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  1. …Then it's fine. The parts of Linux that get integrated into BSDs should not be GPL-licensed, e.g. < https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/c339f4010dea8b0d754f8... > and its siblings use MIT.
    comment by brewmarche · 2026-10-29 · in NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto
  2. …you are right. > If you resorted to AI assistance to identify a bug, you must treat it as public. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
    comment by smashed · 2026-10-22 · in Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list
  3. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/compare/v7.2...v7.3 unfortunately no stats displayed :)
    comment by pas · 2026-10-20 · in Linux 7.3
  4. …https://mirrors.hust.edu.cn/git/linux.git/commit/?id=4c0f369... https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/rcu-free-v3
    comment by lossolo · 2026-10-14 · in Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series
  5. …domain: NO Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds, consider these trivial functions to be PD. [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v2.6.12/include/asm-i...
    comment by ciupicri · 2026-10-14 · in Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series
  6. These look cool. Tried to render github.com/torvalds/linux but it errored out somewhere, might have been too big haha.
    comment by andreareina · 2026-10-07 · in Show HN: Turn public repos into works of art
  7. …and maybe slower wakeup. Helped upstream with that, which eventually resulted in this commit: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3330b71caff6cdc387f... I'm no stranger to exotic architectures and machines, having used Gentoo on a…
    comment by avhception · 2026-09-24 · in Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series
  8. …the code[0]. It has a lot of interesting tricks that you would not have just rolling your own. [0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/char/r...
    comment by ironhaven · 2026-09-22 · in AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?
  9. This recommendation is based off the current implementation. See: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/827751b699b79a6e56998... https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/827751b699b79a6e56998... The thread is quoted to show that they have…
    comment by jenders · 2026-09-11 · in Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead
  10. I think you are confusing Apple and Arm. Mali drivers are contributed by Arm: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/MAINTAINERS
    comment by throwa356262 · 2026-09-08 · in Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics
  11. …userspace, you still trap for system register reads, and this is just abstracted away from you... https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/841e384b841a3d89c50b4...
    comment by eigenform · 2026-09-03 · in GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
  12. …sure why the search over-counted). Here's a good candidate for a material performance improvement: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e1bf79628453e6afac8... Single-stream throughput (MB/s): Before After Change seq-write/dontcache 298…
    comment by simonw · 2026-08-09 · in Is it all just vapourware?
  13. …discarded in pte_free_tlb so maybe this is not the problem or I’m looking at a different version. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/mm/memory.c#L1... Assuming addr is a virtual address it probably makes sense that pte_free_tlb…
    comment by benmmurphy · 2026-08-02 · in RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches
  14. Demonstrate for me, then. Here's some slow code: https://github.com/torvalds/linux Speed it up.
    comment by inigyou · 2026-08-01 · in Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
  15. …developers who continue to write code for money. Linus too - 11 commits to the kernel today! https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits?author=torvalds Plus this very thread is full of experienced developers who are saying that "coding…
    comment by simonw · 2026-07-26 · in What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
  16. …- https://www.niangames.com/articles/reverse-engineering-rockb... - https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/hid/hi...
    comment by bsimpson · 2026-07-14 · in Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
  17. Yes. Mediatek SoCs have hardware acceleration support for that. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/et...
    comment by merbanan · 2026-07-06 · in OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
  18. Podman, including rootless podman, uses native overlays since Linux 5.11: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/459c7c565ac36ba09ff...
    comment by nolist_policy · 2026-07-03 · in Podman v6.0.0
  19. strtomem_pad seems redundant with memcpy_and_pad, and also it requires the preprocessor: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/1a3746ccbb0a97bed3c06... I was curious: Why have it, instead of just using memcpy_and_pad? AI's answer…
    comment by DerSaidin · 2026-06-21 · in Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches
  20. …which fixes the slow WiFi I've had with the combination of my ISP's modem/router and my laptop. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/711a9c018ad252b2807... Hope it gets to Fedora soon!
    comment by samhclark · 2026-06-15 · in Linux 7.1
  21. …many of the DECSET codes, including 1049 and 2004 which the Linux VT console supports – see https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/tty/vt... – and the many more which xterm supports – https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseq…
    comment by skissane · 2026-06-09 · in There's no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes
  22. …man page does not mention it. The Linux VT console did not support it until Linux 7.1 (see https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/23743ba64709a9c137c... ) and the console_codes man page still hasn't been updated to mention the kernel now…
    comment by skissane · 2026-06-08 · in There's no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes
  23. …days you can do echo "-1000" > /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj to disable OOM killing for a process. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/uapi/l...
    comment by jml7c5 · 2026-05-31 · in Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)
  24. Additional context on the kernel guidelines: - https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/... - https://lwn.net/Articles/1049830/
    comment by julenx · 2026-05-26 · in Stop Advertising in Your Commits
  25. /proc/cpuinfo shows whatever the hypervisor said, often simply "microcode : 0x1000065" https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/518e7b94817abed94be... https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/ac6721b88df944ade0048822b2...
    comment by edelbitter · 2026-05-18 · in Fabricked: Misconfiguring Infinity Fabric to Break AMD SEV-SNP
  26. …now. Vicki, one of the maintainers of the SteamOS kernel, is the most recent contributor to https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/hid/hi... It's too annoying to search more recent linux-input submissions to see if anything…
    comment by bsimpson · 2026-05-06 · in Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
  27. Here's the diff if you wanna play in your source (Gentoo, looking at you): https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a664bf3d603d 6.18.25-gentoo-x86_64 has the patch for Gentoo.
