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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdXR5QZrN1NMkZq_jSo0cRMqMJ6m5q-8C3pr1_NWKUZcqg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:56:26 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: lib: Introduce priority array area manager

Hi Jiri,

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Linux Kernel Mailing List
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> wrote:
> Web:        https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/44091d29f2075972aede47ef17e1e70db3d51190
> Commit:     44091d29f2075972aede47ef17e1e70db3d51190
> Parent:     b862815c3ee7b49ec20a9ab25da55a5f0bcbb95e
> Refname:    refs/heads/master
> Author:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> AuthorDate: Fri Feb 3 10:29:06 2017 +0100
> Committer:  David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.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@...lanox.com>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.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.

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-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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