Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The 2.6.27 kernel is out, released by Linus on October 9. For those just tuning in, 2.6.27 includes (among many other things) UBIFS, support for integrity checking in the block layer, multiqueue networking, the ftrace tracing framework, the lockless page cache, the relocation of a lot of firmware, the GSPCA webcam driver set, and a number of extended system calls. See the always-excellent KernelNewbies summary for lots more information about this release.

The 2.6.28 merge window is currently open with around 4100 changesets merged at the time of this writing. See the article below for a summary of what has been added to the kernel so far in this development cycle.

The current stable kernels are 2.6.25.18 and 2.6.26.6 which were released on October 8. Both contain a long list of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.

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e1000e

Posted Oct 16, 2008 6:31 UTC (Thu) by kbob (guest, #1770) [Link]

What happened with the e1000e bug? Has the root cause been identified?

Nope. They put a steel lid on it.

Posted Oct 16, 2008 7:20 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Now instead of destroying hardware you'll see BUG() on your screen. Hopefully it'll allow more testing and so eventually the root cause will be found.

e1000e

Posted Oct 16, 2008 14:32 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

I was talking with an Intel developer the other day. It appears that they have a good idea of where the problem comes from, but they are holding off on saying anything until they have nailed it exactly. There may be news on that front soon.

Meanwhile, a fair amount of defensive code has gone in to ensure that the bug, when it does trigger, will not trash hardware.

Kernel release status

Posted Oct 16, 2008 22:43 UTC (Thu) by Tuxie (guest, #47191) [Link]

I really really really hope that the CUSE patches will get merged so we can finally get full and 100% transparent OSS emulation with mixing/routing support through ALSA DMix or PulseAudio. Anyone know the status of this?

http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/ossp/