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On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 22:15 +0800, Cong WANG wrote:
[...]
Another question is about NULL. AFAIK, in user space, using NULL is
better than directly using 0 in C. In kernel, I know it used its own
NULL, which may be defined as ((void*)0),
Userspace has the usually same definition.
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 16:24 +0100, Richard Knutsson wrote:
[...]
more readable). The big problem is, where to put it? Seems wrong to put
in linux/string.h since it appear to be a replica of userspace's
string.h (otherwise, why put mem*-functions in there?).
memcpy(3) and memcmp(3) are also
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 18:09 +0100, Richard Knutsson wrote:
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 16:24 +0100, Richard Knutsson wrote:
[...]
more readable). The big problem is, where to put it? Seems wrong to put
in linux/string.h since it appear to be a replica
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 18:42 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
Joe Perches wrote:
[...]
perhaps:
#define array_for_each(element, array) \
for ((element) = (array); \
(element) ((array) + ARRAY_SIZE((array))); \
(element)++)
If you're going for consistency, then
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 21:54 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 18:42 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
Joe Perches wrote:
[...]
perhaps:
#define array_for_each(element, array) \
for ((element) = (array); \
(element) ((array
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 22:27 -0800, v j wrote:
[...]
here. I am perfectly willing to live with the way Linux is today. I am
telling you as a user that if Linux continues on the current path it
will become less and less attractive to Embedded Users.
Which is only (or more accurate: at most) true
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 23:28 -0800, v j wrote:
On 2/14/07, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At least one of us is confused about that an embedded User is.
It seems to me that you are an embedded developer, not User.
I doubt that most Embedded Users care what their OS is,
or even know
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 22:46 -0800, v j wrote:
You don't get it do you. Our source code is meaningless to the Open
Source community at large. It is only useful to our tiny set of
Perhaps you should leave that decision to the open source community at
large.
[ Useless fullquote deleted ]
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 15:37 +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote:
JDL == Jan De Luyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JDL I think a nice example of that might be the Linksys WRT54G
JDL routers.
They don't ship with Linux anymore, except the WRT54GL. Apparently
switching was worth it to save 2MB flash.
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:40 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
Ben Nizette wrote:
[...]
Question to the world here: Distros make, as a matter of course, a
series of modifications to the Linux Kernel so that their modules or
features work. What stops VJ making a patchset which effectively
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 17:41 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:40 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
Rhetorical question: what stops me from taking somebody's copyrighted
work, stripping the copyrights or falsely claiming to have a license
to redistribute
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 03:19 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Actually, the *real* reason embedded systems end up using old versions is
much simpler.
ACK.
They start developing their code on release 2.X.Y, and they keep their code
out-of-tree. Then, when they come up for air, and it's
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:36 -0600, Scott Preece wrote:
[...]
Note that it is possible that what vj said is strictly true. IF the
product they ship is non-modifiable, then it's hard to argue that
anyone else could maintain it. And if the drivers are for devices
The GPL has no special handling
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 22:25 -0800, v j wrote:
[...]
No, just that the trend is disturbing. If enough Kernel Developers
choose to write their Software in a way that prevents others from
using it freely, then that is troubling. Especially when these Kernel
You can use it freely - your
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 07:46 +0530, Rick Brown wrote:
Your quoting style sucks. I fixed it by hand.
[...]
1) Can any one please shed some light on precisely and exactly what are
differences in different boards for which we need to port linux?
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 09:48 +0530, Ajay Singh
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 03:42 -0800, David Schwartz wrote:
[...]
Not quite. Copyright is: This particular implementation is mine, but you are
free to implement any idea any *other* way you want. You simply can't
implement an idea precisely the way I did it, but all ideas are open to you.
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 21:19 -0800, v j wrote:
[...]
Now it would also be worthwhile to contemplate what EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
does to this popularity. I don't know. I am just giving you my
The big problem with such discussions (as this) are: It is a law
decision which license applies in which
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 10:14 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:00:51 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch said:
Flame bait alert:
I heard a talk from an Austrian lawyer an according to his believes (and
I don't know if he is the only one or if there lots of) one must see
from
Sorry for feeding the troll:
On Die, 2008-01-08 at 17:52 +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
On 2008-01-08, Andre Noll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use tune2fs to deactivate checking.
So, a workaround is the answer to a clear bug. Typical FOSS.
