Torvalds admits he's a bit worried about the next Linux build

Date:
Mon, 28 Feb 2022 14:29:04 +0000

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Russia-Ukraine war doesnt seem to be the reason for the delay.

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The speed at which Linux developers are working on version 5.17 of the
popular kernel has gotten the OS boss a bit worried.

In the weekly State of the kernel post, Linux creator (and the biggest developer) Linus Torvalds, said he believed the progress (or lack thereof) wasnt caused by Russias invasion of Ukraine, or whatever crazy things are going on in the world, as these things don't seem to have affected the kernel much."

However, the number of known regressions that Torvalds is claiming have been out there since late January have affected the development cycle. Although these don't seem all that big and scary, Torvalds did stress that some of
them were reported right after the rc1 release, meaning theyre getting somewhat stale. Linux looks fine

I'd hate to have to delay 5.17 just because of them, and I'm starting to be a bit worried here. I think all the affected maintainers know who they are, he concluded, before urging subsystem maintainers to make these regressions a priority.

Torvalds also seems to be extra careful not to cause any panic, saying but on the whole, things look fine. Just a few remaining warts is all. But the more testing to verify, the better. Read more

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Via: The Register



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