Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Rogan Dawes
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:42:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Yes. The silly thing is, at least in my local tests it doesn't actually seem to be _doing_ anythin

Re: git guidance

2007-11-28 Thread Rogan Dawes
Al Boldi wrote: Willy Tarreau wrote: It should not turn into an endless thread led by people who want to redefine GIT's roadmap, but experience sharing helps a lot with GIT. Well, now that you mentioned it, if there is one thing I dislike, it's for version control to start mutilating your sou

Re: [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by default on certain device classes

2007-08-03 Thread Rogan Dawes
Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:44:02PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: Am Freitag 03 August 2007 schrieb Matthew Garrett: It's certainly possible to do that, but it's also possible to have a userspace solution that whitelists devices. The question is whether the default kernel b

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Rogan Dawes
Ingo Molnar wrote: static void yield_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *p_to) { struct rb_node *curr, *next, *first; struct task_struct *p_next; /* * yield-to support: if we are on the same runqueue then * give half of o

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Rogan Dawes
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Rogan Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if (p_to && p->wait_runtime > 0) { p->wait_runtime >>= 1; p_to->wait_runtime += p->wait_runtime; } the above is the basic expression of: "charge

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread Rogan Dawes
Chris Friesen wrote: Rogan Dawes wrote: I guess my point was if we somehow get to an odd number of nanoseconds, we'd end up with rounding errors. I'm not sure if your algorithm will ever allow that. And Ingo's point was that when it takes thousands of nanoseconds for a

Re: pcmcia ioctl removal

2007-05-01 Thread Rogan Dawes
Willy Tarreau wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:12:36PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On May 1 2007 05:16, Robert P. J. Day wrote: on the other hand, the features removal file contains the following: ... What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) When: November 200

Re: stripping down the kernel-parameters.txt file

2007-09-12 Thread Rogan Dawes
Robert P. J. Day wrote: p.s. by "basic", i mean those boot-time parms defined by either "__setup()" or "early_param()". which means that module writers should, as much as possible, stop using those macros to define command-line parameters for their modules. that would go a long way to restorin