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Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)

Edited 2 months ago

module dependencies, by @demarchi (published in August, right before the kmod 33 release[1]):

https://politreco.com/2024/08/linux-module-dependencies/

"'With the imminent release of kmod 33, I thought it’d be good to have a post about the different types of module dependencies that we have in the Linux kernel and kmod. The new version adds another type, weak dependency, and as the name implies, is the weakest of all. But let’s revisit what are the other types first."

[1] https://fosstodon.org/@kernellogger/112958838114974956

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xexaxo@fosstodon.org

Emil Velikov

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@kernellogger @demarchi look out for v34 - we're at 4x the commits, so far 🤯

Including dozens of hardening fixes and performance improvements. A lot more ci, in-tree binary modules are removed, new meson build was added, libkmod documentation was cleaned up and lives in the public header, test suite now works with musl ...

Plus more that I may have missed 😅

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kernellogger@fosstodon.org

Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)

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@xexaxo @demarchi

sounds good, keep up with the good work. 👏

Makes me wonder: is the sudden increase of activity just coincidence, or is there something that triggered that?

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SchwarzeLocke@ohai.social

SchwarzeLocke

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@kernellogger is this toot missing the actual link, or am I too tired?

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kernellogger@fosstodon.org

Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)

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@SchwarzeLocke

wait, what? And nobody complained with the first 12 hours? Sigh.

Sorry. Fixed now.

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demarchi

Lucas De Marchi

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@kernellogger @xexaxo I think the increased use of Github for collaboration triggered more contributions, which by itself brought more contributions by people who were already contributing via mailing list too. Adding a CI pipeline drove more people to look at bugs, add more coverage reporting, more static analyzis checks, etc.
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