Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current development kernel is 2.6.0-test2; Linus has not released any development kernels over the last week.

Linus has been busy, however; his BitKeeper tree contains a substantial pile of patches, including a merge of the SELinux security module, a new print_dev_t() function which is portable across architectures (and dev_t size changes), some power management and software suspend fixups, an ALSA update, some disk readahead changes (avoiding work if the drive is too busy to do readahead anyway), and, of course, a vast number of fixes.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.21, but 2.4.22 is getting closer: Marcelo announced the first release candidate on August 5. The time has come for those with a serious interest in 2.4.22 to do some real testing and shake out the remaining problems.

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Does anybody know if they fixed AC97 sound?

Posted Aug 7, 2003 3:19 UTC (Thu) by wolfrider (guest, #3105) [Link]

In 2.4.20 the Trident driver worked with my SiS motherboard chipset. In 2.4.21 they broke AC_97 sound so that not even ALSA works with it...

Broken SoundBlaster support

Posted Aug 7, 2003 12:23 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link]

Somewhere between 2.4.21 and 2.4.22-pre2 they broke something in the kernel, so the sb.o module reports an IRQ conflict when I boot and I can't use my old SoundBlaster card. I thought it was the AC97 changes, but they were included only in -pre3. I'll investigate it further...
Bye,NAR