    comment by bombcar · 2026-04-29 · in Copy Fail
  28. On a git repo that has as remotes https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git as remotes: running a search for commit a664bf3d603d's commit message: git log --all --grep 'crypto:…
    comment by nh2 · 2026-04-29 · in Copy Fail
  29. …course had since the beginning. Read more eg at https://lwn.net/Articles/944686/ or help texts at https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/Kconfig...
    comment by fulafel · 2026-04-29 · in Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained
  30. It's not a GNU limit. It's in Linux: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.19/include/uapi/li...
    comment by nonameiguess · 2026-04-29 · in Bugs Rust won't catch
  31. …extension provided to Github from `.patch` to `.diff`. That way, it just includes the hunks. E.g. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/dca922e019dd758b4c1... I don't see it as a problem with the email format, because I can't imagine…
    comment by jolmg · 2026-04-28 · in Patch applies fake diffs from commit messages
  32. …, not GitHub. You're probably thinking of Linus Torvald's read-only mirror[1]. [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
    comment by jaywcarman · 2026-04-28 · in Ghostty is leaving GitHub
  33. git clone --bare --depth=1 https://github.com/torvalds/linux Takes 21 seconds on my work laptop, indeed a corporate Windows laptop with antivirus installed. Majority of that time is simply network I/O. The cloned repository is 276 MB…
    comment by jstimpfle · 2026-04-14 · in GitHub Stacked PRs
  34. See the commit message: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/78d979db6cef557c171...
    comment by maxboone · 2026-04-11 · in AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel
  35. Torvalds promotes exactly that. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/... Assisted-by: Claude:claude-3-opus coccinelle sparse
    comment by rurban · 2026-04-11 · in The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
  36. …- One (patched) Linux kernel bug is 'UaF when sys_futex_requeue() is used with different flags' https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e2f78c7ec1655fedd94... These links are from the more-detailed 'Assessing Claude Mythos Preview’s…
    comment by ollin · 2026-04-07 · in Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
  37. …which is significantly girthier. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1da177e4c3f41524e88... 0 parents. > It looks to be generated from another code base as a sorta…
    comment by MaulingMonkey · 2026-03-28 · in A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs
  38. It's actively being maintained by Takashi Sakamoto. Here's the commit for Linux 7.0-rc1. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0d6dd4738dbcc32b60c...
    comment by drmpeg · 2026-03-27 · in Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi
  39. …using purely user space synchronization primitives can do this both efficiently and accurately. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/misc/n...
    comment by topspin · 2026-03-24 · in Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
  40. …commit from freebsd The Linux kernel is another great example. Random commit from yesterday: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d56b5d163458c45ab8f...
    comment by codethief · 2026-03-12 · in Contextual commits – An open standard for capturing the why in Git history
  41. …has improved, mostly thanks to Cloudflare network. From my machine (gigabit fiber), for git clone https://github.com/torvalds/linux --depth=1 --no-checkout a warmed clone through gitdelivr.net took ~5s versus ~18 directly from GitHub…
    comment by emirb · 2026-03-02 · in Show HN: GitDelivr: A free CDN for Git clones built on Cloudflare Workers and R2
  42. This surprised me - but sure enough, they're right. The linux brcmfmac driver is ISC licensed: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/wi... // SPDX-License-Identifier: ISC
    comment by josephg · 2026-02-24 · in FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me
  43. …comment, the original referenced source code from the Linux kernel is ISC'd, not GPL'd. See here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/wi... I don't work on the Linux kernel, but I do poke around the sources from time…
    comment by throwaway2037 · 2026-02-24 · in FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me
  44. …first thought was maybe the original Linux driver was GPL'd, but it is not. It is ISC'd. Look here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/wi... // SPDX-License-Identifier: ISC /* * Copyright (c) 2010 Broadcom…
    comment by throwaway2037 · 2026-02-24 · in FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me
  45. The driver used as inspiration is fully opensource https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/v6.18/drivers/net/wir... I don't know why it has not been brought in the BSDs (maybe license), but they do are a bit more careful with what they…
    comment by skydhash · 2026-02-23 · in FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me
  46. …out of order, so sometimes an lfence (previously cpuid) can be used and there is also rdtscp See https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/inclu... And just because rdtsc is constant doesn't mean the processor clock will be…
    comment by rdtsc · 2026-01-28 · in Spinning around: Please don’t – Common problems with spin locks
  47. …take up a lot of space compared to other areas. Just look at the mass of AMD template garbage here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/gpu/dr...
    comment by Y_Y · 2026-01-11 · in Gentoo Linux 2025 Review
  48. …kernel back in November.[2] [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38... [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/01ff3bf272156615d6c...
    comment by aseipp · 2026-01-10 · in Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers
  49. How does this compare to the Amiga filesystem support built in to the Linux Kernel? https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/affs/Kconfi... It looks like it shoehorns proprietary binary blobs into Linux, but what is missing from…
    comment by trelane · 2026-01-08 · in Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE
  50. Looks like from https://github.com/torvalds/linux/archive/refs/heads/master.... but you could also try Ubuntu.
    comment by dullcrisp · 2025-12-21 · in I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone