Re: Linux kernel history from 0.0.1

2007-12-12 Thread SL Baur
On 12/12/07, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sadly there doesn't seem to be any online archives of the period between > Linux-activists ending in 1993 and Linux Kernel from 1998. Anyone? > (I find it amazing that five whole years of history have disappeared > from the

Re: [RFT] Port 0x80 I/O speed

2007-12-12 Thread SL Baur
On 12/11/07, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good day. > > Would some people on x86 (both 32 and 64) be kind enough to compile and run > the attached program? This is about testing how long I/O port access to port > 0x80 takes. It measures in CPU cycles so CPU speed is crucial in

Re: [RFT] Port 0x80 I/O speed

2007-12-12 Thread SL Baur
On 12/11/07, Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day. Would some people on x86 (both 32 and 64) be kind enough to compile and run the attached program? This is about testing how long I/O port access to port 0x80 takes. It measures in CPU cycles so CPU speed is crucial in reporting.

Re: Linux kernel history from 0.0.1

2007-12-12 Thread SL Baur
On 12/12/07, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sadly there doesn't seem to be any online archives of the period between Linux-activists ending in 1993 and Linux Kernel from 1998. Anyone? (I find it amazing that five whole years of history have disappeared from the net). I

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Suppress A.OUT library support if !CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT [try #5]

2007-11-12 Thread SL Baur
On 11/12/07, David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SL Baur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (push '("/Kbuild" . makefile-mode) auto-mode-alist) > > Does that work for Kbuild.asm too, more to the point? Of course. It works for any filename beginni

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Suppress A.OUT library support if !CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT [try #5]

2007-11-12 Thread SL Baur
On 11/12/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:34:40 + David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > +# -*- makefile -*- > > > > > > what's that? > > > > Ah... That tells emacs that it's a makefile. In

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Suppress A.OUT library support if !CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT [try #5]

2007-11-12 Thread SL Baur
On 11/12/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:34:40 + David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +# -*- makefile -*- what's that? Ah... That tells emacs that it's a makefile. In Kbuild.asm emacs thinks its

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Suppress A.OUT library support if !CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT [try #5]

2007-11-12 Thread SL Baur
On 11/12/07, David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SL Baur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (push '(/Kbuild . makefile-mode) auto-mode-alist) Does that work for Kbuild.asm too, more to the point? Of course. It works for any filename beginning with the string Kbuild. Major mode rules

Re: false positive in checkpatch.pl (complex macro values)

2007-08-24 Thread SL Baur
On 8/24/07, SL Baur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the > error message is wrong. I mean the error message is badly worded. That's bad C and the macro needs deletion a lot more than it needs an extra set of parens. Been chasing a heisen bug too long. Need sleep.

Re: false positive in checkpatch.pl (complex macro values)

2007-08-24 Thread SL Baur
On 8/24/07, Andy Whitcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > in some code that does like: > > #define foo { a, b, c, \ > > d, e, f, g } > > ... > > int boo[] = foo; > > ... > > > > checkpatch.pl throws a fit: > > ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in

Re: false positive in checkpatch.pl (complex macro values)

2007-08-24 Thread SL Baur
On 8/24/07, Andy Whitcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: in some code that does like: #define foo { a, b, c, \ d, e, f, g } ... int boo[] = foo; ... checkpatch.pl throws a fit: ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parenthesis #10: FILE:

Re: false positive in checkpatch.pl (complex macro values)

2007-08-24 Thread SL Baur
On 8/24/07, SL Baur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the error message is wrong. I mean the error message is badly worded. That's bad C and the macro needs deletion a lot more than it needs an extra set of parens. Been chasing a heisen bug too long. Need sleep. Sorry. -sb - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.08

2007-07-25 Thread SL Baur
On 7/24/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are more important things than exploiting the corner cases of codingstyle, e.g. could you teach checkpatch.pl to give exactly two errors for the following code? while (a); for (b = 0; b < 50; b++);

Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.08

2007-07-25 Thread SL Baur
On 7/24/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are more important things than exploiting the corner cases of codingstyle, e.g. could you teach checkpatch.pl to give exactly two errors for the following code? while (a); for (b = 0; b 50; b++);

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

2007-06-20 Thread SL Baur
On 6/19/07, Dave Neuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It was Apache. Apache showed corporate users and small businesses desperate to cash in on the Interweb c. 1995-1998 ... Right time period ... Linux was a tool for UNIX sysadmins and admin wannabes to practice their UNIX chops at home - or a

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

2007-06-20 Thread SL Baur
Sure, but was it Linux in embedded devices that made Linux what it is today, or was it GNU/Linux? No, it was the fact that Linux has always been able to run on garbage. My introduction to Linux was in 1995 when I was given a network of computers made out of back-laboratory garbage and US$0

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

2007-06-20 Thread SL Baur
Sure, but was it Linux in embedded devices that made Linux what it is today, or was it GNU/Linux? No, it was the fact that Linux has always been able to run on garbage. My introduction to Linux was in 1995 when I was given a network of computers made out of back-laboratory garbage and US$0

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

2007-06-20 Thread SL Baur
On 6/19/07, Dave Neuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Apache. Apache showed corporate users and small businesses desperate to cash in on the Interweb c. 1995-1998 ... Right time period ... Linux was a tool for UNIX sysadmins and admin wannabes to practice their UNIX chops at home - or a