Re: Work with correct branch for kernel changes

2015-12-12 Thread Luis de Bethencourt
On 12/12/15 20:43, Shirish Gajera wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to linux kernel and trying to understand the process of > different git branch to work. > > So, if I am not wrong then there are different branch like stable, next, > staging etc. Previously I work with staging bra

Work with correct branch for kernel changes

2015-12-12 Thread Shirish Gajera
Hi, I am new to linux kernel and trying to understand the process of different git branch to work. So, if I am not wrong then there are different branch like stable, next, staging etc. Previously I work with staging branch so if I am making any changes for drivers/staging I have to work with

Bluetooth doesn't work

2015-11-04 Thread Kinka Huang
Hi all, Thinkpad X1 2015, ubuntu 15.10, the bluetooth module seems not work well. Once connect, it prints the following kernel log: [ 196.730943] Bluetooth: hci0 SCO packet for unknown connection handle 0 [ 196.730946] Bluetooth: hci0 SCO packet for unknown connection handle 0 [ 196.730948

Must we close serial telnet connection for kgdb to work ?

2015-10-01 Thread Ran Shalit
Hello, I've successfuly managed to work with kgdb on linux: 3.14.25 But it seems that I must close the serial connection (which uses also for stdout print), in order for the kgdb to manage its communication ? I can use telnet instead, but still I thought that kgdb can handle both the

Re: Delegating printk work to UART interrupt

2015-07-21 Thread Arun KS
Hello Alexander, On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Alexander wrote: > Hi Arun KS, > Actually, i already saw this one and something similar were tested. I just > trying > to figure out the reasons why generic kernel layer (console_unlock) > implemented > in such way: i.e. why it accounts on immed

Re: Delegating printk work to UART interrupt

2015-07-21 Thread Alexander
Hi Arun KS, Actually, i already saw this one and something similar were tested. I just trying to figure out the reasons why generic kernel layer (console_unlock) implemented in such way: i.e. why it accounts on immediate busyloop printing? Is it reliable to defer such printing to UART interrupt

Re: Delegating printk work to UART interrupt

2015-07-19 Thread Arun KS
Hello Alexander, On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Alexander wrote: > > Hi! > When i checked how kernel printing works, i mentioned that it takes > messages > from log_buffer in console_unlock and gives it to call_console_drivers -> > ... > -> some uart bsp function. Basically, as i see this BSP

Delegating printk work to UART interrupt

2015-07-17 Thread Alexander
Hi! When i checked how kernel printing works, i mentioned that it takes messages from log_buffer in console_unlock and gives it to call_console_drivers -> ... -> some uart bsp function. Basically, as i see this BSP realization tries to flush all message chars in busyloop ... so it waits until FIFO

Re: Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-23 Thread Nicholas Krause
esting my patches >> 4.Listening to feedback >> Nick >> >[trim] > >Insert this: > >X. Do My Own Research First, THEN ask questions > >preferably at X = 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 of the above list. > >Read a few netiquette/'how to write questions smart' manu

Re: Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-23 Thread el_es
: X. Do My Own Research First, THEN ask questions preferably at X = 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 of the above list. Read a few netiquette/'how to write questions smart' manuals to learn how to let people /know/ you did your research. If your school work gets in the way though, it probably means it'

Re: Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-15 Thread nick
> > Ruben > > >>>> >>>> Please read my message again. It should be YOU who does the research >>>> about the work that YOU want to do, not us... >>> >>> >>> I didn't write this. Are you intentionally trolling this? >

Re: Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-15 Thread Nicholas Krause
ould someone like to point me to one that I can get hardware >for. >> > >> > Please read my message again. It should be YOU who does the >research >> > about the work that YOU want to do, not us... >> >> >> I didn't write this. Are you

Re: Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-15 Thread Ruben Safir
t; > >> [...] > > > > I was interested in Socs in staging as I believe there are a few > > > > would someone like to point me to one that I can get hardware for. Your 100% correct. I apologize Ruben > > > > > > Please read my message again. It sho

Re: Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-15 Thread Hugo Mills
lieve there are a few > > > would someone like to point me to one that I can get hardware for. > > > > Please read my message again. It should be YOU who does the research > > about the work that YOU want to do, not us... > > > I didn't write this. Are

