Re: ssh session with qemu-arm using busybox

2019-03-11 Thread Nick Kossifidis
sts.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-riscv You may use the hostfw argument on qemu, e.g... -netdev user,id=unet,hostfwd=tcp::-:22 \ -net user \ and you 'll get guest's port 22 to be forwarded to hosts port , so you can do ssh

Meltdown/spectre patches.

2018-01-07 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, Rather than bother the main kernel list with what is going on, does anybody know if the latest source code on kernel.org contains the patches, or do I need to apply externally? Thanks, Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies

Btrfs Questions for Personal Data Archive

2017-04-11 Thread nick
If people want more information or have advice on how to scale this out that would be very helpful. Generally I am looking for information related to btrfs. If anyone replies huge thanks, Nick P.S. If anyone tells me to send my questions to the btrfs list I did some stupid things and was banned fr

Confused about rtnl routing mutex scalability

2016-09-10 Thread nick
scale only, seems to me that it is causing nothing but problems with deadlocks related to it or issues with locking timeouts on separate netdev routing tables for two different networks. Is this just me or does this lock actually cause serious issues or can do so. Regards, Nick

Re: dumping large buffers to file

2015-11-26 Thread Nick Krause
others are for user space applications needing access to kernel resources indirectly or device driver user space interaction. Hope this Helps, Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Formal Apology

2015-07-15 Thread nick
against the wall a few times. In addition I cannot even believe I was that stupid and arrogant. To be honest I am surprised I wasn't banned a few weeks earlier :. Sorry, Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org

Re: bug kernel v4.0.1

2015-05-04 Thread nick
n send us a back trace of the function calls on your screen when the panic happens. Otherwise this is impossible for us to trace your kernel panic related to boot loading. Nick ___ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org >

Re: running queue processes

2015-05-04 Thread nick
; >>> The book is called the Linux programming interface and the chapters >>> related to this question are chapters 26 or 27 I believe. > > nick, this is another reason your contributions to this forum (and > pretty much every other one you're on) are so frequently

Re: 4.1-rc1 fails with O3 optimization

2015-04-28 Thread nick
this for a while,is this only for x86 or other architectures too as I would advise to bisect/test his patch on ARM and other CPU platforms too. Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: Reusable Memory Manager

2015-04-22 Thread nick
On 2015-04-22 10:47 PM, Kenneth Adam Miller wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:42 PM, nick wrote: > >> >> >> On 2015-04-22 10:39 PM, Kenneth Adam Miller wrote: >>> So, I have a particular use case that has a lot to do with security. >>> >>>

Re: Reusable Memory Manager

2015-04-22 Thread nick
> Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > You didn't finish your email such that ... . I would be glad to try and help if you finish off

Question about porting over magic lantern kernel hardware support to mainline

2015-04-22 Thread nick
mine, then I would see no point in doing this. Anyhow please let me known of any options on main lining this or keeping it separate. Thanks, Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/lis

Re: How do _you_ read the linux source?

2015-04-20 Thread nick
On 2015-04-20 01:45 AM, Christoffer Holmstedt wrote: > 2015-04-20 5:11 GMT+02:00 nick : >> There were a few things I did when starting to learn the kernel >> 1. Read Robert Love's Linux Kernel Development, I don't care how much you >> think >> you know

Re: How do _you_ read the linux source?

2015-04-19 Thread nick
lls,threading theory,how to use gdb and memory analysis toolkit,maybe tool chain issues if working with embedded systems. The kernel is very complex in debugging everything from deadlock to registers being written from being wrong on exact hardware can happen. Further more due to the kernel

Question about assembly in set bit function for x86 architecture

2015-04-19 Thread nick
nown what register(s)/instruction(s) this touches and therefore this is impossible for me to look up in the Intel Manuals. If someone either tells me the registers/instructions this uses or explains the code that would be very helpful. Nick ___ Kerne

Re: qemu problem

2015-04-18 Thread nick
86_64: -net user,hostfwd=tcp:1:10.0.2.15:22: Device 'user' > could not be initialized > > any help ? This looks like a tcp forward rule being wrong for qemu in its configuration files. If you can send the config files for your configured qemu I may be able to help.

