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  1. This pull request: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17
    comment by rentnorove · 2015-04-06 · in Ten Years of Git: An Interview with Linus Torvalds
  2. See this 2012 thread https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...
    comment by merqumab · 2015-04-06 · in Ten Years of Git: An Interview with Linus Torvalds
  3. …(These kernel/module parameters will be discussed in a later article.) Compare to the original: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v3.19/arch/x86/Kconfi... And this goes on for page after page. Is this kind of thing really useful to…
    comment by teraflop · 2015-04-01 · in Linux Kernel Reading Guide (2014)
  4. They're used heavily in Linux device drivers, amongst other things - here's just one example: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/video/...
    comment by pwaring · 2015-03-17 · in Resume in C
  5. …is used when the "syn backlog queue" or "request_sock_queue" in kernel nomenclature is created: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v3.17/net/core/reques... But It's a max! The desired value is passed from: *…
    comment by majke · 2015-03-01 · in How TCP backlog works in Linux (2014)
  6. …your hypothetical example). It's basic literacy. For example, would you go to Linus's github: https://github.com/torvalds/linux and just start downloading that and try running it verbatim in production because "oh! it's Linus's branch!…
    comment by barkingcat · 2015-02-18 · in “RNG broken for last 4 months”
  7. …a license which is BSD compatible. Look at all the files here to see the license in the header: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/gpu/dr...
    comment by feld · 2015-02-04 · in Ask HN: Laptop for FreeBSD?
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    If goto statements are bad why does linux src have more than 10k of them?
    story by ilovecookies · 2014-12-17 · 45 comments
  9. …There was a rather significant change to the kernel ARP caching behavior introduced in early 2013: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2724680bceee94eac39... It seems to work fine everywhere, except in EC2 VPC, where the arp cache can…
    comment by j-kidd · 2014-12-10 · in When your IP traffic in AWS disappears into a black hole
  10. Linux is on Github as well ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux ) , and probably like Linus, some people don't like the Pull-request method for dealing with contributions.
    comment by nemothekid · 2014-12-08 · in Golang on GitHub
  11. You might be surprised to learn the Linux Kernel is on Github: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
    comment by tedchs · 2014-12-02 · in AWS CodeCommit
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    The First Linux Kernel Git Commit
    story by Alupis · 2014-11-29 · 0 comments
  13. …some of Linux's drivers are licensed with the old-style BSD license with the advertising clause: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=%22advertising+ma...
    comment by glass- · 2014-11-26 · in DragonFly BSD 4.0 released
  14. …is (obviously) under BSD. Then I've noticed gpu/drm/i915 has a permissive (MIT?) license. E.g.: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/gpu/dr... Is it true for everything else under gpu/drm directory? What license does DRM…
    comment by ash · 2014-11-26 · in DragonFly BSD 4.0 released
  15. …to some uglier pieces of code [0] being allowed despite not strictly adhering to the style. [0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/groups....
    comment by DSMan195276 · 2014-11-26 · in Linux kernel coding style
  16. …and so 'checkpatch' is recommended but may not be the be-all end-all in every situation. [0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/scripts/checkp...
    comment by DSMan195276 · 2014-11-26 · in Linux kernel coding style
  17. …in the cathedral and the bazaar. [1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commits/master [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master
    comment by justincormack · 2014-11-22 · in Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux?
  18. …usermode apps to use the (GPL-licensed) interface headers without requiring the app to be GPL. See https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/COPYING
    comment by dezgeg · 2014-10-29 · in Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
  19. …with a great many reservations and expectations for change as per the LWN link you quote. See https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/net/openvswitc... for recent changes, also https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/net for…
    comment by contingencies · 2014-10-19 · in What's new in the Linux network stack? [pdf]
  20. …On Linux, with the exception of i7z (which he mentions) and 'turbostat' (which I usually prefer: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/power/x8... ) CPU speeds are almost always reported using the nominal speed rather than…
    comment by nkurz · 2014-09-16 · in The Model Specific Registers of EC2
  21. …to wake up next and then change the running process. This can be seen in function context_switch in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/sched/c... without the arch dependent components and can hardly be compared in…
    comment by baruch · 2014-08-20 · in Dyad: Minimal, portable async networking library for C
  22. • Have code already in the Linux kernel means there is at most 4035 people who qualify: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/contributors
    comment by sararschreiber · 2014-08-06 · in Facebook Seeks Devs To Make Linux Network Stack As Good As FreeBSD's
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    I'm not doing github pulls (2011)
    story by fidz · 2014-07-20 · 0 comments
  24. …Torvalds is on GitHub and Google+. And he still actively gets into 'flame'-fests in social media: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56613...
    comment by yawaramin · 2014-07-10 · in Retirement of Prof. Andy Tanenbaum
  25. …for several reasons and doesn't accept pull requests on GH for the Linux kernel, see [1]. [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...