Re: Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-15 Thread Ruben Safir
t hardware for. > > Please read my message again. It should be YOU who does the research > about the work that YOU want to do, not us... I didn't write this. Are you intentionally trolling this? The initial message under this subject had nothing to do with this. BTW - the atitiud

Re: Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-15 Thread Nicholas Krause
I don't remember but my interest has always been in embedded and file systems. If the kernel has work in there areas, I am swamped with school work for the next few weeks but can start helping out afterwards. Nick On March 15, 2015 12:14:07 PM EDT, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: >> I was

Re: Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-15 Thread Levente Kurusa
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:01:27PM -0400, Nicholas Krause wrote: > >> [...] > I was interested in Socs in staging as I believe there are a few > would someone like to point me to one that I can get hardware for. Please read my message again. It should be YOU who does the research

Re: Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-15 Thread Sudip Mukherjee
> I was interested in Socs in staging as I believe there are a few would someone like to point me to one that I can get hardware for. like which one? please name those few which are in staging.. regards sudip ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies

Re: Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-15 Thread Nicholas Krause
m the list >due to these results, >>> I am wondering if there is any work in the USB or Networking >Subsystem I can start with. >>> Further more recently I read Essential Kernel Drivers so I have some >idea of how >>> to write drivers now and want to get

Re: Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-15 Thread Ruben Safir
On 03/15/2015 08:55 AM, Levente Kurusa wrote: > Hello, Nick. > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:34:33AM -0400, nick wrote: >> Greetings All, >> After my terrible results before and getting banned from the list due to >> these results, >> I am wondering if there is

Re: Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-15 Thread Levente Kurusa
Hello, Nick. On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:34:33AM -0400, nick wrote: > Greetings All, > After my terrible results before and getting banned from the list due to > these results, > I am wondering if there is any work in the USB or Networking Subsystem I can > start with. > Furth

Re: Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-15 Thread Nicholas Krause
On March 15, 2015 5:07:12 AM EDT, "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: >On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, nick wrote: > >> Greetings All, > >> After my terrible results before and getting banned from the list >> due to these results, I am wondering if there is any work in the

Re: Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, nick wrote: > Greetings All, > After my terrible results before and getting banned from the list > due to these results, I am wondering if there is any work in the USB > or Networking Subsystem I can start with. Further more recently I > read Essential

Get Back Into Kernel Work

2015-03-14 Thread nick
Greetings All, After my terrible results before and getting banned from the list due to these results, I am wondering if there is any work in the USB or Networking Subsystem I can start with. Further more recently I read Essential Kernel Drivers so I have some idea of how to write drivers now

Linux and interrupts. How do they work?

2015-02-20 Thread Farm Dve
cific interrupt. My specific issue here is that I have a SoC that has an ARM cpu that runs the Linux kernel and everything else, but the SoC also has another chip that has a separate embedded arm CPU inside it running some ARM code, which when it has some work to send it issues an interrupt. And I am s

Re: Re: work queue

2014-11-25 Thread Arun KS
d dynamically, and is independent of the workqueue. The implementation is changed. You can start with this nice documentation of CMWQ, Documentation/workqueue.txt Thanks, Arun > it is expanded to "alloc_workqueue((name), WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1)" which means > it is not a UNB

Re:Re: work queue

2014-11-20 Thread 户户
Thank you for reply, Isn't this function 'create_workqueue("myfoo");' gonna create a new worker? it is expanded to "alloc_workqueue((name), WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1)" which means it is not a UNBOUND work queue. am I right? is "queue_work_on(get_cpu(), test_queu

Re: work queue

2014-11-19 Thread Dave Tian
You were not creating a new worker but using the generic kernel worker (kworker) to handle your work. Besides, there is no CPU bound for this work, which means any CPU is able to run the work. Dave Tian dave.jing.t...@gmail.com > On Nov 19, 2014, at 11:21 PM, 户户 <6563...@163.com&

work queue

2014-11-19 Thread 户户
I'm playing around with work_queue in my VMware workstation. but I hit a problem that the work is processed by [kworker/3:1] other than my work queue. static int __init test_init(void) { pr_info(" (*) test_init start - pid:%d. cpu:%d\n", current->pid, get_cpu()

