On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:59 PM Shakthi Kannan
wrote:
>
> >>> You should always use trimmed, interleaved, bottom-posting. See, how I
> have quoted your message, and replied below it (similar to how you answer
> below a question in an exam).
> Sure, i got it, SK. thanks.
> You might also
On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 01:19:24 +0530, inventsekar said:
> I didnt get you... I thanked Valdis for his detailed mail..
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in
Hi,
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On Saturday, September 15, 2018 1:19 AM, inventsekar
wrote:
| I didnt get you...
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You should always use trimmed, interleaved, bottom-posting. See, how I have
quoted your message, and replied below it (similar to how you answer below a
question in an
Don't be discouraged!
So, if you only read the code, it may appear to you that "in the small" you
are understanding the code. But, the possible states and paths are a large
combinatorial, and lots of things can happen at runtime that you will not
be able to predict, even after only reading the
Hi, for the past three years I have been trying hard to do Linux kernel
development, but, with No success.
I don't know what is the exact reason...maybe, I didn't do much practical,
all the times I was only reading reading reading... so you can understand
my frustration, that I wanted to submit
I didnt get you... I thanked Valdis for his detailed mail..
On Thu 13 Sep, 2018, 3:20 PM Tobin C. Harding, wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:53:57PM +0530, inventsekar wrote:
> > Thanks a ton, Valdis.
>
> Another tip for you, read up on what 'top posting' is and don't do it :)
>
> Shamelessly
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:53:57PM +0530, inventsekar wrote:
> Thanks a ton, Valdis.
Another tip for you, read up on what 'top posting' is and don't do it :)
Shamelessly stealing Greg's 'top posting' link:
https://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top
Good luck,
Tobin.
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 09:12:32AM +0530, inventsekar wrote:
> >>> A brute force grep in the kernel shows that there are 130493 " const "
> in there
> Hi Hofrat,
> 1. may i know the command to do this above grep please..
$ grep -cre " const " * | more
will give you the " const " count per file -
>>> A brute force grep in the kernel shows that there are 130493 " const "
in there
Hi Hofrat,
1. may i know the command to do this above grep please..
2. (and the opposite) may i know the command to grep other type of
variables/structures
thanks again.. your points and Greg's points are very
Thanks a ton, Valdis.
On Wed 12 Sep, 2018, 11:23 PM , wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 22:40:50 +0530, inventsekar said:
>
> > So, please suggest some subsystems or some small puedes of code, where i
> > can "dwell" sometimes and submit my first patch.
>
> 0) subsystems? Anything under
On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 22:40:50 +0530, inventsekar said:
> So, please suggest some subsystems or some small puedes of code, where i
> can "dwell" sometimes and submit my first patch.
0) subsystems? Anything under drivers/staging is fair game and certain to
provide hours of amusement...
1) Install
Thx Hofrat and Greg..
Kindly suggest me one more thing...(for newbies like me)...
I hope she didn't complete that job
(Converting all structs/variables to const)
(As she did that in last Dec, some new code may be written in the old
style, ...Or, she may not have converted 100% structs, variables)
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:50:35AM +0530, inventsekar wrote:
> Hi All...
> One curious question..
>
> Linux Foundation tweeted this -
> Meet Bhumika Goyal, age 22, from India. She has had more 340 patches
> accepted into the Linux kernel, which helped her land one of our two Linux
> Kernel Guru
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:50:35AM +0530, inventsekar wrote:
> the question is that, how these many const variable issues are left/missed
> by the previous developers?!?!
Because we never realized the benifit of doing so when we created the
code to start with. And then others copied previous
Hi All...
One curious question..
Linux Foundation tweeted this -
Meet Bhumika Goyal, age 22, from India. She has had more 340 patches
accepted into the Linux kernel, which helped her land one of our two Linux
Kernel Guru LiFT scholarships:
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