +tristate sym_get_maximal_value(struct symbol *sym) > +{ > + return sym->visible; > +} > + Right now I prefer the previous version. This maximum

Re: [PATCH v3] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

2007-09-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Matej Laitl wrote: > The v2 was maybe more intuitive, but had at least one flaw, where it claimed > the option was selected by another, while it was in fact only made > unchangeable by 'bool "Enable block layer" if EMBEDDED', defaulting to y. The point is that I'm gettin

Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments

2007-09-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > > But can you take a look at distingushing between non-selectable options > > > due to dependency issues and seleted-by symbols. > > > > Do you have an example in mind? If a symbol is not changable

Re: CFS review

2007-08-20 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > the only relevant thing that comes to mind at the moment is that last > week Peter noticed a buggy aspect of sleeper bonuses (in that we do not > rate-limit their output, hence we 'waste' them instead of redistributing > them), and i've got the sma

Re: CFS review

2007-08-21 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: > I thought this was history. With your config, I was finally able to > reproduce the anomaly (only with your proggy though), and Ingo's patch > does indeed fix it here. > > Freshly reproduced anomaly and patch verification, running 2.6.23-rc3 > wi

Re: [PATCH] qconf: show red links for disabled options

2007-08-21 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Marco Costalba wrote: > When 'Show debug info' is checked then a list of links > to dependant symbols is shown in info view right bottom pane. > > Currently all links are in standard blue. With this patch > links to disabled symbols are shown in red instead. The way you

Re: [PATCH] kconfig: add *_silentdefconfig feature for config targets

2007-08-21 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Andres Salomon wrote: > AFAICT, there is nothing similar when using *_defconfig; one must copy > a .config manually, and then run silentoldconfig. Simply running the > associated _defconfig will quietly update the config (which may silently > drop config options). This

Re: UNS: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: add *_silentdefconfig feature for config targets

2007-08-21 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Andres Salomon wrote: > > I would really like to avoid another input mode. > > I think it be better to implement this as a combination of "-s -D > > " and the silent mode is adjusted to read another config instead > > of .config if defconfig_file is set. > > > > As wo

Re: [PATCH] Move PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS into an always-included Kconfig

2007-08-23 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: > Pointing out that this > is a Kconfig bug does not seem to silence the error, *sigh* This is not a Kconfig bug! bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More ma

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