Module for keyboard statistics / What should I look at?

2007-11-27 Thread Nelson Castillo
Hi. More than 2 years ago I wrote a small non-portable patch [1] to gather some statistics about keyboard usage[2] ( I show the counters with modulo 10 but still this is a security risk. Perhaps some random noise should be added ). [1] http://svn.arhuaco.org/svn/src/pcgotchi/trunk/proc-keystroke

[RFC][PATCH 1/1] support for user-space buffers in kfifo

2007-06-11 Thread Nelson Castillo
struct sarpic_dev *dev = filep->private_data; int ret_val; if (down_interruptible (&dev->sem)) return -ERESTARTSYS; ret_val = __kfifo_put_user(dev->fifo, buffer, length); up(&dev->sem); wake_up_interruptible(&dev->readq); return ret_val; } Reg

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] support for user-space buffers in kfifo

2007-06-12 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 6/12/07, Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Le lundi 11 juin 2007 à 16:26 -0500, Nelson Castillo a écrit : > Hi. > > I just added support for user space buffers in kfifo. I found useful > __kfifo_get_user to copy data to a user buffer in a read call. I didn't >

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] support for user-space buffers in kfifo

2007-06-12 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 6/12/07, Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (cut) > accessing userspace memory with a spinlock taken (moreover an > irqsave() > one) is bad bad bad. Hi Stelian. I'm sending the new patch without kfifo_put_user and kfifo_get_user. Regards, Nelson.- Signed-off-by: Nel

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] support for user-space buffers in kfifo

2007-06-12 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 6/12/07, Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mardi 12 juin 2007 à 11:24 -0500, Nelson Castillo a écrit : > > On 6/12/07, Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (cut) > > > accessing userspace memory with a spinlock taken (moreover an >

Re: v2.6.21.4-rt11

2007-06-17 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 6/9/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i'm pleased to announce the v2.6.21.4-rt11 kernel, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/ more info about the -rt patchset can be found in the RT wiki: http://rt.wiki.kernel.org

Re: v2.6.21.4-rt11

2007-06-17 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 6/17/07, Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 11:15 -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > > http://rt.wiki.kernel.org > > Not for ARM yet :( > > What should I try for the ARM architecture? ARM has a lot of sub architectures and not all o