A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top
On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at
On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 08:04:12PM +0200, Wiktoria Lewicka wrote:
> I write kernel module which replace syscall and have a problem.
> Module can't be loaded because is some problem in memory. I tried fix
> it for 3 hours, but it still not work. This code is working, when I
> choose memory closer
On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 05:13:09PM +0530, Swapnil N wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to implement a timer based stats notification for running
> UDP streams. Mostly a timer per UDP session will send UDP statistics
> to userspace via netlink.
>
> I would like to know,
> 1. How many max number of
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 09:19:15AM +0200, Christoph Böhmwalder wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here's a question that the various "how to help" documents about the
> linux-kernel mailing list couldn't help me answer:
>
> Is anyone "allowed" to review patches on the mailing list?
Yes, please do so.
> Is
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:43:08AM +0200, jjDaNiMoTh wrote:
>
>
> 2017-09-21 9:21 GMT+02:00 Greg KH <g...@kroah.com>:
>
>
> Why do you think that it requires developers to use a debugger and qemu
> to test their code? I've never used a debugger on th
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 09:29:17PM +0200, jjDaNiMoTh wrote:
> On 20/09/17 at 11:20am, 慕冬亮 wrote:
> > 2017-09-20 4:18 GMT-04:00 jjDaNiMoTh :
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > As the title says, any of you have successfully tried to debug Linux
> > > 4.13 with QEMU?
>
> > I
On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 11:26:14AM +0530, Sudharsan Vijayaraghavan wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> My general question is that has the community seen "swap latency issues with
> disk IO" in general. Further can we assume that later kernels (like 4.4) does
> not exhibit such a behavior.
"later" kernels are
On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 12:06:36AM +0530, Sudharsan Vijayaraghavan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We are running a pretty (rather a very old kernel) 2.6.32. Nevertheless we do
> see huge latency on disk IO once system starts using swap.
That's your problem, 2.6.32 is _very_ old and obsolete. No one in
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 06:38:48AM +0800, jing...@cpu-os.ac.cn wrote:
> Hi, Greg
>
> Thanks for your time.
> First of all, if I do NOT hit the keyboard during the suspend.
> Then my keyboard CAN wake the system up from suspend.
> This has rule out that my system does NOT support USB wakeup. Right
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 08:03:43PM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
> > They can just add him or her to the TO: line and going forward they
> > should be kept in the loop for that thread.
>
> Your not adding another list, your just adding a separate user. I
> usually add it to CC. What we do not do,
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 04:08:16PM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On 08/22/2017 01:39 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:59:31PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
> >> On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:48:42 -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey said:
> >>
> >>> An o
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:59:31PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:48:42 -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey said:
>
> > An observation that may just mean I haven't stumbled upon it yet is
> > that it would be nice to... stumble upon... a list of kernel problems
> > that
On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 12:21:15PM +0200, nunojsa wrote:
> On 22.07.2017 11:56, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 11:39:45AM +0200, nunojsa wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Im fairly new to linux kernel and would like to start with some staging
> &g
On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 11:39:45AM +0200, nunojsa wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Im fairly new to linux kernel and would like to start with some staging work
> (seems like the best way to start).
> Basically what i would like to know is which tree should i clone for this? My
> understanding is that one
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 09:23:46AM +0200, Massimo Sala wrote:
> I have an idea about a new sysctl knob. It is under net.ipv4.
>
> q1) which is the right kernel m-list to discuss it ?
net...@vger.kernel.org
> 2) any suggestion how to gain the critical mass of consensus ?
>
> 3) at first : is it
On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 04:07:15PM +0530, Shreeya Patel wrote:
> Move constant to the right of the relational operator to follow the pattern
> which is more common in kernel code".
Please line-wrap your changelog text at the proper column that your
editor asks you to :)
thnaks,
greg k-h
On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 02:10:17PM +0530, Shreeya Patel wrote:
> Fixed a coding style issue.
Why is your subject longer than your changelog text?
And where are the other 389 patches in this series?
And finally, why are you sending this to kernelnewbies and not the
people and mailing list that
On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 09:38:52PM +0530, Ajinkya Surnis wrote:
> Actually, this is not a college assignment. I'm a professional software
> engineer who is completely new to kernel programming.
> I recently gave an interview to one cloud security firm. The interviewer gave
> me this particular
On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 09:08:40PM +0530, Ajinkya Surnis wrote:
> The purpose of assignment is to check the authenticity of the user executing
> the system call, and prevent certain users from executing, kind of like
> certain
> security programs (although I don't exactly know how they work).
