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Kernel release status
The 2.6.31 kernel is out, released by Linus on
September 9. A
few of the major features in 2.6.31 include performance counter support, the
"fsnotify" notification infrastructure, kernel mode setting for ATI Radeon
chipsets, the kmemleak tool,
char drivers in user space
support, USB 3 support, and much more. As always, see the KernelNewbies 2.6.31
page for a much more exhaustive list.
The last prepatch, 2.6.31-rc9, was released on September 5.
The current stable kernel is 2.6.30.6, released (along with (Log in to post comments)
Kernel release status Posted Sep 10, 2009 14:40 UTC (Thu) by dougg (subscriber, #1894) [Link]
Is there user or kernel space documentation for fsnotify? Both dnotify and inotify have entries in the Documentation/filesystems/ directory. If I was dictator, such an omission would keep it out of the main line. I use dnotify extensively and have had no problems with it.
Kernel release status Posted Sep 10, 2009 22:14 UTC (Thu) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link] FWIW, if you use btrfs, you should note that there is a incompatible format change that is automatically applied when you first boot 2.6.31.
Kernel release status Posted Sep 11, 2009 22:54 UTC (Fri) by gadeiros (guest, #3929) [Link]
The *current* stable kernel is 2.6.31, isn't it?
2.6.30.6 *was* the stable kernel, when it came out on Sept. 8., but since 9.9. it's just the latest fix release for the *previous* stable kernel!?
Or is 2.6.31 not supposed to be stable before 2.6.31.1?
Kernel release status Posted Sep 11, 2009 23:26 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
stable means something released by the stable team, and since they haven't released anything that's 2.6.31 it doesn't fall in that category according to the scripts.
when they release 2.6.31.1 there will be multiple stable kernels (as they will almost certainly release 2.6.30.7 or so around the same time)
yes it's a sloppy definition of stable, but it doesn't really hurt much.
Kernel release status Posted Sep 17, 2009 11:54 UTC (Thu) by gadeiros (guest, #3929) [Link]
My "complaint" was not about the use of *stable*, but the use of *current*.
Sure 2.6.30.6 is a stable kernel.
But from the time 2.6.31 is released it is not *The current*" stable kernel, is it?
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