more time to bake
more time to bake
Posted Aug 17, 2026 13:59 UTC (Mon) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624)In reply to: more time to bake by rolexhamster
Parent article: The 7.2 kernel has been released
I think Linus's point is that the incoming rate of fixes is so high that if he waits for it to drop we'll be waiting a long time for a release. A fair few of these turn out to be security related (there were another 800+ kernel CVEs published on Saturday).
I do take your point about the unintended consequences of this high rate of change. I am not sure what the answer there is other than more people, code and resources to do much more thorough testing of these quickly to spot those issues.
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