Re: xtime variable in kernel 4.0

2015-04-14 Thread Nick Krause
space. This seems unnecessary to me unless you can find some applications that need the wall clock time in order to function correctly. Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: Kernel thread scheduling

2015-04-12 Thread nick
gt; I recommended this book as that was how I learn the basics of kernel development. Again if your interested in certain areas I will be glad to link/explain it to you to the best of my knowledge. Nick >Kernelnewbies mailing list >Kernelnewbies@kernelnew

Re: Kernel thread scheduling

2015-04-11 Thread nick
On 2015-04-11 11:02 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: > On 04/11/2015 10:21 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: >> On 04/10/2015 09:09 AM, nick wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 2015-04-09 11:37 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: >>>> On 04/09/2015 10:52 PM, nick wrote: >>>>>

VFS/driver core overhead

2015-04-06 Thread nick
ng with my benchmarks due to me not knowing of any one way to do that. If someone either points me to a benchmark for me to test this or answers it that would be very helpful. Thanks, Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbie

Re: Kernel thread scheduling

2015-03-22 Thread nick
On 2015-03-22 08:05 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: > On 03/22/2015 07:30 PM, nick wrote: >> I would recommend reading Chapters 3 and 4 of Linux Kernel Development by >> Robert Love >> as when I was learning the scheduler and process management > > > how much has the sch

Re: Kernel thread scheduling

2015-03-22 Thread nick
or user space based tasks are TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE works fine there. Hope this Helps, Nick ___ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > _

Re: Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-15 Thread nick
;> >>Nobody's claiming you did. This is a different thread to yours, >> with a different subject line. Note that none of the quoted messages >> above had your name as attribution. >> >>> The initial message under this subject had nothing to do with th

Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-14 Thread nick
and want to get my feet wet. In addition if I am still not trusted yet,that's OK too. :) Thanks, Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: Kernel Locking Question

2015-03-11 Thread nick
th automated testing tools > Thanks Valdis, That makes sense to me. I was wondering however about the reader vs writer issues in file systems too as this seems to me coming up a lot in btrfs and other file systems for various reasons. Thanks Nick __

Re: Get local CPU id

2015-03-09 Thread Nick Krause
; > ___ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies Jeff, He can just limit the dmesg output by using console_limit I believe. Nick ___

Re: Mouse driver

2015-03-06 Thread nick
On 2015-03-06 11:36 PM, Ronit Halder wrote: > This is my semester project and Thanks. > Does it have to be a input driver? If you really want to impress your teacher and get a better mark,try writing a basic network or usb driver. Nick > On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:04 AM, nick wrote:

Re: Mouse driver

2015-03-06 Thread nick
Ronit, What are your reasons for writing this driver? In addition if you have the kernel tree lying around look under drivers/input/mouse for mouse drivers that are in production to help you understand how to write one better. Good Luck, Nick On 2015-03-06 11:27 PM, Ronit Halder wrote: > H

Re: What happens when an interrupt comes while in middle of printk?

2015-02-24 Thread nick
east not recently. I seem > to remember that issue in the 1980's, but that was the UNIX kernel.) > > Greg > Greg, You are right here as printk works anywhere needed after console is enabled in the boot of the kernel. The only issue is if you are too early in t

Re: Port Newer Kernel to Android Device

2015-02-22 Thread nick
27;t make even an estimate of how long it > would > take you, you're probably not going to be able to do the porting. > Valdis, This is just a idea for now I haven't have the idea to look at making the porting patch(es) yet. Nick ___

Port Newer Kernel to Android Device

2015-02-21 Thread nick
Greetings Fellow Kernel Developers, I was wondering if there is any way to port a newer kernel to my device without breaking the android user space. The device is a Samsung Alpha and it would be nice to run a newer kernel for various reasons. Nick

