looking for decent summary of kernel debugging primitives

2011-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm getting ready to teach a basic device drivers course in a couple weeks with someone else's courseware and i just wanted to bring some sections up to date. there's one section on basic debugging that covers printk() as well as other topics from LDD3 such as printk_ratelimit(), setting the

Re: looking for decent summary of kernel debugging primitives

2011-05-02 Thread Eduardo Silva
for specific printk i would suggest to check the source header: include/linux/printk.h On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.cawrote: i'm getting ready to teach a basic device drivers course in a couple weeks with someone else's courseware and i just

Clarification regarding design of a device.

2011-05-02 Thread mindentropy
Hi, I have say a crypto device and if I pass a data stream assuming echo test /dev/aes and when I read it I get an encrypted output. Now if a program opens the same device twice should and pass different streams should I differentiate those 2 streams and have encrypted buffers of these 2

Re: looking for decent summary of kernel debugging primitives

2011-05-02 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 10:31:54PM +0530, Vikram Narayanan wrote: i'm getting ready to teach a basic device drivers course in a couple weeks with someone else's courseware and i just wanted to bring some sections up to date. there's one section on basic debugging that covers printk() as

Re: looking for decent summary of kernel debugging primitives

2011-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 2 May 2011, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 10:31:54PM +0530, Vikram Narayanan wrote: i'm getting ready to teach a basic device drivers course in a couple weeks with someone else's courseware and i just wanted to bring some sections up to date. there's one section on

Re: Clarification regarding design of a device.

2011-05-02 Thread mindentropy
On Monday 02 May 2011 10:58:45 PM Mulyadi Santosa wrote: I am not keen regarding char/block device management, but I think you should separate those streams. How? Well, same thing like you open a same file twice, right? You're given two different file descriptor. After all, the open, read

Kernel compilation

2011-05-02 Thread Ezequiel García
Greetings,After reading Linux Kernel in a Nutshell (by the way, great book), I now have my own kernel configured for my hardware needs.  However, I have some really strange behavior. On tty1, the same tty that launches X11, I have to press twice each keyboard key. Anyone has any idea what's

Fwd: Sleep and Wake up

2011-05-02 Thread Abu Rasheda
I am testing my driver on much faster host processor and facing following issues: My host is too powerful and it can fill up device buffer queue very fast. What kind of device is this? its a networking device It sounds like a broken device, you need to be able to handle large data

Please recommend linux network kernel books...

2011-05-02 Thread J.Hwan.Kim
Hi, everyone Could you please recommend books on linux network stack of 2.6 Kernel? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, J.Hwan Kim ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org