Re: drivers: staging: most: Locking question

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 08:14:47PM +0200, mhornung.li...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > I have some questions about the locking techniques used inside > file drivers/staging/most/hdm-usb/hdm_usb.c. Eeek, never use anything from drivers/staging/ as a good example of anything. Please, that code is

Re: pushing other commits upstream

Hi, Am 18.07.2016 um 00:49 schrieb Alexander Couzens: > Hi, > > I would like to push patches from somebody else upstream. > I'm talking of commits of the TI's beagleboard repo [1]. > > What do I need to take care of? try to contact the author of those patches and ask if they can go upstream. Som

drivers: staging: most: Locking question

Hello, I have some questions about the locking techniques used inside file drivers/staging/most/hdm-usb/hdm_usb.c. The one and only call to function free_anchored_buffers is locked by a Mutex: ... mutex_

Re: pushing other commits upstream

Hi You should take a look to https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches , specifically at chapter 11) Sign your work Regards! On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Baluta wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 1:49 AM, Alexander Couzens wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to push pa

Re: pushing other commits upstream

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 1:49 AM, Alexander Couzens wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to push patches from somebody else upstream. > I'm talking of commits of the TI's beagleboard repo [1]. > > What do I need to take care of? Well, basically apply the patch from beagleboard repo into your repo. This w

Re: Are these books outdated?

Amidst all this we forget the link shared by Ricardo.I think this is very short and crisp link for very important things in the Linux Kernel and one must keep re-visiting this after/or in between reading these Books mentioned ! On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 2:47 AM, Kosta Zertsekel wrote: > Hey guys!