Re: what is the use of #ifndefs

2015-07-20 Thread Stephan Müller
The keyword is 'include guard' ~frukto Am 20.07.2015 um 17:55 schrieb leo kirotawa: > it means you don't want to redefine a .h file > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 7:03 AM, Ahmed Soliman > wrote: >> currently I started reading through the linux kernel and I started >> reading liunx/include/linux/l

Filesize in sysfs, debugfs, ...

2015-06-26 Thread Stephan Müller
Hi all, I have a question, what is the policy on file size in sysfs and especially in debugfs? Many (but not all) of the files report a size of 0. Recently I diffed against a file in sysfs. The files were identical, despite the fact one reported size 0. I got the unpleasant result diff -as f

Re: Recent Kernels failing to boot?

2014-09-02 Thread Stephan Müller
Am 02.09.2014 13:14, schrieb John Whitmore: > I'm not even sure that this is the correct home for this question but sure > it's worth a punt. I'm running OpenSUSE on a netbook and use it to compile and > install the latest kernel from Linus's git repo. This has always been a simple > operation pull

Re: Can i change address of Master Boot Record

2014-05-28 Thread Stephan Müller
Saurabh Jain: > Hello every one ! > > I was reading the booting process of Linux kernel. I got to know that > generally the location of MBR is first sector of the bootable device. I > want to know that whether we can change the location (Starting address ) > of Master Boot Record or not . Can we d