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Linux 4.11 Delayed For a Week (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on from the high-threshold dept.

Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds said over the weekend that v4.11 version of Linux has hit a speed bump in the form of "NVMe power management that apparently causes problems on some machines." The Register adds: "It's not entirely clear what caused the [NVMe] issue (it wasn't just limited to some NVMe hardware, but also particular platforms), but let's test it." Which sounds like a good idea, given that flash memory on the PCIe bus is increasingly mainstream. That problem and "a couple of really annoying" bugs mean that Torvalds has decided to do an eighth release candidate for Linux 4.11. "I did get fixes for the issues that popped up, so I could have released 4.11 as-is," Torvalds wrote, "but it just doesn't feel right."

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  1. Good Idea by alphaomega325 · · Score: 2

    Bug-Fixing before release/update of any software is always a good idea, be it open source or in properitery software. So I am glad that Linus decided to wait to fix the update before pushing it out.

  2. Re:this isnt a surprise by Megol · · Score: 2

    That text doesn't really apply to modern programming practices (with modern defined as ~70's forward). Go to statements are mostly used for exception handling and breaking out of nested loops, for those uses they are hard to replace in a good way. The result of removing them will almost always be more verbose and harder to read.

  3. systemd delay? by birukun · · Score: 4, Funny

    [ **] A start job is running for kernel-4.11-release (1.2 day / 7 days)

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  4. IntranetLinux For Small Business - For nostalgia's by williamyf · · Score: 2

    In the same vein as the
    Linux 3.11 for workgroups release, this release should be called

    Linux 4.11 IntranetLinux For Small Business...

    (and yes, I know that a la latter stage, netware was just a userland component on top of linux...)

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  5. What's the rush? by sentiblue · · Score: 2

    Take your time! I have been through kernel 2.4x and 2.6x for many many years..... Then all the sudden 3.x came out followed by an aggressive update schedule... I don't really give a shit because no production environment will be willing to keep up with this kind of change. Frankly, I don't care if it goes back to the sleeping mode for several years like 2.x did.