Re: Q: linux failed to execute /init?

2008-01-25 Thread Jack Harvard
On Jan 25, 2008 3:34 PM, Jack Harvard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 3:02 PM, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 25 2008 14:39, Jack Harvard wrote: On Jan 25 2008 13:40, Jack Harvard wrote: Hi, I'm trying to boot Linux, but the /init process failed. Here

Re: Q: linux failed to execute /init?

2008-01-25 Thread Jack Harvard
On Jan 25, 2008 3:02 PM, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 25 2008 14:39, Jack Harvard wrote: On Jan 25 2008 13:40, Jack Harvard wrote: Hi, I'm trying to boot Linux, but the /init process failed. Here is the info: =FF6/init exit code: -14 /init exit code: -14

Re: Q: linux failed to execute /init?

2008-01-25 Thread Jack Harvard
On Jan 25, 2008 2:27 PM, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 25 2008 13:40, Jack Harvard wrote: Hi, I'm trying to boot Linux, but the /init process failed. Here is the info: =FF6/init exit code: -14 /init exit code: -14 4Failed to execute /init Failed to execute /init 6

wanting to use mmap

2007-12-31 Thread Jack Andrews
underlying error occurs when accessing a mmap'ed file? i notice that in the implementation of msync, fsync is called so errno might be set to EIO... ta, jack (please cc: me) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTE

wanting to use mmap

2007-12-31 Thread Jack Andrews
underlying error occurs when accessing a mmap'ed file? i notice that in the implementation of msync, fsync is called so errno might be set to EIO... ta, jack (please cc: me) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [ofa-general] [GIT PULL] please pull infiniband.git

2007-11-27 Thread Jack Morgenstein
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 08:21, Roland Dreier wrote: > Linus, please pull from > > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git > for-linus > > > Jack Morgenstein (1): > mlx4_core: Fix state check in mlx4_qp_modify() > MUST

Re: [ofa-general] [GIT PULL] please pull infiniband.git

2007-11-27 Thread Jack Morgenstein
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 08:21, Roland Dreier wrote: Linus, please pull from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git for-linus Jack Morgenstein (1): mlx4_core: Fix state check in mlx4_qp_modify() MUST also enter the patch I send yesterday

Re: [PATCH] backlight dimmer

2007-11-01 Thread jack
Pavel Machek wrote: On Sun 2007-10-28 17:10:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, this patch implements a macbook like backlight dimmer on top of backlight.c. The dimmer is entirely in kernelspace and is suitable for an embedded context in order to avoid the overhead of a daemon controlling

Re: [PATCH] backlight dimmer

2007-11-01 Thread jack
Pavel Machek wrote: On Sun 2007-10-28 17:10:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, this patch implements a macbook like backlight dimmer on top of backlight.c. The dimmer is entirely in kernelspace and is suitable for an embedded context in order to avoid the overhead of a daemon controlling

Re: [PATCH] Dell laptop backlight driver

2007-10-28 Thread jack
Fixed style. jacopo --- linux-2.6.23.1/Documentation/dell-laptop.txt1970-01-01 01:00:00.0 +0100 +++ b/Documentation/dell-laptop.txt 2007-10-28 23:25:26.0 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +This driver is EXPERIMENTAL, use it at YOUR OWN RISK. + +BEFORE TRYING THIS DRIVER

Re: [PATCH] backlight dimmer

2007-10-28 Thread jack
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:30:55 +0100 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, now checkpatch.pl only complains about a missing signed-off-by. Is this ok for review? hi, when going over your patch.. is there a reason you introduce yet another timeout

[PATCH] Dell laptop backlight driver

2007-10-28 Thread jack
Hello, this driver implements backlight control on Dell laptops which use SMI for changing brightness levels. The driver is INCOMPLETE since it is unable to probe some required parameters in order to perform backlight control. Such parameters are found in a Dell proprietary DMI table which

[PATCH] backlight dimmer

2007-10-28 Thread jack
Hello, this patch implements a macbook like backlight dimmer on top of backlight.c. The dimmer is entirely in kernelspace and is suitable for an embedded context in order to avoid the overhead of a daemon controlling the backlight. Implementing this functionality in userspace has other

