Re: from where to start..

2012-01-20 Thread SaNtosh kuLkarni
Hi Sukrit, Ya kernel development..kernel space is fun...but since kernel has loads of subsystems...you must be or will be later interested in certain subsytems,,,but you ought to understand the basic working and operations carried by a kernel and sorting of programming and structures required...i

RE: from where to start..

2012-01-20 Thread Jeff Haran
From: kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Sukrit Sangwan Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 4:19 PM To: Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: from where to start.. I want to become a kernel developer. I have never done anything

Re: from where to start..

2012-01-20 Thread Dave Hylands
Hi Sukrit, On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Sukrit Sangwan wrote: > I want to become a kernel developer. I have never done anything related to > kernel uptil now. I am unable to figure out how to start off. Please help me > doing my first exercise on kernel development. I highly recommend this s

from where to start..

2012-01-20 Thread Sukrit Sangwan
I want to become a kernel developer. I have never done anything related to kernel uptil now. I am unable to figure out how to start off. Please help me doing my first exercise on kernel development. -- Sukrit Sangwan B.Arch. III Yr. IIT Roorkee ___ Kern

Re: git clone of linux kernel provides only compressed pack files

2012-01-20 Thread Manavendra Nath Manav
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:06:08AM +0530, Manavendra Nath Manav wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Mirco Tischler wrote: >> >> **snip** >> > You just need to do git checkout master after the git clone. This >> > gives you the version the

Re: git clone of linux kernel provides only compressed pack files

2012-01-20 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:06:08AM +0530, Manavendra Nath Manav wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Mirco Tischler wrote: > > **snip** > > You just need to do git checkout master after the git clone. This > > gives you the version the master branch in the stable repo points to > > at the ti

Re: git clone of linux kernel provides only compressed pack files

2012-01-20 Thread Manavendra Nath Manav
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Mirco Tischler wrote: **snip** > You just need to do git checkout master after the git clone. This > gives you the version the master branch in the stable repo points to > at the time of the cloning. > To update your local master branch later, just do git pull. >

Re: git clone of linux kernel provides only compressed pack files

2012-01-20 Thread Jonathan Neuschäfer
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 06:38:47PM +0530, Manavendra Nath Manav wrote: > [root@pe1800xs src]# git clone --recursive -v > http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git > Cloning into linux-stable... Have you looked into the linux-stable directory? HTH, Jonathan Ne

Re: git clone of linux kernel provides only compressed pack files

2012-01-20 Thread Mirco Tischler
2012/1/20 Manavendra Nath Manav : > Hi All, > > I cloned 3.2 kernel from git repository, but I am not seeing any > source files. The .git directory contains .git/objects/pack/*.pack > file which is huge and it seems all source code with commit revision > is stored there. When I do "git unpack-objec

git clone of linux kernel provides only compressed pack files

2012-01-20 Thread Manavendra Nath Manav
Hi All, I cloned 3.2 kernel from git repository, but I am not seeing any source files. The .git directory contains .git/objects/pack/*.pack file which is huge and it seems all source code with commit revision is stored there. When I do "git unpack-objects -r < xyz.pack", it completes 100% but stil

Re: [OOT] About the symbols in binary file.

2012-01-20 Thread nilesh
On Friday 20 January 2012 03:37 PM, Daniel Baluta wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:56 AM, nilesh wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The question is not completely related to kernel. But I came across >> similar question when debugging in kernel. >> >> I tried dissecting the SSL library using 'nm' command. It

Re: [OOT] About the symbols in binary file.

2012-01-20 Thread Daniel Baluta
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:56 AM, nilesh wrote: > Hi, > > The question is not completely related to kernel. But I came across > similar question when debugging in kernel. > > I tried dissecting the SSL library using 'nm' command. It is showing the > list of symbols along with some generic addresse

[OOT] About the symbols in binary file.

2012-01-20 Thread nilesh
Hi, The question is not completely related to kernel. But I came across similar question when debugging in kernel. I tried dissecting the SSL library using 'nm' command. It is showing the list of symbols along with some generic addresses (to be used when relocating). Also there are some charac