Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-05 Thread John Alvord
noying Linus >with real no-changing -rc's. How many more, enough or not, remains to be > seen but certainly more. One way to handle the transition into bug-fix only would be to turn the tree over to the $stability crew at that moment. They would have the job of nursing it to stabili

Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-06 Thread John Alvord
ve been multiple comments that a fix for the problem is forthcoming. Is there some reason you have to keep talking about it? John alvord - 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: Not a typewriter

2001-05-11 Thread John Alvord
f the other qualities in trivial areas. > >I guess what I'm trying to say is that "Life With Unix" should be required >reading for anyone who goes near a Unix (or Linux) system. David N. Smith, an IBM researcher, wrote that we should preserve the past for the criticism o

Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap!

2001-05-08 Thread John Alvord
d, hardware or software, data being held or transformed can change. Old lesson but a good one to know. john alvord - 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: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-11 Thread John Alvord
The granularity was 1 millsecond. Over time, all timer values from 0 to roughly 10 minutes had been used. That resulted in 60,000 permanent storage fragments laying about... a significant fragmentation problem. The end was a forced recycle every month or so. john alvord - 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: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-03 Thread John Alvord
e REALLY wants to continue and wait for a response. Following is the model code... John Alvord = _ECHO=@ all: t0 t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 t6 # prompt for input, must be in a separate rule to unbuffer terminal # output. t0: $(_ECHO)echo Enter Y or N: \\c # capture a line of ter

Re: [Fwd: NTFS repair tools]

2000-12-09 Thread John Alvord
egal action. Why are we distributing such severely broken software? Heck, we seem reluctant to include reiserfs, a pretty high quality, supported file system. And we continue to distribute this !@#$%... There must be some strange agenda going on to limit the use of Linux. john alvord - To unsubs

Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"

2000-11-25 Thread John Alvord
e details of the kernel C environment. In particular I do not know that all static variables are initialized to 0 in the kernel startup. I have not read setup.S." john alvord - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: test10-pre7

2000-10-31 Thread John Alvord
s with obj-$(CONFIG_WD80x3) += wd.o ifneq (,$(findstring 8390.o,obj-$(CONFIG_WD80x3)) obj-$(CONFIG_WD80x3) += 8390.o endif Which is wordy but accomplishes the objective of avoiding duplicates. john alvord - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Device Driver

2000-10-16 Thread John Alvord
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:45:03 +0200 (CEST), Igmar Palsenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >I presume your driver doesn't mind if this image is unavailable. >> >If not, you'll need to provide a open source image to use in place >> >of your proprietary one. >> >> Linus, please confirm. >> >> F

Re: [OT] linux article with kernel references

2000-10-10 Thread John Alvord
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 02:06:52 +0200 (MET DST), Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > >> > http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley15.html >> > >> > good article, several unfortunate truths within. >> >> Really, must be a wrong URL

Re: Tux 2 patents

2000-10-08 Thread John Alvord
rest. Clearly, the same idea has been rediscovered over and over again. The VM/CMS case would be a good example of prior art, since it had thousands of licenses and hundreds of thousands of end users in the early 1980s. john alvord - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

Re: Question: Using floating point in the kernel

2000-09-21 Thread John Alvord
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:37:29 -0700, "Lyle Coder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi >The real issue is that if you use MMX or FP state, the kernel _must_ save >and restore the original state other wise user programs will see corruption. >We all know this too well since redhat's 6.1 (I think) kernel h

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-10 Thread John Alvord
fit well with people who >used their brains. I see it is as alive and well here as on the >streets of East LA. > >{O.O} How can anyone judge that a debugger was used in development of a patch, along with system understanding, Linux knowledge, etc? The changed code stands along with no provenance. If it reflects a shallow understanding, it will be rejected. If it is a deep elegant fix, that will stand on its merits. john alvord - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/