Re: memblock structure

2016-07-06 Thread Silvan Jegen
On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 06:12:50PM +0530, Ronit Halder wrote: > There are three memblock_type members memory , reserved and physmem in > memblock structure. > What is the significance of each member? According to https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/mm/linux-mm-1.md they describe th

Re: Kernel panic after insmod

2016-06-27 Thread Silvan Jegen
Am 2016-06-26 18:38, schrieb Aruna Hewapathirane: > And completely off-topic what are the options for some of us who very > much > wish to attend the Linux conference North America ( > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america ) but > simply cannot afford the standard registr

Re: unable to find function definition

2016-04-26 Thread Silvan Jegen
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:24:43AM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:31:51 +0200, Silvan Jegen said: > > > A simple but naive approach would be a grep command like this. > > > > grep "function_pointer =" `find . -iname '*.c

Re: unable to find function definition

2016-04-26 Thread Silvan Jegen
Am 2016-04-26 14:56, schrieb Jay Aurabind: > On 26 April 2016 at 16:15, Silvan Jegen wrote: >> Am 2016-04-26 10:50, schrieb Gadre Nayan: >>> >>> Ctags can help. Ctags -R on the entire source. >> >> >> In the Kernel Makefile there is actually a tar

Re: unable to find function definition

2016-04-26 Thread Silvan Jegen
Am 2016-04-26 10:50, schrieb Gadre Nayan: > Ctags can help. Ctags -R on the entire source. In the Kernel Makefile there is actually a target for this. It's called either 'tags' or 'tag' so make tags [or tag] should create the ctag file for you. Cheers, Silvan __

Re: single, comprehensive kernel data types document?

2016-04-15 Thread Silvan Jegen
Am 2016-04-15 14:37, schrieb John Chludzinski: > Never use stdint.h? Wasn't that the intent of stdint.h ... for kernel > code? For embedded code? I could be wrong about this but the reason for not using it may be that there is no standard C library where the Kernel lives. Thus using types from s

Re: Getting a functional driver for Mad Catz Fightstick TE 2 (Xbox One version)

2016-03-08 Thread Silvan Jegen
On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 11:35:26AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 08:15:26PM +0100, Silvan Jegen wrote: > > Heyho > > > > I bought a Mad Catz Fightstick TE2 for Xbox One because I wanted to play > > some fighting games on Linux. I chose this stick

Getting a functional driver for Mad Catz Fightstick TE 2 (Xbox One version)

2016-03-08 Thread Silvan Jegen
Heyho I bought a Mad Catz Fightstick TE2 for Xbox One because I wanted to play some fighting games on Linux. I chose this stick because it has gotten good reviews and I assumed that the Kernel driver should work because there are already drivers for Xbox One controllers in drivers/input/joystick/x

Re: What are the differences between the -next tree and the -mm tree?

2015-12-08 Thread Silvan Jegen
Hi Giovanni Thanks for these explanations! Just one correction below. Am 2015-12-08 11:56, schrieb Giovanni Gherdovich: > I am not a kernel developer but I think I can answer this. > > This is how I understand it: > > Short version: > > -next is a very special Linux branch managed by Linus T

Re: staging: wlan-ng: p80211conv.h: warning I don't understand

2015-11-12 Thread Silvan Jegen
Am 2015-11-12 04:54, schrieb Greg KH: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 02:33:07AM +, Gavin O'Leary wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I am new to the realm of linux kernel development. I've been sending >> in small >> patches to fix check-patch warnings. I was fixing up the file listed >> in the >> subject

RE: Kernel thread scheduling

2015-04-17 Thread Silvan Jegen
Am 2015-04-16 23:41, schrieb Jeff Haran: > I often read emails on this list from people looking to help and get > started in kernel development. Well, here's a good place to start. > Submit patches to fix some of those Coverity identified kernel bugs. > Some of them will be false positives, but som

Re: Kernel thread scheduling

2015-04-16 Thread Silvan Jegen
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 02:42:07PM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote: > On 04/16/2015 02:32 PM, John de la Garza wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:56:46AM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote: > >> I'm trying to find rb_node's structure and I can't find it with ctags or > >> in the http://lxr.linux.no website. > >>

Re: Download patch from email.

2015-02-15 Thread Silvan Jegen
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 08:11:51AM +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > I use "|". > > $ cd ~/linux-source > $ mutt > (select email with patch) > |git am > > Git applies the patch to the current directory Ah, I knew about '|' but I did not know that git am can read from stdin as well

Re: Download patch from email.

2015-02-14 Thread Silvan Jegen
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 03:48:53AM +, Anand Moon wrote: > I have configured mutt as email client. > > https://github.com/narkoleptik/dotfiles/blob/master/.muttrc > > But my configuration don't allow me to download Linux patch's from > email. I use mutt's standard functionality to get patches

Re: New member

2015-01-26 Thread Silvan Jegen
Am 2015-01-26 04:45, schrieb valdis.kletni...@vt.edu: > On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:29:00 -0800, "Robert P. J. Day" said: > >> what's wrong with ftrace? but seriously, you know what newcomers >> might get some value out of doing if they want to contribute? writing >> some really, really good document

Re: How to use git-send-email for deep threading

2015-01-19 Thread Silvan Jegen
Am 2015-01-19 09:20, schrieb Sunil Shahu: > Two Solution Files (Makefile and .c driver file) > └─> [PATCH 01/02] Patch 1 on earlier solution file > └─> [PATCH 02/02] Patch 2 on earlier solution file > > I tired using different options in git send-email, but what I get is > incorrect li

Re: Contributing via kernel-janitors

2015-01-16 Thread Silvan Jegen
Hi Am 2015-01-14 17:07, schrieb Dr. George E. Moore: > I'm certainly willing to lend my support to this work; hwever, I could > use some guidance. Another way to contribute is to run the smatch C static code analyzer tool on the Kernel which you can find here http://smatch.sourceforge.net/ The

Re: broken network connection

2014-11-07 Thread Silvan Jegen
Am 2014-11-06 22:30, schrieb Jim Davis: > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Grzegorz Dwornicki > wrote: > >> To do this I'm using ctrl+c on host 2. What functions are >> called to clean broken socket on host 1? What functions are called to >> clean up socket on host 2? > > Have you tried running

RE: lots of connections in SYN_RECV state

2014-11-06 Thread Silvan Jegen
2014-11-06 16:15,Puneet Agarwal: > Is there a way to check the reason, why they do not answer to the > SYN-ACK's? I don't think so. After all, they just don't answer and they won't tell you why (AFAIK there is no way to ask them why either)... You could try to check for patterns in the incoming

Re: lots of connections in SYN_RECV state

2014-11-06 Thread Silvan Jegen
Hi Am 2014-11-06 14:27, schrieb Puneet Agarwal: > I have a couple of servers, for the past few days I am seeing lots of > connections in SYN_RECV state in netstat commands output. This *could* be the result of a SYN-flood attack on your server. > Is there a solution to this problem? The Wikipe