Re: EPROBE_DEFER and how it is supposed to work

2014-09-09 Thread Real Name
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 06:26:27PM +, Rajat Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not a newbie, but I am trying to understand the semantics of deferred > probing. > > My question is generic, but for an example: > > Let's say I have a platform driver "A" for a device "a", that requires device > "b" (co

EPROBE_DEFER and how it is supposed to work

2014-09-09 Thread Rajat Jain
Hi, I'm not a newbie, but I am trying to understand the semantics of deferred probing. My question is generic, but for an example: Let's say I have a platform driver "A" for a device "a", that requires device "b" (controlled by driver "B") to be operational first. Both A &B can be built as pa

Re: Work (really slow directory access on ext4)

2014-08-06 Thread Nick Krause
space programs, such as mutt, do this. >> Unfortunately "ls" does not. (That might be a good newbie project, >> since it's a userspace-only project. However, I'm pretty sure the >> shellutils maintainers will also react negatively if they are sent >>

Re: Work (really slow directory access on ext4)

2014-08-06 Thread Arlie Stephens
s will also react negatively if they are sent > patches which don't compile. :-) > > A proof of concept of how this can be a win can be found here: > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/tree/contrib/spd_readdir.c > > LD_PRELOAD aren't guarantee

Re: Work (really slow directory access on ext4)

2014-08-06 Thread Theodore Ts'o
kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/tree/contrib/spd_readdir.c LD_PRELOAD aren't guaranteed to work on all programs, so this is much more of a hack than something I'd recommend for extended production use. But it shows that if you have a readdir+stat workload, sorting by inode makes a huge differe

Re: Work (really slow directory access on ext4)

2014-07-31 Thread Nick Krause
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Henry Hallam wrote: > Try redirecting the ls output to /dev/null or a file, thus disabling > its color highlighting and thus removing a bunch of syscalls. See if > it's now the same no matter what choice of 'time'. > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Arlie Stephe

Re: Work (really slow directory access on ext4)

2014-07-31 Thread Henry Hallam
Try redirecting the ls output to /dev/null or a file, thus disabling its color highlighting and thus removing a bunch of syscalls. See if it's now the same no matter what choice of 'time'. On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Arlie Stephens wrote: > Hi Nick, > > [Context - directory ls taking 4-15 s

Re: Work (really slow directory access on ext4)

2014-07-31 Thread Arlie Stephens
Hi Nick, [Context - directory ls taking 4-15 seconds; directory large, with long filenames, but nowhere near as huge as Valdis' mail directory.] I've now discovered a really bizarre pattern, and I'm inclined to stop blaming the file system until some clarity develops. If I ever get it to the poin

Re: Work (really slow directory access on ext4)

2014-07-30 Thread Nick Krause
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 3:48 PM, wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:38:13 -0700, Arlie Stephens said: > >> On the good side, Vladis' observations of his mail directory have been >> a great help. > > And remember, that's on a single laptop-class hard drive, no fancy raid or > anything. (Though it *is

Re: Work (really slow directory access on ext4)

2014-07-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:38:13 -0700, Arlie Stephens said: > On the good side, Vladis' observations of his mail directory have been > a great help. And remember, that's on a single laptop-class hard drive, no fancy raid or anything. (Though it *is* a hybrid, with 32G of flash cache on the front end

Re: Work (really slow directory access on ext4)

2014-07-30 Thread Arlie Stephens
Hi Nick, On Jul 29 2014, Nick Krause wrote: > >> I was doing a vanilla ls. So was the original reporter, unless he has > >> some really strange aliases. > >> > >> > >> I'm afraid I'll be rather unpopular if I drop the caches on the system > >> in question, creating a burst of poor performance, so

Re: Work (really slow directory access on ext4)

2014-07-29 Thread Nick Krause
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Nick Krause wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Arlie Stephens wrote: >> On Jul 25 2014, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >>> On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:23:42 -0700, Arlie Stephens said: >>> >>> > If you want an annoying problem, explain and/or fix directory >>> >

Re: Work

2014-07-26 Thread Lucas Tanure
> Yi > > -- > Lucas Tanure > +55 (19) 988176559 > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Nick Krause wrote: >> >> Is there any work for a kernel newbie that you guys known of? >> Cheers Nick >> >> ___ &

Re: Work

2014-07-26 Thread Yi Li
"Outstreach Program for Women". but I am a *boy*, could I do some works on this program ? regards, Yi -- Lucas Tanure +55 (19) 988176559 On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Nick Krause <mailto:xerofo...@gmail.com>> wrote: Is there any work for a kernel newbie that you guys k

