Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 prepatch remains 2.6.10-rc3.

The trickle of patches into Linus's BitKeeper repository continues; currently merged patches include a CIFS update, an IDE update, some networking fixes (including a fix for the IGMP vulnerabilities), a DVB update and various other fixes.

The current patch from Andrew Morton is 2.6.10-rc3-mm1. Recent additions to -mm include a reworking of the VFS readahead code, parts of the page fault handler scalability patch set, hooks needed for the merging of the Xen architecture, a big set of user-mode Linux patches, in-inode extended attribute support for ext3, unlocked ioctl() support (see below), a set of SELinux patches, and lots of fixes.

The current 2.4 prepatch remains 2.4.29-pre1; Marcelo has released no prepatches since November 25.

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How about a kernel coverage followup article?

Posted Dec 16, 2004 15:14 UTC (Thu) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

Along with the timeline release this year,
I'd love to see some sort of
summary of what has happened since coverage to the various weekly kernel
column topics.

The two I'm particularly interested in are the changes to SCSI permissions
in relation to security and CD/DVD writing, and the current situation
regarding Reiser4, since the coverage earlier this year. However, I'm
sure other subscribers and guest readers have their own favorite kernel
topics they'd like followups on, as well, so some sort of "What ever
happened to...?" kernel page article for one of the end of year issues
would be GREAT!

Of course, with the week of the 30th off, the holidays in general, and
with the timeline and predictions articles coming up, if such an article
isn't already planned, it might be tough to get it by end of year. My
birthday happens to be end of January, however, and I think my
subscription expires shortly after that, so coverage of at least the two
items mentioned above by that time would make me a happy subscriber at a
very opportune time. <g>

Actually, perhaps something like this on a quarterly basis, or anyway, six
months, might be nice. Or, perhaps make it a regular weekly article,
focusing on what happened to the stuff covered 26 weeks ago, would work
better.

It's just that I follow this page every week (truth be told, it's what
persuaded me to get the subscription, originally), and I often wonder what
happens to the stuff covered. How much of it goes in virtually as
covered, how much eventually reaches mainline, but only after serious
changes possibly to the point it's entirely different than as originally
covered, and how much ultimately gets rejected. That's of course in
addition to the specific items like those mentioned above that I take
interest in.

Duncan

Kernel release status

Posted Dec 17, 2004 9:20 UTC (Fri) by sstein (subscriber, #15028) [Link]

I don't understand why not a new 2.4.X release is published including the
latest security fix. Of course some distributions do this, but I'm
compiling the kernel by myself and would really appreciate this.

Sebastian