Re: [PATCH 01/17] pramfs: documentation

2011-01-10 Thread Marco Stornelli
Il 10/01/2011 18:35, Luck, Tony ha scritto: >> You'd be better running ext2 over special block device, >> it is quite simple. > > Marco, > > You might want to spend some more time answering this question > (it is a particularly good one). What are the reasons to use > pramfs, rather than a ext2

RE: [PATCH 01/17] pramfs: documentation

2011-01-10 Thread Luck, Tony
> You'd be better running ext2 over special block device, > it is quite simple. Marco, You might want to spend some more time answering this question (it is a particularly good one). What are the reasons to use pramfs, rather than a ext2 over a mem<->block driver. You covered some in your part

Re: [PATCH] Move an assert under DEBUG_KERNEL. (attempt 2)

2011-01-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:35:33 -0600 Rob Landley wrote: > On 01/06/2011 05:41 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Probably a worthwhile thing to do, IMO. If there's some net-specific > > CONFIG_DEBUG_ setting then that wold be a better thing to use. > > > > However the patch was a) wordwrapped, b) space-

Re: [PATCH] Move an assert under DEBUG_KERNEL. (attempt 2)

2011-01-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:35:33 -0600 Rob Landley wrote: > On 01/06/2011 05:41 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Probably a worthwhile thing to do, IMO. If there's some net-specific > > CONFIG_DEBUG_ setting then that wold be a better thing to use. > > > > However the patch was a) wordwrapped, b) space-

[PATCH] Move an assert under DEBUG_KERNEL. (attempt 2)

2011-01-10 Thread Rob Landley
On 01/06/2011 05:41 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > Probably a worthwhile thing to do, IMO. If there's some net-specific > CONFIG_DEBUG_ setting then that wold be a better thing to use. > > However the patch was a) wordwrapped, b) space-stuffed and c) not cc'ed > to the networking list. So its prospe

Re: [PATCH 01/17] pramfs: documentation

2011-01-10 Thread Marco Stornelli
2011/1/10 Pavel Machek : >> On 07/01/2011 22:59, Tony Luck wrote: >> > 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

Re: [PATCH 01/17] pramfs: documentation

2011-01-10 Thread Pavel Machek
> On 07/01/2011 22:59, Tony Luck wrote: > > 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 the