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:

• 2008 Kernel Summit coverage.

• the Video4Linux2 API, an ongoing series of articles on how to write video drivers for Linux.

• 2007 Kernel Summit coverage.

• 2.6 API changes. A regularly-updated summary of changes to the internal kernel API.

• What every programmer should know about memory: a detailed series of articles by Ulrich Drepper.

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
Oct 01, 2008	The state of the e1000e bug; Low-level tracing plumbing; Moving the -staging tree.
Sep 24, 2008	e1000e and the joy of development kernels; LPC: The future of Linux graphics; New kernels and old SELinux policies.
Sep 17, 2008	The 2008 Linux Kernel Summit
Sep 10, 2008	Tightening the merge window rules; LIRC delurks; System calls and rootkits.
Sep 03, 2008	Linux 3.0?; High-resolution timeouts; SCHED_FIFO and realtime throttling.
Aug 27, 2008	AXFS; Sysfs and namespaces; TALPA moves forward.
Aug 20, 2008	Triggers: less busy busy-waiting; Regulating wireless devices; Tangled up in threads.
Aug 13, 2008	Kernel-based checkpoint and restart; Block layer discard requests; Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer.
Aug 06, 2008	Can user-space bugs be kernel regressions?; A kernel message catalog; The TALPA molehill.
Jul 30, 2008	2.6.27: the rest of the story; The lockless page cache; OLS: The state of Linux wireless networking.

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.

• Arjan van de Ven: ftrace: Add a C-state tracer to help power optimization. (October 4, 2008)

• Kees Cook: ELF: implement AT_RANDOM for future glibc use. (October 4, 2008)

• Benjamin Herrenschmidt: Block device for the ISS simulator. (October 4, 2008)

• Mathieu Desnoyers: LTTng 0.27, vmap-less buffering and splice(). (October 2, 2008)

• Arjan van de Ven: Give kjournald a IOPRIO_CLASS_RT io priority. (October 2, 2008)

• Subrata Modak: [ANNOUNCE] The Linux Test Project has been Released for SEPTEMBER 2008. (October 1, 2008)

• KOVACS Krisztian: Transparent proxying patches, take six. (October 1, 2008)

• =?iso-8859-1?q?R=E9mi?= Denis-Courmont: [RFC] Phonet pipe protocol. (October 1, 2008)

• Andy Whitcroft: Reclaim page capture v4. (October 1, 2008)

• Martin Schwidefsky: s390 patches for the 2.6.28 merge window. (October 1, 2008)