Re: Work (really slow directory access on ext4)

2014-07-25 Thread Nick Krause
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Arlie Stephens wrote: > On Jul 25 2014, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:23:42 -0700, Arlie Stephens said: >> >> > If you want an annoying problem, explain and/or fix directory >> > performance on ext4. I've got a server where an ls of a dir

Re: Work (really slow directory access on ext4)

2014-07-25 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Jul 25 2014, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:23:42 -0700, Arlie Stephens said: > > > If you want an annoying problem, explain and/or fix directory > > performance on ext4. I've got a server where an ls of a directory took > > 5 seconds, according to "time", even though i

Re: Work

2014-07-25 Thread Nick Krause
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:35 PM, wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:23:42 -0700, Arlie Stephens said: > >> If you want an annoying problem, explain and/or fix directory >> performance on ext4. I've got a server where an ls of a directory took >> 5 seconds, according to "time", even though it only ha

Re: Work

2014-07-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:23:42 -0700, Arlie Stephens said: > If you want an annoying problem, explain and/or fix directory > performance on ext4. I've got a server where an ls of a directory took > 5 seconds, according to "time", even though it only has 295 entries at > present. I don't suppose you

Re: Work

2014-07-25 Thread Nick Krause
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Arlie Stephens wrote: > On Jul 25 2014, Nick Krause wrote: >> > But if nothing like that is jumping out at you, maybe you should go look >> > around and see if there's something in userspace that *does* jump out at >> > you. >> >> I am interested in file systems a

Re: Work

2014-07-25 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Jul 25 2014, Nick Krause wrote: > > But if nothing like that is jumping out at you, maybe you should go look > > around and see if there's something in userspace that *does* jump out at > > you. > > I am interested in file systems and will be working on brtfs and ext4. > Cheers Nick If you wa

Re: Work

2014-07-25 Thread Nick Krause
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:42 PM, wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:23:00 -0400, Nick Krause said: > >> I having been doing build tests and checkpatch in staging for the last month. >> It doesn't seem like it's worth my time as so my other people are doing it. I >> want an interesting project one th

Re: Work

2014-07-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:23:00 -0400, Nick Krause said: > I having been doing build tests and checkpatch in staging for the last month. > It doesn't seem like it's worth my time as so my other people are doing it. I > want an interesting project one that is challenging and rewarding :). OK. I'm gon

Re: Work

2014-07-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:03:36 +0530, ravi ranjan Mishra said: > How to make environment like (build and test) for working on kernel patch, > what are the resources should be available for that. > thanks. Depends on what exactly you're trying to do. If it involves hardware support, you'll need the

Re: Work

2014-07-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Nick Krause wrote: > I have already watched this and I have no idea on how to write the > docs as my knowledge of kernel subsystems is rather limited. um ... i think we've identified your problem, then. rday -- ===

Re: Work

2014-07-25 Thread Nick Krause
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Lucas Tanure wrote: > >> Hi, >> Watch : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4 >> >> Read : >> http://kernelnewbies.org/OPWfirstpatch >> http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelBuild >> http://lwn.net/Articles/571980/ >> >>

Re: Work

2014-07-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Lucas Tanure wrote: > Hi,  > Watch : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4 > > Read :  > http://kernelnewbies.org/OPWfirstpatch > http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelBuild  > http://lwn.net/Articles/571980/ > > Goal : Clone, build and run linux-next.  > > After that you can lo

Re: Work

2014-07-25 Thread Lucas Tanure
Jul 25, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Nick Krause wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Nick Krause wrote: >> > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Andev wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Nick Krause >> wrote: >> >>> Is th

Re: Work

2014-07-24 Thread ravi ranjan Mishra
ev wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Nick Krause > wrote: > >>> Is there any work for a kernel newbie that you guys known of? > >>> Cheers Nick > >>> > >> > >> Your first task will be reading and _understanding_ the f

Re: Work

2014-07-24 Thread Nick Krause
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Nick Krause wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Andev wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Nick Krause wrote: >>> Is there any work for a kernel newbie that you guys known of? >>> Cheers Nick >>> >&

