RE: Preventing signal interrupt in Kernel module code

["Ken Boyer" <kboyer@logicalimages.com>]

Thank you for the clarification.

Ken


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From: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Ray Olszewski
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 11:54 AM
To: Bill Pleasants; linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Preventing signal interrupt in Kernel module code


At 11:33 AM 9/13/02 -0700, Bill Pleasants wrote:
>Hello,
>I was told this list was for beginners.  From what I have read in the 
>past week, I think I am out of place.  I just want help getting a 
>Mandrake installation to work. Yours truly,
>Bill


You were told right; this list is for beginners. Some of us who hang out

here are not beginners, though (how else would you get knowledgeable 
*answers*, after all?), and one of us may, from time to time, pose a 
somewhat more advanced question to his colleagues. Not all that often, 
though ... there are better places to get answers to advanced questions 
than here.

That said, we don't have any automated filter to keep really complex 
questions off the list, and from time to time, someone will post an 
extremely technical question here. The one you posted in response to is
a 
good example; I don't know if the poster will get any help here (he
might, 
though it is a long shot), but his question really is way above what we 
customarily discuss.

That said ... we answer questions here. You don't ask any in your
posting. 
If you are having trouble, you'll need to tell us what the trouble is.

Asking for help here is not a substitute for things like reading the 
documentation and following your distro's installations instructions --
we 
generally avoid the bluntness of "RTFM" and "STFW" replies, but we do 
retain the underlying expectation that for general questions, you will
turn 
to FAQs, man pages, and other general documentation. If this is what you

need to do, someone here will usually tell you so ... though a bit more 
politely than you might see elsewhere.

As to your questions ... we do assume that someone who wants help will
make 
the effort to describe what he has done, and the problems he has 
encountered, with some specificity. We don't try to write personalized, 
soup-to-nuts tutorials.

So with that as background, please do not hesitate to pose
beginner-level 
questions here.



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