Linux 2.6.39 Kernel Is Imminent

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 2.6.39 Kernel Is Imminent

"So things have been pretty quiet, and unless something major comes up I believe that this will be the last -rc," began Linus Torvalds in announcing the release of the Linux 2.6.39-rc7 kernel...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTQyMw

[linuxjacques]

So they aren't going to fix the power regression before releasing .39 ? :-|

I noticed this using powertop on one of my laptops when upgrading to F14 from F12.

It has a noticeable impact on my battery life.

[Shining Arcanine]

It would be nice if they did something about it. I wonder why we have not heard about any LKML discussions about it.

[amphigory]

Damn you're slow Michael. I had rc7 built an hour before you posted the story. :-)

eherr@quark:~/packages/src/kernel/linux-2.6.39-rc7$ ls -lh vmlinux.o 
-rw-r--r-- 1 eherr eherr 13M May  9 22:08 vmlinux.o

[Yfrwlf]

Damn you're slow Michael. I had rc7 built an hour before you posted the story. :-)

eherr@quark:~/packages/src/kernel/linux-2.6.39-rc7$ ls -lh vmlinux.o 
-rw-r--r-- 1 eherr eherr 13M May  9 22:08 vmlinux.o

How do we know you didn't just change the rc6 to rc7?? Please give me SSH access to your box so I can verify this.

[amphigory]

How do we know you didn't just change the rc6 to rc7?? Please give me SSH access to your box so I can verify this.

Sure! SSH access is here. Use your normal username and password. 127.0.0.1
;-)