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The 2.6.22 kernel is out

[Posted July 9, 2007 by corbet]

Linus has announced the release of the 2.6.22 kernel. Much has happened in this development cycle, including the addition of the mac80211 (formerly "Devicescape") wireless networking stack, the eventfd system calls, some new TCP congestion control algorithms, a rewritten CFQ I/O scheduler, a new IEEE1394 ("Firewire") stack, support for the Blackfin architecture, the long-awaited IVTV TV tuner driver, and much more. See the KernelNewbies 2.6.22 page for vast amounts of detail, the long-format changelog for even more detail, or the short-form changelog for a (relatively) concise listing of patches in this release.

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Posted Jul 9, 2007 15:22 UTC (Mon) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

in the long-format log, Linus prophesized:

"this doesn't compile"

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/9/67
Anyway, the pxa27x driver is not something you see everyday (ARM-specific).

Now just waiting for the root exploit :-)

A distrubing trend

Posted Jul 10, 2007 20:00 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]

>> "this doesn't compile"

<RANT>

Lovely, just [bleep]in' lovely! 2.6.15 Oopsed on my desktop at bootup, and now 2.6.22 won't even compile. Not a good trend in my opinion.

</RANT>

;-)