Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving CPU flags into USE_EXPAND

2015-01-15 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 12:03:27 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: > Alexis Ballier wrote: > >> >> > >> >> More precisely: When changing the names anyway, > >> >> IMHO it would be a very good idea to follow the convention of > >> >> the "flag" names in /proc/cpuinfo and add all flags supported > >> >>

[gentoo-dev] Re: Moving CPU flags into USE_EXPAND

2015-01-15 Thread Martin Vaeth
Alexis Ballier wrote: >> >> >> >> More precisely: When changing the names anyway, >> >> IMHO it would be a very good idea to follow the convention of the >> >> "flag" names in /proc/cpuinfo and add all flags supported >> >> there as possible USE-flags, no matter, whether they are currently >> >> u

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-sources - should we stable?

2015-01-15 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/15/2015 11:01 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:31 AM, Sergey Popov > wrote: >> So, i like your idea to stick stable to the LTS kernel. While it >> can lead to potential problems with some external modules(which >> are, for e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving CPU flags into USE_EXPAND

2015-01-15 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:50:25 +0100 "viv...@gmail.com" wrote: > Il 15/01/2015 11:30, Alexis Ballier ha scritto: > > On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:20:15 + (UTC) > > Martin Vaeth wrote: > > > >> Christopher Head wrote: > >>> All that requires is knowing the names, though; it would be > >>> fine if no

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving CPU flags into USE_EXPAND

2015-01-15 Thread viv...@gmail.com
Il 15/01/2015 11:30, Alexis Ballier ha scritto: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:20:15 + (UTC) > Martin Vaeth wrote: > >> Christopher Head wrote: >>> All that requires is knowing the names, though; it would be >>> fine if no package actually uses the feature yet. >> ++ >> >> More precisely: When chan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving CPU flags into USE_EXPAND

2015-01-15 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:20:15 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: > Christopher Head wrote: > > > > All that requires is knowing the names, though; it would be > > fine if no package actually uses the feature yet. > > ++ > > More precisely: When changing the names anyway, > IMHO it would be a very

[gentoo-dev] Re: Moving CPU flags into USE_EXPAND

2015-01-15 Thread Martin Vaeth
Christopher Head wrote: > > All that requires is knowing the names, though; it would be > fine if no package actually uses the feature yet. ++ More precisely: When changing the names anyway, IMHO it would be a very good idea to follow the convention of the "flag" names in /proc/cpuinfo and add a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-sources - should we stable?

2015-01-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:31 AM, Sergey Popov wrote: > So, i like your idea to stick stable to the LTS kernel. While it can > lead to potential problems with some external modules(which are, for > example, marked stable now but does not support 3.4 kernel) the majority > of really stable external

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-sources - should we stable?

2015-01-15 Thread Sergey Popov
03.01.2015 00:53, Mike Pagano пишет: > On Saturday, January 03, 2015 12:39:39 AM Mikle Kolyada wrote: >> 02.01.2015 20:25, Mike Pagano пишет: >>> This is in no way complaining about how long it takes to stabilize a >>> kernel. >> As for this fact. >> >> >> >> The main problem is that: we only can

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving CPU flags into USE_EXPAND

2015-01-15 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:59:37 +0100 "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > That said, long time ago I was taught that "instruction set > use-flags" should be avoided as much as possible. I don't remember > the source for that anymore. > > Question to all, is that documented anywhere, and what are the > s