Re: Use of SCHED_SOFTIRQ

2015-01-28 Thread nick
Vignesh, You forgot to mention that schedule does not itself pick the next task. The actual function called is pick_next_task which uses the leftmost cached entry in the red black tree of able to run processes to run next. Nick On 2015-01-28 12:53 PM, Vignesh Radhakrishnan wrote: > Hey Sreej

Maintainer Hasn't Picked up my patch after git resend for Ipmi subsystem

2015-01-20 Thread nick
Greetings All, I am unable to get through to the maintainer of the ipmi subsystem for a patch,that I am resending. Does anyone known if they are really busy with other kernel work? Cheers Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies

Re: Make cscope fails for me now as of lastest commits on Linus's tree

2015-01-18 Thread nick
Valdis, You were right about my build issues. I git cloned a fresh copy of Linus's tree and it works fine now. Thanks Again, Nick On 2015-01-18 05:14 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 23:28:18 -0500, nick said: >> Greetings Kernel Developers, >> Afte

Make cscope fails for me now as of lastest commits on Linus's tree

2015-01-17 Thread nick
Greetings Kernel Developers, After pulling the latest kernel commits for Linus’s tree, I am getting a build failure with make cscope. Below is the error messages. find: unknown predicate `--cc' I am unsure of why I am getting this and if this is a bug or an issue with my machine.

Re: booting arm board

2015-01-11 Thread nick
-f on the file in question from the root directory of your cloned git tree and is should tell you who to mail the message to and cc the message to. Cheers, Nick On 2015-01-11 10:38 PM, John de la Garza wrote: > I am trying to boot a foxg20 board. It uses an at91sam9g20 chip an > used to work

Re: catch exit status of daemon

2015-01-06 Thread nick
Yash, There are two ways to do this either use the signals API or IPC(inter-process communication) libraries. I don't known the functions off the top of my head but this can get you started. Nick On 2015-01-06 10:22 AM, Yash Jain wrote: > Hello All, > I have one dumb question, &g

Re: videobuf2_core oops, recent media_build. dvbsky t980c's

2014-12-29 Thread nick
Chris, I would agree that is the best idea as of now. In addition, just curious why don't you just git bisect this as this may be easier then waiting. Nick On 2014-12-29 02:47 PM, Chris Lee wrote: > I'm running 3.19.0-rc1 > > This started on the Prof 7301 in the 3.18

Re: videobuf2_core oops, recent media_build. dvbsky t980c's

2014-12-29 Thread nick
Chris, Please try the latest rc kernel to see if the issue is fixed. Regards Nick On 2014-12-29 09:47 AM, Chris Lee wrote: > Im seeing the same issue and others using the Prof 7301, different > drivers, same vb2 usage though. Its defn a vb2 issue across multiple > devices :( >

Re: Cpu Freq Merge with Scheduler

2014-12-18 Thread nick
ystems into the scheduler. My question stands as follows have we got any farther on the above list of issues or not? Regards Nick On 2014-12-18 01:23 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Quoting nick : > >> Greetings Fellow Developers, > >> I am curious about the work going into m

Re: Asus N53 USB WiFi Driver porting

2014-12-18 Thread nick
On 2014-12-18 01:17 PM, Jeff Haran wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: kernelnewbies-bounces+jeff.haran=citrix@kernelnewbies.org >> [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces+jeff.haran=citrix@kernelnewbies.org] On >> Behalf Of nick >> Sent: Thursday, Decembe

Cpu Freq Merge with Scheduler

2014-12-18 Thread nick
Greetings Fellow Developers, I am curious about the work going into making the kernel scheduler more CPU power efficient. I have done some googling on this and am curious about what how is going into the ideas/patches for this work. Nick

