Kernel coverage at LWN.net

LWN.net's coverage of Linux kernel development is detailed, technical, and timely.

The article index

See the LWN Kernel Page index for instant access to all LWN Kernel Page articles, organized by topic.

Special features

From time to time, LWN runs special kernel-oriented features. Some of our more popular offerings include:

• 2014 Kernel Summit coverage.

• Control groups, an extended series on the history, design, and future of control groups by Neil Brown.

Recent LWN.net kernel pages

The Kernel Page, part of the LWN.net Weekly Edition, provides a detailed weekly summary of events, releases, and discussions within the kernel development community. Recent weeks have covered (among other things):

Date	Contents
Apr 12, 2017	Netconf coverage.
Apr 05, 2017	The rest of the LSFMM coverage.
Mar 29, 2017	Lots of LSFMM coverage.
Mar 22, 2017	The 2017 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit.
Mar 15, 2017	Five-level page tables; Deadline scheduling.
Mar 08, 2017	The 4.11 merge window closes; Per-task CPU frequency control; RCU at mid-boot.
Mar 01, 2017	4.11 Merge window, part 2; Greybus.
Feb 22, 2017	The 4.11 merge window opens; Control-group thread mode.
Feb 15, 2017	Inter-event tracing; Control-group network filters.
Feb 08, 2017	4.10 Development statistics; Unscheduled maintenance for sched.h.

Recent kernel patches

A few of the most recently posted kernel patches are listed below; see the LWN Kernel Patches Page for full access to the patch database.

• Dave Airlie: drm sync objects - a new beginning (make ickle happier?) . (April 14, 2017)

• Yannick Fertre: STM32 LCD-TFT display controller . (April 14, 2017)

• David Lebrun: Add support for IPv6 Segment Routing . (April 14, 2017)

• Saeed Mahameed: Mellanox, mlx5 RDMA net device support . (April 14, 2017)

• Vishwanathapura, Niranjana: Omni-Path Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) . (April 14, 2017)

• Andreas Dilger: ext4: xattr-in-inode support . (April 14, 2017)

• Goldwyn Rodrigues: No wait AIO . (April 14, 2017)

• David Miller: Generic XDP . (April 14, 2017)

• Omar Sandoval: blk-mq: Kyber multiqueue I/O scheduler . (April 14, 2017)

• Ralph Sennhauser: gpio: mvebu: Add PWM fan support . (April 14, 2017)