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  1. …going to be isolated in an island because he's not part of the agreed-upon workflow: emails. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
    comment by jasode · 2017-09-30 · in Why kernel development still uses email (2016)
  2. >> And your point doesn't always hold true. For example https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17 > I don't know what this is supposed to mean What I linked to is an example of a discussion that didn't stay focused or tight despite the…
    comment by u801e · 2017-09-30 · in Why kernel development still uses email (2016)
  3. …I don't know what this is supposed to mean: > And your point doesn't always hold true. For example https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17
    comment by carussell · 2017-09-30 · in Why kernel development still uses email (2016)
  4. …can always collapse or kill that subthread. And your point doesn't always hold true. For example https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17
    comment by u801e · 2017-09-30 · in Why kernel development still uses email (2016)
  5. …of data to work with (yay! ...not). https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelSuspend , useful info in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/e34bac726d27056081d02... > So an interesting thing happens when the system tries to transform that…
    comment by exikyut · 2017-09-29 · in Ntpd won't save you from one particular rogue bit
  6. …and does a lot of upstream kernel patches, some of which haproxy benefit from. Most recent example: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3979ad7e82dfe3fb94a... Willy also was the long term maintainer of the 2.4 Linux kernel (yes...…
    comment by SEJeff · 2017-09-27 · in HAProxy vs. Nginx for load balancing (2016)
  7. …you want a good reference for their values; however, the register definitions aren't provided. x86: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry... x64: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry...
    comment by jared0x90 · 2017-09-26 · in Linux System Call Table
  8. …frequency, and software filtering raw data properly (duplicates and such). Some improvements https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c774326a219536ab615...
    comment by tqh · 2017-09-20 · in Ask HN: Bad touchpads – hardware or software?
  9. …I've actually been researching precisely that of late; you most likely generated your copy from https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry... . I of course want https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry.…
    comment by exikyut · 2017-09-19 · in Fresh IDE
  10. …than the PC-world. Thankfully support for Apples way will land in the upcoming Linux 4.14 ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/53ac64aac9af8cd0e54... ) making some code in the driver redundant ( https://github.com/cb22/macbook12-spi-d…
    comment by Dunedan · 2017-09-18 · in Thinkpad X62
  11. Maybe the link should be updated to use the 4.13 tag [0] instead of the master branch. [0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v4.13/Documentation/n...
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2017-09-04 · in TLS in Linux 4.13 kernel
  12. …by (rather strong) convention tags are immutable, you can link to a tag instead. In this case: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v4.13/Documentation/n... That link is also better because it explicitly shows the version of the repo…
    comment by TheDong · 2017-09-04 · in Linux 4.13 support for TLS record layer in kernel space
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    Linux 4.13 support for TLS record layer in kernel space
    story by FiloSottile · 2017-09-04 · 8 comments
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    TLS in Linux 4.13 kernel
    story by agumonkey · 2017-09-03 · 57 comments
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    “this code very fast” pull request to remove whitespace from linux kernel
    story by namanyayg · 2017-09-01 · 55 comments
  16. …supported in an emulation layer for new DRM-based devices. Mostly for fbcon, but still supported. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/gpu/dr...
    comment by Jasper_ · 2017-08-30 · in Intro to Low-Level Graphics on Linux
  17. He doesn't read them. There is a bot for that now. Example: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/445#issuecomment-3203...
    comment by eosrei · 2017-08-09 · in Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community
  18. …concerns, they didn't think they > mattered, so I gave up. Feel free to make a bugreport to github. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...
    comment by mi100hael · 2017-08-09 · in Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community
  19. That thing is intel-only, or at least Linux kernel thinks so: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/kerne... And even on Intel, TSC is not reliable: https://lwn.net/Articles/388286/
    comment by Const-me · 2017-08-04 · in The slow currentTimeMillis()
  20. That module is actually already in Linux in the form of dm-integrity: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/... I'm using it with mdadm right now and it works pretty okay.
    comment by Veratyr · 2017-08-03 · in Stratis Storage Software Design [pdf]
  21. …comments about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14814616 The kernel commit also has a note: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0f8782ea14974ce9926... "It can operate over LAN, WAN, cellular, wifi, or cable modem links. It can…
    comment by manigandham · 2017-07-21 · in TCP BBR congestion control comes to GCP
  22. …their hands dirty in low-level kernel code, the perhaps simplest tracing tool is dynamic-debug : https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
    comment by everybodyknows · 2017-07-08 · in Linux tracing systems and how they fit together
  23. In case anyone is wondering if there's some kind of linter for these rules, you can use checkpath.pl https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/scripts/checkp...
    comment by no_cake · 2017-07-04 · in Linux kernel coding style
  24. …the GNU coding standards was there in the first Git import [1], but IIRC it's way older). [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blame/master/Documentation...
    comment by antientropic · 2017-07-04 · in Linux kernel coding style
  25. …can see is that I saw reports on very old devices (5150) and with more recent devices (2230). [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/205e2210daa975d92ac... [2]: https://routerguide.net/optimize-ampdu-aggregation-on-or-off... [3]:…
    comment by kroo · 2017-07-01 · in The case of the 500-mile email (2002)
  26. Linux looks like shit with any tab width besides 8. Simple example: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/livepat... Notice there are a couple examples in that code where multiline method calls are meant to line up, and if…
    comment by hn_throwaway_99 · 2017-06-15 · in Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
  27. Ah, I almost got it right. It discarded too much, thus reducing throughput - even more subtle. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/18aba41cbfbcd138e9f...
    comment by dom0 · 2017-06-14 · in How I Found a 20-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug
  28. This is addressed in the docs, at "stable_api_nonsense.txt": https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/... (You might disagree with that doc, but if so you should address its arguments directly.)
    comment by rtb · 2017-06-11 · in Ask HN: Why no stable binary kernel interface for drivers?