Re: Asus N53 USB WiFi Driver porting

2014-12-18 Thread nick
f commits. Abhishek, in addition this seems more like you don't know or are afraid of compiling the kernel over anything else. If you want post lsmod output from your system so I can help teach you how to build the kernel correctly. Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Bad Commit for Current Lockups

2014-12-11 Thread nick
Greetings, I send Dave, what I feel is the bad commit for the current lockups found in kernel 3.18 r4. The bad commit I believe is 4995ab9cf512e9a6cc07dfd6b1d4e2fc48ce7fef as it does touch the TLB code in the function that is most likely causing issues. Nick

Re: Filtering noise is about protecting resourses

2014-12-09 Thread nick
Bjorn, I understand that now after reading your message. To be honest, I started out like this because I had no idea, where to start. If your willing to give me a place to start, that is of use I will be glad to help out. Over time, I hope we can work this out. Nick On 2014-12-09 04:24 AM

Re: Remove Ban?

2014-12-08 Thread Nick Krause
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:32 AM, wrote: > On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 22:15:13 -0500, nick said: >> Greetings Fellow Developers, >> I have finally learned my lesson as you can tell from my newest patches being >> accepted or considered in good form. > > Right now,all I'm

Remove Ban?

2014-12-07 Thread nick
try to improve my trust from the developers on the kernel list even more. Thanks for the Understanding, Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: stability ?

2014-12-04 Thread nick
I agree with Valdis here, unlike user space the kernel has too many weird use cases on different hardware or configs for one developer to test alone. Through Intel does have their test lab for Linux now :). Regards Nick On 2014-12-04 10:02 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Thu, 04

Interested in Networking, Memory and Btrfs Subsystems

2014-12-01 Thread nick
good patches as people can see from the logs of LKML. :) Thanks for the Help, Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: The limit of kernel memory in 64bit system

2014-11-29 Thread nick
Sorry Yiqun, I was thinking of virtual memory so you are correct. I also haven't looked into the kernel memory subsystem(s) in a while so I may be a little behind in my knownledge of them. Regards Nick On 2014-11-29 03:54 PM, Yiqun Chen wrote: > Incorrect. The 64 bit machine theor

Re: The limit of kernel memory in 64bit system

2014-11-29 Thread nick
x27;s memory. So on my system with 8 GB of ram, the kernel can use up to 25 percent or 2 GB of ram. Hope this answers your question, Nick On 2014-11-29 12:45 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 12:25:43AM +0900, J.Hwan Kim wrote: >> Hi, everyone >> >> As far as I know, the

Advantages in Scalability of Softriqs versus Tasklets

2014-11-19 Thread Nick Krause
x27;s code. In addition in seems to also happen when timing of interrupts needs to be in the range of under milliseconds to process the bottom half and this seems very important for the networking subsystem. Cheers and Thanks for Any Answers,

Re: Re Start Fresh

2014-11-13 Thread nick
I am attaching a patch, here that I assume is trivial but good. This is in order to prove I am serious about this. Nick On 14-11-13 11:20 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:02:42 -0500, Nick Krause said: >> I am willing to start out completely fresh and willing

Re Start Fresh

2014-11-13 Thread Nick Krause
improve my rep. Cheers Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Learning From Mistakes

2014-11-11 Thread nick
want to start building my trust and relationships again with the maintainers and other developers who's time I so ungratefully wasted. Sorry and I appreciate any replies, Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org

Re: [PATCH] staging: Fix spacing between function name and parentheses

2014-11-03 Thread nick
this list have stated it's correct and good in previous emails to me. Nick On 14-11-03 05:05 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: >> On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 09:17:50 -, el_es said: >> >>> Maybe better to introduce a standard clear marker that >

Fwd: Re: [PATCH] staging: Fix checkpatch error messages about unneeded space before commas in ms.c

2014-11-02 Thread nick
Forwarded Message Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Fix checkpatch error messages about unneeded space before commas in ms.c Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 15:56:36 +0100 From: Peter Senna Tschudin To: Nicholas Krause This is good! You can try to submit it. On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:25

