Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread debian developer
Please ignore the previous mail, i messed it up bad. On 9/12/07, Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > fresh back from the Kernel Summit, Peter Zijlstra and me are pleased to > > announce the latest iteration of the CFS scheduler

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread debian developer
-- Forwarded message -- From: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sep 12, 2007 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements To: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread debian developer
-- Forwarded message -- From: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sep 12, 2007 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements To: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

2007-09-13 Thread debian developer
Please ignore the previous mail, i messed it up bad. On 9/12/07, Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: fresh back from the Kernel Summit, Peter Zijlstra and me are pleased to announce the latest iteration of the CFS scheduler development tree.

Re: Scheduler Situation

2007-08-03 Thread debian developer
On 8/3/07, T. J. Brumfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off, I am an avid reader of the LKML but I'm not a developer. > Admittedly I am a piss-poor C developer who likes to poke around the > code, play with patches and attempt to learn, but in reality at best I > pretend I understand it, and

Re: Scheduler Situation

2007-08-03 Thread debian developer
On 8/3/07, T. J. Brumfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off, I am an avid reader of the LKML but I'm not a developer. Admittedly I am a piss-poor C developer who likes to poke around the code, play with patches and attempt to learn, but in reality at best I pretend I understand it, and I

Re: Problem - disabling IRQ #20 and others

2007-08-01 Thread debian developer
On 8/1/07, Andev Debi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > Im getting the following error while booting the kernel 2.6.22.1-cfs > > Aug 1 09:14:09 localhost kernel: [ 30.272161] EXT3 FS on hda8, internal > journal > Aug 1 09:14:09 localhost kernel: [ 33.572083] device-mapper: ioctl: >

Re: Problem - disabling IRQ #20 and others

2007-08-01 Thread debian developer
On 8/1/07, Andev Debi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Im getting the following error while booting the kernel 2.6.22.1-cfs Aug 1 09:14:09 localhost kernel: [ 30.272161] EXT3 FS on hda8, internal journal Aug 1 09:14:09 localhost kernel: [ 33.572083] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl

Re: Mailing style (was Re: coding style)

2007-06-15 Thread debian developer
On 6/15/07, Bernd Petrovitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Says the one without real name who is full quoting including even the mailing list footers. hmm. including footers was a mistake. sigh! but i really dont understand why the real name is needed unless im submitting some patches! "What's

Re: Instead of GPL License - Why not LKL? (Linux Kernel License)

2007-06-15 Thread debian developer
On 6/15/07, Kevin Bowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/14/07, Glauber de Oliveira Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/15/07, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been somewhat following the GPL2 vs. GPL3 debate > > and the problem is that it leads to confusion. GPL3 is > >

Re: coding style

2007-06-15 Thread debian developer
On 6/15/07, dave young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, The Documentation/CodingStyle says: Outside of comments, documentation and except in Kconfig, spaces are never used for indentation, and the above example is deliberately broken. Regards dave 2007/6/15, Kok, Auke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >

Re: coding style

2007-06-15 Thread debian developer
On 6/15/07, dave young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The Documentation/CodingStyle says: Outside of comments, documentation and except in Kconfig, spaces are never used for indentation, and the above example is deliberately broken. Regards dave 2007/6/15, Kok, Auke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Willy

Re: Instead of GPL License - Why not LKL? (Linux Kernel License)

2007-06-15 Thread debian developer
On 6/15/07, Kevin Bowling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/14/07, Glauber de Oliveira Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/15/07, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been somewhat following the GPL2 vs. GPL3 debate and the problem is that it leads to confusion. GPL3 is nothing like GPL2

Re: Mailing style (was Re: coding style)

2007-06-15 Thread debian developer
On 6/15/07, Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Says the one without real name who is full quoting including even the mailing list footers. hmm. including footers was a mistake. sigh! but i really dont understand why the real name is needed unless im submitting some patches! What's in

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

2007-06-12 Thread debian developer
On 6/10/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 04:25:55PM +0530, debian developer wrote: > On 6/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Tarkan Erimer wrote: > > > > >> > And maybe another

Re: Linux kernel 2.4 programming problem

2007-06-12 Thread debian developer
Please look into http://kernelnewbies.org On 6/12/07, Federico Paparoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, i'm trying to create a simple system call in a kernel 2.4 distribution. I read guide/articles like this http://irfanhabib.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/adding-a-system-call-linux-24x/ All the

Re: [patch 1/4] lockdep: variuos fixes

2007-06-12 Thread debian developer
What exactly is being copyright'ed here? On 6/12/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - update the copyright notices - use the default hash function - fix a thinko in a BUILD_BUG_ON - add a WARN_ON to spot inconsitent naming - fix a termination issue in /proc/lock_stat

Re: [patch 1/4] lockdep: variuos fixes

2007-06-12 Thread debian developer
What exactly is being copyright'ed here? On 6/12/07, Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - update the copyright notices - use the default hash function - fix a thinko in a BUILD_BUG_ON - add a WARN_ON to spot inconsitent naming - fix a termination issue in /proc/lock_stat

Re: Linux kernel 2.4 programming problem

2007-06-12 Thread debian developer
Please look into http://kernelnewbies.org On 6/12/07, Federico Paparoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i'm trying to create a simple system call in a kernel 2.4 distribution. I read guide/articles like this http://irfanhabib.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/adding-a-system-call-linux-24x/ All the

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

2007-06-12 Thread debian developer
On 6/10/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 04:25:55PM +0530, debian developer wrote: On 6/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Tarkan Erimer wrote: And maybe another questions should be : How long a copyright owner can

