Re: A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck...

2014-09-17 Thread Kai Bojens
On 17-09-14 08:09:36, nick wrote: [Again quoting everything] Please read and understand this: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#How_much_to_trim Your replies are unreadable to me as I don't intend to scroll down several pages just to read the one line you added as an answer. If you

Re: how to test the vanilla kernel

2014-06-22 Thread Kai Bojens
On 22-06-14 20:07:38, AYAN KUMAR HALDER wrote: A small addition. You need to update the grub to be able to see the new kernel entry in the boot options. If you build the kernel with your distribution's tools you can easily install and remove everything with the help of the package system. This

Re: Eudyptula Challenge Task 01

2014-06-12 Thread Kai Bojens
Am 13.06.2014 00:40, schrieb Nada Saif: Which email client is best to submit tasks . I use gmail , and I get a problem with attachment base64!? Mutt. ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org

Re: Kernel backup

2014-05-27 Thread Kai Bojens
On 27-05-14 08:56:27, Nada Saif wrote: I'm working on a project and might do multiple making - I'm afraid if things go wrong. How to keep a backup of the current kernel? Just use the packet management of your distribution to build and install new kernels. Under normal circumstances you'd then

Re: How to fix ubuntu 12.10 can't start with kernel 3.15?

2014-05-21 Thread Kai Bojens
On 21-05-14 21:16:11, lx wrote: make localmodconfig make make modules_install make install You'll have a much easier life if you stick with the way your distribution builds and installs a new kernel: - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/BuildYourOwnKernel

Re: [Eudyptula Challenge] Not receiving tasks.

2014-05-16 Thread Kai Bojens
On 16. Mai 2014 16:06:12 MESZ, Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukher...@gmail.com wrote: I will start it next week. I was thinking of taking two usb keyboards and finding out the common udev events between them. Please do not take the fun out of the challenge by discussing its solutions on the

Re: [Eudyptula Challenge] Not receiving tasks.

2014-05-03 Thread Kai Bojens
Greg Freemyer wrote: Eudyptula apparently has at least one human in the loop. He/she may have taken a couple days off. little wrote just last week: Others are now taking days to get properly tested and reviewed (tasks 03, 06, and 08 have very long queues at the moment.) Don't worry if you

Re: Learning to write kernel modules

2014-04-25 Thread Kai Bojens
On 25-04-14 20:05:17, Narendra Joshi wrote: Can someone suggest some resources for learning to write kernel modules for 3.x linux kernels? You should take a look at The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide which is rather old but seems to be a good starting point: -