It’s Sunday again, at least in the US, which means that some of us we’ll get to test drive a new Release Candidate (RC) build of the upcoming Linux 4.11 kernel, the fifth in the series.
Announced a few moments ago by Linus Torvalds, Linux kernel 4.11 Release Candidate 5 comes one week after the previous RC version and appears to be a fairly normal patch consisting of about 60% updated drivers for PCI, EDAC, sound, block, etc., approximately 30% architecture updates, especially for PA-RISC, and the rest of 10% is split between filesystem ( mostly Btrfs and NFS) improvements and core kernel and mm changes.
“The only slightly unusual thing is how over half the arch updates are for PA-RISC, but that’s just a temporary oddity from the fix to the PA-RISC user copy routines, which resulted in a fairly big patch (due to them just being written as regular assembler code rather than as a broken mess of inline assembly with some C mixed in),” said Linus Torvalds in today’s <a… (read more)
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