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 http://vger.ke

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 http://vge

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 ch

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: [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 h

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: 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 onli

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