From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756489AbaGVTSP (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:18:15 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:39625 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751609AbaGVTSN (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:18:13 -0400 Message-ID: <53CEB8DB.1000301@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:17:47 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Krause , Levente Kurusa CC: Tony Luck , =?UTF-8?B?QmrDuHJuIE1vcms=?= , Doug Thompson , Borislav Petkov , "m.chehab@samsung.com" , Linux Edac Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] edac: Remove fixmes in e7xxx_edac.c References: <1406004789-9918-1-git-send-email-xerofoify@gmail.com> <874my98p6u.fsf@nemi.mork.no> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/22/2014 11:25 AM, Nick Krause wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Levente Kurusa wrote: >> 2014-07-22 19:40 GMT+02:00 Nick Krause : >>> [...] >>> >>> Tony, >>> >>> What is the value of Page shift then ? If you can tell me it would be >>> much easier for >>> me to fix this. >>> Cheers Nick >> >> Nick, >> >> Help is always welcome. However, what you are doing is effectively a >> waste of time for you and for the maintainers as well, and hence cannot >> be called help. You are writing emails that make absolutely no sense at all. >> If you want to help us out, please consider learning three things: >> >> * The language that the kernel is written in: C >> * The language that most kernel developers understand: English >> * The environment the kernel is (in most cases) written in: UNIX >> >> If you had known these, then: >> >> * ... you would have already known that FIXMEs exist for a reason which is >> not at all simple. >> >> * ... you would have understood that fixing FIXMEs without ANY reasoning and >> asking about it is completely useless and wastes precious maintainer time. >> >> * ... you could have used grep for finding out PAGE_SHIFT and not need to ask >> for it. >> >> Nick. Look, it is good that you are enthusiastic. However, this kind >> of 'work' gives >> you an undesirable reputation, which is {IF FROM:xerofoify@* THEN TRASH}... >> >> If you really want to help out, I suggest you to find yourself a piece >> of hardware from >> the store and try to write a driver for it. That way, you will learn >> how it all works, and if >> you are intelligent enough then you might get a "Kernel Job - Payed" >> like you asked us >> for them in November. >> >> Until then, please stop trying for FIXMEs. They will not get you a >> commit in the kernel >> 99% of the time. >> >> Hope you understand, >> >> Levente Kurusa > > > Levente, > > I understand what your saying and I should have searched for Page shift. so you know that PAGE_SHIFT is not always 12? > In addition I am already got commits in the kernel for fix mes so I feel > that your comment on fix mes is incorrect. what is your goal? -- ~Randy