Linux Kernel 2.6.11 Released

Xpilot writes "Linus Torvalds has just announced the availability of the newest Linux kernel release, 2.6.11. The newest addition to Linux that's stirring up some excitement is the inclusion of Infiniband support. You can get it from the usual mirrors at http://kernel.org/mirrors."

Comments

SCSI Permissions

[Anonymous Coward]

This is off-topic but I'll ask anyway because a lot of people want to know.

I have to patch the vanilla kernel in the following way so that cdrecord works for non-root users.

--- drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c 2005-02-28 11:14:10.000000000 +0000
+++ drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c 2005-02-28 11:14:42.000000000 +0000
@@ -228,9 +228,9 @@
return -EINVAL;
if (copy_from_user(cmd, hdr->cmdp, hdr->cmd_len))
return -EFAULT;
- if (verify_command(file, cmd))
+/* if (verify_command(file, cmd))
return -EPERM;
-
+*/ /*
* we'll do that later
*/

I don't want to have to do this of course, because it's a potential security breach.

Question: is there a user space solution to this? Has anyone coded the Linux micro-permissions into cdrecord yet? Solaris is supported but not Linux. Is this a political issue?

New to Linux?

[xtermin8]

Generally the updated kernel is not useful to the average user, especially not for desktop users. The major updates that interested me were: the first bootable installation CDs, then the live filesystem CDs. If you have access the a high speed connection, try downloading "Live linux filesystem" distributions. These are great for learning and experimenting with. Good Luck!