Comments on: Linux 2.6.13

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:08:16 +0000

Oh crud. It sent my entire blog post as a reply? Huh?! Sorry about that! :O

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:07:39 +0000

This is cool. :) Thanks, dsd.

By: Peter’s Blog » Blog Archive » Linux 2.6.13

Peter’s Blog » Blog Archive » Linux 2.6.13 — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:01:52 +0000

[...] Version 2.6.13 of the Linux kernel has been released. you can download it from your favorite mirror. This release includes some really nifty things: At long last, that horrible godforsaken kludge known as devfs has finally been removed from the kernel proper. It includes inotify. This is a really nice piece of work. It’s a replacement for the dnotify that was part of the kernel for a long time, and allows for better control of file and directory change monitoring. Gentoo’s kernel patchset had this in there for a long time. It also includes kexec, which allows you to load a new kernel image and makes it replace your running kernel. This seems like it could be very cool. It supposedly includes an updated Orinoco driver series which support scanning and monitor mode support for older Prism and Lucent/Agere-based cards. This means things like NetworkManager should work just fine now. This essentially means you have the same click-the-icon-and-select-your-network functionality which operating systems such as Microsoft’s Windows provides for the user. If this isn’t fantastic enough already, it also has an updated PCMCIA driver core which is hopefully greatly improved, with standard hotplug events for insertion/removal of cards, etc., as well as cleaner driver code for the various maintainers of the kernel. This means though, that an entire new userspace utility set is needed, according to Dave J. Some other cool drivers are included too. Hopefully, we’ll see this in Rawhide soon, and even better in updates-released. Some other cool drivers are included too. …and I didn’t even realize this, but Happy Birthday, Daniel Drake! [...]

By: /usr/portage

/usr/portage — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:22:16 +0000

Kernel dot-thirteen out now!

A small announcement…

By: dsd

dsd — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:30:37 +0000

it8212 (and skge and inotify) were included in gentoo-sources-2.6.12 kernels but were not included in the official upstream ones. However all 3 are now included in Linus’ 2.6.13 release making Gentoo’s patchset significantly smaller (once again).

Kexec is nothing to do with IDE hotplugging so it won’t help there.

By: lotso

lotso — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:21:49 +0000

Kexec sounds nice. But wil this be a good way to get the kernel to re-poll the HD / ide to determine if a new HD has been popped in? I’m asking this more towards support for laptop’s modular bay Hard Drives. Unlike IBM, the rest of the laptops, don’t (I think) have this feature where you can hot-un-plug the drive.

By: rongten

rongten — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:48:04 +0000

Wasn’t already it8212 in 2.6.12?