At least you get a simple solution for your problem:
On Fre, 2008-01-11 at 10:21 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
On 01/11/2008 10:17 AM, Daniel Walker wrote:
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 09:52 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
On 01/11/2008 05:10 AM, Daniel Walker wrote:
A little feature addition to allow checkpatch.pl to check patches piped
into it, in addition
On Fre, 2008-01-11 at 01:47 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 10:41 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
On 01/11/2008 10:36 AM, Daniel Walker wrote:
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 10:34 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
If somebody is hacking kernel, I think he should know the - trick used
in many
On Fre, 2008-01-11 at 01:30 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 10:23 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
On Fre, 2008-01-11 at 10:21 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
On 01/11/2008 10:17 AM, Daniel Walker wrote:
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 09:52 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
On 01/11/2008 05
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 09:15 +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
[...]
ntpdate isn't run by any of the init scripts. ntpd is, but like I
Yes, that is a usual bug/problem in common distributions[0] as there is
no real guarantee that your clock is not far off.
Add your timeservers in
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 09:48 +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
On 2008-01-14, Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, that is a usual bug/problem in common distributions[0] as there is
no real guarantee that your clock is not far off.
It isn't, right after boot. But while the system
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 13:11 +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
On 2008-01-14 10:57 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
That leads to the question why the clock starts to run like crazy at
some time so that `ntpd` can't cope with it.
I do wonder whether the PSU could've been causing it. Now
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 09:13 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
I sent this to kernel newbies first, and while I got one response there,
it answered a different question than the one I was asking...
Are you sure?
I'm on a SuSE system.
I'm working on automating the install of said system, but it
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 19:05 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
[]
Being rpm ignorant I do not know what the expected content of a kernel-source
RPM
are but this is the available targets for kernel packaging (from make help):
The kernel-source including all patches and configured as usually to be
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 10:31 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:09:26 +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
[...]
I'm on a SuSE system.
I'm working on automating the install of said system, but it needs a
Linus kernel - 2.6.21.7 specifically, and it needs kernel source too so
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 19:51 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 07:11:21PM +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 19:05 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
[]
Being rpm ignorant I do not know what the expected content of a
kernel-source RPM
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 20:16 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
But we are talking[0] about a kernel-source-$VERSION.$ARCH.rpm's which
contain
the kernel sources (read: lots of .c and .h files, etc.) - including a
matching
.config and after `make oldconfig` - so that one can build out-of-tree
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 08:51 -0600, Latchesar Ionkov wrote:
Zero was the value that was used before, even though it wasn't defined
explicitly. I just defined a macro so we can see and eventually change
it to something better. I don't know if there is a good default value.
Is nfsnobody the same
On Don, 2007-12-06 at 21:46 +0530, Amogh Hushdar wrote:
[...]
none of this is available, at least a tarball that I can download
using my browser?
Look at http://www.kernel.org/
Bernd
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On Mit, 2007-12-12 at 10:02 -0800, Daniel Phillips wrote:
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 09:46, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
[...]
People have proposed writing a daemon that just reads
/proc/net/rpc/nfsd periodically and uses that to adjust the number of
threads from userspace, probably subject to
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 12:39 +0700, Theewara Vorakosit wrote:
[...]
I get MAC address from ioctl. However, ifconfig can change this MAC
address. Can I get a real physical MAC address of the NIC?
- You can get the initial MAC address right after bootup before anyone
changes it.
- Some (if not
On Die, 2008-01-01 at 22:58 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 12:39:11PM +0700, Theewara Vorakosit wrote:
Hello,
I get MAC address from ioctl. However, ifconfig can change this MAC
address. Can I get a real physical MAC address of the NIC?
yes. It's
On Mit, 2007-10-24 at 17:35 -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
[]
Key-based masterlocks are easily broken with freon, and their combo
locks are easily brute-forced in about ten minutes. Yet, I'll still
use them to lock up my bike and garage.
The question is what the security threat is and the value of
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 09:04 -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
On 10/25/07, Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mit, 2007-10-24 at 17:35 -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
[]
Key-based masterlocks are easily broken with freon, and their combo
locks are easily brute-forced in about ten minutes. Yet
On Die, 2007-10-23 at 15:35 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:22:50AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
It's not a hard experiment to do.
The answer is:
warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value
A warning is not an error. It won't
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 17:07 +0530, rohit h wrote:
On Feb 8, 2008 9:24 PM, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Compiling the kernel module with g++ is not a simple work, you may
need big patch for kernel itself.
