On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 02:38:03PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I think it was a mistake to force these on for everybody; they have a
> much higher false-positive rate than the rest of lockdep, so as you say
> forcing them on leads to fewer people using *any* of lockdep.
>
> The bug you're hitti
On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 06:06:48AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Unfortunately for you, I don't find arguments along the lines of
> > "lockdep will save us" at all convincing. lockdep already throws
> > too many false positives to be useful as a tool that reliably and
> > accurately points out
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 07:47:22PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
> No. I don't want to lower the standards. Maybe in regard to silly style
> stuff, but not in regard to code quality (and I mean real bugs like races,
> deadlocks or such, and not if a line has more than 80 characters). I would
> hav
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 02:52:06PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
>
> I've recently posted a proof of concept for wiping files, or in other words
> to really delete files, And it was a disaster because if someone posts
> imperfect pathhes on this list, people have fun trying to eat you (because
>
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:18:27PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> And again, don't knock the basic whitespace patch. It is non-trivial,
> see the tutorials for proof of that.
>
> And please, NEVER chide someone for contributing whitespace patches,
> it's a sure way to ensure that this person never contr
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:42:48AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> So don't take cleanup patches for your code, that's fine, and I totally
> understand why _you_ don't want to do that. But to blow off the effort
> as being somehow trivial and not worthy of us, that's totally missing
> the point, and makin
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 01:26:51PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
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> That isn't true. It helps the submitter understand the workflow and
> expectations. What you meant to say is that it doesn't help you.
The problem is that workflow isn't the hard part. It's the part that
can be taught most easily
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 05:03:39PM +0100, Eric Curtin wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> As I said in the subject of the mail (which I have been since told I
> shouldn't have done this), I'm a noob to kernel code. I tried to pick
> off something super simple to just see what the process of getting a
> patch in
On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 05:07:48PM +0100, James Bottomley wrote:
>
> OK, but I still don't understand how windows gets the partition table on
> there in the first place ... that must surely be some sort of guess the
> disk size hack.
99% of the time the partition table was provided by the drive
m
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:12:53AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
> > But of course, I'm not a lawyer, and if your company has is paying for
> > the development of the driver, the Golden Rule applies (he who has the
> > Gold, makes the Rules), and each of our respective corporate lawyers
> > may have d
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 09:57:20AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > But shouldn't we at least write somewhere
> > that it has connection to spdx.org where you can find out that licenses.
>
> Why? Are these licenses so unknown that no one knows what they are?
> And, as part of the kernel-as-a-
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