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…the kernel's cgroup writeback accounting features are enabled / disabled based on this code: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/c291c9cfd76a8fb92ef3d...

comment by dasl · 2025-02-14 · in Linux kernel cgroups writeback high CPU troubleshooting

…a different board on a soc that already works? Welcome to the world of writing this kind of things: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm64/boo... and compiling the kernel from some dude's branch instead of going with…

comment by Muromec · 2025-02-09 · in RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 is now available

…if he feels like it. What he did, and this entire thread is about, is he resigned as a maintainer : https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1b3291f00013c86a9bb... So the title is factually correct. But I wouldn't be surprised if he tries…

comment by tredre3 · 2025-02-08 · in Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel

…about your comment. It adds rust/kernel/dma.rs, not kernel/dma. That is, it adds that file here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/rust/kernel not here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/kernel/dma

comment by steveklabnik · 2025-02-07 · in Hector Martin – [Patch] Maintainers: Remove Myself

…but if I say that I run Linux, there’s an assumption that I’m running something compiled from https://github.com/torvalds/linux - I.e. there is a central space. I’ve used git and perforce in anger for a decade, in teams of 1 to 150+ (with…

comment by maccard · 2025-02-05 · in Beej's Guide to Git

Nitpick: There are actually a handful Rust drivers in-tree, e.g. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/ph... Though, I think all of them are direct ports of existing drivers.

comment by Dagonfly · 2025-02-04 · in Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping

…comment, it seems like it might sorta be supported in modern linux, possibly just read only though: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/fs/befs

comment by buildbot · 2025-01-23 · in TMSU: Command-line tool for applying tags and viewing virtual tagged filesystem

…the intentions are the pull requests/issues around it. Take a single commit from the Linux kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/08bd5b7c9a2401faabd... It doesn't tell me "add function X, Y and boolean flag Z". It tells us…

comment by Draiken · 2025-01-23 · in Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

> Indeed where the DRM error message comes from https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ffd294d346d185b70e28b ... That's for compact flash cards. Based on the kernel message from the StackExchange post we can tell it isn't a CF. So it's not…

comment by bdd · 2025-01-20 · in What does "supports DRM and may not be fully accessible" mean for SATA SDDs?

…ship with this enabled for movie content management. Indeed where the DRM error message comes from https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ffd294d346d185b70e28b... > CPRM may make this media unusable CPRM? > Content Protection for…

comment by Maxious · 2025-01-20 · in What does "supports DRM and may not be fully accessible" mean for SATA SDDs?

…command line parameter to be passed to allow issuing them. (kernel source reference: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.12/drivers/ata/lib... ), which has _nothing to do_ with the trusted platform module TPM, just another TLA clash.…

comment by bdd · 2025-01-20 · in What does "supports DRM and may not be fully accessible" mean for SATA SDDs?

…the linux kernel itself actually also looks for `/etc/init` before it even looks for `/bin/init` https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/4a5df37964673effcd9f8...

comment by NekkoDroid · 2025-01-13 · in The history and use of /etc/glob in early Unixes

…that didn't get added until they contributed support for the Deck controller in these drivers : https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/hid/hi...

comment by ThatPlayer · 2025-01-08 · in Lenovo Officially Announces the Legion Go S Handheld with SteamOS

Including Linux kernel https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/linux/...

comment by fuhsnn · 2025-01-06 · in C: Simple Defer, Ready to Use

Final boss: https://github.com/torvalds/linux Error message: Repository is too large (>200k tokens) for analysis. Claude 3.5 Sonnet's max context length is 200k tokens. Current size: 1334798 tokens. Cool project though! Kudos!

comment by Minervaskell · 2024-12-27 · in Show HN: Instantly visualize any codebase as an interactive diagram

…working program that prints out the ASCII table [2] as part of my Ghidra extension test suite. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/tools/include/... [2] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension/tree/mas...

comment by boricj · 2024-12-26 · in A Simple ELF

…PCs need a different one than the default in order to make sure everything is properly reset. [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/9b2ffa6148b1e4468d08f...

comment by kyrofa · 2024-12-25 · in When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it

It did not digest https://github.com/torvalds/linux ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

comment by dim13 · 2024-12-06 · in Show HN: Replace "hub" by "ingest" in GitHub URLs for a prompt-friendly extract

…unaware of the recent cleanup attribute infrastructure submitted on the c side of the kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/linux/... Zig is a fun and interesting language in its own right, there’s really no need…

comment by raggi · 2024-12-02 · in RAII and the Rust/Linux Drama

…: static void check_hung_task(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long timeout) https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/9f16d5e6f220661f73b36... static void check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks(unsigned long timeout) https://github.com/torvald

comment by westurner · 2024-11-24 · in Linux 6.13 will report the number of hung tasks since boot

Read the source Luke: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/tty/vt...

comment by belter · 2024-11-21 · in ANSI Escape Sequences Cheatsheet

…e.g. typedef int read_block_fn(void *context, u8 *buf, unsigned int block, size_t len); https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/0a9b9d17f3a781dea03ba...

comment by khrbtxyz · 2024-11-14 · in C Gibberish to English

…the syscall interface are not considered derivative works and that GPL does not apply to them: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/LICENSES/excep...

