From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: Preventing signal interrupt in Kernel module code Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:53:52 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020913084016.02317ec0@celine> References: <7C078C66B7752B438B88E11E5E20E72E0EF512@GENERAL.farsite.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3D822F8D.A2BE89E6@aaahawk.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bill Pleasants , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA ray@comarre.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs