Re: Divide Error: 0000 [#1] SMP

2015-06-14 Thread Henry Hallam
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Sioban wrote: > I've checked the debian repo. > The most recent kernel available is 4.0.0.2. > > I assume I'll have to wait for that patch... It looks like that patch has already been applied to the latest Debian 4.0 kernel (as has the other fix mentioned in Leon'

Re: Kernel contributions from organisations and individual privacy

2015-06-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 19:36:23 -0400, nick said: > a embedded version of Linux called NX OS I believe and its all open to my > knowledge. Again this is stupidity in my option or companies being lazy by > hiding there terribly written drivers. Remember Nick - it's not a technical decision, it's a bus

Re: Kernel contributions from organisations and individual privacy

2015-06-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 17:25:40 -0400, Nicholas Krause said: > Why are we even trying to prove this, it seems any intelligent company who > has > a interest in staying in business will comply The problem is companies that have mixed in their own "secret sauce", and are afraid of said sause becoming

Re: Kernel contributions from organisations and individual privacy

2015-06-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 23:29:51 -, Jeff Haran said: > Seems like unless there is some monetary sting like a piece of the proceeds > on the sale of violating products, You know what's an even bigger monetary sting than having to pay a percentage? A court order banning the sale of your product en

Re: Building which kernel?

2015-06-14 Thread John Whitmore
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 08:27:03AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 02:11:33PM +0100, John Whitmore wrote: > > I've a question regarding the building of the linux kernel, more > > specifically > > which kernel to build. > > Always the latest version, why would you want to build an

Re: Building which kernel?

2015-06-14 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 02:11:33PM +0100, John Whitmore wrote: > I've a question regarding the building of the linux kernel, more specifically > which kernel to build. Always the latest version, why would you want to build an old one? > I've previously built the kernel for an 86 arch but this ti

Re: Building which kernel?

2015-06-14 Thread Lucas Tanure
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 10:11 AM, John Whitmore wrote: > I've a question regarding the building of the linux kernel, more > specifically > which kernel to build. > > I've previously built the kernel for an 86 arch but this time I want to > build > for the RaspberryPi. I can easily get the current

Re: Divide Error: 0000 [#1] SMP

2015-06-14 Thread Sioban
On 14/06/2015 15:12, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Sioban wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a problem with my server, it's several times I got "Divide Error: >> [#1] SMP". > > I expect that patch "[PATCH block/for-4.1-fixes] writeback: use |1 > instead of +1 to pr

Building which kernel?

2015-06-14 Thread John Whitmore
I've a question regarding the building of the linux kernel, more specifically which kernel to build. I've previously built the kernel for an 86 arch but this time I want to build for the RaspberryPi. I can easily get the current version of the installed kernel with the "uname -a" command but tha

Re: Divide Error: 0000 [#1] SMP

2015-06-14 Thread Leon Romanovsky
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Sioban wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with my server, it's several times I got "Divide Error: > [#1] SMP". I expect that patch "[PATCH block/for-4.1-fixes] writeback: use |1 instead of +1 to protect against div by zero" [1] will fix your issue. It i

Re: Global variables

2015-06-14 Thread Ruben Safir
On 06/14/2015 07:58 AM, AYAN KUMAR HALDER wrote: > Besides, it hampers reentrancy, unless you use locks(mutex) with each > global variable. This is not necessary a function of globalization of variables, although it damn sure can be, but... honestly, if he is asking this question, it is not likel

Divide Error: 0000 [#1] SMP

2015-06-14 Thread Sioban
Hello, I have a problem with my server, it's several times I got "Divide Error: [#1] SMP". I'm not qualified enough to identify the problem. This is the message, I got : ---

Re: Global variables

2015-06-14 Thread AYAN KUMAR HALDER
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: > On 06/14/2015 07:28 AM, roni wrote: >> I know i should avoid using global variables in kernel programming. >> >> What problem it create if i use more global variables? >> >> >> ___ >> Kernelnewbies ma

Re: Global variables

2015-06-14 Thread Ruben Safir
On 06/14/2015 07:28 AM, roni wrote: > I know i should avoid using global variables in kernel programming. > > What problem it create if i use more global variables? > > > ___ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > http://lists

Global variables

2015-06-14 Thread roni
I know i should avoid using global variables in kernel programming. What problem it create if i use more global variables? ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies