Kernel development

Brief items

Current release status

Linus has announced the 2.5.24 development kernel. Changes this time include a lot of janitorial fixes, an NTFS update, a bunch of JFS fixes, an ALSA update, more kbuild changes, Martin Dalecki's IDE 93 patch which "should undo the damage of IDE 92," and various other fixes and updates. This will be the last kernel release from Linus before he heads off to the Kernel Summit and OLS. The long-format changelog is also available.

From the Kernel Summit meeting room Dave Jones has released 2.5.24-dj1. The list of new changes is short; it includes fixes from the 2.4.19 release candidate, more cpufreq work, and a few other tweaks.

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Development kernel prepatch 2.5.24-dj2 released

From the Kernel Summit meeting room Dave Jones has released 2.5.24-dj2. The list of new changes is short; it includes fixes from the 2.4.19 release candidate, more cpufreq work, and a few other tweaks.

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The first 2.4.19 release candidate

While most of the kernel hackers at the Ottawa Kernel Summit have been busy talking about 2.5 changes, Marcelo has put out the first release candidate for the long-awaited 2.4.19 kernel. Click below for the details; it contains a fairly long list of (mostly small) fixes.

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2.5 Kernel Status Summary

Guillaume Boissiere has posted his 2.5 kernel status summary for June 26. "With the kernel summit and OLS this week, expect some changes to the feature list in the near future."

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Kernel development news

Kernel Traffic #172

Kernel Traffic #172 is available. Topics include a new Fast Mutex implementation For 2.5, Per-Socket Statistics Proposed And Rejected Coding Style, Binary Files Found In The Kernel Sources, Status Of FAT CVF, and Developer Disconnects.

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Patches and updates

Kernel trees

• Lightweight patch manager: Linux 2.5.23-ct1. "<span>It's basically some stuff + kbuild-2.5</span>" (June 21, 2002)

• Lightweight patch manager: Linux 2.5.24-ct1 (81 Csets). (June 23, 2002)

• Chris Wright: 2.4.19-rc1-lsm1. (June 25, 2002)

• Chris Wright: 2.5.24-lsm1. (June 25, 2002)

Core kernel code

• Robert Love: updated preemptive kernel for 2.4-ac. (June 20, 2002)

• Anton Blanchard: Allow non zero boot cpu. (June 24, 2002)

Device drivers

• Kurt Garloff: Tekram DC3x5 SCSI driver 1.41. (June 21, 2002)

• Adam J. Richter: RFC: turn scatterlist into a linked list, eliminate bio_vec. (June 24, 2002)

• Martin Dalecki: 2.5.24 IDE 94. (June 25, 2002)

Documentation

• Denis Vlasenko: Kernel maintainers list. (June 26, 2002)

Filesystems and block I/O

• Kevin Corry: EVMS Release 1.1.0-pre3. (June 21, 2002)

• Steve Best: Journaled File System (JFS) release 1.0.20. (June 21, 2002)

• Richard Russon: linux-2.5.24 - LDM (Dynamic Disks). (June 24, 2002)

• Peter Chubb: new large-block-device patch available. (June 25, 2002)

Kernel building

• Keith Owens: Kernel Build for 2.5, release 3.1. (June 24, 2002)

Memory management

• Craig Kulesa: Updated rmap VM for 2.5.23 (SMP, preempt fixes). Fixes "significant bugs" in the first version. (June 20, 2002)

• Craig Kulesa: VM benchmarks for 2.5 (mainline & rmap patches). (June 20, 2002)

• Simon Winwood: Multiple page size support. (June 26, 2002)

Networking

• Werner Almesberger: policing for sch_prio (2.4,2.5). Add policing support for the "prio" queueing discipline. (June 21, 2002)

Architecture-specific

• James Bottomley: i386 arch subdivision into machine types. (June 22, 2002)

Miscellaneous

• Kurt Garloff: /proc/scsi/map. Add <tt>/proc/scsi/map</tt> to 2.5.23. (June 20, 2002)

• Muli Ben-Yehuda: ANN: syscalltrack v0.72 "bald hare" released. (June 23, 2002)

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