Re: About File systems magic numbers

2018-01-17 Thread Jim Davis
n Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 9:05 AM, inventsekar wrote: > Hi All, i have been reading > Unix filesystem - evolution, design and implementation by Steve D. Pate > > and it provides a simple file system source code for learning and playing > with. > On the header file, it defines

Re: Error while sending a mail from mutt

2017-03-29 Thread Jim Davis
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:32 PM, AYAN KUMAR HALDER wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to send a mail using mutt. I am getting the error as follows :- > > SMTP session failed: 501 5.5.4 > > I understand the error meant that a valid mail transaction protocol > was used with invalid

Re: MS_BIND flag on / folder not working

2017-03-13 Thread Jim Davis
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 2:56 AM, Prabhunath G wrote: > Hi All, > > Binding / folder onto someother folder say /opt/lxc is not working > but otherway round is working. Can I get some help on this. > > The following code snippet is executed after cloning > After

Re: Struggling with git (format-patch & send-email)

2017-03-08 Thread Jim Davis
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:35 AM, 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:

Re: should include/uapi include header files *unused* in kernel space?

2017-02-03 Thread Jim Davis
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > was perusing the UAPI content in the kernel source, prepping for a > course i'm teaching tomorrow, and just noticed there is a header file: > > $ find . -name mtd-user.h > ./include/uapi/mtd/mtd-user.h > $

Re: unified-diff format

2017-02-03 Thread Jim Davis
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 2:15 PM, srishti sharma wrote: > I ran perl scripts/checkpatch.pl -f drivers/staging/comedi/* | less > for the file comedi_buf.o there is one error , it says > ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch If it's an *.o file then perhaps

Re: unified-diff format

2017-02-03 Thread Jim Davis
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 2:08 PM, srishti sharma wrote: > What do I need to know to fix this error ? > > On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 2:33 AM, srishti sharma wrote: >> What is unified-diff format , where can I read up on it ? I see this >> after running

Re: How do you generate the config file?

2017-01-30 Thread Jim Davis
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:51 PM, srishti sharma wrote: > After cloning greg kroah hartman's repository from the tutorial , I am > not able to boot into any kernel by default and have to choose from > advanced ubuntu options from the grub menu . In the advanced ubuntu >

Re: what is the minimal version of make supported for building the kernel?

2016-07-06 Thread Jim Davis
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:15 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > now, Documentation/Changes currently does indeed state: > > Current Minimal Requirements > > ... snip ... > o GNU make 3.80# make --version > > but

Re: depmod: ERROR: Found 2 modules in dependency cycles!

2015-11-17 Thread Jim Davis
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Lucas Tanure wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to compile and run linux-next tree, but no matter what I do I got > : > > depmod: ERROR: Found 2 modules in dependency cycles! > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: lnet -> libcfs -> lnet > Makefile:1139:

Re: Can I send a patch about 00-INDEX?

2015-10-02 Thread Jim Davis
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Navy Cheng wrote: > Hi, > I read some document about schedule in Documentation/schedule/ but I find > that there are 9 files in 00-INDEX (include itself), however there are > 10 files in the Documentation/schedule/* . *completoin.txt* is added in

Re: how to build Documentation/DocBook/

2015-07-24 Thread Jim Davis
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Luis de Bethencourt l...@debethencourt.com wrote: On 17 July 2015 at 13:40, Ahmed Soliman ahmedsoliman0x...@gmail.com wrote: I have fresh kernel downloaded by git and I want to know how to build Documentation/DocBook/ as pdf I have tried make pdfdocs output

Re: broken network connection

2014-11-06 Thread Jim Davis
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Grzegorz Dwornicki gd1...@gmail.com wrote: To do this I'm using ctrl+c on host 2. What functions are called to clean broken socket on host 1? What functions are called to clean up socket on host 2? Have you tried running strace on the nc processes?