Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Jeffrey V. Merkey
Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote: This already exists -- it just not open sourced, and you could spend years trying to create it. Trust me, once you start dealing with the distributed issues with this, its gets very complex. I am not meaning to discourage you, but there are patents already filed on

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 16, 2007, Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Then, any redistributor adds a copy of any version of the GPL (because >> >> you didn't specify a version number). At this point, is the program >> >> licensed by *you* only under this specific license? >> >> > If they did not mak

Re: [PATCH] Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types

2007-06-16 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 23:22 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > For the architecture we use (Blackfin), it does not support unaligned > > accesses, and we purposely never put in the trap/fixup code - we trap, and > > printk("fix your source"); > > For the kernel you should fix up too in addition to the p

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Jeffrey V. Merkey
This already exists -- it just not open sourced, and you could spend years trying to create it. Trust me, once you start dealing with the distributed issues with this, its gets very complex. I am not meaning to discourage you, but there are patents already filed on this on Linux.So you

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 16, 2007, "Scott Preece" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/15/07, Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Jun 15, 2007, "Scott Preece" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Whether it's a legal requirement or a business decision, the result is >> > the same - neither forcing the man

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Jack Stone
Chris Snook wrote: > The underlying internal implementation of something like this wouldn't > be all that hard on many filesystems, but it's the interface that's the > problem. The ':' character is a perfectly legal filename character, so > doing it that way would break things. But to work withou

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 15, 2007, Bron Gondwana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > because it could easily be argued that they linked the BIOS with the > Linux kernel How so? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler E

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 16, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2007 23:44:00 Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jun 16, 2007, Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 23:29 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >> Tivo has two choices: either it gives >> >> users the conten

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Jack Stone
alan wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> This is one of those things that seems like a good idea, but frequently >> ends up short. Part of the problem is that "whenever you modify a file" >> is ill-defined, or rather, if you were to take the literal meaning of it >> you'd end up

Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching

2007-06-16 Thread david
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Greg KH wrote: Usually you don't do that by doing a 'mv' otherwise you are almost guaranteed stale and mixed up content for some period of time, not to mention the issues surrounding paths that might be messed up. on the contrary, useing 'mv' is by far the cleanest way to

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
David Greaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> How hard would it be to reprogramm the flash? > > The flash contains hashes signed by the companies private key. > > The kernel contains the public key. It can decrypt the hashes but the > private key isn't available to encrypt them. So although you can

Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

2007-06-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jan Engelhardt wrote: I am not sure (would have to check again), but I believe both opensuse and fedora (the latter of which uses LVM for all partitions by default) have that working, while still using GRUB. Keyword: partitions. I.e., they partition the hard drive (so that the first 31 sector

Re: limits on raid

2007-06-16 Thread david
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Neil Brown wrote: It would be possible to have a 'this is not initialised' flag on the array, and if that is not set, always do a reconstruct-write rather than a read-modify-write. But the first time you have an unclean shutdown you are going to resync all the parity anyway

Re: [kvm-devel] [GIT PULL] KVM fix for 2.6.22

2007-06-16 Thread Avi Kivity
David Brown wrote: > > Yes thank you for the fix Avi. btw what version of kvm is in 2.6.22? > the kvm wiki doesn't say. > It's somewhere between kvm-21 and kvm-22. Any recent version of the userspace can be used to drive it (i.e. starting with 2.6.22, there is no need to match kernel and userspac

Re: [kvm-devel] [BUG] Oops with KVM-27

2007-06-16 Thread Avi Kivity
Luca Tettamanti wrote: > Il Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 12:06:50PM +0300, Avi Kivity ha scritto: > >>> After a bit of thinking: it's correct but removes an optimization; >>> furthermore it may miss other instructions that write to memory mapped >>> areas. >>> A more proper fix should be "force the wri

Re: CFS Scheduler and real-time tasks

2007-06-16 Thread Török Edvin
On 5/19/07, Török Edvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tried -v13. However the scheduling "error" is now 10% (vs 2% with -v12). I also noticed strange behaviour with CPU hotplug. I offlined cpu1 (echo 0 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online), and the typing speed on my terminal decreased noticably.

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Furthermore when you get source code of free software then there is > > no "meeting of minds" needed for you to accept the GPL's conditions, > > and only the letter of the license (and, in case of any ambiguities, > > the intent of the author of

Re: Jinxed VAIO wreckage - current state of affairs

2007-06-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:53:33 +0200 Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Still I can not explain, why this resulted in this strange "disappear in > > the return instruction" behavior. > > I put up a fixed patch series against rc4-mm to: > > http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.22-rc

Re: CFS-v16: top shows incorrect CPU% for multi-threaded application

2007-06-16 Thread Török Edvin
On 6/13/07, Török Edvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, When I run a multithreaded application, consisting of a "main thread" that is mostly idle, and 3 "worker threads" (using as much CPU as they can get), 'top' and 'ps' show that the application uses 0% CPU. If I turn off thread details in top,

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread David Greaves
Krzysztof Halasa wrote: David Greaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This 5 minute design undoubtedly has flaws but it shows a direction: A basically standard 'De11' PC with some flash. A Tivoised boot system so only signed kernels boot. A modified kernel that only runs (FOSS) executables whose si

Re: [Processor] Hi-Temperature showed in trip points

2007-06-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I have a laptop Toshiba M45-S355 (with Intel Pentium M > Processor 750 - 1.86GHz) and trip points show me > hi-temperature (that is unsupported by this processor): > > $ uname -a > Linux mandachuva 2.6.21.1 #1 PREEMPT Sun May 20 22:28:53 > BRT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > > $ cat /proc/acpi/th

Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation,pathname matching

2007-06-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > The question is: why not just extend SELinux to include AA functionality > > rather than doing a whole new subsystem. > > Because, as hard as it seems for some people to believe, > not everyone wants Type Enforcement. SELinux is a fine > implementation of type enforcement, but if you don'

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