RE: crap, i think LKD3 explains linked list head nodes incorrectly ...

2010-11-22 Thread Bruce Blinn
> > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Bruce Blinn wrote: > > > New task structures are added into the list in kernel/fork.c (line > > 1743 in my source). > > that's not what i see here, can you reproduce the few lines > at that point? i had assumed it was in fork.

RE: crap, i think LKD3 explains linked list head nodes incorrectly ...

2010-11-21 Thread Bruce Blinn
> > > that also suggests that a passage on p. 91 of LKD3 is > inaccurate, > > > where it claims that "because the lists are circular, you can > > > generally pass any element for head." but that can't be right, > > > since you must *always* keep track of the head node for > any list, to >

RE: crap, i think LKD3 explains linked list head nodes incorrectly ...

2010-11-21 Thread Bruce Blinn
> > that also suggests that a passage on p. 91 of LKD3 is > inaccurate, where it claims that "because the lists are > circular, you can generally pass any element for head." but > that can't be right, since you must *always* keep track of > the head node for any list, to avoid processing it

RE: Making /proc/kallsyms readable only by root

2010-11-06 Thread Bruce Blinn
> > if permissions are 700 or 400 who cares you need root to do > either and at that point if its 400 can't you just chmod 700 > /dev/kallsyms. or am I missing something here? > For files in the /proc file system, it is not that simple since they need to have a function to handle the write req

RE: Not able to boot Linux-2.6.33.2

2010-04-28 Thread Bruce Blinn
-Original Message- From: kernelnewbies-bou...@nl.linux.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bou...@nl.linux.org] On Behalf Of Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 5:11 AM To: Srdjan Todorovic Cc: Mukesh Yadav; kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Subject: Re: Not able to boot Linux-2.6.33.2 I

RE: question about __v annotation

2010-01-05 Thread Bruce Blinn
> -Original Message- > From: kernelnewbies-bou...@nl.linux.org > [mailto:kernelnewbies-bou...@nl.linux.org] On Behalf Of Greg KH > Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 1:27 PM > To: Shawn > Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org > Subject: Re: question about __v annotation > > > On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 a

RE: Building a kernel and configuration items

2009-02-17 Thread Bruce Blinn
-Original Message- From: kernelnewbies-bou...@nl.linux.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bou...@nl.linux.org] On Behalf Of Henrik Austad Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:52 AM To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Cc: Daniel Baluta; Kevin Wilson Subject: Re: Building a kernel and configuration items