Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The stable kernel team released the 2.6.17.1 kernel with a security fix for the SCTP network protocol, and the 2.6.16.21 kernel with the same SCTP fix, and a PPC 32bit fix and a local denial of service fix.

Since the 2.6.17 kernel release Linus's tree has started filling up very quickly, with almost 1000 patches being accepted in 3 days. These changes include a very large MIPS update, ARM update, SCSI update, PCI Hotplug update, wireless networking update, network update, network driver update, userspace cleanup of the header files, and a firewire update.

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Kernel release status

Posted Jun 24, 2006 1:01 UTC (Sat) by Soruk (guest, #2722) [Link] (3 responses)

Oh, lovely.

Some time between 2.6.14 and 2.6.17.1 something changed which broke cdrecord (again). Rebooting back to my old 2.6.14 kernel cdrecord works fine. (but ppa is broken for high-mem machines). The problem still occurs with the latest cdrecord 2.01.01a10.

I can't be the only person who burns to a USB-connected CD burner so, assuming that no-one else has seen this problem (since Google is drawing a blank), I'm running seriously short of ideas. Strange that it suddenly cannot allocate memory when I've got a mere 1.5GB of the stuff.

Any ideas would be much appreciated, as I'm out of them entirely.