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| H A D | maintainer-pgp-guide.rst | 66 Your distro should already have GnuPG installed by default, you just
93 edit your ``~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf`` file to set your own values::
102 beginning of your shell session. You may want to check your rc files
108 Protect your PGP key
116 You should also make a new key if your current one is weaker than 2048
143 private key on your chain.
150 3. A single subkey may have multiple capabilities (e.g. your **[C]** key
151 can also be your **[S]** key).
167 If you used the default parameters when generating your key, then that
176 The long line under the ``sec`` entry is your key fingerprint --
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| H A D | 6.Followthrough.rst | 7 addition of your own engineering skills, have posted a perfect series of
17 kernel community to ensure that your code is up to the kernel's quality
19 prevent the inclusion of your patches into the mainline.
31 - If you have explained your patch well, reviewers will understand its
48 agendas at the expense of your own. Kernel developers often expect to
55 and requests to factor out some of your code to shared parts of
57 the same. Sometimes this means that the clever hack in your driver
63 making. Do not let their form of expression or your own pride keep that
70 reviewers. If you believe that the reviewer has misunderstood your code,
72 suggested change, describe it and justify your solution to the problem. If
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| H A D | botching-up-ioctls.rst | 46 conversion or worse, fiddle the raw __u64 through your code since that
60 * Have a clear way for userspace to figure out whether your new ioctl or ioctl
73 and reject the ioctl if that's not the case. Otherwise your nice plan for
99 * Have simple testcases for every input validation failure case in your ioctl.
100 Check that the error code matches your expectations. And finally make sure
106 * Make all your ioctls restartable. First X really loves signals and second
108 interrupting your main test suite constantly with signals. Thanks to X's
109 love for signal you'll get an excellent base coverage of all your error
117 killable. GPUs just die and your users won't like you more if you hang their
122 * Have testcases for the really tricky corner cases in your error recovery code
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| H A D | howto.rst | 21 have been told by your manager, "Go write a Linux driver for this
55 documented; do not expect people to adapt to you or your company's way
214 will learn the basics of getting your patch into the Linux kernel tree,
353 One of the best ways to put into practice your hacking skills is by fixing
356 improve your skills, and other developers will be aware of your presence.
404 If multiple people respond to your mail, the CC: list of recipients may
410 Remember to keep the context and the attribution of your replies intact,
411 keep the "John Kernelhacker wrote ...:" lines at the top of your reply, and
412 add your statements between the individual quoted sections instead of
415 If you add patches to your mail, make sure they are plain readable text
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| H A D | stable-api-nonsense.rst | 6 (all of your questions answered and then some)
30 you get that only if your driver is in the main kernel tree. You also
31 get lots of other good benefits if your driver is in the main kernel
84 Now a number of these issues can be addressed by simply compiling your
95 multiple versions of your module.
172 Simple, get your kernel driver into the main kernel tree (remember we are
173 talking about drivers released under a GPL-compatible license here, if your
174 code doesn't fall under this category, good luck, you are on your own here,
175 you leech). If your driver is in the tree, and a kernel interface changes,
177 place. This ensures that your driver is always buildable, and works over
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| /linux/Documentation/hwmon/ |
| H A D | submitting-patches.rst | 1 How to Get Your Patch Accepted Into the Hwmon Subsystem
6 increase the chances of your change being accepted.
18 * Please run your patch through 'checkpatch --strict'. There should be no
26 * If your patch generates checkpatch errors, warnings, or check messages,
32 * Please test your patch thoroughly. We are not your test group.
38 * If your patch (or the driver) is affected by configuration options such as
51 your patch into a cleanup part and the actual addition. This makes it easier
52 to review your changes, and to bisect any resulting problems.
60 * Running your patch or driver file(s) through checkpatch does not mean its
61 formatting is clean. If unsure about formatting in your new driver, run it
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| /linux/arch/arm/mach-orion5x/ |
| H A D | Kconfig | 28 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
36 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the Marvell
44 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
52 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
59 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
66 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
74 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
82 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
89 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
96 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
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| /linux/Documentation/driver-api/ |
| H A D | uio-howto.rst | 62 If you use UIO for your card's driver, here's what you get:
66 - develop the main part of your driver in user space, with all the
69 - bugs in your driver won't crash the kernel.
71 - updates of your driver can take place without recompiling the kernel.
82 :c:func:`mmap()` to access registers or RAM locations of your card.