On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 10:21:06PM +0800, Shiyao Ma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One thing I feel very un-comfortable when writing kernel module code
> is the warning of `mixing declarations and code'.
>
> Is `mixing declarations and code' still frowned upon by kernel
> developers?
Yes. It is a bad idea
On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 07:53:31PM +0530, Ajinkya Surnis wrote:
> Actually, I've been given an assignment to write a kernel module such that
> whenever a certain system call (e.g. open()) is executed, the control should
> come to my new module; then it will do some processing on the parameters and
On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 07:38:21PM +0530, Ajinkya Surnis wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm new to kernelnewbies and this is my first question in the list.
>
>
> I'm working on system call interception (for open() system call) and I got one
> problem: I have two kernel modules (mod1 and mod2) and both
On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 08:13:08PM +0800, Shiyao Ma wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> > On 5 Jul 2017, at 20:07, Greg KH <g...@kroah.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> If there is any documentation about the API of the headers (e.g., what
> >> they include), th
On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 02:50:59PM +0800, Shiyao MA wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do you include the kernel headers?
>
> For example,
> Currently I have the headers:
> #include
> #include
> #include
>
> And now I wanna use the `struct workqueue_struct'. It turns out I
> don't have to include the
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 08:39:07AM -0500, Andrei Hurynovich wrote:
> Hi.
>
> We are trying to build realtime(-ish) system based on rhel6(kernel
> 2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.x86_64).
Wow, you do realize that is a _very_ old and obsolete kernel, supported
by no one except Red Hat. If you stick with it,
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 11:24:11AM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > Every other time a wifi driver has moved out of staging, the author has
> > just given up on the staging driver, and rewritten it "properly" and
> > gotten that rewrite merged as one patch, into the real part of the
> > kernel,
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 12:41:47AM +0530, vish chopra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm working on character driver.Unable to find when inode structure is
> create and when inode->i_cdev is assigned.
> Unable to find relation between inode and cdev.
What exact relation are you looking for? A character
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:10:47AM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> May I please ask two questions relating to the correct kernel development
> protocol to follow for the cfg80211 re-write.
>
> Current state: Functional WEXT driver in drivers/staging.
>
> Interim state: Partial cfg80211
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 02:32:31PM +0200, wiktoria.lewicka wrote:
> Hello.
> I write simple network device, but its don't work. Module is loading,
> loading, loading...
> Code:
>
> #include
> #include
> #include
> #include
> #include
> #define DEV_NAME "chwdp"
>
> struct net_device
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 06:09:28PM +0300, Roman Storozhenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 08:55:22AM +0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 05:38:36PM +0300, Roman Storozhenko wrote:
> > > Hello everybody!
> > >
> > > I am trying to modify "
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 05:38:36PM +0300, Roman Storozhenko wrote:
> Hello everybody!
>
> I am trying to modify "pcspkr" driver undere linux kernel source tree. I
> added a new line there:
>
> sample_id_dir = kobject_create_and_add("devices/platform/pcspkr/sample",
> NULL);
Ick, really? What
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 04:03:33PM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am attempting to implement a circular buffer for the tx path of a
> networking driver. From my understanding this is something that is
> very common, yet I am struggling to find a clear way to do it.
Have you looked at
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:58:09AM +0530, Madhu K wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Greg KH <g...@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:58:07PM +0530, Madhu K wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > Thanks for your response.
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 03:02:24PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> thoughts?
Why not ask on the linux-gpio mailing list?
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On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 07:58:19AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> in any event, is the /dev/gpiochip* interface the recommended
> interface now?
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On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:58:07PM +0530, Madhu K wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
>
> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Greg KH <g...@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:58:31AM +0530, Madhu K wrote:
> > Hi All,
>
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:58:31AM +0530, Madhu K wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> why there is no character device entry present in /sys/class? where as block
> and net device entries are present.
I see character devices there, but not the device nodes. I don't see
block device nodes there either.
> Not
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 11:29:29AM -0400, Aditya Basu wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 04:58:27PM -0400, Aditya Basu wrote:
> > I am trying to compile and boot Linux Kernel v3.19 (64-bit version)
> using
> -
> >
> > make defconfig
> > make kvmconfig
> > make -j8
>
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 04:58:27PM -0400, Aditya Basu wrote:
> I am trying to compile and boot Linux Kernel v3.19 (64-bit version) using -
>
> make defconfig
> make kvmconfig
> make -j8
>
> The compilation works out without any errors but it doesn't boot
> inside qemu or my host machine.
