So this last week was pretty calm, even if the pattern of most of the stuff coming in on a Friday made it feel less so as the weekend approached.
And while I would have liked even less changes, I really didn't get the feeling that another week would help the release in any way, so here we are, with 4.17 released.
No, I didn't call it 5.0, even though all the git object count numerology was in place for that. It will happen in the not _too_ distant future, and I'm told all the release scripts on kernel.org are ready for it, but I didn't feel there was any real reason for it. I suspect that around 4.20 - which is I run out of fingers and toes to keep track of minor releases, and thus start getting mightily confused - I'll switch over. That was what happened for 4.0, after all.
As for the actual changes since rc7 - the shortlog is appended - it's mostly drivers, networking, perf tooling, and a set of nds32 fixes. With some random other stuff thrown in. Again, the shortlog is obviously only the last calm week, the overall changes since 4.16 are much too big to list in that format.
The big 4.17 stuff was mentioned in the rc1 email when the merge window closed, but I guess it's worth repeating how 4.17 is actually a slightly smaller kernel than 4.16, thanks to the removal of a number of effectively dead architectures (blackfin, cris, frv, m32r, metag, mn10300, score, and tile). Obviously all the other changes are much more important, but it's always nice to see spring cleaning like that.
And with this, the merge window for 4.18 is obviously open. I actually have some travel the second week of the merge window, which is very inconvenient for me, but I do hope that we'll get all the big stuff merged the first week and it won't impact any release scheduling. But we'll have to see.
Linus
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Aaron Ma (1):
Input: synaptics - add Intertouch support on X1 Carbon 6th and X280
Al Viro (2):
fix io_destroy()/aio_complete() race
Revert "fs: fold open_check_o_direct into do_dentry_open"
Alex Williamson (1):
Revert "vfio/type1: Improve memory pinning process for raw PFN mapping"
Alexander Duyck (1):
net-sysfs: Fix memory leak in XPS configuration
Alexander Shishkin (2):
stm class: Use vmalloc for the master map
intel_th: Use correct device when freeing buffers
Antoine Tenart (1):
crypto: inside-secure - do not use memset on MMIO
Bart Van Assche (1):
scsi: scsi_transport_srp: Fix shost to rport translation
Benjamin Tissoires (2):
Input: synaptics - add Lenovo 80 series ids to SMBus
Input: elan_i2c_smbus - fix corrupted stack
Chris Wilson (3):
drm/i915/lvds: Move acpi lid notification registration to registration phase
drm/i915/query: Protect tainted function pointer lookup
drm/i915/query: nospec expects no mo
Basically, Bill skimmed a lot of money from the productivity of others and continued to do so long after he stopped needing/wanting additional cash.
If Bill disbursed 50 billion (leaving himself with a paltry 16 billion), he could have provided every MS employee in the US with $877K. Given that there are plenty of non-rich MS employees, an additional 877K (87K additional salary for 10 years, 43k additional salary for 20 years) would have been far more economically useful to them than it would be as an additional billion for someone that could never spend it.
35 years was the maximum sentence. Given that Swartz was white, and not a repeat offender, the real maximum he was facing was far less.
1. Prosecutors offer a 6 month plea deal instead of the maximum sentence of 35 years. If they felt they had an iron-clad case (where they could actually get a sentence of 35 years), they aren't going to be that generous.
2. Swartz and his attorney rejected the plea deal. They either felt that they could win the case, or that even on the event that they lost the case, it wasn't going to be a 35 year sentence (otherwise, why risk it vs 6 months).
The MP3 player market is dead. The tablet and smartphone markets have competitors that have rapidly caught up to (and it the case of smartphones, bypassed) Apple.
At least on a Mac, I've found the client to be slow, frequently, unresponsive, and unintuitive. Maybe Mac and Linux users just have higher standards, and won't put up with such poorly written software?
If this was true, they wouldn't be Mac or Linux users.
Basically, the grumbling that we see here is the precursor to an AppleTV announcement. People (paid or otherwise) start the cycle by whining about the current status quo.
It doesn't matter that almost everyone has their TV (smart/dumb) hooked up to a cable/satellite box and probably a DVD/Blu-ray player for movies.
It doesn't matter that most people are interested in watching television on their television and aren't interested in tweeting or facebooking when using their TV.
What matters is that the situation is so terrible, that only the dead may know peace. There is no other solution. No Roku, no appletv, no smartTV. What we need is a new iproduct.
Geforce 2 Ultra - 2000, still in operation, zero issues Geforce 4 Ti4400 - 2003(?), zero issues,removed and replaced. Geforce 6800 - 2004, still in operation, zero issues Geforce 8800GT G92 - 2007, replaced fan/heatsink in 2010ish, still in operation
With a track record like that, why would I take a chance on an ATI card?
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Because every other 's indicates a possessive.
So this last week was pretty calm, even if the pattern of most of the
stuff coming in on a Friday made it feel less so as the weekend
approached.
And while I would have liked even less changes, I really didn't get
the feeling that another week would help the release in any way, so
here we are, with 4.17 released.
No, I didn't call it 5.0, even though all the git object count
numerology was in place for that. It will happen in the not _too_
distant future, and I'm told all the release scripts on kernel.org are
ready for it, but I didn't feel there was any real reason for it. I
suspect that around 4.20 - which is I run out of fingers and toes to
keep track of minor releases, and thus start getting mightily confused
- I'll switch over. That was what happened for 4.0, after all.
