Re: Documentation on device-mapper and friends

2013-04-29 Thread Anatol Pomozov
Hi On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:51 AM, amit mehta wrote: > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Greg Freemyer > wrote: >> A nice diagram of the overall storage subsystem is at >> http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/oss/linux-io-stack-diagram.html >> >> Dm is just a single block in it, but it can help to s

Building multi-file modules

2013-04-29 Thread Arlie Stephens
Hi Folks, I've got a module, call it foo, presently built from a single source file, drivers/char/foo.c It's gotten enormous, so I want to split it. Ideally I'd keep the original name for one of the source files. So what I want is a module named foo, build from source files foo.c, bar.c and baz.c

Re: Documentation on device-mapper and friends

2013-04-29 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:51 PM, amit mehta wrote: > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Greg Freemyer > wrote: >> A nice diagram of the overall storage subsystem is at >> http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/oss/linux-io-stack-diagram.html >> >> Dm is just a single block in it, but it can help to see

Re: Documentation on device-mapper and friends

2013-04-29 Thread amit mehta
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > A nice diagram of the overall storage subsystem is at > http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/oss/linux-io-stack-diagram.html > > Dm is just a single block in it, but it can help to see where it fits in > overall. > > Btw: that diagram doesn't sho

Re: Do we use ARM's system mode in linux kernel

2013-04-29 Thread Arun KS
Hi Dhiraj, On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Dhiraj Kumar wrote: > Hi All, > > ARM is running in Supervisor(SVC) Mode in kernel. ARM also has another > mode called System(SYS) Mode. I just needed info if linux kernel uses > system mode of ARM processor. > > Please share information if anyone kno