put a message and wait a key on kernel boot

2011-11-14 Thread Albert Wesker
i am trying to put a message editing the file ¨e820.c¨ to put i use printk(), but i dont know how do for wait until the user press a key ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org

FIQ support in Linux Kernel

2011-11-14 Thread Konstantin Zertsekel
Intro: basically, I tried to post this question to linux-arm-kernel-requ...@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, but the email just fails to reach the server or something... :-( Following the FIQ disscussion here: http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg14959.html and here:

Generic I/O

2011-11-14 Thread Kai Meyer
I'm finding it's really simple to write generic I/O functions for block devices (via a struct block_device) to mimic the posix read() and write() functions (I have to supply the position, since I don't have a fd to keep a position for me, but that's perfectly ok). I've got a little hack that

Re: contribute to linux kernel

2011-11-14 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 05:35:38PM -0500, Mayank Agarwal wrote: Hi all, I have just joined the kernelnewbies.I want to contribute to linux kernel or to any of the open source ongoing projects.Has good experience in c,c++ and linux programming. Please suggest how can i go about that.

Re: Locking IOCTL

2011-11-14 Thread Dave Hylands
Hi Praveen, On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Praveen kumar chatpr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have a situation where I have to lock the ioctl provided in my driver. I have a uni processor (ARM) system. I am using Mutex as the lock for my ioctl. DEFINE_MUTEX(lock_ioctl); MyIoctl() {