Re: lib: Introduce priority array area manager

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Subject	Re: lib: Introduce priority array area manager
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Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:22:22AM CET, geert@linux-m68k.org wrote:
>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.

Okay. I will push this through the net tree. Thanks!

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Re: lib: Introduce priority array area manager Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-02-23 09:00 +0100
  Re: lib: Introduce priority array area manager Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> - 2017-02-23 09:40 +0100
    Re: lib: Introduce priority array area manager Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> - 2017-02-23 10:30 +0100
    Re: lib: Introduce priority array area manager Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-02-23 10:30 +0100

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