A series of patches proposing a MEMINSPECT mechanism for memory analysis and debugging has been submitted to the Linux kernel developers’ mailing list. The initiative comes from Linaro engineer Evgeny Khristev, who introduced twenty-six...
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has once again publicly criticized developers—this time drawing attention to text and code formatting in Rust. Just a day earlier, he had stated that big-endian support for RISC-V would not...
In the ongoing development of Linux 6.17, the volume of Rust code and the number of associated abstractions continue to grow. As with recent releases, Rust is steadily establishing itself within the kernel as...
The Linux kernel may soon see the removal of one of its oldest and most enigmatic limitations, a constraint that has persisted since 1993. A developer from Alibaba discovered that a script generating an...
Tensions have once again flared within the Linux kernel development community, this time centering on the Bcachefs file system — a project promoted as a reliable solution that “won’t eat your data.” While disputes...
A dispute has arisen within the Linux kernel development community over recent modifications proposed for the Bcachefs file system. These changes were submitted after the official feature merge window for the 6.16 release had...
