Seven more stable kernels https://lwn.net/Articles/926870/ #LWN

New stable kernels https://lwn.net/Articles/926412/ #LWN

Me: we have 50TB on our backend storage system that stores kernel tarballs, so this should be plenty for the next 5+ years.
@gregkh: challenge accepted!

You get a stable kernel release, and you get a stable kernel release, and you get a stable kernel release!

Hopefully things now settle down to the normal constant crazy pace we are used to (1-2 releases a week), instead of the mass of releases we had in the past few days.

Dear Dutch software & hardware companies: The ministry of Economic Affairs will hold an online meeting on the upcoming EU Cyber Resilience Act on Thursday 23rd of March. The #CRA is guaranteed to impact your company. The meeting is in Dutch, but I share this news in English for maximum reach. If you want an invite to the meeting, please let me know (bert@hubertnet.nl) and I'll send over the details (or contact the ministry directly). Meanwhile, for all about the act: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-secure-coding-solution/

The staging driver r8188eu is likely going to be kicked from the #Linux #kernel soon[1], as those devices are now supported by a proper driver[2]. #LinuxKernel

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230308131934.380395-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org/

[2] https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/3dfb8e844fa30cceb4b810613e2c35f628eb3e70

🎵 And Jason said: "LET THERE BE ROCK RADAR VOL. 2!" 🤘

Rock Radar #2 is 60 minutes of the best new (and not so new) #grunge, #emo, #indie, #rock, #hardrock, #bluerock tracks I've come across in my endless quest for "The Best Music You've Never Heard."

As always, you get:
✅ Song.Link URLs for each song in sequential order
✅ Spotify playlists for Side A + B
✅ Direct downloads of Side A + B in 320k MP3 format
✅ Downloadable album cover

STREAM IT, SHARE IT, DOWNLOAD IT: https://midreality.com/2023/03/03/mixtape-rock-radar-2-the-grunge-emo-revival-hour/

@killyourfm Just a short note, your recent #mixtape playlists have been the soundtrack for my recent kernel development and release work for the past few weeks, great work! Many thanks for sharing them!

"The magic to remember is type [ESC]ZZ to save and exit."
"Yes that is an odd set of things to remember."
"I don't know, historical reasons."
"Yes, graphical editors are prettier, but sometimes you will have to use this."

Parents, don't forget to have the uncomfortable conversation with your children about vim _before_ they leave for college and are exposed to the siren-call of vscode.

Turns out almost no one uses extra-long LTS kernels, so let's slowly unwind from that interesting experiment:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/kernel/website.git/commit/?id=5cca06606a7dcb2a0a6b6a818072b81b21287b3b

I have updated the code of my 'hello learning' demo project so it now also compiles on stock Debian & other systems (with help from @gregkh!). https://github.com/berthubert/hello-dl/blob/main/README.md#hello-dl

Exclusive mastodon only content ;-) Drafts of my series on 'deep learning from scratch' that ends in a ~1000 line program that learns to recognize handwritten letters & then actually does so on an image you supply. Temporary trial URL: https://berthub.eu/tmp/hello-dl/

b4 0.12.0 is available

Everyone using "b4 send" must upgrade to stop hitting Python email module bugs.

https://lore.kernel.org/tools/20230120165712.rznwonw6nbfhc7fo@meerkat.local/

I've happy to see how well the Steam deck has turned out, and I'm glad to see them get good press for it as well. Long-term maintenance and updates are key and the Valve developers have been doing wonderful with this:

https://www.theverge.com/23513517/steam-deck-long-term-test-valve

Now if only they would switch to use the LTS kernel releases, I'd be totally satisfied.

my quality shitposting made @LWN quotes

looking forward to when people find "bugs" through static checkers they don't find and then ask chatgpt to write the "patch" for that. first part we have already and seems to have increased the past few months per @gregkh

https://lwn.net/Articles/920372/

When you attempt to rebuild the Fairphone 3 kernel on a modern distro (i.e. Arch) and you get a very odd failure when building the kernel modules, install the `aur/ncurses5-compat-libs` package and then all will work properly.

Took me forever to try to figure out what was wrong with the kernel code itself, should have realized it was the host system issue instead. Hermetic Android builds must have come later in the Android release cycle.

The new EU regulation requiring longer "full support" (5 years) for mobile devices is going to be fun!

Companies will have to update their kernel to a newer version over the lifespan of the device in order to stay in compliance.

As I heard recently in a meeting with one Android vendor, "Android updates consist of over 2000 programs updated to the latest version, what's so hard about adding 1 more to it?"

So if the requirement from Android to have a 6 year supported kernel version is now gone, maybe we don't have to do it upstream either? That will make so many people very happy.

Also, Apple has been doing this for a long time for their devices, why do people feel it is somehow impossible? :)

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12797-Designing-mobile-phones-and-tablets-to-be-sustainable-ecodesign_en

In the light of the #Linux #kernel 4.9 EOL announcement a quick reshare to a blog post from Gregkh. It explains why even users of 5.10.y (and 5.15.y soon, too) might want to think about switching to something fresher at this point:

"[…] only use older LTS releases in a device that you fully control […] Never use these releases on a server with untrusted users, programs, or virtual machines.[…]"

http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/08/24/what-stable-kernel-should-i-use/ #LinuxKernel

The 4.9.y kernel is finally end-of-life, it is gone from the tracking board.

Me: nobody sends more than 999 patches in a series, so let's "\d{1,3}/\d{1,3}"
@gregkh: [PATCH 6.1 0000/1146]