ndiswrapper. Just upgrade to a more recent kernel, in your case you
just have to upgrade to the latest Fedora version.
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simply because all drives use
the same interface standard. Once you've created a driver for that
standard, all drives are supported. Unfortunately for you, the drivers
for SATA and SCSI drives were written long time ago.
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on.
Erik
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nidhi mittal nidhimitta...@gmail.com wrote:
hello all
this is actual o/p of my make
directory
`/home/nidhi/STUDY/LINUX/LINUX_Source_Codes/linux-2.6.28.7'
You shouldn't use floating point math in your kernel module.
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to the list. Randomly CC'ing subscribers
isn't any faster, just more annoying for those subscribers.
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Is there any specific reason for the same ?
Block devices have historically used a 512 byte blocksize. That will
change in the future, but the default blocksize will remain 512 bytes
for a long time.
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driver.
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a way to capture all messages. I want to follow boot up
sequence and want to check any error message at boot up time i want to
capture.
Try serial console or netconsole.
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:51:22 +0800 Tekale Sharad-FHJN78
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Erik Mouw wrote:
No need to write that, support for IEEE 802.1Q VLAN has been in the
kernel for ages.
I need to write the vlan driver for Marvell chip(88e6060), fortunately
it is supported in 2.6.28 kernel
that, it's already there.
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manual pages for them. In that
case, see http://linux.die.net/man/2/tee and
http://linux.die.net/man/2/splice .
Apropos efficiency: I think you could have copied/rsynced your
filesystem to a new disk in the time you have been trying to implement
a kernel module... ;-)
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and xterms on your machine. /dev/pts
removed that limit.
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:~/Desktop/drivers/host$ modprobe ohci-hcd
FATAL: Module ohci_hcd not found.Can anyone tell what to do now...Thanks
Your shell prompt suggests that you are a normal user. You can only use
modprobe as root.
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On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:39:08 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day
rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Erik Mouw wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:56:00 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day
rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:
after i mounted /dev/pts (rw), ssh connections started to work
is not kernel related so off topic on this
list.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Shyam Burkule [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Hi All,
I need information on open source network monitor tool that can monitor
windows and Linux systems.
Thanks
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want to subscibe, send a
message (text only, HTML messages like the one you send to this list are
automatically dropped on vger) with the linux subscribe linux-scsi to
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becoz lot of
ppl would be having the same problem. couldnt see any help in FAQ
also.
The admin alone won't help you, the mailing list members also have to
cooperate. I for myself won't reply to mailing list messages with silly
pseudo-legal disclaimers.
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Does it matter?
No, lspci is a userspace utility with a different list of known PCI IDs.
On Debian systems, you can update it (as root) with the
command update-pciids.
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used for NFS booting.
Please let me know where I am wrong?
Try to use less memory. Enable less kernel features, optimize for size
and not for speed, use a smaller userland (try the
uclibc/busybox/tinylogin combination).
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forgot to set the number. Without seeing the code, it's hard
to tell what's wrong.
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messing with assembly and use C.
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, it will work on an AMD CPU. Without source
it is impossible to tell why it doesn't work for you.
BTW, is this really a kernel related question?
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 03:40:12PM +0530, jelari wrote:
Is there any API exists to get a ip address of my machine?..
No, because IP adresses belong to interfaces and not to
machines/hosts..
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file with the keyword
extern. So foo.c has:
int bar;
And foo.h has:
extern int bar;
If baz.c wants to use the variable bar, it will only have to include
foo.h:
#include foo.h
/* ... */
bar = 42;
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the build process hangs and there is no
option left but a hard reboot.
Sounds like bad hardware. Check cooling and memory.
Please let me know what all options can be tried in order to solve this
problem.
Google for sig11 faq.
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HTH,
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conventions, but also structure layouts) from 4.1.1.
Or should I install two version of gcc on the F9 machine (And I am not
sure it is possible).?
You could try to do that. Another trick is to install fc6 with the
correct compiler in a virtual machine (like qemu), or in a chroot.
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: if you want to develop using ancient
kernels, then you are on your own.
waiting for replies
Good luck waiting...
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) and if it is, it
will increase the refcount for that inode. Because all references to
files are done by inode and not by path, it will even work when you
have hardlinked files. The in-memory inode has a refcount, the on-disk
inode will not change when a file is merely opened.
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to overcome this issue?
Check errno to see what's going wrong. Oh, and to get the amount of
system ticks is a bad idea, see the return value section in times(2).
(I guess you will find you get an error after 5 minutes, not after 3).