I don't want to compile entire kernel.
I only want to compile my
On Fre, 2007-09-28 at 00:21 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Thursday 27 September 2007, you wrote:
Then you don't have to change every single printk in the kernel, but
only those that don't currently come with a log level. More importantly,
you can do the conversion without a flag day, by
On Don, 2007-09-27 at 12:41 +0100, mahamuni ashish wrote:
I have small code
And the relevance to the Linux kernel as such is?
[]
Add -Wall -Wextra and fix all errors and warnings.
Expected output is
No.
Bernd
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On Die, 2007-10-09 at 12:20 +0300, Grosjo.net - jom wrote:
[...]
Would it be possible to include the patches (available on www.synce.org)
for WindowsMobile5, as most mobile phones are under Window$, and it is
very convenient to connect it to the laptop under Linux
do {
Test them
review
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 16:03 +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
[...]
So, now, it's down to dirty fighting. Absorbing and `relicensing' and
evolving code. Have you all been bitten my RMS paranoia (that leads to
this `interesting GPLv3) ? Do you intend to keep grabbing BSD code and
putting it
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 06:47 +, Noud Aldenhoven wrote:
Thank you for your information and help,
I think it's a lot more clear for me now.
I've seen the ldd3 some time ago, but someone told me that book was
out-of-date. Guess he was wrong. Would it also be use full to use some
kind of
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:07 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
In a block device driver, how do you tell the kernel that your block device
is read-only? Is it in the registration of the gendisk, or is there an
ioctl I should be catching to inform the kernel (and user) that this disk
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 15:47 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:04 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
On 8/2/07, Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The linux kernel doesn't have a type safe object allocator a-la new()
in C++ or g_new() in glib.
Introduce two
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 11:40 +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:47:56AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
[]
While we're talking of null-termination of strings, then I bet you
generally want to be using strlcpy(), really. Often strncpy() isn't
what you want. Of course, if that
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:08 -0300, Humberto Massa wrote:
Adrian Bunk wrote:
Debian doesn't seem to care much about the possible legal problems of
patents.
You have lots of possible legal problems of any kind. Basically
everyone can sue you for (almost) whatever he wants almost all ofth
time.
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 17:37 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
Richard B. Johnson wrote:
No. Accompany it with a written offer to __provide__ the source
code for any GPL stuff they used (like the kernel or drivers).
Anything at the application-level is NOT covered by the GPL.
That depends on
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:34 +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
[...]
So... why is Gentoo the only distro the uses parallel execution of
init scripts ?
Because no other distro bothered to implement it.
Apart from that we as quite far off-topic for LKML since this has
nothing to do with kernel.
The
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:55 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
[...]
The init-script dependencies are specifies already - at least on debian.
These are not dependencies but only the sequence of startup (and it is
not only Debian but also Fedora/RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake and probably all
except Gentoo).
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:20 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:55 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
[...]
These are not dependencies but only the sequence of startup (and it is
not only Debian but also Fedora/RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake and probably all
except
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 22:03 +0100, Oliver Antwerpen wrote:
Matthias-Christian Ott schrieb:
Oliver Antwerpen wrote:
SuSE has patched UNICON into the kernel which will cause these servers
to hang when booted with vga=normal. The system will run fine in
fb-mode, but not in plain text.
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:38 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
[...]
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
#define find_first_zero_bit(addr, size) \
find_next_zero_bit ((addr), (size), 0)
-extern __inline__ int find_next_zero_bit (void *addr, int size, int offset)
+extern __inline__ int find_next_zero_bit(const
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 22:12 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 06:07:41PM -0600, Moore, Eric Dean wrote:
[...]
What you illustrated above is not going to work.
If your doing #ifndef around a function, such as scsi_device_online, it's
not going to compile
when
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:16 +0200, Bastiaan Naber wrote:
[...]
I have a 15 GB file which I want to place in memory via tmpfs. I want to do
this because I need to have this data accessible with a very low seek time.
Apart fromn the 32-vs-64bit thing: Isn't it enough (and simpler and more
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 11:12 +0200, Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
[...]
On a 64bit machine:
$ gcc test.c -o test64 ; ./test64; file ./test64
sizeof(void *): 8
sizeof(size_t): 8
test64: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for
GNU/Linux 2.4.0, dynamically linked (uses shared
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:31 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote:
[...]
