Google Summer of Code 2015

2015-03-03 Thread Galactuz Prime
Hi all, My name is Pavel, and I am looking for some projects and mentors to start working on Google Summer of Code 2015 . I saw some of them from Linux Foundation and it says that asking here is the best way to get helped. I have knowledge in c/c++, python and I am also learning kernel development

Re: Beginner in Kernel Development

2015-03-03 Thread Raphael Campos Silva
Hello Sahil, Sorry for the big delay. Have you stuck in brokenthorns tutorial? About your question... depends on your goals. We get stuck everytime in development process. If you really want to know this things, you should try again and again. If you have any doubt about where you have stuck,

Re: I want to remove my current kernel after upgradtion of new kernel

2015-03-03 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:12:44 +0530, Anurudh Tiwari said: I have to remove my current kernel(which is going to be old kernel in next reboot) after up-gradation because i don't want to get prompt to choose the kernel at booting time. Protip: You *really* want to keep at least one extra

RE: I want to remove my current kernel after upgradtion of new kernel

2015-03-03 Thread adheer chandravanshi
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:12:16 + From: malte.ves...@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk To: anurudhtripa...@gmail.com Subject: Re: I want to remove my current kernel after upgradtion of new kernel CC: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Still the link applies to debian as well, look for: .deb based

Re: ACCESS_ONCE usage inside llist_add_batch function

2015-03-03 Thread Cihangir Akturk
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 12:08:41PM +0530, Chinmay V S wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:51 AM, John de la Garza j...@jjdev.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 10:12:23PM +0200, Cihangir Akturk wrote: Reading the lib/llist.c file in the kernel sources, I came across the llist_add_bach function

Question on mutex code

2015-03-03 Thread Matthias Bonne
Hello, I am trying to understand how mutexes work in the kernel, and I think there might be a race between mutex_trylock() and mutex_unlock(). More specifically, the race is between the functions __mutex_trylock_slowpath and __mutex_unlock_common_slowpath (both defined in kernel/locking/mutex.c).

Re: I want to remove my current kernel after upgradtion of new kernel

2015-03-03 Thread Anurudh Tiwari
Thanks Valdis and Adheer. lets try.. Thanks Anurudh On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 6:41 PM, adheer chandravanshi adhee...@hotmail.com wrote: Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:12:16 + From: malte.ves...@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk To: anurudhtripa...@gmail.com Subject: Re: I want to remove my current

I want to remove my current kernel after upgradtion of new kernel

2015-03-03 Thread Anurudh Tiwari
Hi, I am upgrading my machine with new version of os which have newer version of the kernel. I have to remove my current kernel(which is going to be old kernel in next reboot) after up-gradation because i don't want to get prompt to choose the kernel at booting time. I tried few methods: 1

Re: I want to remove my current kernel after upgradtion of new kernel

2015-03-03 Thread Daniel Lockyer
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 05:12:44PM +0530, Anurudh Tiwari wrote: Hi, I am upgrading my machine with new version of os which have newer version of the kernel. I have to remove my current kernel(which is going to be old kernel in next reboot) after up-gradation because i don't want to get

Re: I want to remove my current kernel after upgradtion of new kernel

2015-03-03 Thread Malte Vesper
Wrong list I guess, try askubuntu.com next or maybe google, you know second result for linux uninstall kernel has your answers... http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-redhat-linux-delete-kernel-command/ You have a debian/ubuntu like system. Also you should always keep an old kernel in case

Re: I want to remove my current kernel after upgradtion of new kernel

2015-03-03 Thread Anurudh Tiwari
@ Denial : I have tried with -y option. it exempt me from console confirmation but not from pop-up. @Malte : I am not using ubuntu. Its a Debian based system. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Malte Vesper malte.ves...@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk wrote: Wrong list I guess, try askubuntu.com next

Re: I want to remove my current kernel after upgradtion of new kernel

2015-03-03 Thread Malte Vesper
Still the link applies to debian as well, look for: .deb based distro - Debian or Ubuntu Linux And i believe the manual steps at the bottom apply to linux in general On 03/03/15 12:00, Anurudh Tiwari wrote: @ Denial : I have tried with -y option. it exempt me from console confirmation but not