Re: Need info on input keys

2009-07-06 Thread seshikanth varma
Adding bug-b...@gnu.org in loop Thanks, On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:11 PM, SandeepKsinha wrote: > Hi Shashikanth, > > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:54 PM, seshikanth > varma wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I need to implement history feature in an emulated shell environment. I > need > > to read keys pre

Re: Need info on input keys

2009-07-06 Thread SandeepKsinha
Hi Shashikanth, On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:54 PM, seshikanth varma wrote: > Hi All, > > I need to implement history feature in an emulated shell environment. I need > to read keys present in the keyboard and define handler for each key. For > example, Up arrow gives the previous command in the his

Re: help with ext3 reserved inode

2009-07-06 Thread SandeepKsinha
Hi Donato, On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Donato Capitella wrote: > Ok, this is what I want to do. > > I'm developing a patch to ext3; this patch uses a queue of structures > representing tasks to be performed and a separated kernel thread that > reads the structures from the queue as they beco

RE: alsa module snd-hda-codec-realtek not loading

2009-07-06 Thread Sudheer Divakaran
Hello, I was also facing a similar issue with snd_hda_intel & realtek codec under FC11. I have created a file /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf with the following line & rebooted the pc & that fixed my issue. options snd_hda_intel model=auto If you look at the log of the

Re: help with ext3 reserved inode

2009-07-06 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Donato Capitella wrote: > Ok, this is what I want to do. > > I'm developing a patch to ext3; this patch uses a queue of structures > representing tasks to be performed and a separated kernel thread that > reads the structures from the queue as they become available a

Re: help with ext3 reserved inode

2009-07-06 Thread Donato Capitella
Ok, this is what I want to do. I'm developing a patch to ext3; this patch uses a queue of structures representing tasks to be performed and a separated kernel thread that reads the structures from the queue as they become available and performs the required task on the filesystem. So, if the sys

Re: help with ext3 reserved inode

2009-07-06 Thread Manish Katiyar
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Donato Capitella wrote: > Ok, this is what I want to do. > > I'm developing a patch to ext3; this patch uses a queue of structures > representing tasks to be performed and a separated kernel thread that > reads the structures from the queue as they become available

Need info on input keys

2009-07-06 Thread seshikanth varma
Hi All, I need to implement history feature in an emulated shell environment. I need to read keys present in the keyboard and define handler for each key. For example, Up arrow gives the previous command in the history. Can u please tell me how to make a start? -- Thanks,

Freeing kernel memory

2009-07-06 Thread Abraham Arce
Hi, I am looking for a way to free memory once we have created/transfer data. The purpose is to create one file under a specific device, then transfer it to another device while getting the performance, this way we could have performance measurements among mtd <> mmc/sd <> ram <> usb sync is ou

Re: help with ext3 reserved inode

2009-07-06 Thread Manish Katiyar
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Donato Capitella wrote: [ Please keep kernelnewbies in cc while replying ] > Well, I tried to initialize the inode 3 with debugfs, but nothing > changed. I just set the file mode and the creation but when I try to > read the inode with the ext3_iget() function, som

Re: wasn't EXPORT_SYMTAB tossed quite some time back?

2009-07-06 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >  i can't find an explicit reference, but wasn't EXPORT_SYMTAB removed > from the kernel a while ago? seems so, at least that's what I had seen through lxr browsing. It is now replaced by kallsyms_lookup, no? regards, Mulyadi. -- To un

RE: alsa module snd-hda-codec-realtek not loading

2009-07-06 Thread sky knight
Hello,  I was also facing a similar issue with snd_hda_intel & realtek codec under FC11. I have created a file /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf with the following line & rebooted the pc & that fixed my issue. options snd_hda_intel model=auto If you look at the log of the kernel which detects

Re: Debug early kernel stages

2009-07-06 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi... On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:04 PM, luca ellero wrote: > Hi all, > I'm trying to debug/trace early stages of kernel boot on x86 (just for fun > and learning). I mean very first stages when CPU is still in real-mode. > Since tools like printk/kdb/kgdb are not available at this early stages, the >

Re: what's the state of the kernelnewbies FAQ these days?

2009-07-06 Thread Jim Cromie
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Jim Cromie wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Robert P. J. Day >> wrote: >>> On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, SandeepKsinha wrote: >>> Hi Robert, It does really makes a lot of sense to rectify such iss

Re: what's the state of the kernelnewbies FAQ these days?

2009-07-06 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Jim Cromie wrote: > On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: >> On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, SandeepKsinha wrote: >> >>> Hi Robert, >>> >>> It does really makes a lot of sense to rectify such issues. It >>> really discourages any newbie who starts kernel pr

Debug early kernel stages

2009-07-06 Thread luca ellero
Hi all, I'm trying to debug/trace early stages of kernel boot on x86 (just for fun and learning). I mean very first stages when CPU is still in real-mode. Since tools like printk/kdb/kgdb are not available at this early stages, the best solution I found is using the debug program freedos with f

Re: what's the state of the kernelnewbies FAQ these days?

2009-07-06 Thread Jim Cromie
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, SandeepKsinha wrote: > >> Hi Robert, >> >> It does really makes a lot of sense to rectify such issues. It >> really discourages any newbie who starts kernel programming. >> >> Should we copy the linux-kernel folks to hav

Re: what's the state of the kernelnewbies FAQ these days?

2009-07-06 Thread Jim Cromie
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, SandeepKsinha wrote: > >> Hi Robert, >> >> It does really makes a lot of sense to rectify such issues. It >> really discourages any newbie who starts kernel programming. >> >> Should we copy the linux-kernel folks to hav