Two Questions

Two Questions

[Arun Sen]

Hi
I am doing some research that deals with patches to the kernel.  Here are my
questions:

[1]  I have obtained the patches for different versions of the kernel from a
mirror website.  However, they do not tell me who are the authors of these
patches and what are their addresses/emails.  How can I get this
information?

[2]  What is the actual process of approval of a patch that goes into the
kernel?

Thanks.

Arun

Re: Two Questions

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 06:47:47PM -0500, Arun Sen wrote:
> Hi
> I am doing some research that deals with patches to the kernel.

What kind of research?  For what end result?

> Here are my questions:
> 
> [1]  I have obtained the patches for different versions of the kernel from a
> mirror website.

What web site?  What location?

> However, they do not tell me who are the authors of these
> patches and what are their addresses/emails.  How can I get this
> information?

Which patches do you have questions about?

> [2]  What is the actual process of approval of a patch that goes into the
> kernel?

Did you read the Documentation/SubmittingPatches file which documents
the process?

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: Two Questions

[Jesper Juhl]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Arun Sen wrote:

> mirror website.  However, they do not tell me who are the authors of these
> patches and what are their addresses/emails.  How can I get this
> information?

Looking in the Changelogs for the different kernel versions is one place
to get some info.

--
Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>

Re: Two Questions

[Arun Sen]

Thanks ... several of them ... I am looking all the old patches and new ones
...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Arun Sen" <arunsen@verizon.net>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: Two Questions


> On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 06:47:47PM -0500, Arun Sen wrote:
> > Hi
> > I am doing some research that deals with patches to the kernel.
>
> What kind of research?  For what end result?
>
> > Here are my questions:
> >
> > [1]  I have obtained the patches for different versions of the kernel
from a
> > mirror website.
>
> What web site?  What location?
>
> > However, they do not tell me who are the authors of these
> > patches and what are their addresses/emails.  How can I get this
> > information?
>
> Which patches do you have questions about?
>
> > [2]  What is the actual process of approval of a patch that goes into
the
> > kernel?
>
> Did you read the Documentation/SubmittingPatches file which documents
> the process?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

two questions

[kartikey bhatt]

i have two questions if anyone can help me out?

(1) in bsd when a socket is created, the process
creating the socket is passed as a structure
to so_create call. in linux how can we have
this mechanism by which when a socket is created
we can access the task_t of the process creating the
socket?

(2) given the sk_buff* how to lookup the associated
socket?

please help me out.

--kartikey

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Re: two questions

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi, kartikey bhatt wrote:

> (1) in bsd when a socket is created, the process
> creating the socket is passed as a structure
> to so_create call. in linux how can we have
> this mechanism by which when a socket is created
> we can access the task_t of the process creating the
> socket?
> 
> (2) given the sk_buff* how to lookup the associated
> socket?
> 
Those questions imply that you want to do "something".
Please tell us what that "something" is.

-- 
Matthias Urlichs

Re: two questions

[kartikey bhatt]

Matthias Urlichs wrote
>>Those questions imply that you want to do "something".
>>Please tell us what that "something" is.

i am porting netnice patch of freebsd to linux and thats "something".
please help.

--kartikey

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