[PATCH] backlight dimmer

2007-10-28 Thread jack
Hello, this patch implements a macbook like backlight dimmer on top of backlight.c. The dimmer is entirely in kernelspace and is suitable for an embedded context in order to avoid the overhead of a daemon controlling the backlight. Implementing this functionality in userspace has other

[PATCH] Dell laptop backlight driver

2007-10-28 Thread jack
linux/sched.h +#include linux/backlight.h + +#include dell-laptop.h + +MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DRIVER_DESCRIPTION (version DRIVER_VERSION )); +MODULE_VERSION(DRIVER_VERSION); +MODULE_AUTHOR(jacopo antonello jack at antonello.org); +MODULE_LICENSE(GPL

Re: [PATCH] backlight dimmer

2007-10-28 Thread jack
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:30:55 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, now checkpatch.pl only complains about a missing signed-off-by. Is this ok for review? hi, when going over your patch.. is there a reason you introduce yet another timeout

Re: [PATCH] Dell laptop backlight driver

2007-10-28 Thread jack
+#include linux/dma-mapping.h +#include linux/mutex.h +#include linux/sched.h +#include linux/backlight.h + +#include dell-laptop.h + +MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DRIVER_DESCRIPTION (version DRIVER_VERSION )); +MODULE_VERSION(DRIVER_VERSION); +MODULE_AUTHOR(jacopo antonello jack at antonello.org

Re: [ofa-general] Updated InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

2007-10-08 Thread Jack Morgenstein
ft patch set to the OpenFabrics list on September 18: [ofa-general] [PATCH 0 of 5] XRC implementation patches (libibverbs, libmlx4, core, mlx4) Jack Morgenstein [ofa-general] [PATCH 1 of 5] libibverbs: XRC implementation Jack Morgenstein [ofa-general] [PATCH 2 of 5] libmlx4: XRC implement

Re: [ofa-general] Updated InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

2007-10-08 Thread Jack Morgenstein
to the OpenFabrics list on September 18: [ofa-general] [PATCH 0 of 5] XRC implementation patches (libibverbs, libmlx4, core, mlx4) Jack Morgenstein [ofa-general] [PATCH 1 of 5] libibverbs: XRC implementation Jack Morgenstein [ofa-general] [PATCH 2 of 5] libmlx4: XRC implementation Jack

Re: [ofa-general] InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

2007-09-18 Thread Jack Morgenstein
On Thursday 13 September 2007 20:57, Roland Dreier wrote: > HW specific: > >  - I already merged patches to enable MSI-X by default for mthca and >    mlx4.  I hope there aren't too many systems that get hosed if a >    MSI-X interrupt is generated. > >  - Jack and Micha

Re: [ofa-general] InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

2007-09-18 Thread Jack Morgenstein
On Thursday 13 September 2007 20:57, Roland Dreier wrote: HW specific:  - I already merged patches to enable MSI-X by default for mthca and    mlx4.  I hope there aren't too many systems that get hosed if a    MSI-X interrupt is generated.  - Jack and Michael's mlx4 FMR support

[Patch 02/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts from the mips arch.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/mips/au1000/common/dbdma.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: b/arch/mips/au1000/co

[Patch 10/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the irda drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Samuel Ortiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/irda/kingsun-sir.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/net/irda/k

[Patch 07/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the mtd drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/mtd/maps/pmcmsp-flash.c | 11 --- drivers/mtd/maps/tqm8xxl.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/mtd/maps/pm

[Patch 11/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in drivers/net.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: David Millver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/gianfar.c |6 ++ drivers/net/lance.c |3 +-- drivers/net/s2io.c|4 ++-- drivers/net/sgiseeq.c |4 ++-- 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(

[Patch 13/16] Remove needless kmalloc casts in the wireless drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: John Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c | 16 ++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/net/wirele

[Patch 15/16] Remove unnecesary kmalloc casts in the scsi drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/scsi/advansys.c |2 +- drivers/scsi/osst.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/scs

[Patch 12/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the libertas drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: John Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c |2 +- drivers/net/wireless/libertas/ethtool.c |3 +-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/net/wireless/libert

[Patch 16/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the jfs filesystem.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: David Kleikamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c |8 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Index: b/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c === --- a/fs/jfs

