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  • Linux Has Seen 30k+ Commits So Far This Year

    Phoronix: Linux Has Seen 30k+ Commits So Far This Year

    Being half-way now through the year and Linux 4.7 coming later this month, I figured it would be fun to run some statistics on the Linux kernel Git repository to see how this year is stacking up compared to past years...

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  • #2
    And the pork keeps on adding to the pig.

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    • #3
      But is Linus still contributing? Isn't he just merging these days? Not really interesting to see stats on who's merging other people's branches or patches.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by milkylainen View Post
        And the pork keeps on adding to the pig.
        While it's mostly drivers, there's definitely a growing realization that it's impossible to audit so much code. If it was memory safe and garbage collected you could at least say it's not going to really matter... But being C, you're just playing exploit & bug roulette with each and every commit.

        Still, better then windows which is just as bad, but is also closed source.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by c117152 View Post

          While it's mostly drivers, there's definitely a growing realization that it's impossible to audit so much code. If it was memory safe and garbage collected you could at least say it's not going to really matter... But being C, you're just playing exploit & bug roulette with each and every commit.

          Still, better then windows which is just as bad, but is also closed source.
          Its not just "drivers". Over the years even a downstripped kernel with only bare essentials for just booting is way, way fatter than it used to be. And yet I do not use any more "features" in the kernel. Nowdays "bare" is double to triple size over late 2.6.x and late 2.4.x.
          Yeah, I know. "They are old". But from a simple embedded point of view modern kernels don't add much you really, really need. You need a modern userspace, modern drivers. Other than that i'd be pretty happy with the bare essentials.

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