Android and the Linux kernel community
As the Android kernel code is now gone from the Linux kernel, as of the 2.6.33 kernel release, I'm starting to get a lot of questions about what happened, and what to do next with regards to Android....
View ArticleI get a lot of email
As everyone knows, I send a lot of email, but it turns out I also get a lot of email as well. Just how much I never really considered until the other day when someone asked, so I figured I'd check. I...
View ArticleopenSUSE Tumbleweed status for the week of Feburary 3, 2011
Here's a short note as to the status of some recent activity in the openSUSE:Tumbleweed repo: kernel packages finally got updated to the latest 2.6.37 release thanks to some preload package help. If...
View ArticleRalink in-kernel drivers
Instead of the old boring "here's what drivers are being merged and deleted" and the like as I've posted in the past, I thought I'd just write about one specific project that has recently gone public...
View ArticleSamsung Laptops and Linux
Finally, after many years of people asking for this, Linux can now properly support all known Samsung laptop devices. This means we can now handle backlight control, wifi button issues,and the weird...
View ArticleHow not to piss off a kernel subsystem maintainer - part 5
Fifth in a long series of complaints... See part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part4 for previous atrocities. Heck, It's not like I haven't said all of this before, but it sure seems like no one learns...
View ArticleMy email bot escaped
As noted before, I get a lot of email every day. A few years ago it got to the point that the number of individual queries coming in was making it so that I really didn't have much time to do much else...
View ArticleHelp make the LF Collab Summit Panel discussion not suck
In a few weeks, I'm leading a panel discussion at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit about "Hardware Success Stories in the Linux Ecosystem". I'm lucky to have a great set of participants from a...
View ArticleAndroid kernel wakelock solution
In two separate email threads this week, I have been asked about the status of the Android wakelock issue that has been described in the past. It turns out that people don't realize that the Linux...
View ArticleopenSUSE Tumbleweed status for the week of April 9, 2011
Here's a short note as to the status of some recent activity in the openSUSE:Tumbleweed repo: the kernel is at the 2.6.38 release level a number of multimedia packages and libraries were updated to...
View ArticleopenSUSE Tumbleweed status for the week of April 22, 2011
Here's a short note as to the status of some recent activity in the openSUSE:Tumbleweed repo: the kernel is at the 2.6.38 release level tracking the upstream stable 2.6.38 releases. lxde (and its...
View ArticleHelp me come up with good questions for Linus at LinuxCon Japan 2011
My previous plea for help worked out very well. The resulting video of the talk can be seen here, with one of the highlights being the phrase, "It is cheaper to work upstream in the kernel" from Dirk...
View ArticleTwo lazyweb requests
I have a python script that I run all the time as part of my process for emailing out "your patch has been accepted" messages when I accept a Linux kernel patch into one of the many different...
View ArticleHow to piss off a Linux kernel subsystem maintainer - part 6
Sixth in a long series of complaints... See part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5 for previous atrocities. There's nothing like waking up and receiving in your inbox, a few scant hours...
View ArticleFuture of the -longterm kernel releases.
tl;dr; -stable kernel releases stay the same this proposal is how we pick the -longterm releases -longterm kernels will be picked every year, and maintained for 2 years before being dropped. the same...
View ArticleStable kernel tree status, January 9, 2012
As 3.2 is now out, here's a note as to the current status of the different stable/longterm kernel trees. First off, please everyone remember to mark any patch that you want to have applied to the...
View ArticleStable kernel release candidates
I thought it would be easier to do a round of stable kernel releases in the middle of the larger kernel merge window, to prevent the next round from being so big (given that there are a lot of patches...
View ArticleTime to update your email address book
sed -i 's/gregkh@suse.de/gregkh@linuxfoundation.org/g' .addressbook
View ArticleWhat Greg Does
With my recent job change, I'm starting to run into a bunch of people asking "What exactly are you going to be doing now?" I've tried responding by describing the kernel related stuff I've been doing...
View ArticleThe 2.6.32 Linux kernel
Last week I released the 2.6.32.58 kernel and said it would be the last one of this series that I was releasing. Given that this was one of the most successful kernel series out there, by number of...
View Article