  29. …link to the exact commit. Otherwise future commits will make the highlighted line number incorrect: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3c2993b8c6143d8a57937... (you can easily get this canonical URL by pressing 'y' on Github, and you…
    comment by scintill76 · 2017-06-05 · in Buried alive in reporters
  30. The "S:" means "Status": https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3c2993b8c6143d8a57937...
    comment by venning · 2017-06-05 · in Buried alive in reporters
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    Buried alive in reporters
    story by datashovel · 2017-06-04 · 5 comments
  32. What are you talking about?! https://github.com/torvalds/linux Linus just don't agree with GitHub's pull-requests, so he doesn't accept such that way.
    comment by algesten · 2017-05-20 · in Ask HN: How did open source work before GitHub?
  33. …but I'm not sure how complete they are). [1]: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/ [2]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm/boot/... [3]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm/boot/... [4]:…
    comment by forkbomb_ · 2017-05-18 · in Android O Beta Program
  34. …that the e_ehsize is the same size as the allocated buffer, perhaps they had an issue at one point. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ba6d973f78eb62ffebb32...
    comment by molticrystal · 2017-05-18 · in Elf Hello World
  35. …says explicitly "search by username" but I like to ignore the documentation and search directly https://github.com/torvalds/linux (sorry if it's too big) (consider to add some caching) Edit: 20.392.848 pages!
    comment by gus_massa · 2017-05-13 · in Show HN: How Many Pages? – GitHub Repo-to-8.5"X11" count
  36. …time slice the idle thread is scheduled on CPU the whole slice is counted as idle time! See also: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
    comment by heinrichhartman · 2017-05-10 · in CPU Utilization is Wrong
  37. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0f8782ea14974ce9926...
    comment by ymse · 2017-05-09 · in BBR, the new kid on the TCP block
  38. Why "problematic"? The Al Viro change mentioned in the fix is https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/227158db160449b6513... . The commit says this makes the bug not exploitable since the new helper function handles correctly the edge…
    comment by vbernat · 2017-04-13 · in Udp.c in Linux kernel pre-4.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
  39. …that (so it would allow for unprivileged users to do all sorts of bad things as a result). [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/fe82203b63e598c34d96e...
    comment by cyphar · 2017-03-29 · in Rootless containers feature merged into runC
  40. …and linked pages in the kernel source tree, which seems to have been created less than a year ago: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master/Documentati...
    comment by geofft · 2017-03-28 · in Linux kernel coding style
  41. …TRIM on when it was in my Macbook. [1] https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cda57b1b05cf7b8b99a... [3] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71371 [4]…
    comment by mrsteveman1 · 2017-03-27 · in Apple Releases MacOS 10.12.4 with Night Shift
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    Why does torvalds/linux have “infinity” contributors?
    story by sdomino · 2017-03-20 · 0 comments
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    Why does torvalds/linux have ∞ contributors?
    story by shekhargulati · 2017-03-20 · 2 comments
  44. Some more from Linus: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56637...
    comment by tyingq · 2017-03-17 · in How to Write a Git Commit Message (2014)
  45. …better do word-wrapping at commit time, because that's the only time you know the difference. [0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56611... EDIT: small clarification and formatting
    comment by pbh101 · 2017-03-16 · in How to Write a Git Commit Message (2014)
  46. …share the same word but are two different concepts from two different points of view. [0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/linux/...
    comment by arkj · 2017-03-16 · in Principles for C programming
  47. …cleanup point at the end of the function, which is also the same style used by the Linux kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/... The "diamond" style hinders readability, especially when you have many levels…
    comment by int_handler · 2017-03-09 · in Show HN: Boot Windows 10 Directly into Linux Desktop of Choice
  48. …absolutely notice like non-printing characters in comments? Or, you know, random odd generated crud https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/firmware/radeo...
    comment by posterboy · 2017-02-26 · in Linus on Git and SHA-1
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    Rtc: rk808: Compensate for Rockchip calendar deviation on November 31st
    story by laurentdc · 2017-02-24 · 0 comments
  50. …code is only a small obstacle for a skilled attacker (and most kernel attackers _will_ be skilled): https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c4e490cf148e85ead0d... -- so, given this: why exactly are we paying the cost of these regressions,…
    comment by aseipp · 2017-02-22 · in Linux kernel: CVE-2017-6074: DCCP double-free vulnerability (local root)