September 2019 - kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org

Staging/netlogic coding style issues with struct
by Pablo Pellecchia Sept. 4, 2019

Sept. 4, 2019

Greetings, I'm fixing some issues on the staging/netlogic directory and I see that checkpatch.pl is throwing the following warnings on some files: *WARNING: struct should normally be const#9: FILE: platform_net.h:9:+struct xlr_net_data {* A similar issue is reported when we declare a variable of type struct <something>, but in this case warning is reported on the struct definition itself. How can we fix this? Thanks!

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Disable kernel signature checks during boot on Ubuntu?
by Jeffrey Walton Sept. 2, 2019

Sept. 2, 2019

Hi Everyone, Ubuntu provided 5.0.0-27-generic today. I attempted to reboot but booting fails due to a failed signature check. I'd like to tell the kernel to skip the signature check during boot. I found Ubuntu's UEFI | SecureBoot | DKMS (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEFI/SecureBoot/DKMS) wiki page. It discusses several ways to disable signature checks but they assume a working machine. I'm at the grub boot menu with the menu open ready for editing. What option should I use to disable the signature checks during boot? Thanks in advance, Jeff

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checkpatch.pl CHECK alignment
by XenoN. w0w Sept. 2, 2019

Sept. 2, 2019

Hello all, I am running checkpath.pl against one driver and I’m getting CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis Are these lines worth of changing, what are the odds of that patch being accepted. I’m new and I want to contribute so sorry for dumb question

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