Go on a detailed journey through the kernel.org infrastructure all the way from the moment Linus does “git tag” to when the front page of kernel.org says that there is a new kernel release...
A tale from one of the busier places (by patch churn at least) in the kernel, and how to make it all work well. Since about 1 year the drm/i915 kernel driver is maintained by 2 maintainers and a team of 15 people who can apply patches directly to the main branch – in...
The Linux kernel is at the core of any Linux system; the performance and capabilities of the kernel will, in the end, place an upper bound on what he system as a whole can do. This talk will review recent events in the kernel development community, discuss the current...
This talk describes how the Linux kernel development model works, what a long term supported kernel is, and why all Linux-based systems devices should be using all of the stable releases and not attempting to pick and choose random patches. It also goes into how the...
