Kernel coverage at LWN.net [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:

2008 Kernel Summit coverage.
the Video4Linux2 API, an ongoing series of articles on how to write video drivers for Linux.
2007 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 01, 2009	Soft updates, hard problems; Perfcounters; The fanotify API.
Jun 24, 2009	2.6.31 merge window, week 2; PRAMFS; Kernel design patterns - part 3
Jun 17, 2009	Merge window, part 1; Chunkfs; Avoiding a read-only filesystem on errors; Kernel design patterns, part 2
Jun 10, 2009	Runtime power management; Poke-a-hole and friends; Linux Kernel Design Patterns - Part 1
Jun 03, 2009	How many page flags do we really have?; Xen again; Page sanitization, part 2.
May 27, 2009	Developer statistics for 2.6.30; Compcache; An updated guide to debugfs.
May 20, 2009	This week's reflink() API; Block layer request queue API changes; Being nicer to executable pages.
May 13, 2009	Seccomp and sandboxing; TuxOnIce: in from the cold?; Which I/O controller is the fairest of them all?
May 06, 2009	The return of devfs; Long discussions about long names; The two sides of reflink().
Apr 29, 2009	USB and fast booting; On the value of static tracepoints; KSM tries again.

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.

Karel Zak: util-linux-ng v2.16-rc2 . (July 3, 2009)

Vivek Goyal: IO scheduler based IO controller V6 . (July 3, 2009)

Greg KH: Linux 2.6.27.26 . (July 3, 2009)

Greg KH: Linux 2.6.29.6 . (July 3, 2009)

Greg KH: Linux 2.6.30.1 . (July 3, 2009)

Jonathan Cameron: IIO V4. Industrial I/O Subsystem . (July 2, 2009)

Alek Du: [PATCH v2] gpio: add Intel Moorestown Platform Langwell chip gpio driver . (July 2, 2009)

Alan Cox: vt: add an event interface . (July 2, 2009)

Paul Menage: [RFC] CGroup Hierarchy Extensions . (July 2, 2009)

Mathieu Desnoyers: LTTng 0.142 for kernel 2.6.30 . (July 2, 2009)