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix brace coding style issues reported by checkpatch

2014-10-30 Thread nick
I am trying to improve my rep first through. Cheers Nick On 14-10-30 12:21 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:34 AM, nick wrote: >> I don't mind waiting. I am just honestly trying to improve my rep here and >> actually(hopefully) get a job >> doing

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix brace coding style issues reported by checkpatch

2014-10-29 Thread nick
I don't mind waiting. I am just honestly trying to improve my rep here and actually(hopefully) get a job doing this full time. Cheers Nick On 14-10-29 04:45 AM, Scott Lovenberg wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Sudip Mukherjee > wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 a

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix brace coding style issues reported by checkpatch

2014-10-28 Thread nick
Sorry Jeff, My fault, mistyped. Cheers Nick On 14-10-28 10:04 PM, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 22:01 -0400, nick wrote: >> Greg, >> That's fine, I was wondering how long Greg KH takes to get around to picking >> this up as he is very busy with >&

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix brace coding style issues reported by checkpatch

2014-10-28 Thread nick
Greg, That's fine, I was wondering how long Greg KH takes to get around to picking this up as he is very busy with other kernel work. Cheers Nick On 14-10-28 09:58 PM, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 21:49 -0400, nick wrote: >> Greg, >> Not picked up of yet. I

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix brace coding style issues reported by checkpatch

2014-10-28 Thread nick
Greg, Not picked up of yet. I would appreciate if this gets forwarded for me as this may help it get picked up. Further more this issues I am were causing were not technical but not listening and that's why I decided to state around and learn how to my patches properly. Cheers Nick On

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix brace coding style issues reported by checkpatch

2014-10-28 Thread nick
Hey Greg, I am trying to improve my code as much as possible now, I really am finally understanding how terrible my code was before and I hope never again to make patches that shitty. Cheers Nick On 14-10-28 02:06 PM, Greg Donald wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Nick Krause wr

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix brace coding style issues reported by checkpatch

2014-10-28 Thread Nick Krause
eadability with their first > patch. If the 80 char warning should be mostly ignored why have it.. > it's pointless. Increase it to a 21st century value or kill it. > > > -- > Greg Donald I actually fixed this to improve code readability not for the kernel rules for your infor

Re: [PATCH] staging: Fix checkpatch issue with brackets in rtw_ap.c

2014-10-21 Thread nick
Good to hear, I will try tomorrow to send it a correct patch fixing out the issues like the one found in this patch in the same file. I am pretty certain I known how to do a patch how. Nick On 14-10-22 12:50 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:31:25PM -0700, Jeff Kirs

USB Start Learning Codebase

2014-10-17 Thread nick
Hey Guys, I am asking here about how to start with the usb stack as I am interested in learning that alongside the btrfs codebase. Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [PATCH] staging: Fix spacing between function name and parentheses

2014-10-12 Thread nick
last few months. Sorry, Nick On 14-10-12 06:34 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:52:40 +0100, Hugo Mills said: > >> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 09:44:05AM -0400, nick wrote: >>> Thank you for your help, I'll study the code and see what I can do >

Re: [PATCH] staging: Fix spacing between function name and parentheses

2014-10-11 Thread nick
Great to known. Sorry about not reading the code, will check more carefully before I fix it. Regards Nick On 14-10-11 11:25 AM, karthik nayak wrote: > Hey Nick, > Nice try to fix a checkpatch warning. But do read what you're changing. > Yes your format is right. If you haven

Re: [PATCH] staging: Fix spacing between function name and parentheses

2014-10-11 Thread nick
Thanks Hugo, Sorry about that. On the other hand was the patch good in terms of format? Cheers Nick On 14-10-11 09:52 AM, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 09:44:05AM -0400, nick wrote: >> Thank you for your help, I'll study the code and see what I can do >> about

