Linux creator Linus Torvalds announced the first release candidate for the upcoming 2.6.18 kernel, "the merge window for 2.6.18 is closed, and -rc1 is out there". He noted that the changes are extensive, "the changes are too big for the mailing list, even just the shortlog. As usual, lots of stuff happened. Most architectures got updated, ACPI updates, networking, SCSI and sound, IDE, infiniband, input, DVB etc etc etc." Find the shortlog here [1]. Linus went on described additional changes:
"There's also a fair amount of basic infrastructure updates here, with things like the generic IRQ layer, the lockdep (oh, and priority-inheritance mutex support) stuff by Ingo &co, some generic timekeeping infrastructure ('clocksource') stuff, memory hotplug (and page migration) support, etc etc."
From: Linus Torvalds [email blocked]
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List [email blocked]
Subject: Linux v2.6.18-rc1
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 21:26:35 -0700 (PDT)
Ok,
the merge window for 2.6.18 is closed, and -rc1 is out there (git trees
updated, the tar-ball and patches are still uploading over my pitiful DSL
line - and as usual it may take a short while before mirroring takes
place and distributes things across the globe).
The changes are too big for the mailing list, even just the shortlog. As
usual, lots of stuff happened. Most architectures got updated, ACPI
updates, networking, SCSI and sound, IDE, infiniband, input, DVB etc etc
etc.
There's also a fair amount of basic infrastructure updates here, with
things like the generic IRQ layer, the lockdep (oh, and priority-
inheritance mutex support) stuff by Ingo &co, some generic
timekeeping infrastructure ("clocksource") stuff, memory hotplug
(and page migration) support, etc etc.
Git users should generally just select the part they are interested in,
and do something like
git log v2.6.17.. -- drivers/usb/ | git shortlog | less -S
to get a better and more focused view of what has changed.
Have fun,
Linus
From: Matt Keenan <matt.keenan@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:44:52 +0100
Linus Torvalds wrote:
[snip snip]
> The changes are too big for the mailing list, even just the shortlog. As
> usual, lots of stuff happened. Most architectures got updated, ACPI
> updates, networking, SCSI and sound, IDE, infiniband, input, DVB etc etc
> etc.
>
>
[snip snip]
> Git users should generally just select the part they are interested in,
> and do something like
>
> git log v2.6.17.. -- drivers/usb/ | git shortlog | less -S
>
> to get a better and more focused view of what has changed.
>
[snip snip]
Is it possible to get a URL to a shortlog on a web git somewhere? Has
this information been posted before and I have missed it?
Matt
From: [email blocked] (Jonathan Corbet)
Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc1
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:49:29 -0600
> Is it possible to get a URL to a shortlog on a web git somewhere? Has this
> information been posted before and I have missed it?
Dunno if there's a web git version anywhere, but I did put a copy of the
shortlog with the LWN announcement: http://lwn.net/Articles/190301/ [2]
jon
Related Links:
- Archive of above thread [3]