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Kernel 2.6.1 Released

Posted by michael on from the stable-goodness dept.

jnf writes "And so he said it is released, and then jumped on a plane to Australia. Linus announced the release of 2.6.1 a few minutes ago, fixes include AGPGART, a fork() bugfix, and misc changes to XFS, and those are just the patches applied since v2.6.1-rc3. Full changelog is avialable, kernel at the usual places, i held off posting this until kernel.org was updated." 2.6.0 is now in Debian unstable...

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  1. Besides Debian, What distros have 2.6.x ? by flyingace · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Besides Debian, What distros have 2.6.x ?

  2. do_mremap local exploit by zeroclip · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does this release fix the do_mremap() exploit? I coulden't find it in the changelog. I got the impression from security sites that 2.6.0 had this bug.

    1. Re:do_mremap local exploit by PowerBert · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Yes, it was fixed in 2.6.1-rc1....
      and then again in 2.6.1-rc2.
      Real men don't test patches... aparently ;-)

  3. Re:My Patch by Neon+Spiral+Injector · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well I've been poking around in the kernel for years now. Mostly just trying things other people have told me to do to fix what ever problem I was having. Then I'd say, "yeah, that fixed it", and the author of said code would submit the patch.

    This time, I attempted to do the same. But the author didn't tell me much of what to do at all. So I just started looking at the one function he pointed me to. I ended up surprising myself. I found I could easily follow what was going on, and quickly found my problem. I tried a fix, and it worked. I reported back to the author, that I fixed my problem and how, and he asked me to submit a patch to Linus.

    I've used to think of the kernel as some beast, full of black magic. Some of the parts dealing with broken hardware, are a little arcane. But the more I look at it, the more I see that most of it is just C. Now that Linus is subscribed to the linux-kernel mailing list, I see more developers interacting with him. He really does have good taste in code.

  4. Zip Drive Support by Ween · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Recently Linus has shown his dislike for the scsi emulator for ide devices. He went on to say that there werent any common devices that needed the scsi layer. One such device are zip drives. I use a Zip 750 in my server to backup a small but important set of data. The only way this drive will work is with the scsi emulated layer. Has this been fixed in the 2.6 kernel series (it wasnt fixed in 2.6 pre4), or does someone have another way to use this device without scsi?

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  5. Re:Finally, the patch party is over (for now). by phlawed · · Score: 3, Interesting
    ....not. This is what I add to 2.6.1:

    • bttv/v4l patch

      bluez kernel patch (bluetooth)

      matrox frame buffer patch

      alsa 1.0.1 kernel patch

      hostap (accesspoint sw for prism hardware)

      qc-usb (quickcam express driver)
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  6. Re:My Patch by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You sir are what Linux is all about :)

    Thank you for fixing our code and making it a little more stable for us all. Hopefully your comments will spur others to have a peek under the hood and see what they can discover.

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