How to add a block into blkio.throttle.io_service*?

Hi everybody, I'm having some problems to understand how to add a block device into blkio.throttle.* . Being more specific, I cannot see my block listed into blkio.throttle.io_serviced. An example... I'm running docker with a loopback device attached: $ docker run -ti

Should I specify the mount type every time? What are the recommendations...?

Hi guys, I want your opinion about a syscall: mount(). Today, a problem brought back this doubt. I see a lots of code that calls/uses mount() syscall. But, recently, running Valgrind, it showed an error saying that you cannot specify NULL as the 'type' argument of mount function. An example

Testing network kernel module

Hi everyone. Does anyone know a good way to test the tx_timeout function from the net_device_ops struct? In other words, I want to force a timeout exception to check if my code is doing what I expect. To test it, I'm avoiding the clean up of the output buffer. So, when the buffer is full the

Where is the source code of udev?

Hi everybody. Where can I find the updated source code of udev? I'm cloning the source from here: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/hotplug/udev.git/ Is it right? Thanks! -- *Julio Cesar Faracco* ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list

How to force my usb mouse using a kernel module created by myself?

Hi everyone! It's a dumb question, but is not working with me. Does anybody knows how to force my usb mouse using a kernel module created by myself? When I plug my mouse it need to load my module and not the generic one. Thanks! *Julio Cesar Faracco*

Re: Writing kernel in C

Hi Saurabh! This is a project of a friend of mine. It called TempOS. It is a kernel for educational purpose too. http://tempos-project.org/ The project is listed in OSDev Wiki too. http://wiki.osdev.org/Projects Att, -- Julio Cesar Faracco University of São Paulo - Brazil

Re: [Eudyptula Challenge] Not receiving tasks.

Hi Eduardo! I'm having the same problem in the same task! I haven't received tasks and results since last Sunday! Julio Cesar Faracco University of São Paulo - Brazil ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org

Re: [Eudyptula Challenge] Not receiving tasks.

Finally, I received a new task. Eudyptula is working again I guess. Julio Cesar Faracco University of São Paulo - Brazil Em 16/05/2014 18:51, Kai Bojens k...@kbojens.de escreveu: On 16. Mai 2014 16:06:12 MESZ, Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukher...@gmail.com wrote: I will start it next week. I

Re: Learning to write kernel modules

There is a free on-line version of that book, Narendra. https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ I will suggest Professional Linux Kernel Architecture by Wolfgang Mauerer too. I don't know if an on-line version, but it's a good book. -- Julio Cesar Faracco University of São Paulo - Brazil

Kernel Projects

Hi, Does anybody know if there is a program to offer small (or big) kernel projects to students or someone who are interested in? I'm looking for programs like Google Summer of Code or http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects I'm interested to contribute with kernel patches, but I don't know how