LWN: Comments on "The 2.6.28 merge window closes"

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jengelh — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:04:59 +0000

Management fail.

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jamesh — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:31:50 +0000

... except that every release since warty compares as older than it if you use strcmp()

GEM

tuna — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:06:15 +0000

Thanks for the link! Missed it the first time around.....

Killer bat of doom

nix — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:33:21 +0000

Why restrict yourself to metazoans? I can see it now:

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 6
SUBLEVEL = 44
EXTRAVERSION =
NAME = Proud Paramecium

Killer bat of doom

oever — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:48:08 +0000

I wish the fascination with animals and in particular mammals would be a bit less. A kernel named after a flower would be nice.

GEM

k3ninho — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:08:05 +0000

Jon, I don't think the apology is necessary: being a subscriber is a good thing. Definitely worth the money.

I think you meant to say that http://lwn.net/Articles/302754/ is last week's Part I of the summary of changes coming to the 2.6.28 kernel and that it is freely available; http://lwn.net/Articles/303609/, Part II, is subscriber-only content until November 30. There's a hint that there may be a third part coming, too.

K3n.

CUSE

corbet — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:26:43 +0000

You get to suffer, I think. As far as I can tell, CUSE wasn't even seriously proposed for merging this time around. I've not seen much activity on that front for a while.

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bronson — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:47:36 +0000

Did CUSE make it? Because if I have to suffer another six months of crappy OSS emulation, I'll... I'll... suffer in silence I guess.

http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/ossp/

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jengelh — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:25:11 +0000

I guess if you are matching on Ubuntu names you can get away with using strcmp. ;-)

No modesetting

wilreichert — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:21:23 +0000

Guess we get to wait until .29 for the modesetting stuff, bummer.

Killer Bat

zeekec — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:50:02 +0000

Master of Magic (Civilization clone, with a magical twist) had Doom Bats

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ebirdie — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:36:49 +0000

But how do I compare names easily in scripts? Which name came before another or vice versa.

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adobriyan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:23:57 +0000

Anybody having problems with timeouts near HDD or CD/DVD detection
please try this patch first, or do git-pull one more time.

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

GEM

corbet — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:02:56 +0000

GEM was merged, yes. Subscribers, of course, knew that from this week's Kernel Page...(couldn't resist, sorry).

Killer Bat

jengelh — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:40:02 +0000

Well at least there was a bat [as in baseball, not Batman] in Rise of the Triad, the next best game after Doom (by tech), or before Doom (by action).

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jengelh — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:38:14 +0000

Who needs version numbers! It's known by the name!

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tuna — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:20:05 +0000

Was the GEM stuff merged?

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micka — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:16:57 +0000

Will we ever have a kernel related boring announce?

> - Most screwed-up clock award goes to:
>
> Greg Kroah-Hartman
>
> for his commit 51b90540, which claims to be from April 9 - six years
> ago! And it's a fix to a driver that was merged this July!

Killer Bat

epa — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:11:12 +0000

I used to play Doom a lot but I don't remember there being any killer bats?

Killer bat of doom

corbet — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:54:48 +0000

It's in the git commit tagging the release.

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patrick_g — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:49:33 +0000

Where is the "Killer Bat of Doom" name in the mail from Linus ?

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me@jasonclinton.com — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:30:54 +0000

I want to try the new Intel stuff badly (because I'm running on a GM45, Montevina chipset that barely works). Any news of baby eating, so far?