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fine.Has anyone seen this behavior
before? And how to solve this?
Could be a Hyperterminal problem, try a different terminal emulator to
be sure. Could be a problem with messed up terminal line settings. Try
stty sane to get them right.
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or journalling, it has to be filesystem dependant..isn't
it ?
If the OS doesn't support journalling (i.e.: doesn't support ext3 which
basically is ext2+journalling), it can still mount the filesystem as an
ext2 filesystem. Therefore journalling is a compatible feature.
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a look at the git homepage at htp://www.git.or.cz/ . The
documentation section has a couple of good links.
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) should be used to protect *data*, not to protect *code*.
It's not bad if two threads execute the same *code* at the same time,
as long as they don't access the same *data* at the same time.
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, and a target (disk should be fine).
How do I know if there is a SCSI adapter in my PC.
lspci should tell you. Otherwise open the case and look for a SCSI
connector.
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Could you try to recreate it on a recent kernel? (2.6.24.4, for
example). The lkml folks hate to chase bugs that are already fixed in
newer kernels.
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for the block list (direct, indirect, double indirect
and triple indirect blocks). If the destination name is longer than the
required space, they will allocate a data block for it instead.
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:20:35AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Erik Mouw wrote:
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 03:20:31AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
following up on a short article i just read, where is /dev/kmem
these days? was it actually deleted? back in 2005
786688 * 4096 = 374048 = 0xc010, which according to the
System.map is startup_32.
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blocks if it fits, and/or otherwise data blocks. See the
comments at the top of fs/ext3/xattr.c:
* Extended attributes are stored directly in inodes (on file systems with
* inodes bigger than 128 bytes) and on additional disk blocks.
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crash the whole system. IOW: It sacrifies the protection
the kernel provides for a very minimal speed increase.
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block becomes a branch and the
normal code flows just straight. Something like:
if(unlikely(ptr == NULL)) {
printk(KERN_EMERG AARGH\n);
panic();
}
foo(ptr);
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typically increase code size. It also performs further optimiza‐
tions designed to reduce code size.
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. The larger the number, the larger
the LBA the command takes.
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the raid.
http://storagefoo.blogspot.com/2006/04/lost-writes.html
Any suggestions or links ???
That's a non-existent problem, IMHO. If a device doesn't raise an error
when writing a block is not successful, I'd send it back for warranty
to the vendor.
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can help to solve it another way.
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that they look like below.
uhm, prevents inlining at all cost? And no -O, even -Os?
Some inlining is required and it shouldn't really matter for debugging.
You probably want -O, not -Os or -O2.
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:57:33AM +0530, Max Stirling wrote:
Erik Mouw wrote:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:34:16PM +0530, Max Stirling wrote:
cat /proc/devices shows fb but when I do ls -l /dev I don't find the
fb node
The X-server should be using the framebuffer (/dev/fb)? So why
the runtime initialisation clear the BSS.
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the user is a
process.
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Please do not top post.
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:03:54AM -0800, Mrunal Gawade wrote:
Thanks Erik. Are you aware of Sha1 and other cryptographic being available
in kernel?
Yes, see the crypto directory in your kernel source tree.
Erik
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:12:38PM +0530, Rajat Jain wrote:
Hi,
Use syscall(SYSTEM_CALL_NUMBER, arg1, arg2, arg3);
_syscall3() macro are are not supported nowadays.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/5/314
Who is supposed to provide syscall()?? C library? Where do I find its
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:17:37PM +0530, Onkar wrote:
are SCSI drivers very difficut to write.
Because SCSI is quite a difficult protocol.
Why is there so fuss about them
Because it's easy to get wrong and because the SCSI layer is in a
constant rewrite.
and writers of such drivers are
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:02:06PM +0530, shuab wrote:
Can any body give me the flow of BLKRRPORT of ioctl
I guess you mean BLKRRPART, not BLKRRPORT. See function
blkdev_locked_ioctl() in block/ioctl.c and follow it from there.
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:48:25AM +0530, sahlot arvind wrote:
The vast majority of it probably is, some of it isn't and it'll depend on
the architecture...
So isn't there a thick line that this code is PIC and this is not?
What I understand is that on any arch code, which runs before
Please don't top-post.
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 05:29:09PM +0530, Manoj Gupta wrote:
In my understading, xtime variable stores the current time and date, which
has
tv_sec - seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970 (UTC)
tv_nsec - nanoseconds in the last second
That is indeed UTC, but my
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Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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Q: Should I leave
Please don't top-post.