Re: Work

2014-07-24 Thread Nick Krause
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Andev wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Nick Krause wrote: >> Is there any work for a kernel newbie that you guys known of? >> Cheers Nick >> > > Your first task will be reading and _understanding_ the following: > > Gre

Re: Work

2014-07-24 Thread Andev
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Nick Krause wrote: > Is there any work for a kernel newbie that you guys known of? > Cheers Nick > Your first task will be reading and _understanding_ the following: Greg Kroah-Hartman, "How to piss off a kernel subsystem maintainer". &l

Re: Work

2014-07-24 Thread Nick Krause
ure > +55 (19) 988176559 > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Nick Krause wrote: >> >> Is there any work for a kernel newbie that you guys known of? >> Cheers Nick >> >> ___ >> Kernelnewbies mailing list >

Re: Work

2014-07-24 Thread Lucas Tanure
any work for a kernel newbie that you guys known of? > Cheers Nick > > ___ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/l

Re: Work

2014-07-24 Thread Kristofer Hallin
Take a look at drivers/staging/. You will find something there to work on. On Jul 24, 2014 6:38 PM, "Nick Krause" wrote: > Is there any work for a kernel newbie that you guys known of? > Cheers Nick > > ___ > Kernelnewbies mai

Work

2014-07-24 Thread Nick Krause
Is there any work for a kernel newbie that you guys known of? Cheers Nick ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

module_param does not work in Ubuntu 13.10 - Kernel 3.10.0-4

2014-07-18 Thread dora babu
Hi Kernelnewbies, Subject : module_param does not work in Ubuntu 13.10 - Kernel 3.10.0-4 For the thread in your mailing list, I would like to suggest the person who posted question that he is not able to pass the parameters to the module in their product. I would like them to check the 'i

RE: Ctrl-C doesn't work in the shell

2014-04-08 Thread Chan Kim
: RE: Ctrl-C doesn't work in the shell Hi, Valids and others I saw the email replies only yesterday afternoon. Reading those and other internet posts, reallized my shell on the LCD is working as a console. (When I type tty, it responds with 'console'). So I set the boot argument

RE: Ctrl-C doesn't work in the shell

2014-04-08 Thread Chan Kim
13:49 ( +09:00 ) To : Chan Kim Cc : kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject : Re: Ctrl-C doesn't work in the shell On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:57:05 -, Chan Kim said: > When I'm on a sheel on LCD using USB keyboard, all works fine (except another > important problem..) but Ctrl-C ke

RE: Ctrl-C doesn't work in the shell

2014-04-01 Thread Jeff Haran
From: kernelnewbies-bounces+jharan=bytemobile@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces+jharan=bytemobile@kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Chan Kim Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 10:57 PM To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: Ctrl-C doesn't work in the shell Hi, When I

Re: Ctrl-C doesn't work in the shell

2014-04-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:57:05 -, Chan Kim said: > When I'm on a sheel on LCD using USB keyboard, all works fine (except another > important problem..) but Ctrl-C key doesn't work. > When I press ctrl-C, '^C' is displayed on the screen (prompt line), but > do

Re: Ctrl-C doesn't work in the shell

2014-04-01 Thread Paweł Tomaszewski
signal. This is very brutal way of closing process, but sometimes it's the only option. Cheers, crooveck 2014-04-01 7:57 GMT+02:00 Chan Kim : > > Hi, > When I'm on a sheel on LCD using USB keyboard, all works fine (except > another important problem..) but Ctrl-C key d

Ctrl-C doesn't work in the shell

2014-03-31 Thread Chan Kim
Hi, When I'm on a sheel on LCD using USB keyboard, all works fine (except another important problem..) but Ctrl-C key doesn't work. When I press ctrl-C, '^C' is displayed on the screen (prompt line), but doesn't have the effect of killing the job. For example, I st

Re: Ordering / preemption of work in a workqueue preempt?

2013-11-18 Thread anish singh
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Arun KS wrote: > Hi Rajat, > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Rajat Jain wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a single work queue, on which I have scheduled a worker function >> [using queue_work(wq, fn)] in interrupt context. >>

Re: Ordering / preemption of work in a workqueue preempt?

2013-11-18 Thread Arun KS
Hi Rajat, On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Rajat Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I have a single work queue, on which I have scheduled a worker function > [using queue_work(wq, fn)] in interrupt context. > > I get the interrupt twice before the work queue gets a chance to run, and

Re: Ordering / preemption of work in a workqueue preempt?