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

2007-06-10 Thread debian developer
On 6/10/07, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > licensing under the GPLv3, though. All I've heard are shrill voices about > "tivoization" (which I expressly think is ok) and panicked worries about GPLv2 probably forbids Tivoisation anyway. Which is good IMHO even if not

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

2007-06-10 Thread debian developer
On 6/10/07, Tarkan Erimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: debian developer wrote: > On 6/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Tarkan Erimer wrote: >> >> >> > And maybe another questions should be : How long a copyrigh

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

2007-06-10 Thread debian developer
On 6/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Tarkan Erimer wrote: >> > And maybe another questions should be : How long a copyright owner can >> > hold the copyright, if died or lost for sometime ? if died, the >> > copyright still should be valid or not ? If

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

2007-06-10 Thread debian developer
On 6/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Tarkan Erimer wrote: And maybe another questions should be : How long a copyright owner can hold the copyright, if died or lost for sometime ? if died, the copyright still should be valid or not ? If lost, what

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

2007-06-10 Thread debian developer
On 6/10/07, Tarkan Erimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debian developer wrote: On 6/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Tarkan Erimer wrote: And maybe another questions should be : How long a copyright owner can hold the copyright, if died or lost

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

2007-06-10 Thread debian developer
On 6/10/07, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: licensing under the GPLv3, though. All I've heard are shrill voices about tivoization (which I expressly think is ok) and panicked worries about GPLv2 probably forbids Tivoisation anyway. Which is good IMHO even if not Now

Re: [patch 1/1] document Acked-by:

2007-06-02 Thread debian developer
On 6/2/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's quite common for experienced kernel developers to ack completely broken patches. common!! is'nt that a bit too ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [patch 1/1] document Acked-by:

2007-06-02 Thread debian developer
On 6/2/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's quite common for experienced kernel developers to ack completely broken patches. common!! is'nt that a bit too ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH - 1/1] Documentation/HOWTO

2007-05-24 Thread debian developer
sept. 2006! its been there since quite a long time. now what happens to my patch submitted to Greg??? On 5/24/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2007, Diego Calleja wrote: > El Thu, 24 May 2007 17:45:04 +0800, "Qi Yong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > D'oh, it

Re: [PATCH - 1/1] Documentation/HOWTO

2007-05-24 Thread debian developer
sept. 2006! its been there since quite a long time. now what happens to my patch submitted to Greg??? On 5/24/07, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2007, Diego Calleja wrote: El Thu, 24 May 2007 17:45:04 +0800, Qi Yong [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: D'oh, it seems the

[PATCH - 1/1] Documentation/HOWTO

2007-05-18 Thread debian developer
Heres a patch. It's my first. so any mistakes to be pardoned. :) --- linux-2.6.21.1/Documentation/HOWTO.orig 2007-05-18 18:54:18.0 +0530 +++ linux-2.6.21.1/Documentation/HOWTO 2007-05-18 18:55:03.0 +0530 @@ -383,26 +383,6 @@ One of the best ways to put into practic bugs

Fwd: [BUG] HOWTO

2007-05-18 Thread debian developer
There is a repetition of the below para in the HOWTO. :) sorry, me being newbie( thts y i was goin thru the HOWTO) cannot write the PATCH for this. Please correct it. 378 Managing bug reports 379 380 381 One of the best ways to put into practice your hacking skills is by

Fwd: [BUG] HOWTO

2007-05-18 Thread debian developer
-- Forwarded message -- From: debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 18, 2007 4:24 PM Subject: [BUG] HOWTO To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org There is a repetition of the below para in the HOWTO. :) sorry, me being newbie( thts y i was goi

Fwd: [BUG] HOWTO

2007-05-18 Thread debian developer
-- Forwarded message -- From: debian developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 18, 2007 4:24 PM Subject: [BUG] HOWTO To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org There is a repetition of the below para in the HOWTO. :) sorry, me being newbie( thts y i was goin thru the HOWTO

Fwd: [BUG] HOWTO

2007-05-18 Thread debian developer
There is a repetition of the below para in the HOWTO. :) sorry, me being newbie( thts y i was goin thru the HOWTO) cannot write the PATCH for this. Please correct it. 378 Managing bug reports 379 380 381 One of the best ways to put into practice your hacking skills is by

[PATCH - 1/1] Documentation/HOWTO

2007-05-18 Thread debian developer
Heres a patch. It's my first. so any mistakes to be pardoned. :) --- linux-2.6.21.1/Documentation/HOWTO.orig 2007-05-18 18:54:18.0 +0530 +++ linux-2.6.21.1/Documentation/HOWTO 2007-05-18 18:55:03.0 +0530 @@ -383,26 +383,6 @@ One of the best ways to put into practic bugs

Re: [RFC] BadRAM still not ready for inclusion ? (was: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!)

2007-03-04 Thread debian developer
The feature is not supported most prolly cos of lack of volunteers pushing it into mainline, or it might be deprecated(is it??). You are right in pointing out tht this could really save some ppl lots of trouble. am ready to help. pls contact for further queries On 3/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RFC] BadRAM still not ready for inclusion ? (was: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!)

2007-03-04 Thread debian developer
The feature is not supported most prolly cos of lack of volunteers pushing it into mainline, or it might be deprecated(is it??). You are right in pointing out tht this could really save some ppl lots of trouble. am ready to help. pls contact for further queries On 3/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED]