Kernel Projects

Hi, Does anybody know if there is a program to offer small (or big) kernel projects to students or someone who are interested in? I'm looking for programs like Google Summer of Code or http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects I'm interested to contribute with kernel patches, but I don't know how

Re: Kernel Projects

Thanks Greg K-H and Greg Freemyer. You gave me helpful tips to start. Att, -- *Julio Cesar Faracco* *University of São Paulo - Brazil* ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kern

Re: Learning to write kernel modules

There is a free on-line version of that book, Narendra. https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ I will suggest "Professional Linux Kernel Architecture" by Wolfgang Mauerer too. I don't know if an on-line version, but it's a good book. -- Julio Cesar Faracco University of São Paulo - Brazil ___

Re: [Eudyptula Challenge] Not receiving tasks.

Hi Eduardo! I'm having the same problem in the same task! I haven't received tasks and results since last Sunday! Julio Cesar Faracco University of São Paulo - Brazil ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnew

Re: [Eudyptula Challenge] Not receiving tasks.

Finally, I received a new task. Eudyptula is working again I guess. Julio Cesar Faracco University of São Paulo - Brazil Em 16/05/2014 18:51, "Kai Bojens" escreveu: > > > On 16. Mai 2014 16:06:12 MESZ, Sudip Mukherjee > wrote: > > > I will start it next week. I was thinking of taking two usb ke

Re: Eudyptula Challenge

Hi Greg. Maybe the system is overloaded again. =/ The last task I sent was answered in five days. Don't worry and wait. Is there anyone who is facing the same thing? Thanks. -- Julio Cesar Faracco University of São Paulo - Brazil ___ Kernelnewbies ma

Re: Writing kernel in C

Hi Saurabh! This is a project of a friend of mine. It called TempOS. It is a kernel for educational purpose too. http://tempos-project.org/ The project is listed in OSDev Wiki too. http://wiki.osdev.org/Projects Att, -- Julio Cesar Faracco University of São Paulo - Brazil

How to force my usb mouse using a kernel module created by myself?

Hi everyone! It's a dumb question, but is not working with me. Does anybody knows how to force my usb mouse using a kernel module created by myself? When I plug my mouse it need to load my module and not the generic one. Thanks! *Julio Cesar Faracco*

Re: How to force my usb mouse using a kernel module created by myself?

Hi Bobby! Yes, you're right! I did the task, but I cannot prove to myself if my module works! I tryed udev rules and I read the chapter 14. But no progess... That article is so useful to me. Thanks! =) *Julio Cesar Faracco* ___ Kernelnewbies mailing li

Where is the source code of udev?

Hi everybody. Where can I find the updated source code of udev? I'm cloning the source from here: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/hotplug/udev.git/ Is it right? Thanks! -- *Julio Cesar Faracco* ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbi

Testing network kernel module

Hi everyone. Does anyone know a good way to test the tx_timeout function from the net_device_ops struct? In other words, I want to force a timeout exception to check if my code is doing what I expect. To test it, I'm avoiding the clean up of the output buffer. So, when the buffer is full the mod

Re: I have a large patch in the 2000 lines. What to do?

I believe that it was answered. What is the recommendation when I change a structure in a include file and this change causes a lots of new changes, for example? Julio Cesar Faracco 2015-10-10 11:14 GMT-03:00 Greg KH : > On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 08:02:49AM +0700, Ivan Safonov wrote: >> On 10/10/2

Should I specify the mount type every time? What are the recommendations...?

Hi guys, I want your opinion about a syscall: mount(). Today, a problem brought back this doubt. I see a lots of code that calls/uses mount() syscall. But, recently, running Valgrind, it showed an error saying that you cannot specify NULL as the 'type' argument of mount function. An example from

How to add a block into blkio.throttle.io_service*?

Hi everybody, I'm having some problems to understand how to add a block device into blkio.throttle.* . Being more specific, I cannot see my block listed into blkio.throttle.io_serviced. An example... I'm running docker with a loopback device attached: $ docker run -ti --device=/dev/loop16:/dev/lo