Kernel release status

[Posted August 3, 2005 by corbet]

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.13-rc5, which was released by Linus on August 1. This prepatch contains a great many fixes and the reversion of a couple of troublesome patches (see below). The long-format changelog has the details.

2.6.13-rc4 was announced on July 28. This prepatch is large, containing a vast number of fixes. There's also a SCSI update, an ALSA update, an NTFS update, a reworking of the shutdown/reboot code, and more. See the long-format changelog for the details.

Linus's git repository contains a very small number of fixes added since -rc5.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.13-rc4-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include some cleanups to the i386 code (in particular moving inline assembly code into wrapper functions), some scheduler tweaks, the page fault scalability patches, and the dropping of the CKRM patches.

Kernel release status

Posted Aug 4, 2005 11:30 UTC (Thu) by ohanssen (guest, #2761) [Link]

Oh. I just started to use CKRM. Why drop something that work, and which may be useful? With CKRM it is easy to limit CPU usage, memory usage or disk usage for certain programs, or at the other hand, to guarantee programs a certain share of those resources.

Including things in the mainstream kernel may encourage people to start using them, or encourage developers to write applications that use them.

Kernel release status

Posted Aug 6, 2005 17:22 UTC (Sat) by BackSeat (guest, #1886) [Link]

Request: please keep posting the current 2.4 version - lots of us are still using it in production.

Thanks.