Re: Need Suggestions

2018-08-01 Thread Himanshu Jha
On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 05:29:53PM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote: > > > > And the K&R book on C does successive trimming of an strcpy(), > > and finishes with > > > > void strcpy(char *a, *b) { while (*a++ = *b++); } > > > > The thing that's actually used a lot in the Linux kernel that gives > > a lo

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-08-01 Thread Ruben Safir
> > And the K&R book on C does successive trimming of an strcpy(), > and finishes with > > void strcpy(char *a, *b) { while (*a++ = *b++); } > > The thing that's actually used a lot in the Linux kernel that gives > a lot of C newcomers heartburn is the widespread use of > structures of function

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-25 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 03:07:27 +0530, Himanshu Jha said: > Now, this part of section is really important and somehow if you think > you really learnt C well in the course offered at University. Then > please take a look at implicit conversions: > https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/conversion >

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-25 Thread Himanshu Jha
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:09:28AM +0530, inventsekar wrote: > Hi Athul... > This is my collegemate's writing, ... This will solve all your > confusions > > --- > > The most important quality that you need to inculcate if you want to do any > kernel space programming is "Patience" (or persist

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-18 Thread Daniel.
> > It's OK.. just remember to trim out the non-important stuff next time. :) > Okay! Thanks! > ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-18 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 22:16:07 -0300, "Daniel." said: > Sorry. Do I did something bad? I wasn't intended to.. I didn't think that > trimming was a bad idea, I just want to reinforce the book suggestion ... > Sorry It's OK.. just remember to trim out the non-important stuff next time. :) pgprhQKnEo

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-18 Thread Daniel.
Em qua, 18 de jul de 2018 20:10, escreveu: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:29:41 -0700, Dave Stevens said: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:19:05 -0300 "Daniel." > wrote: > > > > > > Hi Athul... > > > > This is my collegemate's writing, ... This will solve all your > > > > confusions > > > > > > > > is i

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-18 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:29:41 -0700, Dave Stevens said: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:19:05 -0300 "Daniel." wrote: > > > > Hi Athul... > > > This is my collegemate's writing, ... This will solve all your > > > confusions > > > > > is it the policy on this list to trim? Only the irrelevant parts, le

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-18 Thread Dave Stevens
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:19:05 -0300 "Daniel." wrote: > > Hi Athul... > > This is my collegemate's writing, ... This will solve all your > > confusions > > is it the policy on this list to trim? D -- In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the s

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-18 Thread Daniel.
2018-07-18 1:39 GMT-03:00 inventsekar : > Hi Athul... > This is my collegemate's writing, ... This will solve all your > confusions > > --- > > The most important quality that you need to inculcate if you want to do > any kernel space programming is "Patience" (or persistence if you will). > T

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-17 Thread Dave Stevens
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 00:41:56 -0400 valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > Were you cd'ed into the directory that had the base of the kernel > source tree? I wasn't. I also suggest make help | less Thanks, Dave ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@k

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-17 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:10:05 -0700, Dave Stevens said: > $ make help > make: *** No rule to make target 'help'. Stop. Were you cd'ed into the directory that had the base of the kernel source tree? Hint: the directory should look something like this: [/usr/src/linux-next] ls COPYINGModu

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-17 Thread inventsekar
Hi Athul... This is my collegemate's writing, ... This will solve all your confusions --- The most important quality that you need to inculcate if you want to do any kernel space programming is "Patience" (or persistence if you will). Though it is a good quality for any large scale project, i

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-17 Thread Dave Stevens
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 02:35:09 +0200 Richard Siegfried wrote: > On 14/07/18 18:04, Athul Joy wrote: > > Dear friends, I am new to the Linux kernel development. > > Can anyone help me how to start my journey in order to build my own > > kernel? > For me the debian kernel handbook was a great help e

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-17 Thread Richard Siegfried
On 18/07/18 02:35, Richard Siegfried wrote: > or even "make oldconfig". (If you don't know these two start with "make ^ should be olddefconfig Both copy the .config file of your current running kernel and use that as a basis signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sig

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-17 Thread Richard Siegfried
On 14/07/18 18:04, Athul Joy wrote: > Dear friends, I am new to the Linux kernel development. > Can anyone help me how to start my journey in order to build my own kernel? > For me the debian kernel handbook was a great help especially chapter 4 and section 4.6. (https://kernel-team.pages.debian.n

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-15 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 22:07:12 +0400, oz...@goosey.org said: > LFS is a good places to prepare a new linux distribution and have fun as you > talk about :) Note that *building* a LFS system is a bit of work. Properly *maintaining* an LFS system is an ongoing *ton* of work. Basically, you end up m

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-14 Thread ozgur
  14.07.2018, 21:32, "Cindy-Sue Causey" :On 7/14/18, oz...@goosey.org wrote: 14.07.2018, 20:07, "Athul Joy" :  Dear friends, I am new to the Linux kernel development. Can anyone help me how to start my journey in order to build my own kernel? Hello, if yo

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-14 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 7/14/18, oz...@goosey.org wrote: > 14.07.2018, 20:07, "Athul Joy" : >> >> Dear friends, I am new to the Linux kernel development. >> Can anyone help me how to start my journey in order to build my own >> kernel? > > > Hello, > > if you want to build a your own kernel then the best way is to be

Re: Need Suggestions

2018-07-14 Thread ozgur
  14.07.2018, 20:07, "Athul Joy" :Dear friends, I am new to the Linux kernel development.Can anyone help me how to start my journey in order to build my own kernel?  Hello, if you want to build a your own kernel then the best way is to be use Google. Perhaps you can find thousands of kernel build d

Need Suggestions

2018-07-14 Thread Athul Joy
Dear friends, I am new to the Linux kernel development. Can anyone help me how to start my journey in order to build my own kernel? ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbi

Re: I need suggestions for a practical work related with Kernel Development

2011-08-27 Thread amit mehta
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Facundo Viale wrote: > Hi! I'm new here and i what to introduce myself i'm teacher in a University > in the course Operation Systems. During the course the students learn some > Operatyng Systems concepts, specially everything relating to the Kernel. As > a practi

Re: I need suggestions for a practical work related with Kernel Development

2011-08-26 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 01:18, Facundo Viale wrote: > Hi! I'm new here and i what to introduce myself i'm teacher in a University > in the course Operation Systems. We have similarities in that aspect alone :) In my opinion, before you put your student into coding practice, it would be g

RE: I need suggestions for a practical work related with KernelDevelopment

2011-08-26 Thread Jeff Haran
From: kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Facundo Viale Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 11:19 AM To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: I need suggestions for a practical work related with KernelDevelopment Hi! I&#

RE: I need suggestions for a practical work related with KernelDevelopment

2011-08-26 Thread Jeff Haran
From: kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Facundo Viale Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 11:19 AM To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: I need suggestions for a practical work related with KernelDevelopment Hi! I&#

I need suggestions for a practical work related with Kernel Development

2011-08-26 Thread Facundo Viale
Hi! I'm new here and i what to introduce myself i'm teacher in a University in the course Operation Systems. During the course the students learn some Operatyng Systems concepts, specially everything relating to the Kernel. As a practice task, they also have to use C to make a program with some Ker