"Ok, it's out there, ready for your enjoyment," Linus Torvalds said, announcing the 2.6.25-rc3 kernel. He summarized the changes:
"As usual, most of the updates are in architecture and drivers, with the dirstat showing about 37% in arch (and that's with rename detection: there's some file movement in arch/xtensa that would bring it up to 43% if you looked at it as a traditional diff) and almost 50% in drivers. Much of the include file stuff is also architecture-related updates. The driver updates are mostly fairly spread out, but some of it comes from a couple of new drivers: the mvsas SCSI driver, a new adt7473 driver, and a couple of new watchdog drivers."
Linus continued, "if you ignore the architecture-specific stuff and drivers, the rest is mostly in networking, some Documentation updates, and a few filesystem updates (mainly efs and xfs). Anyway, the upshot of it all? Quite frankly, it's all over the place. The changes in -rc3 are bigger than -rc2, probably mostly because we had some more time (-rc2 was a couple of days early because of the long weekend in the US), but hopefully also because people have started to find regressions." Among the bug fixes, he highlighted, "we had a nasty SLUB corruption issue in -rc2 that is fixed (not that very many people probably saw it), and we've hopfully fixed a number of regressions in networking and suspend/resume."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Subject: Linux 2.6.25-rc3
Date: Feb 24, 6:16 pm 2008
Ok, it's out there, ready for your enjoyment.
As usual, most of the updates are in architecture and drivers, with the
dirstat showing about 37% in arch (and that's with rename detection:
there's some file movement in arch/xtensa that would bring it up to 43% if
you looked at it as a traditional diff) and almost 50% in drivers.
Much of the include file stuff is also architecture-related updates.
The driver updates are mostly fairly spread out, but some of it comes from
a couple of new drivers: the mvsas SCSI driver, a new adt7473 driver, and
a couple of new watchdog drivers.
Anyway, here's the managerial overview that you've all been waiting for
(yeah, sure, I can see you all holding your breath):
2.5% arch/h8300/
13.9% arch/mips/configs/
14.6% arch/mips/
6.7% arch/powerpc/configs/
7.5% arch/powerpc/
2.5% arch/x86/
6.1% arch/xtensa/kernel/
6.2% arch/xtensa/
37.0% arch/
3.5% drivers/ata/
6.0% drivers/hwmon/
2.3% drivers/media/radio/
6.1% drivers/media/video/
9.0% drivers/media/
3.1% drivers/net/
13.0% drivers/scsi/
5.1% drivers/watchdog/
47.6% drivers/
2.4% fs/
2.9% include/asm-xtensa/
5.1% include/
2.0% net/
Now, if you ignore the architecture-specific stuff and drivers, the rest
is mostly in networking, soem Documentation updates, and a few filesystem
updates (mainly efs and xfs).
Anyway, the upshot of it all? Quite frankly, it's all over the place. The
changes in -rc3 are bigger than -rc2, probably mostly because we had some
more time (-rc2 was a couple of days early because of the long weekend in
the US), but hopefully also because people have started to find
regressions.
Reading the shortlog (too big to be posted, although not by much), a lot
of it really is fairly trivial. Things like sparse warning cleanups etc.
But we had a nasty SLUB corruption issue in -rc2 that is fixed (not that
very many people probably saw it), and we've hopfully fixed a number of
regressions in networkign and suspend/resume.
So give it a good testing, please,
Linus
--
Well ...
Fantastic. Another RC release. Allow me to say that I don't care and I'm not enjoying it. Please, let us know when there's a release. Or, actually, never mind. I'll find it at kernel.org.
FFS
Yeah, let's remove kernel related news from kerneltrap.org...
Oh Wait... KERNELtrap.org? Hmmm
Go read your news somewhere else, you clearly don't belong here.
2.6.24.3 "stable" release
I agree with the first poster, a new release candidate comes around almost every week.
Isn't it considered more newsworthy that the current "stable" release, 2.6.24.3, doesn't even compile?
Or that it hasn't been updated, or even fixed in git, for six days now?
It compiles here on various
It compiles here on various distros. Maybe you should report it to the proper channels with more details?
2.6.24.3, "Not ready for your enjoyment"
It was reported by Daniel Drake the same day the release came out, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/26/183
That was eight days ago, and there's _still_ no update to the supposedly "stable" kernel.
Maybe you don't know how to
Maybe you don't know how to compile it? I compiled it the same day without any problems...
Great
It works for you, so you conclude that it must therefore work for everybody else? Great stuff. Hopefully you're not involved in any form of programming (or engineering for that matter).