Re: Need help understanding the logic of __cpuidle_set_driver

2014-08-22 Thread AYAN KUMAR HALDER
However, regarding the logic, I have a few doubts - 1. for each cpu in drv-cpumask, if there is already a driver registered, its calling __cpuidle_unset_driver which loops over for each cpu in drv-cpumask again. Isn't it unnecessary to do this nested calls? It is to rollback the previous

New to Kernel newbie

2014-08-22 Thread manoj kumar
Hi, i am new to kernelnewbie. I would like to work on the VFS/Filesystem sub system. Any guidance towards the same is much appreciated. RegardsManoj ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org

Re: New to Kernel newbie

2014-08-22 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 21:39:42 +0530, manoj kumar said: i am new to kernelnewbie. I would like to work on the VFS/Filesystem sub system. Any guidance towards the same is much appreciated. Step 0: Figure out *why* you want to work on filesystems, pick a *specific* goal, and pick up a basic

Re: fd type from number

2014-08-22 Thread Loris Degioanni
On 8/20/2014 2:33 AM, Rohan Puri wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Loris Degioanni lo...@draios.com wrote: Sure, here's some more context. I'm one of the developers of sysdig (www.sysdig.org), a tool that captures system calls and uses them to offer advanced system monitoring. One of

MESA for i915

2014-08-22 Thread Victor Rodriguez
HI here is the problem: I am trying to compile mesa in a x86 system. After installing all the required packages and ussing the following configure command line: ./configure --with-dri-drivers=i915 --with-gallium-drivers= make show this error: loader.c:495:24: fatal error: radeon_drm.h: No

Re: fd type from number

2014-08-22 Thread Rohan Puri
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Loris Degioanni lo...@draios.com wrote: On 8/20/2014 2:33 AM, Rohan Puri wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Loris Degioanni lo...@draios.com wrote: Sure, here's some more context. I'm one of the developers of sysdig (www.sysdig.org), a tool that