The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

[Posted July 18, 2006 by corbet]

The group photo is available in medium and high resolution.

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit was scheduled for its traditional time: the two days prior to the opening of the Ottawa Linux Symposium. Also following tradition, LWN editor Jonathan Corbet, a member of the Summit program committee, was there and taking notes.

Day 1: July 17

Discussions held during the first day of the Kernel Summit include:

The processor panel, wherein three vendors discuss their future product plans with the kernel developers.
Mini-summit summaries: updates from the storage, wireless networking, filesystems, memory management, and power management mini-summits.
Kernel quality and development process. Andrew Morton looks into whether the kernel really has a quality problem, and at ways to improve the way the kernel is developed.
The ioctl() interface, dedicated to the proposition that this much-criticized system call is not always evil.
The kernel ABI, how to avoid breaking it, and how to best maintain tools which are tightly coupled to the kernel.
Software suspend, what it will take to make it work reliably, and whether user-space software suspend is a good idea.
Documentation: the current state of affairs and what can be done to improve it.

Day 2: July 18

The second and final day of the kernel summit included these sessions:

Realtime: the state of the realtime patches.
Embedded systems and what is required to better support them.
Security; in particular, the fate of AppArmor and the Linux Security Modules framework.
Paravirtualization and containers and how to make multiple virtualization solutions work in one kernel code base.
Automated testing: work being done to catch kernel bugs before they affect users.
The VFS layer.
Scalability: how big can Linux go?
DMA and IOMMU issues.
Development process II; a final look at the process and the conclusion of the summit.

In summary: in your editor's opinion, this was one of the more successful kernel summits. The discussions were energetic and interesting, the topics covered were relevant, and some real decisions were made. While there are always improvements which can be made, it seems that the kernel process is functioning well and the developers are, for the most part, working well together. Things are going relatively smoothly, so the summit did as well.

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The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 19, 2006 10:53 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link] (4 responses)

Wow... Kernel hackers sure are lousy at taking pictures (Or maybe at selecting a proper camera) :)

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 19, 2006 11:14 UTC (Wed) by alexbk (subscriber, #37839) [Link] (3 responses)

Yeah, the picture could use a bit of brightness/contrast adjustment.

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 19, 2006 14:29 UTC (Wed) by cventers (guest, #31465) [Link]

-ENOPATCH

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 20, 2006 8:39 UTC (Thu) by gyles (guest, #1600) [Link]

...and a serious white balance tweak!

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 20, 2006 14:27 UTC (Thu) by bfeeney (guest, #6855) [Link]

Here's how to fix the picture in a few easy steps

Open it up in the GIMP
Select Layer->Colors->Levels
In the dialog that appears click the eye-dropper button on the bottom right of the dialog: it should be to the right of two other eye-dropper buttons and an "Auto" button
With the eye-dropper, click on a part of the image that should be white (one of the T-shirts would be a good candidate). Click on the brightest spot
As soon as you click the change should be visible
If you're feeling adventurous, you can click on the middle of the three eye-droppers and select a part of the image that should be grey, but this is a bit harder to get right
Make sure to click OK in the dialog when you're finished, otherwise your changes will be discarded.
For last minute tweaking, select Layer->Colors->Brightness-Contrast and muck about with those a bit.

The resulting image should look a lot better, though there may be some speckling (this is why pros use the Curves dialog). Here's my attempt: http://www.bfeeney.uklinux.net/images/group.jpg.

There's a good guide to this stuff at http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/mystery.ars.

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 19, 2006 13:21 UTC (Wed) by dimi (subscriber, #2732) [Link] (13 responses)

Please annotate the picture. Pretty please :)

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 19, 2006 15:26 UTC (Wed) by joern (guest, #22392) [Link] (12 responses)

No promises on completeness, correctness or spaelling

Standing 1: X, Stephen Hemminger, X X X
Standing 2: X X X X X X X, Arnd Bergmann, X X
Standing 3: Thomas Gleixner, X X X, Jeff Dike, X X X X X X, Matthew Willcox, Alan Cox, Anton Blanchard, X X X
Sitting 1: X X, Linus Torvalds, X X, Paulus, X X, David Woodhouse, X X X X X X
Sitting 2: Martin Schwidefsky, Greg KH?, X X, Christoph Hellwig?, X, Ted Y T'so, James Bottomley, X X X X X X, Suparna?
Sitting 3: X X Andrew Morton X X X X X X

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 19, 2006 15:39 UTC (Wed) by dimi (subscriber, #2732) [Link]

Thanks!

Is Ingo in the picture?