[Patch 06/16] This removes unnecessary kmalloc casts and corrects a test for kmalloc failure.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Ronald Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/media/video/zoran_driver.c | 12 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/media/video/zo

[Patch 14/16] Remove needless kmalloc casts in the zd1211rw drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211

[Patch 01/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts from the cris arch.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Mikael Starvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/cris/arch-v32/mm/intmem.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/arch/cris/arch-v32

[Patch 08/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the parisc drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/parisc/iosapic.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/drivers/parisc/iosapic.c === --- a/dr

[Patch 05/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the drivers subdirectory.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/char/tty_io.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/drivers/char/tty_io.c === --- a/

[Patch 03/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts from the powerpc arch.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c ==

[Patch 04/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts from the sparc arch.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/sparc/kernel/ebus.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/arch/sparc/kernel/ebus.c === --- a/arch/

[Patch 09/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the pci subsystem.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/pci/rom.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/drivers/pci/rom.c === --- a/drivers/pci

[Patch 00/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts

2007-07-31 Thread jack
This patch series removes unnecessary kmalloc casts from various portions of the kernel. Jack Stone -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

[Patch 00/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts

2007-07-31 Thread jack
This patch series removes unnecessary kmalloc casts from various portions of the kernel. Jack Stone -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please

[Patch 04/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts from the sparc arch.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/sparc/kernel/ebus.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/arch/sparc/kernel/ebus.c === --- a/arch/sparc/kernel

[Patch 09/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the pci subsystem.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/pci/rom.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/drivers/pci/rom.c === --- a/drivers/pci/rom.c +++ b

[Patch 05/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the drivers subdirectory.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/char/tty_io.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/drivers/char/tty_io.c === --- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c

[Patch 03/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts from the powerpc arch.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c === --- a/arch

[Patch 08/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the parisc drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/parisc/iosapic.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/drivers/parisc/iosapic.c === --- a/drivers/parisc

[Patch 01/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts from the cris arch.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Mikael Starvik [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/cris/arch-v32/mm/intmem.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/arch/cris/arch-v32/mm/intmem.c === --- a/arch

[Patch 14/16] Remove needless kmalloc casts in the zd1211rw drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c

[Patch 16/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the jfs filesystem.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: David Kleikamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c |8 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Index: b/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c === --- a/fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c

[Patch 06/16] This removes unnecessary kmalloc casts and corrects a test for kmalloc failure.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Ronald Bultje [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/media/video/zoran_driver.c | 12 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/media/video/zoran_driver.c

[Patch 15/16] Remove unnecesary kmalloc casts in the scsi drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/scsi/advansys.c |2 +- drivers/scsi/osst.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c

[Patch 12/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the libertas drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: John Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c |2 +- drivers/net/wireless/libertas/ethtool.c |3 +-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c

[Patch 13/16] Remove needless kmalloc casts in the wireless drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: John Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c | 16 ++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c

[Patch 07/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the mtd drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/mtd/maps/pmcmsp-flash.c | 11 --- drivers/mtd/maps/tqm8xxl.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/mtd/maps/pmcmsp-flash.c

[Patch 11/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in drivers/net.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: David Millver [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/gianfar.c |6 ++ drivers/net/lance.c |3 +-- drivers/net/s2io.c|4 ++-- drivers/net/sgiseeq.c |4 ++-- 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers

[Patch 02/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts from the mips arch.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Ralf Baechle [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/mips/au1000/common/dbdma.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: b/arch/mips/au1000/common/dbdma.c

[Patch 10/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the irda drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread jack
Signed-off-by: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Samuel Ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/irda/kingsun-sir.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/net/irda/kingsun-sir.c

Re: Spinlock init

2007-06-20 Thread Jack Stone
even > long after the kernel is done starting up. A quick look throught > kernel source code will show many, many examples where > spin_lock_init(), rwlock_init(), mutex_init(), etc. are called from > non-__init functions. Exactly what I wanted to hear. Thank you very much. Jack

Spinlock init

2007-06-20 Thread Jack Stone
Dear list, can rwlock_init and spin_lock_init be used outside of functions declared __init. The spinlock documentation suggests that it can't but I'd like someone to confirm that. Sorry if this has already been answered but I couldn't find anything on it. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list

