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Thursday, July 31, 2008 --- 35 days ago http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/2.6.27-rc1_Pretty_Dang_Busy
| " It's two weeks (and one day), and the merge window is over, " began Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.27-rc1 kernel. He continued, " finally. I don't know why, but this one really did feel pretty dang busy. And the size of the -rc1 patch bears that out - at 12MB, it's about 50% bigger than 26-rc1 (but not that much bigger than 24/25-rc1, so it's not like it's anything unheard of). " He reflected, " the pure size of the -rc's _is_ making me a bit nervous, though. Sure, it means that we are good at merging it all, but I have to say that I sometimes wonder if we don't merge too much in one go, and even our current (fairly short) release cycle is actually too big. " As for the actual changes, Linus explained: "Much of -rc1 was in linux-next, but certainly not everything. We'll see how that whole thing ends up evolving - it certainly didn't solve all problems, and there was some bickering about things that weren't there (and some things that mostly were ;), but maybe it helped. There's a ton of new stuff in there, but at least personally the interesting things are the BKL pushdown and perhaps the introduction of the lockless get_user_pages_fast(). The build system also got updated to allow moving the architecture include files ('include/asm-xyz') into the architecture subdirectories ('arch/xyz/include/asm'), and sparc seems to have taken advantage of that already." Other changes Linus highlighted included merging the UBI filesystem, as w ... |
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