2. All other software on the machine is 32-bit software. Will that
software work with a 64-bit kernel?
Basically yes.
E.g. open-office does not exist natively for 64bit architectuires ATM.
Bernd
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On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:31 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote:
[...]
2. All other software on the machine is 32-bit software. Will that
software work with a 64-bit kernel?
Basically yes.
E.g. open-office does not exist natively for 64bit architectures ATM (at
least not on x86-compatibles).
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 08:27 -0300, Vinicius wrote:
[...]
I have a server with 2 Pentium 4 HT processors and 32 GB of RAM, this
server runs lots of applications that consume lots of memory to. When I stop
this applications, the kernel doesn't free memory (the memory still in use)
and the
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 18:15 -0400, Puneet Vyas wrote:
[...]
I just compiled two identical program , one with != and other with
^. The assembly output is identical.
Hmm, which compiler and which version?
You might want to try much older and other compilers.
Bernd
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On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 08:07 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
[...]
To answer for x *= 2 vs x = 1:
and x += x
Use * when you would logically want to do a multiplication,
if you're working on a bitfield. It's just for keeping the code clean
enough so that others may understand it.
In the
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:02 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
J.A. Magallon wrote:
On 07.27, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:14:43PM +, J.A. Magallon wrote:
On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote:
On 07.15, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:40 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
[...]
You're comming really late in this thread :)
Well, the same issue arised recently somewhere else too on this list and
lots of C programmers (not only beginners) don't know about the 3 char
types as speficied in the C standard.
[ The C
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 13:11 -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote:
[...]
It is Article 1 Section 8. It also says they shall have that power and
that the intent is to promote the advances of arts and sciences. It
Actually the current (ab)use of the patent system (both in the USA and
by the EPO under
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 16:55 +0100, Raphael Jacquot wrote:
[...]
as your name appears european, there are no software patents (yet ?) so
Alas, this is wrong. The EPO is issuing masses of software patents since
years (though they are more or less explicitly[0] excluded from
patentability in the
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 22:05 -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
Chris Friesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[...]
Maybe I'm on crack, but would it not be technically possible to have all
resource usage be tracked so that when a task tries to do something and
hangs, eventually it gets cleaned up?
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 21:28 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 21:36, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
Another Linux patent.
... and another - AFAICS obvious - trivial (prior art) patent (but I'm
not fluent in patent quak, I'm just a simple systems engineer).
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 01:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
[...]
It brings up another sore point with me. I'm of the opinion that both
copyright, and patent, should be granted to the author/inventor on a
non-transferable basis. He could then sell rights to use it for a
ACK. This would kill
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 15:24 +0530, root wrote:
i want run my program as a daemon..its like normal
how to do that
service squid start
Look into /etc/init.d/squid (or wherever your distribution puts the
SysV-Init startup files) on how to write a similar script for your
daemon.
And BTW this has
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 08:44 -0500, linux-os wrote:
Tue Jan 11 07:07:40 EST 2005
IBM has announced that it will provide free access to about
No, they only promise now to not sue anyone given the following
criteria. No one knows what happens in 5 years.
500 of its existing software patents to
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:37 +0100, Bernhard Schauer wrote:
And almost all of them are pure software-patents and probably prior art.
Thus they are - at least in Europe - not relevant and actually illegal
if you believe in the current European patent law as defined by the
European Patent
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 09:54 +0530, raja wrote:
[...]
Is There Any function in c to caliculate the exact time taken to
execute block of code(in micro sec and milli sec and minuits and hours).
thanking you,
Do you mean system-time, user-space-time or the time it took in the real
world?
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 15:01 -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote:
[...]
cheap even if gas is $5 per gallon (predicted price for 2006). Better than
We have here (in Austria/Europe) ATM 1.11 € for one liter of 91 Octane
gasoline. Diesel oil is slightly (a few Cents) less. And it will
probably rise
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 20:00 -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
On Sul, 2005-06-19 at 18:55, Pavel Machek wrote:
[...]
If we are serious about utf-8 support in ext3, we should return
-EINVAL if someone passes non-canonical utf-8 string.
That would ironically not be standards
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:55 +0800, qiyong wrote:
Erik Mouw wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 05:25:37PM +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
I just wrote a tool with kernel patch, which is to set the uid's of a
running
process without FORK.
The tool is at
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 16:16 +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
[...]
(almost) every tool may become a security problem.
