Re: Ask for help, about the trivial patches.

2007-07-15 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
TripleX Chung wrote: > Jesper Juhl wrote: >> Note: my explanations below are based on how I understand these >> things, but I'm not the trivial patch monkey nor did I help create >> these guidelines, so I'm in no way authoritative on the subject. >> >> On 13/07/07, TripleX Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Hibernation considerations

2007-07-15 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Al Boldi wrote: > > This should be the responsibility of the kexec'd hibernating kernel. Note > though in (6), the normal kernel takes care of preparing devices, then the > hibernating kernel dumps the image and either calls S4 or S3. On resume > from S3 it can immediately switch over to the

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec jump: The first step to kexec base hibernation

2007-07-12 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: [snip] > > So if a user wants to install a kernel.org kernel on his system, (s)he'll have > to compile and install two kernels with different options. > > That doesn't sound good to me. :-) > definitely. that sounds kind of strange, not to think of having to remember wh

Re: NPTL

2007-07-12 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So I can say that in linux 'thread' == 'process'? > No. It's more like, in linux threads are visible to the kernel (unlike in N:1 thread models, linux is 1:1). Threads are the basic unit of scheduling. A process can have >1 threads. > Is kernel routine 'kthread' creat

Re: RSA support into kernel?

2007-07-06 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Gautam Singaraju wrote: > Is there any attempt being made to provide software based RSA > cryptographic support in kernel? I see that Linux supports > Hardware based cryptographic devices (VIA Padlock ACE). How is the > performance of such hardware? How well are these devices supported? > -GS i fa

Re: speedstep-centrino (no such device)

2007-06-28 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Renato S. Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > Is impossible use speedstep in my Laptop with Pentium M 1,86Ghz: > > #modprobe speedstep-centrino > FATAL: Error inserting speedstep_centrino > (/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-686/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.ko): > No such device > > To do that

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-25 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jun 25 2007 09:37, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:15:50 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> On Jun 25 2007 11:12, Lennart Sorensen wrote: It is also quite likely the reply was written before reading the other comments. With the volume on lkml,

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Grozdan Nikolov wrote: > On Saturday 23 June 2007 19:53, you wrote: >> On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 14:17 +0200, Grozdan Nikolov wrote: >> [...] >> >>> Please CC me as I'm not subscribe to this mailing list, >> Perhaps you should change that and find most answers for yourself. >> >>> Thanks! >> Thanks! >>

make xconfig failure on 2.6.21.5

2007-06-23 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Hi, I have a Kubuntu 7.04 distro with Qt4 development packages installed. Trying to do a 'make xconfig' fails with: HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc CHECK qt * * Unable to find the QT installation. Please make sure that * the QT development package is correctly

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Torsten Duwe wrote: > On Saturday 23 June 2007, you wrote: > >> hmm, wasn't loadable kernel modules first implemented in SunOS 4.x [...] > Yes, but that was pretty cumbersome. You had to resolve the symbols in user > space, using a hopefully matching /vmunix. Linux was first to feature an > in-k

Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3?

2007-06-21 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Alexandre Oliva wrote: > Here's an idea that just occurred to me, after all the discussions > about motivations, tit-for-tat, authors' wishes and all. > > If GPLv3 were to have a clause that permitted combination/linking with > code under GPLv2, this wouldn't be enough for GPLv3 projects to use >

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Theodore Tso wrote: > Basically, in the US, you get the best justice money can buy. :-) that has to be one of the best one-liners ever! :) > > - Ted -jb -- Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. - To unsubscribe from th

Re: PC speaker

2007-06-12 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Lee Revell wrote: > On 6/12/07, R.F. Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is it possible to write a kernel module which, when loaded, will blow >> the PC >> speaker? > > LOL. May I ask what your use case is? > or isn't it mis-use case :) > Lee -jb -- Tact is the art of making a point without m

Re: Size of kernel modules

2007-06-06 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > [snip] > After the new kernel package had been created, I installed it. After > that, I looked into the directory /boot and was very surprised: The > initial ramdisk of the new kernel was much larger than the initrd of the > old kernel. To find out the cause for

Re: [PATCH] "volatile considered harmful", take 3

2007-05-12 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Stefan Richter wrote: > Satyam Sharma wrote: >> Coming back to the document, we do need to document / find >> consensus on the "preferred" way to do similar business in the >> kernel, and my opinion as far as that is concerned is to shun >> volatile wherever possible (which includes the case origin

Re: [PATCH] "volatile considered harmful", take 2

2007-05-11 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:08:54AM +0530, jimmy bahuleyan wrote: >> Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> [snip..] >>> + >>> + - The jiffies variable is special in that it can have a different value >>> +every time it is referenc

Re: [PATCH] "volatile considered harmful", take 2

2007-05-10 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Jonathan Corbet wrote: [snip..] > + > + - The jiffies variable is special in that it can have a different value > +every time it is referenced, but it can be read without any special > +locking. So jiffies can be volatile, but the addition of other > +variables of this type is strongl

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: > >> I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe >> (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. >> That's why splitting IO from an app isn't exactly smart. It should a