Re: question about __v annotation

2010-01-06 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 11:46 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote: On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Shawn cit...@gmail.com wrote: hello guys, I got a newbie confused when I was looking into the source code of s3c2440's RTC driver.I dont know what is __v excatly means.anyone can tell?thanks

spin_lock_string (of /include/asm-i386/spinlock.h) macro definition (not clear) of version = 2.6.8

2010-01-06 Thread Sushil Mayengbam
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sushil Mayengbam hacker.mayeng...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 2:25 PM Subject: spin_lock_string (of /include/asm-i386/spinlock.h) macro definition (not clear) of version = 2.6.8 To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Hi, I couldn't understand the

Re: Embedded Linux development

2010-01-06 Thread Kalpesh Rathod
Hi Pavan, On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Pavan Kandepet pava...@gmail.com wrote:     I know I could get a development board and start working right away,     but is there any specific development board that you folks would     recommend which offers great Linux support? I should be able read

Re: Fwd: Embedded Linux development

2010-01-06 Thread Shaz
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, topon topaz wrote: Hi Pavan, you can give a look at the OpenMoko FreeRunner. It's a Linux phone powered by a Samsung S3C2442 ARM CPU. It has USB,  WiFi,  Bluetooth, GPS,  SD card,  touchscreen 

anyone use sparse for static code analysis?

2010-01-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
just curious ... i've never taken a close at sparse. is anyone using it for code analysis outside of the linux kernel? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux

Re: Fwd: Embedded Linux development

2010-01-06 Thread Anand Arumugam
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.cawrote: On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, topon topaz wrote: Hi Pavan, you can give a look at the OpenMoko FreeRunner. It's a Linux phone powered by a Samsung S3C2442 ARM CPU. It has USB, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, SD card,

Suggestions for implementing a persistent binary tree

2010-01-06 Thread Joel Fernandes
There is a certain hashtable that I am currently implementing in the kernel using file handling for sake of persistence. It is actually a file-based binary tree (nodes are referred to by file offsets instead of memory addresses). The problem is that the tree can get unbalanced quite quickly and