2013-11-16 Thread anish singh
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Rajat Sharma wrote: > Hi Rajat, > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Rajat Jain wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a single work queue, on which I have scheduled a worker function >> [using queue_work(wq, fn)] in interrup

Re: Ordering / preemption of work in a workqueue preempt?

2013-11-15 Thread anish singh
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Rajat Sharma wrote: > Hi Rajat, > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Rajat Jain wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a single work queue, on which I have scheduled a worker function >> [using queue_work(wq, fn)] in interrup

Re: Ordering / preemption of work in a workqueue preempt?

2013-11-15 Thread Rajat Sharma
Hi Rajat, On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Rajat Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I have a single work queue, on which I have scheduled a worker function > [using queue_work(wq, fn)] in interrupt context. > > I get the interrupt twice before the work queue gets a chance to run, an

Ordering / preemption of work in a workqueue preempt?

2013-11-15 Thread Rajat Jain
Hi, I have a single work queue, on which I have scheduled a worker function [using queue_work(wq, fn)] in interrupt context. I get the interrupt twice before the work queue gets a chance to run, and hence the same function will get queued twice (with different private context - arguments etc

RE: system call does not work

2013-10-10 Thread binoy.jayan
+91-9742870916, +91-9745783048 From: kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org [kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org] on behalf of Ulka Vaze [ulka.v...@l2it.com] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 4:47 PM To: Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: system ca

system call does not work

2013-10-10 Thread Ulka Vaze
Hi All, I have Implemented sample system call on tree 3.4.6 Following are the steps i did - - >I created directory hello in kernel sources base directory i.e /usr/src/kernels/linux3.4.6/hello -> I have created hello.c file in which i added system call definition #include asmlinkage long sys_hell

system call does not work

2013-10-09 Thread Ulka Vaze
Hi All, I have Implemented sample system call on tree 3.4.6 Following are the steps i did - - >I created directory hello in kernel sources base directory i.e /usr/src/kernels/linux3.4.6/hello -> I have created hello.c file in which i added system call definition #include asmlinkage long sys_hell

Re: module_param does not work in Ubuntu 13.10 - Kernel 3.10.0-4

2013-09-06 Thread Sudip Mukherjee
3.04 > Codename: raring > > Regards > Sudip > > > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:47 PM, wrote: > >> Hi Srinivas, >> >> Thank you for the inputs. The modules works fine with the kernels that >> come with Ubuntu 10.04, 11.04, 12.04 and 12.10. >>

RE: module_param does not work in Ubuntu 13.10 - Kernel 3.10.0-4

2013-09-06 Thread binoy.jayan
Hi Srinivas, Thank you for the inputs. The modules works fine with the kernels that come with Ubuntu 10.04, 11.04, 12.04 and 12.10. But, we are supporting a product for every latest Ubuntu versions. So, I need to make it work with the kernel which comes with the distro alone. So I cannot use a

Re: module_param does not work in Ubuntu 13.10 - Kernel 3.10.0-4

2013-09-06 Thread Srinivas Ganji
I have also tested, build KO file using your C file, on my kernel and it is working fine. The kernel version is 3.2.11 Why don't you try any other kernel version and see whether you are getting same error or not? I guess, it works. Regards, Srinivas G On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:22 AM, wrote: >

Re: module_param does not work in Ubuntu 13.10 - Kernel 3.10.0-4

2013-09-05 Thread sanmukh rao
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: sanmukh rao [i.sanm...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 10:37 AM > > To: Binoy Jayan (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech) > > Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > > Subject: Re: mo

RE: module_param does not work in Ubuntu 13.10 - Kernel 3.10.0-4

2013-09-05 Thread binoy.jayan
ufacturing & Hi Tech) Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: Re: module_param does not work in Ubuntu 13.10 - Kernel 3.10.0-4 I have kernel 3.11.0-rc7 and it seems to be working fine. Are you sure the file attached is the correct one or there is no typo? See the output which I got

Re: module_param does not work in Ubuntu 13.10 - Kernel 3.10.0-4

2013-09-05 Thread sanmukh rao
I have kernel 3.11.0-rc7 and it seems to be working fine. Are you sure the file attached is the correct one or there is no typo? See the output which I got compiling your file and loading it as a module in the attachment. Thanks, Sanmukh On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:52 PM, wrote: > Hi all, > > I u

module_param does not work in Ubuntu 13.10 - Kernel 3.10.0-4

2013-09-05 Thread binoy.jayan
Hi all, I use the kernel version "3.10.0-4" that came with Ubuntu distribution. When I compile the example module I got from LKMPG (hello-5.c) and try to load the driver by passing the module with the following command, it gives the following error: # insmod parameter.ko mystring="bebop" Erro

Re: How is gpio_keys.ko supposed to work?

