Re: Beginner books/articles/papers for Filesystems

2010-11-03 Thread Anand Arumugam
Try Maurice J Bach's book. On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Sankar P sankar.curios...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Are there any articles or books or whitepapers that are useful for understanding the basics of filesystems (like what are extents, backing-device-infos, caching etc.) ? I dont want a

Re: Working with Ubuntu Linux

2010-10-11 Thread Anand Arumugam
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Rags Linux linux.r...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have installed WinXp (32 Bit), Windows 7 (64 Bit) and Ubuntu (10.4) on my Pentium i5 machine. My monitor is Dell 2010M flat 20 inch wide screen. When I boot Ubuntu I dont see the classic messages I used to

Re: final proposal for online kernel programmers' beginner course

2010-06-08 Thread Anand Arumugam
Awesome! On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.cawrote: here: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Online_beginner%27s_kernel_programming_course i'll probably be tweaking it for a while today based on stuff i've forgotten, but that's pretty much the

Re: USB detection

2010-02-10 Thread Anand Arumugam
Not sure if 'lsusb' is what you are looking for?!?!? On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Anoop anoop.chargo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List, My system has two USB ports. And I want to know, what is the way to find, to which USB port the device is plugged in. Moreover what type of device is it.

Re: Fwd: Embedded Linux development

2010-01-06 Thread Anand Arumugam
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.cawrote: On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, topon topaz wrote: Hi Pavan, you can give a look at the OpenMoko FreeRunner. It's a Linux phone powered by a Samsung S3C2442 ARM CPU. It has USB, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, SD card,

Re: question about __v annotation

2010-01-04 Thread Anand Arumugam
I think the last __v; inside the macro is to avoid compiler warning or error that the unsigned 8-bit variable __v is not being used inside the scope defined by the macro. On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Shawn cit...@gmail.com wrote: hello guys, I got a newbie confused when I was looking into

Re: question about __v annotation

2010-01-04 Thread Anand Arumugam
for the unused variable __v within the scope defined by { ... } and an error if the macro is used as rvalue. cheers, anand. On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Robin Randhawa robin.randh...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:49:09AM -0500, Anand Arumugam wrote: I think the last __v; inside

Re: why there is ktype ?

2009-11-10 Thread Anand Arumugam
if you have not seen this article, i think it might have some answers for you. http://lwn.net/Articles/266722/ hope it helps... On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:18 AM, er krishna erkris...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, Can anybody give me some very good and clear reasons that why kobjects even

Re: @listadmin: i got blacklisted

2009-10-15 Thread Anand Arumugam
You message just came thru via the newbies email list... On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Matze mensch0...@so36.net wrote: This message is for the list-admin, sorry for the inconvenience. I'm subscribed to the list via my mail-address mensch0...@gmail.com But I can't write to the list, I

Re: development/hacking environment reg.

2009-09-30 Thread Anand Arumugam
VirtualBox itself? Cheers, -Anand. On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Michal Ludvig mlud...@logix.net.nz wrote: Anand Arumugam wrote: what is the normal environment that is used by most of the kernel hackers and developers? do they have a dedicated pc for this work and have a separate pc

development/hacking environment reg.

2009-09-29 Thread Anand Arumugam
hi all, i just started learning about linux kernel hacking. pardon me if this question was already asked. if yes, please point me to the archived mail on this subject. question: as of now, i have only one pc (dell dimension 3000). i've dual booted it with windows. in the kernelnewbies faqs i