Spinlock init

2007-06-20 Thread Jack Stone
Dear list, can rwlock_init and spin_lock_init be used outside of functions declared __init. The spinlock documentation suggests that it can't but I'd like someone to confirm that. Sorry if this has already been answered but I couldn't find anything on it. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Spinlock init

2007-06-20 Thread Jack Stone
. A quick look throught kernel source code will show many, many examples where spin_lock_init(), rwlock_init(), mutex_init(), etc. are called from non-__init functions. Exactly what I wanted to hear. Thank you very much. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
John Stoffel wrote: >>>>>> "Jack" == Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jack> The whole idea of the file system is that it wouldn't return the > Jack> file in the file listing. The user would have to know that the > Jack>

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
ke what was suggested in this email: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0706.2/1156.html I'm thinking of writing a simple proof of concept version and then seeing what people think from there. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body o

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
Chris Snook wrote: > Jack Stone wrote: >> H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> Chris Snook wrote: >>>> I pointed out NetApp's .snapshot directories because that's a method >>>> that uses legal path character, but doesn't break anything. With this >>&

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
Chris Snook wrote: > Jack Stone wrote: >> The idea was that if you did an ls you would get the latest version of >> the file without the :revision_num. The only visible version would be >> the latest version, i.e. the current system would not change. The idea >> was that

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Jack Stone wrote: >> But that would cause havoc with shells which use ; to seperate commands. >> Using ; would defiantly break userspace >> > > Not really. It's just a bit awkward to use, but so's the whole concept. I think we can all agre

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
>> special character. > > Not to mention that the character historically used for this purpose is > ; (semicolon.) But that would cause havoc with shells which use ; to seperate commands. Using ; would defiantly break userspace Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
problem but the way of specifiying revisions could be changed. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
hundred more. I'm pretty sure these are some of > the most significant ones. > > Q. That's a great idea and I'll implement it right away! > A. Yay! (but that's not a question :-D) Good luck and happy hacking. > > Q. That's a stupid idea and would never ever work! > A. Thanks for you

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
not a question). All opinions and comments welcomed. Cheers, Kyle Moffett It sounds brilliant and I'd love to have a got at implementing it but I don't know enough (yet :-D) about how git works, a little research is called for I think. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
could be changed. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
that the character historically used for this purpose is ; (semicolon.) But that would cause havoc with shells which use ; to seperate commands. Using ; would defiantly break userspace Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Jack Stone wrote: But that would cause havoc with shells which use ; to seperate commands. Using ; would defiantly break userspace Not really. It's just a bit awkward to use, but so's the whole concept. I think we can all agree on that after this thread but I still

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
Chris Snook wrote: Jack Stone wrote: The idea was that if you did an ls you would get the latest version of the file without the :revision_num. The only visible version would be the latest version, i.e. the current system would not change. The idea was that it would only show earlier versions

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
Chris Snook wrote: Jack Stone wrote: H. Peter Anvin wrote: Chris Snook wrote: I pointed out NetApp's .snapshot directories because that's a method that uses legal path character, but doesn't break anything. With this method, userspace tools will have to be taught that : is suddenly

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0706.2/1156.html I'm thinking of writing a simple proof of concept version and then seeing what people think from there. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
John Stoffel wrote: Jack == Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jack The whole idea of the file system is that it wouldn't return the Jack file in the file listing. The user would have to know that the Jack file system was versioning to access the older versions as they Jack would

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-18 Thread Jack Stone
. But of > course, it's better with those. >From what I can see this seems to be the consesus (and it sound very sensible to me). The question remains is where to implement versioning: directly in individual filesystems or in the vfs code so all filesystems can use it? Jack - To unsubsc

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-18 Thread Jack Stone
t was easier to port filesystems to use them. Certainly versioning should be able to be implemented, possible without any FS support at all, in the core code. Centralising the implementations could allow a great deal of FS custiomisation/improvements with very little new per FS code. Jack - To unsubsc

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-18 Thread Jack Stone
, possible without any FS support at all, in the core code. Centralising the implementations could allow a great deal of FS custiomisation/improvements with very little new per FS code. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-18 Thread Jack Stone
to implement versioning: directly in individual filesystems or in the vfs code so all filesystems can use it? Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Jack Stone
up with an even better design the second time around. Thank you very much for the info and the advice. I would also like to thank everyone for the help and enchouragement that they have given to me. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bod

