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Jani Nikula

Must not make a comparison. Really. Must not. But just saying...

Clang Built Linux took literally years of effort. And it's all still C, just a different compiler.

Did anyone really expect Rust for Linux to be a breeze?

I know, I know, apples and oranges.

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Greg K-H

Reply to @sima@chaos.social
@sima Right after this happened, I went and checked the LDD3 book, and yes it says this in the chapter about memory:

(internally performed by calling, eventually, __get_free_pages, which is the source of the GFP_ prefix))

So I have no excuse for not remembering this either...
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sima@chaos.social

🐧sima🐧

kangrejos in copenhagen was great, but the absolute 🤯 moment was when I learned that GFP_ stands for get_free_pages

I had no idea. and @gregkh next to me had the same https://xkcd.com/1053/ experience

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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

Reply to @pdp7@fosstodon.org
@pdp7 @gregkh just out of curiosity I asked ChatGPT what "tip.git" stands for, and it assures me, that it stands for "Tracking Important Patches". Which is on par with LLMs, I guess.
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Greg K-H

Reply to @monsieuricon
@monsieuricon @pdp7 {sigh} Good news is the machines aren't going to be replacing us any time soon I guess.
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ljs

BREAKING: Linus rescinds all 'don't break userland' requirements for mm as he deems memory 'virtual' and therefore not real
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Paul Moore

Edited 7 months ago

Anyone else often find themselves starting a retort/reply to a thread here, only to abandon the effort part way through, because you realize your time is better spent supporting/fixing/making things than trying to educate people who haven't bothered to do any of the most basic level of self-education on the given topic?

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Greg K-H

Reply to @monsieuricon
@monsieuricon And it works, thanks for the support help today in making it happen, ssh config files are "fun" when they have accumulated years of cruft as kernel.org server names have changed over time.
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Greg K-H

Understatement of the year:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/TYUPR06MB6217E6BD48B0B491AA169E67D29D2@TYUPR06MB6217.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com/
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Greg K-H

Reply to @dvzrv@chaos.social
@dvzrv Cool, let me test that out as you know, that's the distro I use...

And it should be much easier to install usbreset now, perhaps I should just switch to always installing it by default and see if anyone objects...
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Greg K-H

Reply to @xexaxo@fosstodon.org
@xexaxo And congrats on converting kmod, brave of you to keep two build systems running at once.
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Greg K-H

Reply to @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
@lanodan Ah, a hold-over for when I was messing around with the cflags. I'll work on adding proper support for more flags and then that variable will be used.

Thanks for taking a look!
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Greg K-H

Reply to @xexaxo@fosstodon.org
@xexaxo Email works great for patches, or, if you really only like the github workflow, you can send a pull request to https://github.com/gregkh/usbutils as is mentioned in the README
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Greg K-H

Finally converted usbutils over to meson from autotools. Odds are I messed something up, so I should do a release soon to see what broke in the distros as I have no idea how they package this thing anymore:
https://git.sr.ht/~gregkh/usbutils/commit/86dcab8964901d15b87b156546559c8ae28bd9fe
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jelly

New blogpost about creating bit-by-bit reproducible images with mkosi(!)

https://vdwaa.nl/mkosi-reproducible-arch-images.html

#archlinux #systemd #mkosi

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vbabka

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K. Ryabitsev 🍁

My boss: "how is that Gemini AI trial going? Are you making good use of it?"
Me: "Oh, yeah, for sure."
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Greg K-H

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@kurtseifried @joshbressers Your TV (i.e. all TVs) was running Linux for 15+ years now, it's always been there, just no one noticed...
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Greg K-H

Reply to @jarkko
@jarkko @kernellogger @pinganini You mean like I posted how to do back in 2013: http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2013/09/02/booting-a-self-signed-linux-kernel/
? No need even for shim!
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Greg K-H

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@kurtseifried That's a really good point, the "open source" ecosystem being a CNA is very new, I don't think this was even possible until less than a year ago when python blazed that trail.

And it's nice to see we aren't alone here with "big numbers", it's going to be an interesting thing to watch shake out as "take responsibility" rules/laws come into being in different locations. I agree with you in that the quantity is just going to get larger over time.
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