AlaskaLinuxUser's Scratchpad

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. - Proverbs 16:3

Homemade Bluetooth Auto-start Still Trucking!

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Well, after a year of service, thousands of miles, and a full fall, winter, spring, and summer, my home made Bluetooth auto-start is still trucking! It's been really convenient as the weather once again turns cold to pull out my phone, press start, and hear my truck fire up!

There …

Chirp - programming a HAM radio

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While this tool isn't new for most HAM's, it was new for me. It's called CHIRP, and it is a programmer for your radio. More or less, it allows you to input channels, change settings, and download/upload content to your radio …

error: implicit declaration of function 'INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE'

While working on the nightmare governor for the Xperia XA2 Ultra (sdm660), I ran into this error:

/home/alaskalinuxuser/aokp_pie/kernel/sony/sdm660/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_nightmare.c:714:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE' [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE(&this_nightmare_cpuinfo->work, do_nightmare_timer);
^
/home/alaskalinuxuser/aokp_pie/kernel/sony/sdm660/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_nightmare …

error: use of undeclared identifier 'pm_idle'

Lately I've been going through the Xperia XA2 Ultra kernel (sdm660) and trying to add new features. Today I was adding in some governors, and several of them had the same underlying issues. Part of the problem was that I got the governors from a 3.10 kernel and put …

Picked up two more badges from CompTIA!

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Well, I'm not 100% sure how valuable they are, but I picked up a few more CompTIA badges recently. I've been going through the CompTIA certifications to renew some that I had, and to pick up some new ones. All told, this …