2013-03-30 Thread Sven Geggus
Jerry Zhang wrote: > The entry will only be created after the "Driver" probes the "Device" > successfully. In your case, you need to be sure the corresponding > platform_device is claimed in your board setup code. What does claiming the device actually mean? Do I really need to hardcode the GPIO

Re: How is gpio_keys.ko supposed to work?

2013-03-29 Thread Jerry Zhang
"gpio_keys", respectively. Use those > instead of talking directly to the GPIOs; they integrate with kernel > frameworks better than your userspace code could. > > So how can I make this "standard kernel drivers" work? > > I would like to get rid of using /sys/

How is gpio_keys.ko supposed to work?

2013-03-28 Thread Sven Geggus
integrate with kernel frameworks better than your userspace code could. So how can I make this "standard kernel drivers" work? I would like to get rid of using /sys/class/gpio/gpioX/value and use /dev/input/eventX instead, because the first method will require debouncing in userland and

Re: schedular / NUMA projects to work on

2013-02-03 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Shraddha Kamat wrote: > I am interested to work on schedular/ NUMA projects but I don't have > high end hardware to test the results - is there any way (like not sure > but - virtualization etc.) I can do it on > a quad core single socket machine

schedular / NUMA projects to work on

2013-01-31 Thread Shraddha Kamat
I am interested to work on schedular/ NUMA projects but I don't have high end hardware to test the results - is there any way (like not sure but - virtualization etc.) I can do it on a quad core single socket machine that I have. -- Shr

some janitorial work -- fixing kernel-doc content

2012-10-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
if some folks want some janitorial work for the fun of it, consider cleaning up some of the kernel-doc content scattered throughout the source files. if you don't know what that is, you can generate manuals from the embedded kernel-doc content with variations of: $ make htmldocs $

more on work queues -- why is deprecated "flush_scheduled_work" still used?

2012-10-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
flushed */ ... snip ... is there anything that talks about the current state of this kernel-wide work queue, and the proper way to use it? it certainly seems like anyone (including drivers) that truly need a work queue should be creating

Re: How does I/O ports work in linux kernel

2012-10-04 Thread Manavendra Nath Manav
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Vineel Reddy wrote: > Hi All, > > I have read about I/O ports recently from many recommended books for linux. > Each of the book effectively taught me only two things > 1. Reserving the I/O ports using request_region(...) function > 2. Then access the I/O ports usin

freelance kernel work

2012-04-26 Thread Christopher Harvey
I'm not looking for work, nor do I have any work for others. I'm just curious if there is a central location where freelance kernel developers hang out. I've never seen any email on mailing lists like "I have some hardware and want somebody to write a kernel module for it"

Re: Open to work for any kernel module

2012-04-26 Thread Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Anil Varma Biruduraju < anilvarm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Anuz, > >Thanks for the reply.. > >I looked at the Kernel janitors web link but dont know > where to start I see coding standards and wondering what to do... > >

Re: Open to work for any kernel module

2012-04-23 Thread Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Anil Varma Biruduraju < anilvarm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Please let me know if I can start working on some > kernel modules. > Thank you. > > Try to look up in kernel janitors. _

Open to work for any kernel module

2012-04-22 Thread Anil Varma Biruduraju
Hi All, Please let me know if I can start working on some kernel modules. Thank you. Regards, Anil Varma B. ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: drm/i915 can't work without intel_agp module

2011-12-06 Thread Nick Minter
11 03:54 PM, ashish anand wrote: Hi I am using fedora 16 and trying to compile linux kernel 3.0.4 .Everything seems to be fine but when i am trying to boot through my kernel 3.0.4 it is throwing error drm/i915 can't work without intel_agp module. Now what i could figure out is

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