Re: [PATCH] staging: Fix spacing between function name and parentheses

2014-10-11 Thread nick
Thank you for your help, I'll study the code and see what I can do about it. Do you have any suggestions of how to fix this checkpatch warning? Nick On 14-10-11 05:53 AM, Kristofer Hallin wrote: > Even if you use checkpath you _should_ understand what you are changing. > The output of

Banned Again

2014-09-29 Thread Nick Krause
I am getting very annoyed , that I am banned again from my other email at yoc...@gmail.com are people trying to just prevent me from being on the list. Is that your goal now? Cheers Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org

Help with XfsTests

2014-09-18 Thread nick
I am trying to run xfs tests on a partion at /dev/sdc1 but the scripts state that the drive is not at $TEST_DIR and if ' it's on that directory they abort after fsck. Does anybody known how to fix this please. Thanks, Nick ___ Kernelnewbi

Re: Issues with Community

2014-09-17 Thread nick
On 14-09-17 02:59 PM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > ___ >>> Kernelnewbies mailing list >>> Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org >>> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >> Sure I will look into linux-next

Re: A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck...

2014-09-17 Thread Nick Krause
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Nick Krause wrote: > >> ... like to improve my rep with a tutor or someone who is willing to >> be my router to the community ... > > there is no sane human being that would offer to b

Re: A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck...

2014-09-17 Thread Nick Krause
ite each advice down. Until that, *please* lurk moar. On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Philipp Muhoray wrote: > > Am 2014-09-17 19:47, schrieb Nick Krause: >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Bruno Guedes Souto >> wrote: >>> This was a great discussion, until you guys st

Re: A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck...

2014-09-17 Thread Nick Krause
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Bruno Guedes Souto wrote: > This was a great discussion, until you guys started feeding the troll again. > > Can we just stop feeding the troll? He will prob go way... > > If every *single* time that Nick posts something you reply to him it will

Re: Issues with Community

2014-09-17 Thread Nick Krause
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Rik van Riel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/16/2014 07:22 PM, nick wrote: >> After numerous tries at good patches and still failing , I am >> listening to what you guys stated about my patches check it

Re: A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck...

2014-09-17 Thread Nick Krause
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:39 AM, wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:02:01 -0400, nick said: >> it off , if not I would like to known exactly where I am wrong so I can >> learn. > > Somebody wake me up when he actually *means* that. > Valdis, I understand that was what he s

Re: A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck...

2014-09-17 Thread nick
On 14-09-17 08:17 AM, Kai Bojens wrote: > On 17-09-14 08:09:36, nick wrote: > > [Again quoting everything] > > Please read and understand this: > > -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#How_much_to_trim > > Your replies are unreadable to me as I don

Re: A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck...

2014-09-17 Thread Nick Krause
can fix in order for me to help the kernel community. In addition I do find the kernel interesting and really like working with it, just having issues with understanding how to write patches. Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck...

2014-09-17 Thread nick
On 14-09-17 08:17 AM, Chris Lee wrote: >> >> Rday, >> I meant I didn't understand the code not the effect to write good solid >> patches and learn it. >> Please read my messages more carefully. >> Nick >> >>

Re: A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck...

2014-09-17 Thread nick
On 14-09-17 08:05 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > > > On September 17, 2014 7:53:24 AM EDT, nick wrote: >> >> >> On 14-09-17 07:51 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:08 PM, nick wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>

Re: A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck...

2014-09-17 Thread nick
other flaw is that, quite simply, >>> he's selfish and greedy. his entire obsession is with the output of >>> checkpatch, which means he wants to grab all the trivial cleanup (the >>> low-hanging fruit, as it were) for himself, and not leave any for >>> others.

Re: A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck...

2014-09-17 Thread nick
ession is with the output of >> checkpatch, which means he wants to grab all the trivial cleanup (the >> low-hanging fruit, as it were) for himself, and not leave any for >> others. rather than take the time to understand the code, nick wants >> checkpatch to do all the w

Re: A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck...

