Sunday, November 15, 2015
Linus Torvalds announces Kernel 3.16 RC5 with Minor Changes & Bug Fixes
Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Kernel 3.16 RC5 with minor new changes and bug fixes. Well this release is a small release and the fifth candidate under 3.16 series. Afer the release of Kernel 3.16 RC4, this is another maintenance release with minor changes and fixes.
According to official announcement, Kernel 3.16 RC5 comes with major improvements in drivers. In his official statement, Linus state that "Things are looking normal, and as usual, I _wish_ there was a bit less churn going on since it's getting fairly late in the rc cycle, but honestly, it's not like there is anything that really raises any eyebrows here".
The Linux Kernel 3.16 RC5 comes with major changes in drivers with acpi and gpu sticking out. Some other packages such as hid, hwmon, iio, thermal, clk drivers, libata and pinctrl are mixed in this release. Apart from this, some usual architecture updates are made in this release. Some couple of fixes of filesystem and core fixes are also includes in this release. You might also like to check out recent Kernel Updates to know what's new in Linux Kernel 3.16 till now ?
List of Bug Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.16 RC5
- thermal: hwmon: Make the check for critical temp valid consistent.
- ARM: EXYNOS: Fix the check for non-smp configuration.
- PCI: Fix unaligned access in AF transaction pending test.
- drm/radeon/dpm: Reenabling SS on Cayman.
- clocksource: exynos_mct: Register the timer for stable udelay.
- USB: cp210x: add support for Corsair usb dongle.
- ACPI / resources: only reject zero length resources based at address zero.
- Thermal: imx: correct critical trip temperature setting.
- usb: option: Add ID for Telewell TW-LTE 4G v2
- USB: ftdi_sio: Add extra PID.
These are some of the bug fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.16 RC5 release. If you wish to review complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.
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According to official announcement, Kernel 3.16 RC5 comes with major improvements in drivers. In his official statement, Linus state that "Things are looking normal, and as usual, I _wish_ there was a bit less churn going on since it's getting fairly late in the rc cycle, but honestly, it's not like there is anything that really raises any eyebrows here".
The Linux Kernel 3.16 RC5 comes with major changes in drivers with acpi and gpu sticking out. Some other packages such as hid, hwmon, iio, thermal, clk drivers, libata and pinctrl are mixed in this release. Apart from this, some usual architecture updates are made in this release. Some couple of fixes of filesystem and core fixes are also includes in this release. You might also like to check out recent Kernel Updates to know what's new in Linux Kernel 3.16 till now ?
List of Bug Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.16 RC5
- thermal: hwmon: Make the check for critical temp valid consistent.
- ARM: EXYNOS: Fix the check for non-smp configuration.
- PCI: Fix unaligned access in AF transaction pending test.
- drm/radeon/dpm: Reenabling SS on Cayman.
- clocksource: exynos_mct: Register the timer for stable udelay.
- USB: cp210x: add support for Corsair usb dongle.
- ACPI / resources: only reject zero length resources based at address zero.
- Thermal: imx: correct critical trip temperature setting.
- usb: option: Add ID for Telewell TW-LTE 4G v2
- USB: ftdi_sio: Add extra PID.
These are some of the bug fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.16 RC5 release. If you wish to review complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.
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