Free Linux/Ubuntu VMs for Kernal Development?

Balaji Barmavat barmavat at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 00:04:17 EDT 2017


Hello Team,

Anybody's has any VM's links to download, for practice kernel programming?

Thanks


On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Tobin C. Harding <me at tobin.cc> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:08:51AM +0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 01:03:07PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > > On investigating call sites for 'return' in drivers/staging/ks7010/
> > > it can be seen that a number of functions us *custom* (positive)
> > > integers to indicate error. Notwithstanding that they are positive, is
> > > this ok for code in the kernel (i.e in order to get out of staging
> > > does this need to be changed)? Functions in question have internal
> linkage
> > > and the error code is used for debug messages.
> > >
> > > Should these be
> > >
> > > A) left alone
> > > B) made negative
> > > C) changed to use standard error codes (i.e -ENOMEM etc)
> >
> > C) please
>
> Awesome.
>
> thanks,
> Tobin.
>
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