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Dopo un parto molto lungo e travagliato (dannate vacanze estive ) Linus ha rilasciato una nuova versione del kernel stabile.
Il changelog stavolta è *veramente* corposo tanto che Linus stesso ci fornisce i dati.. ben 2.3 mb di solo changelog (ovviamente comprensivo dei dati di [b]git[/b])!

[url=http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.13]Changelog[/url]
[url=http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.13.bz2]Patch[/url]
[url=http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.13.tar.bz2]Full Sources[/url]

[*** da Devon ***]
Passi da gigante per il kernel Linux, che vede grandi modifiche e miglioramenti:

- sostituzione dell’obsoleto dnotify con l’eccellente inotify
- aggiunto il supporto all’architettura di Tensilica, Xtensa
- definitiva eliminazione dell’obsoleto devfs
- ottimizzato il Fair I/O Disk Scheduler

Purtroppo per Andrew Morton, questa uscita non ha visto l’inclusione del filesystem Reiser4, a causa di noti problemi della struttura da implementare del progetto di Namesys.

[*** /da Devon ***]

[quote]There it is.

The most painful part of 2.6.13 is likely to be the fact that we made x86
use the generic PCI bus setup code for assigning unassigned resources.
That uncovered rather a lot of nasty small details, but should also mean
that a lot of laptops in particular should be able to discover PCI devices
behind bridges that the BIOS hasn’t set up.

We’ve hopefully fixed up all the problems that the longish -rc series
showed, and it shouldn’t be that painful, but if you have device problems,
please make a report that at a minimum contains the unified diff of the
output of “lspci -vvx” running on 2.6.12 vs 2.6.13. That might give us
some clues.

The changes since -rc7 are pretty small, full shortlog and diffstat of
that appended.

As to the new world order: I’m actually going to be away for most of next
week, but in general we should now try to do all major merges within the
first two weeks of the release. After that, we go into calm-down mode, and
if you have work that didn’t make the cut, you get to wait until 2.6.14.

The plan is that this should bring in the time between releases, so that
even stuff that misses the deadline won’t have to wait _too_ long for the
next one.

Linus
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