Please keep the list CC'ed at all times.
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:13:08AM +0530, Onkar wrote:
what about getcfg ?
What's getcfg supposed to do? I don't have that command on my Debian
system.
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:55:44PM +0530, Onkar wrote:
How do i find a device driver (module .ko ) associated with the device ?
Check the major number of the device node and look it up in
/proc/devices . That should at least give some ideas about what driver
services what device.
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 05:49:32PM +0530, Kathiresan, Lekshmanan wrote:
Hi All,
I have written code to create ordinary file from Linux kernel
module. This code is working fine in normal execution, but its hangs
when this function called from hook function or ISR.
You are probably not
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:04:47PM +0530, Lal wrote:
How does mount utility find (sector) location of partition table for a
given device/file system?
Mount doesn't look for a partition table, it only knows about block
devices and mount points.
I am writing a sample mass storage driver, and
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:31:46PM +0530, amit mehta wrote:
One of our customer is facing an issue with jiffies wrap up.
on a 32 bit machine, the variable jiffies count upto 472 days.
the customer's server was up for 472 days ('uptime') and to reproduce
the same, i tried to tweak with the
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 06:37:32PM +0530, shuab wrote:
Can any one tell me. How to find out the version of ext3 file system for
AS4-up6. is there any command to do this.
There is no ext3 version, there is just ext3. The next version of the
ext3 filesystem will be called ext4.
Erik
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 03:04:34PM +0300, Konstantin Kalin wrote:
Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
Hi
On Jan 10, 2008 5:58 PM, Konstantin Kalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to ask your help with strange behavior of kernel 2.6.21-7.
try to upgrade to latest stable first.
Please don't top-post.
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 01:52:52PM +0530, Chetan Nanda wrote:
Yes, I have done grep but 'include/asm-i386/dwarf2.h' also defined
some macros ..
I am not able to understand those macros ..
Are these GCC specifics .. basically what is the purpose for these ?
No, they
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 11:39:42AM +0530, V.Ravikumar wrote:
Please help me in writing a linux usb sniffer.
See Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt .
Erik
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 07:05:25PM +0530, Mukund JB. wrote:
I am just curious about a concept I would like to know about PXE.
If suppose my PXE succesfully goes through the DHCP and gathers the
Image from the network through tftp (not a linux image but an
authentication module) and executes
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 06:11:10PM +0100, Andrea Gasparini wrote:
I want to assign bttv irqs in order to don't share irqs between bttv cards.
So, can i try to assign statically, at least for some test, irqs in bttv
code?
Could I lead to some problem doing that?
Yes, the problem is that you
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 01:20:53PM -0300, Jorge Pereira wrote:
anybody have any idea about how to make hooking of stdin?
Yes, 34 years ago Doug McIlroy thought about it when writing a shell
and Ken Thompson implemented it overnight in Unix[1].
eg: i has the device barcode that receive bytes in
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:06:20PM +0800, Wang Yu wrote:
Recent distributed systems usually adopt object-based storage, and every
object has several replications to avoid data loss. When several clients
access the same file concurrently, are there some algorithms to improve read
performace
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:02:26PM +0530, Thippeswamy, Aravind wrote:
I am facing problems while I try to compile a simple Hello
World Kernel module. I am using RHEL 5 (2.6.12.x kernel).
This is the program that I am trying to compile.
/*
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 03:48:21PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
Le Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:05:52 +0530,
amol verule [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
hi aravind
/lib/modules/kernel_version/build is a softlink to source code of
kernel.. create softlink to kernel source ...then try once again
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:08:12PM +0530, Amogh Hooshdar wrote:
I am a newbie in the world of Linux kernel. I have lots of questions
and some may be really silly. So, I will be asking a lot of questions
in the coming few months. I hope asking such questions is considered
OK here. If not,
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 06:52:41PM +0530, Amogh Hooshdar wrote:
I was trying the code at http://www.faqs.org/docs/kernel/x1206.html
Note that the code over there was written with linux-2.4 in mind. As
lots of things changed in 2.6, it is very well possible that the
examples don't compile against
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 09:22:28PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
just perusing the simple code in init/noinitramfs.c, which is
what's invoked if you choose not to build in initrd support:
No, that's invoked when you choose not to build initramfs. IOW: it is
used when you build with initrd.
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 08:03:17AM -0600, Linto Poulose E wrote:
What is the differnce between printf and printk
Easy: printf() is for userspace, printk() is for kernel space.
