Re: coming shortly: series of simple kernel questions i should know the answers to

2015-04-01 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:38:22AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:21:38AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: a lot of the early questions will be based on clarifying details of the driver model, as the current documentation

coming shortly: series of simple kernel questions i should know the answers to

2015-04-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
the lead-in: for the purposes of updating a pile of my existing kernel tutorials and courseware (and writing new material), i'm digging into the source to document numerous concepts from beginning to end, and i'm not surprised when i trip over all sorts of things that are fairly simple but i

Re: coming shortly: series of simple kernel questions i should know the answers to

2015-04-01 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:21:38AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: a lot of the early questions will be based on clarifying details of the driver model, as the current documentation under Documentation/driver-model/ is somewhat out of date so i desperately need to put together something far

Re: coming shortly: series of simple kernel questions i should know the answers to

2015-04-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:21:38AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: a lot of the early questions will be based on clarifying details of the driver model, as the current documentation under Documentation/driver-model/ is somewhat out of date so i