Re: [PATCH 01/17] pramfs: documentation

2011-01-07 Thread Tony Luck
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Marco Stornelli wrote: > constraint). About the errors: pramfs does not maintain file data in the > page caches for normal file I/O, so no writeback, the read/write > operation are done with direct io and they are always sync. The data are > write protected in hw w

Re: [PATCH 01/17] pramfs: documentation

2011-01-07 Thread Marco Stornelli
Il 07/01/2011 19:42, Tony Luck ha scritto: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Marco Stornelli > wrote: >> +accessed data that must survive system reboots and power cycles. An >> +example usage might be system logs under /var/log, or a user address >> +book in a cell phone or PDA. > > Some usage mo

Re: [PATCH 01/17] pramfs: documentation

2011-01-07 Thread Tony Luck
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Marco Stornelli wrote: > +accessed data that must survive system reboots and power cycles. An > +example usage might be system logs under /var/log, or a user address > +book in a cell phone or PDA. Some usage model questions: How do you handle errors? I see that

Re: [PATCH] Move an assert under DEBUG_KERNEL.

2011-01-07 Thread Rob Landley
On 01/06/2011 05:41 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL #define ASSERT_RTNL() do { \ if (unlikely(!rtnl_is_locked())) { \ printk(KERN_ERR "RTNL: assertion failed at %s (%d)\n", \ @@ -789,6 +790,9 @@ extern void __rtnl_unlock(void); dump_