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Special features
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Recent LWN.net kernel pages
The Kernel Page, part of the LWN.net Weekly Edition, provides a
detailed weekly summary of events, releases, and discussions within
the kernel development community. Recent weeks have covered (among
other things):
| Date | Contents |
|---|
| Dec 03, 2008 |
Tux3: the other next-generation filesystem; Debugfs and the making of a stable ABI; Variations on fair I/O schedulers. |
| Nov 26, 2008 |
Ksplice and kreplace; CUSE; Driver API: sleeping poll(), exclusive I/O memory, and DMA API debugging. |
| Nov 19, 2008 |
UKUUG: Interconnecting with PCIe; Tbench troubles II; UKUUG: The right way to port Linux |
| Nov 12, 2008 |
Tracking of testers and bug reporters - a status report; /dev/ksm: dynamic memory sharing; The sad story of the em28xx driver. |
| Nov 05, 2008 |
Linux and object storage devices; Large I/O memory in small address spaces; Hierarchical RCU |
| Oct 29, 2008 |
Closing out the 2.6.28 merge window; Tracking tbench troubles; Squashfs. |
| Oct 22, 2008 |
2.6.28 merge window, part 2; The source of the e1000e corruption bug; Reworking vmap(). |
| Oct 15, 2008 |
Merged for 2.6.28; Block layer: solid-state storage, timeouts, affinity, and more. |
| Oct 08, 2008 |
2.6.27 development statistics; Btrfs to the mainline?; Threaded interrupt handlers |
| Oct 01, 2008 |
The state of the e1000e bug; Low-level tracing plumbing; Moving the -staging tree. |
Recent kernel patches
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