6.4 Merge window, part 1 [LWN.net]

6.4 Merge window, part 1

Posted Apr 30, 2023 11:09 UTC (Sun) by andy_shev (subscriber, #75870)
In reply to: 6.4 Merge window, part 1 by jtepe
Parent article: 6.4 Merge window, part 1

+1 here. Very useful piece of doc!

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6.4 Merge window, part 1

Posted May 4, 2023 4:52 UTC (Thu) by knurd (subscriber, #113424) [Link] (3 responses)

Thx, feels good to hear that, as writing it was really a lot of work.

Hopefully people send feedback or patches, as I can't constantly check[1] if things work as described on commodity distros.

And hopefully the developers of distros that needed to be special cased improve things so that they no longer need to be special cased. From the standpoint of the text it for example would for example be great if Arch Linux would get at least a basic /sbin/installkernel.

[1] well, I one create CI jobs for that, but well, writing and submitting that text already took way more time that expected :-/

6.4 Merge window, part 1

Posted May 5, 2023 17:53 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (2 responses)

Thanks for mentioning O= in there. I remain perpetually mortified at distros (gentoo) that populate /usr/src/linux through the package manager and then give users detailed footguns on how to make a mess of the directory tree, by hand, as root.

6.4 Merge window, part 1

Posted May 5, 2023 18:18 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

What's wrong with /usr/src/linux? And so what if it gets all messed up? It just gets deleted as the kernel moves on ...

Cheers,
Wol

6.4 Merge window, part 1

Posted Jun 2, 2023 15:11 UTC (Fri) by andy_shev (subscriber, #75870) [Link]

Everything I suppose? To begin with requirement of root access to it, having it readonly in advanced configurations...