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Laptop camera is not only bad but usually at home it is connected to an external display.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 9 months ago
Have not really checked this through but what is keeping v4l2loopback out of upstream?

It's useful for instance using a phone as a webcam during meetings, which actually quite useful (because e.g. iPhone actually has a quality camera).
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@vathpela @kernellogger @securepaul I'll revisit this thanks :-) Cannot really say but appreciate all this info. Now I need to digest all this for a while.
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@oleksandr @vbabka neither this was sarcasm, suits u sir :-)
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@oleksandr @vbabka i believe you given the approachable bow tie you have :-)
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@vbabka was not even sarcasm, i've seen that but never bothered to look up what it is :D thanks for answering, cannot help that titles are not something i like but that said also want to act by the book.
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@vbabka mean squared error? :-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 9 months ago
@vbabka ok fair enough, i just did not know what is the policy
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@tusooa @monsieuricon Off-topic but international version of TikTok is banned also in mainland China... Just sayin'
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Kai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)

That was a little scary. I asked ChatGPT, how would I best do X ? It responded, why don't you use thing Y that you have? I had told it in the past that I have thing Y, in a different chat session. That means we have arrived at the state where it's keeping track of what I said in the past.

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Jarkko Sakkinen

Advice needed. what i say if i get a patch in the form "Dr. Firstname Lastname" in SOB?

I can say that it does trigger me a bit but I can deal with my personal issues ;-)

#linux #kernel
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 9 months ago
@vathpela @kernellogger @securepaul pretty interesting discussion this came to be. but yeah, it is essentially a flaw in developer experience.

for more complex patch sets it would be beneficial to be able to do such thing with low barrier, i.e. it could also have positive effect on quality for stuff sent to LKML in the end. you always end up doing fairly narrow and targeted testing without this feature in the distribution, which means in practice missing bunch of "side-channel bugs".
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@vathpela @kernellogger @securepaul One ugly but totally working hack my kernel testing project: I don't use cmake as a build system. I use it to download source code and get away using Git submodules :-)

https://codeberg.org/jarkko/linux-tpmdd-test/src/branch/main/CMakeLists.txt

It's ugly but solid ;-)
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@vathpela @kernellogger @securepaul

This came up in the thread but here we go again :-)

I have my polished framework for testing kernel patches for any possible Git tree:

https://codeberg.org/jarkko/linux-tpmdd-test

You can point it to any tree (by using LINUX_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR) and it will build kernel, rootfs and disk.img and wrapper scripts for QEMU. The disk.img EFI boots on real hardware. The base system is grub + systemd (grub gives option to not use systemd thus the choice) and has all tracing include like bpftrace for instance.

Sometimes, however, one would like run a kernel that is packaged like the real one in the distro but with a different git tree base and/or patches. This could e.g. some issue that does not easily pop up with normal testing. Artificial images have their limits.

I think distributors are making mistake by not taking this seriously and making it robust to do cool stuff with the distro kernel or like make any kernel packaged and signed like the one in the distro. Canonical used to have this asset but the feature I'm interested in are available only in the recent'ish snap packaged kernel.

Or they might think exactly like "why you use RPM's anyway for kernel development". There's good reasons to do that. Also one use case has been few times in the past that you have user space project, which requires tailored kernel. In such case you would like to "emulate" as they were part of the distribution.
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@vathpela @kernellogger @securepaul OK so how would you sign RPM's? I don't have a preferred way.

It's not a priority question tho because I've not yet after 2-3 days of trying produced successfully RPM's even without signing...
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@nobodyinperson @idnorton OK no problem :D happens a lot to me too...
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@vathpela @kernellogger @securepaul Why is it in one of many Fedora's "how to build a kernel" pages? This the one where I grabbed it:

[1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/kernel-build-custom/

That is not even wiki, it is official documentation. Not slandering just pointing out. Deprecated stuff that gets stagnated over time if totally normal!

Also, why nobody talks about fedpkg which is contained to the only page, which *specifically* talks about kernel patch testing:

[2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/kernel-testing-patches/

And finally, I'm now a bit lost how do I get pesign to use my cert and key created following [1] to sign RPM packages (which I don't know how I should build it)? I'm don't actually know what pesign is but I guess it is something that signs a PE/COFF binary? I.e. UKI signing perhaps?
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@nobodyinperson @idnorton I've excluded subscription based tools since that does not work for me.

One that comes to mind is SmartDraw which used to be great and a boxed software product when I last used it back in 2005 :-) If it was like that today, I could even have bought it. There's also bunch of web tools like that.

LibreOffice Draw is not so I've used that (or even better it is open source). Not sure what is your argument here?
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