> I use
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:34:28PM +0100, Okash Khawaja wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:08 AM, Madhu K wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am kernel newbie, I want to know the importance of kobject, can anybody
> > explain the importance of kobject with an example.
>
>
On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 09:05:18AM +1000, Dushara Jayasinghe wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere. I'm working on a sama5d2
> based device where the kernel supported by the hardware vendor is 4.4.
> Any drivers we develop and test are based on this version of the
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 09:49:05PM +0900, Michael Mera wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As part of the eudyptula challenge I submitted a coding style patch on
> staging (that you can find here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/28/148)
>
> I had read beforehand the submission guidelines, but I still have some
>
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 01:23:55PM +0200, Oliver Graute wrote:
> On 26/04/17, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:11:38PM +0200, Oliver Graute wrote:
> > > Hello list,
> > >
> > > i'am using a null modem cable with two usb to serial converts on both
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:11:38PM +0200, Oliver Graute wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> i'am using a null modem cable with two usb to serial converts on both
> ends between my develop and my target machine. The connection is fine.
> On both machines the serial interface is /dev/ttyUSB0 for this
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 09:25:26PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:27:00 +1000, "Tobin C. Harding" said:
> > This question relates to English grammar and correct usage when
> > writing gitlog messages and patch series cover letters.
> >
> > The writing of gitlog
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 09:54:33AM -0600, Perry Hooker wrote:
> At this point, no one has commented on the accuracy of my analysis.
> Such comments are exactly what I'm hoping for (and what I requested -
> not "demanded" - in my replies).
As the one responsible for actually applying this specific
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:38:52AM -0700, Code Soldier1 wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> No I did not know about 'make localmodconfig'. Can you kindly explain.
Did you look at the help in the kernel makefile:
make help
will show you what the different options do.
localmodconfig makes a kernel
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 08:59:36AM -0700, Code Soldier1 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can someone suggest what is the fastest way to build a minimal kernel
> and boot. For example if I am working on TCP and would like to make a
> small change and reboot, what is the fastest way, I rather not build
> the whole
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 08:11:34PM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 08:08:20AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 10:31:01AM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > > Why is there code in-tree that declares generic memory addresses as
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 10:31:01AM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> Why is there code in-tree that declares generic memory addresses as
> unsigned int?
>
> Linux Device Drivers 3rd Edition page 289
> Therefore, generic memory addresses in the kernel are usually unsigned
> long, exploiting the
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 08:17:23PM +0530, Aishwarya Pant wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was wondering what is the appropriate mailing list for sending staging
> driver clean-up patches and like. First patch tutorial suggests maintainers
> plus mailing lists, but I don't see many staging patches on LKML.
>
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 11:16:56AM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was usually using Bugzilla when I wanted to report something, but what
> if, for example, I can't boot 4.11-rc3? Is bugzilla fast enough for
> such type of regressions?
Yes, but it's even better if you just
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 08:56:31PM +0530, Prasant J wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was able to send a tiny coding style error correction patch to the
> kernel mailing list.
>
> How do I find out whether my patch was accepted or not?
>
> How do I find out subsystem maintainers git tree for my patch (patch
>
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 07:52:36PM -0600, Perry Hooker wrote:
> I recently submitted a patch (attached below) that corrects a couple
> of 'sparse' warnings in drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_dm.c.
>
> I got this reply back from greg k-h:
>
> > This patch does not apply to my tree at all :(
> >
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 11:58:52AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> What is the difference between these two mailing lists please?
>
> 1) de...@driverdev.osuosl.org
> 2) de...@linuxdriverproject.org
>
> drivers/staging/ks7010/TODO asks for patches to be sent to
> the second but
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 05:14:12PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 21:59:20 +0100, Bjørn Mork said:
>
> > And another one:
> >
> > 5.) vendor independent class drivers
> >
> >
> > IMHO perfect for the independent developer since there will be
> > documentation
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 03:33:38PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> Driver code in staging/drivers/ks7010 uses the error code -E2BIG as
> the error returned if a string argument is larger than destination
> buffer. Would this not be better suited to the error code -EOVERFLOW?
> Does it matter?
>
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 01:03:07PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> On investigating call sites for 'return' in drivers/staging/ks7010/
> it can be seen that a number of functions us *custom* (positive)
> integers to indicate error. Notwithstanding that they are positive, is
> this ok for code in
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:21:24PM +0300, alexhoppus wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have several questions regarding how device drivers are merged into
> linux-kernel. First of all, I have found some document regarding
> submitting drivers to LK, but it looks like pretty out-dated,
>
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:19:58PM +0800, Freeman Zhang wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
>
> On 3/13/17 3:03 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>
> >
> > 'depmod' handles all of this when you install a kernel and its modules.
