Re: Beginner guide

2014-06-10 Thread Asutosh Das
check out eudyptula challenge On 11 June 2014 11:58, Prudhvee Narasimha Sadha wrote: > Hi, > My name is Prudhvee and I'm purusing my undergraduate second year. > I'm intrested in kernel development but I'm unable to understand how to get > into it. > Can you please help me to become a ker

Beginner guide

2014-06-10 Thread Prudhvee Narasimha Sadha
Hi, My name is Prudhvee and I'm purusing my undergraduate second year. I'm intrested in kernel development but I'm unable to understand how to get into it. Can you please help me to become a kernel developer. I just want to know what I should learn and any suggested books to learn kerne

Memory mapping issue in OMAP Linux kernel stack

2014-06-10 Thread Saket Sinha
HI, I am working on linux kernel MMC layer which is responsible for supporting SD/MMC cards on ARM platform. I am stuck with an issue related to TI OMAP driver in this layer. *Background of Problem* - OMAP is not SDHCI compliant In the mmc linux kernel driver stack, most of the drivers are sdhci

EudyptulaChallenge in github??

2014-06-10 Thread Sudip Mukherjee
Hi Varka Bhadram , Rules of the Eudyptula Challenge says that you really should be doing your own work . So I will request you not to post the completed tasks in https://github.com/Bhadram/EudyptulaChallenge . It will not help anyone if they already have the code of the task. Anyways, congratulati

Re: spi_board_info and module automatic load

2014-06-10 Thread Varka Bhadram
We have to follow the following steps 1. static struct spi_board_info your_board_info[] __initdata = { { .modalias = "driver_name", . } 2. Register your board with: spi_register_board_info() 3. you have to add device to the device table with MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(spi, your_device_id). your devi

Re: Patch submission issue

2014-06-10 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 07:23:08AM +0530, Raghavendra wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to the kernel development community and I started off by fixing > small coding style errors in the drivers/staging directory. I've created > a patch for the same and sent it to the maintainer. The maintainer > re

Patch submission issue

2014-06-10 Thread Raghavendra
Hello, I am new to the kernel development community and I started off by fixing small coding style errors in the drivers/staging directory. I've created a patch for the same and sent it to the maintainer. The maintainer replied to me something like this : " Please don't do multiple things in t

Re: spi_board_info and module automatic load

2014-06-10 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 03:57:27PM -0300, Daniel Hilst Selli wrote: > I register a spi_board_info on my board-*.c file as this > > http://pastebin.com/nUGuvt71 > > > Then create my module named mydevice.ko > > Is this enought to get the module loaded automatically or I'm missing > something?

spi_board_info and module automatic load

2014-06-10 Thread Daniel Hilst Selli
I register a spi_board_info on my board-*.c file as this http://pastebin.com/nUGuvt71 Then create my module named mydevice.ko Is this enought to get the module loaded automatically or I'm missing something? Cheers ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Ke

Re: v3.15 kernel panic, bisecting didn't help

2014-06-10 Thread Greg Donald
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 9:02 AM, wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:26:12 -0500, Greg Donald said: > >> the end. All 7 of the bisected kernels I built yesterday boot just >> fine. > > Just to clarify - did 'git bisect' report a 'first bad commit is '? My last "git bisect good" reported this:

Re: v3.15 kernel panic, bisecting didn't help

2014-06-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:26:12 -0500, Greg Donald said: > the end. All 7 of the bisected kernels I built yesterday boot just > fine. Just to clarify - did 'git bisect' report a 'first bad commit is '? Just wondering if the bisect in fact finished, or if you had an 8th bisect still to do

Re: v3.15 kernel panic, bisecting didn't help

2014-06-10 Thread Greg Donald
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Just a tip: You can also create Debian kernel packages directly from a > mainline kernel with "make deb-pkg" (optionally with -jx etc as usual). Is there something wrong with my current kernel packaging method? make-kpkg clean; CONCURRENCY_LEV

Re: v3.15 kernel panic, bisecting didn't help

2014-06-10 Thread Bjørn Mork
Greg Donald writes: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:29 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote: >> Greg Donald writes: >> >>> [0.00] Linux version 3.15.0-1+ (root@mars) (gcc version 4.7.2 >> >> What's with the '+'? Do you have some commit on top of v3.15? If so, >> did you include that in your bisect? > > Th

Re: v3.15 kernel panic, bisecting didn't help

2014-06-10 Thread Greg Donald
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:29 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Greg Donald writes: > >> [0.00] Linux version 3.15.0-1+ (root@mars) (gcc version 4.7.2 > > What's with the '+'? Do you have some commit on top of v3.15? If so, > did you include that in your bisect? The + is something Debian's make-k

Re: v3.15 kernel panic, bisecting didn't help

2014-06-10 Thread Bjørn Mork
Greg Donald writes: > [0.00] Linux version 3.15.0-1+ (root@mars) (gcc version 4.7.2 What's with the '+'? Do you have some commit on top of v3.15? If so, did you include that in your bisect? Bjørn ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbie