Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Doug Whitesell (LKML)
On Oct 14, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Rik van Riel wrote: The kernel newbies community often gets inquiries from CS students who need a project for their studies and would like to do something with the Linux kernel, but would also like their code to be useful to the community afterwards. In order to ma

Re: PROBLEM: kernel panic

2007-10-14 Thread Doug Whitesell (LKML)
On Oct 14, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Scott Petler wrote: Trond, I'm not exactly sure how to go back to not using the nvidia driver and select the xorg one. I do know that I wasn't able to use both monitors with the xorg driver, but I'm willing to try that to isolate the problem. If memory serv

[PATCH] Include asm/vsyscall.h in arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c.

2007-10-14 Thread Doug Whitesell (LKML)
The VSYSCALL_START and VSYSCALL_END symbols are referenced in apply_alternatives(), but vsyscall.h is not always included when building on x86-64 with random configurations. Including asm/vsyscall.h guarantees availability of the symbols, and is otherwise harmless. Signed-off-by: Doug Whitesell <