malloc() failure counter
James Courtier-Dutton writes: (Summary) Hi, If I have a user application that tries a malloc() or a calloc() call, and this call fails, is there any way to report this to a global stats counter, like...
View ArticleRe: [PATCH 0/2][RFC] Better handling of insane CMOS values
James Courtier-Dutton writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] Would it not be easier to work out which CMOS clock values we can handle correctly, and then do input value validation on the CMOS values, and if a...
View ArticleRe: [RFC] Second attempt at kernel secure boot support
James Courtier-Dutton writes: (Summary) I would therefore suggest that the signatures are distributed separately from the binary files, so that you can change the signatures without having to...
View ArticleComparing linux kernel trees.
James Courtier-Dutton writes: (Summary) Hi, I have been given a linux kernel sources tar file. It contains a modified version of the linux kernel. My plan at the moment is just to automate a checkout...
View ArticleRe: Comparing linux kernel trees.
James Courtier-Dutton writes: (Summary) In the mean time, I have done the diff -ur method on various tags, and found that kernel 3.2.5 is the best match. I now have a much smaller patch file, that I...
View ArticleRe: resume fails to light display on Macbook Pro Retina on 3.8-rc1
James Courtier-Dutton writes: (Summary) wrote: [...] If it helps, I have a similar resume problem here. 3.7.8 good 3.8.0 bad Laptop with no nvidia, no amd graphics, just Intel Graphics 4000, 3rd Gen I5...
View ArticleRe: [GIT PULL] Load keys from signed PE binaries
James Courtier-Dutton writes: (Summary) I trust everything from X that I put on my system 2 weeks ago, but one week ago X got hacked, so don't trust anything new from them until the hack has been...
View ArticleRe: resume fails to light display on Macbook Pro Retina on 3.8-rc1
James Courtier-Dutton writes: (Summary) git bisect log git bisect start # bad: [09884964335e85e897876d17783c2ad33cf8a2e0] mm: do not grow the stack vma just because of an overrun on preceding vma git...
View ArticleRe: resume fails to light display on Macbook Pro Retina on 3.8-rc1
James Courtier-Dutton writes: (Summary) I then moved to linus tree at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git On Linus tree the problem commit is:...
View ArticleRe: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running ...
James Courtier-Dutton writes: (Summary) PCI, USB, ACPI. ARM is different and does not have this yet. Also, so long as there is some way to uniquely identify the hardware with, for example a model...
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