Please help me about the default rootfs

2011-10-25 Thread Renjun Qu
Hello everyone: I am building a small embedded linux system right now. I confused that why the default rootfs must has a dev/console node. I have made a experiment as follow: 1st, configure the kernel(2.6.32) to support the initramfs and initrd, and set the source of the initramfs to

Re: Is there a way to build a cross reference with kernel file

2011-10-25 Thread Javier Martinez Canillas
Hello Jimmy, On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Jimmy Pan dsp...@gmail.com wrote: It seems we can use ctags, while, I don't really know how to implement it. I don't want to use the online cross reference every time... Thanks. Emacs + etags + cscope is for my the best approach to navigate the

Re: Is there a tool which can generate a small and simple source tree after config?

2011-10-25 Thread Javier Martinez Canillas
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:29 PM, jiangtao.jit jiangtao@gmail.com wrote: Hi: Hi jiangtao, While reading the kernel code 1. the huge amount of files make me scared    there are too many alike functions in different files    sometimes I can't figure out which one was really compiled 2.

Re: Linux 0.02 version download

2011-10-25 Thread bob
He's probably doing os dev and wants something simple to learn. Stick with 0.01 as 0.02 source is lost. Sad face. ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: Linux 0.02 version download

2011-10-25 Thread Christophe Lucas
Le 25/10/2011 09:46, Javier Martinez Canillas a écrit : On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:36 AM, bobilikepie...@live.com wrote: He's probably doing os dev and wants something simple to learn. Stick with 0.01 as 0.02 source is lost. Sad face. Yes I know, but I recommend either use a newer kernel or

Re: Linux 0.02 version download

2011-10-25 Thread Adam Lee
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:04:06AM +0200, Christophe Lucas wrote: Le 25/10/2011 09:46, Javier Martinez Canillas a écrit : On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:36 AM, bobilikepie...@live.com wrote: He's probably doing os dev and wants something simple to learn. Stick with 0.01 as 0.02 source is lost.

Fix procmail rule in ML wikipage

2011-10-25 Thread chandanrmail
The procmail rule for netdev:Linux network development list has a typo. The condition should be as shown below: * ^X-Mailing-List:.*netdev@vger\.kernel\.org Regards, chandan r ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org

Workqueue and kernel panic on device disconnect

2011-10-25 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hi, I'm trying to use a workqueue in a usb driver for polling the states of the device buttons. That works fine, but when I disconnect the device, the kernel sometimes explodes. The machine turns off immediately, without saving a backtrace (I will try to make a photo tomorrow) The code: