Re: final proposal for online kernel programmers' beginner course

2010-06-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, julie Sullivan wrote: > ... In a kernel-building article you could, say, also describe how > to checkout and build a particular kernel version from your repo. If > this is too much work though git is pretty well documented for > people to work this out. :-) i've already done

my apologies for that last post

2010-06-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
that was inappropriately self-serving and i won't do it again. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page:

this is what you call "street cred"

2010-06-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
http://twitter.com/rlove/status/15786645894 yeah, i'm showing off. deal with it. :-) rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel

linux scatterlist api

2010-06-09 Thread Balachandar
Hello, I have been trying to understand and use the scatterlist api's in Linux. I searched but couldn't find any clear document on it. If anybody have some link to know on the usage of these api's, please pass it on to me. Thank you... Thanks, Bala

Re: When and how to use ftrace?

2010-06-09 Thread Ryan Wang
2010/6/9 Neependra Khare : > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Ryan Wang wrote: >> >> I really want to know is the differences between ftrace and other kernel >> debug >> tools such as kdump, kdb, etc. > > Lets say you want to know what ext2/ext3/ext4 functions are called when you > run mkdir c

Re: When and how to use ftrace?

2010-06-09 Thread Ryan Wang
2010/6/9 wu zhangjin : > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Ryan Wang wrote: > [...] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ >>> >>> >> >> Seems f

Re: memory limit/quota per user

2010-06-09 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 01:27, Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi wrote: > what could be possible with cgroups ... any resource on how to use cgroups ? Please check cgroups folder under Documentation folder of the Linux source kernel tree. I believe it's all explained there. -- regards, Mulyadi S