Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 21, 2017 [LWN.net]

This edition contains the following feature content, most of which comes from the Open Source Summit North America and Linux Plumbers Conference events:

Linking commits to reviews: A new tool to locate email discussions relevant to specific kernel commits.
Building the kernel with clang: The ability to build the kernel with the LLVM clang compiler has been a wishlist item for years; it is getting closer to reality.
Building an ARM64 laptop: Why would one want to build a laptop around an ARM64 processor, and how would one go about doing it?
The rest of the 4.14 merge window: The 4.14 merge window closed on September 16; here's a summary of the last set of changes to be merged.
Notes from the LPC scheduler microconference: several sessions on various aspects of CPU-scheduler development.
Testing kernels: How can the testing of pre-release kernels be improved?

This week's edition also includes these inner pages:

Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Please enjoy this week's edition, and, as always, thank you for supporting LWN.net.