Erik
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On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:47:51PM +0100, Marcus Nutzinger wrote:
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I've read through the /KernelProjects page at Kernelnewbies and I think
I'm interested in developing this statistics interface for /dev/random..
Unfortunately, this project has no Contact
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:13:45PM +0800, Readon Shaw wrote:
I wanna port the kernel to my board which has a specific function,
such as generate/receive packets for throughput test, etc.
So I need to call driver function, for example, packets receiving
method.
Different NIC
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:15:57PM +0530, tomy wrote:
Currently I am doing Porting Linux to ARM platform.
I am using U-boot as my boot loader for Linux 2.6.I had set the mac
address as an environmental variable in U-boot. My problem is the Mac
address is not setting up (Means
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:39:06AM +0530, chitra wrote:
I am writing some Diagnostics code for a UART chip.
I was able to write most of our test cases from application space using
inb/outb calls.
To test the 'interrupts' generated by this device, i decided to use the
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 02:27:52PM +0530, Thippeswamy, Aravind wrote:
I would like to know if the Virtual Memory addressing is
still going to be used in an environment with out any disk/Swap-space.
The reason I ask this is because, I think that the main point to having
this
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:29:19PM -0500, Sachin Gaikwad wrote:
Is it not the case that VFS takes care of all filesystems available ?
VFS will see if a particular file belongs to ext3 or ext4 and call
that FS's drivers to access information ??
No, the VFS won't do that. The mount(8) command
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:37:24AM +0100, deena dayalan wrote:
I have written small application code in C language and it has
been compiled using gcc on RedHat 3.0 kernel 2.4.21 and Is it
possible for me to run RedHat 3.0 compiled binary on RedHat 4.0
kernel 2.6.8?
Yes, that should be
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:01:36AM -0300, Alan Menegotto wrote:
David Santos escreveu:
Hi, im triying to make a lkm that check mounted partitions and if anyone
of this partitios hace 90% used send a signal to dmesg (printk...).
Someone know any api or library from where i would take this info
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 08:27:21PM +0530, Onkar wrote:
I am new to Linux Kernel. I have complied the kernel ;I have created a
initrd.img-2.6.22-6-686 file of size 43MB. I am unable to boot the
kernel.Please help me !!. Can anyone please give me some reliable
documentation as to how to compile
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On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:15:54PM -0300, Jorge Pereira wrote:
it's possible retrieve version of kernel using ioctl()?
No, but you could use the POSIX compatible uname(2) function instead.
Or just read the version from /proc/version .
Erik
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Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting?
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
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:18:32AM +0200, Luka Napotnik wrote:
I'm new to kernel development and have some questions.
1. Apperently kernel doesn't support operations with floating-point
types. How can I then divide a number 265 with the number 7
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 07:21:44PM +0530, Adil Mujeeb wrote:
This is regarding the stat system call. Before asking the question, let me
tell you the environment setup of my test machine.
I have kernel version 2.6.19 installed and my home
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On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 04:36:08PM -0500, Christopher Reder wrote:
In trying to track down potential ram issues, I was messing around with
different devices. I have a ram chip, 32meg on the bus of a at91rm9200.
Is there a way to view the
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On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 01:41:33PM +0200, Andre Haupt wrote:
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 04:11:26PM +0530, amol verule wrote:
have used any append-version or revision?
Yes, I have selected both CONFIG_LOCALVERSION and CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO.
My
thing.
See the mailing list archives for an explanation why this is
considered evil. Erik Mouw and others explained that very well.
(Sorry, dont have a link handy)
It's in the FAQ on the website.
Erik
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They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll
eventually get
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On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 05:52:21PM +0300, Ramagudi Naziir wrote:
LWN quote: Well over 500 changesets have been merged into the
mainline git repository since -rc1.
What does the term changeset mean ? a patch ? a set of patches ?
how is it ?
A
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On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:48:27PM +0300, Ramagudi Naziir wrote:
A changeset is a combination of changes to files in the (git)
repository. It usually contains a couple of patches, but in git it can
also be used to change file mode (make certain
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:35:29AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am writing a block device driver for an SD card accessed over SPI. If the
card is write-protected (using the little switch on the side), I would like
to inform the kernel that
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:45:55AM -0400, Min-Hua Chen wrote:
I note that the headers of the linux source have extern in the function
protoptye.
I think the extern is not necessary because all function in C are global
(except static functions),
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:04:30AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
is there some rationale to this convolution from compiler.h?
...
#ifndef __must_check
#define __must_check
#endif
#ifndef CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
#undef __must_check
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