112 To handle interrupts properly, your custom kernel module can provide its
130 - ``name``: The name of your device. It is recommended to use the name
131 of your kernel module for this.
133 - ``version``: A version string defined by your driver. This allows the
134 user space part of your driver to deal with different versions of the
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| /linux/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/ |
| H A D | Kconfig | 32 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
42 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the Cirrus
49 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the Cirrus
56 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the Cirrus
63 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the Cirrus
70 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the Cirrus
77 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the Cirrus
84 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the Cirrus
91 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the Cirrus
97 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
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| /linux/Documentation/admin-guide/ |
| H A D | spkguide.txt | 29 capabilities, depending on how your system administrator has installed
42 If your system administrator has installed Speakup to work with your
44 is to boot your system, and Speakup should come up talking. This
45 assumes of course that your synthesizer is a supported hardware
46 synthesizer, and that it is either installed in or connected to your
50 kernel with no default synthesizer. It is even possible that your
53 your synthesizer is supported but not available, complain to the person
54 who compiled and installed your kernel. Or better yet, go to the web
55 site, and learn how to patch Speakup into your own kernel source, and
56 build and install your own kernel.
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| H A D | reporting-issues.rst | 21 In all other cases try your best guess which kernel part might be causing the
41 separately. While writing your report, include all information relevant to the
43 regressions mailing list (regressions@lists.linux.dev) to your report. Also try
63 a slightly different order. That's in your interest, to make sure you notice
70 document and reporting the issue to your vendor instead, unless you are
74 * Perform a rough search for existing reports with your favorite internet
88 * Ensure your system does not enhance its kernels by building additional
90 without your knowledge.
92 * Check if your kernel was 'tainted' when the issue occurred, as the event
111 thoroughly for reports that might match your issue. If you find anything,
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| H A D | README.rst | 57 your kernel.
63 directory where you have permissions (e.g. your home directory) and
82 Replace "x" for all versions bigger than the version "x" of your current
90 directly to the base 6.x kernel. For example, if your base kernel is 6.0
154 as expected. If you want to carry your existing configuration to a
171 your existing ./.config file and asking about
188 platforms of your architecture.
244 nonexistent controller card may confuse your other controllers.
266 ``make install`` if you have lilo installed or if your distribution has an
269 check your distribution's setup first.
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| /linux/Documentation/power/ |
| H A D | swsusp-dmcrypt.rst | 16 Now your system is properly set up, your disk is encrypted except for
19 an initrd that does your current crypto setup already.
21 At this point you want to encrypt your swap, too. Still you want to
32 within your running system. The easiest way to achieve this is
38 Now set up your kernel to use /dev/mapper/swap0 as the default
39 resume partition, so your kernel .config contains::
43 Prepare your boot loader to use the initrd you will create or
52 Finally you need to create or modify your initrd. Lets assume
57 named "swapkey". /etc/fstab of your initrd contains something
65 of your crypto devices, again by reading the setup from the
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| H A D | swsusp.rst | 12 ...kiss your data goodbye.
14 If you do resume from initrd after your filesystems are mounted...
20 problems. If your disk driver does not support suspend... (IDE does),
23 your hardware while system is suspended... well, it was not good idea;
47 - If you feel ACPI works pretty well on your system, you might try::
52 to RAM (provided your platform supports it), you can try::
57 support. For suspend and resume to work, make sure your disk drivers
138 You bought new UPS for your server. How do you install it without
142 You have your server on UPS. Power died, and UPS is indicating 30
250 but it may be unnecessarily slow. If you want your driver to stay simple,
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| /linux/Documentation/networking/ |
| H A D | nf_flowtable.rst | 17 flowtable through your ruleset. The flowtable infrastructure provides a rule
85 flowtable and add one rule to your forward chain::
111 You can identify offloaded flows through the [OFFLOAD] tag when listing your
129 You do not need to add the PPPoE and the VLAN devices to your flowtable,
130 instead the real device is sufficient for the flowtable to track your flows.
139 device (represented as eth0) in your switch/router.
159 your bridge port.
161 If you would like that your flowtable defines a fastpath between your bridge
162 ports and your IP forwarding path, you have to add your bridge ports (as
163 represented by the real netdevice) to your flowtable definition.