> >
>
> Thanks for that information, now I take
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:39:36AM +0530, SIMRAN SINGHAL wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Alexander Kapshuk
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 6:18 AM, SIMRAN SINGHAL
> > wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:05 AM, Alexander
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 05:57:14PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> On occasions diff output does not render the same as it does when
> editing a file. For example, while removing checkpatch tab warning
> the following diff was generated
>
> -#define KS_WLAN_SET_WPS_ENABLE
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 09:42:36PM +0330, Ali Aminian wrote:
> Hello, Freeman Zhang. copying 'Module.symvers' to sculld folder solved
> the problem. Thank you, man.
>
> Now I wonder what is the proper way to export "Module.symvers"
> information to the outside so that modules that use it do not
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 11:05:35PM +0530, Prasant J wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to send my 2 commits as patches in chain reply to my first
> email. My first email will have multiple files as attachment. How can
> I achieve it?
>
> first email subject: [mystring] Feature 01
> patch 01:
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:20:57PM +0300, Lev Olshvang wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Thank you for a prompt reply. My intention is to build some euristics for
> Intrusion detection of embedded based on sequence of syscalls.
> I am collecting syscall events and send then with netlink to my monitor.
>
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 12:52:38AM +0100, Robin Krahl wrote:
> So my question is: Does it make sense to replace the audio_* and LOG_*
> macros with the standard dev_* functions?
Yes.
> And is it okay to remove log messages like "IN" and "OUT" that are
> only used to track function entries and
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 10:18:26AM +0300, Lev Olshvang wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In kernels 3.X up to 4.2 execve(|) system call was for x86_64 architecture
> the the system call was made through some
> magic ( I can't say I understand it ) assembly stub in
> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
> so up
On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 07:33:46AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> Is there a log of emails sent using `git send-email`?
Nope, that's up to your MTA (mail transfer program/agent).
hope this helps,
greg k-h
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:37:37AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> Greg
>
> Thanks for your unfathomable patience dealing with kernel newbies. I
> have a small suggestion, in a most humble manner.
>
> It seems that when patches don't apply the response is not
> automated, if it is possible
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 05:29:05PM +0100, Johannes Thoma wrote:
> Dear Kernel hackers,
>
> As far as I understood CMA (contiguous memory allocation) memory is used
> for other purposes as long it isn't requested via cma_alloc() by a
> driver. cma_alloc then tries to free the memory by
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:09:30PM +, Abhay Koralli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We want to get the user space stack trace from the kernel space. Is there any
> easy way to dump the same ?
What exact problem are you trying to solve that getting a random
userspace callstack is needed from within the
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 12:35:33PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> If a reviewer makes a suggestion and one intends on making the change
> as suggested is it required (normal protocol) to reply stating that
> the you understand their suggestion and intend on implementing it or
> is this just
On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:42:39PM +0800, Hao Lee wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> Recently I'm reading "Professional Linux Kernel Architecture" while
> referencing
> the source code of kernel 2.6.24 and I have a question about priority search
> tree.
2.6.24 is _very_ very very old, and obsolete and
On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 04:20:53AM +0530, srishti sharma wrote:
> I got this warning for a structure to be defined as constant , I have
> fixed it by adding const , now this variable is not being used in this
> file , so I was wondering if I should fix such warnings ? What if this
> variable is
On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 03:36:02AM +0530, srishti sharma wrote:
> when driver has checkpatch cleanups in it's todo , does that also
> including fixing warnings , should one try to fix them ?
Why wouldn't you do so?
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On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 11:17:55AM +, Amit Kumar wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 01:34:11PM +0530, Deeksha varshney wrote:
> > In the checkpatch.pl for the file drivers/staging /emxx_udc/emxx_udc.c
> > there are checks for Camel case naming . How should I send patches for
> > them? I mean
On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 11:27:26AM -0600, Siddhartha Baral wrote:
> I think it needs a much bigger change i.e need to move the framework to kernel
> space to control this from user space.
I don't understand, what framework do you have to move? Userspace can
read the temperature and then do
On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 10:32:56AM -0600, Siddhartha Baral wrote:
> We have a separate cooling device for HDD.
Why aren't you controlling that from userspace as well?
