Re: Question about "Creating first patch" guide

2015-09-23 Thread Karthik Nayak
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:17 PM, 慕冬亮 wrote: > 2015-09-24 13:56 GMT+08:00 Karthik Nayak : >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:51 AM, 慕冬亮 wrote: >>> I don't know whether my procedure to generate patch is right.Share it >>> with you and you can comment it ,feed back to me! >>> >>> First, I change the docu

Re: Question about "Creating first patch" guide

2015-09-23 Thread 慕冬亮
2015-09-24 13:56 GMT+08:00 Karthik Nayak : > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:51 AM, 慕冬亮 wrote: >> I don't know whether my procedure to generate patch is right.Share it >> with you and you can comment it ,feed back to me! >> >> First, I change the document in the master branch, but don't commit to >> mas

Re: Question about "Creating first patch" guide

2015-09-23 Thread Karthik Nayak
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:51 AM, 慕冬亮 wrote: > I don't know whether my procedure to generate patch is right.Share it > with you and you can comment it ,feed back to me! > > First, I change the document in the master branch, but don't commit to > master branch. Then I use "git diff" to generate the

Re: Question about "Creating first patch" guide

2015-09-23 Thread 慕冬亮
I don't know whether my procedure to generate patch is right.Share it with you and you can comment it ,feed back to me! First, I change the document in the master branch, but don't commit to master branch. Then I use "git diff" to generate the patch. At last , I do a check with checkpatch.pl. If t

RE: Question about "Creating first patch" guide

2015-09-23 Thread Rob Groner
> -Original Message- > From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 3:44 PM > To: Rob Groner > Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > Subject: Re: Question about "Creating first patch" guide > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 07:22:08PM +, Rob Groner wrote: > >

Re: Question about "Creating first patch" guide

2015-09-23 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 08:01:19PM +, Rob Groner wrote: > Helps very much, thank you! > > I think I read somewhere in that tutorial that posting your patch to > kernel-newbie was a safe thing to do to get comments/criticism before > submitting to the maintainer mailing list (linux-serial in

Re: Active Memory never reclaimed please help me understand

2015-09-23 Thread Prem Kumar
Dear Mulyadi, Thank you for your response. Sorry for top posting it, I was waiting for my posting to arrive in my mail-box but it took for ever and hence top posted in eagerness. You are right in your observation that I couldn't possibly have had my first application crash at 6GB. I should have sa

RE: Question about "Creating first patch" guide

2015-09-23 Thread Rob Groner
Helps very much, thank you! I think I read somewhere in that tutorial that posting your patch to kernel-newbie was a safe thing to do to get comments/criticism before submitting to the maintainer mailing list (linux-serial in this case). Is that true? Thanks again. Rob Groner > -Origi

Re: Question about "Creating first patch" guide

2015-09-23 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 07:22:08PM +, Rob Groner wrote: > The OutreachyfirstpatchSetup has been very helpful in setting up my computer > to > develop a patch to submit to the kernel overlords. > > > > I’m at the point where I’ve changed the kernel code, ran and test it, and see > just my c

Question about "Creating first patch" guide

2015-09-23 Thread Rob Groner
The OutreachyfirstpatchSetup has been very helpful in setting up my computer to develop a patch to submit to the kernel overlords. I'm at the point where I've changed the kernel code, ran and test it, and see just my changes with "git diff". What has me a little confused is that before I actua

Re: Active Memory never reclaimed please help me understand

2015-09-23 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Prem Kumar wrote: > also wondering if there is a way I can list Active memory map showing me > what is cached? > > -regards. > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Prem Kumar > wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> I have done quite a bit of reading on Active memory reported

Re: Adding GPIO/SPI/I2C functionality to FTDI driver

2015-09-23 Thread chrysn
Hallo Stefan, hallo Philipp, hello Johan and Greg, On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:02:03PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 06:28:47PM +0200, chrysn wrote: > > Is support for alternative operation modes in FTDI chips something that > > is welcome and (easily) feasible in the kernel? > >