Re: Earlier Linux Code...

On Fri, 26 May 2023, Deepak Goel wrote: > Hello > I am a newbie. > > Is it possible to find the linux code of earlier versions like > 0.1,0.2,...1.0, 1.1...? > > Please advise. Thank you. I'm confused ... recently, you were asking people on this list to spoon-feed you the most basic

Re: Starting to learn Linux...

On Fri, 19 May 2023, Deepak Goel wrote: > Will buy a book. Thank you. Debugging the whole source code of > Linux, might be a bit tricky at the beginning. Will try ChatGPT. Respectfully, you are completely missing the point of this mailing list. You started by asking for a list of programs that

Re: A blog for kernel development

On Fri, 11 Mar 2022, Amit Kumar wrote: > Hi, > Thank you for your replies. I am just laying the foundation. After a > couple of weeks, I will start posing about the Linux kernel on my > blog. I am also planning to give online Linux kernel training after > some time. This might be free. So, keep

Re: LDD 3rd ed. - It was: Re: read() via USB bus

On Thu, 12 Aug 2021, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 11:45:45AM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > On Monday, August 9, 2021 10:44:23 AM CEST Greg KH wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 10:15:29AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > On 09.08.21 09:58, Muni Sekhar

Re: My effort to learn Linux kernel development

On Sat, 24 Jul 2021, Constantine Shulyupin wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 17:57, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > as the tech editor of the r. love kernel book, i can safely say that > > there are no really current kernel books out there anymore -- the best > > docs a

Re: My effort to learn Linux kernel development

On Fri, 23 Jul 2021, Amit Kumar wrote: ... lots of stuff snipped ... > Thanks for your words. I kindly request your mentorship. So that it > will be easy for me to make my blog > (https://freeark1blog.blogspot.com) as a gateway to the Linux kernel > development. i dropped gregkh from this

Re: My effort to learn Linux kernel development

On Fri, 23 Jul 2021, Amit Kumar wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 8:26 PM Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2021, Jules Irenge wrote: > > > > > I normally learn the kernel on weekends. Reading R. Love and > > > practicing by coding wh

Re: My effort to learn Linux kernel development

On Thu, 22 Jul 2021, Jules Irenge wrote: > I normally learn the kernel on weekends. Reading R. Love and > practicing by coding what you learn is the best way. Also, trying to > submit simple patches on some free time is a good way , meeting Greg > Kroah and Shuan, they are fantastic people to

Re: LDD3 vs Essential Linux Device Drivers

On Fri, 1 May 2020, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 07:58:11AM +0200, Mohamed Dawod wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to start learning about Linux kernel and device drivers > > development. > > Should I have to start with LDD3 as a lot of people advice ? or can I start > > with the

Re: Finding bugs/issues to work on

On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, Suraj Upadhyay wrote: > Hii newbies, >     I just started studying for linux-kernel development although I am not > completely new to open source technologies. I wanted to clarify my doubts in > the > following things > 1. Where can I find issues/tickets regarding

Re: which "make" target simply builds the scripts/dtc/dtc executable?

On Sat, 14 Mar 2020, Stefan Wahren wrote: > Hi, > > Am 13.03.20 um 19:13 schrieb rpj...@crashcourse.ca: > >   colleague has a kernel-compile infrastructure which builds the > > kernel just fine, but croaks trying to compile .dts files, complaining > > that there is no "./scripts/dtc/dtc" file. >

Re: New text

On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, Ruben Safir wrote: > is there currently a rfecommended text to learn kernel development > from? not really ... given the speed of development, any book would be out of date pretty much the instant it hit the shelves. best place to look is in the in-kernel Documentation.

re: how can default Kconfig values be defined elsewhere?

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how can default Kconfig values be defined elsewhere?

? or am i misreading this? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter

first of a few questions about kbuild system

i just want to verify that i'm not overlooking, perhaps, any changes to the Kbuild infrastructure that i'm unaware of. thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http

Re: newbie-level question about cgroups

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:39:26 -0400, "Robert P. J. Day" said: > > > no point bugging the actual cgroup people about this since it > > should be simple ... if i need *only* cgroup v2, can i dispense > > entirely wi

newbie-level question about cgroups

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is there a simple graphic of SATA port multiplier structures?

support a basic scenario. is that written down anywhere? it doesn't need to be crazy comprehensive, just the enumeration of the structures involved. thoughts? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa,

would a Kconfig directive "select CONFIG_x" even work?

etly strip the "CONFIG_" prefix because it knew what you really wanted and was trying to be helpful? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://cra

Re: why are some stat.h "S_*" perm macros not exported via uapi?

