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3 weeks ago |
lwn.net | Jonathan Corbet
By Jonathan CorbetMay 16, 2025 first article in this series providedan overview of Home Assistant,its community, and its capabilities. It was deliberately short ondescriptions of interesting things that can be done with Home Assistant,though — the reasons why one might actually want to use this program. Inthis closing article, we'll look at how Home Assistant was used to solvesome real problems.
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1 month ago |
lwn.net | Jonathan Corbet
By Jonathan CorbetApril 24, 2025 6.15-rc3kernel release and the implementation of-Wunterminated-string-initialization in GCC 15. Consider a C declaration like: char foo[8] = "bar";The array will be initialized with the given string, including the normaltrailing NUL byte indicating the end of the string. Now consider thisvariant: char foo[8] = "NUL-free";This is a legal declaration, even though the declared array now lacks theroom for the NUL byte.
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Feb 4, 2025 |
lwn.net | Jonathan Corbet
The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank youfor visiting LWN.net! By Jonathan CorbetJanuary 30, 2025 DMA transfers move data directly between RAM and the device of interest,without involving the CPU.
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Jan 16, 2025 |
lwn.net | Jonathan Corbet
This article brought to you by LWN subscribersSubscribers to LWN.net made this article — and everything that surrounds it — possible. If you appreciate our content, please buy a subscription and make the next set of articles possible. By Jonathan CorbetJanuary 2, 2025 not howthe year will actually go. We have to try; it's traditional, after all. Read on for our view of what's coming and how it may play out. The extensible scheduling class (sched-ext) will be a game changer.
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Nov 28, 2024 |
lwn.net | Jonathan Corbet
Please consider subscribing to LWNSubscriptions are the lifeblood of LWN.net. If you appreciate thiscontent and would like to see more of it, your subscription willhelp to ensure that LWN continues to thrive. Please visitthis page to join up and keep LWN onthe net. By Jonathan CorbetNovember 7, 2024 counted-by work, havebeen made, one of the most difficult cases remains.
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