LWN: Comments on "Kernel 4.17 released"

Kernel 4.17 released

am — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 13:28:03 +0000

Wouldn't the natural version after v4.x be v7.x?

Kernel 4.17 released

nilsmeyer — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 11:20:59 +0000

Key Exchange is pretty complicated compared to encryption so it probably makes sense to do this in userspace. I wonder if this actually helps performance to do it in the kernel, are there benchmarks (post meltdown)?

Kernel 4.17 released

xorbe — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 19:50:58 +0000

None of those are over 9000 though.

Kernel 4.17 released

Sesse — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 10:17:46 +0000

Well, “full” as in both send and receive. It still doesn't do the key exchange, and still only AES-128-CBC as far as I know.

Kernel 4.17 released

idealista — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 07:25:38 +0000

Note that: "full in-kernel TLS protocol support"

Kernel 4.17 released

unixbhaskar — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 05:46:14 +0000

Kai :) ...but it seems, Linus is bloody ignorant about that and justifiably so.

Kernel 4.17 released

fratti — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 02:51:52 +0000

modify the filesystem driver to return a different set of fake version number directories for this exact path on each stat, to keep everyone guessing in different and exciting ways.

Kernel 4.17 released

mricon — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 02:17:43 +0000

Just to keep people guessing, I pre-created v5.x, v6.x, v2018.x and v3000.x directories in /pub/linux/kernel/.