On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 14:53:30 -0500, "Robert P. J. Day" said: > > > #define S_IRWXUGO (S_IRWXU|S_IRWXG|S_IRWXO) > > #define S_IALLUGO (S_ISUID|S_ISGID|S_ISVTX|S_IRWXUGO) > > #define S_IRUG

why are some stat.h "S_*" perm macros not exported via uapi?

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stylistically, IS_ERR() versus IS_ERR_VALUE()?

non-obvious reason for driver code to use the latter? superficially, they *seem* to be equivalent, but i've been surprised before. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CAN

Re: a specific question...

s*, while drivers/net contains actual device drivers for physical devices. sometimes, the split is not perfect. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://cr

how does a PHY driver wildcard on PHY IDs from a .dts file?

i explained this properly. thoughts, anyone? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn:

Re: suggestions for good in-kernel examples of simple ethernet/PHY drivers?

ng at that, but what i wanted was an example of an existing, physical driver that shows how simple the design can be (if such a thing exists). rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Onta

Re: is there any more to having a single interrupt drive multiple handlers than IRQF_SHARED?

On Thu, 26 Oct 2017, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:32:42 -0400, "Robert P. J. Day" said: > > > now, i do realize that it can be used along with a unique dev_id > > values to isolate a *particular* handler amongst a group of > >

wrapping Kconfig "source" directives in "if" statements?

ll the lower-level Kconfig "PPS" dependencies? i'm pretty sure that would be equivalent, would it not? or is there some subtlety that prevents that? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: what is the current/ongoing state of userspace access to GPIO?

On Thu, 25 May 2017, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Thu, 25 May 2017 15:20:06 -0400, "Robert P. J. Day" said: > > On Thu, 25 May 2017, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 03:02:24PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > >

Re: what is the current/ongoing state of userspace access to GPIO?

On Thu, 25 May 2017, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 03:02:24PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > thoughts? > > Why not ask on the linux-gpio mailing list? huh, i didn't even know there wa

Re: what is the current/ongoing state of userspace access to GPIO?

On Wed, 24 May 2017, Clemens Gruber wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 07:58:19AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > ashamed to admit, i haven't been keeping up with this, so AIUI, > > the GPIO sysfs interface is deprecated, replaced with character >

what is the current/ongoing state of userspace access to GPIO?

can one be obsolete while the other be categorized as testing? that just seems strange. in any event, is the /dev/gpiochip* interface the recommended interface now? thanks. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day

Re: want to be a kernel developer

On Fri, 24 Feb 2017, Kerimcankalipci wrote: > I strongly recommend Linux Device Drivers book ... that book is fairly dated by now, it's not as useful as it once was. rday p.s. if you at least want to keep up with updated source for the sample code, you can find it here:

more questions about UAPI content -- why some usages of "__KERNEL__"?

eader files once userspace content has been factored out and moved to uapi, no? thoughts? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http

should include/uapi include header files *unused* in kernel space?

of a package like "mtd-devel", or something like that. is this just for convenience to keep all the mtd stuff in the same place? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontar

Re: easiest way to deactivate a driver at boot time?

e the FDT utilities to disable the portion of the tree related to that driver. am i understanding this correctly? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA ht

easiest way to deactivate a driver at boot time?

do this? is there a better/standard way? and is there a simple example of that in the current kernel source? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

is it accurate to describe /dev/watchdog as "legacy"?

dev/watchdog, should it? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http

Re: if/else block default coding style question

case, then forgot to tweak it to be different. rather than "fixing" it, i would bring it to the attention of the maintainer, and ask him or her to resolve it. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day

Re: Linux Kernel Based Research Projects

ks, > Daniel. > > [1] http://lguest.ozlabs.org/ > [2] http://sched.co/7o92 Reference [1] claims, "Those crazy guys at Red Hat have an experimental port of lguest to x86-64: you can grab their git tree." so why do you say porting to x86_64 wouldn't b

Re: Linux Kernel Based Research Projects

c for you to write about. if you haven't even progressed to the point where you know what part of the kernel interests you, you shouldn't be asking for projects. it's not everyone else's responsibility to do your research for you. rday -- ========

[PATCH] staging: Fix misspelling "dissconect"

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c index 0b1760c..de567bc 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_inter

[PATCH] staging: ieee80211.h: Correct spelling of "FUNCION"

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h index 09e9499..e3b4e43 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/iee

Re: Pending work related to kernel for a newbie

s none. and, finally, you can't screw things up by changing the docs. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twi

Re: Are these books outdated?

e thoughts on all of this in a bit ... rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn:

Re: Are these books outdated?

ing to sources, nothing has been finalized. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: looking for tutorials

ablis while you wait. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn:

coding style: "obj-y" versus "obj-$(CONFIG_FOO)"?

be a tristate setting. if it isn't, it just makes more sense aesthetically to me to use "obj-y" for clarity. is there a coding style note about this sort of thing? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day

what is the minimal version of make supported for building the kernel?

