Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-27 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 11:35:22 pm Rusty Russell wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:22 -0400, Rob Landley wrote: On Monday 23 July 2007 9:01:48 pm Rusty Russell wrote: IOW, I'd be interested in hearing Rob and Randy's opinions on it all, please. So they can see what we're talking

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-25 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 23 July 2007 9:01:48 pm Rusty Russell wrote: IOW, I'd be interested in hearing Rob and Randy's opinions on it all, please. So they can see what we're talking about, here's an example of the output: http://lguest.ozlabs.org/lguest-journey.c.bz2 Er, so you read the readme,

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-25 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:22 -0400, Rob Landley wrote: On Monday 23 July 2007 9:01:48 pm Rusty Russell wrote: IOW, I'd be interested in hearing Rob and Randy's opinions on it all, please. So they can see what we're talking about, here's an example of the output:

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-25 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 23 July 2007 10:21:13 pm Randy Dunlap wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:12:38 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:17:58 +1000 Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO. Noone ever read it.

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-24 Thread Alan Cox
There once was a virtualization coder, Whose patches kept getting older, Each time upstream would drop, His documentation would slightly rot, SO APPLY MY FUCKING PATCHES OR I'LL KEEP WRITING LIMERICKS. There once was a man they called rusty Who patches were terribly crusty Though his

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-24 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 10:52 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: There once was a virtualization coder, Whose patches kept getting older, Each time upstream would drop, His documentation would slightly rot, SO APPLY MY FUCKING PATCHES OR I'LL KEEP WRITING LIMERICKS. There once was a man they

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-24 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:28:14 +1000 Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 10:52 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: There once was a virtualization coder, Whose patches kept getting older, Each time upstream would drop, His documentation would slightly rot, SO APPLY

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-24 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Items for consideration would be: - if this stuff is good, shouldn't other code be using it? If so, is this new infrastructure in the correct place? - if, otoh, this infrastructure is _not_ suitable for other code, well, what was wrong with it? - if the requirement is good,

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-24 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 13:04 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Dear Rusty I think that we know Your code has good things to show But an unreliable guide To the poetic aside Would probably steal the show That and your (slightly dated?) mm documentation were awesome. But can we stop now? Please? Rusty.

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Rusty Russell
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 17:12 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:17:58 +1000 Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO. Noone ever read it. So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Rusty Russell wrote: Indeed, no code changes, and I feel strongly that it should go into 2.6.23 because it's *fun*. And (as often complained) there's not enough poetry in the kernel. There's a reason for that. There once was a lad from Braidwood With

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Rusty Russell
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 18:18 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Rusty Russell wrote: Indeed, no code changes, and I feel strongly that it should go into 2.6.23 because it's *fun*. And (as often complained) there's not enough poetry in the kernel. There's a reason for

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:12:38 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:17:58 +1000 Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO. Noone ever read it. So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/24/2007 03:18 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: PS. Nothing rhymes with Ballalaba. There once was a woman from Ballalaba who hid kernel bugs in her djellabah. When her husband found out, he objected loud, and got her expelled from the casbah! Rene.

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:21:13 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:12:38 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:17:58 +1000 Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO. Noone ever read

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-23 Thread Rusty Russell
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 20:06 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:21:13 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: It's great that Rusty took the time to produce all of this documentation. Few people do that today. Thanks Randy, it was something of an experiment. We'll see if it has the desired