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| /linux/Documentation/arch/s390/ |
| H A D | 3270.rst | 22 VM-ESA operating system, define a 3270 to your virtual machine by using
31 Your network connection from VM-ESA allows you to use x3270, tn3270, or
32 another 3270 emulator, started from an xterm window on your PC or
34 and this Linux-390 3270 driver, you have another way of talking to your
50 you should rerun the configuration script every time your set of 3270s,
63 3270 console support, then the driver automatically converts your console
97 login prompts appear on your 3270s as soon as boot is complete (or
98 with emulated 3270s, as soon as you dial into your vm guest using the
104 3. Define graphic devices to your vm guest machine, if you
115 you have chosen 3270 console support, your console now behaves
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| /linux/Documentation/scsi/ |
| H A D | libsas.rst | 35 After initializing your hardware, from the probe() function
36 you call sas_register_ha(). It will register your LLDD with
38 register your SAS driver with the sysfs SAS tree it creates.
39 It will then return. Then you enable your phys to actually
40 start OOB (at which point your driver will start calling the
49 Normally this is statically embedded to your driver's
58 And then all the phys are an array of my_phy in your HA
61 Then as you go along and initialize your phys you also
62 initialize the sas_phy struct, along with your own
89 address of the phy, possibly somewhere in your my_phy
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| /linux/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/cable/ |
| H A D | sb1000.rst | 10 It's a one-way downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link
11 is provided by your regular phone modem.
26 2. Several PPP scripts which live in /etc/ppp to make connecting via your
41 3. The standard isapnp tools. These are necessary to configure your SB1000
44 If you don't have these installed as a standard part of your Linux
49 or check your Linux distribution binary CD or their web site. For help with
60 you prefer, in the top kernel tree directory to set up your kernel
67 by isapnp to access your PnP cards. This is the value of READPORT in
72 4. Boot your new kernel following the usual procedures.
76 IRQ, and DMA settings for all your PnP cards. Make sure none of the settings
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| /linux/drivers/input/mouse/ |
| H A D | Kconfig | 24 Say Y here if you have a PS/2 mouse connected to your system. This
48 your system.
58 your system.
68 your system.
78 your system.
100 your system.
110 TouchScreen connected to your system.
120 to your system.
129 to your system.
163 connected to your system.
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| /linux/drivers/input/touchscreen/ |
| H A D | Kconfig | 34 and your board-specific setup code includes that in its
38 on your board, you will also get hwmon interfaces for the voltage
51 AD7877 controller, and your board-specific initialization
111 controller chip in your system.
124 such as AT42QT602240/ATMXT224, connected to your system.
158 your system.
170 connected to your system.
231 to your system. You will also need to select appropriate
303 your system.
315 your system.
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| /linux/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/ |
| H A D | Kconfig | 36 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support boards based
52 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support boards based
70 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support boards based
85 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support boards based
97 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support boards based
112 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
128 Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support boards based
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| /linux/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/ |
| H A D | sony-laptop.rst | 30 If your laptop model supports it, you will find sysfs files in the
67 by your particular laptop model.
115 your ACPI BIOS could have on your laptop), load the driver and
121 In your kernel logs you will find the list of all ACPI methods
122 the SNC device has on your laptop.
145 You can create other entries corresponding to your own laptop methods by
147 entry to this table with your get/set method names using the
150 Your mission, should you accept it, is to try finding out what
152 files and find out what is the impact on your laptop.
155 I will not disavow all knowledge of your actions :)
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| /linux/LICENSES/preferred/ |
| H A D | GPL-2.0 | 30 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
32 License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
38 your programs, too.
47 To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
58 We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
107 you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
109 2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
130 does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
144 your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
162 years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
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| /linux/tools/usb/usbip/ |
| H A D | COPYING | 11 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
13 License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
19 your programs, too.
28 To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
39 We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
88 you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
90 2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
111 does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
125 your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
143 years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
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| /linux/Documentation/filesystems/bcachefs/ |
| H A D | CodingStyle.rst | 44 have to think about what the invariants on your state are.
46 Good invariants and assertions will hold everywhere in your codebase. This
60 Looking for ways to make your assertions simpler - and higher level - will
78 make your error messages much easier to write (therefore they will actually
116 Talk to your users. Don't isolate yourself.
124 This will also motivate you to make your debugging tools as good as possible,
125 and perhaps even your documentation, too. Like anything else in life, the more
166 Talk about your ideas with your fellow developers; often times the best things
169 Don't neglect your tools.
174 errors in our thinking by running our code and seeing what happens. If your
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