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 19, 2006 17:23 UTC (Wed) by sepreece (guest, #19270) [Link] (10 responses)

A couple of additions:

Standing 1: X, Stephen Hemminger, X X X
Standing 2: X X X X X X X, Arnd Bergmann, X X
Standing 3: Thomas Gleixner, X X X, Jeff Dike, X X X X X X, Matthew Willcox, Alan Cox, Anton Blanchard, X X X
Sitting 1: X X, Linus Torvalds, Paul Mundt, X, Paulus, X X, David Woodhouse, X X X X X X
Sitting 2: Martin Schwidefsky, Greg KH, X X, Matt Mackall, X, Ted Y T'so, James Bottomley, X X X X X X, Suparna?
Sitting 3: X X Andrew Morton X X Dave Jones, X X X

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 20, 2006 0:29 UTC (Thu) by sonnyrao (subscriber, #11351) [Link] (9 responses)

Couple More:

Standing 1: X, Stephen Hemminger, X X X
Standing 2: X X X X Hugh Dickins, X X, Arnd Bergmann, X, Dipankar Sarma
Standing 3: Thomas Gleixner, X X X, Jeff Dike, X Tony Luck, Kumar Gala? X X X, Matthew Willcox, Alan Cox, Anton Blanchard, X X X
Sitting 1: X X, Linus Torvalds, Paul Mundt, X, Paulus, X X, David Woodhouse, X, Serge Hallyn, X X X , Suparna B.
Sitting 2: Martin Schwidefsky, Greg KH, Chris Mason?, Gerrit Huizenga, Matt Mackall, Arjan van Den, Ted Y T'so, James Bottomley, X X Andi Kleen, X X X
Sitting 3: X X Andrew Morton, Stephen Tweedie, X Dave Jones, X X X

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 20, 2006 3:34 UTC (Thu) by axboe (subscriber, #904) [Link] (8 responses)

Standing 1: Pavel Machek, Stephen Hemminger, Trond Myklebust, Ric Wheeler, Mat Domsch
Standing 2: Andrew Patterson, X Nick Piggin X Hugh Dickins, Ken Chen, X, Arnd Bergmann,Tejun
Heo, Dipankar Sarma
Standing 3: Thomas Gleixner, X Takashi Iwai, Randy Dunlap, Jeff Dike, X Tony Luck, Kumar Gala?,
Christoph Lameter, Tony Jones, Matthew Willcox, Alan Cox, Anton Blanchard, BenH X X
Sitting 1: X X, Linus Torvalds, Paul Mundt, Dirk Hohndel, Paulus, Zachary Amsden, Ralf Baechle,
David Woodhouse, John Stultz, Serge Hallyn, X, Jens Axboe, Eric Biederman , Suparna B.
Sitting 2: Martin Schwidefsky, Greg KH, Chris Mason, Gerrit Huizenga, Matt Mackall, Arjan van Ven,
Ted Y T'so, James Bottomley, X X Andi Kleen, Len Brown, David Arlie, Jesse Barnes
Sitting 3: Alasdair Kergon, Wu Fengguang, Andrew Morton, Stephen Tweedie, Chris Wright, Dave
Jones, X X X

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 20, 2006 5:30 UTC (Thu) by lethal (guest, #36121) [Link] (7 responses)

Standing 1: Pavel Machek, Stephen Hemminger, Trond Myklebust, Ric Wheeler, Mat Domsch
Standing 2: Andrew Patterson, Greg Ungerer, Nick Piggin X Hugh Dickins, Ken Chen, X, Arnd Bergmann,Tejun
Heo, Dipankar Sarma
Standing 3: Thomas Gleixner, X Takashi Iwai, Randy Dunlap, Jeff Dike, Lee Schermerhorn, Tony Luck, X,
Christoph Lameter, Tony Jones, Matthew Willcox, Alan Cox, Anton Blanchard, BenH, Kumar Gala, X
Sitting 1: X X, Linus Torvalds, Paul Mundt, Dirk Hohndel, Paulus, Zachary Amsden, Ralf Baechle,
David Woodhouse, John Stultz, Serge Hallyn, Dave Hansen, Mel Gorman, Jens Axboe, Eric Biederman , Suparna B.
Sitting 2: Martin Schwidefsky, Greg KH, Chris Mason, Gerrit Huizenga, Matt Mackall, Arjan van Ven,
Ted Y T'so, James Bottomley, X John Linville, Andi Kleen, Len Brown, David Arlie, Jesse Barnes
Sitting 3: Alasdair Kergon, Wu Fengguang, Andrew Morton, Stephen Tweedie, Chris Wright, Sunil ??, Dave
Jones, X X X

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 20, 2006 11:24 UTC (Thu) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link]

Now that is patching at it's best! :)

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 20, 2006 13:17 UTC (Thu) by mbligh (subscriber, #7720) [Link] (5 responses)

