Re: Transfer Buffer in URB

2015-06-25 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 05:41:31PM +0200, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25 2015 at 10:43:32AM -0400, Greg KH wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:16:28PM +0530, roni wrote: > >> What is the transfer buffer in URB? > >> > >> What is the job of transfer buffer? > > > > The in-kernel doc

Re: Poking eudyptula for status updates

2015-06-25 Thread Mike Krinkin
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 05:45:37PM +0200, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:30:23PM +0300, Mike Krinkin wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 05:02:53PM +0200, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I've been waiting for a week now since I submitted task 5 to Eu

Re: Poking eudyptula for status updates

2015-06-25 Thread Luis de Bethencourt
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:30:23PM +0300, Mike Krinkin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 05:02:53PM +0200, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've been waiting for a week now since I submitted task 5 to Eudyptula. > > I understand reviewing submissions takes time, specially the tasks

Re: Transfer Buffer in URB

2015-06-25 Thread Luis de Bethencourt
On Thu, Jun 25 2015 at 10:43:32AM -0400, Greg KH wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:16:28PM +0530, roni wrote: >> What is the transfer buffer in URB? >> >> What is the job of transfer buffer? > > The in-kernel documentation should answer these questions, which is why > we wrote it :) Just in ca

Re: Poking eudyptula for status updates

2015-06-25 Thread Mike Krinkin
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 05:02:53PM +0200, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been waiting for a week now since I submitted task 5 to Eudyptula. > I understand reviewing submissions takes time, specially the tasks that are > reviewed manually and there is a queue. Plus, it helps make

Poking eudyptula for status updates

2015-06-25 Thread Luis de Bethencourt
Hello all, I've been waiting for a week now since I submitted task 5 to Eudyptula. I understand reviewing submissions takes time, specially the tasks that are reviewed manually and there is a queue. Plus, it helps make the challege replicate the experience of contributing to an open project. Waiti

Re: Transfer Buffer in URB

2015-06-25 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:16:28PM +0530, roni wrote: > What is the transfer buffer in URB? > > What is the job of transfer buffer? The in-kernel documentation should answer these questions, which is why we wrote it :) ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Ke

Transfer Buffer in URB

2015-06-25 Thread roni
What is the transfer buffer in URB? What is the job of transfer buffer? ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: How to handle float-point operations

2015-06-25 Thread Arun KS
Hello Mudongliang, On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:01 AM, 慕冬亮 wrote: > > I know there are rarely float-point operations! What's the exception? > In the linux kernel, how does it handle the float-point operations in the > userland? Most of the userspace programs do not use FP instructions. So by defau