The 2.6.28 kernel is out

My favorite new code is in the kernel UI, so it applies far more broadly
than a driver update and is easier to grasp for the non-kernel-coder than
some bit of scheduling voodoo.

What? Yes, of course the kernel has a UI, even one for the non-coder. In
this case, it's the kernel command line. 2.6.28 has a new option to embed
part of the normal kernel command line in the kernel itself (with a
separate option to allow, or not allow, overriding it at boot). For those
of us who have had an extended command line, say feeding in normally
unchanging md/raid and framebuffer parameters, among others, this allows
embedding the normally unchanging part directly into the kernel, and
removal from grub.conf or whatever other boot loader config is used.

Altho I've been running git and the rcs for over a month now, I've been
waiting for the official 2.6.28 release in ordered to rebase my fallback
kernel and finally get rid of all the long command line entries. (FWIW, I
do keep a file on /boot with some of the handier dynamic and override
entries, cat-able from grub if I don't remember whether it was noacpi or
acpi=0, for instance, so I don't lose them.) So this is a nice Christmas
present! =:^)

Duncan