Kernel prepatch 6.12-rc5
rc5 looks perfectly normal, and maybe even on the small side of normal. The diffstat looks nice and flat too, with the exception of the removal of the da8xx fbdev driver due to it having been replaced by the tilcdc driver. And I'm sure we're all thinking the same thing: "What lovely descriptive driver names we have".
Posted Oct 28, 2024 7:34 UTC (Mon)
by alspnost (guest, #2763)
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Posted Oct 28, 2024 10:47 UTC (Mon)
by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
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Posted Oct 28, 2024 13:10 UTC (Mon)
by cloehle (subscriber, #128160)
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Can mean a lot, can also mean barely anything.
Posted Oct 29, 2024 14:08 UTC (Tue)
by error27 (subscriber, #8346)
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It just means you're automatically CC'd when people send a fix to that part of the kernel. You could equally well subscribe to the mailing list or use a lei search to do this. I've helped maintain drivers/staging/ with Greg for the past 15 years, but I've never bothered adding myself to the MAINTAINERS file because I read everything on the list anyway.
Posted Oct 28, 2024 15:01 UTC (Mon)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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Why do you expect anything to happen this fast? It's just one more step on the road from that infamous on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog to the “participation is only allowed if you are citizen of X or Y country”. Sure, in a few years there would be separate Linux, Android and so on forks (Russia, Iran, China would have their own ones) without ability to legally share code between them… but in the months ahead? Such thongs don't happen that fast: in the next few months there would be a lot of hot air but not enough real changes. It's just simply planting the seed, the actual consequences would come later.
The massive LKML storm over the MAINTAINERS changes does /not/ seem to have died down. I'm sure LWN is working on an article to shed some thoughtful perspective on all this, but it seems there could be quite some fallout in the months ahead...
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Some maintainers have their own git tree, either pulled from Linus directly, or pulled by another (subsystem) maintainer. Others (e.g. for just one specific driver within a subsystem) maintain just one file or so, the git tree is then usually the one of the subsystem. The expectation is more or less that changes touching these file(s) won't be applied by a subsystem maintainer without at least being Acked-by the person listed in the MAINTAINERS file for it.
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> it seems there could be quite some fallout in the months ahead...
MAINTAINERS storm