Re: anyone using "sysfsutils" in a practical way?

2011-05-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 6 May 2011, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:25:08AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > and i want to more emphasize kobjects and sysfs. to that end, i'm > > aware of the "sysfsutils" package, although i haven't used it yet. > > It's obsolete, and doesn't work on modern kerne

Re: anyone using "sysfsutils" in a practical way?

2011-05-06 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:25:08AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > and i want to more emphasize kobjects and sysfs. to that end, i'm > aware of the "sysfsutils" package, although i haven't used it yet. It's obsolete, and doesn't work on modern kernels, please never use it. Use libudev instead

Re: anyone using "sysfsutils" in a practical way?

2011-05-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 6 May 2011, Manohar Vanga wrote: > Possibly off-topic but Alessandro Rubini has uploaded a set of small > sample drivers (among other things) at: > > http://gnudd.com/workdoc.shtml > > Maybe there is something of interest in there for your course? ah, i was entirely unaware of that site

Re: anyone using "sysfsutils" in a practical way?

2011-05-06 Thread Manohar Vanga
Possibly off-topic but Alessandro Rubini has uploaded a set of small sample drivers (among other things) at: http://gnudd.com/workdoc.shtml Maybe there is something of interest in there for your course? Thanks On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > as i'm reviewing the co

anyone using "sysfsutils" in a practical way?

2011-05-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
as i'm reviewing the courseware i'll be teaching in a couple weeks, i'm making notes as to what should go, what should stay and what should be added to bring it entirely up to date. i'm going to de-emphasize proc files, other than to show some examples in the fs/proc/ directory if students wa

Network packet processing related Query

2011-05-06 Thread Sachin Rane
Hi, I want to improve my understanding about the logic of the code written for 'process_backlog ()' . File Source: net/core/dev.c, linux-2.6.16 I am considering only Non-NAPI network devices ( > 1) in this discussion. The 'net_rx_action' function invokes 'dev->poll(dev, &budget)' for each netw

RE: Serial Port Monitoring Tool

2011-05-06 Thread Smital Desai
___ From: kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org [kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Madhavi Manchala [madhavi.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 8:46 PM To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: Serial Port Monitoring Tool De