kefile:else ifeq ($(HAS_NEON),yes) $ so would that single test not violate the rule just described above? is Documentation/Changes entirely up to date with respect to minimal requirements? rday -- ================ Robert P. J.

confused about use of "INITRD_COMPRESS" lines in top-level Makefile

that list, but where is that variable eventually used? where is the build code or utility that examines the value eventually set and invokes dracut, as the comment suggests? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day

[PATCH] Small number of aesthetic/dependency cleanups in usr/Kconfig

* Remove superfluous dependencies on BLK_DEV_INITRD. * Couple grammar fixes. * Add proper hyphenation. * Add periods at end of some help sentences. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> --- only place i'm not absolutely confident is the removal of those dependency

Re: Use of list_head struct

Linux kernel implementation of the linked > list (struct list_head) is to work with any kind of items which need > to be linked. > > Please have a look at the below links which explain the internals of > Linux kernel list and its usage: > https://isis.

want to clarify a couple things about initramfs

thoughts? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedi

Re: list etiquette

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Re: why is there still so much __KERNEL__ testing in include/uapi/?

On Fri, 27 May 2016, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 12:08:09PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > continuing down this road of exporting kernel headers, under > > include/uapi/ (and mostly further under linux/), there's still a *ton* > > of testing of

Re: exporting kernel headers via the include/uapi directory

On Fri, 27 May 2016, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 08:07:17AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > next question about exporting kernel headers, this one related to > > the content placed under include/uapi/. > > > > is there any rationale fo

why is there still so much __KERNEL__ testing in include/uapi/?

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Re: exporting kernel headers via the include/uapi directory

On Fri, 27 May 2016, Bjørn Mork wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> writes: > > > while i'm here, some pedantry ... what is the point of adding a > > header file somewhere under include/uapi/ without > > *immediately* adding it to the

Re: exporting kernel headers via the include/uapi directory

On Fri, 27 May 2016, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > next question about exporting kernel headers, this one related to > the content placed under include/uapi/. > > is there any rationale for header files to be living under > include/uapi/ if they're not listed in the correspondin

exporting kernel headers via the include/uapi directory

n remnants or something, unless there is some actual reason to do that. is there? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.c

some simple(?) questions about Kbuild and installing kernel headers

deeper into the code ... rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: ht

is there any actual usage of the device tree node "/chosen@0"?

find_node_by_path("/chosen@0"); drivers/of/fdt.c: offset = fdt_path_offset(fdt, "/chosen@0"); $ so there are apparently three files that *check* for that alternate name, but not a single .dts or .dtsi that actually uses it. is there any value to that alternate name? rday --

what is the point of "dt-bindings" symlinks under some arches?

would be. thoughts? given that all those symlinks are absolutely identical, couldn't they all just be removed? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA ht

Re: LINKS PLEASE

ization, user process, kernel > process ) > 3. the all tables in memory to manage the data and process > > Regards > > Gnoleba there is no way this is serious. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day

Re: How to contact to Greg.

t task is also > > okay, pls give me test specification or what test env. it required. > > There is no Grag, we only have Greg KH. "I am Grag." rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day

Re: How to fast master kernel

On Tue, 10 May 2016, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2016 16:58:26 -0400, "Robert P. J. Day" said: > > > not sure who it was (maybe even valdis) who once said, "Saying you > > want to get into kernel programming but have no idea where to

Re: How to fast master kernel

ere to start so can someone give you suggestions is like saying you want to write a book but don't know what to write about so can someone give you any ideas." rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day

Re: what is the rationale for all ethernet device vendors being "default y"?

On Wed, 4 May 2016, Bjørn Mork wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> writes: > > > just noticed that on my x86 system, when i do a: > > > > $ make defconfig > > > > under "Ethernet driver support", all the top-level

what is the rationale for all ethernet device vendors being "default y"?

reason the Kconfig files are set up the way they are? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: anyone aware of a high availability setup that relies on fully redundant install?

On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 10:47:55 -0400, "Robert P. J. Day" said: > > i figure this is as good a place as any to ask ... is anyone here > > aware of anyone using a linux config and install that, for the > >

of device trees and powerpcs and low memory

M_SIZE_BOOL default "0x3000" thoughts? i thought i understood device trees reasonably well, but i had never heard of this alleged configuration. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: anyone aware of a high availability setup that relies on fully redundant install?

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:47:55AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i figure this is as good a place as any to ask ... is anyone here > > aware of anyone using a linux config and install that, for the > > purposes of relia

anyone aware of a high availability setup that relies on fully redundant install?

hts? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjda

what is the purpose of "LOCALVERSION" variable in scripts/setlocalversion?

rited that way? is anyone here using it on a regular basis? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: variant length array?