comment by unmole · 2024-11-07 · in Linux Syscall Support

…OP. Their x64_64 arch support is here, which looks simple enough, putting things into registers: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/include/... The non-arch-specific callers which use this are here, which also look…

comment by jwatzman · 2024-11-07 · in Linux Syscall Support

…one to write C software that completely bypass libc, but instead directly operate through syscalls. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/tools/include/... A sample use-case? I was developing an Erlang-like actor platform that…

comment by sph · 2024-11-07 · in Linux Syscall Support

29 patches: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/compare/master...edera-dev...

comment by transpute · 2024-11-04 · in HardenedBSD Feature Comparison with OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD

Curiously, I can't find this message in recent kernels, it was patched out in 2018: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9d7c249a1ef9bf0d569... . Is it being re-added by distros or something? In terms of how it causes the issue, I…

comment by rcxdude · 2024-10-28 · in Debugging audio artifacts caused by... a serial port?

…it did have a copyright header, but certainly not one that included a record of every change. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/init/calibrate... So it doesn't look like this is peculiar to v2. But it does seem like people…

comment by tempfile · 2024-10-28 · in GoLic, injects license into source code files

I'm reasonably confident that it is upstream: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/androi... looks like the most obvious bit, though there are other pieces. (And now I'm curious why waydroid is maintaining their own dkms…

comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2024-10-28 · in NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer

…of other sus entries and pushed the commit. It's painfully obvious if you take a look at the file https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/MAINTAINERS , there are no mail.ru addresses left (it's a public email service akin to gmail).…

comment by joric · 2024-10-27 · in On Linux MAINTAINERS file removal of Russian developers

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6e90b675cf942e50c70...

comment by leoh · 2024-10-23 · in Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6e90b675cf942e50c70...

comment by leoh · 2024-10-23 · in Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted

…sources of this library [0] but the general syscall exception [1] may or may not apply. [0] e.g. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry... [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/LICENSES/excep...

comment by account42 · 2024-10-21 · in Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

The file is groups.c from the Linux Kernel, circa sometime before 2015: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/8f6c5ffc8987f4f5b5a3e...

comment by BoppreH · 2024-10-18 · in Hacker Typer

Permalink (press 'y' anywhere on GitHub): https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/4d939780b70592e0f4bc6... .

comment by heinrich5991 · 2024-10-18 · in C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte

…IEEE floats should be next? Though that would obsolete this Linux kernel classic so maybe not. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/math-e...

comment by jsheard · 2024-10-18 · in C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte

…explicit "system calls are not linking" exception to avoid any possible confusion on this matter. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/LICENSES/excep... Merely using the kernel's facilities from user space does not make your…

comment by matheusmoreira · 2024-10-16 · in Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

…Currently Linux still follows RFC6928 and defaults to initcwnd=10 : https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.11/include/net/tcp...

comment by divbzero · 2024-10-07 · in How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?

…learners, the more random PRs you get. But apparently even projects like linux kernel aren't safe https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclose... (for context, this repo doesn't accept PRs as development happens in mailing…

comment by PhilipRoman · 2024-10-05 · in 炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space

…these constraints, but not all of them. If you ned that, you can always get to manual patching in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d42f7708e27cc68d080ac... et al.

comment by c0l0 · 2024-09-15 · in Defend against vampires with 10 gbps network encryption

Maybe related to this? https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/thermal/...

comment by ewalk153 · 2024-09-14 · in My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Failures

…impression that it's mandatory to allow anyone to request changes and for you to review them. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/7 [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17

comment by faresahmed · 2024-09-11 · in Yaak is now open source

…change, but apparently this driver is going to be enabled on Fedora rawhide soon. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/ph... MR where they are working though a build system issue: https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-a

comment by gpm · 2024-08-31 · in Rust in Linux Revisited

…API docs: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.0/filesystems/api-summary... And the function itself: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d5d547aa7b51467b15d9c... Ask yourself when and how this can fail. I'm not sure those case are covered…

comment by mustache_kimono · 2024-08-30 · in Rust in Linux Revisited

…from objdump you are seeing the result of RET being replaced with JMP __x86_return_thunk. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.1/arch/x86/include... https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.1/arch/x86/lib/ret... > The NOP…

comment by fatcunt · 2024-08-26 · in Linux Pipes Are Slow

…(maybe because of the target ?). I 'd be interested to know more about that. Call to the wild. [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/inclu... [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/60579385

comment by sixthDot · 2024-08-26 · in Linux Pipes Are Slow

…looking like the link above for OpenBSD. [0]: https://repo.or.cz/w/git.git/tree/HEAD:/gitweb/ [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux

comment by OJFord · 2024-08-24 · in We have reached OpenBSD of Theseus

…a packet interface over which you can pass IP, no need for Ethernet emulation. Linux driver is here https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/th...

comment by ignaloidas · 2024-08-17 · in RP2350 PicoDVI Preview

I like that GitHub supports file-like suffixes to get different views of the same content. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/{hash} https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/{hash}.patch https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/{hash}…

comment by unglaublich · 2024-08-14 · in Examples of Great URL Design (2023)

…license has an explicit excemption for binaries running under Linux. So it's not a great example. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/LICENSES/excep...

comment by actionfromafar · 2024-08-14 · in Why we picked AGPL