Re: Modify efivars permisson denied

2017-03-04 Thread Markus Böhme
Hello Lucas! On 03/04/2017 09:24 PM, Lucas Tanure wrote: > I would like to modify efivars at /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/. > But I can't modify it using root. > > The file : > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31 Mar 4 19:04 > /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/OilSetup-88d1911c-ab4a-4335-9e9a-26be9081acc3 > > the

Re: simple block device - request processing in threads

2017-03-04 Thread Andras Pal
Thanks, that was it! Therefore, it means that, i suppose, blk_rq_cur_sectors() is meaningless and bio's are needed to be used exclusively. Andras On Sat, 4 Mar 2017, Pranay Srivastava wrote: > On Friday, March 3, 2017, Andras Pal wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> with some experience

Modify efivars permisson denied

2017-03-04 Thread Lucas Tanure
Hi, I would like to modify efivars at /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/. But I can't modify it using root. The file : -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31 Mar 4 19:04 /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/OilSetup-88d1911c-ab4a-4335-9e9a-26be9081acc3 the mount point : efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs

Re: want to be a kernel developer

2017-03-04 Thread Ozgur Karatas
 Hello, download the linux kernel and read to documentation directory and SubmittingPatches file.So, how are you also with C? read list: The C Programming Language / BookLinux Device Drivers / Book (PDF)Linux Kernel Development / Book Regards, Ozgur 24.02.2017, 11:32, "sourav mondal"

Re: kernel development process question, patch review

2017-03-04 Thread Ozgur Karatas
Hello, I think the list idea is no need for confusion, it is desirable to provide people with a new kernel newbies update to this list with a help and a quick solution to their problems. This is like pre-kernel training. TO and CC already come with the get_maintainer.pl script. TO: Primary

Re: simple block device - request processing in threads

2017-03-04 Thread Pranay Srivastava
On Friday, March 3, 2017, Andras Pal wrote: > Dear All, > > with some experience in low-level C programming, I started to develop a > kernel module which allows I2C slave EEPROM-alike devices (EEPROMs, FRAMs, > BBRAMs, etc) to be accessed as block devices. Since the i/o