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Jack Stone
M-ENG_IA=US2005045566=%28IN%2fmerkey%29+ > > > The last one was filed with WIPO and has international protection, UK > included. I have no idea about patents so if anyone could point me in the right direction I would be most obliged Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Jack Stone
the worth in breaking it. For an example of a working implementation see: http://www.o3one.org/filesystem.html Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

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

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 with an

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Jack Stone
: http://www.o3one.org/filesystem.html Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Jack Stone
,PA,ABSUM-ENGSEARCH_IA=US2005045566QUERY=%28IN%2fmerkey%29+ The last one was filed with WIPO and has international protection, UK included. I have no idea about patents so if anyone could point me in the right direction I would be most obliged Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Jack Stone
time around. Thank you very much for the info and the advice. I would also like to thank everyone for the help and enchouragement that they have given to me. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Versioning file system

2007-06-15 Thread Jack Stone
widely useful this may be but that's the reason I posted before trying to code anything. I would very much value any contributions even a reasoned NAK as I'm still learning how kernel development works (and I would love any implementation directions) Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Versioning file system

2007-06-15 Thread Jack Stone
widely useful this may be but that's the reason I posted before trying to code anything. I would very much value any contributions even a reasoned NAK as I'm still learning how kernel development works (and I would love any implementation directions) Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send

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

2007-06-14 Thread Jack Stone
g the policy and the performance problems of watching the whole system for changes. Just my $0.02. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

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

2007-06-14 Thread Jack Stone
. Just my $0.02. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH 0/7] Cleanup code to replace DPRINTK with pr_debug

2007-06-10 Thread Jack Stone
tion would be to change the #defines to use pr_debug rather than printk directly: #define DPRINTK(format, args...) \ pr_debug(format, ##args); The advantage would be maitaining subsystem specific debug control with centralised format control. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: [PATCH 0/7] Cleanup code to replace DPRINTK with pr_debug

2007-06-10 Thread Jack Stone
pr_debug rather than printk directly: #define DPRINTK(format, args...) \ pr_debug(format, ##args); The advantage would be maitaining subsystem specific debug control with centralised format control. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: [PATCH 2/7] Replace DPRINTK with pr_debug in alternative.c

2007-06-09 Thread Jack Stone
Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > , rendering "debug-alternative" option useless. So drop the patch entirely or change the DPRINTK macro to use pr_debug? Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [PATCH 6/7] Add pr_debug_pid to kernel.h

2007-06-09 Thread Jack Stone
Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > NO! We don't add macros for every debug format people use into core > headers. I think you should stop after pr_err(). That was what I though would be the answer which is why i did this change in the last set of patches. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list

[PATCH 7/7] Replace DPRINTK with pr_debug_pid in autofs4

2007-06-09 Thread Jack Stone
This patch uses the new pr_debug_pid function to replace DPRINKs in autofs4 without breaking the functionality. Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: linux/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h === --- linux.orig/fs/a

[PATCH 6/7] Add pr_debug_pid to kernel.h

2007-06-09 Thread Jack Stone
This patch adds a new function to kernel.h. This function prints out the pid of the current process and the name of the function where it was called from followed by the debug message and a newline. This function mimics the output of autofs4. Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTEC

[PATCH 5/7] Replace DPRINTK with pr_debug in ncpfs

2007-06-09 Thread Jack Stone
This patch replaces DPRINTKs in ncpfs with a combination of pr_debug and pr_err as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: linux/fs/ncpfs/dir.c === --- linux.orig/fs/ncpfs/dir.c +++ linux/fs/ncpfs

[PATCH 4/7] Update DPRINTK macro to use pr_debug

2007-06-09 Thread Jack Stone
This patch updates the DPRINTK macro in autofs4 to use pr_debug as the macro uses a special print format. Signed-off-by Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: linux/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h === --- linux.orig/fs/autofs4/auto

[PATCH 2/7] Replace DPRINTK with pr_debug in alternative.c

2007-06-09 Thread Jack Stone
This patch converts all DPRINTKs in alternative.c to pr_debug Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- linux/arch/i386/kernel/alternative.c2007-06-07 17:25:46.0 +0100 +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/alternative.c2007-06-07 20:45:52.0 +0100 @@ -1,

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