If you fear a bug in sudo, then write a minimal setuid wrapper for
yourself which checks for the user it started and exec's a binary (with
the full path
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 11:40 +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote:
[...]
would IMHO work better. (A userspace program is technically a better
solution, the social aspect of getting a bigger user-base is the main
reason for me to suggest the in-kernel approach).
So *if* a user wants to participate, he/she
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:56 -0600, jmerkey wrote:
Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
I mean, nvidia people also use propietary code in the kernel (probably
violating the GPL anyway) and don't do such things.
The Linux kernel allows binary drivers, you just have
On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 09:32 +0200, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
Chase Venters wrote:
[...]
Can I ask why you want to hide the database password from root?
It's easy: for security reasons. There could always be some bugs in some
software, which makes it possible for some other user, to gain
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 12:59 +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 01:16:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At least nVidia *does* actually Get It, they just don't have a choice in
implementing it, because all their current hardware includes patents that
they licensed from other
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 09:54 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Dec 27 2006 17:10, Pavel Machek wrote:
Was just wondering if the _var_ in kfree(_var_) could be set to
NULL after its freed. It may solve the problem of accessing some
freed memory as the kernel will crash since _var_ was set to
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 16:30 +1000, Trent Waddington wrote:
[...]
I think you're repeating a myth that has become a common part of
hacker lore in recent years. It's caused by how little we know about
software patents. The myth is that if you release source code which
violates someone's patent
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 21:26 +1000, Trent Waddington wrote:
On 1/2/07, Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While this is true (at last in theory), there is one difference in
practice: It is *much* easier to prove a/the patent violation if you
have (original?) source code than
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 16:23 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
I don't know about others but I wouldn't write an offer with a fixed
price for look into assembler dumps, reverse engineer it and find an
infringement on a list of given patents so
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:19 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
[...]
I watched some commercials and I almost puked when I looked at the
Microsoft Get the Facts for Linux vs Windows Server stuff.
They have a url which is http://www.microsoft.com/getthefacts
Yes, this propaganda exists
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 21:20 +, James Porter wrote:
I think some kernel developers take to much responsibility, is there a bug in
a
binary driver? Send it upstream and explain to the user that it's a closed
Plaese name them. AFAICS if there is a response, it is similar to your
kernel is
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 16:38 -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote:
[...]
The argument that a hardware company usually
invokes is that, while they don't give a horse's
pitute about the software itself, they do care
about the information the software contains
about their hardware. The concern is that
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 02:56 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bleh. Except for storage, base 1024 was used for almost everything
I remember. 4 MB memory meant 4096 KB, and that's still the case today.
Most likely the same for transfer rates.
Nope,
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 18:35 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
[...]
I can just second this. What should be marked const is [1]the things
pointed to, not [2]the local copy of a function argument.
This[2] is what I believe almost every other software project does,
Yes, also for the reason to
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 18:47 +0100, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2006 18:34 schrieb Bernd Petrovitsch:
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:56 +0100, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
[]
A small German manufacturer produces high-end AD converter cards. He sells
100 pieces per year
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:56 +0100, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
[]
A small German manufacturer produces high-end AD converter cards. He sells
100 pieces per year, only in Germany and only with Windows drivers. He would
now like to make his cards work with Linux. He has two driver programmers
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:15 +0800, Sat. wrote:
if(!(pid=fork())){
..
printk(in child process);
..
}else{
.
printk(in father process);
.
}
this is a classical example, when the fork() system call runs, it will
build a new process and
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 13:23 +0200, Budde, Marco wrote:
[]
for one of our customers I have to port a Windows driver to
Linux. Large parts of the driver's backend code consists of
C++.
How can I compile this code with kbuild? The C++ support
(I have tested with 2.6.11) of kbuild seems to
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:08 -0400, Chris Frey wrote:
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:30:34PM +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
Yes, because the official Linux kernel is pure C (using some gcc
extensions).
There is http://netlab.ru.is/exception/LinuxCXX.shtml but it is
a) not integrated
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 12:58 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:15:51 +0800, Sat. said:
Not a kernel problem, please consult an intro-to-C list next time
if(!(pid=fork())){
..
printk(in child process);
..
}else{
.
BTW you kill threading.
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 11:13 +0200, Budde, Marco wrote:
[...]
That would be because the kernel is written in *C* (and some asm),
*not* C++.
I cannot see the connection. At the end everything gets converted
to assembler/opcode. In the user space I can mix C and C++
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