Standing 1: Pavel Machek, Stephen Hemminger, Trond Myklebust, Ric Wheeler, Mat Domsch
Standing 2: Andrew Patterson, Greg Ungerer, Nick Piggin X Hugh Dickins, Ken Chen, X, Arnd Bergmann,Tejun
Heo, Dipankar Sarma
Standing 3: Thomas Gleixner, X Takashi Iwai, Randy Dunlap, Jeff Dike, Lee Schermerhorn, Tony Luck, X,
Christoph Lameter, Tony Jones, Matthew Willcox, Alan Cox, Anton Blanchard, BenH, Kumar Gala, X
Sitting 1: Zach Brown, X, Linus Torvalds, Paul Mundt, Dirk Hohndel, Paulus, Zachary Amsden, Ralf Baechle,
David Woodhouse, John Stultz, Serge Hallyn, Dave Hansen, Mel Gorman, Jens Axboe, Eric Biederman , Suparna B.
Sitting 2: Martin Schwidefsky, Greg KH, Chris Mason, Gerrit Huizenga, Matt Mackall, Arjan van Ven,
Ted Y T'so, James Bottomley, Michael Kerrisk, John Linville, Andi Kleen, Len Brown, David Arlie, Jesse Barnes
Sitting 3: Alasdair Kergon, Wu Fengguang, Andrew Morton, Stephen Tweedie, Chris Wright, Sunil ??, Dave
Jones, X, Kirill Korotaev, X

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 20, 2006 19:40 UTC (Thu) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link] (1 responses)

Can we have that as an imagemap like my wireless picture? :)

Also, on the right, right of (almost behind) whoever-with-the-big-beard .. isn't that Herbert Xu?

johannes

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 20, 2006 21:29 UTC (Thu) by dimi (subscriber, #2732) [Link]

I am working on such a picture, it should be ready later today.

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 22, 2006 2:45 UTC (Sat) by hansendc (subscriber, #7363) [Link] (2 responses)

Standing 1: Pavel Machek, Stephen Hemminger, Trond Myklebust, Ric Wheeler, Mat Domsch
Standing 2: Andrew Patterson, Greg Ungerer, Nick Piggin X Hugh Dickins, Ken Chen, X, Arnd Bergmann,Tejun
Heo, Dipankar Sarma
Standing 3: Thomas Gleixner, X Takashi Iwai, Randy Dunlap, Jeff Dike, Lee Schermerhorn, Tony Luck, X,
Christoph Lameter, Tony Jones, Matthew Willcox, Alan Cox, Anton Blanchard, BenH, Kumar Gala, X
Sitting 1: Zach Brown, X, Linus Torvalds, Paul Mundt, Dirk Hohndel, Paulus, Zachary Amsden, Ralf Baechle,
David Woodhouse, John Stultz, Serge Hallyn, Dave Hansen, Mel Gorman, Jens Axboe, Eric Biederman , Suparna B.
Sitting 2: Martin Schwidefsky, Greg KH, Chris Mason, Gerrit Huizenga, Matt Mackall, Arjan van Ven,
Ted Y T'so, James Bottomley, Michael Kerrisk, John Linville, Andi Kleen, Len Brown, David Arlie, Jesse Barnes
Sitting 3: Alasdair Kergon, Wu Fengguang, Andrew Morton, Stephen Tweedie, Chris Wright, Sunil ??, Dave
Jones, Cedric Le Goater, Kirill Korotaev, Oleg Nesterov

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 25, 2006 18:26 UTC (Tue) by aegl (guest, #37581) [Link]

The lady standing in row 2 between Nick and Hugh is Kate Stewart from Freescale.

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Aug 1, 2006 14:00 UTC (Tue) by jonmason (subscriber, #30646) [Link]

Standing 1: Pavel Machek, Stephen Hemminger, Trond Myklebust, Ric Wheeler, Mat Domsch
Standing 2: Andrew Patterson, Greg Ungerer, Nick Piggin X Hugh Dickins, Ken Chen, X, Arnd Bergmann,Tejun
Heo, Dipankar Sarma
Standing 3: Thomas Gleixner, X Takashi Iwai, Randy Dunlap, Jeff Dike, Lee Schermerhorn, Tony Luck, Asit Mallick,
Christoph Lameter, Tony Jones, Matthew Willcox, Alan Cox, Anton Blanchard, BenH, Kumar Gala, X
Sitting 1: Zach Brown, Roland Drier, Linus Torvalds, Paul Mundt, Dirk Hohndel, Paulus, Zachary Amsden, Ralf Baechle,
David Woodhouse, John Stultz, Serge Hallyn, Dave Hansen, Mel Gorman, Jens Axboe, Eric Biederman , Suparna B.
Sitting 2: Martin Schwidefsky, Greg KH, Chris Mason, Gerrit Huizenga, Matt Mackall, Arjan van Ven,
Ted Y T'so, James Bottomley, Michael Kerrisk, John Linville, Andi Kleen, Len Brown, David Arlie, Jesse Barnes
Sitting 3: Alasdair Kergon, Wu Fengguang, Andrew Morton, Stephen Tweedie, Chris Wright, Sunil ??, Dave
Jones, Cedric Le Goater, Kirill Korotaev, Oleg Nesterov

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 19, 2006 14:34 UTC (Wed) by agk (guest, #23332) [Link]

Another photo (44KB) (2.5MB).

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 20, 2006 5:49 UTC (Thu) by richardfish (guest, #20657) [Link] (1 responses)

This group should never be allowed to congregate in the same state...much less a single room!!

The 2006 Linux Kernel Summit

Posted Jul 27, 2006 14:07 UTC (Thu) by jimwelch (guest, #178) [Link]

Why? Think M$ ninjas will attack?