Re: likely kernel/driver problem with 3G USB stick

2011-03-02 Thread John Mahoney
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Simon Leung wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having a problem with my 3G USB stick (Huawei E220) . > > The kernel I'm using is version 2.6.21 customized for an ARM board. When > I insert the USB stick into the system, normally 3 device show up: > /dev/ttyUSB{0,1,2}. The p

Re: some questions about kernel source

2011-02-18 Thread John Mahoney
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:16 PM, John Mahoney wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:28 AM, loody wrote: >> hi : >> >> >> 2011/2/18 John Mahoney : >>> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:17 AM, loody wrote: >>>> hi :-) >>>> >>>> 2011/2

Re: some questions about kernel source

2011-02-18 Thread John Mahoney
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:28 AM, loody wrote: > hi : > > > 2011/2/18 John Mahoney : >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:17 AM, loody wrote: >>> hi :-) >>> >>> 2011/2/16 Mulyadi Santosa : >>>> Hi :) >>>> >>>> On Wed, Feb 1

Re: some questions about kernel source

2011-02-17 Thread John Mahoney
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:17 AM, loody wrote: > hi :-) > > 2011/2/16 Mulyadi Santosa : >> Hi :) >> >> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:59, Rajat Jain wrote: >>> Hello loody, >>> 1. in kernel/trace, I always see "__read_mostly" at the end of parameter is that a compiler optimization parameter?

Re: avoid ip forward replaces the source MAC address

2011-02-02 Thread John Mahoney
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:39 PM, John Mahoney wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Elvis Yoan Tamayo Mollares > wrote: >> hi list, during ip forwarding process, the kernel replace the source MAC >> address of the package it received with my own MAC address.. My question &

Re: avoid ip forward replaces the source MAC address

2011-02-01 Thread John Mahoney
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Elvis Yoan Tamayo Mollares wrote: > hi list, during ip forwarding process, the kernel replace the source MAC > address of the package it received with my own MAC address.. My question > is: Is there any way to avoid this behavior? That is what routing does at the i

Re: Implement custom network protocol for local processes

2011-01-17 Thread John Mahoney
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Kfir Lavi wrote: > Hi, > How can one implement custom header network protocol. > I mean header that wraps regular network packets like ethernet, udp, tcp, > etc... > The sending of this custom packets is done between processes running > locally. > ie. I get a Ether

Re: ML archive

2011-01-05 Thread John Mahoney
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:46 PM, wrote: > Hi there, > > The actual archive contains only December and January. > Were are the older archives? It disappeared, but here is an "unofficial" archive(see bottom left) back to Jan 2003: http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.kernelnewbies > _

Re: addition of guidelines page on kernelnewbies.org

2011-01-05 Thread John Mahoney
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar wrote: > With great power comes great responsibility, :p > > So, I have created  the guideline page finally( it took me a while to figure > out how to edit wikipages.) > > I have modified ML page to include link to guidelines page: > http://k

Re: fixed memory bytes

2011-01-04 Thread John Mahoney
Please reply all..I added back list. On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:58 PM, mohit verma wrote: > thnx john,. > but i know that this indicates to compiler to  align the structure to its > nearest boundries.   is that so? I am not sure of your definition of boundary, but I would say it does the o

Re: fixed memory bytes

2011-01-04 Thread John Mahoney
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Rajesh S R wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Mulyadi Santosa > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 00:40, mohit verma wrote: >> > >> > hi all, >> > i have seen many places in  kernel where the variables specially the >> > structures should be of  fixed

Re: Problem with booting newly compiled kernel

2010-12-21 Thread John Mahoney
>> b. Also, who generates these UUID - is it a disk property (like, ROM >> signature or stuff?), or this is some udev magic? >> > > IMHO, this is fixed for every device during manufacturing. > I believe the UUID is created per partition/file system and are created when creating the file system for

Re: KVM - virtualization support

2010-12-21 Thread John Mahoney
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Sengottuvelan S wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to see whether my kernel has KVM support or not. When i execute > #egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo  , output shows '0'' which means my > custom kernel does not have capability of KVM. > I think you are misunderst