procfs and ptrace

2015-02-09 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
what are the issues of using procfs in place of ptrace? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

procfs and ptrace

2015-02-09 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
what are the issues of using procfs in place of ptrace? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

need help RE panasonic cf-w7 embedded controller

2015-01-29 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
Anyone with information regarding the programming of the Panasonic CF-W7 embedded laptop controller? Please? Thank You in Advance -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at

need help RE panasonic cf-w7 embedded controller

2015-01-29 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
Anyone with information regarding the programming of the Panasonic CF-W7 embedded laptop controller? Please? Thank You in Advance -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at

atomic_inc and spin_lock_irq

2014-12-18 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
whats the difference between: atomic_inc(>count); and spin_lock_irq(>lock); ++port->count; spin_unlock_irq(>lock); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at

atomic_inc and spin_lock_irq

2014-12-18 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
whats the difference between: atomic_inc(port-count); and spin_lock_irq(port-lock); ++port-count; spin_unlock_irq(port-lock); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at

Fwd: direct firmware load failure with loadable kernel modules and userspace firmware loader user helper fallback turned off

2014-12-04 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
-- Forwarded message -- From: Rogelio M. Serrano Jr. Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:48 AM Subject: direct firmware load failure with loadable kernel modules and userspace firmware loader user helper fallback turned off To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dec 3 10:18:02 (none

Fwd: mysterious udev segfault

2014-12-04 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
-- Forwarded message -- From: Rogelio M. Serrano Jr. Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:53 AM Subject: Re: mysterious udev segfault To: Mathias Krause On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Mathias Krause wrote: > > > Probably not. But I don't think the grsec patch changes

Fwd: mysterious udev segfault

2014-12-04 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
-- Forwarded message -- From: Rogelio M. Serrano Jr. rogelios...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:53 AM Subject: Re: mysterious udev segfault To: Mathias Krause mini...@googlemail.com On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Mathias Krause mini...@googlemail.com wrote: snipped

Fwd: direct firmware load failure with loadable kernel modules and userspace firmware loader user helper fallback turned off

2014-12-04 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
-- Forwarded message -- From: Rogelio M. Serrano Jr. rogelios...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:48 AM Subject: direct firmware load failure with loadable kernel modules and userspace firmware loader user helper fallback turned off To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dec

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-26 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
Mark Lord wrote: > Why does link(2) not support hard-linking across bind mount points > of the same underlying filesystem ? do we need link(2) at all? bind mounts are supposed to be (hard/soft) link minus the headaches. -- Democracy is about two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-26 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
Mark Lord wrote: Why does link(2) not support hard-linking across bind mount points of the same underlying filesystem ? do we need link(2) at all? bind mounts are supposed to be (hard/soft) link minus the headaches. -- Democracy is about two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for dinner.

Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

2007-12-08 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
Ben Crowhurst wrote: > Loïc Grenié wrote: >> 2007/11/29, Ben Crowhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? >>> >>> regards, >>> BPC >>> >> I have tried it in a toy kernel. Oskit style. The code reuse is very high specially with string ops

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

2007-12-08 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
Ben Crowhurst wrote: Loïc Grenié wrote: 2007/11/29, Ben Crowhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? regards, BPC I have tried it in a toy kernel. Oskit style. The code reuse is very high specially with string ops and driver interfaces.

Re: [poll] Is the megafreeze development model broken?

2007-11-12 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
Adrian Bunk wrote: >> >> The core libc and supporting libraries is the core. and the toolchain >> the core dev. Those can be updated twice or even once a year. The kernel >> can be updated once a month if you like. >> > > A new release of the Linux kernel has more than half a million lines of

Re: [poll] Is the megafreeze development model broken?

2007-11-12 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > >> But the good thing about open source software is that when you believe >> your ideas are better than what current distributions do you can >> implement your ideas and create your own distribution. >> > > Haha, the typical FOSS advocate's fallacy. Quote: > > “You

Re: [poll] Is the megafreeze development model broken?

2007-11-12 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 01:51:25PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > >> On 2007-11-12, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I think a megafreeze development model is sane. Finding a collection >>> of software versions that are all known to work together is

Re: [poll] Is the megafreeze development model broken?

2007-11-12 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 01:51:25PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-11-12, Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a megafreeze development model is sane. Finding a collection of software versions that are all known to work together is very

Re: [poll] Is the megafreeze development model broken?

2007-11-12 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
Tuomo Valkonen wrote: But the good thing about open source software is that when you believe your ideas are better than what current distributions do you can implement your ideas and create your own distribution. Haha, the typical FOSS advocate's fallacy. Quote: “You have the

Re: [poll] Is the megafreeze development model broken?

2007-11-12 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
Adrian Bunk wrote: The core libc and supporting libraries is the core. and the toolchain the core dev. Those can be updated twice or even once a year. The kernel can be updated once a month if you like. A new release of the Linux kernel has more than half a million lines of code

Re: AppArmor Security Goal

2007-11-10 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > Allowing a user to tweak (under constraints) their settings might allow > them to do something like create two mozilla profiles which are isolated > from each other, so that the profile they use for general web surfing > is isolated from the one they use for

Re: AppArmor Security Goal

2007-11-10 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: Allowing a user to tweak (under constraints) their settings might allow them to do something like create two mozilla profiles which are isolated from each other, so that the profile they use for general web surfing is isolated from the one they use for online

eevdf

2007-10-16 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
i wrote a simple simulator for eevdf. im not sure if i got it right though. how does eevdf track the runtime usage of a process? is it supposed to be like this? int tick() { v_time += 1.0/sum_weights; current->runtime += 1.0/current->weight; //sched(); time++; return 0; }

eevdf

2007-10-16 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
i wrote a simple simulator for eevdf. im not sure if i got it right though. how does eevdf track the runtime usage of a process? is it supposed to be like this? int tick() { v_time += 1.0/sum_weights; current->runtime += 1.0/current->weight; //sched(); time++; return 0; }

eevdf

2007-10-16 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
i wrote a simple simulator for eevdf. im not sure if i got it right though. how does eevdf track the runtime usage of a process? is it supposed to be like this? int tick() { v_time += 1.0/sum_weights; current-runtime += 1.0/current-weight; //sched(); time++; return 0; } i

eevdf

2007-10-16 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
i wrote a simple simulator for eevdf. im not sure if i got it right though. how does eevdf track the runtime usage of a process? is it supposed to be like this? int tick() { v_time += 1.0/sum_weights; current-runtime += 1.0/current-weight; //sched(); time++; return 0; } i