#kernel-617

#kernel-617

As we discussed in mid-August, the end of the battle between Linux paramount penguin Linus Torvalds and bcachefs boffin Kent Overstreet came to an unhappy conclusion. At the end of August, Torvalds announced that from now on, bcachefs is "externally maintained." As LWN summarized it, this means the new filesystem won't be developed as part of the main Linux kernel tree - but it hasn't been totally removed.

According to the developer, the commit numbers and diffstat are entirely in line with expectations. The cycle has also proceeded without surprises so far. Nevertheless, there are a few notable changes, according to Neowin, including a correction for the Intel idpf network driver and improvements in the handling of system registers within arm64 KVM. Torvalds (photo) emphasizes that most of the code changes are minor, often no more than a few lines.