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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...

13 of 441 comments (clear)

  1. cygwin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    still doesn't build on cygwin..

    1. Re:cygwin by aled · · Score: 5, Funny

      Worst: it doesn't compile with VS.NET. This Linux thing isn't as portable as advertised.

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  2. Re:Besides Debian, What distros have 2.6.x ? by SteevR · · Score: 5, Informative

    Gentoo as always I'm sure ;-)

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  3. Let me get this straight... by clifgriffin · · Score: 5, Funny

    I download it, double click on the .exe, click next a few times and restart? Thanks, Clif

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  4. 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 ;-)

  5. important fixes summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    To Sum it up:

    o lots of USB-Updates, eg. for storage-devices and BUGS
    o seeking in /proc/net/tcp fixed
    o some more use-after-free()-fixes
    o [libata promise] fix another ugly bug (for those who use it)
    o lots of misc small fixes
    o lots of ARM stuff
    o dvb: Update DVB core (and more stuff, for those video-people)
    o Fix via686a/KX133 TSC failure (for ppl with an Abit KA7/KA7-100 etc)
    o Fix memleak on execve failure (memleaks are always bad)
    o cpuqfreq stuff/additions
    o "at least" one important X86-64 fix
    o mremap() security fix

  6. Some facts 'n figures by bwindle2 · · Score: 5, Informative
    This patch weighs in at 4.1 megs... there are 998 files changed, 40596 insertions, 50838 deletions.

    That's a heck of a lot of changes for a "stable" kernel.

  7. Re:STILL waiting for... by jtshaw · · Score: 5, Informative

    Go to the Low-level SCSI drivers in the kernel. It is under the Device Drivers->SCSI Devices section. There exists and option that might make you happy:

    [*] Serial ATA (SATA) support
    ServerWorks Frodo / Apple K2 SATA support (EXPERIMENTAL) (NEW)
    Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support
    Promise SATA support (NEW)
    VIA SATA support

  8. BitTorrent... by teoruiz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here.

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  9. 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.

  10. 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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  11. Install module-init-tools! Or you will get errors! by khasim · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know many people will not read the documentation so I'm posting it here.

    You need module-init-tools with the 2.6.x series.

  12. I've always loved by llamalicious · · Score: 5, Funny
    Linus' comments in changelogs... ...snip...

    <torvalds@home.osdl.org>
    Fix silly mremap test.
    Get off the drugs, Linus.