Re: version number of Linux kernel development

2017-08-01 Thread Kamil Konieczny
until EOL (end-of-life) for example, there is now 4.4.79 branch as i see this, some branches are selected to be "longterm", and they get the same set patches -- Best regards, Kamil Konieczny Samsung R Institute Poland ___ Kernelnewbies mai

Re: GRUB always enters a rescue shell.

2017-07-17 Thread Kamil Konieczny
th disk configuration, like loop1 is using linear mode, and bochs uses incompatible one (? i am not sure here) then bios geometry is mixing up sectors sequence or in step 3: > sudo losetup -o $((2048*512)) /dev/loop1 hd.img should'nt it be 63*512 ? Regards, Kamil Konieczny _

Re: Need help to understand Linux kernel source versioning systems

2017-07-25 Thread Kamil Konieczny
On 24.07.2017 14:56, vibnwis wrote: > Being a newbie, I encountered the following scenarios when tracing > build_kernel.sh script from eewiki. Would someone help me to understand why > please? From my experience, I would to summarize the following scenario. > > 1. First, source is cloned from >

Re: GRUB always enters a rescue shell.

2017-07-24 Thread Kamil Konieczny
tion-start-on-sector-2048-instead-of-63 it is for new hard disks, here it conflicts with geometry used: >>>> fdisk -u -C100 -S63 -H16 hd.img and maybe conflicts with Bochs BIOS options or disk geometry options ? -- Best regards, Kamil Konieczny Samsung R Institute Poland __

Re: building af_packet as a kernel module

2017-07-03 Thread Kamil Konieczny
On 03.07.2017 16:02, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote: > [...] > enable internet by running : /sbin/ifconfig etho0 down sudo /sbin/ifconfig eno1 up or eth0 or whatever your system names its ethernet devices > [...] List net interfaces with: sudo /sbin/ifconfig -- Best regards, Kamil

Re: building af_packet as a kernel module

2017-07-03 Thread Kamil Konieczny
in use > > I want to be able to rmmod it, for adding debug printing, etc. > [...] I googled this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/448999/is-there-a-way-to-figure-out-what-is-using-a-linux-kernel-module and short answer is to use 'lsof' command (ls open files), if lsmod fails to

Re: How to alloc_pages from a given physical memory?

2017-07-06 Thread Kamil Konieczny
h allocation anywhere else. What should I do? On what platform are you working ? I think this is platfrom depended. -- Best regards, Kamil Konieczny Samsung R Institute Poland ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kerne

Re: How to alloc_pages from a given physical memory?

2017-07-06 Thread Kamil Konieczny
;>>> Here I want to allocate a block of shared memory from a given physical >>>>> address, such as 0x9000, 6M. However, alloc_pages can't fit this >>>>> point. I had reserved enugh pages via cmem, there also have enough >>>>> continous pages for suc

Re: How to alloc_pages from a given physical memory?

2017-07-06 Thread Kamil Konieczny
is well beyond newbie, you may find help on vendor forum, i guess it is TI (Texas Instruments) Sitara SoC, google search gives first hit: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/CMEM_Overview -- Best regards, Kamil Konieczny Samsung R Institute Poland __

Re: How to alloc_pages from a given physical memory?

2017-07-06 Thread Kamil Konieczny
ysical >>> address, such as 0x9000, 6M. However, alloc_pages can't fit this >>> point. I had reserved enugh pages via cmem, there also have enough >>> continous pages for such allocation anywhere else. What should I do? -- Best regard

Re: How to alloc_pages from a given physical memory?

2017-07-06 Thread Kamil Konieczny
as 0x9000, 6M. [...] >> >> it is well beyond newbie, you may find help on vendor forum, >> i guess it is TI (Texas Instruments) Sitara SoC, >> google search gives first hit: >> >> http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/CMEM_Overview -- Best regards, Kamil Kon

Re: version number of Linux kernel development

2017-08-01 Thread Kamil Konieczny
Hi, On 01.08.2017 06:35, Yubin Ruan wrote: > Hi, > [...] > > So, in this example, 4.2.7 would be thrown away after 4.4.0 is released. Is > this the same for every major release? [...] see also https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html -- Best regards, Kamil Konieczny Sams

Re: Struct sk_buff_head

2017-06-16 Thread Kamil Konieczny
] As I can see it, sk_buff can be on double-linked list, and then it is linked by next and prev, or it is referenced by red-black tree, rb_node, depending of some network logic (packet type ?) Both are used by functions operating on structures. -- Best regards, Kamil Konieczny Samsung R I

Re: How to verify linux-next

2017-10-02 Thread Kamil Konieczny
ntended as a single-user > /sbin/init replacement. You'll need a full-featured userspace with an actual > init daemon (sysvinit, systemd, etc) and an ssh daemon (openssh, or if you > want [...] What about /usr/bin/ssh as init replacement ? -- Best regards, Kamil Kon

Re: Don't know where to start linux kernel programming

2017-08-22 Thread Kamil Konieczny
criptions) and there is note about [not] using gmail for kernel: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/ec.pdf -- Best regards, Kamil Konieczny Samsung R Institute Poland ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.

Re: Submitted patch, what to do next

2018-03-07 Thread Kamil Konieczny
On 07.03.2018 17:28, Alex Arvelaez wrote: > Hello, > > I sent a small patch to the LKML. I sent it to one of the mantainers > (as per get_mantainers.pl) and I CC-ed linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org. imho you should send it to all e-mails given by get_maintainers > I'm not entirely sure I did