2014-09-17 Thread nick
On 14-09-17 07:53 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > what did i say? what did i just say? i wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, nick wrote: >> On 14-09-17 07:20 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> >>> and, as we've all seen, nick's other flaw is that,

Re: A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck...

2014-09-17 Thread nick
On 14-09-17 07:51 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:08 PM, nick wrote: >> >> >> On 14-09-17 07:20 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >>> anyway, it's time for coffee. >>> >>> rday >>> >> Rday and others, &

Re: A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck...

2014-09-17 Thread nick
kernel, and you learn a bit more about some code. win-win. > > last point here regarding something gregkh wrote -- yes, it's fine > to *start* with simple stylistic cleanup, especially if checkpatch > does all the work for you. but remember, that's low-hanging fruit, and > y

Re: [PATCH] staging wlan-ng: Add missing blank lines after declarations

2014-09-16 Thread nick
gt; NULL, NULL); > } > Greg and others, Thanks to Amit for checking my grammar firstly. I would like to known before I start cleaning drivers/staging/ and it's subdirectories if this patch is good and valid so I

Issues with Community

2014-09-16 Thread nick
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Re: [PATCH] staging wlan-ng: Add missing blank lines after declarations

2014-09-16 Thread nick
, > NULL, NULL); > } > I checked my grammar. I am assuming I am still wrong through. Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: [PATCH] staging wlan-ng: Add missing a blank line after declarations

2014-09-16 Thread nick
NULL, NULL); > } > I checked this patch and there seems to be issues that any of you have stated before after not applying or grammar e.t.c. If there are any other errors I am missing please let me known. Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: Checkpatch Patches

2014-09-16 Thread Nick Krause
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:39 PM, wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:28:06 -0400, Rik van Riel said: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> On 09/16/2014 01:12 PM, Nick Krause wrote: >> >> > I am going to resend my patch and see if it's good and if no

Re: Checkpatch Patches

2014-09-16 Thread Nick Krause
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On 9/16/14, Nick Krause wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:19 AM, wrote: >>> On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:44:27 -0400, nick said: >>> >>>> I am attaching two check patch patches I wrote in the las

Re: Checkpatch Patches

2014-09-16 Thread Nick Krause
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:19 AM, wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:44:27 -0400, nick said: > >> I am attaching two check patch patches I wrote in the last few days as I am >> unable to get a reply >> from the maintainers. Would someone please send them off for me. >

Re: Checkpatch Patches

2014-09-16 Thread nick
On 14-09-16 09:06 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 08:44:27AM -0400, nick wrote: >> I am attaching two check patch patches I wrote in the last few days as I am >> unable to get a reply >> from the maintainers. Would someone please send them off for m

Re: Checkpatch Patches

2014-09-16 Thread nick
On 14-09-16 09:21 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:41 PM, nick wrote: >> >> >> On 14-09-16 09:06 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 08:44:27AM -0400, nick wrote: >>>> I am attaching two check patch patches

Checkpatch Patches

2014-09-16 Thread nick
I am attaching two check patch patches I wrote in the last few days as I am unable to get a reply from the maintainers. Would someone please send them off for me. Thanks, Nick >From 7bf4229fa2f9c4fcf3243bc738c74bfdc58a6594 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Krause Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2

Re: Checkpatch Patches

2014-09-16 Thread nick
On 14-09-16 08:47 AM, Kristofer Hallin wrote: > I wouldn't touch those with a ten foot pole. > On 16 Sep 2014 14:46, "nick" wrote: > >> I am attaching two check patch patches I wrote in the last few days as I >> am unable to get a reply >> from the m

Re: Improve my Rep

2014-09-15 Thread Nick Krause
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Nick Krause wrote: >> >> After issues with the community I am wondering how to improve my rep >> and help out more. >> I will start out with check patch

Improve my Rep

2014-09-15 Thread Nick Krause
After issues with the community I am wondering how to improve my rep and help out more. I will start out with check patch but if there is other work please let me known :). ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kerne

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