Re: Getting driver module name from device node?

2010-06-22 Thread arshad hussain
lshal command can spit out some interesting stuff too. This is what i got for my network card. Thanks -- snip --- udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_169c' info.linux.driver = 'tg3' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_4371' (string) info.product =

Re: which window manager?

2010-06-22 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Dear Narendranath On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 02:28, Narendranath Ghosh ghosh.narendran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What is the window manager used in GNOME and KDE? Excuse me, but are you aware that this is a kernel related mailing list? Please direct your question to appropriate forum next

Re: Analyzing Linux Kernel

2010-06-22 Thread andi
Since VxWorks is a real-time operating system you might want to compare it with rt_preempt patched linux kernel, so the appropriate link would be: https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page you can also find a number of tests and benchmarks there. If you need more information on real-time

compelling reason to *not* select proc filesystem for kernel?

2010-06-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm in the middle of writing a lesson regarding the proc filesystem and i was wondering about any compelling reasons to *not* select the proc filesystem for the kernel you're building if you're working with a fairly new kernel source tree. the only reason i can come up with is if you're

Re: compelling reason to *not* select proc filesystem for kernel?

2010-06-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Srdjan Todorovic wrote: Hi, On 22 June 2010 14:15, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  i'm in the middle of writing a lesson regarding the proc filesystem and i was wondering about any compelling reasons to *not* select the proc filesystem for the kernel

Re: compelling reason to *not* select proc filesystem for kernel?

2010-06-22 Thread Srdjan Todorovic
Hi, On 22 June 2010 14:15, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  i'm in the middle of writing a lesson regarding the proc filesystem and i was wondering about any compelling reasons to *not* select the proc filesystem for the kernel you're building if you're working with a fairly

Re: compelling reason to *not* select proc filesystem for kernel?

2010-06-22 Thread Shaz
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Srdjan Todorovic todorovi...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, On 22 June 2010 14:15, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: i'm in the middle of writing a lesson regarding the proc filesystem and i was wondering about any compelling reasons to *not*

Re: Usage of leading underscore in linux kernel code.

2010-06-22 Thread StephanT
Hi Fabian, ... the convention in many systems is to use a leading underscore for low level functions that do little validation and should therefore not be used directly. Thank you for the kind explanation. I wasn't aware about this low_level vs. leading_underscore convention. Make

Re: Usage of leading underscore in linux kernel code.

2010-06-22 Thread Shaz
... the convention in many systems is to use a leading underscore for low level functions that do little validation and should therefore not be used directly. Thank you for the kind explanation. I wasn't aware about this low_level vs. leading_underscore convention. VS. ? Make

Re: Usage of leading underscore in linux kernel code.

2010-06-22 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Shaz shazal...@gmail.com wrote: ... the convention in many systems is to use a leading underscore for low level functions that do little validation and should therefore not be used directly. Thank you for the kind explanation. I wasn't aware about this

Re: Usage of leading underscore in linux kernel code.

2010-06-22 Thread Shaz
I didn't write it, but as a native speaker: vs. == versus In this case, that's not actually a great choice of words, but it read fine the first time I read it. lol :) I meant that the vs. was not getting the answer into the right form. It might be that Stephen is getting the thing

what port does git uses

2010-06-22 Thread Tapas Mishra
I am running following command which is giving error git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trovalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6 Initialized empty Git repository in /home/tapas/LKP/pandora/linux-2.6/.git/ fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Some one suggested me to check my

Re: what port does git uses

2010-06-22 Thread George Kadianakis
Tapas Mishra mightydre...@gmail.com writes: I am running following command which is giving error git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trovalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6 Initialized empty Git repository in /home/tapas/LKP/pandora/linux-2.6/.git/ fatal: The remote end hung