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April 2026 Portland Linux Kernel Meetup will be Thu Apr 23 from 6-9pm at Lucky Labrador🐶 Beer Hall, 1945 NW Quimby St, Portland, Oregon 97209. Look for a table with a Linux Tux penguin🐧 plushie.
event page: https://ikluft.github.io/pdx-lkmu/april-2026-portland-linux-kernel-meetup.html
iCal import/subscribe: https://ikluft.github.io/pdx-lkmu/calendar.ics
Calagator (Portland tech events) calendar: https://calagator.org/events/1250482533
organizers: @pdp7 @jstultz @KO6YQ
#PDXLKMU #PDX #Portland #Oregon #Linux #Kernel #OpenSource #software #engineering #tech #PNW

CFP for LPC 2026 is open!

Important dates:
Thursday, April 23, 2026: Deadline to submit proposals to host a microconference
Sunday, June 28, 2026: Deadline to submit LPC Refereed Track Presentations Proposals and Kernel Summit Presentations Proposals.

Please use the following to access the full CFP and submit your proposal!

https://lpc.events/event/20/abstracts/

Please join Sasha Levin and I as we talk about Sasha’s experience as a kernel developer and maintainer, taking questions from the attendees. In this LF Live Maintainer Series, Sasha will share what works and what doesn’t and strategies, interpersonal and technical skills and mindset that help stay engaged for a longer term.
Mark the date: April 8th 2026
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/webinars/my-life-as-a-linux-kernel-developer-and-maintainer-with-sasha-levin

b4 review getting started documentation, with screencasts:

https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/reviewer/getting-started.html

Still requires unreleased master version -- I'm hoping for some initial tests before I release 0.15.

"b4 review" has grown by leaps and bounds. You should try it out if you haven't yet and give me feedback before I ship it!

Wanna know what's in store for #Linux 7.0, which is expected on April 12?

Then check out these great @lwn articles now freely available:

* The first half of the 7.0 merge window – https://lwn.net/Articles/1057769/

* The second half of the 7.0 merge window – https://lwn.net/Articles/1058664/

#LinuxKernel #Kernel

TLDR: use korgalore to bypass mailing list delivery problems

If you're a Gmail or Outlook user and you're subscribed to high-volume mailing lists, you're probably routinely missing mail. Korgalore is a tool that monitors mailing lists via lore.kernel.org and can import mail directly into your inbox so you don't miss any of it. You can also couple korgalore with lei for powerful filtering features that can reduce the firehose to what you'd actually find useful.

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/tracking-kernel-development-with-korgalore

@monsieuricon thank you, this looks very interesting!

@monsieuricon nice! What does the tool do?

The next #Portland #Linux kernel meetup will be Friday, January 16th, 6:00pm to 9:00pm, at the Lucky Labrador Beer Hall at 1945 NW Quimby St, Portland, OR https://share.google/xbUbHcTFOO1OzuDin
Sorry for the short notice! Look for a table with the plush Tux penguin 🍻 🐧 #LinuxKernel #PDX

About 15k (14,962 to be precise) more -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings fixed by this patch:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20260107165942.95340-1-mkoutny@suse.com/ 🐧

It has been taken into the cgroup tree and will soon appear in linux-next. 🙌🏼

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git/commit/?h=for-6.19-fixes&id=ef56578274d2b98423c8ef82bb450223f5811b59 🐧

If you want to learn more about this ongoing work, check out this presentation I gave at Open Source Summit Japan 🇯🇵 last December:

▫️https://embeddedor.com/blog/presentations/#Upstream_Kernel_Hardening_Progress_on_enabling_-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end_OSSJP2025

Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project ⚔️ 🛡️ 🐧
#Linux #OpenSource

@vbabka @vbabka It's a really bad decision for LF to keep doing the North America version in the US. No one should have to risk traveling to the US for a conference. I don't care if it means LF has to lose a deposit or whatever. If LF can't do it in Canada or Mexico, then just stop doing NA.

"Open Source Summit North America returns May 18–20 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is once again co-located with Embedded Linux Conference North America, uniting two cornerstone events under one roof."

Great choice there huh. (Of the country, even before yesterday, but now especially). I'm sure there will be lots of international audience.

It was a good break, but man is there a lot to catch up on after LPC, sightseeing, and the holidays.

My LPC talk on proxy-exec & sched_ext is now online, along with all the other LPC talks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab65z2klt9w

Awesome work by Michał Wilczyński to get open source graphics working for the PowerVR GPU in the RISC-V TH1520 SoC! https://mwilczynski.dev/posts/riscv-gpu-zink/

Wanna know what's in store for #Linux 6.19, which is expected on February 1, 2026?

Then check out these great @lwn articles that are not freely available:

* The beginning of the 6.19 merge window – https://lwn.net/Articles/1048869/

* The rest of the 6.19 merge window – https://lwn.net/Articles/1049424/

#LinuxKernel #kernel

Wanna know what the #Linux core developers discussed recently on this years #kernel #maintainers summit?

Then check out the great @lwn coverage from the event now freely available:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1049982/

It includes:

* Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in kernel development – https://lwn.net/Articles/1049830/

* Best practices for linux-next – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050027/

* The state of the kernel #Rust experiment (aka the session where it was decided that the experimental stamp is coming off) – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/

* Better development tools for the kernel – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050177/

* Development-process discussions – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050179/

I’m fighting to keep trace_printk.h in kernel.h. If you use trace_printk() for debugging, and do not want to have to add:

#include <linux/trace_printk.h>

to every file you you want to add a trace_printk() to, please make yourself heard and respond to this email thread.

Otherwise, trace_printk() will become a bit more tedious to use.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251229111748.3ba66311@gandalf.local.home/