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On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 08:54:27AM -0600, Siddhartha Baral wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> I am trying to add a new thermal zone driver for HDD which will be
> part of the thermal framework in the kernel.
Why does it have to be in the kernel? Why can't you do it all from
userspace?
thanks,
On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 09:08:15AM +, Amit Kumar wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 08:10:56AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 05:11:32AM +, Amit Kumar wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 01:54:16PM +, Amit Kumar wrote:
> > > > Hi,
&
On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 03:39:18AM +0530, srishti sharma wrote:
> Hey,
> I am an absolute newbie , I tried to clone greg kroah-hartman's
> staging tree repository , somehow I was not able to boot in the kernel
> I built .
>
> Also, Does this command below give me the latest kernel code ?
>
> I
On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 01:54:16PM +, Amit Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> As I know quilt is used by maintainers. But kernel source code is
> maintained in git repo. So I want to know how git and quilt work
> together.
It's up to the developer, but I use it in different ways for different
kernel trees.
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:08:48AM +0530, Amit Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> For last several days when I build arm64/defconfig even against
> next-20170125, I
> get the following error.
> arch/arm64/crypto/crc32-arm64.c:1:0: error: unknown feature modifier
> ‘crc’
> /*
> ^
> make[1]: ***
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 07:15:33AM +, Anurag Raghavan (RBEI/ETW11) wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Thank You for the information. I have few more concerns here,
>
> I am facing the following uncorrectable ECC error, Can you suggest any kernel
> version or any patches to overcome this issue.
>
>
>
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 07:02:25AM +, Anurag Raghavan (RBEI/ETW11) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am using kernel version-3.0.35
That is very very old and obsolete and insecure. I strongly recommend
you update to a modern and maintained kernel version in order to get any
help from the community,
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 01:23:41PM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> Hello Greg,
> Thanks for the quick response.
> I investigate more and came to the conclusion that for a specific
> network driver, there are messages in kernel log which originate from
> initrd and not from the modules under
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 10:33:46AM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> Hello,
> Question: in the boot process on my machine (Ubuntu 14), the standard
> Ubuntu initrd image is used.
> In that process of bootstrapping from initrd, several kernel modules
> from the initrd module are used.
> I believe that
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 05:05:34PM +0100, Oliver Graute wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> i'am using a GSM/UMTS Module on a PCB which is connected with USB 2.0
> Hi-Speed to my imx6ul CPU. To reduce our Electromagnetic compatibility
> and to make my hardware colleges happy again I want to downgrade to USB
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 12:17:40PM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've seen some modules where it is tested if virtual address is 0, and
> if yes, it is acted as if it is an error.
> But can't virtual address be zero too ?
>
> For example, in the following module:
>
On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 04:19:48PM +0100, Johannes Thoma wrote:
> Hi Kernel hackers,
>
> I have a proposal for an improvement of the CMA allocator (just about 5
> lines of code to make it more robust). I would like to send it to
> the linux-mm mailing list (linux...@kvack.org according to
On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 08:11:56PM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Greg KH <g...@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 05:47:19PM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Greg KH <g.
On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 05:47:19PM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Greg KH <g...@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:15:22PM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Greg KH <g...@kroah.com
On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 08:06:25AM +, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 07:01:37PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 11:52:33AM +, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 06:33:28AM -0500, Pasquier, Thomas wrote:
&
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 11:52:33AM +, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 06:33:28AM -0500, Pasquier, Thomas wrote:
> > Hello Wasim,
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Wasim Akram
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi ,
> > >
> > > I have seen "bool" data
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:15:22PM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Greg KH <g...@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 06:08:47PM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I want to use DMA from userspac
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:21:55AM +, Subashchandar Thiagarajan
(RBEI/ETW11) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am doing customization of kernel for recovery. What are the things can be
> removed .
Everything you do not need! :)
> how to do configurations.
What exactly do you mean by this?
> I am
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 04:56:18AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> (Q asked by a colleague, a wee bit vague on details so i'm hoping
> i'm describing it correctly, seems like it should be easy to solve.)
>
> short form of question: what is the standard way of, at boot time,
> passing the
On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 09:12:24PM -0800, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Ran Shalit wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have spi device which is registered using spi_register_board_info(),
> > and I would like to get a pointer to this device in some other
On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 04:49:28PM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Greg KH <g...@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 04:24:05PM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We need to support se
On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 04:24:05PM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We need to support serial driver with real time requirements (towards specific
> device with RT demands):
> Every 5.3msec receive 100 bytes and 1.3msec afterwards send 100 bytes.
>
> 1. Does kernel support real-time of such
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