linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:01:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
cc:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 03:39:51PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
>> On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:52:52 PDT, Linus Torvalds said:
>>
>>> The full changelog since 2.6.21 also got uploaded, but quite frankly, I
>>> wonder if anybody uses those things? I've been uploading them for non-git
>>> users, but I have a suspicion that any people who want that kind of
>>> detail have long since learnt to use git, or are following the commit
>>> mailing lists or equivalent.
>>
>> What the Rest Of The World could probably use is if some kind soul were to go
>> through and build a .21->.22 document that lists all the *userspace visible*
>> changes (new drivers, new filesystems/features, new/changed stuff in /sys and
>> /proc, new ioctls, new and changed Kconfig, etc).
>> ...
>
> Already available:
>  http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_22
>
> Credits for it go to Diego Calleja.
>
> It's a Wiki, so if you miss anything there you can add it yourself.
>
> It might make sense if Linus would give a link to the corresponding
> changelog there in future release announcements.

lwn.net has a series on the API changes, they don't try to cover all the 
drivers, but they should cover all the things that a driver writer would 
need to worry about

http://lwn.net/Kernel/

David Lang
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