On Tue, 5 Apr 2016, Bjørn Mork wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> writes: > > On Tue, 5 Apr 2016, Wenda Ni wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I come across the following code in a kernel module code. It defines &

Re: variant length array?

(ETH_P_IP) ? > sizeof(struct iphdr) : sizeof(struct ipv6hdr)); > u8 tmp[hdr_size + RXE_BTH_BYTES]; > ... > } pretty sure "sizeof" can be calculated at compile time so i don't see a problem here. rday -- ============

Re: Memory Management

Quoting sanjeev sharma : > Hi, > > I would suggest you to go through the Linux Kernel book Robert Love which > is simpler to understand. just a caution that that book is starting to show its age, even though it's still really, really good. the memory management is

should "get_user_pages()" really be phased out?

that only those routines are allowed to call it, and everyone else should invoke one of the other routines? just trying to understand the eventual desired fate of get_user_pages(). rday -- ======== Robert

Re: how to reduce both vmlinuz size and modules?

On Sat, 26 Dec 2015, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 10:39:04 -0500, "Robert P. J. Day" said: > > > if i start with the latest git kernel repo, it *looks* like i > > can use the /boot/config-4.2.8-200.fc22.x86_64 config file as a > > sta

Re: how to reduce both vmlinuz size and modules?

On Sat, 26 Dec 2015, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 10:39:04 -0500, "Robert P. J. Day" said: > > > if i start with the latest git kernel repo, it *looks* like i can > > use the /boot/config-4.2.8-200.fc22.x86_64 config file as a starting >

how to reduce both vmlinuz size and modules?

ot; kernel selections to "m" as possible, while the second would then remove any module config selections that are currently not loaded. am i reading that correctly? is there a simpler way to do this? rday -- =============

if i want powerpc "local bus" support, must i select CONFIG_FSL_LBC?

ch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_lbc.c) to get that support? i'm puzzled only because, if that file is required for local bus support, the people who gave us the BSP really should have turned it on. thanks for any guidance. rday -- =======

viability of supporting interrupts in user space driver?

of that? is there an example someone can point at that demonstrates the goodness or not of such an approach? has anyone out there done this, and lived to regret it in terms of performance? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: looking for decent, current online discussion of user-space drivers

On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Anupam Kapoor wrote: > > >>>>> [2015-11-17T15:43:52+0530]: "Robert P. J. Day" (rpjday): > ,[ rpjday ] > | > | in particular, are there any nice examples of this that > | can be downloaded, built and played with? thanks mu

looking for decent, current online discussion of user-space drivers

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Re: is there a reason "usbhid.quirks" parameter is not root writable?

On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, Bjørn Mork wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> writes: > > On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, Greg KH wrote: > > > >> You can add a runtime quirk to the device itself when it shows up in > >> sysfs for the hid

is there a reason "usbhid.quirks" parameter is not root writable?

reason that that parameter is defined as read-only rather than, say, writable by root? would it not be useful to be able to modify that parameter at run-time? or is there something about that parameter for which that would be a really bad idea? rday -- ===============

Re: is there a reason "usbhid.quirks" parameter is not root writable?

On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 03:15:41AM -0700, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > short form: is there some reason that the usbhid "quirks" parameter > > is not by default compiled to be writable in case you wanted to adjust >

Re: Safety in Kernel Development

On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Kenneth Adam Miller wrote: Ok- so I know that C is the defacto standard for kernel development... and that's probably where you should have stopped typing. :-) rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: how it the linux implementation of double linked lists useful

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Re: What can I do if I sent a wrong patch?

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Re: When to resend a patchset?

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Re: About Low Hanging Fruits

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working with linux-next ... must tags be fetched separately?

would it not be sufficient to run simply: $ git fetch --tags linux-next or am i misreading something? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http

Re: working with linux-next ... must tags be fetched separately?

On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Harsh Jain wrote: Hi, git fetch --tags linux-next Will only fetch the tags not changed files content/data. To fetch file changes git fetch linux-next Is required. On 28 June 2015 14:59:15 GMT+05:30, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: perusing

Re: About guiding hello world module submission

, you probably already know the protocol for submitting it, no? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

Re: About head of kernel linked list structure

the (obvious) consequence that you can never forget which element in a list is the head; otherwise, you'll never know which element you're not supposed to dereference. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: About head of kernel linked list structure

-kernel-programming/intermission-lets-talk-about-linked-lists-and-containerof-free rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

Re: running queue processes

on, you should check the man page. you're not doing your reputation any favours. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

Re: Suggested environments for kernel development

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[PATCH] .gitignore: Simplify Git ignoring generated directories.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca --- am i correct in assuming that this change, first of all, makes it clear that only directories are involved and, also, that one can simply ignore all directories with the name generated? diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index

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