Re: kernel panic in sample block device driver

2013-05-01 Thread Pranay Srivastava
On 5/1/13, Kumar amit mehta wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to block layer in linux and to learn the same, I'm trying to > come up with a sample memory based block device driver, with which I can > experiment and learn along the way. I'm referring to sample code from > the linux tree [1] and assorted inf

Re: Documentation on device-mapper and friends

2013-05-01 Thread neha naik
Hi Gaurav, I went through your blog and it is really informative. But after reading that i realized that i have a question: If I want to write a block device driver which is going to sit on lvm (and do some functionality on top of it) then should i go for the block device driver api or write i

Re: hello and wiki edit

2013-05-01 Thread richard -rw- weinberger
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Sven Dowideit wrote: > Channel #kernelnewbies modes: +ns > > which means the channel is marked as 'secret'? is this intentional? To keep spam bots away? The channel is clearly listed on our website. Until now everybody found it... -- Thanks, //richard ___

Re: Need a good document that explains how to analyze kernel crash dump.

2013-05-01 Thread amit mehta
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Prasad Lakshman wrote: > Hi amit, > What you mentioned is correct , dmesg or /var/log/messages display the > crash log ,somehow I got this log even after the system crash. After > obtaining the crash log we need to know the reason of crash. > I want the document t

Re: Need a good document that explains how to analyze kernel crash dump.

2013-05-01 Thread Prasad Lakshman
Hi amit, What you mentioned is correct , dmesg or /var/log/messages display the crash log ,somehow I got this log even after the system crash. After obtaining the crash log we need to know the reason of crash. I want the document that guides me to find the reason of crash. Thanks & Regards, Blpr

Fwd: Need a good document that explains how to analyze kernel crash dump.

2013-05-01 Thread amit mehta
Forgot to reply-all On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Prasad Lakshman wrote: > Thanks for your reply ,but the link you provided is explaining how to use > crash utility .I think it's tool by Redhat. But what I am looking for is > different. crash is an open source tool, you can have it on non rhel

searchability of kernelnewbies mailing list archive.

2013-05-01 Thread Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
Hi all, We do get a lot of good content in this mailing list and a lot of question get repeated quite often. I tried to search for few topics using various strings in google, it doesn't seem to pick up the right content from the archive. I have been following this list for a while so I am sure thes

Re: Need a good document that explains how to analyze kernel crash dump.

2013-05-01 Thread amit mehta
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Prasad Lakshman wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any document that explains how to analyze the Linux kernel crash > dump. What are the sections of crash dump what are these sections signify > and explain about the crash ,.etc please someone help me in this regard. > H

Need a good document that explains how to analyze kernel crash dump.

2013-05-01 Thread Prasad Lakshman
Hi all, Is there any document that explains how to analyze the Linux kernel crash dump. What are the sections of crash dump what are these sections signify and explain about the crash ,.etc please someone help me in this regard. Regards, Blprasad. ___ K

Re: kernel panic in sample block device driver

2013-05-01 Thread anish singh
kernel panic logs? On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Kumar amit mehta wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to block layer in linux and to learn the same, I'm trying to > come up with a sample memory based block device driver, with which I can > experiment and learn along the way. I'm referring to sample code

kernel panic in sample block device driver

2013-05-01 Thread Kumar amit mehta
Hi, I'm new to block layer in linux and to learn the same, I'm trying to come up with a sample memory based block device driver, with which I can experiment and learn along the way. I'm referring to sample code from the linux tree [1] and assorted information available over the internet. My curre