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Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)

Edited 3 months ago

The 6.12 pull request for is handed to Linus. Likely the first PR ever submitted in printed form.

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@kernellogger at cccamp last year some kernel devs did merge request review on printed out lkml emails (which came from an endless paper printer). 🙂

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2/ It's done! 🥳

A few minutes ago (aka: support) support landed in mainline, as Linus honored the PR that Tglx handed him yesterday in person (see first toot in thread): https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/baeb9a7d8b60b021d907127509c44507539c15e5

Congrats and thx to everyone who was involved in this 20 year long journey!

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@kernellogger Good to see the linux kernel workflow protected against homoglyph attacks.

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@sertonix

😄

But maybe that tglx we all saw handing over the printed PR was an impersonator, who knows!

But well, I'm sure the git tag was signed, so nothing to worry. 😄

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3/ Side note from a former editor/writer: kinda fun that a few media outlets already ran "Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel" stories in the past three days, when in fact it is only the case since about 6 hours ago… 🧐 😲 🤷

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@kernellogger @sertonix Linus said "this is not a real gold" after receiving the pull request. So maybe it was not real realtime, either? :-).
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@kernellogger Is it even true now? I'd say it is only official when it hits a release :-).
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@pavel @kernellogger Could always be reverted before -rc0 :)
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@monsieuricon @pavel @kernellogger
And we are very nervous about that possibility!
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@pavel

I'd say it *is* official for now - but yes, that can change quickly again any moment until 6.12 is out. 😄 😟 🥴

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@AdeptVeritatis

thx, glad to hear! And fun fact: 3/4 of the text was written more than a year ago in preparation. 😄

BTW, in case anyone cares: my former colleagues translated that text (I guess with a help of an AI) and published a English version:

https://www.heise.de/en/news/After-20-years-of-painstaking-work-Linux-kernel-now-real-time-capable-9935651.html

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