As for the actual changes since rc7 - the shortlog is appended - it's
mostly drivers, networking, perf tooling, and a set of nds32 fixes.
With some random other stuff thrown in. Again, the shortlog is
obviously only the last calm week, the overall changes since 4.16 are
much too big to list in that format.
The big 4.17 stuff was mentioned in the rc1 email when the merge
window closed, but I guess it's worth repeating how 4.17 is actually a
slightly smaller kernel than 4.16, thanks to the removal of a number
of effectively dead architectures (blackfin, cris, frv, m32r, metag,
mn10300, score, and tile). Obviously all the other changes are much
more important, but it's always nice to see spring cleaning like that.
And with this, the merge window for 4.18 is obviously open. I actually
have some travel the second week of the merge window, which is very
inconvenient for me, but I do hope that we'll get all the big stuff
merged the first week and it won't impact any release scheduling. But
we'll have to see.
Linus
---
Aaron Ma (1):
Input: synaptics - add Intertouch support on X1 Carbon 6th and X280
Al Viro (2):
fix io_destroy()/aio_complete() race
Revert "fs: fold open_check_o_direct into do_dentry_open"
Alex Williamson (1):
Revert "vfio/type1: Improve memory pinning process for raw PFN mapping"
Alexander Duyck (1):
net-sysfs: Fix memory leak in XPS configuration
Alexander Shishkin (2):
stm class: Use vmalloc for the master map
intel_th: Use correct device when freeing buffers
Antoine Tenart (1):
crypto: inside-secure - do not use memset on MMIO
Ard Biesheuvel (1):
net: netsec: reduce DMA mask to 40 bits
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1):
perf tools: Fix perf.data format description of NRCPUS header
Arnd Bergmann (1):
IB: Revert "remove redundant INFINIBAND kconfig dependencies"
Bart Van Assche (1):
scsi: scsi_transport_srp: Fix shost to rport translation
Benjamin Tissoires (2):
Input: synaptics - add Lenovo 80 series ids to SMBus
Input: elan_i2c_smbus - fix corrupted stack
Chris Wilson (3):
drm/i915/lvds: Move acpi lid notification registration to
registration phase
drm/i915/query: Protect tainted function pointer lookup
drm/i915/query: nospec expects no mo
No EU country has a black population of 10%.
Totally not someone fucking with the bot. Not even a little bit.
Your car is a mass produced automobile, it's not part of your soul.
Because it's always about the Oatmeal's founder.
Almost every new PC game has DLC
Almost every new PC game has DRM
Yes, they expect you to react the same as you have to every other title.
That video didn't show anything.
Seriously, watch the launch (when the cars begin to move) the Tesla starts before the BMW.
Why don't you post the real reason; one is made by geek/golden boy Elon Musk, and the other is made by corporate / uncool GM.
None.
Basically, Bill skimmed a lot of money from the productivity of others and continued to do so long after he stopped needing/wanting additional cash.
If Bill disbursed 50 billion (leaving himself with a paltry 16 billion), he could have provided every MS employee in the US with $877K. Given that there are plenty of non-rich MS employees, an additional 877K (87K additional salary for 10 years, 43k additional salary for 20 years) would have been far more economically useful to them than it would be as an additional billion for someone that could never spend it.
So who won?
Fuck you for comparing copyright infringement and breaking/entering with segregation or the holocaust.
Nigga please.
35 years was the maximum sentence. Given that Swartz was white, and not a repeat offender, the real maximum he was facing was far less.
1. Prosecutors offer a 6 month plea deal instead of the maximum sentence of 35 years. If they felt they had an iron-clad case (where they could actually get a sentence of 35 years), they aren't going to be that generous.
2. Swartz and his attorney rejected the plea deal. They either felt that they could win the case, or that even on the event that they lost the case, it wasn't going to be a 35 year sentence (otherwise, why risk it vs 6 months).
Swartz blood is on his own hands.
Or, had he accepted a plea bargin, 6 months in prison. But don't let the facts get in the way of your narrative.
The MP3 player market is dead. The tablet and smartphone markets have competitors that have rapidly caught up to (and it the case of smartphones, bypassed) Apple.
At least on a Mac, I've found the client to be slow, frequently, unresponsive, and unintuitive.
Maybe Mac and Linux users just have higher standards, and won't put up with such poorly written software?
If this was true, they wouldn't be Mac or Linux users.
Basically, the grumbling that we see here is the precursor to an AppleTV announcement. People (paid or otherwise) start the cycle by whining about the current status quo.
It doesn't matter that almost everyone has their TV (smart/dumb) hooked up to a cable/satellite box and probably a DVD/Blu-ray player for movies.
It doesn't matter that most people are interested in watching television on their television and aren't interested in tweeting or facebooking when using their TV.
What matters is that the situation is so terrible, that only the dead may know peace. There is no other solution. No Roku, no appletv, no smartTV. What we need is a new iproduct.
So your elegant solution is a $500-700 mac that you use to pirate all of the TV you watch?
Quit making excuses for your failure to comprehend something simple.
Your inability to use/manage Windows says more about you than it does about Windows.
Nobody cares about you, or the games you play/don't play.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
Wikipedia says shut the fuck up.
My nvidia history is this:
Geforce 2 Ultra - 2000, still in operation, zero issues
Geforce 4 Ti4400 - 2003(?), zero issues,removed and replaced.
Geforce 6800 - 2004, still in operation, zero issues
Geforce 8800GT G92 - 2007, replaced fan/heatsink in 2010ish, still in operation
With a track record like that, why would I take a chance on an ATI card?