Thorsten 'the Linux kernel logger' Leemhuis(6/6)

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Hannover, Germany
Joined November 2009

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  1. Did somebody archive the etherpad notes from last years in a public place before went down at years end? Just clicked on a etherpad link in the LPC schedule and got greeted with this… :-/

  2. For details about the proposed printk() rework for the kernel see as well as and the slides linked in the latter.

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  3. We got one little step closer to support in the : The rework of the printk() subsystem, which afaik is the last big change needed for proper PREEMPT_RT support, left the RFC state and was sent to for review recently:

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  4. The last set of speaker interviews for went online () and contains one with yours truly (), as I'll give a keynote on Saturday in Room () right after the usual "welcome and opening talk".

  5. 5.5 is out "[…] So despite the slight worry that the holidays might have affected the schedule, 5.5 ended up with the regular rc cadence and is out now. […] That means that the merge window for 5.6 will open tomorrow […]"

  6. Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo/ talking about the the state of at (). Find the slides via below tweet. Video recording hopefully should go up in a few weeks.

  7. Util- 2.35 is out: "Release highlights: […] kill(1) now uses pidfd kernel feature to implement a new command-line option --timeout […] scriptlive(1) this NEW COMMAND re-execute stdin log by a shell in PTY session […]"

  8. The vboxsf driver to support the guest shared folder feature finally hit next and thus is slated for inclusion in 5.6. (Al pickled it up after some back and forth a few week ago when Hans tried to merge it via the staging tree)

  9. \o/ will be supported in Red Hat Enterprise / 8.2 (now in beta): "[…] fully supported: […] BPF Compiler Collection (BCC) […] for tc […] available as a Technology Preview: […] bpftrace […] eXpress Data Path (XDP) […]"

  10. Replying to

    It's in the schedule for a week or two now, but since then every time I think about it I still feel a bit like this ;-)

  11. The again has no devroom at , but this year it will be in the spotlight, as it's the topic in this years opening keynote: And yes, for some strange reason that's my name there – right in line with Jon 'maddog' Hall…

  12. Upstream maintainer Darrick Wong writes: "[…] As of 5.3 and xfsprogs 5.3, online checking is feature complete and has entered the stabilization and performance optimization stage. […] tagged experimental […] should be stable. […]"

  13. 5.5-rc7 is out: "[…] things picked up at the end of the week […] if it looks like there's pent-up fixes pending next week, I'll make another rc. […] Please do test, there should be nothing scary going on. […]"

  14. The " file system" hit -next as thus is slated for inclusion in 5.6: "[…] exposing each zone of a zoned block device as a file […] in essence closer to a raw block device access interface than to a full featured POSIX fs […]"

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  15. 5.4.12, 4.19.96, 4.14.165, 4.9.210, and 4.4.210 are out. As usual, you should update, as new and like these often contain important fixes – in the actual case there is at least one important fix for a security bug in a popular graphics driver.

  16. 5.5-rc6 is out "[…] Things have picked up a _bit_ after the holiday season, but it's still pretty quiet[…] suspect that this ends up being one of those "rc8" releases[…] normally I'd be very happy with a quiet rc6. I just suspect[…]"

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