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Kernel coverage at LWN.net
LWN.net's coverage of Linux kernel development is detailed, technical, and
timely.
The article index
See the LWN Kernel Page index for instant access to all LWN Kernel Page articles, organized by topic.
Special features
From time to time, LWN runs special kernel-oriented features. Some of our more popular offerings include:
- the Video4Linux2 API, an ongoing
series of articles on how to write video drivers for Linux.
- 2007 Kernel Summit coverage.
- 2006 Kernel Summit coverage.
- 2.6 API changes. A
regularly-updated summary of changes to the internal kernel API.
- What every programmer should know about memory: a detailed series of articles by Ulrich Drepper.
Recent LWN.net kernel pages
The Kernel Page, part of the LWN.net Weekly Edition, provides a detailed weekly summary of events, releases, and discussions within the kernel development community. Recent weeks have covered (among other things):
| Date | Contents |
|---|---|
| Jul 23, 2008 | The 2.6.27 merge window, part 2; linux-next meets the merge window; Tracing: no shortage of options. |
| Jul 16, 2008 | 2.6.27: what's coming; Block layer: integrity checking and extended partitions; Handling kernel security problems. |
| Jul 09, 2008 | The current development kernel is...linux-next?; Multiqueue networking; Enhanced printk() merged. |
| Jul 02, 2008 | Making power policy just work; TASK_KILLABLE; Some development statistics for 2.6.26 - and beyond. |
| Jun 25, 2008 | A day in the life of linux-next; What's AdvFS good for?; Freezing filesystems and containers. |
| Jun 18, 2008 | Why some drivers are not merged early; Peter Zijlstra: From DOS to kernel hacking; The state of the pageout scalability patches. |
| Jun 11, 2008 | The linux-staging tree; 2.6.26 API changes; Andrew Morton interview |
| Jun 04, 2008 | Embedded maintainers interview; Profiling kernel code coverage; Moving the firmware out |
| May 28, 2008 | Responding to ext4 journal corruption; Using the firmware loader for static data; GEM v. TTM. |
| May 21, 2008 | Appropriate sources of entropy; Kill BKL Vol. 2; Barriers and journaling filesystems. |
Recent kernel patches
A few of the most recently posted kernel patches are listed below; see the LWN Kernel Patches Page for full access to the patch database.
- Greg KH: Linux 2.6.25.12. (July 24, 2008)
- Daniel Phillips: Tux3, a Versioning Filesystem. (July 23, 2008)
- Michael Kerrisk: man-pages-3.05 is released. (July 23, 2008)
- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz: IDE updates (part 3). (July 23, 2008)
- Hans de Goede: Announcing libv4l 0.3.7. (July 23, 2008)
- Rusty Russell: lguest and virtio patches. (July 23, 2008)
- Greg KH: driver core patches against 2.6.26. (July 22, 2008)
- Ranjit Manomohan: Traffic control cgroups subsystem. (July 22, 2008)
- Tetsuo Handa: Add a counter in task_struct for skipping permission check. (Was: Should LSM hooks be called by filesystem's requests?). (July 22, 2008)
- David Woodhouse: schedule_timeout_range(). (July 22, 2008)