    comment by thegeomaster · 2014-06-26 · in Merge Pull Request Considered Harmful
  26. …reasonable to provide the same "Newer", "Older" buttons when viewing an individual commit. [0]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master?page=1
    comment by caipre · 2014-03-29 · in A simple, kernel-space, on-disk filesystem from scratch
  27. ▲ 1
    #cleanUpGitHub pull request on the Linux kernel
    story by adamnemecek · 2014-03-28 · 0 comments
  28. …The source of kernel's random.c already linked in this discussion is actually very nice and clean: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/char/r... Do compare random_read vs. urandom_read.
    comment by acqq · 2014-03-08 · in Myths about /dev/urandom
  29. …Line 307 is also relevant - it seems that the urandom pool is reseeded at most every 60 seconds? https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/char/r...
    comment by danieldk · 2014-03-07 · in Myths about /dev/urandom
  30. …of the difference between urand and rand is the Linux source code, which is well commented: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/char/r... The operation is explained starting on line 52. The 2 paragraphs starting on line…
    comment by nly · 2014-03-07 · in Myths about /dev/urandom
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    LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC2 – 2C
    story by jfaucett · 2014-03-01 · 1 comment
  32. This is a great one too: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d158fc7f36a25e19791d2...
    comment by virtualSatai · 2014-02-25 · in `three = 1` in the linux sourcecode
  33. /yawn https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d158fc7f36a25e19791d2...
    comment by koverstreet · 2014-02-25 · in `three = 1` in the linux sourcecode
  34. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d158fc7f36a25e19791d2... Variables `three`, `five` and `seven` are better described as `next_power_of_three`, `next_power_of_five` and `next_power_of_seven`. Since the `ext4_list_backups` function…
    comment by lifthrasiir · 2014-02-25 · in `three = 1` in the linux sourcecode
  35. Read the comment above ext4_list_backups right above: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d158fc7f36a25e19791d2... /* * Iterate through the groups which hold BACKUP superblock/GDT copies in an * ext4 filesystem. The counters should be…
    comment by simias · 2014-02-25 · in `three = 1` in the linux sourcecode
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    `three = 1` in the linux sourcecode
    story by shark234 · 2014-02-25 · 81 comments
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    A very weird line of code in Linux Kernel
    story by gyosko · 2014-02-18 · 1 comment
  38. …and bug-fixing commits to the linux kernel are earning ~$0.02 each * 0.00002458 ɃTC https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3405d230b374b692387... * 0.00002559 ɃTC https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fb5bb60cd004a00c1d1... Meanwhile,…
    comment by gmisra · 2014-01-28 · in Linus Torvalds and other developers are leaving Bitcoins on the table
  39. Looks like AT&T syntax: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/boot/...
    comment by dsymonds · 2013-12-28 · in Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
  40. The file you appear to type is groups.c from the linux kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/dc0755cdb16cb129c4054...
    comment by spectre256 · 2013-12-07 · in Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011)
  41. …He does not accept github pull requests, for reasons he's explained at length in, amongst others, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17
    comment by masklinn · 2013-12-01 · in Linux-ng
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    OS Kernel in under 45 lines of Javascript
    story by logicchains · 2013-11-28 · 11 comments
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    One Giant Leap for Frogkind
    story by e0m · 2013-11-25 · 0 comments
  44. …Nov 8 2012 iwlwifi-105-6.ucode -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 679436 Nov 8 2012 iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=phanfw (QLogic qlcnic) https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=i6050 (Intel WiMAX)…
    comment by nitrogen · 2013-11-13 · in The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone
  45. And 'shit's in Linux: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=shit&ref=cmdform
    comment by pdappollonio · 2013-10-12 · in 'fuck's in Linux
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    'fuck's in Linux
    story by bjoe_lewis · 2013-10-12 · 1 comment
  47. off topic, but this: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/50
    comment by yeukhon · 2013-10-11 · in Find out how many users/repos Github has by a simple search
  48. …means, relegated to only having merge commits from feature branches that correspond to releases. 1. https://github.com/torvalds/linux 2. http://lwn.net/Articles/328436/ 3. http://lwn.net/Articles/328438/
    comment by sonnym · 2013-09-24 · in A successful Git branching model (2010)
  49. Doesn’t he give detailed information on why Github’s interface appears inferior to him, e.g. in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599... ?
    comment by claudius · 2013-09-17 · in Why is Linus Torvalds angry with Github's pull request interface?
  50. He is a rude person. Look at his comment in the same thread: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599... He says: "Btw, Joseph, you're a quality example of why I detest the github interface. For some reason, github has…
    comment by chatman · 2013-09-17 · in Why is Linus Torvalds angry with Github's pull request interface?