17 Apr 05:29
Linux 2.6.25
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Linux 2.6.25
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2008-04-17 03:32:00 GMT
Subject: Linux 2.6.25
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2008-04-17 03:32:00 GMT
It's been long promised, but there it is now. Special thanks to Ingo who found and fixed a nasty-looking regression that turned out to not be a regression at all, but an old bug that just had not been triggering as reliably before. That said, that was just the last particular regression fix I was holding things up for, and it's not like there weren't a lot of other fixes too, they just didn't end up being the final things that triggered my particular worries. The full changelog from 2.6.24 is 7.5M, with a 12MB compressed patch. Tons and tons has changed, but if you've been following the -rc releases, you'll already know about the big things. The changes from the last rc (-rc9) are fairly small and mostly pretty trivial, and the shortlog is appended. So it's mostly one-liners, with some updates to drivers (net and usb) and to networking that are a bit larger (although a number of the driver updates are things like just new ID's etc). For those of you who haven't followed -rc's, and want the more readable overview of what has changed since 2.6.24, I'd suggest the usual sites, notably http://kernelnewbies.org/. And a reminder for git users: while the _full_ changelogs are huge and unwieldly and you easily lose sight of the big picture from just bring overwhelmed by the details, if you're interested in some particular subsystem, using "gitk v2.6.24.. <path-limiter>" is a good way to see what has changed in that particular area.(Continue reading)
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