Linux v2.6.17 now online
p2p news / p2pnet: Linux v2.6.17 has just been released.
But there aren’t a lot of changes, says Linus Torvalds. In fact, “the bulk is actually some last-minute MIPS updates and s390 futex changes,” he says on LKML,org, “the rest tend to be various very small fixes that trickled in over the last week.”
Diegocgteleline.es points out on on slashdot:
“The changes include support for Sun Niagara CPUs, a new I/O mechanism called ’splice’ which can improve the performance greatly for some applications, a scheduler domain optimized for multicore machines, driver for the widely used broadcom 43xx wifi chip (Apple’s Airport Extreme and such), iptables support for the H.323 protocol, CCID2 support for DCCP, softmac layer for the wireless stack, block queue IO tracing, and many other changes listed at the changelog.”
Meanwhile, ” Btw, one thing that I was planning to ask people – does anybody find the full-format ChangeLog’s that I produce at all useful?” – wonders Torvalds.
“You can get the exact same information directly from git, and the full changelog (as opposed to the shortlog) tends to be pretty rough to read, so I suspect that most people who do want to delve into the details are actually much more likely to look it up using git instead (at which point you can obviously get much better information – graphical history, diffs, etc)
“I’m not going to stop doing the incremental shortlogs, since those are easy to read and I usually post them with the release announcement unless they end up being too large (usually -rc1 has a _lot_ of changes as a result of the merge window), but I’m just wondering if anybody finds the full logs useful at all?
“They’re easy for me to generate, but if nobody uses them, I don’t see much of a point.”
Also See:
slashdot – Linux 2.6.17 Released, June 18, 2006
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