The 2022 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit

By Jonathan Corbet
September 19, 2022

After a two-year hiatus, the 2022 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit returned to an in-person format in Dublin, Ireland on September 15. Around 30 kernel developers discussed a number of process-related issues relating to the kernel community. LWN had the privilege of being there and is able, once again, to report from the event.

The topics covered at the 2022 event were:

Better regression handling for the kernel. The kernel project has a person tracking regressions again; he addressed the group on how to improve the project's response to bugs.
The next steps for Rust in the kernel: the ability to write kernel modules in the Rust language may be coming sooner that some people expect.
How far do we want to go with BPF?: a short discussion on some concerns about BPF in the kernel.
Various short development topics, including stable-update regressions, testing, and Linus Torvalds's view of the state of the development process.

At the end of the meeting, the obligatory group photo was taken:

[Thanks to LWN subscribers for supporting my travel to this event.]

Index entries for this article
Conference	Kernel Maintainers Summit/2022

The 2022 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit

Posted Sep 19, 2022 17:28 UTC (Mon) by acarno (subscriber, #123476) [Link]

Many thanks for this summary, Jonathan, and especially for linking to the one of Christian Brauner's pull requests as an example of a "good" pull request. I don't work in the kernel, but I do love to pull examples from the kernel development to share with my team regarding best development practices; examples like this are invaluable.

Thank you again!

The 2022 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit

Posted Sep 19, 2022 22:41 UTC (Mon) by unixbhaskar (guest, #44758) [Link]

Well, look like, a bunch of good people in one place and in one frame.....probably missing a few. Cheers to all of ya!

The 2022 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit

Posted Sep 20, 2022 7:23 UTC (Tue) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link] (5 responses)

For those of us not familiar with the appearance of most of those people a list of names under the group photo would have been useful.

The 2022 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit

Posted Sep 21, 2022 8:12 UTC (Wed) by geert (subscriber, #98403) [Link] (4 responses)

Let's give it a try... (please correct/complete)
Standing (left to right):
1.
2. Laurent Pinchart
3. Matthew Wilcox
4. Mark Brown
5. Paolo Bonzini
6.
7.
8. Greg Kroah-Hartman
9. Theodore Ts'o
10.
11. Thorsten Leemhuis
12.
13.
14. Thomas Gleixner
15. Miguel Ojeda
16.
17. Guenter Roeck
18.

Sitting (left to right):
1.
2.
3.
4. James E.J. Bottomley
5. Sasha Levin
6. Linus Torvalds
7. Steven Rostedt

The 2022 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit

Posted Sep 21, 2022 8:24 UTC (Wed) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link] (1 responses)

1. Damien Le Moal
6. Kees Cook
7. Christian Brauner
10. Jens Axboe
12. Marc Zyngier
13. Alexei Starovoitov
16. Jiri Kosina
18. Borislav Petkov

Sitting:
1. David Airlie
2. Jakub Kicinski

Only one person still missing!

The 2022 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit

Posted Sep 21, 2022 9:18 UTC (Wed) by brauner (subscriber, #109349) [Link]

Sitting:
3. Chris Mason

The 2022 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit

Posted Sep 21, 2022 13:15 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

Behind camera:
1. Jonathan Corbet
:)

The 2022 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit

Posted Sep 21, 2022 13:17 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Couldn't you get someone else to do it? You belong in the photo, too. "They also serve, who only stand and wait".

Cheers,
Wol

So many wonderful people

Posted Sep 24, 2022 7:26 UTC (Sat) by rockllee (guest, #158205) [Link]

So many wonderful people