Monday, November 30, 2015
Linus Torvalds announces release of Kernel 3.17 RC7 with Minor Fixes
Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.17 RC7 with new changes and fixes. Well as we discussed in last week that 3.17 RC6 was the release candidate but unfortunately Linus considers another release candidate before publishing final stable 3.17 version.
According to official announcement by Linus, he said that, "I was really hoping that I could have left rc6 as the last rc and just releasing 3.17 today, but that was not to be. It's not that anything particularly scary happened, but quite frankly, things just didn't calm down as I hoped for. And while my travel schedule would have made it really nice had I been able to just do a shorter-than-usual release, "convenience" isn't really part of the release criteria. Oh well".
By his announcement, it is officially confirmed that the Linux Kernel 3.17 release will be delayed by one week and further merge window for development of 3.18 series and 3.17 will be delayed by couple of weeks. Because of some developers who made their submit at last moment leads in releasing this release candidate. Also, review recent Kernel News to know what's new in Kernel 3.17 series ?
Linus shows his anger by stating that, "And I'll be very grumpy if people send me pull requests that I deem inappropriate at this point. I don't think that much of rc7 ended up being "spurious", but I do get the feeling that there were people who had delayed until the last minute that accounts for some of the "not enough slowdown". If I get that feeling next week, I'll be my usual impolite self, and probably decide that you missed your chance".
The Linux Kernel 3.17 RC7 comes with 60% driver fixes along with mix of documentation, arch, filesystem and networking. The i2c part of the patches stands out a bit because of some code movement, but apart from that the diffstat looks pretty calm. We have enlisted some of the fixes below in this post. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.
List of Bug Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.17 RC7
- drivers: net: ethernet: octeon_mgmt: fix a compiler warning.
- ACPI / video: disable native backlight for ThinkPad X201s.
- gpio: Fix gpio direction flags not getting set.
- IPoIB: Remove unnecessary port query.
- net: fix creation adjacent device symlinks.
- nilfs2: fix data loss with mmap().
- scsi_netlink : Make SCSI_NETLINK dependent on NET instead of selecting NET.
- bnx2i/bnx2fc : fix randconfig error in next-20140909.
- Fix nasty 32-bit overflow bug in buffer i/o code.
- mm: export symbol dependencies of is_zero_pfn().
- KVM: check for !is_zero_pfn() in kvm_is_mmio_pfn().
These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.17 RC7 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.
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According to official announcement by Linus, he said that, "I was really hoping that I could have left rc6 as the last rc and just releasing 3.17 today, but that was not to be. It's not that anything particularly scary happened, but quite frankly, things just didn't calm down as I hoped for. And while my travel schedule would have made it really nice had I been able to just do a shorter-than-usual release, "convenience" isn't really part of the release criteria. Oh well".
By his announcement, it is officially confirmed that the Linux Kernel 3.17 release will be delayed by one week and further merge window for development of 3.18 series and 3.17 will be delayed by couple of weeks. Because of some developers who made their submit at last moment leads in releasing this release candidate. Also, review recent Kernel News to know what's new in Kernel 3.17 series ?
Linus shows his anger by stating that, "And I'll be very grumpy if people send me pull requests that I deem inappropriate at this point. I don't think that much of rc7 ended up being "spurious", but I do get the feeling that there were people who had delayed until the last minute that accounts for some of the "not enough slowdown". If I get that feeling next week, I'll be my usual impolite self, and probably decide that you missed your chance".
The Linux Kernel 3.17 RC7 comes with 60% driver fixes along with mix of documentation, arch, filesystem and networking. The i2c part of the patches stands out a bit because of some code movement, but apart from that the diffstat looks pretty calm. We have enlisted some of the fixes below in this post. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.
List of Bug Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.17 RC7
- drivers: net: ethernet: octeon_mgmt: fix a compiler warning.
- ACPI / video: disable native backlight for ThinkPad X201s.
- gpio: Fix gpio direction flags not getting set.
- IPoIB: Remove unnecessary port query.
- net: fix creation adjacent device symlinks.
- nilfs2: fix data loss with mmap().
- scsi_netlink : Make SCSI_NETLINK dependent on NET instead of selecting NET.
- bnx2i/bnx2fc : fix randconfig error in next-20140909.
- Fix nasty 32-bit overflow bug in buffer i/o code.
- mm: export symbol dependencies of is_zero_pfn().
- KVM: check for !is_zero_pfn() in kvm_is_mmio_pfn().
These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.17 RC7 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.
Keep reading and stay tuned with us to get latest software news. Don't forget to subscribe us and share your reviews about this post among other readers via comments.
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