On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 03:46 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Manish Katiyar wrote:
Linux kernel development - Robert Love has a nice detailed
explaination of it.
ironically, that's the very book i have open in front of me at the
moment and which is confusing me, since
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 06:41 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
snip
(Code snippets in my email are based on 2.6.22.6)
so ELEMCOUNT() is clearly just an alternative to the more common
ARRAY_SIZE() macro. but calling the macro SCTP_CHUNKMAP_IS_CLEAR()
pretty clearly assumes that you can
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:10 -0700, Talib Alium wrote:
2.6.11. I know it is old, but I need to understand reason behind it.
Talib
Please don't top-post.
I still can't find the BUG you're referring to. In 2.6.11, module.h,
line 355, I have:
void symbol_put_addr(void *addr);
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:47 -0700, Talib Alium wrote:
My driver is getting this error, as a result test application gets a
signal and is killed.
I am pretty sure that reference count is not zero. Actually I have
try_module_get(THIS_MODULE);
in init_module.
Talib
Could you tell us
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 16:23 +0530, pradeep singh wrote:
On 8/14/07, arshad hussain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
then why is memcpy present in the sources can't we
simply do
#define memcpy memmove in include/linux/string.h
or am I missing something?
I don't know but memcpy
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 14:25 +0100, hari krishna angadi wrote:
hi all,
i am porting user code to kernel code.time() functions is
used which prints the time in seconds.i want the respective call in
kernel ?
Here is how you figure it out:
- time() is a system call. In general, if you
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 14:08 -0400, Jug Venkatesh wrote:
Hi,
I am writing new system calls for a security project, and I was
wondering if there is any way to specify whether they will be accessible
from user space or kernel space.
System calls are by definition called only from user-space.
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 19:12 +0900, NAHieu wrote:
Hello,
Given a file pointer (struct file *), what is the most effecient way
to find out the pid of the process that manages this file pointer?
I look into the file structure, but still havent seen any way to do that.
There is one
