The 3.0.1 stable update is out

[Posted August 5, 2011 by corbet]

The first update to the 3.0 kernel has been released with the usual pile of important fixes.

The 3.0.1 stable update is out

Posted Aug 5, 2011 12:53 UTC (Fri) by arekm (guest, #4846) [Link] (3 responses)

kernel.org doesn't see it (and I mean ftp/http file services). Something got broken or Greg forgot to upload it.

The 3.0.1 stable update is out

Posted Aug 5, 2011 13:00 UTC (Fri) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link] (1 responses)

For that matter, where did Linus's git go? I did a pull and it said remote hung up unexpectedly, I did a search on git.kernel.org for torvalds and there's no 2.6 entry there...?

Repo moved? Transient glitch?

The 3.0.1 stable update is out

Posted Aug 5, 2011 13:07 UTC (Fri) by arekm (guest, #4846) [Link]

Diving or something.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;...

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-... (obsolete, symlink to linux.git afaik)

The 3.0.1 stable update is out

Posted Aug 5, 2011 14:17 UTC (Fri) by Hausvib6 (guest, #70606) [Link]

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/patch-3.0.1.bz2
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/patch-3.0.1....

Finally a benefit of the version change

Posted Aug 5, 2011 15:58 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] (4 responses)

Using SUBLEVEL, not the amorphous EXTRAVERSION for the stable release number for the first time ever. Now it should be possible to check the stable patch number using LINUX_VERSION_CODE. That may be useful for external kernel code.

Finally a benefit of the version change

Posted Aug 5, 2011 18:37 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link] (3 responses)

Are API changes in -stable that regular that being able to test for stable patch versions is such a big feature? In my area of interest, only one such commit (faed318ca83f5401c91e74b297fbe06ae719606e) occurred, in a heck of a long time. And it was simply resolved by requiring "v >= 2.6.17 && (v >= 2.6.18.5 || v < 2.6.18)" in the README.

Finally a benefit of the version change

Posted Aug 5, 2011 18:43 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] (2 responses)

It's not about API change. The external project should be able to work around bugs in the kernel or print a warning that they cannot be worked around.

Finally a benefit of the version change

Posted Aug 6, 2011 13:40 UTC (Sat) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link]

Most of the time, you really should check for the problem itself (this is, however, not always possible).

Finally a benefit of the version change

Posted Aug 8, 2011 9:52 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

This won't work always. Distributions can and do backport changes or change the numbers (c.f. 2.6.32 in RHEL/SLES or 2.6.40 in Fedora 15). It is similar to the problem of testing for a feature or a bug in browsers. You can't do simple version checks and get it right typically.