Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:22:22 +0100 | Subject | Re: lib: Introduce priority array area manager |
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Hi Jiri,
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> wrote: > Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 08:56:26AM CET, geert@linux-m68k.org wrote: >>On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Linux Kernel Mailing List >><linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> wrote: >>> Web: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/44091d29f2075972aede47ef17e1e70db3d51190 >>> Commit: 44091d29f2075972aede47ef17e1e70db3d51190 >>> Parent: b862815c3ee7b49ec20a9ab25da55a5f0bcbb95e >>> Refname: refs/heads/master >>> Author: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> >>> AuthorDate: Fri Feb 3 10:29:06 2017 +0100 >>> Committer: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> >>> CommitDate: Fri Feb 3 16:35:42 2017 -0500 >>> >>> lib: Introduce priority array area manager >>> >>> This introduces a infrastructure for management of linear priority >>> areas. Priority order in an array matters, however order of items inside >>> a priority group does not matter. >>> >>> As an initial implementation, L-sort algorithm is used. It is quite >>> trivial. More advanced algorithm called P-sort will be introduced as a >>> follow-up. The infrastructure is prepared for other algos. >>> >>> Alongside this, a testing module is introduced as well. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> >>> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> >> >>> --- a/lib/Kconfig >>> +++ b/lib/Kconfig >>> @@ -550,4 +550,7 @@ config STACKDEPOT >>> config SBITMAP >>> bool >>> >>> +config PARMAN >>> + tristate "parman" >> >>| parman (PARMAN) [N/m/y] (NEW) ? >>| >>| There is no help available for this option. >> >>Can you please add a description for this option? >>Or drop the "parman" string if this is always selected by its kernel users, and >>never intended to be enabled by the end user. > > I did it in the same way other similar lib dependencies do that. Does > not make sense to have separate description for this, cause this is > always only a dependency of a kernel user.
OK, so the user should not be asked about it...
> You suggeste to 'drop the "parman" string'. What do you mean by that > exactly?
... and
- tristate "parman" + tristate
should do the trick.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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